6-letter words containing i, l
- linked — (of a gene) exhibiting linkage.
- linker — one of the rings or separate pieces of which a chain is composed.
- linkup — a contact or linkage established, as between military units or two spacecraft.
- linnet — a small Old World finch, Carduelis cannabina.
- linney — a lean-to shed
- linnhe — Loch, Loch Linnhe.
- linsey — linsey-woolsey.
- linted — having or containing lint
- lintel — a horizontal architectural member supporting the weight above an opening, as a window or a door.
- linter — linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
- lintie — (archaic, Scotland) A linnet.
- lintol — a horizontal architectural member supporting the weight above an opening, as a window or a door.
- linton — Ralph, 1893–1953, U.S. anthropologist.
- lionel — a male given name, form of Leon.
- lionet — a young or small lion.
- lionly — like or similar to a lion
- lipase — any of a class of enzymes that break down fats, produced by the liver, pancreas, and other digestive organs or by certain plants.
- lipids — any of a group of organic compounds that are greasy to the touch, insoluble in water, and soluble in alcohol and ether: lipids comprise the fats and other esters with analogous properties and constitute, with proteins and carbohydrates, the chief structural components of living cells.
- lipoic — Of or pertaining to lipoic acid and its derivatives, the lipoates.
- lipoid — Also, lipoidal. fatty; resembling fat.
- lipoma — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lipped — of or relating to the lips or a lip: lip ointment.
- lippen — to trust (a person).
- lipper — a slightly rough or ripply surface on a body of water.
- lipton — Seymour, 1903–1986, U.S. sculptor.
- liquid — composed of molecules that move freely among themselves but do not tend to separate like those of gases; neither gaseous nor solid.
- liquor — a distilled or spirituous beverage, as brandy or whiskey, as distinguished from a fermented beverage, as wine or beer.
- lisbon — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
- lisgar — Sir John Young, 1807–76, Canadian political leader: governor general 1869–72.
- lisp 1 — The original Lisp. Invented by John McCarthy et al at MIT in the late 50's. Followed by LISP 1.5.
- lisp 2 — LISP 1.5 with an ALGOL 60-like surface syntax. Also optional type declarations, new data types including integer-indexed arrays and character strings, partial-word extraction/insertion operators and macros. A pattern-matching facility similar to COMIT was proposed. Implemented for the Q-32 computer.
- lisp a — "LISP A: A LISP-like System for Incremental Computing", E.J. Sandewall, Proc SJCC 32 (1968).
- lisp70 — A Lisp dialect descended from MLISP and MLISP2. Also known as PLISP and VEL. Useful for parsing. Only the pattern-matching system was published and fully implemented. According to Alan Kay, LISP70 had an influence on Smalltalk-72. "The LISP70 Pattern Matching System, Larry Tesler et al, IJCAI 73.
- lisped — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- lisper — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- lissom — lithesome or lithe, especially of body; supple; flexible.
- listed — made of selvages or strips of cloth.
- listee — a person, business, etc., that is included in a list or directory.
- listel — a narrow list or fillet.
- listen — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- lister — a border or bordering strip, usually of cloth.
- liston — Sonny, real name Charles. 1922–70, US boxer: former world heavyweight champion
- lit up — a simple past tense and past participle of light1 .
- litany — a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession.
- litate — (botany) forked, with the points slightly curved outward.
- litchi — the fruit of a Chinese tree, Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family, consisting of a thin, brittle shell enclosing a sweet, jellylike pulp and a single seed.
- liters — Plural form of liter.
- litest — noting a commercial product that is low in calories or low in any substance considered undesirable, as compared with a product of the same type: used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products: lite beer.
- lithal — (informal, inorganic compound) lithium aluminium hydride;.
- lithed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithe.