8-letter words containing li
- auxiliar — (obsolete) auxiliary.
- availing — to be of use or value to; profit; advantage: All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change.
- awfulize — (psychotherapy) To react dramatically or catastrophically to distressing events.
- axiality — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or forming an axis: an axial relationship.
- aycliffe — a town in Co Durham: founded as a new town in 1947. Pop (including Newton Aycliffe): 25 655 (2001)
- babbling — inarticulate or imperfect speech.
- babelism — a confusion, particularly a noisy confusion, of speech or ideas
- babelize — to make a confusion of (customs, languages, usages, etc.); cause to be mixed or unintelligible; confound.
- babylike — Resembling a baby, or something associated with a baby.
- backflip — a backwards somersault in mid air with arms and legs extended
- backlift — the backward movement of a cricket bat in preparation for a swing
- backline — (in some team sports) the defensive players considered as a unit
- backlink — An incoming hyperlink from one web page to another website.
- backlins — backward; back.
- backlist — a publisher's previously published books that are still available
- backlite — (in automotive styling) the rear window of a vehicle.
- backslid — Simple past tense and past participle of backslide.
- baculine — relating to flogging with a rod
- baculite — an extinct species of mollusc from the Late Cretaceous period, fossils of which have been found ranging from 7cm to 2m in length
- badoglio — Pietro (ˈpjetro). 1871–1956, Italian marshal; premier (1943–44) following Mussolini's downfall: arranged an armistice with the Allies (1943)
- baffling — impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling
- bailiffs — Plural form of bailiff.
- bailings — Plural form of bailing.
- bakelite — Bakelite is a type of hard plastic that was used in the past for making things such as telephones and radios.
- balinese — of or relating to Bali, its people, or their language
- balisage — a method of marking a land route with dim lighting so that vehicles can travel at higher speeds in blackout conditions.
- balisaur — an Indian animal, Arctonyx collaris, resembling a badger
- balkline — a line at one end of a table from behind which opening shots with the cue ball are made
- ballista — an ancient catapult for hurling stones, etc
- banalise — to render or make banal; trivialize: Television has often been accused of banalizing even the most serious subjects.
- banality — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- banalize — to make banal
- banlieue — a suburb of a city
- bantling — a young child; brat
- bar line — the vertical line marking the boundary between one bar and the next
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- barflies — Plural form of barfly.
- barnlike — resembling a barn
- baseline — The baseline of a tennis, badminton, or basketball court is one of the lines at each end of the court that mark the limits of play.
- basilian — a monk of the Eastern Christian order of St Basil, founded in Cappadocia in the 4th century ad
- basilica — A basilica is a church which is rectangular in shape and has a rounded end.
- basilisk — (in classical legend) a serpent that could kill by its breath or glance
- basilius — Saint, Basil, Saint.
- bassline — (in jazz, rock, and pop music) the part played by the bass guitar
- batlings — Plural form of batling.
- battalia — the arrangement of military troops prepared for battle
- battling — a hostile encounter or engagement between opposing military forces: the battle of Waterloo.
- bdellium — any of several African or W Asian trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora that yield a gum resin
- beadlike — resembling a bead
- beagling — hunting with beagle hounds.