10-letter words containing lis
- fertiliser — Alternative spelling of fertilizer.
- fertilises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fertilise.
- finalising — to put into final form; complete all the details of.
- fluvialist — a person who explains geological or geographical phenomena by the action of streams
- fontinalis — a type of aquatic moss
- foolishest — Superlative form of foolish.
- formalised — Simple past tense and past participle of formalise.
- formulised — formulate.
- fort bliss — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center NE of El Paso in W Texas.
- fossilised — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fossilized.
- franz lisp — (language) A MacLisp-like dialect of Lisp, developed primarily for work in symbolic algebra by R. Fateman et al at Ucb in about 1980. It was named after the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Franz Lisp was written in C and includes a compiler called "Liszt". Version: Opus 38.22. Liszt 8.08.
- front list — a publisher's sales list of newly or recently published books, especially those of popular or ephemeral appeal.
- frugalista — (informal) A person (especially a woman) who is fashionable while being thrifty.
- gargoylish — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a gargoyle.
- gargoylism — a congenital abnormality characterized chiefly by dwarfism, grotesque deformities of the head, trunk, and limbs, mental retardation, and enlargement of the liver and spleen.
- generalise — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- generalism — Generalization: lack of specialization.
- generalist — a person whose knowledge, aptitudes, and skills are applied to a field as a whole or to a variety of different fields (opposed to specialist).
- genteelise — to make genteel or falsely refined
- genteelish — genteel-like
- genteelism — a word or phrase used in place of another, supposedly less genteel term: “Limb” is a genteelism for “leg.”.
- ghoulishly — In a ghoulish manner.
- glacialist — a person who studies geological phenomena involving the action of ice, especially of glaciers.
- glissading — Present participle of glissade.
- glistening — to reflect a sparkling light or a faint intermittent glow; shine lustrously.
- glistering — to glisten; glitter.
- globalised — Simple past tense and past participle of globalise.
- glottalise — Alternative spelling of glottalize.
- gradualism — the principle or policy of achieving some goal by gradual steps rather than by drastic change.
- gradualist — (biology, politics) One who believes in gradualism.
- guest list — a list of guests invited to attend a social function.
- heliopolis — Biblical name On. an ancient ruined city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta.
- heliskiing — skiing on remote mountains to which the participants are brought by helicopter.
- herbalists — Plural form of herbalist.
- humoralism — a theory of the composition and workings of the human body, based on the idea that it was filled with four basic substances, or humours, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- idealising — Present participle of idealise.
- idealistic — of or relating to idealism or idealists.
- illegalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of illegalize.
- illistrate — Misspelling of illustrate.
- immobilise — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
- immobilism — Deep-seated resistance to political change.
- immoralism — indifference toward or opposition to conventional morality.
- immoralist — indifference toward or opposition to conventional morality.
- initialise — to set (variables, counters, switches, etc.) to their starting values at the beginning of a program or subprogram.
- initialism — a set of initials representing a name, organization, or the like, with each letter pronounced separately, as FBI for Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- journalise — Alternative spelling of journalize.
- journalism — the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business.
- journalist — a person who practices the occupation or profession of journalism.
- kabalistic — cabalistic.