5-letter words containing li
- choli — a short-sleeved bodice, as worn by Indian women
- cilia — the eyelashes
- clicc — (language) A Common Lisp to C compiler by Heinz Knutzen <[email protected]>, Ulrich Hoffman <[email protected]> and Wolfgang Goerigk <[email protected]>. CLiCC is meant to be used as a supplement to existing CLISP systems for generating portable applications. Target C code must be linked with the CLiCC run-time library to produce an executable. Version 0.6.2 conforms to a subset of Common Lisp and CLOS called CL_0 or CommonLisp_0 and based on CLtL1. It runs with Lucid Lisp, AKCL or CLISP. Work on CLtL2 and ANSI-CL conformance is in progress.
- click — If something clicks or if you click it, it makes a short, sharp sound.
- cliff — A cliff is a high area of land with a very steep side, especially one next to the sea.
- clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
- climb — If you climb something such as a tree, mountain, or ladder, or climb up it, you move towards the top of it. If you climb down it, you move towards the bottom of it.
- clime — You use clime in expressions such as warmer climes and foreign climes to refer to a place that has a particular kind of climate.
- climp — Misspelling of climb.
- clin- — clino-
- cline — a continuous variation in form between members of a species having a wide variable geographical or ecological range
- cling — If you cling to someone or something, you hold onto them tightly.
- clink — If objects made of glass, pottery, or metal clink or if you clink them, they touch each other and make a short, light sound.
- clint — a section of a limestone pavement separated from adjacent sections by solution fissures
- clips — C Language Integrated Production System
- clipt — a past participle of clip1 .
- clisp — (language) 1. Conversational LISP. 2. A Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe University and Michael Stoll. of Munich University, both in Germany. CLISP includes an interpreter, bytecode compiler, almost all of the CLOS object system, a foreign language interface and a socket interface. An X11 interface is available through CLX and Garnet. Command line editing is provided by the GNU readline library. CLISP requires only 2 MB of RAM. The user interface comes in German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian and can be changed at run time. CLISP is Free Software and distributed under the GPL. It runs on microcomputers (OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Amiga, Acorn) as well as on Unix workstations (Linux, BSD, SVR4, Sun4, Alpha, HP-UX, NeXTstep, SGI, AIX, Sun3, and others).
- clite — Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- clits — Plural form of clit.
- clive — Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey. 1725–74, British general and statesman, whose victory at Plassey (1757) strengthened British control in India
- colic — Colic is an illness in which you get severe pains in your stomach and bowels. Babies especially suffer from colic.
- colid — (zoology) Any member of the Colidae.
- colin — an American quail
- cslip — Compressed SLIP
- curli — curled hairlike processes on the surface of the bacterium Escherichia coli by means of which the bacterium adheres to and infects wounds
- cylix — kylix
- dalit — a member of the lowest class in India, whom those of the four main castes were formerly forbidden to touch
- delia — the recipes or style of cooking of British cookery writer Delia Smith (born 1941)
- delis — Plural form of deli.
- dilli — a city on NE Timor, in S Indonesia.
- dlitt — Doctor of Letters
- dolin — Sir Anton [an-ton] /ˈæn tɒn/ (Show IPA), (Patrick Healey-Kay) 1904–83, English ballet dancer.
- dulia — veneration and invocation given to saints as the servants of God.
- eblis — the chief evil jinni in Islamic mythology
- elias — Elijah
- elide — Omit (a sound or syllable) when speaking.
- elihu — one of Job's visitors in his affliction: Job 32-37
- elint — intelligence gathered by using electronic sensors to intercept electromagnetic signals, such as radio signals, from other countries
- eliot — George, real name Mary Ann Evans. 1819–80, English novelist, noted for her analysis of provincial Victorian society. Her best-known novels include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Middlemarch (1872)
- elisa — enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay: an immunological technique for accurately measuring the amount of a substance, for example in a blood sample
- elisp — 1. (language) A Lisp variant originally implemented for DEC-20s by Chuck Hedrick of Rutgers. 2. (language) A common abbreviation for Emacs Lisp. Use of this abbreviation is discouraged because "Elisp" is or was a trademark.
- elite — A group of people considered to be the best in a particular society or category, esp. because of their power, talent, or wealth.
- eliza — (artificial intelligence) A famous program by Joseph Weizenbaum, which simulated a Rogerian psychoanalyst by rephrasing many of the patient's statements as questions and posing them to the patient. It worked by simple pattern recognition and substitution of key words into canned phrases. It was so convincing, however, that there are many anecdotes about people becoming very emotionally caught up in dealing with ELIZA. All this was due to people's tendency to attach to words meanings which the computer never put there. See also ELIZA effect.
- ellie — (language) An object-oriented language with fine-grained parallelism for distributed computing. Ellie is based on BETA, Smalltalk, and others. Parallelism is supported by unbounded RPC and "future" objects. Synchronisation is by dynamic interfaces. Classes, methods, blocks, and objects are all modelled by first-class "Ellie objects". It supports genericity, polymorphism, and delegation/inheritance.
- ellis — EuLisp LInda System. An object-oriented Linda system written for EuLisp. "Using Object-Oriented Mechanisms to Describe Linda", P. Broadbery <[email protected]> et al, in Linda-Like Systems and Their Implementation, G. Wilson ed, U Edinburgh TR 91-13, 1991.
- eolic — Aeolic
- felid — any animal of the family Felidae, comprising the cats.
- felis — a genus of mostly small cats, including the domestic cat, margay, puma, and ocelot, sharing with certain cats of related genera an inability to roar due to ossification of the hyoid bone in the larynx.
- felix — (Paul) Felix (Edler von Münzberg) [poul fey-liks eyd-luh r fuh n mynts-berk] /paʊl ˈfeɪ lɪks ˈeɪd lər fən ˈmüntsˌbɛrk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1942, Austrian composer, conductor, and writer.
- flick — a motion picture.