11-letter words starting with li
- little lion — the constellation Leo Minor.
- little rock — state in S central United States. 53,103 sq. mi. (137,537 sq. km). Capital: Little Rock. Abbreviation: AR (for use with zip code), Ark.
- little sark — one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel E of Guernsey, connected to Sark by a natural causeway.
- little slam — the winning of twelve of the thirteen tricks of a deal. Also called small slam. Compare grand slam (def 1).
- little tern — a small seabird of the tern family Sternidae which breeds in tropical Europe and Asia and which migrates to Africa or Australia in winter
- littlenecks — Plural form of littleneck.
- littleworth — worthless; of little value
- liu shao qi — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist statesman; chairman of the People's Republic of China (1959–68); deposed during the Cultural Revolution
- live action — of or relating to movies, videos, and the like, that feature real performers, as distinguished from animation: A new live-action version of the classic animated film will be released later this year.
- live center — Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- live centre — a conically pointed rod mounted in the headstock of a lathe that locates and turns with the workpiece
- live in sin — (of an unmarried couple) to live together
- live-action — of or relating to movies, videos, and the like, that feature real performers, as distinguished from animation: A new live-action version of the classic animated film will be released later this year.
- live-bearer — any viviparous fish of the family Poeciliidae, often kept in home aquariums.
- liveability — Alternative spelling of livability.
- livebearers — Plural form of livebearer.
- livelihoods — Plural form of livelihood.
- liver fluke — any of various trematodes, as Fasciola hepatica, parasitic in the liver and bile ducts of domestic animals and humans.
- liver salts — a preparation of mineral salts used to treat indigestion
- liver spots — a form of chloasma in which irregularly shaped light-brown spots occur on the skin.
- livermorium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Lv; atomic number: 116.
- living bank — a facility in which donated human organs or tissues are preserved for subsequent transplantation.
- living dead — people who are very dull and boring
- living hell — If you describe a place or situation as a living hell, you are emphasizing that it is extremely unpleasant.
- living room — a room in a home used, especially by a family, for leisure activities, entertaining guests, etc.; parlor.
- living soul — person
- living unit — a dwelling intended for use by one household.
- living wage — a wage on which it is possible for a wage earner or an individual and his or her family to live at least according to minimum customary standards.
- living will — a document instructing physicians, relatives, or others to refrain from the use of extraordinary measures, as life-support equipment, to prolong one's life in the event of a terminal illness.
- livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
- lixiviation — to treat with a solvent; leach.
- lizard fish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- lizard head — a promontory in SW Cornwall, in SW England: the southernmost point in England.