Finnish–English dictionary

liplatus

A sound similar to that of undulating water.

lipoa

(ambitransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.

lippa

Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.

lippu

(by extension, figurative) A cause or purpose; a campaign or movement.

lippue

(nautical) A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.

lippueamiraali

(US, military) A one star general.

lippukangas

(nautical) A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.

lippunauha

Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.

lippusalko

A tall pole up which one or more flags may be raised and flown.

lipsahdus

(obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.

lipsahtaa

(transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.

lipsauttaa

(transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.

lipsua

(intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.

lipua

(transitive) To cause to drift gently through the air, to waft.

lipuke

A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.

lipunkirjoitusoikeus

(aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.

lipunvaltaus

(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.

liputtaa

To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.

liputus

The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.

liraus

(chiefly, Australia, Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.

liri

(idiomatic, figuratively) A dangerous situation; trouble.

lirkutella

(ambitransitive) To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.

lisä

(sometimes, attributive) Something which can be appended to something else.

lisä-

Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; being additional; contributing or being contributory. [from 1550s]

lisää

By way of addition; in addition to; also.

lisäaine

A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.

lisäaineeton

Containing no artificial or man-made additives; especially (of food) containing no colourings, flavourings or preservatives. [from 19th c.]

lisääjä

(mathematics) Addendum, any one of two or more numbers or other terms that are to be added together.

lisääminen

An instance of admixing, a mixing in of something.

lisäannos

An additional helping of food or drink at reduced cost.

lisääntyä

To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

lisääntyä nopeasti

(ambitransitive) To increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.

lisääntyminen

(uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's body into the environment.

lisääntymiskyky

Ability to produce offspring.

lisääntymiskykyisyys

The ability of a man to procreate.

lisääntyvä

One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.

lisäehdot

An amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements. [from 20th c.]

lisäehto

A clause or condition which qualifies something; a modification, a limitation. [from 16th c.]

lisäetu

Something extra that is good; an added benefit.

lisähyöty

An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off.

lisäke

(now, uncommon) That which is affixed; an appendage.

lisäkkeellinen

(botany) Tapering into a long, tail-like extension at the apex.

lisäksi

Too proud to stoop to; averse to; disinclined towards;

lisälaita

(nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.

lisälaite

A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.

lisämaksu

An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price.

lisämunuainen

Pertaining to the adrenal glands (suprarenal glands), their secretions, or the function derived therefrom.

lisänimi

A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute.

lisäosa

That which appertains; an appendage to something else; an addition. [from c. 1300]

lisäpainama

(philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.

lisäpalkkio

A bonus paid in addition to normal payments.

lisäpiste

(American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.

lisärakennus

An addition or extension to a building.

lisäravinne

(nutrition, bodybuilding) A vitamin, herbal extract, or chemical compound ingested to meet dietary deficiencies or enhance muscular development; the dosage form that conveys or embodies it (e.g., tablet, capsule, pill, powder, beverage).

lisätä

(idiomatic) To increase, as the volume, power or energy of something.

lisätä kaveriksi

(transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.

lisätä kierroksia

(ergative) To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed.

lisätä mustalle listalle

(transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.

lisätä paino

(transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.

lisätä painoa

(transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.

lisätä puuta

To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.

lisätä ravinteita

(transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.

lisätä rivivälit

(transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.

lisätä siipi

(transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.

lisätä sivunumerot

To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.

lisätä väliin

(transitive) To insert something between other things.

lisätä viheralueita

(transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).

lisäteriö

(botany) A ring or set of appendages of adaxial tissue arising from the corolla or the outer edge of the stamens, present in some plants (Narcissus, Passiflora, etc.); a paraperigonium or paracorolla.

lisätuntipalkka

(Australia, industrial relations, countable) An hourly pay rate given to a casual employee which is higher than the equivalent full-time or part-time employee's rate, usually paid to compensate for a lack of benefits such as sick leave or annual leave.

lisävalottaa

(photography, videography) To make an area of an image darker (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by increasing the exposure of that area to light).

lisävaruste

Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment.

lisävieras

An "extra" (male) guest at a party who is asked by the host to entertain the other (often female) guests.

lisävuode

(Canada, US, Philippines) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.

lisäys

Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.

lisensioida

To give formal authorization to use.

lisenssi

The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.

lisko

(chiefly, in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.

