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Words starting with lis

3 letter words starting with lis

  • lis — a member of an aboriginal people of the island of Hainan in Southeastern China.
  • lis pendens — a pending suit listed on the court docket.

4 letter words starting with lis

  • lisa — a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
  • lise — a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
  • lisp — a high-level programming language that processes data in the form of lists: widely used in artificial intelligence applications.
  • liss — Relief; ease; abatement; cessation; release.
  • list — Friedrich [free-drik] /ˈfri drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1789–1846, U.S. political economist and journalist, born in Germany.

5 letter words starting with lis

  • lisle — Leconte de Lisle.
  • lisps — Plural form of lisp.
  • lisse — a fine, filmy, lightly crinkled gauze fabric used in strips for making ruching or for finishing garments.
  • lists — list
  • lisztFranz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1811–86, Hungarian composer and pianist.

6 letter words starting with lis

  • lisbon — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
  • lisgarSir John Young, 1807–76, Canadian political leader: governor general 1869–72.
  • lisp70 — A Lisp dialect descended from MLISP and MLISP2. Also known as PLISP and VEL. Useful for parsing. Only the pattern-matching system was published and fully implemented. According to Alan Kay, LISP70 had an influence on Smalltalk-72. "The LISP70 Pattern Matching System, Larry Tesler et al, IJCAI 73.
  • lisped — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
  • lisper — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.

7 letter words starting with lis

  • lisburn — a city in Northern Ireland in Lisburn district, Co Antrim, noted for its linen industry: headquarters of the British Army in Northern Ireland. Pop: 71 465 (2001)
  • lisente — plural of sente.
  • lisieux — a town in NW France: Roman Catholic pilgrimage centre, for its shrine of St Thérèse, who lived there. Pop: 22 109 (2006)
  • lisping — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
  • lispkit — (language)   A functional programming language designed by Peter Henderson with Lisp syntax. Designed for portability. The Lispkit implementation is an extension to Landin's SECD machine that supports lazy evaluation. See also Stack environment control dump machine.

8 letter words starting with lis

  • lispound — a unit of weight, formerly used in Orkney, Shetland, and Baltic trade, varying from 12 to 34 pounds (5.4 to 15.4kg approx)
  • lisptalk — "Concurrent Programming Language Lisptalk", C. Li, SIGPLAN Notices 23(4):71-80 (Apr 1988).
  • lispview — CLOS based windowing system on OpenWindows.
  • lissomly — Alt form lissomely.
  • listable — That can be listed.

9 letter words starting with lis

  • lissomely — In a lissome manner; with supple grace.
  • listen-in — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
  • listeners — Plural form of listener.
  • listeneth — Archaic third-person singular form of listen.
  • listening — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.

10 letter words starting with lis

  • lisianthus — Eustoma grandiflorum, now Eustoma exaltatum subsp. russellianum, a flowering plant.
  • lisichansk — a city in E Ukraine, on the Donets River, NE of Donetsk.
  • lisinopril — A drug of the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor class, primarily used in the treatment of hypertension, congestive heart failure, heart attacks, and certain complications of diabetes.
  • lisp-linda — P. Dourish, U Edinburgh 1988.
  • listenable — pleasant to listen to: soft, listenable music.

11 letter words starting with lis

  • lissomeness — The quality of being lissome.
  • lister-plow — Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
  • listeriosis — a disease of wild and domestic mammals, birds, and occasionally of humans, caused by a bacterium, Listeria monocytogenes, and characterized by lack of control of movement, paralysis, fever, and monocytosis.

12 letter words starting with lis

  • listenership — the people or number of people who listen to a radio station, record, type of music, etc.: The station has a listenership of 200,000.
  • listlessness — having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless; indifferent: a listless mood; a listless handshake.

13 letter words starting with lis

15 letter words starting with lis

  • lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds

On this page, we collect all words starting with LIS. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 104 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that beginning with LIS. that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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