8-letter words containing alis
- nasalise — Alternative spelling of nasalize.
- nasalism — the tendency to pronounce sounds nasally
- natalism — Pronatalism; an ideology in favour of childbearing.
- natalist — A supporter of natalism; one who is in favour of childbearing.
- navalism — the promotion of naval interests
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- papalism — the papal system.
- papalist — a follower of the Pope or papacy
- penalise — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- petalism — a form of expulsion that typically lasted for five years and was dealt to those who were seen to have treacherous aspirations and objectives and was carried out in Syracuse in Ancient Greece
- ptyalism — excessive secretion of saliva.
- qawwalis — Plural form of qawwali.
- realised — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realises — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realisms — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- regalism — the principle that royalty have the highest power, esp when referring to church affairs
- regalist — a person who believes in or promotes regalism
- royalism — the principles of royal government; monarchism
- royalist — a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
- ruralism — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- ruralist — one who leads or advocates a rural life
- salishan — a family of American Indian languages including Coeur d'Alêne, Kalispel, and other languages of British Columbia and the northwestern U.S.
- sodalist — a member of a sodality.
- talisman — a stone, ring, or other object, engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess occult powers and worn as an amulet or charm.
- tonalist — a person who works with or uses tonality, especially one who uses traditional tonality rather than atonality in composing music.
- totalism — totalitarianism.
- totalist — of or relating to the aims of the music of totalism
- trialism — the belief that man consists of body, soul, and spirit
- vitalise — to give life to; make vital.
- vitalism — the philosophical doctrine that the phenomena of life cannot be explained in purely mechanical terms because there is something immaterial which distinguishes living from inanimate matter
- vocalise — a musical composition consisting of the singing of melody with vowel sounds or nonsense syllables rather than text, as for special effect in classical compositions, in polyphonic jazz singing by special groups, or in virtuoso vocal exercises.
- vocalism — Phonetics. a vowel, diphthong, triphthong, or vowel quality, as in a syllable. the system of vowels of a language.
- vocalist — a singer.
- zetalisp — (language) The Maclisp dialect used on the LISP Machine. The many extensions to Maclisp include vectors, closures, flavors, stack groups, locatives, and invisible pointers. Currently supported by Lisp Machines, Inc. and Symbolics.