| L: | L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet and a vocal consonant It is usually called a semivowel or liquid Its form and value are from the Greek through the Latin the form of the Greek letter being from the Phd2nician and the ultimate origin prob Egyptian Etymologically it is most closely related to r and u as in pilgrim peregrine couch fr collocare aubura fr LL alburnus |
| L: | An extension at right angles to the length of a main building giving to the ground plan a form resembling the letter L sometimes less properly applied to a narrower or lower extension in the direction of the length of the main building a wing |
| L: | Having the general shape of the capital letter L as an L beam or Lbeam |
| La: | A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization |
| La: | Look see behold sometimes followed by you |
| laager: | A camp especially one surrounded by a circular formation of travelers wagons for temporary defense |
| Laager: | To form into or camp in a laager or protected camp |
| Laas: | A lace See Lace |
| Lab: | To prate to gossip to babble to blab |
| lab: | A telltale a prater a blabber |
| lab: | Of or pertaining to a laboratory as a lab bench |
| Labadist: | A follower of Jean de Labadie a religious teacher of the 17th century who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism and the obligation of community of property among Christians |
| Labarraquessolution: | An aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite extensively used as a disinfectant |
| dLabarum: | The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece and surmounted by a golden crown It bore a monogram of the first two letters CHIRHO which appear like the English letters X and P of the name of Christ in its Greek form Later the name was given to various modifications of this standard |
| Labdanum: | See Ladanum |
| Labefaction: | The act of labefying or making weak the state of being weakened decay ruin |
| Labefy: | To weaken or impair |
| Label: | A tassel |
| Label: | To affix a label to to mark with a name etc as to label a bottle or a package |
| Labeler: | One who labels |
| dLabellum: | The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower often of a very curious shape |
| Labent: | Slipping sliding gliding |
| dLabia: | See Labium |
| Labial: | Of or pertaining to the lips or labia as labial veins |
| Labial: | A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips as b p w |
| Labialism: | The quality of being labial as the labialism of an articulation conversion into a labial as of a sound which is different in another language |
| Labialization: | The modification of an articulation by contraction of the lip opening |
| Labialize: | To modify by contraction of the lip opening |
| Labially: | In a labial manner with or by means of the lips |
| Labiate: | To labialize |
| Labiate: | Having the limb of a tubular corolla or calyx divided into two unequal parts one projecting over the other like the lips of a mouth as in the snapdragon sage and catnip |
| Labiate: | A plant of the order Labiat |
| Labiated: | Same as Labiate a a |
| Labiatifloral: | Having labiate flowers as the snapdragon |
| Labidometer: | A forceps with a measuring attachment for ascertaining the size of the fetal head |
| Labile: | Liable to slip err fall or apostatize |
| Lability: | Liability to lapse err or apostatize |
| Labimeter: | See Labidometer |
| Labiodental: | Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth as f and v |
| Labionasal: | Formed by the lips and the nose |
| Labioplasty: | A plastic operation for making a new lip or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip |
| Labiose: | Having the appearance of being labiate said of certain polypetalous corollas |
| Labipalp: | A labial palp |
| dLabipalpus: | One of the labial palpi of an insect See Illust under Labium |
| dLabium: | A lip or liplike organ |
| Lablab: | an East Indian name for several twining leguminous plants related to the bean but commonly applied to the hyacinth bean Dolichos Lablab |
| Labor: | Physical toil or bodily exertion especially when fatiguing irksome or unavoidable in distinction from sportive exercise hard muscular effort directed to some useful end as agriculture manufactures and like servile toil exertion work |
| Labor: | To exert muscular strength to exert ones strength with painful effort particularly in servile occupations to work to toil |
| Labor: | To work at to work to till to cultivate by toil |
| Laborant: | A chemist |
| Laboratory: | The workroom of a chemist also a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science as a chemical physical or biological laboratory Hence by extension a place where something is prepared or some operation is performed as the liver is the laboratory of the bile |
| LaborDay: | In most of the States and Territories of the United States a day usually the first Monday of September set aside as a legal holiday in honor of or in the interest of workingmen as a class Also a similar holiday in Canada Australia etc |
| Labored: | Bearing marks of labor and effort elaborately wrought not easy or natural as labored poetry a labored style |
| Laboredly: | In a labored manner with labor |
| Laborer: | One who labors in a toilsome occupation a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill as distinguished from that of an artisan |
| Laboring: | That labors performing labor esp performing coarse heavy work not requiring skill also set apart for labor as laboring days |
