(of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
(of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
(particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.
(slang, dated) Drunk.
Having blue as its color.
Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
noun
(Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
(Britain) A type of firecracker.
(UK) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
(baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark blue color of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
(countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and purple in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
(entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
(in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
(now historical) A bluestocking.
(slang) A member of law enforcement.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
(uncountable) Blue clothing.
A blue dye or pigment.
A bluefish.
A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
A person who has received such sporting colours.
Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
The far distance; a remote or distant place.
The ocean; deep waters.
The sky, literally or figuratively.
verb
(ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
(intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
(transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
(transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
(transitive, slang, dated) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
clue
clue
noun
(now rare) A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide.
An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence.
Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.
Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick)
verb
To provide someone with information which he or she lacks (often used with "in" or "up").
To provide with a clue.
deul
duel
duel
noun
(by extension) Any battle or struggle between two contending persons, forces, groups, or ideas.
Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat).
verb
To engage in a battle.
elul
elum
eula
exul
exul
noun
(obsolete) An exile; a person who is exiled.
flue
flue
adj
(UK, dialect) Alternative form of flew (“shallow, flat”)
noun
(obsolete, countable and uncountable) A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.
A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along.
In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
fuel
fuel
noun
(figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
verb
To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.
To provide with fuel.
glue
glue
noun
(figurative) Anything that binds two things or people together.
A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
verb
(transitive) To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
(transitive) To join or attach something using glue.
gule
gule
noun
(obsolete) The throat; the gullet.
jule
laue
leku
leud
leud
noun
(historical) A vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages.
leuk
lieu
lieu
noun
A place or stead.
lleu
lube
lube
adj
(colloquial) Lubricating.
noun
(informal) Lubricant.
verb
(transitive, informal) To lubricate.
luce
luce
noun
The pike, Esox lucius, when fully grown.
lude
lude
noun
(slang) A Honda Prelude sports car.
(slang) A pill containing the drug methaqualone.
verb
(slang) To get high on quaalude.
lues
lues
noun
(dated, medicine) A plague or disease, especially syphilis.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lue
luge
luge
noun
(countable) A piece of bone, ice or other material with a channel down which a drink (usually alcoholic) can be poured into someone's mouth.
(countable) A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back.
(uncountable) The sport of racing on luges.
verb
(figuratively) To slide or slip down a slope.
To ride a luge; also, to participate in the sport of luge.
luhe
luke
luke
adj
(rare) lukewarm
lune
lune
noun
(hawking) A leash for a hawk.
(obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles.
Anything crescent-shaped.
lupe
lupe
noun
The Pacific imperial pigeon (Ducula pacifica).
lure
lure
noun
(also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
(falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
(fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
(music) Alternative form of lur
A velvet smoothing brush.
verb
(intransitive) To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile.
(transitive) To attract fish with a lure.
(transitive, falconry) To recall a hawk with a lure.
lute
lute
noun
(brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
verb
To fix or fasten something with lute.
To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
luxe
luxe
noun
luxury
mule
mule
noun
(informal) A stubborn person.
(now rare) A hybrid plant.
(numismatics) A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
(role-playing games) A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
(sailing) A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
(slang) A person paid to smuggle drugs.
A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.
Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
verb
(transitive, slang) To smuggle (illegal drugs).
pelu
peul
pule
pule
noun
A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.
A plaintive melancholy whine.
verb
(intransitive) To pipe or chirp.
(intransitive) To whimper or whine.
quel
ruel
rule
rule
noun
(law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
(mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
(obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
(obsolete) Revelry.
(printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
A normal condition or state of affairs.
A regulating principle.
A regulation, law, guideline.
A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
verb
(intransitive) To decide judicially.
(obsolete, intransitive) To revel.
(slang, intransitive, stative) To excel.
(transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
(transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
(transitive, stative) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
slue
slue
noun
A slough; a run or wet place.
The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
verb
(intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
(intransitive) To slide off course; to skid.
(transitive) To turn something sharply.
(transitive, nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
tule
tule
noun
(US) Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus
A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin