8-letter words starting with LI
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter LI. This section showcases how LI at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with LI, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| lifetime | 13 | the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | - |
| lighting | 13 | having abundant light or illumination | as long as the lighting was good |
| lipstick | 16 | makeup that is used to color the lips | - |
| likewise | 15 | in like or similar manner | some people have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil |
| literary | 11 | appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing | when trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style |
| lingerie | 9 | women's underwear and nightclothes | - |
| liberate | 10 | grant freedom to | The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university |
| lifelong | 12 | continuing through life | a lifelong friend |
| listener | 8 | someone who listens attentively | - |
| lifeless | 11 | deprived of life; no longer living | a lifeless body |
| licensed | 11 | given official approval to act | licensed pharmacist |
| lifeline | 11 | a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live | - |
| likeness | 12 | similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | man created God in his own likeness |
| licorice | 12 | deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots | - |
| lifeboat | 13 | a strong sea boat designed to rescue people from a sinking ship | - |
| lifespan | 13 | the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | - |
| literate | 8 | a person who can read and write | - |
| littered | 9 | filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish | the storm left the drivewaylittered with sticks nd debris |
| likeable | 14 | (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | - |
| limiting | 11 | restricting the scope or freedom of action | - |
| literacy | 13 | the ability to read and write | - |
| linguini | 9 | pasta in long slender flat strips | - |
| lifelike | 15 | evoking lifelike images within the mind | a lifelike portrait |
| ligature | 9 | the act of tying or binding things together | - |
| littlest | 8 | - | - |
| ligament | 11 | any connection or unifying bond | - |
| linoleum | 10 | a floor covering | - |
| limerick | 16 | a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
| listless | 8 | marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm | reacted to the crisis with listless resignation |
| livelier | 11 | - | - |
| linguist | 9 | a specialist in linguistics | - |
| libretto | 10 | the words of an opera or musical play | - |
| lividity | 15 | unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | - |
| linesman | 10 | a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | - |
| livelong | 12 | perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers | - |
| linguine | 9 | pasta in long slender flat strips | - |
| lifebelt | 13 | - | - |
| linchpin | 15 | pin inserted through an axletree to hold a wheel on | - |
| liniment | 10 | a medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain | - |
| literati | 8 | the literary intelligentsia | - |
| libation | 10 | a serving (of wine) poured out in honor of a deity | - |
| lifebuoy | 16 | - | - |
| litigate | 9 | institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | - |
| liveable | 13 | fit or suitable to live in or with | - |
| likening | 13 | the act of comparing similarities | - |
| listeria | 8 | any species of the genus Listeria | - |
| libelous | 10 | (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | - |
| ligation | 9 | (surgery) tying a duct or blood vessel with a ligature (as to prevent bleeding during surgery) | - |
| limbless | 12 | having no limbs | a snake is a limbless reptile |
| licenced | 13 | given official approval to act | - |
| licensee | 10 | someone to whom a license is granted | - |
| likelier | 12 | - | - |
| linearly | 11 | in a linear manner | linearly polarized radiation |
| linoleic | 10 | - | - |
| linotype | 13 | a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal | - |
| liaising | 9 | - | - |