| Laborious: | Requiring labor perseverance or sacrifices toilsome tiresome |
| Laborless: | Not involving labor not laborious easy |
| Laborous: | Laborious |
| Laborsaving: | Saving labor adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor as laborsaving machinery laborsaving appliances4 laborsaving devices like washing machines |
| Laborsome: | Made with or requiring great labor pains or diligence |
| labour: | Same as labor British spelling |
| laboured: | same as labored British spelling |
| labourer: | a laborer someone who works with their hands |
| labourious: | characterized by toilsome effort same as laborious British spelling |
| Labourite: | a member of the British Labour Party |
| Labrador: | A region of British America on the Atlantic coast north of Newfoundland |
| Labradorite: | A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors and hence much used for ornamental purposes The finest specimens come from Labrador See Feldspar |
| Labras: | Lips |
| Labret: | A piece of wood shell stone or other substance worn in a perforation of the lip or cheek by many savages |
| Labroid: | Like the genus Labrus belonging to the family Labrid an extensive family of marine fishes often brilliantly colored which are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans The tautog and cunner are American examples |
| Labrose: | Having thick lips |
| dLabrum: | A lip or edge as of a basin |
| dLabrus: | A genus of marine fishes including the wrasses of Europe See Wrasse |
| Laburnic: | Of pertaining to or derived from the laburnum |
| Laburnine: | A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum |
| Laburnum: | A small leguminous tree Cytisus Laburnum native of the Alps The plant is reputed to be poisonous esp the bark and seeds It has handsome racemes of yellow blossoms |
| Labyrinth: | An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance as the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths |
| Labyrinthal: | Pertaining to or resembling a labyrinth intricate labyrinthian |
| Labyrinthian: | Intricately winding like a labyrinth perplexed labyrinthal |
| Labyrinthibranch: | Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici |
| Labyrinthic: | Like or pertaining to a labyrinth |
| dLabyrinthici: | An order of teleostean fishes including the Anabas or climbing perch and other allied fishes |
| Labyrinthiform: | Having the form of a labyrinth intricate |
| Labyrinthine: | Pertaining to or like a labyrinth labyrinthal labyrinthian |
| Labyrinthodon: | A genus of very large fossil amphibians of the Triassic period having bony plates on the under side of the body It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta Called also Mastodonsaurus |
| Labyrinthodont: | Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta |
| dLabyrinthodonta: | An extinct order of Amphibia including the typical genus Labyrinthodon and many other allied forms from the Carboniferous Permian and Triassic formations By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders See Stegocephala |
| Lac: | One hundred thousand also a vaguely great number as a lac of rupees |
| Lac: | A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree but to some extent on other trees by the Laccifer lacca formerly Coccus lacca a scaleshaped insect the female of which fixes herself on the bark and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance |
| Laccic: | Pertaining to lac or produced from it as laccic acid |
| Laccin: | A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac |
| Laccolite: | A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata |
| Lace: | That which binds or holds especially by being interwoven a string cord or band usually one passing through eyelet or other holes and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment of a shoe of a machine belt etc |
| Lace: | To fasten with a lace to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes to unite with a lace or laces or figuratively with anything resembling laces |
| Lace: | To be fastened with a lace or laces as these boots lace |
| lacebark: | A small tree or shrub Hoheria populnea of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honeyscented paperwhite flowers and whose bark is used for cordage |
| Lacebark: | A shrub in the West Indies Lagetta Iintearia so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark |
| Laced: | Fastened with a lace or laces decorated with narrow strips or braid See Lace v t |
| Lacedmonian: | Of or pertaining to Lacedmon or Sparta the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus |
| laceinto: | To attack vigorously used of physical or verbal attacks as the boss laced into him for coming to the meeting late |
| Laceman: | A man who deals in lace |
| Lacerable: | That can be lacerated or torn |
| Lacerate: | To tear to rend to separate by tearing to mangle as to lacerate the flesh |
| Lacerate: | Rent torn mangled as a lacerated wound |
| lacerated: | torn roughly of skin |
| Laceration: | The act of lacerating |
| Lacerative: | Lacerating or having the power to lacerate as lacerative humors |
| Lacert: | A muscle of the human body |
| Lacerta: | A fathom |
| Lacerta: | A genus of lizards See Lizard |
| Lacertian: | Like a lizard of or pertaining to the Lacertilia |
| lacertid: | Any lizard of the family Lacertidae a family of Old World terrestrial lizard |
