| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| literalism | noun | That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter., The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization. |
| literalist | noun | One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter. |
| literalize | verb t. | To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; — opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture. |
| literation | noun | The act or process of representing by letters. |
| literature | noun | Learning; acquaintance with letters or books., The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry., The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres., The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work. |
| lithagogue | noun | A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine. |
| lithobilic | adjective | Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones. |
| lithoclast | noun | An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder. |
| lithodomus | noun | A genus of elongated bivalve shells, allied to the mussels, and remarkable for their ability to bore holes for shelter, in solid limestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus. |
| lithoglyph | noun | An engraving on a gem. |
| lithograph | verb t. | To trace on stone by the process of lithography so as to transfer the design to paper by printing; as, to lithograph a design; to lithograph a painting. See Lithography., A print made by lithography. |
| litholatry | noun | The worship of a stone or stones. |
| lithologic | adjective | Alt. of Lithological |
| lithomancy | noun | Divination by means of stones. |
| lithomarge | noun | A clay of a fine smooth texture, and very sectile. |
| lithophane | noun | Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, — as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade. |
| lithophyll | noun | A fossil leaf or impression of a leaf. |
| lithophyse | noun | A spherulitic cavity often with concentric chambers, observed in some volcanic rocks, as in rhyolitic lavas. It is supposed to be produced by expanding gas, whence the name. |
| lithophyte | noun | A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals. |
| lithotomic | adjective | Alt. of Lithotomical |
| lithotrite | Alt. of Lithotritor | |
| lithotrity | noun | The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided. |
| lithotyped | imp. & past participle | of Lithotype |
| lithotypic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or produced by, lithotypy. |
| lithuanian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Lithuania (formerly a principality united with Poland, but now Russian and Prussian territory)., A native, or one of the people, of Lithuania; also, the language of the Lithuanian people. |
| litigating | present participle & vb. noun | of Litigate |
| litigation | noun | The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest. |
| litraneter | noun | An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of liquids. |
| littleness | noun | The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. |
| liturgical | Pertaining to, of or the nature of, a liturgy; of or pertaining to public prayer and worship. |