10-letter words containing lia
- exfoliates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exfoliate.
- exfoliator — An exfoliant.
- familiarly — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
- filiations — Plural form of filiation.
- foliaceous — of, like, or of the nature of a plant leaf; leaflike.
- funkadelia — A psychedelic musical genre, with funk roots.
- galliambic — of or relating to a metre consisting of four lesser Ionics, used by Callimachus and Catullus and imitated by Tennyson in Boadicea
- gangliated — having ganglia.
- genethliac — of or relating to birthdays or to the position of the stars at one's birth.
- genitalial — relating to genitalia
- goliardery — one of a class of wandering scholar-poets in Germany, France, and England, chiefly in the 12th and 13th centuries, noted as the authors of satirical Latin verse written in celebration of conviviality, sensual pleasures, etc.
- goliathise — to play Goliath, exaggerate extravagantly
- goliathize — to exaggerate extravagantly
- heliacally — In a heliacal manner.
- helianthus — any composite plant of the genus Helianthus, comprising the sunflowers.
- hemophilia — any of several X-linked genetic disorders, symptomatic chiefly in males, in which excessive bleeding occurs owing to the absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood.
- homophilia — (dated) homosexuality.
- humiliated — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humiliates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humiliate.
- humiliator — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- inter alia — among other things.
- italianate — Italianized; conforming to the Italian type or style or to Italian customs, manners, etc.
- italianism — an Italian practice, trait, or idiom.
- italianist — a person who specializes in the study of Italy, the Italian people, or the Italian language.
- italianize — to become Italian in manner, character, etc.
- julian day — a serial number equal to the number of days elapsed since January 1, 4713 b.c., proposed by Joseph Scaliger in 1582 and used in astronomical calculations: January 1, 1965, at noon, Greenwich Civil Time, was Julian Day 2,438,762.0. Abbreviation: J.D.
- juvenalian — (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) a.d. c60–140, Roman poet.
- liableness — Quality of being liable; liability.
- liaisoning — Present participle of liaison.
- liliaceous — of or like the lily.
- lilliac iv — (computer) A supercomputer designed in the late 1960s at the University of Illinois which had 64 separate CPUs all supervised by a common control unit and all capable of operating simultaneously.
- logophilia — The love of words and word games.
- lupercalia — a festival held in ancient Rome on the 15th of February to promote fertility and ward off disasters.
- lygophilia — The love of darkness.
- mammalians — an animal of the class Mammalia; mammal.
- marginalia — Marginal notes.
- matronalia — an annual festival of ancient Rome held by matrons in honor of Juno.
- maximilian — 1527–76, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1564–76.
- meliaceous — belonging to the Meliaceae, the mahogany family of plants.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- microglial — Of or pertaining to microglia.
- mingrelian — a South Caucasian language spoken near the extreme eastern end of the Black Sea.
- modigliani — Amedeo [ah-me-de-aw] /ˌɑ mɛˈdɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1920, Italian painter and sculptor in France.
- moniliasis — (formerly) candidiasis.
- mysophilia — a pathological attraction to dirt or filth.
- neuroglial — Of or pertaining to the glial cells or neuroglia.
- non-liable — legally responsible: You are liable for the damage caused by your action.
- oenophilia — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- orientalia — Things from the “orient”, especially decorative objects from eastern Asia.