7-letter words containing i, l, n
- linking — Connecting or joining something to something else.
- linkman — Adult linkboy; one bearing a torch or light.
- linkmen — Plural form of linkman.
- linkrot — the condition of a website link not being updated, with the result that the host website is no longer hyperlinked to the desired website
- linkups — Plural form of linkup.
- linnean — of or relating to Linnaeus, who established the binomial system of scientific nomenclature.
- linnets — Plural form of linnet.
- linning — Present participle of lin.
- linocut — a cut made from a design cut into linoleum mounted on a block of wood.
- 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.
- linseed — flaxseed.
- lintels — Plural form of lintel.
- linters — the short fibres stripped from ginned cotton seeds
- linties — Plural form of lintie.
- linting — the process of making lint
- lintols — a horizontal architectural member supporting the weight above an opening, as a window or a door.
- linuron — The herbicide N'-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-N-methoxy-N-methyl-urea.
- lioncel — a lion: so called when three or more are displayed on an escutcheon.
- lioness — a female lion.
- lionise — to treat (a person) as a celebrity: to lionize the visiting poet.
- lionism — a lion-like appearance of the skin on the face, caused by leprosy
- lionize — to treat (a person) as a celebrity: to lionize the visiting poet.
- lipmann — Fritz Albert, 1899–1986, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.
- lipping — either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
- lisburn — a city in Northern Ireland in Lisburn district, Co Antrim, noted for its linen industry: headquarters of the British Army in Northern Ireland. Pop: 71 465 (2001)
- lisente — plural of sente.
- lisping — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- listens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of listen.
- listing — a careening, or leaning to one side, as of a ship.
- littlun — A child or a young animal.
- live in — Also, sleep-in. residing at the place of one's employment: a live-in maid.
- live on — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- live-in — Also, sleep-in. residing at the place of one's employment: a live-in maid.
- livened — Simple past tense and past participle of liven.
- livener — One who, or that which, livens.
- livenza — a river in NE Italy, flowing SE to the Adriatic. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- livings — Plural form of living.
- livonia — a former Russian province on the Baltic: now part of Latvia and Estonia.
- livorno — a seaport in W Italy on the Ligurian Sea.
- lo mein — a Chinese dish of thin noodles stir-fried with vegetables and usually meat or shrimp.
- 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.
- lobbing — Tennis. to hit (a ball) in a high arc to the back of the opponent's court.
- lobefin — Any of the fish of the class Sarcopterygii.
- lock in — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- lock-in — an act or instance of becoming unalterable, unmovable, or rigid.
- locking — Present participle of lock.