7-letter words containing a, l, i, n
- leaping — Present participle of leap.
- leasing — a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
- leaving — something that is left; residue.
- legnica — a city in SW Poland: formerly in Germany.
- lemnian — a Greek island in the NE Aegean. 186 sq. mi. (480 sq. km). Capital: Myrina.
- lesbian — of or relating to Lesbos.
- li yuan — (Kao TsuorGao Zu) a.d. 565–635, Chinese emperor 618–27: founder of the Tang dynasty.
- liaison — the contact or connection maintained by communications between units of the armed forces or of any other organization in order to ensure concerted action, cooperation, etc.
- lianoid — any of various usually woody vines that may climb as high as the tree canopy in a tropical forest.
- ligands — Plural form of ligand.
- lignane — (organic compound) The hydrocarbon formed by joining two propylbenzene residues at the \u03b2-carbon atom of the propyl side chain; this structure is the basis of all lignans.
- lignans — Plural form of lignan.
- lillian — a female given name.
- limacon — a plane curve generated by the locus of a point on a line at a fixed distance from the point of intersection of the line with a fixed circle, as the line revolves about a point on the circumference of the circle. Equation: r = a cosθ + b.
- liminal — of, relating to, or situated at the limen.
- linacre — Thomas, 1460?–1521, English humanist, translator, scholar, and physician.
- linages — Plural form of linage.
- linalol — a colorless, unsaturated terpene liquid alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, having a fragrance similar to that of bergamot oil, obtained from several essential oils: used in perfumery.
- linares — a city in S Spain.
- linaria — any of various plants belonging to the genus Linaria, of the figwort family, especially of the cultivated species, as L. maroccana or L. aeruginea, having slender clusters of spurred flowers in a variety of colors.
- lindane — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 6 H 6 Cl 6 , the gamma isomer of benzene hexachloride: used chiefly as an insecticide, delouser, and weed-killer.
- lindsay — Howard, 1889–1968, U.S. playwright, producer, and actor.
- lineage — the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
- lineate — marked with lines, especially parallel lengthwise lines; striped.
- lineman — Also, linesman. a person who installs or repairs telephone, telegraph, or other wires.
- lingala — a Bantu language used as a lingua franca in the N Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- lingams — Plural form of lingam.
- linguae — the tongue or a part like a tongue.
- lingual — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
- lingula — a tongue-shaped organ, process, or tissue.
- linkage — the act of linking; state or manner of being linked.
- linkman — Adult linkboy; one bearing a torch or light.
- linnean — of or relating to Linnaeus, who established the binomial system of scientific nomenclature.
- linpack — 1. A package of linear algebra routines. 2. The kernel benchmark developed from the "LINPACK" package of linear algebra routines. It was written by Jack Dongarra <[email protected]> in Fortran and is commonly used in that language but there is also a C version. Source Code by FTP: single precision Fortran, double precision Fortran, C.
- linsang — any of several civetlike carnivores of the genera Prionodon, of the East Indies, and Poiana, of Africa, having retractile claws and a long tail: some East Indies linsangs are endangered.
- lipmann — Fritz Albert, 1899–1986, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.
- livenza — a river in NE Italy, flowing SE to the Adriatic. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- livonia — a former Russian province on the Baltic: now part of Latvia and Estonia.
- loading — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- loafing — to idle away time: He figured the mall was as good a place as any for loafing.
- loaming — a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.
- loaning — Present participle of loan.
- locrian — either of two districts in the central part of ancient Greece.
- logania — any of several plants or shrubs of the genus Logania, native chiefly to Australia, having small white or pink flowers.
- loraine — a female given name, form of Lorraine.
- lorinda — a feminine name
- lorrain — Also, Lorrain. Claude (Claude Gelée) 1600–82, French painter.
- lothian — a region in E Scotland. 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km).
- louvain — a city in central Belgium.
- lucania — an ancient region in S Italy, NW of the Gulf of Taranto.