10-letter words containing a, t, i, l, n
- lenticular — of or relating to a lens.
- lentiviral — Of or pertaining to a lentivirus.
- leontiasis — a lionlike facial distortion.
- leviathans — Plural form of leviathan.
- levigating — Present participle of levigate.
- levigation — to rub, grind, or reduce to a fine powder, as in a mortar, with or without the addition of a liquid.
- leviration — Levirate marriage.
- levitating — Present participle of levitate.
- levitation — the act or phenomenon of levitating.
- liberating — That serves to liberate, especially to free the mind to accept new ideas.
- liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- licentiate — a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
- lieutenant — Military. first lieutenant. second lieutenant.
- life plant — air plant (def 2).
- ligamental — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a ligament.
- ligamentum — ligament.
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.
- lightplane — a lightweight passenger airplane with relatively limited performance capability.
- lilienthal — David E(ly) 1899–1981, U.S. public administrator.
- liminality — the transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which the participant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, shows obedience and humility, and follows prescribed forms of conduct, dress, etc.
- limitarian — a person who regards salvation as limited to only a part of mankind
- limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
- lin yutang — (Lin Yü-t'ang) 1895–1976, Chinese author and philologist.
- line eater — (messaging) 1. A bug in some now-obsolete versions of the Usenet software that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text. The bug was triggered by having the text of the article start with a space or tab. This bug was quickly personified as a mythical creature called the "line eater", and postings often included a dummy line of "line eater food". Ironically, line eater "food" not beginning with a space or tab wasn't actually eaten, since the bug was avoided; but if there *was* a space or tab before it, then the line eater would eat the food *and* the beginning of the text it was supposed to be protecting. The practice of "sacrificing to the line eater" continued for some time after the bug had been nailed to the wall, and is still humorously referred to. The bug itself is still (in mid-1991) occasionally reported to be lurking in some mail-to-netnews gateways. 2. NSA line eater.
- lineaments — Plural form of lineament.
- linecaster — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
- linoleates — Plural form of linoleate.
- linolenate — a salt or ester of linolenic acid
- lion-tamer — a person who trains lions, esp for entertainment in a circus
- lisianthus — Eustoma grandiflorum, now Eustoma exaltatum subsp. russellianum, a flowering plant.
- listenable — pleasant to listen to: soft, listenable music.
- literation — The act or process of representing by letters.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- lithophane — a transparency made of thin porcelain or bone china having an intaglio design.
- lithuanian — of or relating to Lithuania, its inhabitants, or their language.
- litigating — Present participle of litigate.
- litigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
- little man — the common or ordinary person.
- loan-shift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- lobtailing — (of a whale) to slap the flukes against the surface of the water.
- lobulation — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
- locational — a place of settlement, activity, or residence: This town is a good location for a young doctor.
- longtailed — Having a long tail (used in the names of various birds and animals).
- lopatnikov — Nicolai Lvovich [nik-uh-lahy luh-voh-vich;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy lvaw-vyich] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ ləˈvoʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ ˈlvɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
- loratadine — An antihistamine drug used to treat allergies.
- lorication — the act of covering with a protective coating
- lovastatin — a drug, C 24 H 36 O 8 , that reduces the levels of fats in the blood by altering the enzyme activity in the liver that produces lipids.
- lubricants — Plural form of lubricant.
- luminarist — a painter concerned with precision in using light and shade
- lumination — (obsolete) illumination.