6-letter words containing i, l
- jilted — to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), especially abruptly or unfeelingly.
- jilter — to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), especially abruptly or unfeelingly.
- jimply — slender; trim; delicate.
- jingal — a large musket fired from a rest, often mounted on a carriage: formerly used in India, China, etc.
- jingle — to make clinking or tinkling sounds, as do coins, keys, or other light, resonant metal objects when coming into contact or being struck together repeatedly: The keys on his belt jingled as he walked.
- jingly — to make clinking or tinkling sounds, as do coins, keys, or other light, resonant metal objects when coming into contact or being struck together repeatedly: The keys on his belt jingled as he walked.
- jirble — to pour carelessly
- jokily — lacking in seriousness; frivolous: The editorial had an offensively jokey tone for such an important subject.
- joliet — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1645–1700, French-Canadian explorer, born in Quebec.
- joplin — Scott, 1868–1917, U.S. ragtime pianist and composer.
- jovial — endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good-fellowship: a wonderfully jovial host.
- jpldis — Jet Propulsion Laboratory Display Information System. Query system for UNIVAC 1108 [or PDP's?] written in Fortran, based on Tymshare's "Retrieve". Indirectly led to Vulcan which led to dBASE II. Jack Hatfield, George Masters, W. Van Snyder, Jeb Long et al, JPL.
- jubile — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- julian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Julius Caesar.
- julies — a female given name, form of Julia.
- juliet — the heroine of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- julius — (Giammaria Ciocchi del Monte; Giovanni Maria del Monte) 1487–1555, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1550–55.
- jungli — the inhabitants of the jungle
- k-line — one of a series of lines (K-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (K-radiation) produced by the transition of an electron to the K-shell.
- kabila — Laurent Désiré [loh-rahn dey-zee-rey] /loʊˈrɑn deɪ ziˈreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1939–2001, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1997–2001.
- kafila — Alternative form of cafila.
- kailas — a mountain in SW Tibet: highest peak of the Kailas Range in the Himalaya Mountains: sacred to Hindus and Buddhists. 22,028 feet (6714 meters).
- kailua — a city on SE Oahu, in Hawaii.
- kalais — the winged son of Boreas the north wind. As Argonauts he and his brother Zetes chased away the Harpies.
- kalian — a Persian tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water; hookah.
- kalifs — Plural form of kalif.
- kalima — (Islam) the formal content of the shahada (declaration of faith):
- kaliph — a spiritual leader of Islam, claiming succession from Muhammad.
- kalisz — a city in central Poland.
- kalium — (obsolete) Potassium.
- kallis — Jacques (Henry), born 1975, South African cricketer; an all-rounder, in 166 tests (1995–2013) he scored 13,289 runs and took 292 wickets
- kalmia — any North American evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Kalmia, of the heath family, having showy flowers, as the mountain laurel.
- kalpis — a form of the hydria.
- kaolin — a fine white clay used in the manufacture of porcelain.
- kapila — flourished early 6th century b.c, Hindu philosopher: reputed founder of the Sankhya system of Hindu philosophy.
- keelie — (Scotland, northern England) A sparrowhawk or kestrel.
- keitel — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1882–1946, German marshal: chief of the Nazi supreme command 1938–45.
- keloid — an abnormal proliferation of scar tissue, as on the site of a surgical incision.
- kelpie — Australian kelpie.
- keltic — Celt.
- kelvin — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- khalid — (Khalid ibn Abdul-Aziz al Saud) 1913–82, king of Saudi Arabia 1975–82 (son of ibn-Saud and brother of Faisal).
- khalif — a spiritual leader of Islam, claiming succession from Muhammad.
- khilat — (in India and the Middle East) a ceremonial robe or other gift given to someone by a superior as a mark of honour
- kibble — to grind or divide into particles or pellets, as coarse-ground meal or prepared dry dog food.
- kiblah — the point toward which Muslims turn to pray, especially the Kaʿba, or House of God, at Mecca.
- kiddle — A kind of fishweir resembling a wattle or fence.
- kidlet — Lb colloquial child.
- kidult — adultescent.
- kielce — a city in S Poland.