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16-letter words containing lit

  • military service — compulsory period spent in the army
  • mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
  • neapolitan sixth — (in musical harmony) a chord composed of the subdominant of the key, plus a minor third and a minor sixth. Harmonically it is equivalent to the first inversion of a major chord built upon the flattened supertonic
  • no/little wonder — If you say 'no wonder', 'little wonder', or 'small wonder', you mean that something is not surprising.
  • non-availability — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
  • non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
  • non-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.
  • observationality — The property of being observational.
  • overexcitability — to excite too much.
  • palaeolithic man — any of various primitive types of man, such as Neanderthal man and Java man, who lived in the Palaeolithic
  • personality cult — deliberately cultivated adulation of a person, esp a political leader
  • personality test — an instrument, as a questionnaire or series of standardized tasks, used to measure personality characteristics or to discover personality disorders.
  • personality type — a cluster of personality traits commonly occurring together
  • photolithography — the technique or art of making photolithographs.
  • political asylum — asylum provided by one nation to refugees, especially political refugees, from another nation.
  • political system — a coordinated set of principles, laws, ideas, and procedures relating to a particular form of government, or the form of government itself: Democracy is a political system in which citizens govern themselves.
  • politicalization — to cause to be political; color with politics.
  • postencephalitic — inflammation of the substance of the brain.
  • pro-abolitionist — (especially prior to the Civil War) a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.
  • pseudo-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • remilitarization — the act of re-arming a country or territory that has previously been disarmed
  • responsibilities — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • sales literature — all of the literature, such as brochures, price lists, and customer testimonials, that a company uses to promote its goods, products, or services to the public
  • satellite nation — a country under the domination of a foreign power
  • seidlitz powders — a mild laxative consisting of tartaric acid, sodium bicarbonate, and Rochelle salt, which are dissolved separately, mixed, and drunk after effervescence.
  • split infinitive — an expression in which there is a word or phrase, especially an adverb or adverbial phrase, between to and its accompanying verb form in an infinitive, as in to readily understand.
  • strawberry blite — a plant, Chenopodium capitatum, having dense, rounded clusters of minute reddish flowers.
  • strict liability — responsibility for damage or loss regardless of intention or culpability
  • substitutability — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
  • superficialities — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • susceptibilities — emotional sensibilities; feelings
  • the body politic — the people of a nation or the nation itself considered as a political entity; the state
  • the little karoo — a high arid plateau in South Africa
  • the little woman — one's wife
  • the-little-foxes — a play (1939) by Lillian Hellman.
  • transmissibility — capable of being transmitted.
  • unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
  • unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • uninhabitability — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
  • unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • ureterolithotomy — incision of a ureter for removal of a calculus.
  • utility function — a function relating specific goods and services in an economy to individual preferences
  • utility software — system software that manages and optimizes the performance of hardware
  • visibility meter — any instrument for measuring the visual range through the atmosphere, as a transmissometer.
  • volatility index — beta (def 6).
  • whatchamacallits — Plural form of whatchamacallit.
  • yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them
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