10-letter words containing li
- culiciform — resembling a gnat
- culinarian — a person skilled in cookery
- culinarily — of, relating to, or used in cooking or the kitchen.
- cumuliform — resembling a cumulus cloud
- curability — capable of being cured.
- curtailing — Present participle of curtail.
- cutability — the portion of saleable lean meat on a carcass
- cyberdelic — Of or pertaining to a fusion of modern cyberculture with the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s.
- cycle clip — a ring of taut metal that fits on a person's ankles to hold trouser bottoms tight and prevent them getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
- cyclic amp — cyclic adenosine monophosphate: a constituent of biological cells, responsible for triggering processes that are dependent on hormones
- cyclic gmp — a cyclic anhydride of guanosine monophosphate formed from guanosine triphosphate by the action of guanylate cyclase: in cellular metabolism, it acts as a second messenger associated with increased cell division and growth.
- cyclically — cyclic.
- cylindered — Having a specified kind or number of cylinders.
- cylindrite — a mineral made up of cylindrical crystals containing tin, iron, lead, and antimony
- cylindroid — a cylinder with an elliptical cross section
- cynophilia — a love of dogs
- cystoliths — Plural form of cystolith.
- cytophilic — (of antibodies, etc) having an attraction or affinity to cells
- d'oliviera — Basil (Lewis). 1931–2011, South African-born cricketer who played for England. The South African government's refusal to admit him to the country as part of the England touring party in 1968 led to South Africa being banned from international cricket
- daggerlike — resembling a dagger in shape or form
- daily life — Your daily life is the things that you do every day as part of your normal life.
- dalliances — A casual romantic or sexual relationship.
- dandelions — Plural form of dandelion.
- darjeeling — a town in NE India, in West Bengal in the Himalayas, at an altitude of about 2250 m (7500 ft). Pop: 107 530 (2001)
- dark slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
- darlington — an industrial town in NE England in Darlington unitary authority, S Durham: developed mainly with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington railway (1825). Pop: 86 082 (2001)
- dash light — a light to illuminate a dashboard in a motor vehicle
- dazzlingly — to overpower or dim the vision of by intense light: He was dazzled by the sudden sunlight.
- de broglie — Prince Louis Victor (lwi viktɔr). 1892–1987, French physicist, noted for his research in quantum mechanics and his development of wave mechanics: Nobel prize for physics 1929
- de-license — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- de-linking — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- deadliness — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadlining — Present participle of deadline.
- deaf-blind — of or relating to a person who is both deaf and blind.
- debilitate — If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
- debilities — Plural form of debility.
- debt limit — (in public finance) the legal maximum debt permitted a municipal, state, or national government.
- decaliters — Plural form of decaliter.
- deciliters — Plural form of deciliter.
- decimalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of decimalize.
- decimalism — a method or practice based on units, divisions, or multiples of ten
- decimalist — a person who is in favour of decimalism
- decimalize — to change (a system, number, etc) to the decimal system
- decivilize — to cause (a person) to be uncivilized
- deck light — a skylight for a 'tween deck, built flush with the upper deck.
- declinable — that can be declined; having case inflections
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- deconflict — Military. to avoid a potential clash or accident involving (nonenemy military operations, weaponry, etc.) in a particular combat area: to deconflict coalition forces from three nations. to avoid such conflict in (a combat area): to deconflict airspace.
- decoupling — the separation of previously linked systems so that they may operate independently
- decreolize — to modify (a creole language) in the direction of a standard form of the language on which most of the vocabulary of the creole is based.