16-letter words containing li
- domiciliary care — services, such as meals-on-wheels, health visiting, and home help, provided by a welfare agency for people in their own homes
- dorr's rebellion — an insurrection in Rhode Island (1842) that grew out of dissatisfaction with the existing state constitution, which restricted suffrage to landholders or their eldest sons.
- double solitaire — a game of solitaire for two persons, each player usually having a pack and layout but pooling foundations with the opponent.
- driver's license — a permit, as one issued by a state's motor vehicle bureau, that allows the holder to drive a motor vehicle on public roads.
- dual nationality — dual citizenship (def 1).
- dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
- dual-nationality — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
- dublin bay prawn — a large prawn usually used in a dish of scampi
- duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
- dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
- east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
- editorialization — The act of editorializing, or something editorialized.
- electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
- electrophilicity — (chemistry, uncountable) the condition of being electrophilic.
- elimination game — In sports, an elimination game is a game that decides which team or player will take part in the next stage of a particular competition.
- encephalitogenic — That can cause encephalitis.
- endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
- english canadian — a Canadian citizen whose first language is English, esp one of English descent
- english heritage — an organization, partly funded by government aid, that looks after ancient monuments and historic buildings in England
- english-speaking — speaking English as a mother tongue
- englishman's tie — a type of knot for tying together heavy ropes
- environmentalism — A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
- environmentalist — A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
- epiphenomenalism — (philosophy, psychology, uncountable) The doctrine that mental states and processes are simply incidental effects of physiological events in the brain or nervous system and cannot themselves cause any effects in the material world.
- ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
- evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
- exceptionalities — Plural form of exceptionality.
- executive relief — sexual intercourse or masturbation
- exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
- existentialistic — Existentialist.
- expected utility — the weighted average utility of the possible outcomes of a probabilistic situation; the sum or integral of the product of the probability distribution and the utility function
- exterritoriality — Extraterritoriality.
- fair to middling — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
- falling sickness — epilepsy.
- fast of gedaliah — Tzom Gedaliah.
- federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
- feline distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
- fertility clinic — a place at which a couple who are unable to conceive may receive medical advice and treatments to help them to have a child
- fertility factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- fertility symbol — an object, esp a phallic symbol, used in fertility-cult ceremonies to symbolize regeneration
- fictionalisation — Alternative spelling of fictionalization.
- fictionalization — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- filling knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted horizontally and in a circular form.
- financialization — (economics) Conversion of intangible value into financial instruments.
- first lieutenant — an officer ranking next above second lieutenant and next below a captain.
- fit like a glove — fit perfectly
- flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
- flibbertigibbets — Plural form of flibbertigibbet.
- flibbertigibbety — Like a flibbertigibbet; flighty; scatterbrained.