12-letter words containing lis
- food stylist — a person whose job is to arrange food in an attractive way for professional photographs or broadcasts.
- fraternalism — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
- generalising — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- ghoulishness — The quality of being ghoulish.
- glisteningly — In a glistening manner.
- glossolalist — One who exhibits glossolalia; one who speaks in tongues.
- go ballistic — of or relating to ballistics.
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- hair stylist — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
- hairstylists — Plural form of hairstylist.
- half-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- heteroclisis — (grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb etc.
- holistically — incorporating the concept of holism, or the idea that the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts, in theory or practice: holistic psychology.
- homo habilis — an extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics, dated as being from about 1.5 million to more than 2 million years old and proposed as an early form of Homo leading to modern humans.
- honours list — annual list of persons given royal awards
- hospitalised — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitalists — Plural form of hospitalist.
- housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperrealism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- iconophilism — a taste for pictures and symbols
- iconophilist — a person with a taste for pictures and symbols
- idealisation — Alternative spelling of idealization.
- illegalising — Present participle of illegalise.
- illiberalise — to render illiberal
- illiberalism — narrowminded; bigoted.
- immobilising — Present participle of immobilise.
- immoralistic — (somewhat, rare) Of or relating to immoralism.
- immortalised — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- impartialist — Someone who is or pretends to be impartial.
- imperialised — Simple past tense and past participle of imperialise.
- imperialists — Plural form of imperialist.
- incunabulist — a person who specialises in incunabula, a collector of incunabula
- indianapolis — Robert (Robert Clarke) born 1928, U.S. painter of pop art.
- initialising — to set (variables, counters, switches, etc.) to their starting values at the beginning of a program or subprogram.
- interlisp-10 — An Interlisp with shallow binding.
- internalised — Simple past tense and past participle of internalise.
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- justicialism — the political doctrine of Juan Domingo Perón, formerly President of Argentina
- lateral lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- legalisation — Alternative spelling of legalization.
- liberalising — Present participle of liberalise.
- liberalistic — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- lisle thread — a fine, high-twisted and hard-twisted cotton thread, at least two-ply, used for hosiery, gloves, etc.
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- lispkit lisp — Purely functional version of LISP. "Functional Programming, Application and Implementation", P. Henderson, P-H 1980.
- list renting — the practice of renting a list of potential customers to a direct-mail seller of goods or to the fundraisers of a charity