| liaisons | 8 | - | - |
| libating | 11 | - | - |
| libatory | 13 | - | - |
| libbards | 13 | - | - |
| libeccio | 14 | - | - |
| libelant | 10 | - | - |
| libelees | 10 | - | - |
| libelers | 10 | - | - |
| libeling | 11 | - | - |
| libelist | 10 | - | - |
| libelled | 11 | - | - |
| libellee | 10 | - | - |
| libeller | 10 | - | - |
| liberals | 10 | - | - |
| libraire | 10 | - | - |
| librated | 11 | - | - |
| librates | 10 | - | - |
| libretti | 10 | - | - |
| licencee | 12 | - | - |
| licencer | 12 | - | - |
| licences | 12 | - | - |
| licenser | 10 | an official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications) | - |
| licenses | 10 | - | - |
| licensor | 10 | - | - |
| lichanos | 13 | - | - |
| lichened | 14 | - | - |
| lichenin | 13 | - | - |
| lichgate | 14 | a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals | - |
| lichtest | 13 | - | - |
| lichting | 14 | - | - |
| lichwake | 20 | - | - |
| lichways | 19 | - | - |
| lickings | 15 | - | - |
| lickspit | 16 | - | - |
| liddings | 11 | - | - |
| liegedom | 12 | - | - |
| liegeman | 11 | a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | - |
| liegemen | 11 | - | - |
| lienable | 10 | - | - |
| lientery | 11 | - | - |
| lifecare | 13 | - | - |
| lifehack | 20 | make one's day-to-day activities more efficient | - |
| lifehold | 15 | - | - |
| lifesome | 13 | - | - |
| lifeways | 17 | - | - |
| lifework | 18 | the principal work of your career | - |
| liftable | 13 | - | - |
| liftback | 19 | - | - |
| liftboys | 16 | - | - |
| liftgate | 12 | a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | - |
| liftoffs | 17 | - | - |
| ligating | 10 | - | - |
| ligative | 12 | - | - |
| liggings | 11 | - | - |
| lightens | 12 | - | - |
| lighters | 12 | - | - |
| lightest | 12 | - | - |
| lightful | 15 | - | - |
| lightish | 15 | - | - |
| lignages | 10 | - | - |
| ligneous | 9 | consisting of or containing lignin or xylem | ligneous (or woody) tissue |
| lignites | 9 | - | - |
| lignitic | 11 | - | - |
| lignoses | 9 | - | - |
| ligroine | 9 | - | - |
| ligroins | 9 | - | - |
| ligulate | 9 | - | - |
| liguloid | 10 | - | - |
| likeably | 17 | - | - |
| likewake | 19 | - | - |
| likewalk | 19 | - | - |
| lilliput | 10 | a land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people | - |
| lilylike | 15 | - | - |
| limacels | 12 | - | - |
| limacine | 12 | of or resembling a slug | - |
| limacons | 12 | - | - |
| limation | 10 | - | - |
| limbecks | 18 | - | - |
| limbered | 13 | - | - |
| limberer | 12 | - | - |
| limberly | 15 | - | - |
| limbiest | 12 | - | - |
| limbmeal | 14 | - | - |
| limboing | 13 | - | - |
| limbuses | 12 | - | - |
| limeades | 11 | - | - |
| limekiln | 14 | a kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime | - |
| limeless | 10 | - | - |
| limepits | 12 | - | - |
| limewash | 16 | - | - |
| liminess | 10 | - | - |
| limitary | 13 | - | - |
| limiteds | 11 | - | - |
| limiters | 10 | - | - |
| limnaeid | 11 | - | - |
| limnetic | 12 | - | - |
| limonene | 10 | a liquid terpene with a lemon odor; found in lemons and oranges and other essential oils | - |
| limonite | 10 | a widely occurring iron oxide ore; a mixture of goethite and hematite and lepidocrocite | - |
| limonium | 12 | sea lavender | - |
| limpidly | 16 | in a clear and lucid manner | - |
| limpings | 13 | - | - |
| limpkins | 16 | - | - |
| limpness | 12 | a flabby softness | - |
| limpsier | 12 | - | - |
| limuloid | 11 | - | - |
| linalols | 8 | - | - |
| linalool | 8 | a colorless fragrant liquid found in many essential oils | - |
| linchets | 13 | - | - |
| lincture | 10 | - | - |
| lindanes | 9 | - | - |
| lindworm | 14 | - | - |
| lindying | 13 | - | - |
| lineable | 10 | - | - |
| lineages | 9 | - | - |
| lineally | 11 | by an unbroken line of descent | she is related lineally to the Royal Family |
| lineated | 9 | - | - |
| linebred | 11 | - | - |
| linecuts | 10 | - | - |
| lineless | 8 | - | - |
| linelike | 12 | resembling a line | - |
| linemate | 10 | - | - |
| linenier | 8 | - | - |
| linesmen | 10 | - | - |
| lingcods | 12 | - | - |
| lingered | 10 | - | - |
