12-letter words containing li
- alias dictus — otherwise called; alias.
- aliasing bug — stale pointer bug
- alice palmer — Alice Elvira, 1855–1902, U.S. educator.
- alice's fern — Hartford fern.
- alienability — (uncountable) The quality of being alienable.
- alieni juris — under the control of another, as a lunatic or infant.
- alimentation — sustenance; support
- alimentative — nourishing; nutritive.
- alkali grass — a plant, Zigadenus elegans, of central and western North America, having tough, wiry, bluish-green leaves and greenish flowers.
- alkali metal — any of the monovalent metals lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, and francium, belonging to group 1A of the periodic table. They are all very reactive and electropositive
- alkalifiable — Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.
- alkalimeters — Plural form of alkalimeter.
- alkalization — Alkalinization.
- alkyl halide — a compound with the type formula RX, where R is an alkyl group and X is a halogen.
- alliteration — Alliteration is the use in speech or writing of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound.
- alliterative — Alliterative means relating to or connected with alliteration.
- allowability — The state of being allowable; legitimacy; permissibleness.
- alterability — capable of being altered.
- alto-relievo — high relief
- alto-rilievo — alto-relievo
- ambrettolide — a colorless liquid, C 16 H 28 O 2 , having a strong musky odor, used as a fixative in the manufacture of perfume.
- ameliorating — Present participle of ameliorate.
- amelioration — the act or an instance of ameliorating or the state of being ameliorated
- ameliorative — Able to repair or ameliorate.
- amelioratory — tending to ameliorate
- amissibility — the quality of being amissible
- amphibolitic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of an amphibolite.
- amphiregulin — (protein) A particular autocrine growth factor.
- amygdaliform — almond-shaped.
- anchor light — a 32-point light, visible from at least two miles away, shown at night near the bow and not more than 20 feet (6 meters) above the deck of a vessel lying at anchor.
- and the like — If you mention particular things or people and then add and the like, you are indicating that there are other similar things or people that can be included in what you are saying.
- androclinium — clinandrium.
- anecdotalism — an inclination to relate anecdotes
- anencephalic — born with no or only a partial brain
- anglo-gallic — noting or pertaining to the coins or series of coins issued by the English kings from Henry II to Henry VIII for their French domains.
- anglophiliac — a strong admiration or enthusiasm for England, its people, and things English.
- anguilliform — having the shape or form of an eel
- animalculism — the theory explaining psychological and pathological phenomena through animalcules
- animalculist — a person who subscribes to the theory of animalculism
- annihilistic — Relating to annihilation.
- anthelic arc — a rare halo occurring at the sun's elevation but in the opposite part of the sky.
- anti-elitist — (of a person or class of persons) considered superior by others or by themselves, as in intellect, talent, power, wealth, or position in society: elitist country clubbers who have theirs and don't care about anybody else.
- anti-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- anti-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- antialiasing — a technique for smoothing out jagged lines in graphical computer output.
- antibiblical — Opposing or contradicting the Bible.
- anticlimatic — Misspelling of anticlimactic.
- anticlimaxes — Plural form of anticlimax.
- anticyclical — not conforming to or following a cycle: anticyclical sales that rise when the economy fades.
- antigambling — opposed to gambling