9-letter words containing lit
- littering — objects strewn or scattered about; scattered rubbish.
- littleton — Sir Thomas, c1407–1481, English jurist and author.
- littorals — Plural form of littoral.
- liturgics — the science or art of conducting public worship.
- liturgies — Plural form of liturgy.
- liturgist — an authority on liturgies.
- litz wire — a wire used as a conductor of alternating current, composed of a number of insulated strands woven together to reduce skin effect.
- lopoliths — Plural form of lopolith.
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- malitious — Obsolete form of malicious.
- mammality — the characteristic of being a mammal
- marialite — a member of the scapolite group, rich in sodium and containing no calcium.
- marielito — a refugee from Cuba who came to the U.S. in 1980 as part of a mass migration that sailed from Mariel, Cuba.
- megaliter — Alternative spelling of megalitre One million liters.
- megaliths — Plural form of megalith.
- megalitre — A unit of volume equivalent to 1000000 litres. Symbol: Ml.
- melitopol — a city in SE Ukraine, NW of the Sea of Azov: battles 1941, 1943.
- mentality — mental capacity or endowment: a person of average mentality.
- microlite — any microscopic crystal.
- microlith — a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.
- mililiter — Misspelling of milliliter.
- militance — (uncountable) The condition of being militant.
- militancy — vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause: militant reformers.
- militants — Plural form of militant.
- militaria — items of military interest, such as weapons, uniforms, medals, etc, esp from the past
- militated — Simple past tense and past participle of militate.
- militates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of militate.
- mollities — an unnatural softness or yieldingness of a bodily part or organ
- monoliths — Plural form of monolith.
- mortality — the state or condition of being subject to death; mortal character, nature, or existence.
- mutuality — condition or quality of being mutual; reciprocity; mutual dependence.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- natrolite — a white or colorless zeolite mineral, a hydrous silicate of sodium and aluminum, Na 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 0 ⋅2H 2 O, often occurring in acicular crystals.
- neolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
- neurility — the ability belonging to nerves to conduct electrical impulses
- niccolite — nickeline.
- niocalite — (mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic light yellow mineral containing calcium, fluorine, niobium, oxygen, and silicon.
- no little — considerable
- normality — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- nullities — Plural form of nullity.
- nummulite — a fossil foraminifer of the genus Camerina (Nummulites), having a calcareous, usually disklike shell.
- ophiolite — an assemblage of mafic igneous rocks representing remnants of former oceanic crust.
- otolithic — Of or partaining to an otolith.
- ottrelite — a brittle mica containing manganese and similar to margarite in physical and chemical properties.
- paleolith — a paleolithic stone implement.
- pearlitic — Metallurgy. a microscopic lamellar structure found in iron or steel, composed of alternating layers of ferrite and cementite.
- pectolite — a mineral, hydrous calcium sodium silicate, usually occurring in radiating groups of crystals in rock cavities.
- pellitory — any of various urticaceous plants of the S and W European genus Parietaria, esp P. diffusa (pellitory-of-the-wall or wall pellitory), that grow in crevices and have long narrow leaves and small pink flowers
- pentolite — a high explosive consisting of pentaerythritol tetranitrate and TNT.
- phacolite — a colorless variety of chabazite.