5-letter words containing i, s, l
- lasik — a surgical procedure to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism in which a laser is used to remove inner layers of corneal tissue.
- laski — Harold Joseph, 1893–1950, English political scientist and writer.
- lassi — an Indian beverage of yogurt or buttermilk, water, and spices, often with the addition of fruit or sweetener.
- legis — legislation
- leics — Leicestershire
- leish — active or athletic
- lenis — pronounced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in weak sound effect: in stressed or unstressed position, (b, d, g, j, v, th̸, z, and zh) are lenis in English, as compared with (p, t, k, ch, f, th, s, and sh), which are fortis. Compare fortis (def 1).
- levis — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- lewis — Carl (Frederick Carlton Lewis) born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
- lexis — the vocabulary of a language, as distinct from its grammar; the total stock of words and idiomatic combinations of them in a language; lexicon.
- liars — Plural form of liar.
- liase — Misspelling of liaise.
- licks — Plural form of lick.
- lidos — Plural form of lido.
- liens — Plural form of lien.
- liers — a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- liest — (archaic) Second-person singular present simple form of 'lie'.
- lieus — place; stead.
- lifes — (obsolete, possibly not standard in any era) Plural form of life.
- lifts — Plural form of lift.
- likes — Digital Technology. (sometimes initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a feature used to like specific website content: a Like button; like boxes.
- lilts — Plural form of lilt.
- limbs — Plural form of limb.
- limes — a boundary, especially the fortified border or frontier of a country.
- limns — to represent in drawing or painting.
- limos — Plural form of limo.
- limps — Plural form of limp.
- lincs — Lincolnshire
- linds — Plural form of lind.
- lines — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
- lings — Plural form of ling.
- links — link
- lints — minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- linus — Classical Mythology. a musician and poet, the inventor of melody and rhythm, of whom various stories are told: often identified, through his untimely death, with the harvesting or withering of crops and vegetation. Also called Linus song. a dirge: originally sung in western Asia to mourn the death of crops being harvested, later sung to mourn the death of Linus or that of Adonis.
- lions — a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- lisle — Leconte de Lisle.
- lisps — Plural form of lisp.
- lisse — a fine, filmy, lightly crinkled gauze fabric used in strips for making ruching or for finishing garments.
- lists — list
- liszt — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1811–86, Hungarian composer and pianist.
- litas — a former silver coin and monetary unit of Lithuania, equal to 100 centai.
- lives — plural of life.
- loins — Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- loris — Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- lotis — LOgic, TIming, Sequencing. A language which describes a computer via its data flow.
- louis — louis d'or.
- lweis — Plural form of lwei.
- lysi- — freeing, loosening, dissolving
- lysin — an antibody causing the disintegration of erythrocytes or bacterial cells.
- lysis — Immunology, Biochemistry. the dissolution or destruction of cells by lysins.