9-letter words containing lit
- halituous — (obsolete) Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous.
- highlited — Misspelling of highlighted.
- highlites — Misspelling of highlights.
- hostility — a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
- hyolithid — any invertebrate of the extinct genus Hyolithes, most common in the Cambrian Period, having a limy, univalve shell, and thought to be related to the pteropods.
- illiteral — Not literal.
- impolitic — not politic, expedient, or judicious.
- in little — on a small scale; in miniature
- inability — lack of ability; lack of power, capacity, or means: his inability to make decisions.
- inutility — uselessness.
- irreality — unreal.
- isopolity — equal rights of citizenship, as in different communities; mutual political rights.
- israelite — a descendant of Jacob, especially a member of the Hebrew people who inhabited the ancient kingdom of Israel.
- jaspilite — a metamorphic rock that has a high concentration of hematite and that resembles jasper
- jollities — jolly or merry mood, condition, or activity; gaiety.
- joviality — the state or quality of being jovial; merriment; jollity.
- kallithea — a city in E Greece, a suburb of Athens.
- kallitype — an photographic printing process using silver and ferric salts, popular in the 19th century
- kiloliter — a unit of volume, equal to 1000 liters; a cubic meter. Abbreviation: kl.
- kilolitre — a unit of volume, equal to 1000 liters; a cubic meter. Abbreviation: kl.
- labiality — of, relating to, or resembling a labium.
- laccolith — a mass of igneous rock formed from magma that did not find its way to the surface but spread laterally into a lenticular body, forcing overlying strata to bulge upward.
- lethality — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- liability — liabilities. moneys owed; debts or pecuniary obligations (opposed to assets). Accounting. liabilities as detailed on a balance sheet, especially in relation to assets and capital.
- lineality — The quality of being lineal.
- literally — in the literal or strict sense: She failed to grasp the metaphor and interpreted the poem literally. What does the word mean literally?
- literates — Plural form of literate.
- literatim — word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words.
- literator — littérateur.
- literatus — singular of literati.
- litheness — The property of being lithe.
- lithesome — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- lithiasis — the formation or presence of stony concretions, as calculi, in the body.
- lithified — Simple past tense and past participle of lithify.
- lithistid — a sponge, of the group Lithistida, consisting of small spikes which form a skeletal structure
- lithocyst — a sac, containing otoliths, found in many invertebrates, supposedly connected to hearing and orientation
- lithology — Geology. (loosely) petrology. the physical characteristics of a rock or stratigraphic unit.
- lithopone — a white pigment consisting of zinc sulfide, barium sulfate, and some zinc oxide, used as a pigment and filler in the manufacture of paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powders.
- lithosere — a sere originating on rock.
- lithotome — an instrument used in a lithotomy operation, to remove bladder stones
- lithotomy — surgery to remove one or more stones from an organ or duct.
- lithuania — a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic: an independent state 1918–40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 25,174 sq. mi. (65,200 sq. km). Capital: Vilnius.
- litigable — subject to litigation; actionable by a lawsuit.
- litigants — Plural form of litigant.
- litigated — Simple past tense and past participle of litigate.
- litigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of litigate.
- litigator — a courtroom lawyer.
- litigious — of or relating to litigation.
- litterbag — a small paper or plastic bag for trash or rubbish, as one carried in an automobile.
- litterbug — a person who litters public places with items of refuse: Litterbugs had thrown beer cans on the picnic grounds.