7-letter words with LU in the middle
Delve into the fascinating world of words where the letter LU is nestled in the middle. This section highlights the unique placement of LU in various words, illustrating how it contributes to their sound and meaning. From everyday language to more unusual terms, discover how LU in the middle shapes the essence of these words.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| failure | 10 | a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | - |
| include | 10 | allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of | - |
| unlucky | 16 | marked by or promising bad fortune | the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons |
| plumber | 13 | a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances | - |
| flushed | 14 | having the pinkish flush of health | - |
| plugged | 12 | completely obstructed or closed off | the drain was plugged |
| slumber | 11 | be asleep | - |
| elusive | 10 | making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | - |
| blurred | 10 | unclear in form or expression | the blurred aims of the group |
| cluster | 9 | come together as in a cluster or flock | - |
| exclude | 17 | put out or expel from a place | The unruly student was excluded from the game |
| plucked | 16 | having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl | a plucked chicken |
| surplus | 9 | more than is needed, desired, or required | surplus cheese distributed to the needy |
| flutter | 10 | the motion made by flapping up and down | - |
| deluded | 10 | - | - |
| plunder | 10 | goods or money obtained illegally | - |
| blunder | 10 | commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | I blundered during the job interview |
| hoodlum | 13 | an aggressive and violent young criminal | - |
| recluse | 9 | one who lives in solitude | - |
| glucose | 10 | a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy | - |
| glutton | 8 | a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | - |
| clutter | 9 | fill a space in a disorderly way | - |
| pollute | 9 | make impure | The industrial wastes polluted the lake |
| bluntly | 12 | in a blunt direct manner | he spoke bluntly |
| blubber | 13 | utter while crying | - |
| helluva | 13 | - | - |
| slugger | 9 | a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches | - |
| plunger | 10 | someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | - |
| prelude | 10 | something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | - |
| diluted | 9 | reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity | diluted alcohol |
| phallus | 12 | the male sex organ (`member' is a euphemism) | - |
| plummet | 13 | drop sharply | The stock market plummeted |
| mollusk | 13 | invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | - |
| eluding | 9 | the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | - |
| splurge | 10 | any act of immoderate indulgence | a splurge of spending |
| plumage | 12 | the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds | - |
| slurred | 8 | spoken as if with a thick tongue | his words were slurred |
| potluck | 15 | whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all | having arrived unannounced we had to take potluck |
| saluted | 8 | - | - |
| angelus | 8 | the sound of a bell rung in Roman Catholic churches to announce the time when the Angelus should be recited | - |
| plugger | 11 | someone who is an active supporter and advocate | - |
| soluble | 9 | (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water) | - |
| unglued | 9 | - | - |
| alluded | 9 | - | - |
| blunted | 10 | made dull or blunt | - |
| alumnus | 9 | a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | - |
| flunkey | 17 | a person of unquestioning obedience | - |
| devalue | 11 | lose in value | - |
| collude | 10 | act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | - |
| fluffer | 16 | - | - |
| gluteus | 8 | any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh | - |
| cumulus | 11 | a globular cloud | - |
| clubber | 13 | - | - |
| bludger | 11 | - | - |
| bluffer | 15 | a person who tries to bluff other people | - |
