Finnish–English dictionary

luikertelu

The act of one who slithers.

luikkia

(intransitive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away. [From mid 16th century.]

luikuri

An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.

luinen

Resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.

luiseva

Lean, lank.

luiska

(architectural element, also, figuratively) A gentle incline in front of a fortification which protects it from cannon fire and exposes attackers to more effective return fire from defenders.

luiskahdus

(engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.

luiskaotsainen

Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture.

luiskattu kivi

(architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.

luistaa

(transitive, figurative) To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.

luistaminen

The motion of something that skids.

luistattaa

(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.

luistelija

A person who skates.

luistella

(intransitive, transitive) to skate on ice, wearing ice skates.

luistelu

The act, or the sport, of skating on ice.

luisti

Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano. [from 16th c.]

luistin

A light boot, fitted with a blade, used for ice skating.

luisto

(nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.

luisu

An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle.

luisua

(intransitive) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.

luisukäännös

(skiing) A high-speed ski turn in which the skis are kept parallel.

luja

Able to resist wear or decay; lasting; enduring.

lujaa

(manner) With much force or effort.

lujahermoinen

Marked by mettle or bravery; courageous.

lujahermoisuus

A quality of courage and endurance.

lujasti

In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound [from 10th c.].

lujike

(countable) A thing that reinforces.

lujitettu

(obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.

lujittaa

To make stronger or more solid.

lujittaminen

The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated.

lujittua

(intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.

lujitus

The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated.

lujuus

The state of being firm

lukaista

(transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.

lukea

(computing, transitive, dated) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.

lukea (loitsu)

To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).

lukea huolellisesti

(transitive) To read completely.

lukea hutaisten

(transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.

lukea pintapuolisesti

(transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.

lukea rivi riviltä

(transitive, dated, now more often line out) To read or repeat line by line.

lukea väärin

To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.

lukema

A value indicated by a measuring device.

lukematon

(of a number) Too large to be counted to.

lukematon määrä

A countless number or multitude (of specified things) [from 16th c.]

lukeneisuus

The extent of what one has read.

lukeutua

(intransitive) To have its proper place.

Lukianos

A sophist who was of Syrian origin.

lukihäiriöinen

A person who has dyslexia.

lukija

The readership of a book or other written publication. [from 19th c.]

lukijakunta

The readership of a book or other written publication. [from 19th c.]

lukio

(chiefly, _, UK) A secondary school that stresses academic over practical or vocational education, until recent times open to those pupils who had passed the 11-plus examination.

lukiolainen

(US) A student of a prep school. [from mid 20th c.]

lukita

(transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.

lukittua

To clasp; to interlock.

lukitus

the act by which something is locked.

lukivaikeus

(neurology, pathology) A learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties.

lukkarinrakkaus

(idiomatic) A sentimental fondness or affection.

lukkiutua

(intransitive) To become fastened in place.

lukko

(military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.

lukkoseppä

One who practices locksmithing.

lukonkehys

(firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action. [from 19th c.]

luksi

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx

luksus

Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create.

luksus-

Very fine in quality or luxurious.

luku

(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.

luku- ja kirjoitustaito

The ability to read and write.

lukualue

A range of values or locations.

lukuhuone

A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.

lukuintoinen

Fond of reading or studying, especially said of someone lacking social skills as a result.

lukuisa

Existing in multitudes or great numbers; very numerous; innumerable. [from early 17th c.]

lukuisasti

Plentifully, abundantly.

lukuisuus

(countable) A number of votes for a single candidate or position which is greater than the number of votes gained by any other single candidate or position voted for, but which is less than a majority of valid votes cast.

lukujärjestyksen ulkopuolinen

Outside of the normal curriculum of an educational establishment.

lukujärjestys

A tabular schedule of events with the times at which they occur, especially times of arrivals and departures.

lukujono

(mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.

lukukausi

Half of a school year (US) or academic year such as autumn or spring semester.

lukukausimaksu

(North American, Philippines) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a private school, boarding school, university, or college).

lukukelpoinen

Clear enough to be read; readable, particularly of handwriting.

lukukelvoton

Not clear enough to be read; unreadable; not legible or decipherable.

lukumäärä

The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).

lukumääräinen

(relational) Of or pertaining to numbers.

lukupää

(computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.

lukupulpetti

A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.

lukusana

(countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.

lukusuora

(mathematics) The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.

lukutaidoton

Unable to read and write.

