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11-letter words containing l, y, i

  • busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
  • by-election — A by-election is an election that is held to choose a new member of parliament when a member has resigned or died.
  • byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
  • calcinatory — A vessel used in calcination.
  • call-in pay — payment made to employees who report for work and find there is no work for them to do.
  • calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
  • callipygian — having beautifully shaped buttocks
  • callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
  • calorically — in a caloric manner
  • calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
  • calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
  • canada lily — a lily, Lilium canadense, of NE North America, with small orange funnel-shaped nodding flowers
  • canonically — pertaining to, established by, or conforming to a canon or canons.
  • capaciously — In a capacious manner.
  • capillarity — a phenomenon caused by surface tension and resulting in the distortion, elevation, or depression of the surface of a liquid in contact with a solid
  • carbocyclic — (of a chemical compound) containing a closed ring of carbon atoms
  • carbylamine — any of a group of organic cyanides containing the radical NC
  • carcinology — the study of crustaceans
  • cardinality — the property of possessing a cardinal number
  • caressingly — In a caressing manner; soothingly.
  • caressively — caressingly
  • carousingly — in a carousing manner
  • carry light — a searchlight used to illuminate a target while it is tracked and fired upon.
  • cashability — money or an equivalent, as a check, paid at the time of making a purchase.
  • castability — the ability of materials to set in a mould when mixed with water and a bonding agent
  • cataclysmic — A cataclysmic event is one that changes a situation or society very greatly, especially in an unpleasant way.
  • catalytical — Chemistry. the causing or accelerating of a chemical change by the addition of a catalyst.
  • catholicity — a wide range of interests, tastes, etc; liberality
  • causability — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • causatively — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
  • caustically — capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
  • cavity wall — A cavity wall is a wall that consists of two separate walls with a space between them. Cavity walls help to keep out noise and cold.
  • celery pine — a New Zealand gymnosperm tree, Phyllocladus trichomanoides, with celerylike shoots and useful wood: family Phyllocladaceae
  • celestially — pertaining to the sky or visible heaven, or to the universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere, as in celestial body.
  • cellularity — pertaining to or characterized by cellules or cells, especially minute compartments or cavities.
  • certifiably — capable of being certified.
  • chaotically — completely confused or disordered: a chaotic mass of books and papers.
  • chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
  • cherry hill — city in SW N.J., east of Camden: pop. 70,000
  • chiloplasty — cheiloplasty.
  • chimneylike — resembling a chimney
  • chlorhydric — (chemistry) Alternative form of hydrochloric.
  • chlorimetry — the methods and procedures used to determine the amount of chlorine present in a preparation
  • cholecystic — gallbladder.
  • christianly — like a Christian; Christianlike.
  • christology — the branch of theology concerned with the person, attributes, and deeds of Christ
  • chronically — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
  • chrysalidal — relating to a chrysalis or stage in the development of an insect
  • chrysalides — the hard-shelled pupa of a moth or butterfly; an obtect pupa.
  • chrysalises — Plural form of chrysalis.
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