9-letter words containing lia
- foliation — the act or process of putting forth leaves.
- foliature — a cluster of leaves; foliage.
- galliards — Plural form of galliard.
- gangliate — having ganglia.
- generalia — generalities
- genitalia — The genitals.
- goliathan — huge; gigantic
- grindelia — any of various composite plants of the genus Grindelia, comprising the gumweeds.
- halliards — Plural form of halliard.
- homiliary — a collection of homilies.
- humiliant — humiliating, humbling
- humiliate — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- illiac iv — (computer) One of the most infamous supercomputers ever. It used early ideas on SIMD (single instruction stream, multiple data streams). The project started in 1965, it used 64 processors and a 13MHz clock. In 1976 it ran its first sucessfull application. It had 1MB memory (64x16KB). Its actual performance was 15 MFLOPS, it was estimated in initial predictions to be 1000 MFLOPS. It totally failed as a computer, only a quarter of the fully planned machine was ever built, costs escalated from the $8 million estimated in 1966 to $31 million by 1972, and the computer took three more years of enginering before it was operational. The only good it did was to push research forward a bit, leading way for machines such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 and CM-2.
- impliable — (archaic) Not pliable; inflexible; unyielding.
- ismailian — a member of the Ismaʿiliya sect.
- juvenilia — (literature, plural only) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
- lemuralia — the annual festival in ancient Rome in which the lemures were exorcised from houses.
- liability — liabilities. moneys owed; debts or pecuniary obligations (opposed to assets). Accounting. liabilities as detailed on a balance sheet, especially in relation to assets and capital.
- liaisoned — Simple past tense and past participle of liaison.
- liar dice — a gambling game in which the throw of five dice by each player is concealed from the opponent and bluffing is permitted
- liberalia — an ancient Roman festival held annually in honor of Liber and Libera.
- lucullian — (especially of banquets, parties, etc.) marked by lavishness and richness; sumptuous.
- macroglia — Any of various glial cells that are larger than microglia.
- magnolias — Plural form of magnolia.
- mammalian — an animal of the class Mammalia; mammal.
- mendelian — of or relating to Gregor Mendel or to his laws of heredity.
- meromelia — A birth defect characterized by the lacking of a part, but not all, of one or more limbs with the presence of a hand or foot, resulting in a shrunken and deformed extremity.
- messalian — Euchite.
- microglia — Glial cells derived from mesoderm that function as macrophages (scavengers) in the central nervous system and form part of the reticuloendothelial system.
- miliarial — resembling or characteristic of miliaria or heat rash
- milliamps — Plural form of milliamp.
- mirabilia — wonders
- mogilalia — any speech defect, as stuttering or stammering.
- molilalia — mogilalia.
- mongolian — pertaining to Mongolia.
- mutiliate — Misspelling of mutilate.
- neophilia — Love of new things.
- neuroglia — a class of cells in the brain and spinal cord that form a supporting structure for the neurons and provide them with insulation.
- nobiliary — of or relating to the nobility.
- nonfilial — not involving a parent-child relationship
- nonliable — not liable
- nonpliant — not pliant; inflexible
- notabilia — things worthy of notice
- orwellian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the totalitarian future described in his antiutopian novel 1984 (1949).
- palilalia — a speech disorder in which a word or phrase is rapidly repeated
- palliasse — Chiefly British. a mattress of straw; pallet.
- pamphylia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- parakelia — a succulent herb of the genus Calandrinia, with purple flowers, that thrives in inland Australia
- paralalia — any of various speech disorders, esp the production of a sound different from that intended
- pastiglia — a plaster used during the Italian Renaissance for bas-relief ornament of furniture, being applied in layers, molded, carved, and gilded.