| fluster | 10 | a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset | - |
| blusher | 12 | makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | - |
| bluster | 9 | a swaggering show of courage | - |
| calumny | 14 | an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | - |
| plumper | 13 | - | - |
| flusher | 13 | - | - |
| fluency | 15 | the quality of being facile in speech and writing | - |
| earplug | 10 | an earphone that is inserted into the ear canal | - |
| elusion | 7 | the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | - |
| voluble | 12 | marked by a ready flow of speech | she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations |
| flutist | 10 | someone who plays the flute | - |
| gluteal | 8 | of or relating to or near the gluteus muscles | - |
| mollusc | 11 | invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | - |
| bluefin | 12 | flesh of very large tuna | - |
| plumbum | 15 | - | - |
| calumet | 11 | a highly decorated ceremonial pipe of Amerindians; smoked on ceremonial occasions (especially as a token of peace) | - |
| allured | 8 | - | - |
| glutted | 9 | exceeding demand | a glutted market |
| revalue | 10 | gain in value | - |
| embolus | 11 | an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood | - |
| saluing | 8 | - | - |
| salukis | 11 | - | - |
| saluter | 7 | a person who greets | - |
| salutes | 7 | - | - |
| schlump | 16 | - | - |
| schlubs | 14 | - | - |
| seclude | 10 | keep away from others | - |
| seculum | 11 | - | - |
| shlumpy | 17 | - | - |
| shlumps | 14 | - | - |
| silurid | 8 | Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin | - |
| skellum | 13 | - | - |
| skelums | 13 | - | - |
| sludged | 10 | - | - |
| sludges | 9 | - | - |
| slueing | 8 | - | - |
| sluffed | 14 | - | - |
| slugged | 10 | - | - |
| sluiced | 10 | - | - |
| sluices | 9 | - | - |
| slubber | 11 | - | - |
| slubbed | 12 | of textiles; having a rough surface | - |
| slumbry | 14 | - | - |
| slumgum | 12 | - | - |
| slutchy | 15 | - | - |
| slushes | 10 | - | - |
| slushed | 11 | - | - |
| slumism | 11 | - | - |
| slummed | 12 | - | - |
| slummer | 11 | - | - |
| slumped | 12 | - | - |
| slurban | 9 | - | - |
| slurped | 10 | - | - |
| slurper | 9 | - | - |
| solubly | 12 | - | - |
| solunar | 7 | - | - |
| solutes | 7 | - | - |
| soilure | 7 | the act of soiling something | - |
| splurgy | 13 | - | - |
| spelunk | 13 | explore natural caves | - |
| talukas | 11 | - | - |
| taluses | 7 | - | - |
| toluyls | 10 | - | - |
| toluate | 7 | - | - |
| toluene | 7 | a colorless flammable liquid obtained from petroleum or coal tar; used as a solvent for gums and lacquers and in high-octane fuels | - |
| toluide | 8 | - | - |
| toluids | 8 | - | - |
| toluole | 7 | - | - |
| toluols | 7 | - | - |
| titulus | 7 | - | - |
| torulus | 7 | - | - |
| thallus | 10 | a plant body without true stems or roots or leaves or vascular system; characteristic of the thallophytes | - |
| unslung | 8 | - | - |
| unplugs | 10 | - | - |
| unplumb | 13 | - | - |
| unplume | 11 | - | - |
| vallums | 12 | - | - |
| valuate | 10 | evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | - |
| valuers | 10 | - | - |
| valuing | 11 | - | - |
| valutas | 10 | - | - |
| upflung | 13 | - | - |
| upvalue | 12 | - | - |
| vellums | 12 | - | - |
| velured | 11 | - | - |
| velures | 10 | - | - |
| volubil | 12 | - | - |
| volubly | 15 | in a chatty manner | - |
| volumed | 13 | formed or rising in rounded masses | gasping with the volumed smoke |
| volumes | 12 | - | - |
| voluspa | 12 | - | - |
| voluted | 11 | in the shape of a coil | - |
| volutes | 10 | - | - |
| volutin | 10 | - | - |
| tumulus | 9 | (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs | - |
| troilus | 7 | - | - |
| unglues | 8 | - | - |
| unflush | 13 | - | - |
| ululant | 7 | - | - |
| ululate | 7 | emit long loud cries | - |
| umlungu | 10 | - | - |
| delubra | 10 | - | - |
| clucker | 15 | - | - |
| cluiest | 9 | - | - |
| clumpet | 13 | - | - |
| glueish | 11 | - | - |
| kalukis | 15 | - | - |
| plushed | 13 | - | - |
| plutoed | 10 | - | - |
| plutoes | 9 | - | - |
| plutoid | 10 | - | - |
| pluvius | 12 | - | - |
| maluses | 9 | - | - |