| Lacertidae: | A natural family of Old World lizards |
| dLacertilia: | An order of Reptilia which includes the lizards |
| Lacertilian: | Same as Lacertian |
| Lacertiloid: | Like or belonging to the Lacertilia |
| Lacertine: | Lacertian |
| dLacertus: | A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibers |
| Lacewing: | Any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus Chrysopa and allied genera They have delicate lacelike wings and brilliant eyes Their larv are useful in destroying aphids Called also lacewinged fly and goldeneyed fly |
| Lacewinged: | Having thin transparent reticulated wings as the lacewinged flies |
| Laches: | Neglect negligence remissness neglect to do a thing at the proper time especially a delay in asserting a claim sufficient to cause a person to lose the right to adjuducation of the claim by a court |
| Lachrymable: | Lamentable |
| dLachrymChristi: | A rich sweet red Neapolitan wine |
| Lachrymal: | Of or pertaining to tears as lachrymal effusions |
| Lachrymal: | See Lachrymatory |
| Lachrymals: | Tears also lachrymal feelings or organs |
| Lachrymary: | Containing or intended to contain tears lachrymal |
| Lachrymate: | To weep |
| Lachrymation: | The act of shedding tears weeping |
| lachrymator: | A chemical substance that causes tears to flow same as lacrimator |
| Lachrymatory: | A bdtearbottleb8 a narrownecked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased persons friends were collected in it Called also lachrymal or lacrymal |
| lachrymatory: | Relating to or inducing tears especially of chemical substances |
| Lachrymiform: | Having the form of a tear tearshaped |
| Lachrymose: | Generating or shedding tears given to shedding tears suffused with tears tearful |
| Lacing: | The act of securing fastening or tightening with a lace or laces |
| Lacinia: | One of the narrow jagged irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers |
| Laciniate: | Fringed having a fringed border |
| Laciniolate: | Consisting of or abounding in very minute lacini |
| dLacinula: | A diminutive lacinia |
| Lack: | Blame cause of blame fault crime offense |
| Lack: | To blame to find fault with |
| Lack: | To be wanting often impersonally with of meaning to be less than short not quite etc |
| Lack: | Exclamation of regret or surprise |
| lackadaisical: | Affectedly pensive languidly sentimental dreamy |
| Lackadaisy: | An expression of languor |
| Lackadaisy: | Lackadaisical |
| Lackaday: | Alack the day alas an expression of sorrow regret dissatisfaction or surprise |
| Lackbrain: | One who is deficient in understanding a witless person |
| Lacker: | One who lacks or is in want |
| Lacker: | See Lacquer |
| Lackey: | An attending male servant a footman a servile follower |
| Lackey: | To attend as a lackey to wait upon |
| Lackey: | To act or serve as lackey to pay servile attendance |
| Lackluster: | A lack of luster |
| Lackluster: | Wanting luster or brightness |
| Lacmus: | See Litmus |
| Laconian: | Of or pertaining to Laconia a division of ancient Greece Spartan |
| Laconic: | Expressing much in few words after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans brief and pithy concise brusque epigrammatic In this sense laconic is the usual form |
| Laconic: | Laconism |
| Laconical: | See Laconic a |
| Laconically: | In a laconic manner |
| Laconicism: | Same as Laconism |
| Laconism: | A vigorous brief manner of expression laconic style |
| Laconize: | To imitate the manner of the Laconians especially in brief pithy speech or in frugality and austerity |
| Lacquer: | A varnish consisting of a solution of shellac in alcohol often colored with gamboge saffron or the like used for varnishing metals papiermach and wood The name is also given to varnishes made of other ingredients esp the tough solid varnish of the Japanese with which ornamental objects are made |
| Lacquer: | To cover with lacquer |
| Lacquerer: | One who lacquers especially one who makes a business of lacquering |
| Lacquering: | The act or business of putting on lacquer also the coat of lacquer put on |
| lacrimation: | shedding tears same as lachrymation |
| lacrimator: | a chemical substance that causes tears to flow same as lachrymator |
| lacrimatory: | relating to or inducing tears especially of chemical substances same as lachrymatory |
| dLacrimoso: | Plaintive a term applied to a mournful or pathetic movement or style |
| Lacrosse: | A game of ball originating among the North American Indians now the popular field sport of Canada and played also in England and the United States Each player carries a longhandled racket called a bdcrosseb8 The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it or tossed from it the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field |
| Lacrymal: | See Lachrymatory n and Lachrymal a |
| Lacrymary: | See Lachrymary Lachrymatory Lachrymose |
| Lactage: | The produce of animals yielding milk milk and that which is made from it |
| Lactam: | One of a series of anhydrides of an amido type analogous to the lactones as oxindol a cyclic amide |
| Lactamic: | Pertaining to or designating an amido acid related to lactic acid and called also amidopropionic acid |
| Lactamide: | An acid amide derived from lactic acid and obtained as a white crystalline substance having a neutral reaction It is metameric with alanine |
| Lactant: | Suckling giving suck |
| Lactarene: | A preparation of casein from milk used in printing calico |