Lissabon

A port city on the Iberian Peninsula, at the mouth of the Tagus River on the Atlantic Ocean; the capital city of Portugal.

lista

(carpentry, construction) A plank or strip of wood, or several of such strips arranged side by side, used in construction to hold members of a structure together, to provide a fixing point, to strengthen, or to prevent warping.

lista lokeroita

(computer science) A data structure containing buckets used in a hashing algorithm. [from mid 20th c.]

listanaula

A small nail with a head and a sharp point.

listautua

(transitive) To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.

listiä

(figurative, slang) To kill or murder.

listoittaa

To furnish (something) with battens (noun sense 1).

lisuke

That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.

litania

A ritual liturgical prayer in which a series of prayers recited by a leader are alternated with responses from the congregation.

literaali

(programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.

litimärkä

Extremely wet; saturated.

litistää

(transitive) To make something flat or flatter.

litistetty

Flattened, especially when along its entire length.

litium

(uncountable) The simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3 and atomic weight of 6.94. It is a soft, silvery metal.

litografi

A person who makes lithographs, who does lithography.

litoteesi

(rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite.

litra

The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbol: L, l, or ℓ.

litsa

(nautical) A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.

litteä

Having no variations in height.

litteä soitin

(countable, musical instruments) In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system: any flat, thin musical instrument.

litteroida

To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to a written representation of it. The term now usually implies the conversion of speech to text by a human transcriptionist with the assistance of a computer for word processing and sometimes also for speech recognition, the process of a computer interpreting speech and converting it to text.

litteroitu teksti

A written version of what was said orally

liturgia

A predetermined or prescribed set of rituals that are performed, usually by a religion; a book in which they are recorded.

liu'uttaa

(transitive) To cause to glide.

liu’unta

Designed or able to slide.

liu’utin

(GUI) The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.

liuennut

that has been disintegrated in a solvent

liueta

(intransitive, physical chemistry) To become liquid by absorbing water from the atmosphere and dissolving in it.

liukas

Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.

liukaskielinen

Sweet-speaking; persuasive; seductive.

liukaskielisyys

Unctuousness: A smug, exaggerated use of language; smarminess.

liukaste

A substance used to reduce friction between objects or surfaces.

liukastin

A substance used to reduce friction between objects or surfaces.

liukastua

(intransitive, slang) To go; to move from one place or to another.

liukastuja

A person or creature that slips.

liukastuminen

(engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.

liukastusaine

A substance used to reduce friction between objects or surfaces.

liukenematon

(physical chemistry) That cannot be dissolved.

liukeneminen

A departure taken quietly and unnoticed, without asking for permission or informing anyone. [from mid 18th c.]

liukkari

A substance used to reduce friction between objects or surfaces.

liukkaus

(uncountable) The property of being slippery.

liuku

Something that coasts or is used to coast.

liukua

(intransitive) To glide along without adding energy; to allow a vehicle to continue moving forward after disengaging the engine or ceasing to apply motive power.

liukueste

A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.

liukuhihna

A continuous flexible band moved by a series of rollers to transport objects or material from one place to another, especially within a factory or mine.

liukuja

Agent noun of coast: one who coasts.

liukukiila

A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways or rotationally but permit motion lengthwise.

liukukisko

A mechanical part intended to guide or aid something else to move (using wheels or sliding).

liukumäki

An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.

liukuminen

The motion of something that skids.

liukupinta

A mechanical part intended to guide or aid something else to move (using wheels or sliding).

liukuportaat

A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.

liukuportaikko

A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.

liukuri

Something that coasts or is used to coast.

liukusäädin

(GUI) A widget allowing the user to select a value or position on a sliding scale.

liukuva

Designed or able to slide.

liukuväri

A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another.

liukuvoide

A substance used to reduce friction between objects or surfaces.

liuos

(physical chemistry) A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.

liuotin

(countable, plural mediums or media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.

liuottaa

(physical chemistry) (transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material.

liuska

A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways or rotationally but permit motion lengthwise.

liuskainen

Lobed.

liuskamainen

Resembling a lobe.

liuskayökkönen

(entomology) A moth of the species Scoliopteryx libatrix.

liuske

One of several types of rock easily split and suitable for making flagstones.

liuskeisuus

The characteristic or quality of being flaky.

liuskekiven asentaja

One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.

liuskekivi

(uncountable, geology) A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.

liuskoittunut

Lobed.

liuta

A large number of items; a large inventory.

livahdus

A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.

livahtaa

(intransitive) To disappear suddenly and secretly.