6-letter words containing l, i
- bluing — a blue liquid, powder, etc. used in rinsing white fabrics to prevent yellowing
- bluish — Something that is bluish is slightly blue in colour.
- bodily — Your bodily needs and functions are the needs and functions of your body.
- boiled — that has been brought to boiling point
- boiler — A boiler is a device which burns gas, oil, electricity, or coal in order to provide hot water, especially for the central heating in a building.
- bolide — a large exceptionally bright meteor that often explodes
- boline — (in Wicca) a knife, usually sickle-shaped and with a white handle, used for gathering herbs and carving symbols
- bolita — a form of numbers pool.
- bollix — to make a muddle of; bungle; botch
- bolyai — János [yah-nawsh] /ˈyɑ nɔʃ/ (Show IPA), 1802–60, Hungarian mathematician.
- bovril — a concentrated beef extract, used for flavouring, as a stock, etc
- boxily — in a boxy manner
- braila — a port in E Romania: belonged to Turkey (1544–1828). Pop: 192 000 (2005 est)
- brasil — Brazil
- brazil — the red wood obtained from various tropical leguminous trees of the genus Caesalpinia, such as C. echinata of America: used for cabinetwork
- bridal — Bridal is used to describe something that belongs or relates to a bride, or to both a bride and her bridegroom.
- bridle — A bridle is a set of straps that is put around a horse's head and mouth so that the person riding or driving the horse can control it.
- brillo — a compact pad of steel wool containing soap, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- buglix — /buhg'liks/ Pejorative term referring to DEC's ULTRIX operating system in its earlier *severely* buggy versions. Still used to describe ULTRIX, but without nearly so much venom. Compare AIDX, HP-SUX, Nominal Semidestructor, Telerat, sun-stools.
- bulbil — a small bulblike organ of vegetative reproduction growing in leaf axils or on flower stalks of plants such as the onion and tiger lily
- burial — A burial is the act or ceremony of putting a dead body into a grave in the ground.
- busily — If you do something busily, you do it in a very active way.
- byline — A byline is a line at the top of an article in a newspaper or magazine giving the author's name.
- cafila — A caravan of travellers or supplies.
- cagily — cautious, wary, or shrewd: a cagey reply to the probing question.
- cahill — an artificial fly having a quill body, golden tag, tan-spotted wings and tail, and gray hackle.
- caille — (in cookery) a quail
- calais — a port in N France, on the Strait of Dover: the nearest French port to England; belonged to England 1347–1558. Pop: 75 790 (2006)
- calami — Plural form of calamus.
- calci- — indicating lime or calcium
- calcic — of, containing, or concerned with lime or calcium
- calice — Obsolete form of chalice.
- calico — Calico is plain white fabric made from cotton.
- caligo — a speck on the cornea causing poor vision
- calima — a dust storm in the Canary Islands region, originating from the Sahara desert
- caliph — A Caliph was a Muslim ruler.
- calkin — calk2 (def 1).
- calli- — beautiful
- callid — cunning or sly
- calvin — John, original name Jean Cauvin, Caulvin, or Chauvin. 1509–64, French theologian: a leader of the Protestant Reformation in France and Switzerland, establishing the first presbyterian government in Geneva. His theological system is described in his Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
- camail — a neck and shoulders covering of mail worn with and laced to the basinet
- canlit — Canadian Literature
- caplin — capelin.
- carlin — an old woman.
- catlin — George1796-1872; U.S. ethnologist & artist
- caulis — the main stem of a plant
- cavill — Frederick, 1839–1927, Australian swimmer and coach, born in England: developed the Australian crawl.
- cavils — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
- ccmail — It's written cc:mail.
- cecile — a feminine name