| solutal | 7 | - | - |
| splurts | 9 | - | - |
| rollups | 9 | - | - |
| rivulus | 10 | found in small streams of tropical America; often kept in aquariums; usually hermaphroditic | - |
| slurves | 10 | - | - |
| soluses | 7 | - | - |
| argulus | 8 | - | - |
| arillus | 7 | - | - |
| apolune | 9 | apoapsis in orbit around the moon | - |
| asylums | 12 | - | - |
| baculum | 13 | - | - |
| ballups | 11 | - | - |
| ballute | 9 | - | - |
| beflums | 14 | - | - |
| belugas | 10 | - | - |
| blucher | 14 | Prussian general who is remembered for his leadership in the wars against Napoleon (1742-1819) | - |
| bludged | 12 | - | - |
| bludges | 11 | - | - |
| bludier | 10 | - | - |
| bluecap | 13 | - | - |
| blubbed | 14 | - | - |
| bluegum | 12 | - | - |
| blueing | 10 | a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | - |
| blueish | 12 | of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | - |
| blunged | 11 | - | - |
| blunger | 10 | - | - |
| blunges | 10 | - | - |
| blunked | 14 | - | - |
| blunker | 13 | - | - |
| blunter | 9 | - | - |
| bluming | 12 | - | - |
| bluejay | 19 | - | - |
| bluetit | 9 | - | - |
| bluette | 9 | - | - |
| bluffed | 16 | - | - |
| bluffly | 18 | in a blunt direct manner | - |
| bluiest | 9 | - | - |
| bluings | 10 | - | - |
| blurbed | 12 | - | - |
| blurted | 10 | - | - |
| blurter | 9 | - | - |
| blushed | 13 | - | - |
| blushes | 12 | - | - |
| blushet | 12 | - | - |
| blellum | 11 | - | - |
| boluses | 9 | - | - |
| calluna | 9 | one species | - |
| calalus | 9 | - | - |
| calumba | 13 | - | - |
| cellule | 9 | - | - |
| carolus | 9 | king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814) | - |
| chellup | 14 | - | - |
| chillum | 14 | - | - |
| chalupa | 14 | - | - |
| chalutz | 21 | - | - |
| aludels | 8 | - | - |
| alumina | 9 | any of various forms of aluminum oxide occurring naturally as corundum | - |
| alumine | 9 | - | - |
| alumins | 9 | - | - |
| alumish | 12 | - | - |
| alumium | 11 | - | - |
| alumnae | 9 | - | - |
| alunite | 7 | - | - |
| allures | 7 | - | - |
| alluvia | 10 | - | - |
| allurer | 7 | - | - |
| alludes | 8 | - | - |
| annulus | 7 | a toroidal shape | - |
| anklung | 12 | - | - |
| amylums | 14 | - | - |
| fluorin | 10 | - | - |
| fluvial | 13 | of or relating to or happening in a river | fluvial deposits |
| fluxing | 18 | - | - |
| fluxion | 17 | a flow or discharge | - |
| fluxive | 20 | - | - |
| fluting | 11 | a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) | - |
| flurred | 11 | - | - |
| flushes | 13 | - | - |
| fluters | 10 | - | - |
| flutier | 10 | - | - |
| flutina | 10 | - | - |
| fluorid | 11 | - | - |
| fluates | 10 | - | - |
| flubbed | 15 | - | - |
| flubber | 14 | - | - |
| flubdub | 15 | - | - |
| fluence | 12 | - | - |
| fluents | 10 | - | - |
| fluking | 15 | - | - |
| fluming | 13 | - | - |
| flummox | 21 | be a mystery or bewildering to | - |
| flumped | 15 | - | - |
| flunked | 15 | - | - |
| flunker | 14 | - | - |
| flunkie | 14 | - | - |
| flukily | 17 | - | - |
| flukier | 14 | - | - |
| flueric | 12 | - | - |
| fluffed | 17 | - | - |
| flugels | 11 | - | - |
| fluidal | 11 | - | - |
| fluidic | 13 | - | - |
| fluidly | 14 | - | - |
| fluiest | 10 | - | - |
| fluoric | 12 | - | - |
| fumulus | 12 | - | - |
| galuths | 11 | - | - |
| galumph | 15 | move around heavily and clumsily | the giant tortoises galumphed around in their pen |
| glucans | 10 | - | - |
| glucina | 10 | - | - |
| glueing | 9 | - | - |
| gluepot | 10 | - | - |
| glugged | 11 | - | - |
| gluiest | 8 | - | - |
| glummer | 12 | - | - |
| glurges | 9 | - | - |
| glutaei | 8 | - | - |
| glutens | 8 | - | - |
| hamulus | 12 | - | - |
| gyplure | 13 | - | - |
| illumes | 9 | - | - |
| illupis | 9 | - | - |
| illuvia | 10 | - | - |
| illumed | 10 | - | - |
| illuded | 9 | - | - |
| illudes | 8 | - | - |
| felucca | 14 | a fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean | - |
| famulus | 12 | a close attendant (as to a scholar) | - |
| killuts | 11 | - | - |
| kludged | 14 | - | - |
| kludges | 13 | - | - |
| kludgey | 16 | - | - |
| kluging | 13 | - | - |
| klutzes | 20 | - | - |
| limulus | 9 | type genus of the family Limulidae | - |
