13-letter words starting with li
- lithification — the process or processes by which unconsolidated materials are converted into coherent solid rock, as by compaction or cementation.
- lithium oxide — a white powder, Li 2 O, with strong alkaline properties: used in ceramics and glass.
- lithoglyptics — The art of cutting and engraving gems.
- lithographing — Present participle of lithograph.
- lithontriptic — of or relating to destroying bladder or kidney stones
- lithotripters — Plural form of lithotripter.
- lithotriptist — a person skilled in breaking and removing stones from the bladder
- litigiousness — of or relating to litigation.
- little alfold — a plain in NW Hungary and S Slovakia.
- little casino — the two of spades.
- little cayman — an island in the W Caribbean: smallest of the Cayman Islands, NE of Grand Cayman. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km).
- little cuttle — a small cuttlefish, Sepiola atlantica, often found on beaches
- little dipper — the group of seven bright stars in Ursa Minor resembling a dipper in outline.
- little finger — the finger farthest from the thumb, the smallest of the five fingers.
- little league — The Little League is an organization of children's baseball teams that compete against each other in the United States.
- little office — (sometimes initial capital letters) Roman Catholic Church. an office similar to but shorter than the divine office, in honor of a saint, a mystery, or, especially, the Virgin Mary.
- little people — small supernatural beings, such as elves, pixies, or leprechauns
- little prince — an allegorical fantasy (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
- little russia — former name for the region consisting mainly of Ukraine but sometimes considered as including adjacent areas.
- little turtle — (Michikinikwa) 1752?–1812, leader of the Miami tribe.
- little-endian — (data, architecture) A computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is stored "little-end-first"). The PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking hardware are little-endian. The term is sometimes used to describe the ordering of units other than bytes; most often, bits within a byte. Compare big-endian, middle-endian. See NUXI problem.
- live together — cohabit
- liver extract — an extract of mammalian liver, especially hog or beef, for treating pernicious anemia.
- liver sausage — liverwurst.
- livery colors — the principal tinctures of a coat of arms, usually one color and one metal, used for liveries, standards, etc.
- livery stable — a stable where horses and vehicles are cared for or rented out for pay.
- living fossil — an organism that is a living example of an otherwise extinct group and that has remained virtually unchanged in structure and function over a long period of time, as the coelacanth and the horseshoe crab.
- living stones — any of various succulent plants of the genus Lithops, native to Africa, having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones.
- lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
- lizard's-tail — either of two marsh herbs of the genus Saururus, especially S. cernuus, of North America, having drooping spikes of fragrant, white flowers.