| aliquant | (noun) an integer that is not an exact divisor of some quantity | Synonyms: aliquant part |
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| aliquot | (adjective) signifying an exact divisor or factor of a quantity | - |
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| (noun) an integer that is an exact divisor of some quantity | Synonyms: aliquot part |
| angelique | (noun) any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels | Synonyms: angelica |
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| applique | (noun) a decorative design made of one material sewn over another | - |
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| (verb) sew on as a decoration | - |
| clique | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
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| cliquish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, clubby, snobbish, snobby |
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| cliquishly | (adverb) in a clannish manner | Synonyms: clannishly |
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| cliquishness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: clannishness, exclusiveness |
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| deliquesce | (verb) melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| (verb) melt away in the process of decay | - |
| deliquescent | (adjective) (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| deliquium | (noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: faint, swoon, syncope |
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| illiquidity | (noun) the quality of being illiquid; a lack of liquidity; difficulty in selling out an asset. | - |
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| liquefaction | (noun) the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid | - |
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| liquefiable | (adjective) capable of being liquefied | Synonyms: liquifiable |
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| liquefied | (adjective) reduced to a liquid state | Synonyms: liquified |
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| (adjective) reduced to liquid form by heating | Synonyms: liquified, molten |
| liquefy | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquify |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquidise, liquidize, liquify |
| (verb) become liquid | - |
| liquescent | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: melting |
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| liqueur | (noun) strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal | Synonyms: cordial |
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| liquid | (adjective) existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow | - |
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| (adjective) changed from a solid to a liquid state | Synonyms: liquified, melted |
| (adjective) clear and bright | Synonyms: limpid |
| (adjective) in cash or easily convertible to cash | Synonyms: fluid |
| (adjective) smooth and unconstrained in movement | Synonyms: fluent, fluid, smooth |
| (adjective) smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness | - |
| (adjective) filled or brimming with tears | Synonyms: swimming |
| (noun) a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r') | - |
| (noun) the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility | Synonyms: liquid state, liquidity, liquidness |
| (noun) fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume | - |
| (noun) a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure | - |
| liquidambar | (noun) any tree of the genus Liquidambar | - |
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| (noun) aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree | Synonyms: sweet gum |
| liquidate | (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, neutralise, neutralize, waste |
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| (verb) eliminate by paying off (debts) | Synonyms: pay off |
| (verb) convert into cash | - |
| (verb) settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off | - |
| liquidation | (noun) termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities | Synonyms: settlement |
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| (noun) the act of exterminating | Synonyms: extermination |
| (noun) the murder of a competitor | Synonyms: elimination |
| liquidator | (noun) (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties | Synonyms: receiver |
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| (noun) a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | Synonyms: manslayer, murderer |
| liquidise | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidize, liquify |
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| liquidiser | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: blender, liquidizer |
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| liquidity | (noun) the property of flowing easily | Synonyms: fluidity, fluidness, liquidness, runniness |
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| (noun) being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability | - |
| (noun) the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility | Synonyms: liquid, liquid state, liquidness |
| liquidize | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquify |
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| (verb) sell or get rid of all one's merchandise | Synonyms: sell out, sell up |
| liquidizer | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: blender, liquidiser |
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| liquidness | (noun) the property of flowing easily | Synonyms: fluidity, fluidness, liquidity, runniness |
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| (noun) the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility | Synonyms: liquid, liquid state, liquidity |
| liquifiable | (adjective) capable of being liquefied | Synonyms: liquefiable |
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| liquified | (adjective) changed from a solid to a liquid state | Synonyms: liquid, melted |
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| (adjective) reduced to a liquid state | Synonyms: liquefied |
| (adjective) reduced to liquid form by heating | Synonyms: liquefied, molten |
| liquify | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquefy |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquidize |
| liquor | (noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented | Synonyms: booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, spirits, strong drink |
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| (noun) the liquid in which vegetables or meat have been cooked | Synonyms: pot likker, pot liquor |
| (noun) a liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process | - |
| liquorice | (noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant | Synonyms: licorice |
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| (noun) 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 | Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, licorice |
| oblique | (adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled | - |
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| (adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: devious |
| (noun) a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso | Synonyms: abdominal external oblique muscle, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis |
| (noun) any grammatical case other than the nominative | Synonyms: oblique case |
| obliquely | (adverb) at an oblique angle | Synonyms: aslant, athwart |
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| (adverb) to, toward or at one side | Synonyms: sidelong, sideways |
| obliqueness | (noun) the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: deviousness |
| obliquity | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: deceptiveness |
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| (noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: asynclitism |
| reliquary | (noun) a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints) | - |
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| semiliquid | (adjective) somewhat liquid | - |
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| siliqua | (noun) narrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae | Synonyms: silique |
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| silique | (noun) narrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae | Synonyms: siliqua |
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