| lobulus | 9 | - | - |
| loculus | 9 | a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal | - |
| mamluks | 15 | - | - |
| mashlum | 14 | - | - |
| mimulus | 11 | - | - |
| mesclum | 13 | - | - |
| mesclun | 11 | - | - |
| modulus | 10 | an integer that can be divided without remainder into the difference between two other integers | 2 is a modulus of 5 and 9 |
| misluck | 15 | - | - |
| muclucs | 13 | - | - |
| mukluks | 17 | - | - |
| nelumbo | 11 | sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae: lotuses | - |
| ocellus | 9 | an eye having a single lens | - |
| occlude | 12 | block passage through | - |
| nonplus | 9 | be a mystery or bewildering to | - |
| jugulum | 17 | - | - |
| paludal | 10 | - | - |
| paludic | 12 | - | - |
| pabulum | 13 | any substance that can be used as food | - |
| pablums | 13 | - | - |
| pellums | 11 | - | - |
| peplums | 13 | - | - |
| pilulae | 9 | - | - |
| pilular | 9 | - | - |
| pilulas | 9 | - | - |
| pilules | 9 | - | - |
| plumous | 11 | - | - |
| plumped | 14 | - | - |
| plumpen | 13 | - | - |
| plumpie | 13 | - | - |
| plumply | 16 | - | - |
| plumula | 11 | - | - |
| plumule | 11 | down feather of young birds; persists in some adult birds | - |
| plumose | 11 | having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | - |
| plumbic | 15 | relating to or consisting of lead | - |
| plumcot | 13 | hybrid produced by crossing Prunus domestica and Prunus armeniaca | - |
| plumery | 14 | - | - |
| plumier | 11 | - | - |
| pluming | 12 | - | - |
| plumist | 11 | - | - |
| plummer | 13 | - | - |
| plunged | 11 | - | - |
| plusses | 9 | - | - |
| pluteal | 9 | - | - |
| pluteus | 9 | a large genus of fungi belonging to the family Pluteaceae; the shape of the cap resembles a roof; often abundant early in the summer | - |
| plutons | 9 | - | - |
| pluvial | 12 | - | - |
| pluvian | 12 | - | - |
| plussed | 10 | - | - |
| plusing | 10 | - | - |
| plunges | 10 | - | - |
| plunked | 14 | - | - |
| plunker | 13 | (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | - |
| plurals | 9 | - | - |
| plusage | 10 | - | - |
| plusher | 12 | - | - |
| plushes | 12 | - | - |
| plushly | 15 | - | - |
| plumbed | 14 | - | - |
| plucker | 15 | - | - |
| pluffed | 16 | - | - |
| plugola | 10 | - | - |
| plumate | 11 | having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | - |
| preludi | 10 | - | - |
| pullups | 11 | - | - |
| punalua | 9 | - | - |
| ramulus | 9 | - | - |
| relucts | 9 | - | - |
| relumed | 10 | - | - |
| relumes | 9 | - | - |
| replumb | 13 | - | - |
| regulus | 8 | a genus of birds of the family Sylviidae including kinglets | - |
| reglued | 9 | - | - |
| reglues | 8 | - | - |
| ormolus | 9 | - | - |
| osculum | 11 | - | - |
| corylus | 12 | deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae | - |
| conflux | 19 | a flowing together | - |
| deluges | 9 | - | - |
| deluder | 9 | - | - |
| deludes | 9 | - | - |
| deluged | 10 | - | - |
| deplume | 12 | strip of feathers | - |
| diluent | 8 | a diluting agent | - |
| dilutee | 8 | - | - |
| diluter | 8 | - | - |
| dilutes | 8 | - | - |
| dilutor | 8 | - | - |
| diluvia | 11 | - | - |
| emplume | 13 | - | - |
| engluts | 8 | - | - |
| elutors | 7 | - | - |
| eluvial | 10 | - | - |
| eluvium | 12 | - | - |
| elution | 7 | the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions | - |
| eluting | 8 | - | - |
| eluants | 7 | - | - |
| eluates | 7 | - | - |
| eluders | 8 | - | - |
| eluents | 7 | - | - |
| elusory | 10 | - | - |
| evolues | 10 | - | - |
| evolute | 10 | - | - |
| colugos | 10 | - | - |
| columel | 11 | - | - |
| columns | 11 | - | - |
| colures | 9 | - | - |
| clumper | 13 | - | - |
| clunked | 14 | - | - |
| clunker | 13 | - | - |
| clupeid | 12 | any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas | - |
| clusias | 9 | - | - |
| clutchy | 17 | - | - |
| clumped | 14 | - | - |
| clumber | 13 | a thickset spaniel with longish silky hair | - |
| clubbed | 14 | - | - |
| clubman | 13 | - | - |
| clubmen | 13 | - | - |
| clucked | 16 | - | - |
| cludgie | 11 | - | - |
| clueing | 10 | - | - |
| abluent | 9 | - | - |
| abluted | 10 | - | - |
