lut-

(Latin: mud; clay; dirt; filth; mire)

enlute, enlutes; enluted; enluting (verbs)
To coat with clay; to lute.
Latin lut- forms
1. luteus, lutea, lutum: of mud or clay; dirty, covered with dirt.
2. luto, lutare: to smear with mud or dirt.
3. lutulentus, lutulenta, lutulentum: muddy, dirty; morally filthy, dirty.
4. lutum, luti: mud, mire, dirt; scum.
lutaceous (adjective)
1. Pertaining to, made of, or formed from mud.
2. Formed from or having the fine texture of mud.
3. Related to, or having, the fine-grained texture of a sedimentary rock formed from mud.
lutarious (adjective)
A reference to, living in, or looking like mud.
lute, lutes; luted; luting (verbs)
1. A substance, especially a cement of clay or the like, for packing a joint, coating a porous surface, etc., to produce imperviousness to gas or liquid.
2. A soft, earthy packing mixture used for closing or sealing apertures, joints, or porous surfaces in order to make them resistant to liquids or gases.
3. A packing ring (as of rubber for a fruit jar).
luteous (adjective)
Like mud or clay.
luter (s), luters (pl) (nouns)
One who applies lute (mud, etc.).
luticole (s), luticoles (pl) (nouns)
That which lives in mud.
luticolous (adjective)
Inhabiting or living in mud.
lutit (adjective)
A reference to being dedaubed or befouled with mud.
lutite (s), lutites (pl) (nouns)
Any fine-grained, consolidated sedimentary rock derived from or composed of mud and its associated materials.
lutose (adjective)
1. Covered with a powdery substance resembling mud, as certain insects.
2. Covered with mud or clay.
lutulent (adjective)
Muddy, filthy, impure; turbid, thick.
pollutant (s), pollutants (pl) (nouns)
Any substance; such as, certain chemicals or waste products, that makes the air, soil, water, or other natural resources harmful or unsuitable to use: "More people are becoming more aware of how pollutants are harming their lives."
pollute, pollutes; polluted; polluting (verbs)
1. To make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products: "Wastes from the factory near the river had polluted it to a dangerous degree."
2. To make someone morally or spiritually impure: "The excessive violence presented in films are believed to pollute the minds of people; especially, the younger viewers."
3. Etymology: borrowed from Latin pollutus, polluere,"to soil" or "to defile" from pol-, por-, "before" + luere, "to smear"; related to lutum, "mud". dirty; to soil, befoul.

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "land, ground, fields, soil, dirt, mud, clay, earth (world)": agra-; agrest-; agri-; agro-; argill-; choro-; chthon-; epeiro-; geo-; glob-; myso-; pedo-; pel-; rhyp-; soil-; sord-; terr-.