| lingerer | 9 | someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place | - |
| lingiest | 9 | - | - |
| lingster | 9 | - | - |
| linguals | 9 | - | - |
| linguica | 11 | a highly seasoned Portuguese pork sausage flavored with garlic and onions | - |
| linguisa | 9 | - | - |
| lingulae | 9 | - | - |
| lingular | 9 | - | - |
| lingulas | 9 | - | - |
| linished | 12 | - | - |
| linisher | 11 | - | - |
| linishes | 11 | - | - |
| linkable | 14 | - | - |
| linkages | 13 | - | - |
| linkboys | 17 | - | - |
| linkiest | 12 | - | - |
| linkrots | 12 | - | - |
| linksman | 14 | someone who plays the game of golf | - |
| linksmen | 14 | - | - |
| linkspan | 14 | - | - |
| linkster | 12 | - | - |
| linkwork | 19 | - | - |
| linocuts | 10 | - | - |
| linsangs | 9 | - | - |
| linseeds | 9 | - | - |
| linstock | 14 | a stick about a meter long with a point on one end (to stick in the ground) and a forked head on the other end (to hold a lighted match); formerly used to fire cannons | - |
| linteled | 9 | - | - |
| lintiest | 8 | - | - |
| lintings | 9 | - | - |
| lintless | 8 | - | - |
| lintseed | 9 | - | - |
| linurons | 8 | - | - |
| lioncels | 10 | - | - |
| lionfish | 14 | brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins | - |
| lionhead | 12 | - | - |
| lionised | 9 | - | - |
| lioniser | 8 | - | - |
| lionises | 8 | - | - |
| lionisms | 10 | - | - |
| lionized | 18 | - | - |
| lionizer | 17 | - | - |
| lionizes | 17 | - | - |
| lionlier | 8 | - | - |
| lionlike | 12 | - | - |
| lipaemia | 12 | presence of excess lipids in the blood | - |
| liparite | 10 | - | - |
| lipemias | 12 | - | - |
| lipgloss | 11 | - | - |
| lipliner | 10 | - | - |
| lipocyte | 15 | - | - |
| lipogram | 13 | a text that excludes a particular letter or particular letters of the alphabet | - |
| lipoidal | 11 | - | - |
| lipomata | 12 | - | - |
| liposome | 12 | an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector | - |
| liposuck | 16 | - | - |
| lippened | 13 | - | - |
| lippered | 13 | - | - |
| lippiest | 12 | - | - |
| lippings | 13 | - | - |
| lipreads | 11 | - | - |
| lipsalve | 13 | - | - |
| lipurias | 10 | - | - |
| liquable | 19 | - | - |
| liquated | 18 | - | - |
| liquates | 17 | - | - |
| liquesce | 19 | - | - |
| liqueurs | 17 | - | - |
| liquidly | 21 | - | - |
| liquidus | 18 | - | - |
| liquitab | 19 | - | - |
| liquored | 18 | - | - |
| liriopes | 10 | - | - |
| liripipe | 12 | - | - |
| liripoop | 12 | - | - |
| lispings | 11 | - | - |
| lispound | 11 | - | - |
| lispunds | 11 | - | - |
| lissomly | 13 | - | - |
| listable | 10 | - | - |
| listened | 9 | - | - |
| listicle | 10 | - | - |
| listings | 9 | - | - |
| listserv | 11 | - | - |
| litanies | 8 | - | - |
| liteness | 8 | - | - |
| literals | 8 | - | - |
| literato | 8 | - | - |
| literose | 8 | - | - |
| litharge | 12 | - | - |
| lithates | 11 | - | - |
| lithemia | 13 | - | - |
| lithemic | 15 | - | - |
| litherly | 14 | - | - |
| lithites | 11 | - | - |
| lithiums | 13 | - | - |
| lithoing | 12 | - | - |
| lithosol | 11 | - | - |
| litigant | 9 | (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation | plaintiffs and defendants are both litigants |
| litmuses | 10 | - | - |
| litreage | 9 | - | - |
| litterer | 8 | a person who litters public places with refuse | - |
| littlies | 8 | - | - |
| littling | 9 | - | - |
| littlins | 8 | - | - |
| littlish | 11 | - | - |
| littoral | 8 | the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | - |
| liturgic | 11 | - | - |
| lituuses | 8 | - | - |
| liveblog | 14 | - | - |
| livelily | 14 | - | - |
| livelods | 12 | - | - |
| livelood | 12 | - | - |
| liveners | 11 | - | - |
| liveness | 11 | the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | - |
| livening | 12 | - | - |
| liveried | 12 | wearing livery | liveried footmen stood on the palace steps |
| liveries | 11 | - | - |
| livering | 12 | - | - |
| liverish | 14 | suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | - |
| livetrap | 13 | - | - |
| liveware | 14 | - | - |
| livewell | 14 | - | - |
| liveyere | 14 | - | - |
| liveyers | 14 | - | - |
| lividest | 12 | - | - |
| livingly | 15 | - | - |
| lixivial | 18 | - | - |
| lixivium | 20 | - | - |
