12-letter words containing lis
- nondualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- nonformalism — Absence of, or a belief system that is the opposite of, formalism.
- nonrealistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- nonsocialist — a person who is not a socialist
- novelisation — Alternative spelling of novelization.
- oligopolists — Plural form of oligopolist.
- ophiophilist — a person who loves snakes
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- parochialise — to make parochial.
- parochialism — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- parochialist — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
- perpetualist — someone who holds to any form of perpetualism
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- philistinism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
- pictorialist — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
- polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
- practicalism — devotion to practical matters.
- practicalist — devotion to practical matters.
- preestablish — to establish beforehand.
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- presterilise — to sterilise in advance
- re-establish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
- reenlistment — an act of reenlisting.
- sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
- semifinalist — a participant or one qualified to participate in a semifinal.
- sensualistic — of or pertaining to the philosophical position of sensualism
- small alison — a rare compact annual, Alyssum alyssoides, having small yellow flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- snowmobilist — a person who drives a snowmobile, a snowmobiler
- somnambulism — sleepwalking.
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- specialising — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specialistic — pertaining to or characteristic of specialists or specialism.
- spiritualism — the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person (a medium) particularly susceptible to their influence.
- spiritualist — an adherent of spiritualism.
- stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
- superrealism — photorealism.
- surrealistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism; surreal.
- symmetallism — the use of an alloy of two or more metals in fixed relative value as the standard of value and currency
- syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.
- toga virilis — the white toga assumed by boys in ancient Rome at the end of their 14th year.
- trinomialism — the trinomial system of naming
- trinomialist — a person who advocates trinomialism
- triumphalism — triumphant spirit or character.
- triumphalist — Triumphalist behaviour is behaviour in which politicians or organizations celebrate a victory or a great success, especially when this is intended to upset the people they have defeated.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.