| leatherette | (noun) fabric made to look like leather | Synonyms: imitation leather |
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| leatherfish | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjack | (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjacket | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherfish |
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| (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjack |
| (noun) tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies | - |
| leatherleaf | (noun) north temperate bog shrub with evergreen leathery leaves and small white cylindrical flowers | Synonyms: Chamaedaphne calyculata |
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| (noun) stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib | Synonyms: coast polypody, leathery polypody, Polypodium scouleri |
| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| leatherwood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, moose-wood, moosewood, ropebark, wicopy |
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| (noun) shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage | Synonyms: cyrilla, Cyrilla racemiflora, white titi |
| leatherwork | (noun) work made of leather | - |
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| leave | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: farewell, leave-taking, parting |
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| (noun) permission to do something | - |
| (noun) the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty | Synonyms: leave of absence |
| leaven | (noun) an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something | Synonyms: leavening |
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| (noun) a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid | Synonyms: leavening |
| leavening | (noun) an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something | Synonyms: leaven |
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| (noun) a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid | Synonyms: leaven |
| leaver | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: departer, goer |
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| leaving | (noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: departure, going, going away |
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| liverleaf | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions | Synonyms: hepatica |
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| maleate | (noun) a salt or ester of maleic acid; used as a nontricyclic antidepressant drug for psychomotor activation | - |
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| malleability | (noun) the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking | Synonyms: plasticity |
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| mileage | (noun) distance measured in miles | Synonyms: milage |
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| (noun) a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled | - |
| (noun) the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned | Synonyms: fuel consumption rate, gas mileage, gasoline mileage |
| misleader | (noun) someone who leads astray (often deliberately) | - |
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| misleadingness | (noun) The quality of being deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression. | - |
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| nuclease | (noun) general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units | - |
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| oleaginousness | (noun) consisting of or covered with oil | Synonyms: greasiness, oiliness |
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| (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: fulsomeness, oiliness, smarminess, unction, unctuousness |
| oleander | (noun) an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions | Synonyms: Nerium oleander, rose bay |
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| oleaster | (noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits | - |
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| plea | (noun) an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed | - |
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| (noun) a humble request for help from someone in authority | Synonyms: supplication |
| (noun) (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) | - |
| pleader | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor |
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| pleading | (noun) (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | - |
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| pleasance | (noun) a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | Synonyms: pleasure |
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| (noun) a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion | - |
| pleasantness | (noun) the quality of giving pleasure | Synonyms: sweetness |
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| (noun) the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling | - |
| pleasantry | (noun) an agreeable or amusing remark | - |
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| pleaser | (noun) a pleasing entertainer | - |
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| pleasing | (noun) the act of one who pleases | - |
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| pleasingness | (noun) the quality of giving pleasure to the senses | - |
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| pleasure | (noun) sexual gratification | - |
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| (noun) an activity that affords enjoyment | - |
| (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: delight, joy |
| (noun) a formal expression | - |
| (noun) a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | Synonyms: pleasance |
| pleat | (noun) any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape | Synonyms: plait |
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| pleating | (noun) the act of folding in parallel folds | Synonyms: plication |
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| polearm | (noun) a close combat weapon in which the main fighting part of the weapon is fitted to the end of a long shaft, typically of wood, thereby extending the user's effective range. | Synonyms: pole weapon |
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| poleax | (noun) a battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick | Synonyms: poleaxe |
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| (noun) an ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade | Synonyms: poleaxe |
| poleaxe | (noun) a battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick | Synonyms: poleax |
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| (noun) an ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade | Synonyms: poleax |
| release | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: outlet, vent |
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| (noun) the act of liberating someone or something | Synonyms: freeing, liberation |
| (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, sack, sacking |
| (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape | Synonyms: spill, spillage |
| (noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: discharge, waiver |
| (noun) (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone | Synonyms: tone ending |
| (noun) merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film) | - |
| (noun) a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism | Synonyms: button |
| (noun) an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation | Synonyms: handout, press release |
| (noun) a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: acquittance |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, passing |
| (noun) a process that liberates or discharges something | - |
| ribonuclease | (noun) a transferase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid | Synonyms: ribonucleinase, RNase |
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| ringleader | (noun) a person who leads (especially in illicit activities) | - |
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| rouleau | (noun) a roll of coins wrapped in paper | - |
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| (noun) a roll of ribbon | - |
| satinleaf | (noun) tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit | Synonyms: caimitillo, Chrysophyllum oliviforme, damson plum, satin leaf |
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| shinleaf | (noun) North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters | Synonyms: Pyrola elliptica, wild lily of the valley |
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| sleaze | (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: cheapness, tackiness, tat |
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| sleaziness | (noun) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing | Synonyms: manginess, seediness, shabbiness |
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| (noun) morally dishonorable | - |
| sublease | (noun) a lease from one lessee to another | Synonyms: sublet |
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| sweetleaf | (noun) small yellowwood tree of southern United States having small fragrant white flowers; leaves and bark yield a yellow dye | Synonyms: Symplocus tinctoria |
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| tableau | (noun) any dramatic scene | - |
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| (noun) a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting) | Synonyms: tableau vivant |
| tirolean | (noun) soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade | Synonyms: tyrolean |
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| trochlear | (noun) either of the two cranial nerves on either side that control the superior oblique muscles of the eyes | Synonyms: fourth cranial nerve, trochlear nerve, trochlearis |
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| trochlearis | (noun) either of the two cranial nerves on either side that control the superior oblique muscles of the eyes | Synonyms: fourth cranial nerve, trochlear, trochlear nerve |
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| tyrolean | (noun) soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade | Synonyms: tirolean |
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| uncleanliness | (noun) lack of cleanly habits | - |
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| uncleanness | (noun) the state of being unsanitary | Synonyms: dirtiness |
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| unclearness | (noun) incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear | - |
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| unmalleability | (noun) a lack of malleability | - |
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| unpleasantness | (noun) the quality of giving displeasure | - |
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| (noun) the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling | - |
| unpleasingness | (noun) the quality of being unpleasant to to the senses | - |
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| velvetleaf | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetweed |
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| (noun) arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States | Synonyms: Lavatera arborea, tree mallow, velvet-leaf |
| waterleaf | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Hydrophyllum | - |
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