7-letter words containing t, e, l
- lettuce — a cultivated plant, Lactuca sativa, occurring in many varieties and having succulent leaves used for salads.
- leucite — a whitish or grayish mineral, potassium aluminum silicate, KAlSi 2 O 6 , found in alkali volcanic rocks.
- leuctra — a town in ancient Greece, in Boeotia: Thebans defeated Spartans here 371 b.c.
- levants — Plural form of levant.
- levator — Anatomy. a muscle that raises a part of the body. Compare depressor.
- leveret — a young hare.
- leviter — (in prescriptions) lightly.
- leyster — Judith, 1609–60, Dutch painter.
- liberty — freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
- librate — to oscillate or move from side to side or between two points.
- licente — permitted or allowed
- liement — (fencing) An action in which one fencer forces the opponent\u2019s blade into the diagonally opposite line, (that is, from high line to low line on the opposite side, or vice versa) by taking it with the guard and forte of his own blade.
- liestal — a demicanton in N Switzerland. 165 sq. mi. (425 sq. km). Capital: Liestal.
- lietuva — Lithuanian name of Lithuania.
- lifters — Plural form of lifter.
- ligated — Simple past tense and past participle of ligate.
- ligates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ligate.
- lighted — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- lighten — to become less severe, stringent, or harsh; ease up: Border inspections have lightened recently.
- lighter — a light product, as a beer or cigarette.
- lignite — a soft coal, usually dark brown, often having a distinct woodlike texture, and intermediate in density and carbon content between peat and bituminous coal.
- like to — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- limbate — bordered, as a flower in which one color is surrounded by an edging of another.
- limited — confined within limits; restricted or circumscribed: a limited space; limited resources.
- limiter — a person or thing that limits.
- limites — plural of limes.
- limpets — Plural form of limpet.
- lineate — marked with lines, especially parallel lengthwise lines; striped.
- linecut — an engraving or print obtained from a line drawing
- lineout — (rugby) a set piece where the hooker throws the ball into play between a row of players from each team.
- linnets — Plural form of linnet.
- lintels — Plural form of lintel.
- linters — the short fibres stripped from ginned cotton seeds
- linties — Plural form of lintie.
- lipetsk — a city in the W Russian Federation, SSE of Moscow.
- lipoate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of lipoic acid.
- liquate — to heat (an alloy or mixture) sufficiently to melt the more fusible matter and thus to separate it from the rest, as in the refining of tin.
- lisente — plural of sente.
- listels — Plural form of listel.
- listeme — (linguistics) An item that is memorized as part of a list, as opposed to being generated by a rule.
- listens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of listen.
- listers — Plural form of lister.
- literal — in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical: the literal meaning of a word.
- lithate — a salt of uric acid
- lithely — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- lithite — a calcareous body present in some animal cells, esp with a sensory function
- litotes — understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”.
- litters — Plural form of litter.
- littery — of, relating to, or covered with litter; untidy.
- littler — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.