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11-letter words containing l, i, t, e, s, n

  • lateen sail — a triangular sail set on a long sloping yard, used especially on the Mediterranean Sea.
  • lawn tennis — tennis, especially when played on a grass court.
  • leaf insect — any of several orthopterous insects of the family Phillidae, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having a body that resembles a leaf in color and form.
  • lecithinase — An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of lecithin.
  • legislating — Present participle of legislate.
  • legislation — the act of making or enacting laws.
  • lemon stick — a lemon half with a peppermint stick stuck in it, through which the lemon juice is sucked.
  • lend itself — to possess the right characteristics or qualities for
  • lengthiness — The property of being lengthy, longness.
  • lentiginose — (botany) Bearing numerous dots resembling freckles.
  • lentiginous — of or relating to a lentigo.
  • libertinism — libertine practices or habits of life; disregard of authority or convention in sexual or religious matters.
  • licentiates — Plural form of licentiate.
  • lieutenants — Plural form of lieutenant.
  • lifecasting — The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
  • ligamentous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or forming a ligament.
  • lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
  • lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
  • liltingness — The property or characteristic of being lilting.
  • limitedness — confined within limits; restricted or circumscribed: a limited space; limited resources.
  • lindenhurst — a village on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • line starve — (MIT, opposite of line feed) 1. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this). On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen. "To print "X squared", you just output "X", line starve, "2", line feed." (The line starve causes the "2" to appear on the line above the "X", and the line feed gets back to the original line.) 2. A character (or character sequence) that causes a terminal to perform this action. ASCII 26, also called SUB or control-Z, was one common line-starve character in the days before microcomputers and the X3.64 terminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII terminology. Even among hackers it is considered silly. 3. (Proposed) A sequence such as \c (used in System V echo, as well as nroff and troff) that suppresses a newline or other character(s) that would normally be emitted.
  • linearities — Plural form of linearity.
  • linecasting — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
  • liner notes — Usually, liner notes. explanatory or interpretative notes about an audio album, as a record, CD, etc., printed on the cover or case or otherwise provided.
  • linked list — (programming)   A data structure in which each element contains a pointer to the next element, thus forming a linear list. A doubly linked list contains pointers to both the next and previous elements.
  • listen here — You say listen here when you are going to say something important to someone, especially when you are angry at what they have done or said.
  • literalness — 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.
  • lithogenous — of or relating to organisms, as coral, that secrete stony deposits.
  • littlenecks — Plural form of littleneck.
  • livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
  • longevities — Plural form of longevity.
  • longsighted — Alternative spelling of long-sighted.
  • lounge suit — a man's suit appropriate for informal occasions.
  • loutishness — The state or quality of being loutish, of behaving like a lout.
  • low-density — having a low concentration.
  • low-tension — subjected to, or capable of operating under, relatively low voltage: low-tension wire. Abbreviation: lt, L.T.
  • luminescent — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
  • lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
  • malignities — Plural form of malignity.
  • manipulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manipulate.
  • manstealing — the act of kidnapping.
  • martingales — Plural form of martingale.
  • maternalism — of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting a mother: maternal instincts.
  • mediastinal — a median septum or partition between two parts of an organ, or paired cavities of the body.
  • mentalising — Present participle of mentalise.
  • mentalistic — the doctrine that objects of knowledge have no existence except in the mind of the perceiver.
  • mentalities — Plural form of mentality.
  • mentionless — Without a mention; unmentioned.
  • met-english — A Fortran-like language designed at Metropolitan Life in the early 1960s. It had support for variable-length bit fields. Most MetLife DP in the 1960s and 1970s was in Met-English. It was originally developed for Honeywell machines, but many programs still run under IBM MVS via a Honeywell emulator.
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