| Lactary: | Milky full of white juice like milk |
| Lactary: | a dairyhouse |
| Lactate: | A salt of lactic acid |
| lactating: | actively producing milk of female mammals |
| Lactation: | The secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland giving suck |
| Lacteal: | Pertaining to or resembling milk milky as the lacteal fluid |
| Lacteal: | One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct a chyliferous vessel |
| Lacteally: | Milkily in the manner of milk |
| Lactean: | Milky consisting of or resembling milk |
| Lacteous: | Milky resembling milk |
| Lacteously: | In a lacteous manner after the manner of milk |
| Lactescence: | The state or quality of producing milk or milklike juice resemblance to milk a milky color |
| Lactescent: | Having a milky look becoming milky |
| Lactic: | Of or pertaining to milk procured from sour milk or whey as lactic acid lactic fermentation etc |
| Lactide: | A white crystalline substance obtained from lactic acid by distillation and regarded as an anhydride also by extension any similar substance |
| Lactiferous: | Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid as the lactiferous vessels cells or tissue of various vascular plants |
| Lactific: | Producing or yielding milk |
| Lactifuge: | A medicine to check the secretion of milk or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body |
| Lactim: | One of a series of anhydrides resembling the lactams but of an imido type as isatine is a lactim Cf Lactam |
| Lactimide: | A white crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid |
| Lactin: | See Lactose |
| Lactoabumin: | The albumin present in milk apparently identical with ordinary serum albumin It is distinct from the casein of milk |
| Lactobutyrometer: | An instrument for determining the amount of butter fat contained in a given sample of milk |
| Lactodensimeter: | A form of hydrometer specially graduated for finding the density of milk and thus discovering whether it has been mixed with water or some of the cream has been removed |
| Lactometer: | An instrument for estimating the purity or richness of milk as a measuring glass a specific gravity bulb or other apparatus |
| Lactone: | One of a series of organic compounds being cyclic esters which may be regarded as anhydrides of certain hydroxy acids In general they are colorless liquids having a weak aromatic odor They are so called because the typical lactone is derived from lactic acid |
| Lactonic: | Of pertaining to or derived from a lactone |
| Lactonic: | Pertaining to or designating an acid obtained by the oxidation of milk sugar lactose |
| Lactoprotein: | A peculiar albuminous body considered a normal constituent of milk |
| Lactory: | Lactiferous |
| Lactoscope: | An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity |
| lactose: | The main sugar present in milk called also sugar of milk or milk sugar When isolated pure it is obtained crystalline it is separable from the whey by evaporation and crystallization It is a disaccharide with the formula C12H22O11 being chemically 4 It has a slightly sweet taste is dextrorotary and is much less soluble in water than either cane sugar or glucose Formerly called lactin When hydrolyzed it yields glucose and galactose In cells it may be hydrolyzed by the enzyme betagalactosidase |
| lactoseintolerance: | A physiological condition in which lactose cannot be hydrolyzed in the intestine leading to uncomfortable gaseousness cramps or diarrhea after eating a lactosecontaining food such as milk or ice cream The symptoms may be prevented by ingesting a preparation of betagalactosidase before or together with dairy products |
| dLactuca: | A genus of composite herbs several of which are cultivated for salad lettuce |
| dLactucarium: | The inspissated juice of the common lettuce sometimes used as a substitute for opium |
| Lactucic: | Pertaining to or derived from the juice of the Lactuca virosa said of certain acids |
| Lactucin: | A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste and a neutral reaction and forming one of the essential ingredients of lactucarium |
| Lactucone: | A white crystalline tasteless substance found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium |
| Lacturamic: | Pertaining to or designating an organic amido acid which is regarded as a derivative of lactic acid and urea |
| Lactyl: | An organic residue or radical CH3CHOHCO derived from lactic acid |
| dLacuna: | A small opening a small pit or depression a small blank space a gap or vacancy a hiatus |
| Lacunal: | Pertaining to or having lacun as a lacunar circulation |
| Lacunar: | The ceiling or under surface of any part especially when it consists of compartments sunk or hollowed without spaces or bands between the panels |
| Lacune: | A lacuna |
| Lacunose: | Furrowed or pitted having shallow cavities or lacun as a lacunose leaf |
| Lacustral: | Found in or pertaining to lakes or ponds or growing in them as lacustrine flowers |
| Lacwork: | Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved or simply colored sprinkled with gold or the like said especially of Oriental work of this kind |
| Lad: | p p of Lead to guide |
| Lad: | A boy a youth a stripling |
| Ladanum: | A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters and for fumigation |
| Ladde: | imp of Lead to guide |
| Ladder: | A frame usually portable of wood metal or rope for ascent and descent consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps |
| ladderback: | a chair with a ladderback2 |
| ladderbacked: | Having horizontal stripes on the back reminiscent of a ladder used of birds as a ladderbacked woodpecker |
| laddercompany: | Same as hookandladder company hookandladder truck |
| ladderproof: | resistant to runs or in Britain ladders of hosiery |
| Laddie: | A lad a male sweetheart |
| Lade: | To load to put a burden or freight on or in generally followed by that which receives the load as the direct object |
| Lade: | To draw water |
| Lade: | The mouth of a river |
| Lademan: | One who leads a pack horse a millers servant |
| Laden: | Loaded freighted burdened as a laden vessel a laden heart |
| Ladied: | Ladylike not rough gentle |
| Ladieseardrops: | The smallflowered Fuchsia Fuchsia coccinea and other closely related species |
| Ladify: | To make a lady of to make ladylike |
| Ladin: | A Romansch dialect spoken in some parts of Switzerland and the Tyrol |
| Lading: | The act of loading |
| Ladino: | One of the halfbreed descendants of whites and Indians a mestizo so called throughout Central America They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge |
| Ladino: | The mixed Spanish and Hebrew language spoken by Sephardim |
| Ladkin: | A little lad |
| Ladle: | A cuplike spoon often of large size with a long handle used in lading or dipping |
| Ladle: | To take up and convey in a ladle to dip with or as with a ladle as to ladle out soup to ladle oatmeal into a kettle |
| Ladleful: | A quantity sufficient to fill a ladle |
| Ladrone: | A robber a pirate hence loosely a rogue or rascal |
| Lady: | Belonging or becoming to a lady ladylike |
| ladybeetle: | Same as ladybird |
| Ladybird: | Any one of numerous species of small beetles of the genus Coccinella and allied genera family Coccinellid called also ladybug ladyclock lady cow lady fly ladybeetle and lady beetle Coccinella seplempunctata in one of the common European species See Coccinella |
| Ladybug: | Same as Ladybird |
| Ladyclock: | See Ladybird |
| LadyDay: | The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary March 25 See Annunciation |
| Ladyfish: | A large handsome oceanic fish Albula vulpes found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans called also bonefish grubber French mullet and macab |
| Ladyhood: | The state or quality of being a lady the personality of a lady |
| ladyinwaiting: | a lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess |
| Ladykiller: | A gallant who captivates the hearts of women |
| Ladykilling: | The art or practice of captivating the hearts of women |
| Ladykin: | A little lady applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeths time in the abbreviated form Lakin to the Virgin Mary |
| Ladylike: | Like a lady in appearance or manners wellbred |
| Ladylikeness: | The quality or state of being ladylike |
| Ladylove: | A sweetheart or mistress |
| ladyofthenight: | A West Indian shrub Brunfelsia americana with fragrant showy yellowishwhite flowers |
| Ladysbedstraw: | The common bedstraw Galium verum also a slenderleaved East Indian shrub Pharnaceum Mollugo with white flowers in umbels |
| Ladysbower: | A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms Clematis vitalba |
| Ladyscloth: | A kind of broadcloth of light weight used for womens dresses cloaks etc |
| Ladyscomb: | An umbelliferous plant Scandix PectenVeneris its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb |
| Ladyscushion: | An herb growing in dense tufts the thrift Armeria vulgaris |
| ladyseardrop: | An erect or climbing shrub Fuchsia coccinea of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers |
| Ladysfinger: | The kidney vetch Anthyllis vulneraria called also ladys fingers |
| Ladysgarters: | Ribbon grass |
| Ladyshair: | A plant of the genus Briza Briza media a variety of quaking grass |
| Ladyship: | The rank or position of a lady given as a title preceded by her or your |
| Ladyslaces: | A slender climbing plant dodder |
| ladyslipper: | Same as ladys slipper |
| Ladyslookingglass: | See Venuss lookingglass under Venus |
| Ladysmantle: | A genus of rosaceous herbs Alchemilla esp the European Alchemilla vulgaris which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes |
| Ladysseal: | The European Solomons seal Polygonatum verticillatum |
| Ladysslipper: | Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium the labellum of which resembles a slipper Less commonly in the United States the garden balsam Impatiens Balsamina |
| Ladyssmock: | A plant of the genus Cardamine Cardamine pratensis cuckoo flower |
| Ladysthimble: | The harebell |
| Ladysthumb: | An annual weed Polygonum Persicaria having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle |
| Ladystraces: | A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair |
| dLlaps: | A genus of huge carnivorous dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States They had very large hind legs and tail and are supposed to have been bipedal Some of the species were about eighteen feet high |
| Laemmergeyer: | See Lammergeir |
| Lmodipod: | One of the Lmodipoda |
| dLmodipoda: | A division of amphipod Crustacea in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs The whale louse or Cyamus and Caprella are examples |
| Lmodipodous: | Of or pertaining to the Lmodipoda |
| LtereSunday: | The fourth Sunday of Lent so named from the Latin word Ltare rejoice the first word in the antiphone of the introit sung that day in the Roman Catholic service |