lukutaidottomuus

(uncountable) The inability to read and write.

lukutaito

The ability to read and write.

lukuteline

A stand with a slanted top used to support a Bible from which passages are read during a church service.

lukutilaisuus

An event at which written material is read aloud.

lukutoukka

(figurative) An avid book reader.

lukuun ottamatta

To give no consideration to (something); to treat as an exception. [from late 16th c.]

lulla

A one-wheeled attachment to the side of a motorcycle to allow for a separate seat for a passenger or cargo space.

luma

(uncountable, education) Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.

lumelääke

(medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment. [from 18th c.]

lumen

(physics) In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm.

lumetodellisuus

(uncountable) That which is simulated in a computer and/or online; virtual reality; (countable) an instance of this; specifically (gambling) , a computer simulation of a real-world sport such as horse racing.

lumi

(countable) An accumulation or spread of snow.

lumiaura

A motorized vehicle that is used to push snow off flat surfaces such as roads and parking lots.

lumihiutale

A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.

lumikenttä

A bright surface of ice or snow.

lumikiila

A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

lumikko

The common weasel, little weasel, or simply weasel (Mustela nivalis), the smallest member of the weasel genus Mustela, native to Eurasia, North America, and North Africa.

lumikuuro

A light, brief snowfall.

lumilauta

A board, somewhat like a broad ski, or a very long skateboard with no wheels, used in the sport of snowboarding.

lumilautailija

Someone who pays for meals and lodging in a house rather than a hotel.

lumilautailla

To ride a snowboard.

lumilautailu

The sport of sliding downhill on a snowboard.

lumilinko

A motorized vehicle that picks up snow off the ground and blows it to one side in order to clear a path.

lumimies

(cryptozoology, often, capitalized) A humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas.

lumimyrsky

A large snowstorm accompanied by strong winds and greatly reduced visibility caused by blowing snow.

luminanssi

(optics) The luminous flux emitted in a given direction divided by the product of the projected area of the source element perpendicular to the direction and the solid angle containing that direction (i.e. luminous intensity divided by unit area), measured in stilbs or apostilbs.

luminen

Marked by snow, characterized by snow.

luminesenssi

(physics) Any emission of light that cannot be attributed merely to the temperature of the emitting body.

luminoli

(organic compound) The compound 5-amino-2,3-dihydro-1,4-phthalazinedione, which exhibits blue chemiluminescence when mixed with an appropriate oxidizing agent.

lumipisara

Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers.

lumirae

(uncountable) A precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake.

lumisade

(uncountable) The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.

lumisademäärä

The amount of snow that falls on one occasion.

lumisateinen

Marked by snow, characterized by snow.

lumisokeus

A painful condition of the eyes caused by exposure of unprotected eyes to ultraviolet (UV) rays.

lumiukko

A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).

lumivalkoinen

The white color of snow.

lumivalkoinen kukinto

(figurative) Clusters of white flowers.

lumivyöry

A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

lumo

(particle physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.

lumoaminen

The act of enchanting or the feeling of being enchanted.

lumoava

Having the ability to enchant; charming, delightful.

lumoissaan

Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased, euphoric.

lumota

To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.

lumottu

Under a magic spell (cast by a charm); bewitched.

lumouksen haihtuminen

Freeing from false belief or illusions.

lumous

An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).

lumoutua

To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind.

lumoutuminen

The act of enchanting or the feeling of being enchanted.

lumoutunut

Held at attention, as if by magic.

lumovoima

Something that enchants; a magical spell.

lumppu

(slang, derogatory, by extension) Any woman with loose sexual morals.

lunaarinen

(astronomy) Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.

lunastaa

(transitive) to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge. [with of or (formerly) from]

Lunastaja

honorific title for Jesus Christ

lunastaminen

The act of redeeming or something redeemed.

lunastus

The act of redeeming or something redeemed.

lunni

A species of puffin (Fratercula arctica).

luntata

(intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.

luntti

A sheet of paper (or a digital analogue thereof) containing notes used to assist (with or without permission) on a test; especially, such a sheet used secretly and improperly.

lunttilappu

A sheet of paper (or a digital analogue thereof) containing notes used to assist (with or without permission) on a test; especially, such a sheet used secretly and improperly.

lunttu

(slang, pejorative) A woman who is evil, scheming, shameless, or immoral.

luo

An ethnic group in southern Sudan, Kenya, and neighboring countries.

luoda

(chiefly, US, sometimes, proscribed) To create a work as its author.