10-letter words containing n, a, i, l
- lilienthal — David E(ly) 1899–1981, U.S. public administrator.
- liminality — the transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which the participant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, shows obedience and humility, and follows prescribed forms of conduct, dress, etc.
- limitarian — a person who regards salvation as limited to only a part of mankind
- limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
- lin yutang — (Lin Yü-t'ang) 1895–1976, Chinese author and philologist.
- lincolnian — of or relating to Abraham Lincoln, his character, or his political principles.
- line ahead — a formation adopted by a naval unit for manoeuvring
- line dance — a kind of partnerless dance in which the dancers stand side by side in a line or lines and perform, in unison, a series of set, often complex, steps to various kinds of popular music
- line eater — (messaging) 1. A bug in some now-obsolete versions of the Usenet software that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text. The bug was triggered by having the text of the article start with a space or tab. This bug was quickly personified as a mythical creature called the "line eater", and postings often included a dummy line of "line eater food". Ironically, line eater "food" not beginning with a space or tab wasn't actually eaten, since the bug was avoided; but if there *was* a space or tab before it, then the line eater would eat the food *and* the beginning of the text it was supposed to be protecting. The practice of "sacrificing to the line eater" continued for some time after the bug had been nailed to the wall, and is still humorously referred to. The bug itself is still (in mid-1991) occasionally reported to be lurking in some mail-to-netnews gateways. 2. NSA line eater.
- line gauge — a printer's ruler, usually marked off in points, picas, agates, and inches, and sometimes also in centimeters.
- line space — (on a typewriter, typesetter, printer, or the like) the horizontal space provided for a line of typing, typesetting, printing, etc.
- line-dance — to participate in a line dance.
- lineaments — Plural form of lineament.
- linear map — (mathematics) (Or "linear transformation") A function from a vector space to a vector space which respects the additive and multiplicative structures of the two: that is, for any two vectors, u, v, in the source vector space and any scalar, k, in the field over which it is a vector space, a linear map f satisfies f(u+kv) = f(u) + kf(v).
- linearized — Simple past tense and past participle of linearize.
- linebacker — a player on defense who takes a position close behind the linemen.
- linecaster — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
- linerboard — a type of paperboard used especially for containers, as corrugated boxes.
- lineswoman — a female official, as in tennis, soccer, ice hockey, and football, who assists the referee.
- linoleates — Plural form of linoleate.
- linolenate — a salt or ester of linolenic acid
- lion-tamer — a person who trains lions, esp for entertainment in a circus
- lipizzaner — one of a breed of compact, finely shaped, usually gray or white horses developed at the Austrian Imperial Stud and used generally in dressage exhibitions.
- lippizaner — one of a breed of compact, finely shaped, usually gray or white horses developed at the Austrian Imperial Stud and used generally in dressage exhibitions.
- lipreading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- lisianthus — Eustoma grandiflorum, now Eustoma exaltatum subsp. russellianum, a flowering plant.
- lisichansk — a city in E Ukraine, on the Donets River, NE of Donetsk.
- lisp-linda — P. Dourish, U Edinburgh 1988.
- listenable — pleasant to listen to: soft, listenable music.
- literation — The act or process of representing by letters.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- lithophane — a transparency made of thin porcelain or bone china having an intaglio design.
- lithuanian — of or relating to Lithuania, its inhabitants, or their language.
- litigating — Present participle of litigate.
- litigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
- little man — the common or ordinary person.
- loan-shift — 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.
- lobtailing — (of a whale) to slap the flukes against the surface of the water.
- lobulation — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
- local sign — the information from a receptor in the eye or the skin signifying respectively a direction in space or a given point on the body
- local wind — one of a number of winds that are influenced predominantly by the topographic features of a relatively small region.
- localising — Present participle of localise.
- localizing — Present participle of localize.
- locational — a place of settlement, activity, or residence: This town is a good location for a young doctor.
- login-name — Also called login name, logon name, sign-in name, sign-on name. a unique sequence of characters used to identify a user and allow access to a computer system, computer network, or online account.
- logjamming — the act of logs accumulating in a river and becoming jammed
- loma linda — a town in SW California.
- lombrosian — of or relating to the doctrine propounded by the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso that criminals are a product of hereditary and atavistic factors and can be classified as a definite abnormal type
- long-chain — pertaining to molecules composed of long chains of atoms, or polymers composed of long chains of monomers.
- longhaired — Having long hair.