| Lvigate: | Having a smooth surface as if polished |
| Lvo: | A prefix See Levo |
| Lvorotatory: | Same as Levorotatory Cf Dextrorotatory |
| Lvulose: | See Levulose |
| Lafayette: | The dollar fish |
| Laft: | p p of Leave |
| Lafte: | imp of Leave |
| Lag: | Coming tardily after or behind slow tardy |
| Lag: | One who lags that which comes in last |
| Lag: | To walk or more slowly to stay or fall behind to linger or loiter |
| Lag: | To cause to lag to slacken |
| Lag: | One transported for a crime |
| Lag: | To transport for crime |
| Lagan: | See Ligan |
| Lagarto: | An alligator |
| dLagena: | The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles an appendage of the sacculus corresponding to the cochlea in fishes and amphibians |
| Lagenian: | Like or pertaining to Lagena a genus of Foraminifera having a straight chambered shell |
| Lageniform: | Shaped like a bottle or flask flagshaped |
| Lagenophera: | A small genus of herbs of Australia and South America having small solidary white or purple flowers similar to true daisies of genus Bellis |
| Lager: | Lager beer |
| Lagerbeer: | Originally a German beer but now also made in immense quantities in the United States so called from its being laid up or stored for some months before use |
| Lagerwine: | Wine which has been kept for some time in the cellar |
| Laggard: | Slow sluggish backward |
| Laggard: | One who lags a loiterer |
| Lagger: | A laggard |
| Lagging: | The clothing esp an outer wooden covering as of a steam cylinder applied to prevent the radiation of heat a covering of lags called also deading and cleading |
| Laggingly: | In a lagging manner loiteringly |
| Lagly: | Laggingly |
| Lagniappe: | In Louisiana a trifling present given to customers by tradesmen a gratuity |
| lagomorph: | One of the Lagomorpha |
| dLagomorpha: | an order of rodentlike mammals comprising the hares rabbits and pikas They have four incisors in the upper jaw Called also Duplicidentata They were formerly classified together with the rodents but the Rodentia and Lagomorpha are now classed as separate orders |
| lagoon: | A shallow sound channel pond or lake especially one into which the sea flows as the lagoons of Venice |
| dLagophthalmia: | A morbid condition in which the eye stands wide open giving a peculiar staring appearance |
| Lagopous: | Having a dense covering of long hair like the foot of a hare |
| Lagorchestes: | A mammal genus comprising the hare wallabies |
| Lagostomus: | A mammal genus comprising the viscachas |
| Lagothrix: | A mammal genus comprising the woolly monkeys |
| dLagthing: | See Legislatature below |
| Lagune: | See Lagoon |
| Laic: | Of or pertaining to a layman or the laity |
| Laic: | A layman |
| Laicality: | The state or quality of being laic the state or condition of a layman |
| Laically: | As a layman after the manner of a layman as to treat a matter laically |
| Laid: | of Lay |
| Laidly: | Ugly loathsome |
| Lain: | p p of Lie v i |
| Lainere: | See Lanier |
| Laird: | A lord a landholder esp one who holds land directly of the crown |
| Lairdship: | The state of being a laird an estate landed property |
| Laism: | See Lamaism |
| dLaissezfaire: | Noninterference an axiom of some political economists deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce manufactures etc by bounty or by restriction as the doctrine of laissez faire the laissez faire system of government |
| Laity: | The people as distinguished from the clergy the body of the people not in orders |
| dLakao: | Sap green |
| Lake: | A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter usually by precipitation with a metallic oxide or earth esp with aluminium hydrate as madder lake Florentine lake yellow lake etc |
| Lake: | A kind of fine white linen formerly in use |
| Lake: | To play to sport |
| Lake: | A large body of water contained in a depression of the earths surface and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area |
| Lakedweller: | See Lake dwellers under Lake |
| lakefront: | land bordering a lake |
| Lakelet: | A little lake |
| Laker: | One that is connected with a lake or lakes as in habitation toil etc |
| lakeshore: | the shore of a lake |
| lakeside: | the shore of a lake |
| Lakeweed: | The water pepper Polygonum Hydropiper an aquatic plant of Europe and North America |
| dLakh: | Same as Lac one hundred thousand |
| Lakin: | See Ladykin |
| Lakke: | See Lack |
| Laky: | Pertaining to a lake |
| Laky: | Transparent said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles |
| Lallation: | An imperfect enunciation of the letter r in which it sounds like l |
| Lalo: | The powdered leaves of the baobab tree used by the Africans to mix in their soup as the southern negroes use powdered sassafras Cf Couscous |
| Lam: | To beat soundly to thrash |
| Lama: | See Llama |
| Lama: | In Tibet Mongolia etc a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism |
| Lamaic: | Of or pertaining to Lamaism |
| Lamaism: | A modified form of Buddhism which prevails in Tibet Mongolia and some adjacent parts of Asia so called from the name of its priests See 2d Lama |
| Lamaist: | One who believes in Lamaism |
| Lamaistic: | Of or pertaining to Lamaism |
| Lamantin: | The manatee |
| Lamarckian: | Pertaining to or involved in the doctrines of Lamarckianism |
| Lamarckianism: | Lamarckism |
