10-letter words starting with li
- line noise — (communications) 1. Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an EIA-232 serial connection. Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, cosmic rays, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires. 2. Any chunk of data in a file or elsewhere that looks like the results of electrical line noise. 3. Text that is theoretically a readable text or program source but employs syntax so bizarre that it looks like line noise. Yes, there are languages this ugly. The canonical example is TECO, whose input syntax is often said to be indistinguishable from line noise. Other non-WYSIWYG editors, such as Multics "qed" and Unix "ed", in the hands of a real hacker, also qualify easily, as do deliberately obfuscated languages such as INTERCAL.
- line score — a brief listing of the final score and major statistical totals of a game, esp. a baseball game
- line space — (on a typewriter, typesetter, printer, or the like) the horizontal space provided for a line of typing, typesetting, printing, etc.
- line storm — equinoctial storm.
- line-dance — to participate in a line dance.
- lineaments — Plural form of lineament.
- linear map — (mathematics) (Or "linear transformation") A function from a vector space to a vector space which respects the additive and multiplicative structures of the two: that is, for any two vectors, u, v, in the source vector space and any scalar, k, in the field over which it is a vector space, a linear map f satisfies f(u+kv) = f(u) + kf(v).
- linearized — Simple past tense and past participle of linearize.
- linebacker — a player on defense who takes a position close behind the linemen.
- linecaster — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
- liner note — Usually, liner notes. explanatory or interpretative notes about an audio album, as a record, CD, etc., printed on the cover or case or otherwise provided.
- linerboard — a type of paperboard used especially for containers, as corrugated boxes.
- lineswoman — a female official, as in tennis, soccer, ice hockey, and football, who assists the referee.
- lineswomen — Plural form of lineswoman.
- linguiform — having the shape of a tongue; tongue-shaped.
- linguister — an interpreter
- linguistic — of or relating to linguistics.
- linguistry — the study of language
- linlithgow — former name of West Lothian.
- linoleates — Plural form of linoleate.
- linolenate — a salt or ester of linolenic acid
- lion-tamer — a person who trains lions, esp for entertainment in a circus
- lions book — (publication) "Source Code and Commentary on Unix level 6", by John Lions. The two parts of this book contained the entire source listing of the Unix Version 6 kernel, and a commentary on the source discussing the algorithms. These were circulated internally at the University of New South Wales beginning 1976-77, and were, for years after, the *only* detailed kernel documentation available to anyone outside Bell Labs. Because Western Electric wished to maintain trade secret status on the kernel, the Lions book was never formally published and was only supposed to be distributed to affiliates of source licensees (it is still possible to get a Bell Labs reprint of the book by sending a copy of a V6 source licence to the right person at Bellcore, but *real* insiders have the UNSW edition). In spite of this, it soon spread by samizdat to a good many of the early Unix hackers. In 1996 it was reprinted as a "classic":
- lions club — any of the local clubs that form the International Association of Lions Clubs, formed in the US in 1917 to foster local and international good relations and service to the community
- lip pencil — a make-up pencil used for outlining, shaping or colouring the lips
- lipidaemia — Alternative form of lipidemia.
- lipizzaner — one of a breed of compact, finely shaped, usually gray or white horses developed at the Austrian Imperial Stud and used generally in dressage exhibitions.
- lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
- lipofuscin — any of several brown pigments similar to melanin that accumulate in animal cells with age and are products of oxidation of lipids and lipoproteins.
- lipography — unintentional omission in writing, as of a specific letter or syllable.
- lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lipophilic — having a strong affinity for lipids.
- lipotropic — having an affinity for lipids and thus preventing or correcting excess accumulation of fat in the liver.
- lipotropin — a large polypeptide of the pituitary gland from which endorphins and other endogenous opiates are thought to derive.
- lippershey — Hans. died ?1619, Dutch lens grinder, who built the first telescope
- lippizaner — one of a breed of compact, finely shaped, usually gray or white horses developed at the Austrian Imperial Stud and used generally in dressage exhibitions.
- lipreading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- lipsticked — Decorated with lipstick.
- liquefiers — Plural form of liquefier.
- liquefying — Present participle of liquefy; Alternative spelling of liquifying.
- liquescent — becoming liquid; melting.
- liquid air — a pale blue, intensely cold liquid, obtained by the compression and cooling of air: used as a source of oxygen, nitrogen, and inert gases, and as a refrigerant.
- liquidated — Simple past tense and past participle of liquidate.
- liquidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liquidate.
- liquidator — a person who liquidates assets, especially one authorized to do so by a court of law.
- liquidiser — Alternative spelling of liquidizer.
- liquidized — Simple past tense and past participle of liquidize.
- liquidizer — (British) A machine to chop or puree food.
- liquidness — The quality of being liquid (flowing state of matter).
- liquifying — Present participle of liquify.