10-letter words containing li
- borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
- boswellize — to write an account of in the detailed manner of Boswell.
- botticelli — Sandro (ˈsandro), original name Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi. 1444–1510, Italian (Florentine) painter, illustrator, and engraver, noted for the graceful outlines and delicate details of his mythological and religious paintings
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- branglings — a series of squabbles or disputes
- brattlings — a series of rattling or clattering sounds
- bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
- brightline — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- brilliance — great brightness; radiance
- brilliancy — an instance of brilliance: the brilliancies of Congreve's wit.
- brilliante — with spirit; lively
- brinelling — a localized surface corrosion; a cause of damage to bearings
- broccolini — a cultivated variety of cabbage, Brassica B. oleracea, which resembles broccoli and is eaten as a green vegetable
- bubbliness — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
- bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
- bullionist — a purveyor of bullion
- bumbailiff — (formerly) an officer employed to collect debts and arrest debtors for nonpayment
- bumblingly — in a bumbling manner
- bunglingly — in a bungling manner
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
- burnt lime — calcium oxide; quicklime
- burnt-lime — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- bushelling — alteration of clothes
- bustlingly — in a bustling manner
- cabalistic — of or relating to the cabala.
- cache line — (storage) (Or cache block) The smallest unit of memory than can be transferred between the main memory and the cache. Rather than reading a single word or byte from main memory at a time, each cache entry is usually holds a certain number of words, known as a "cache line" or "cache block" and a whole line is read and cached at once. This takes advantage of the principle of locality of reference: if one location is read then nearby locations (particularly following locations) are likely to be read soon afterward. It can also take advantage of page-mode DRAM which allows faster access to consecutive locations.
- caecilians — Plural form of caecilian.
- cagliostro — Count Alessandro di (alesˈsandro di), original name Giuseppe Balsamo. 1743–95, Italian adventurer and magician, who was imprisoned for life by the Inquisition for his association with freemasonry
- cajolingly — In a cajoling manner.
- calibrated — marked with units
- calibrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calibrate.
- calibrator — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- calico bug — harlequin bug.
- calico cat — a domestic cat, especially a female one, of variegated black, yellow, and white coloring.
- calicoback — harlequin bug
- california — a state on the W coast of the US: the third largest state in area and the largest in population; consists of a narrow, warm coastal plain rising to the Coast Range, deserts in the south, the fertile central valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in the east; major industries include the growing of citrus fruits and grapes, fishing, oil production, electronics, information technology, and films. Capital: Sacramento. Pop: 35 484 453 (2003 est). Area: 411 015 sq km (158 693 sq miles)
- caliginous — dark; dim
- caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
- caliphates — Plural form of caliphate.
- calixtus i — Saint, a.d. c160–222, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 218–222.
- calla lily — any southern African plant of the aroid genus Zantedeschia, esp Z. aethiopica, which has a white funnel-shaped spathe enclosing a yellow spadix
- calla-lily — Also called calla lily, arum lily. any of several plants belonging to the genus Zantedeschia, of the arum family, especially Z. aethiopica, having arrow-shaped leaves and a large white spathe enclosing a yellow spike.
- calligraph — to produce by means of calligraphy: The love letter was calligraphed in a delicate hand.
- calliopean — resembling a calliope in sound; piercingly loud: a calliopean voice.
- calliopsis — coreopsis
- callithump — a noisy band or parade
- calmodulin — a protein found in most living cells; it regulates many enzymic processes that are dependent on calcium
- cameralism — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.