9-letter words containing lis
- holliston — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- idealised — to make ideal; represent in an ideal form or character; exalt to an ideal perfection or excellence.
- idealises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of idealise.
- idealisms — the cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc.
- idealists — Plural form of idealist.
- ideopolis — a city that is sustained primarily by intellectual enterprises such as education, the media, advertising, and design, with a highly educated workforce
- idolising — Present participle of idolise.
- idyllists — Plural form of idyllist.
- illisions — Plural form of illision.
- inlisting — Present participle of inlist.
- interlisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
- junglists — Plural form of junglist.
- kabbalism — The study of the Kabbalah.
- kalispell — a city in NW Montana.
- labellist — a person who wears only clothes with fashionable brand names
- labialise — Alt form labialize.
- labialism — a tendency, sometimes habitual, to make sounds labial, as in pronouncing the l in love as a w- like sound.
- lazy list — A list which is built using a non-strict constructor. Any head or tail of the list may be an unevaluated closure. Also known as streams since they may be used to carry a sequence of values from the output of one function to an input of another. See also Lazy evaluation.
- legalised — to make legal; authorize.
- legalisms — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
- life list — a list of species sighted and identified by a bird watcher or naturalist over a lifetime.
- lindalisp — Linda for Lisp.
- lissomely — In a lissome manner; with supple grace.
- listen in — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- listen up — pay attention, listen
- listen-in — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- listeners — Plural form of listener.
- listeneth — Archaic third-person singular form of listen.
- listening — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- listerism — an antiseptic method introduced by Joseph Lister, involving the spraying of the parts under operation with a carbolic acid solution.
- listerize — to treat (a patient, disease, etc.) using the methods of Joseph Lister.
- listicles — Plural form of listicle.
- listservs — Plural form of listserv.
- localised — localisation
- localisms — Plural form of localism.
- localists — Plural form of localist.
- long-list — A long-list for something such as a job or a prize is a large group that has been chosen from all the people who applied for the job, or all the people or things that are competing for the prize. The successful ones from this group are chosen to go on the shortlist.
- loyalists — Plural form of loyalist.
- lycopolis — the Ancient Greek name for Asyut
- magmalisp — (language) The predecessor of Magma2.
- manualism — the theory or practice of education for the deaf employing and promoting the use of sign language as the primary means of communication.
- manualist — an advocate of manualism.
- masculism — Support for male domination of women, for patriarchy; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.
- masculist — Of or relating to masculism.
- matchlist — a list of names, telephone numbers, and related information compiled to help people find others who are willing to share a resource or service, as a car pool.
- medalists — Plural form of medalist.
- medallist — a person to whom a medal has been awarded.
- megapolis — megalopolis.
- melismata — Plural form of melisma.
- mendelism — the theories of heredity advanced by Gregor Mendel.