15-letter words containing lis
- lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
- listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
- listed security — a security that is quoted on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and appears in its Official List of Securities
- lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
- marginalisation — (British) alternative spelling of marginalization.
- materialisation — Alternative spelling of materialization.
- materialistical — Alternative form of materialistic.
- micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
- middle palisade — a mountain of the Sierra Nevada in EC California, one of the Palisades Peaks in the Sierra Nevada 14,040 feet (4279 meters).
- ministerialists — Plural form of ministerialist.
- monoculturalism — The practice of actively preserving a culture to the exclusion of external influences.
- multilateralism — having several or many sides; many-sided.
- multilateralist — Supporting or advocating multilateralism.
- multilingualism — using or able to speak several or many languages with some facility.
- nationalisation — Act of taking formerly private assets into public or state ownership.
- natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
- natural realism — naive realism.
- neomercantilism — an economic doctrine or policy during the early 20th century that set high tariffs and other import restrictions in order to protect domestic industries.
- non-nationalism — spirit or aspirations common to the whole of a nation.
- non-rationalism — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
- old-established — established for a long time
- operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
- over-capitalise — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
- paralation lisp — Embeds the paralation model in Common LISP. Available from MIT Press, (800)356-0343.
- phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
- pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
- polish corridor — a strip of land near the mouth of the Vistula River: formerly separated Germany from East Prussia; given to Poland in the Treaty of Versailles 1919 to provide it with access to the Baltic.
- polish notation — a logical notation that dispenses with the need for brackets by writing the logical constants as operators preceding their arguments
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
- preferentialist — someone who believes in preferentialism
- pro-nationalist — a person devoted to nationalism.
- processionalist — a member of a procession
- professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
- professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
- queen's english — king's English.
- recreationalist — recreationist.
- reverse english — Also called reverse side. Billiards. a spinning motion imparted to a cue ball in such a manner as to prevent it from moving in a certain direction. Compare running English.
- ritualistically — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- rouget de lisle — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.
- running english — the giving of English or spin to the cue ball to enable it to bounce in the direction of a certain angle. Compare reverse English (def 1).
- saint elisabeth — the wife of Zacharias, mother of John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Virgin Mary. Feast day: Nov 5 or 8
- salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
- salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
- semicolonialism — the state of being semicolonial
- socialist party — a U.S. political party advocating socialism, formed about 1900 chiefly by former members of the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Labor Party.
- sound symbolism — a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
- spit and polish — great care in maintaining smart appearance and crisp efficiency: The commander was concerned more with spit and polish than with the company's morale.