6-letter words containing l, i, t
- italic — designating or pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right, patterned upon a compact manuscript hand, and used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information, etc.: These words are in italic type.
- italo- — indicating Italy or Italian
- itself — Used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a thing or animal previously mentioned as the subject of the clause.
- jillet — a giddy or flirtatious girl or young woman.
- jilted — to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), especially abruptly or unfeelingly.
- jilter — to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), especially abruptly or unfeelingly.
- joliet — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1645–1700, French-Canadian explorer, born in Quebec.
- juliet — the heroine of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- keitel — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1882–1946, German marshal: chief of the Nazi supreme command 1938–45.
- keltic — Celt.
- khilat — (in India and the Middle East) a ceremonial robe or other gift given to someone by a superior as a mark of honour
- kidlet — Lb colloquial child.
- kidult — adultescent.
- kilted — wearing a kilt.
- kilter — good condition; order: The engine was out of kilter.
- kiltie — a person who wears a kilt, especially a member of a regiment in which the kilt is worn as part of the dress uniform.
- kirtle — a woman's loose gown, worn in the Middle Ages.
- kittel — a white robe used by Jews, especially Orthodox Jews, as a ceremonial garment for men and as a burial shroud for both sexes: worn during worship on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, by a bridegroom during the wedding ceremony, and by the leader of the Seder on Passover.
- kittle — to tickle with the fingers; agitate or stir, as with a spoon.
- kittul — a type of Asian palm, Caryota urens, from which jaggery sugar comes and which is used to make rope, etc
- kleist — (Bernd) Heinrich (Wilhelm) von [bernt hahyn-rikh vil-helm fuh n] /bɛrnt ˈhaɪn rɪx ˈvɪl hɛlm fən/ (Show IPA), 1777–1811, German poet, dramatist, and story writer.
- lactic — of, relating to, or obtained from milk.
- lactin — (obsolete) lactose.
- lapith — a member of a people in Thessaly who at the wedding of their king, Pirithoüs, fought the drunken centaurs
- lariat — a long, noosed rope used to catch horses, cattle, or other livestock; lasso.
- lathis — Plural form of lathi.
- latigo — a leather strap on the saddletree of a Western saddle used to tighten and secure the cinch.
- latina — of or relating to females of Latin-American descent: My mother is Latina. She will be the company’s first Latina CEO.
- latino — of or relating to people of Latin-American descent: Latino business owners; Latino audiences; the Latino community; Latino immigrants.
- lation — (astrology, obsolete) Motion of a celestial object from one place to another; local motion.
- latish — somewhat or rather late.
- latium — a country in ancient Italy, SE of Rome.
- lative — (grammar) A case of verbs, found in the Uralic and Northern Caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the Northern Caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the dative case.
- latria — the supreme worship, which may be offered to God only.
- latvia — a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic, S of Estonia, an independent state 1918–40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 25,395 sq. mi. (63,700 sq. km). Capital: Riga.
- laxist — (in Roman Catholic theology) a casuist who believes that, in cases of doubt in moral matters, the more liberal course should always be followed
- laxity — the state or quality of being lax; looseness.
- lclint — (tool, programming) A lint-like ANSI C source checker from MIT. If formal specifications are supplied (in a separate file), lclint can do more powerful checking to detect inconsistencies between specifications and code. Adding specifications enables further checking, types can be defined as abstract and lclint can detect inconsistent use of global variables; undocumented modification of client-visible state; inconsistent use of an uninitialised formal parameter; or failure to initialise an actual parameter.
- lectin — any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- leftie — lefty1 .
- leg it — run, hurry
- legist — an expert in law, especially ancient law.
- lenite — to undergo lenition; be pronounced with weakened articulation, as when the consonant sound p changes to b, b to v, or v to w.
- lenity — the quality or state of being mild or gentle, as toward others.
- lentic — pertaining to or living in still water.
- lentil — a plant, Lens culinaris, of the legume family, having flattened, biconvex seeds used as food.
- leptin — a hormone that is thought to suppress appetite and speed up metabolism.
- let in — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
- lettic — of or relating to the Letts or their language.
- lettie — a female given name, form of Laetitia.