12-letter words containing lit
- lithophilous — (of animals and plants) inhabiting or growing in stony places
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- lithotripter — a device used for fragmenting kidney stones with ultrasound waves.
- lithotriptic — causing the destruction of bladder stones
- lithotritise — to perform a lithotrity
- lithotritize — to perform a lithotrity on
- litmus paper — a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.
- litterateurs — Plural form of litterateur.
- little abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
- little bitty — extremely small; tiny.
- little egret — any of several usually white herons that grow long, graceful plumes during the breeding season, as Egretta garzetta (little egret) of the Old World.
- little falls — a township in NE New Jersey.
- little foxes — a play (1939) by Lillian Hellman.
- little grebe — a small grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis, of the Old World.
- little horse — the constellation Equuleus.
- little hours — the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office
- little minch — a sea channel between Isle of Skye and the central Outer Hebrides Islands, Scotland, connecting the Minch, or North Minch (N), with the Sea of the Hebrides. 14 to 20 miles (23 to 32 km) wide.
- little rhody — Rhode Island (used as a nickname).
- little stint — a small, dark-legged wader which breeds in Europe and Asia and migrates to Africa in winter
- little women — a novel (1868) by Louisa May Alcott.
- little-bitty — extremely small; tiny.
- little-known — not widely known; not famed
- liturgically — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
- liturgiology — liturgics.
- liverpolitan — a native or inhabitant of Liverpool
- locomobility — the ability to move from one place to another
- lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- machtpolitik — power politics
- malleability — the state of being malleable, or capable of being shaped, as by hammering or pressing: the extreme malleability of gold.
- malnormality — (mathematics, group theory) The property of a subgroup H of a group G where, for any x in G but not in H, H and Hx intersect in the identity element.
- memorability — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- mercuriality — Mercurial behaviour.
- metapolitics — political theory: often used derogatorily
- metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
- militainment — A form of entertainment that features or celebrates the military.
- militaristic — a person imbued with militarism.
- militarizing — Present participle of militarize.
- military law — the body of laws relating to the government of the armed forces; rules and regulations for the conduct of military personnel.
- militiawoman — A female member of a militia.
- militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
- monticellite — a mineral, silicate of magnesium and calcium, CaMgSiO 4 , belonging to the olivine group and often occurring in contact metamorphosed limestones.
- mouldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- multiutility — a public utility that provides more than one essential service, such as gas and electricity
- municipality — a city, town, or other district possessing corporate existence and usually its own local government.
- muralitharan — Muttiah (məˈtaɪə). born 1972, Sri Lankan cricketer: a spin bowler, he played in 133 test matches and took a world-record 800 wickets
- navigability — deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships: a navigable channel.
- new politics — politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
- nobilitation — the act of ennobling
- nocturnality — of or relating to the night (opposed to diurnal).