10-letter words containing t, e, l, i
- limitrophe — (of a country or region) on or near a frontier
- 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 storm — equinoctial storm.
- lineaments — Plural form of lineament.
- linecaster — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
- liner note — 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.
- linguister — an interpreter
- 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
- lipsticked — Decorated with lipstick.
- liquescent — becoming liquid; melting.
- liquidated — Simple past tense and past participle of liquidate.
- liquidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liquidate.
- list price — the price at which a product is usually sold to the public and from which a trade discount is computed by a wholesaler.
- listenable — pleasant to listen to: soft, listenable music.
- lister bag — a canvas container used especially for supplying troops in the field with pure water.
- listlessly — having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless; indifferent: a listless mood; a listless handshake.
- literacies — Plural form of literacy.
- literalism — adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation: to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
- literalist — adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation: to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
- literality — the quality or state of being literal; literalness.
- literalize — to make literal; interpret literally.
- literarily — pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature: literary history.
- literately — able to read and write.
- literateur — Alternative spelling of litterateur.
- literation — The act or process of representing by letters.
- literatuer — Obsolete form of literature.
- literature — 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.
- literosity — the condition of being affectedly literary
- litherness — (obsolete) Wickedness.
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- lithophane — a transparency made of thin porcelain or bone china having an intaglio design.
- lithophile — (of a chemical element) concentrated in the earth's crust, rather than in the core or mantle.
- lithophone — a Chinese stone chime consisting of 16 stone slabs hung in two rows and struck with a hammer.
- lithophyte — Zoology. a polyp with a hard or stony structure, as a coral.
- lithotrite — an instrument for performing lithotrity.
- lithuresis — the passage of gravel in the urine.
- litigative — to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law.
- litter bin — trash can
- litter box — a sanitary indoor box for pets (esp cats) to dispose urine and faeces
- litterally — Obsolete form of literally.
- litteratim — literatim.
- litterbugs — Plural form of litterbug.
- littermate — one of a pair or group of animals born or reared in the same litter.
- little auk — the dovekie, Alle alle.
- little boy — the code name for the uranium-fueled atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. on Hiroshima in 1945.
- little dog — the constellation Canis Minor.
- little end — the smaller end of a connecting rod in an internal-combustion engine or reciprocating pump
- little fox — the constellation Vulpecula.