5-letter words containing li
- lidos — Plural form of lido.
- liege — a city in E Belgium, on the Meuse River: one of the first cities attacked in World War I.
- liens — Plural form of lien.
- liers — a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- liest — (archaic) Second-person singular present simple form of 'lie'.
- lieth — Archaic third-person singular form of lie.
- lieus — place; stead.
- lieve — lief.
- lifar — Serge [syir-gyey;; French serzh] /syɪrˈgyeɪ;; French sɛrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1905–86, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, in Paris after 1923.
- lifer — a person sentenced to or serving a term of life imprisonment.
- lifes — (obsolete, possibly not standard in any era) Plural form of life.
- lifia — Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et d'Intelligence Artificielle.
- lifts — Plural form of lift.
- ligan — lagan.
- liger — the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.
- light — a light product, as a beer or cigarette.
- ligne — (in Swiss watchmaking) a unit equal to 0.0888 inch or 2.2558 millimeters, divided into 12 douziemes: used mainly to gauge the thickness of a movement.
- liked — to take pleasure in; find agreeable or congenial: We all liked the concert.
- liken — to represent as similar or like; compare: to liken someone to a weasel.
- liker — Digital Technology. (sometimes initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a feature used to like specific website content: a Like button; like boxes.
- likes — Digital Technology. (sometimes initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a feature used to like specific website content: a Like button; like boxes.
- likey — Alternative form of like.
- likin — (formerly in China) a provincial duty imposed on articles of trade that are in transit.
- likud — a conservative political party in Israel, founded in 1973.
- lilac — any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Syringa, of the olive family, as S. vulgaris, having large clusters of fragrant purple or white flowers: the state flower of New Hampshire.
- lille — a department in N France. 2229 sq. mi. (5770 sq. km). Capital: Lille.
- lillo — George, 1693?–1739, English dramatist.
- lilly — a female given name.
- lilts — Plural form of lilt.
- liman — a muddy lagoon, marsh, or lake near the mouth of a river behind part of the delta and more or less protected from open water by a barrier or spit.
- limax — a slug
- limba — an African tree, Terminalia superba, having yellowish-brown wood.
- limbo — (often initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Theology. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs)
- limbs — Plural form of limb.
- limby — Having many limbs, or branches.
- limed — 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.
- limen — threshold (def 4).
- limer — (obsolete) A kind of dog kept on a lead; a bloodhound; a mongrel.
- limes — a boundary, especially the fortified border or frontier of a country.
- limey — a British sailor.
- limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- limma — any of several musical intervals of small size, such as a semitone
- limns — to represent in drawing or painting.
- limon — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1908–72, Mexican dancer and choreographer in the U.S.
- limos — Plural form of limo.
- limpa — a rye bread made using brown sugar or molasses
- limps — Plural form of limp.
- linac — linear accelerator.
- linch — A ledge; a right-angled projection.
- lincs — Lincolnshire