11-letter words containing l, i, u
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- lilliputian — extremely small; tiny; diminutive.
- lime burner — a person who makes lime by burning or calcining limestone, shells, etc.
- lime sulfur — a mixture of lime and sulfur that has been boiled in water: used in powdered form or in aqueous solution as an insecticide, a fungicide, and a sheep dip.
- lime-juicer — a British sailor.
- lindenhurst — a village on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- line squall — a squall advancing along a front that forms a more or less definite line.
- line-hauler — a heavy-duty truck suitable for line-haul transportation.
- linguaphile — a language and word lover.
- linguistics — the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.
- lion-hunter — a person who hunts lions, esp for sport
- liposuction — the surgical withdrawal of excess fat from local areas under the skin by means of a small incision and vacuum suctioning.
- liquefiable — Able to be liquefied.
- liquescency — The quality or state of being liquescent.
- liquid diet — a diet restricted to liquids and, sometimes, certain semisolid foods, as custards, gelatin, etc.
- liquid fire — flaming petroleum or the like, as employed against an enemy in warfare.
- liquid gold — a suspension of finely divided gold in a vegetable oil, used chiefly for gilding ceramic ware.
- liquid load — A liquid load is a liquid which is going into or coming out of a distillation stage.
- liquidambar — any tree of the genus Liquidambar, including the sweet gum.
- liquidating — Present participle of liquidate.
- liquidation — the process of realizing upon assets and of discharging liabilities in concluding the affairs of a business, estate, etc.
- liquidators — Plural form of liquidator.
- liquidising — Present participle of liquidise.
- liquidizers — Plural form of liquidizer.
- literatured — (of a person) well educated and learned, esp in literature
- literatures — writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.
- lithodomous — living in rock or stone
- lithogenous — of or relating to organisms, as coral, that secrete stony deposits.
- lithotomous — of or relating to the surgical removal of a stone from the bladder
- litigatious — (rare) litigious.
- litigiously — In a litigious manner.
- litmus test — Chemistry. the use of litmus paper or solution to test the acidity or alkalinity of a solution.
- litter lout — a person who tends to drop refuse in public places
- litterateur — a literary person, especially a writer of literary works.
- little gull — a small, Old World gull, Larus minutus.
- liu shao qi — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist statesman; chairman of the People's Republic of China (1959–68); deposed during the Cultural Revolution
- liver fluke — any of various trematodes, as Fasciola hepatica, parasitic in the liver and bile ducts of domestic animals and humans.
- livermorium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Lv; atomic number: 116.
- living soul — person
- living unit — a dwelling intended for use by one household.
- loculicidal — (of a capsule) splitting lengthwise so as to divide each locule into two parts.
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- locutionary — pertaining to the act of conveying semantic content in an utterance, considered as independent of the interaction between the speaker and the listener.
- logical sum — union (def 10a).
- long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
- longanimous — Long-suffering; patient; showing self-control and restraint.
- longicaudal — having a long tail; macrutous.
- longinquity — long distance; remoteness
- longissimus — (anatomy) The muscle lateral to the semispinalis; the longest subdivision of the sacrospinalis that extends forward into the transverse processes of the posterior cervical vertebrae.
- loop fusion — loop combination