8-letter words containing lia
- goliaths — Plural form of goliath.
- halliard — any of various lines or tackles for hoisting a spar, sail, flag, etc., into position for use.
- hegelian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hegel or his philosophical system.
- heliacal — pertaining to or occurring near the sun, especially applied to such risings and settings of a star as are most nearly coincident with those of the sun while yet visible.
- hilliard — Nicholas, 1547–1619, English goldsmith and miniaturist painter.
- holiatry — holism (def 2).
- ismailia — a city and seaport at the midpoint of the Suez Canal, in NE Egypt.
- kaoliang — a variety of grain sorghum.
- karelian — of or relating to Karelia, its people, or their language.
- liaising — to form a liaison.
- liaisons — Plural form of liaison.
- liakoura — modern name of Parnassus (def 1).
- liaodong — a peninsula in NE China, extending S into the Yellow Sea.
- liaoning — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in NE China. 58,301 sq. mi. (151,000 sq. km). Capital: Shenyang.
- liaoyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a city in central Liaoning province, in NE China.
- liaoyuan — a city in SE Jilin province, in NE China.
- magnolia — a city in SW Arkansas.
- mammalia — (obsolete) alternative case form of Mammalia.
- matralia — an annual festival of ancient Rome celebrated by women in honor of the goddess Matuta.
- miliaria — an inflammatory disease of the skin, located about the sweat glands, marked by the formation of vesicles or papules resembling millet seeds; prickly heat.
- milliamp — One thousandth ( 10-3 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as mA.
- milliard — one thousand millions; equivalent to U.S. billion.
- milliare — an ancient Roman unit of distance equal to 0.1478 centimetres
- milliary — of, relating to, or designating the ancient Roman mile of a thousand paces.
- mongolia — a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.
- monilial — pertaining to or caused by a fungus of the genus Monilia.
- mycelial — Of or pertaining to the mycelium.
- natalian — a province in the E part of the Republic of South Africa. 35,284 sq. mi. (91,886 sq. km). Capital: Pietermaritzburg.
- nauplial — of or relating to nauplius larva
- ordalian — relating to trial by ordeal
- palliard — an expert beggar; an unsavoury character
- palliate — to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- phacelia — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Phacelia, of the waterleaf family, chiefly of the western U.S. and Mexico, having clusters of violet, blue, or white flowers.
- physalia — a marine invertebrate, often confused with a jellyfish, that has a painful sting
- pignolia — a pine nut, the edible seed of the nut pine
- regalian — of or relating to regalia or royalty
- reliable — that may be relied on or trusted; dependable in achievement, accuracy, honesty, etc.: reliable information.
- reliably — that may be relied on or trusted; dependable in achievement, accuracy, honesty, etc.: reliable information.
- reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- reptilia — the class comprising the reptiles.
- roumelia — a division of the former Turkish Empire, in the Balkan Peninsula: included Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace.
- siauliai — a city in N Lithuania, N of Kaunas.
- sicilian — an island in the Mediterranean, constituting a region of Italy, and separated from the SW tip of the mainland by the Strait of Messina: largest island in the Mediterranean. 9924 sq. mi. (25,705 sq. km). Capital: Palermo.
- somalian — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- stapelia — any of various plants of the genus Stapelia, of the milkweed family, native to southern Africa, having short, fleshy, leafless stems, and flowers that are oddly colored or mottled and in most species emit a fetid, carrionlike odor.
- supplial — the act or an instance of supplying
- talliate — to levy a tax upon; to tallage
- unfilial — not befitting a son or daughter; violating the customary obligation of a child to a parent.