10-letter words containing lia
- palliament — a long robe
- palliation — to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
- palliative — serving to palliate.
- paraphilia — a type of mental disorder characterized by a preference for or obsession with unusual sexual practices, as pedophilia, sadomasochism, or exhibitionism.
- pareidolia — the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, as in considering the moon to have human features
- parliament — (usually initial capital letter) the legislature of Great Britain, historically the assembly of the three estates, now composed of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal, forming together the House of Lords, and representatives of the counties, cities, boroughs, and universities, forming the House of Commons.
- peculiarly — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pedophilia — sexual desire in an adult for a child.
- penetralia — the innermost parts of a building
- perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
- perihelial — the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is nearest to the sun.
- personalia — the accoutrements, concerns, or intimations that are personal to one
- phocomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- phokomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- pliability — easily bent; flexible; supple: pliable leather.
- preexilian — being or occurring prior to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- quintilian — (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) a.d. c35–c95, Roman rhetorician.
- rampallian — a scoundrel, wretch, rascal
- retaliated — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
- rhinolalia — a nasal tone to the voice which is caused by a defect in the nasal passages
- ritschlian — of or relating to the theology of Albrecht Ritschl (1822–89), who developed a liberal Christian theology and maintained that religious faith is based on value judgments.
- sacroiliac — the joint where the sacrum and ilium meet.
- saturnalia — (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
- sea dahlia — a garden plant, Coreopsis maritima, of the southwestern coast of North America, having long-stalked, solitary, yellow flower heads nearly 3 inches (7.6 cm) wide.
- sensibilia — those things which can be sensed
- spoliation — the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- suppliance — appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication: He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.
- suppliancy — suppliance2 .
- suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- tagliarini — egg noodles cut in long, flat, slender pieces, narrower than tagliatelle.
- tagliavini — Ferruccio [fer-root-chaw] /fɛrˈrut tʃɔ/ (Show IPA), 1913–1995, Italian tenor.
- tartanalia — a collective term for pieces of art, literature, etc, viewed as hackneyed representations of Scottishness
- tertullian — (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus) a.d. c160–c230, Carthaginian theologian.
- thessalian — a region in E Greece: a former division of ancient Greece. 5208 sq. mi. (14,490 sq. km).
- tiliaceous — belonging to the Tiliaceae, the linden family of plants.
- topophilia — the love of or emotional connections with place or physical environment
- trifoliate — having three leaflets, lobes, or foils; trefoil.
- unciliated — not ciliated or ciliate
- unfamiliar — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
- unfilially — in an unfilial manner
- unfoliated — shaped like a leaf or leaves: foliated ornaments.
- unifoliate — having only one leaf.
- unreliable — not reliable; not to be relied or depended on.
- unreliably — in an untrustworthy or unreliable manner
- westphalia — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- white lias — a type of rock composed of pale-coloured limestones and marls
- william ii — (William Rufus"the Red") 1056?–1100, King of England 1087–1100 (son of William I, duke of Normandy).
- william iv — ("the Sailor-King") 1765–1837, king of Great Britain and Ireland 1830–37 (brother of George IV).