10-letter words starting with li
- lignotuber — (botany) A starchy enlargement (caudex), usually of a root, of a woody plant, serving to store water.
- likability — readily or easily liked; pleasing: a likable young man.
- like a log — without stirring or being disturbed (in the phrase sleep like a log)
- like crazy — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- like lambs — If you say that people do something like lambs or like lambs to the slaughter, you mean that they do what someone wants them to do without complaining or fighting.
- like magic — very quickly
- like sixty — a cardinal number, ten times six.
- like stink — intensely; furiously
- like water — lavishly; freely
- likelihood — the state of being likely or probable; probability.
- likeliness — the state of being likely or probable; probability.
- likeminded — having a similar or identical opinion, disposition, etc.: a like-minded friend.
- likenesses — a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait: to draw a good likeness of Churchill.
- liliaceous — of or like the lily.
- lilienthal — David E(ly) 1899–1981, U.S. public administrator.
- 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.
- lily-white — white as a lily: soft lily-white skin.
- limacology — the study of slugs
- limberneck — a fatal infection of botulism affecting birds, especially chickens and ducks, characterized by weakness of the neck muscles and inability to eat.
- limberness — characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe.
- limburgite — a glassy, dark-coloured volcanic rock containing olivine and augite but little or no feldspar
- lime glass — inexpensive glass containing a large proportion of lime, used for making cheap glasses, windowpanes, etc.
- lime green — bright yellowish-green colour
- lime juice — sharp-tasting juice of limes
- limelights — Plural form of limelight.
- limestones — Plural form of limestone.
- limicoline — shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to numerous birds of the families Charadriidae, comprising the plovers, and Scolopacidae, comprising the sandpipers.
- limicolous — dwelling in mud or muddy regions.
- liminality — the transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which the participant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, shows obedience and humility, and follows prescribed forms of conduct, dress, etc.
- limitarian — a person who regards salvation as limited to only a part of mankind
- limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
- limitative — limiting; restrictive.
- limitingly — In a limiting manner.
- limitrophe — (of a country or region) on or near a frontier
- limivorous — of or relating to animals, usually worms or bivalves, that ingest earth or mud to extract the organic matter from it.
- limoncello — A lemon-flavored Italian liqueur.
- limousines — Plural form of limousine.
- limp wrist — a contemptuous term used to refer to a homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
- limpidness — The property of being limpid, clarity.
- lin yutang — (Lin Yü-t'ang) 1895–1976, Chinese author and philologist.
- lincolnian — of or relating to Abraham Lincoln, his character, or his political principles.
- lincomycin — a toxic antibiotic, C 18 H 34 N 2 O 6 S, isolated from Streptomyces lincolnensis, used in its hydrochloride form for the treatment of serious Gram-positive penicillin-resistant infections.
- lindenwold — a town in SW New Jersey.
- line ahead — a formation adopted by a naval unit for manoeuvring
- line block — a letterpress printing block made by a photoengraving process without the use of a screen
- line dance — a kind of partnerless dance in which the dancers stand side by side in a line or lines and perform, in unison, a series of set, often complex, steps to various kinds of popular music
- line drive — a batted ball that travels low, fast, and straight.
- line eater — (messaging) 1. A bug in some now-obsolete versions of the Usenet software that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text. The bug was triggered by having the text of the article start with a space or tab. This bug was quickly personified as a mythical creature called the "line eater", and postings often included a dummy line of "line eater food". Ironically, line eater "food" not beginning with a space or tab wasn't actually eaten, since the bug was avoided; but if there *was* a space or tab before it, then the line eater would eat the food *and* the beginning of the text it was supposed to be protecting. The practice of "sacrificing to the line eater" continued for some time after the bug had been nailed to the wall, and is still humorously referred to. The bug itself is still (in mid-1991) occasionally reported to be lurking in some mail-to-netnews gateways. 2. NSA line eater.
- line gauge — a printer's ruler, usually marked off in points, picas, agates, and inches, and sometimes also in centimeters.
- line judge — an official in football, volleyball, tennis, etc who assists the referee by judging whether a ball has gone out of play