| Lamarckism: | The theory that structural variations characteristic of species and genera are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments and esp in the case of animals by effort or by use or disuse of certain organs It is a discredited theory not believed by modern biologists |
| Lamasery: | A monastery or convent of lamas in Tibet Mongolia etc |
| Lamb: | The young of the sheep |
| Lamb: | To bring forth a lamb or lambs as sheep |
| Lambale: | A feast at the time of shearing lambs |
| lambast: | Same as lambaste |
| Lambaste: | To beat severely |
| Lambative: | Taken by licking with the tongue |
| Lambative: | A medicine taken by licking with the tongue a lincture |
| dLambda: | The name of the Greek letter LAMBDA lambda corresponding with the English letter L l |
| Lambdacism: | A fault in speaking or in composition which consists in too frequent use of the letter l or in doubling it erroneously |
| Lambdoid: | Shaped like the Greek letter lambda as the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull |
| Lambdoidal: | Same as Lambdoid |
| Lambent: | Playing on the surface touching lightly gliding over |
| Lambertia: | A small genus of Australian shrubs |
| Lambertpine: | The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon Pinus Lambertiana It has the leaves in fives and cones a foot long The timber is soft and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States |
| Lambis: | A genus of scorpion shells of shallow tropical waters of eastern hemisphere |
| Lambkill: | A small American ericaceous shrub Kalmia angustifolia resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers called also calfkill sheepkill sheep laurel etc It is supposed to poison young sheep and other animals that eat it at times when the snow is deep and they cannot find other food |
| Lambkin: | A small lamb |
| Lamblike: | Like a lamb gentle meek inoffensive |
| Lamboys: | Same as Base n 19 |
| Lambrequin: | A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet to protect it from wet or heat |
| Lambskin: | The skin of a lamb especially a skin dressed with the wool on and used as a mat Also used adjectively |
| Lambskinnet: | See Lansquenet |
| Lambsquarters: | A name given to several common weedy European plants of the Goosefoot family introduced into N America and sometimes used as pot herbs as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa |
| Lamdoidal: | Lambdoid |
| Lame: | Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury defect or temporary obstruction of a function as a lame leg arm or muscle |
| Lame: | To make lame |
| lamedh: | The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet corresponding to l |
| Lamel: | See Lamella |
| Lamella: | a thin plate or scale of anything as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed |
| Lamellar: | Flat and thin lamelliform composed of lamell |
| Lamellary: | Of or pertaining to lamella or to lamell lamellar |
| Lamellate: | Composed of or furnished with thin plates or scales See Illust of Antenn |
| Lamellibranch: | One of the Lamellibranchia also called Pelecypoda Also used adjectively |
| dLamellibranchia: | An earlier name for the class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells as the clams oysters mussels etc now called Pelecypoda or Bivalvia |
| Lamellibranchiate: | Having lamellar gills belonging to the Lamellibranchia also called Pelecypoda |
| Lamellicorn: | Having antenn terminating in a group of flat lamell said of certain coleopterous insects |
| dLamellicornia: | A group of lamellicorn planteating beetles called also Lamellicornes |
| Lamelliferous: | Bearing or composed of lamell or thin layers plates or scales foliated |
| Lamelliform: | Thin and flat scalelike lamellar |
| Lamellirostral: | Having a lamellate bill as ducks and geese |
| dLamellirostres: | A group of birds embracing the Anseres and flamingoes in which the bill is lamellate |
| Lamellose: | Composed of or having lamell lamelliform |
| Lamely: | In a lame crippled disabled or imperfect manner as to walk lamely a figure lamely drawn |
| Lameness: | The condition or quality of being lame as the lameness of an excuse or an argument |
| Lament: | To express or feel sorrow to weep or wail to mourn |
| Lament: | To mourn for to bemoan to bewail |
| Lament: | Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries lamentation a wailing a moaning a weeping |
| Lamentable: | Mourning sorrowful expressing grief as a lamentable countenance |
| Lamentation: | The act of bewailing audible expression of sorrow wailing moaning |
| Lamented: | Mourned for bewailed |
| Lamenter: | One who laments |
| Lamentin: | See Lamantin |
| Lamenting: | Lamentation |
| Lamentingly: | In a lamenting manner |
| Lames: | Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor |
| dLametta: | Foil or wire made of gold silver or brass |
| Lamia: | A monster capable of assuming a womans form who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood a vampire a sorceress a witch |
| Lamina: | A thin plate or scale a layer or coat lying over another said of thin plates or platelike substances as of bone or minerals |
| Laminability: | The quality or state of being laminable |
| Laminable: | Capable of being split into lamin or thin plates as mica capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip |
| Laminar: | In or consisting of thin plates or layers having the form of a thin plate or lamina |
| dLaminaria: | A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds kelp or devils apron The fronds commonly grow in clusters and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length See Illust of Kelp |
