7-letter words containing l, a, i
- limbate — bordered, as a flower in which one color is surrounded by an edging of another.
- limeade — a beverage consisting of lime juice, a sweetener, and plain or carbonated water.
- liminal — of, relating to, or situated at the limen.
- linacre — Thomas, 1460?–1521, English humanist, translator, scholar, and physician.
- linages — Plural form of linage.
- linalol — a colorless, unsaturated terpene liquid alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, having a fragrance similar to that of bergamot oil, obtained from several essential oils: used in perfumery.
- linares — a city in S Spain.
- linaria — any of various plants belonging to the genus Linaria, of the figwort family, especially of the cultivated species, as L. maroccana or L. aeruginea, having slender clusters of spurred flowers in a variety of colors.
- lindane — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 6 H 6 Cl 6 , the gamma isomer of benzene hexachloride: used chiefly as an insecticide, delouser, and weed-killer.
- lindsay — Howard, 1889–1968, U.S. playwright, producer, and actor.
- lineage — the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
- lineate — marked with lines, especially parallel lengthwise lines; striped.
- lineman — Also, linesman. a person who installs or repairs telephone, telegraph, or other wires.
- lingala — a Bantu language used as a lingua franca in the N Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- lingams — Plural form of lingam.
- linguae — the tongue or a part like a tongue.
- lingual — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
- lingula — a tongue-shaped organ, process, or tissue.
- linkage — the act of linking; state or manner of being linked.
- linkman — Adult linkboy; one bearing a torch or light.
- linnean — of or relating to Linnaeus, who established the binomial system of scientific nomenclature.
- 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.
- lipases — Plural form of lipase.
- lipemia — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
- lipmann — Fritz Albert, 1899–1986, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.
- lipoate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of lipoic acid.
- lipomas — Plural form of lipoma.
- lipread — to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- lipuria — the presence of fat in the urine
- liquate — to heat (an alloy or mixture) sufficiently to melt the more fusible matter and thus to separate it from the rest, as in the refining of tin.
- lirella — the elongated, narrow apothecium of certain lichens.
- literal — in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical: the literal meaning of a word.
- lithate — a salt of uric acid
- livable — suitable for living in; habitable; comfortable: It took a lot of work to make the old house livable.
- livenza — a river in NE Italy, flowing SE to the Adriatic. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- livonia — a former Russian province on the Baltic: now part of Latvia and Estonia.
- lixivia — the solution, containing alkaline salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes with water; lye.
- lizards — Plural form of lizard.
- lizzard — Obsolete form of lizard.
- 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.
- loamier — Comparative form of loamy.
- 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.
- lobelia — any herbaceous or woody plant of the genus Lobelia, having long clusters of blue, red, yellow, or white flowers.
- lobtail — (of a whale) to slap the flukes against the surface of the water.
- locrian — either of two districts in the central part of ancient Greece.
- logania — any of several plants or shrubs of the genus Logania, native chiefly to Australia, having small white or pink flowers.
- loggias — Plural form of loggia.