9-letter words containing l, i, a, t
- litigable — subject to litigation; actionable by a lawsuit.
- litigants — Plural form of litigant.
- litigated — Simple past tense and past participle of litigate.
- litigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of litigate.
- litigator — a courtroom lawyer.
- litterbag — a small paper or plastic bag for trash or rubbish, as one carried in an automobile.
- littorals — Plural form of littoral.
- live data — 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it. One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program keys; this can be used to write live data that, when listed to the terminal, infects it with a security-breaking virus that is triggered the next time a hapless user strikes that key. For another, there are some well-known bugs in vi that allow certain texts to send arbitrary commands back to the machine when they are simply viewed. 2. In C, data that includes pointers to functions (executable code). 3. An object, such as a trampoline, that is constructed on the fly by a program and intended to be executed as code. 4. Actual real-world data, as opposed to "test data". For example, "I think I have the record deletion module finished." "Have you tried it out on live data?" This usage usually carries the connotation that live data is more fragile and must not be corrupted, or bad things will happen. So a more appropriate response to the above claim might be: "Well, make sure it works perfectly before we throw live data at it." The implication here is that record deletion is something pretty significant, and a haywire record-deletion module running amok on live data would probably cause great harm.
- live trap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- lixiviate — to treat with a solvent; leach.
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- loathings — Plural form of loathing.
- localists — Plural form of localist.
- locatelli — Pietro [pee-ey-troh;; Italian pye-traw] /piˈeɪ troʊ;; Italian ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1695–1764, Italian violinist and composer.
- locations — Plural form of location.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- logarithm — the exponent of the power to which a base number must be raised to equal a given number; log: 2 is the logarithm of 100 to the base 10 (2 = log10 100).
- long tail — the segment of a market representing the large number of products that sell in small quantities, considered by some to be of greater financial value than the few products that sell in very large quantities
- loquacity — the state of being loquacious; talkativeness; garrulity.
- lothair i — a.d. 795?–855, king of Germany 840–843; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 840–855 (son of Louis I).
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- low latin — any form of nonclassical Latin, as Late Latin, Vulgar Latin, or Medieval Latin.
- loyalists — Plural form of loyalist.
- loyalties — Plural form of loyalty.
- lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- luctation — an effort; a struggle
- lunatical — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- lunations — Plural form of lunation.
- lunitidal — pertaining to the part of the tidal movement dependent upon the moon.
- lusitania — (italics) a British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915: one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I.
- lustihead — lustiness
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- lutuamian — a member of a group of American Indian peoples including the Modoc and the Klamath.
- luxuriant — abundant or lush in growth, as vegetation.
- luxuriate — to enjoy oneself without stint; revel: to luxuriate in newly acquired wealth.
- lymphatic — pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lytically — in a lytic manner or involving a lytic phage
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- magistral — Pharmacology. prescribed or prepared for a particular occasion, as a remedy. Compare officinal (def 1).
- mahlstick — a stick with a padded tip used to support an artist's working hand.
- mail path — source route
- mail slot — a slot, usually covered with a hinged flap, through which letters, etc are delivered to a building
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- mailshots — Plural form of mailshot.
- malachite — a green mineral, basic copper carbonate, Cu 2 CO 3 (OH) 2 , an ore of copper, used for making ornamental articles.
- malacotic — softening, or loss of consistency, of an organ or tissue.
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.