| Laminarian: | Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria or to that zone of the sea from two to ten fathoms in depth where the seaweeds of this genus grow |
| Laminarite: | A broadleafed fossil alga |
| Laminary: | Laminar |
| Laminate: | Consisting of or covered with lamin or thin plates scales or layers one over another laminated |
| Laminate: | To cause to separate into thin plates or layers to divide into thin plates |
| Laminate: | To separate into lamin |
| laminated: | Consisting of or covered with laminae or thin plates sheets scales or layers one over another laminate |
| Laminating: | Forming or separating into scales or thin layers |
| Lamination: | The process of laminating or the state of being laminated |
| Laminiferous: | Having a structure consisting of lamin or thin layers |
| Laminiplantar: | Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides as in most singing birds except the larks |
| dLaminitis: | Inflammation of the lamin or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse founder |
| Lamish: | Somewhat lame |
| Lamm: | See Lam |
| Lammas: | The first day of August called also Lammas day and Lammastide |
| Lammergeir: | A very large vulture Gypa89tus barbatus which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe Asia and Northern Africa When fullgrown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings It is brownish black above with the under parts and neck rusty yellow the forehead and crown white the sides of the head and beard black It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals which it kills It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle |
| Lamnidae: | A natural family of oceanic sharks |
| dLamnunguia: | Same as Hyracoidea |
| Lamp: | A thin plate or lamina |
| Lamp: | A lightproducing vessel device instrument or apparatus |
| Lampad: | A lamp or candlestick |
| Lampadist: | One who gained the prize in the lampadrome |
| Lampadrome: | A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands He who reached the goal first with his torch unextinguished gained the prize |
| Lampas: | An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse called also lampers |
| Lampate: | A supposed salt of lampic acid |
| Lampblack: | The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt as in the flame of a smoking lamp It consists of finely divided carbon with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities It is used as an ingredient of printers ink and various black pigments and cements |
| Lampereel: | See Lamprey |
| Lampern: | The river lamprey Ammocd2tes fluviatilis syn Lampetra fluviatilis |
| Lampers: | See Lampas |
| Lampic: | Pertaining to or produced by a lamp formerly said of a supposed acid |
| Lamping: | Shining brilliant |
| Lampless: | Being without a lamp or without light hence being without appreciation dull |
| Lamplight: | Light from a lamp |
| Lamplighter: | One who or that which lights a lamp |
| lamplit: | Illuminated by a lamp |
| Lampoon: | A personal satire in writing usually malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress |
| Lampoon: | To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in a work of art to make a person behavior or institution the subject of a lampoon |
| Lampooner: | The writer of a lampoon |
| Lampoonry: | The act of lampooning a lampoon or lampoons |
| Lamppost: | A post generally a pillar of iron supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street park etc |
| Lamprel: | See Lamprey |
| Lamprey: | An eellike marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon and allied genera called also lamprey eel and lamper eel The lampreys have a round sucking mouth without jaws but set with numerous minute teeth and one to three larger teeth on the palate see Illust of Cyclostomi There are seven small branchial openings on each side |
| Lampron: | See Lamprey |
| lampshade: | a protective ornamental covering used to screen the light bulb in a lamp from direct view |
| lampshell: | A mollusklike marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food found worldwide |
| Lampyridae: | A natural family of insects comprising the fireflies |
| Lampyrine: | An insect of the genus Lampyris or family Lampyrid See Lampyris |
| dLampyris: | A genus of coleopterous insects including the glowworms |
| LAN: | A local area network a network3 connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment within a small area to create an interoffice system typically within one building or one site of a corporation Contrasted to WAN a widearea network |
| Lanai: | an island in the Hawaiian chain |
| Lanarkite: | A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead occurring either massive or in long slender prisms of a greenish white or gray color |
| Lanary: | A place for storing wool |
| Lanate: | Wooly covered with fine long hair or hairlike filaments |
| Lancashireboiler: | A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end |
| Lancaster: | A city in Northwest England on the river Lune |
| Lancasterian: | Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster of England in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them |
| Lancastrian: | Of or pertaining to Lancaster2 as Lancastrian royalty |
| Lancastrian: | A member or supporter of the house of Lancaster |
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