| aglitter | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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| (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
| belittled | (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: diminished, small |
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| belittlement | (noun) the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant. | - |
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| belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| (noun) the act of belittling | - |
| (noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: denigration |
| clitter | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: stridulate |
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| earsplitting | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, thunderous, thundery |
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| flitter | (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flutter, quiver, waver |
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| glitter | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glister, scintillation, sparkle |
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| (noun) the occurrence of a small flash or spark | Synonyms: coruscation, sparkle |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, shine |
| glittering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| hairsplitter | (noun) a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions | - |
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| hairsplitting | (adjective) developed in excessively fine detail | Synonyms: finespun |
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| (noun) making too fine distinctions of little importance | Synonyms: word-splitting |
| litter | (noun) material used to provide a bed for animals | Synonyms: bedding, bedding material |
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| (noun) conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers | - |
| (noun) the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal | - |
| (noun) rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places) | - |
| (verb) give birth to a litter of animals | - |
| (verb) make a place messy by strewing garbage around | - |
| (verb) strew | - |
| litterateur | (noun) a writer of literary works | Synonyms: essayist |
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| litterbin | (noun) bin (usually in or outside a public building) into which the public can put rubbish | Synonyms: litter-basket, litter basket |
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| litterbug | (noun) a person who litters public places with refuse | Synonyms: litter lout, litterer |
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| littered | (adjective) filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish | Synonyms: cluttered |
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| litterer | (noun) a person who litters public places with refuse | Synonyms: litter lout, litterbug |
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| little | (adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: short |
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| (adjective) limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: small |
| (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | Synonyms: slight |
| (adjective) small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context) | - |
| (adjective) lowercase | Synonyms: minuscule, small |
| (adjective) (of a voice) faint | Synonyms: small |
| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
| (adjective) (of children and animals) young, immature | Synonyms: small |
| (noun) a small amount or duration | - |
| (adverb) not much | - |
| littleneck | (noun) a young quahog | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
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| (noun) a quahog when young and small; usually eaten raw; an important food popular in New York | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
| littleness | (noun) the property of having a relatively small size | Synonyms: smallness |
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| (noun) lack of generosity in trifling matters | Synonyms: pettiness, smallness |
| (noun) the property of having relatively little strength or vigor | Synonyms: smallness |
| littler | (adjective) small or little relative to something else | Synonyms: smaller |
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| littoral | (adjective) of or relating to a coastal or shore region | - |
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| (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | Synonyms: litoral, littoral zone, sands |
| sidesplitter | (noun) a joke that seems extremely funny | Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, riot, scream, thigh-slapper, wow |
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| sidesplitting | (adjective) very funny | Synonyms: killing |
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| sidesplittingly | (adverb) in a very humorous manner | Synonyms: killingly |
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| splitter | (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: divider |
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| (noun) a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone | - |
| (noun) a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences | Synonyms: rail-splitter |
| splitting | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: rending, ripping |
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| sublittoral | (adjective) of or relating to the region of the continental shelf (between the seashore and the edge of the continental shelf) or the marine organisms situated there | - |
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| unlittered | (adjective) having nothing extraneous | Synonyms: uncluttered |
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