5-Letter Words Containing: _LU

• (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt

• subject to accident or chance or change

• any light downy material

• something of little value or significance

• a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)

• make a mess of, destroy or ruin

• erect or fluff up

• ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect

• a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion)

• pretense that your position is stronger than it really is

• the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards

• very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front

• bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured

• deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand

• frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is

• the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury

• the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord

• pull or pull out sharply

• sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

• rip off; ask an unreasonable price

• pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion

• strip of feathers

• look for and gather

• the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)

• make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

• a stroke of luck

• a barb on a harpoon or arrow

• flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor

• either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean

• parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host

• failure to reach a minimum required performance

• fail to get a passing grade

• fall heavily

• set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise

• resembling a plume

• having or covered with or abounding in plumes

• adorned with feathers or plumes