11-letter words containing eli
- heli-skiing — skiing in which skiers are transported by helicopter to remote slopes
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
- helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
- helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
- heliculture — the science or occupation of raising snails for food.
- heliochrome — a photograph that reproduces the natural colours of the subject
- heliochromy — the process and practice of producing a photograph that reproduces the natural colours of the subject
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- heliography — The scientific study of the sun.
- heliolithic — of or relating to a civilization characterized by sun worship and megaliths
- heliometers — Plural form of heliometer.
- heliometric — Of or relating to the heliometer, or to heliometry.
- heliophobia — Fear of sunlight.
- heliophobic — fearing or unable to withstand sunlight
- heliophytes — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
- helioscopic — of or relating to observations of the sun
- heliosphere — the region around the sun over which the effect of the solar wind extends.
- heliostatic — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- heliotropes — Plural form of heliotrope.
- heliotropic — turning or growing toward the light.
- heliotropin — piperonal.
- helispheric — spiral
- heterotelic — (of an entity or event) having the purpose of its existence or occurrence outside of or apart from itself.
- high relief — sculptured relief in which volumes are strongly projected from the background.
- hormonelike — Resembling a hormone or some aspect of one.
- houselights — (plural only) The lights that illuminate the audience section of an auditorium or theatre.
- ill feeling — animosity or resentment felt toward another.
- irreligious — not religious; not practicing a religion and feeling no religious impulses or emotions.
- israelitish — of or relating to the Israelites; Hebrew.
- latticelike — Resembling a lattice.
- lecturelike — Resembling a lecture or some aspect of one.
- likelihoods — Plural form of likelihood.
- livelihoods — Plural form of livelihood.
- machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
- makebelieve — Alternative form of make-believe.
- melioidosis — a contagious pulmonary disease of rodents that is caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas pseudomallei and is frequently transmitted to humans in moist climates of southeastern Asia.
- melioration — Historical Linguistics. semantic change in a word to a more approved or more respectable meaning. Compare pejoration (def 2).
- meliorative — That meliorates; curative, salutary.
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- meliphagous — feeding on honey
- mesothelial — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the mesothelium.
- mesothelium — epithelium of mesodermal origin, which lines the body cavities.
- microrelief — surface features of the earth of small dimensions, commonly less than 50 feet (15 meters).
- misbelieved — Simple past tense and past participle of misbelieve.
- misbeliever — Someone who holds an unauthorised belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
- mislabeling — Present participle of mislabel.
- mongrelized — Simple past tense and past participle of mongrelize.
- monothelite — a person who maintains that Christ has a single theanthropic will.
- montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)