6-letter words containing li
- eelier — any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- eeling — Present participle of eel.
- eliade — Mircea. 1907–86, Romanian scholar and writer, noted for his study of religious symbolism. His works include Patterns of Comparative Religion (1949)
- eliche — pasta in the form of spirals
- elicit — Evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions.
- elided — Simple past tense and past participle of elide.
- elides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elide.
- elijah — a Hebrew prophet of the 9th century bc, who was persecuted for denouncing Ahab and Jezebel. (I Kings 17–21: 21; II Kings 1–2:18)
- elinor — a feminine name
- elisha — a Hebrew prophet of the 9th century bc: successor of Elijah (II Kings 3–9)
- elisor — (UK, legal) An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.
- elites — Plural form of elite.
- elixir — A magical or medicinal potion.
- elliot — a masculine name
- ellipt — (linguistics) To omit (from an utterance) by ellipsis.
- emblic — a deciduous tree, Phyllanthus emblica, found in eastern India and belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae, used for tanning
- emboli — Plural form of embolus.
- enlink — to link or connect closely
- enlist — Enroll or be enrolled in the armed services.
- enlive — (archaic) To enliven.
- eolian — Alternative spelling of aeolian.
- eolith — A roughly chipped flint found in Tertiary strata, originally thought to be an early artifact but probably of natural origin.
- epulis — (medicine) A hard tumour developed from the gums.
- equali — pieces for a group of instruments of the same kind
- euclid — (language) (Named after the Greek geometer, fl ca 300 BC.) A Pascal descendant for development of verifiable system software. No goto, no side effects, no global assignments, no functional arguments, no nested procedures, no floats, no enumeration types. Pointers are treated as indices of special arrays called collections. To prevent aliasing, Euclid forbids any overlap in the list of actual parameters of a procedure. Each procedure gives an imports list, and the compiler determines the identifiers that are implicitly imported. Iterators. Ottawa Euclid is a variant.
- eulisp — 1985-present. A Lisp dialect intended to be a common European standard, with influences from Common LISP, Le LISP, Scheme and T. First-class functions, classes and continuations, both static scope and dynamic scope, modules, support for parallelism. The class system (TELOS) incorporates ideas from CLOS, ObjVLisp and Oaklisp. See also Feel. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- exilic — Of or pertaining to exile.
- eyelid — Each of the upper and lower folds of skin that cover the eye when closed.
- farlie — (obsolete, UK, dialect) An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder.
- fdlibm — A new version of the C maths library, libm, by Dr. K-C Ng. It is the basis for the bundled /usr/lib/libm.so in Solaris 2.3 for SPARC and for future Solaris 2 releases for x86 and PowerPC. It provides the standard functions necessary to pass the usual test suites. This new libm can be configured to handle exceptions in accordance with various language standards or in the spirit of IEEE 754. The C source code should be portable to any IEEE 754 system. E-mail: <[email protected]> ("send all from fdlibm"), <[email protected]> (comments and bug reports).
- felice — a female given name, form of Felicia.
- felids — Plural form of felid.
- feline — belonging or pertaining to the cat family, Felidae.
- felipe — León (Camino) [le-awn kah-mee-naw] /lɛˈɔn kɑˈmi nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1968, Spanish poet, in South America after 1939.
- ferlie — something unusual, strange, or causing wonder or terror.
- filial — of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter: filial obedience.
- filing — A small particle rubbed off by a file when smoothing or shaping something.
- filius — a son
- fillip — to strike with the nail of a finger snapped from the end of the thumb.
- finlit — the understanding of the concepts and terminology associated with finance
- flicks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flick.
- flicky — (slang) Easily flicked; thus, light and fast.
- fliers — Plural form of flier.
- flieth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fly.
- flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- flimsy — without material strength or solidity: a flimsy fabric; a flimsy structure.
- flinch — to draw back or shrink, as from what is dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant.
- flings — Plural form of fling.
- flints — Plural form of flint.
- flinty — composed of, containing, or resembling flint, especially in hardness.