6-letter words containing lis
- a list — a group of desirable or admired people who are welcomed especially in social and professional situations: Hollywood's A list turned out for the Oscars.
- a-list — An A-list celebrity is a celebrity who is very famous indeed.
- aeolis — the ancient name for the coastal region of NW Asia Minor, including the island of Lesbos, settled by the Aeolian Greeks (about 1000 bc)
- alisma — a flowering marsh plant of the genus Alsima, with round leaves
- alison — a feminine name
- alissa — a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “joy.”.
- arliss — George, 1868–1946, English actor.
- b list — a category considered to be slightly below the most socially desirable
- balise — an electronic beacon used on a railway
- baylis — Lillian Mary. 1874–1937, British theatre manager: founded the Old Vic (1912) and the Sadler's Wells company for opera and ballet (1931)
- caulis — the main stem of a plant
- chilis — Plural form of chili.
- cholis — Plural form of choli.
- clisis — the act or process of becoming a clitic.
- coulis — a thin purée of vegetables, fruit, etc, usually served as a sauce surrounding a dish
- cullis — a gutter in or at the eaves of a roof
- delish — delicious
- delist — If a company delists or if its shares are delisted, its shares are removed from the official list of shares that can be traded on the stock market.
- elisha — a Hebrew prophet of the 9th century bc: successor of Elijah (II Kings 3–9)
- elisor — (UK, legal) An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.
- enlist — Enroll or be enrolled in the armed services.
- epulis — (medicine) A hard tumour developed from the gums.
- eulisp — 1985-present. A Lisp dialect intended to be a common European standard, with influences from Common LISP, Le LISP, Scheme and T. First-class functions, classes and continuations, both static scope and dynamic scope, modules, support for parallelism. The class system (TELOS) incorporates ideas from CLOS, ObjVLisp and Oaklisp. See also Feel. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- flisky — skittish; frisking; flighty
- follis — a bag of copper or bronze coins with a fixed weight, used as money of account in the later Roman Empire.
- hillis — Margaret, 1921–1998, U.S. orchestral conductor.
- holism — Philosophy. the theory that whole entities, as fundamental components of reality, have an existence other than as the mere sum of their parts. Compare organicism (def 1).
- holist — Philosophy. the theory that whole entities, as fundamental components of reality, have an existence other than as the mere sum of their parts. Compare organicism (def 1).
- inlist — Archaic form of enlist.
- islisp — International Standard Lisp. An object-oriented Lisp intended as an international replacement for Common Lisp, EuLisp, Le-Lisp and Scheme. The standard's goals are object orientation, extensibility, efficiency, and suitability for non-academic use. The standard is defined in ISO WG 16, draft Dec 1992.
- kalisz — a city in central Poland.
- kallis — Jacques (Henry), born 1975, South African cricketer; an all-rounder, in 166 tests (1995–2013) he scored 13,289 runs and took 292 wickets
- lisbon — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
- lisgar — Sir John Young, 1807–76, Canadian political leader: governor general 1869–72.
- lisp 1 — The original Lisp. Invented by John McCarthy et al at MIT in the late 50's. Followed by LISP 1.5.
- lisp 2 — LISP 1.5 with an ALGOL 60-like surface syntax. Also optional type declarations, new data types including integer-indexed arrays and character strings, partial-word extraction/insertion operators and macros. A pattern-matching facility similar to COMIT was proposed. Implemented for the Q-32 computer.
- lisp a — "LISP A: A LISP-like System for Incremental Computing", E.J. Sandewall, Proc SJCC 32 (1968).
- lisp70 — A Lisp dialect descended from MLISP and MLISP2. Also known as PLISP and VEL. Useful for parsing. Only the pattern-matching system was published and fully implemented. According to Alan Kay, LISP70 had an influence on Smalltalk-72. "The LISP70 Pattern Matching System, Larry Tesler et al, IJCAI 73.
- lisped — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- lisper — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- lissom — lithesome or lithe, especially of body; supple; flexible.
- listed — made of selvages or strips of cloth.
- listee — a person, business, etc., that is included in a list or directory.
- listel — a narrow list or fillet.
- listen — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- lister — a border or bordering strip, usually of cloth.
- liston — Sonny, real name Charles. 1922–70, US boxer: former world heavyweight champion
- majlis — a public audience held by a chieftain, monarch, or other ruler to listen to the requests of petitioners.
- malism — The belief that the world is evil.
- molise — a region of S central Italy, the second smallest of the regions: separated from Abruzzi e Molise in 1965. Capital: Campobasso. Pop: 321 047 (2003 est). Area: 4438 sq km (1731 sq miles)
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