6-letter words containing i, l
- laurin — (chemistry) A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin ethers of several organic acids.
- laving — to wash; bathe.
- lavish — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- lawing — the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
- laxism — (in Roman Catholic theology) the doctrine that, in cases of doubt in moral matters, the more liberal course should always be followed
- laxist — (in Roman Catholic theology) a casuist who believes that, in cases of doubt in moral matters, the more liberal course should always be followed
- laxity — the state or quality of being lax; looseness.
- lay in — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- laying — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lazied — averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
- lazier — averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
- lazies — averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
- lazily — averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
- lazing — to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
- lazuli — lapis lazuli.
- lclint — (tool, programming) A lint-like ANSI C source checker from MIT. If formal specifications are supplied (in a separate file), lclint can do more powerful checking to detect inconsistencies between specifications and code. Adding specifications enables further checking, types can be defined as abstract and lclint can detect inconsistent use of global variables; undocumented modification of client-visible state; inconsistent use of an uninitialised formal parameter; or failure to initialise an actual parameter.
- le cid — The ("El Cid Campeador"; Rodrigo Díaz de Bivar) c1040–99, Spanish soldier: hero of the wars against the Moors.
- leavis — F(rank) R(aymond) 1895–1978, English critic and teacher.
- lectin — any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- leftie — lefty1 .
- leg it — run, hurry
- leggie — a leg break
- leggin — a covering for the leg, usually extending from the ankle to the knee but sometimes higher, worn by soldiers, riders, workers, etc. Compare chaps, gaiter, puttee.
- leging — Present participle of lege.
- legion — a division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 soldiers.
- legist — an expert in law, especially ancient law.
- leglin — a milk pail
- leguia — Augusto Bernardino [ou-goos-taw ber-nahr-th ee-naw] /aʊˈgus tɔ ˌbɛr nɑrˈði nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1863–1932, president of Peru 1908–12, 1919–30.
- lehigh — a river in E Pennsylvania, flowing SW and SE into the Delaware River. 103 miles (165 km) long.
- leiden — a city in W Netherlands.
- leipoa — mallee fowl.
- leiria — a city in central Portugal: site of the first printing press in Portugal (1466). Pop: 119 870 (2001)
- leloir — Luis Federico [lwees fe-th e-ree-kaw] /lwis ˌfɛ ðɛˈri kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–1987, Argentine biochemist, born in France: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1970.
- lemmie — Eye dialect of let me.
- lenify — (transitive) To assuage or mitigate; to soften.
- lenite — to undergo lenition; be pronounced with weakened articulation, as when the consonant sound p changes to b, b to v, or v to w.
- lenity — the quality or state of being mild or gentle, as toward others.
- lenoir — Jean Joseph Étienne [zhahn zhoh-zef ey-tyen] /ʒɑ̃ ʒoʊˈzɛf eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1822–1900, French inventor.
- lentic — pertaining to or living in still water.
- lentil — a plant, Lens culinaris, of the legume family, having flattened, biconvex seeds used as food.
- leo ii — Saint, died a.d. 683, Sicilian ecclesiastic: pope 682–683.
- leo iv — Saint, died a.d. 855, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 847–855.
- leo ix — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- leo vi — pope a.d. 928.
- leo xi — (Alessandro de'Medici) 1535–1605, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1605.
- leonid — any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.
- leptin — a hormone that is thought to suppress appetite and speed up metabolism.
- lerida — a city in NE Spain.
- lesbic — relating to lesbians
- lesion — an injury; hurt; wound.