| allegiance | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: commitment, dedication, loyalty |
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| (noun) the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) | Synonyms: fealty |
| aquilegia | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilege, columbine |
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| collegian | (noun) a student (or former student) at a college or university | Synonyms: college boy, college man |
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| cystoplegia | (noun) paralysis of the urinary bladder | Synonyms: cystoparalysis |
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| diplegia | (noun) paralysis of corresponding parts on both sides of the body | - |
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| elegist | (noun) the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead | - |
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| florilegium | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: garland, miscellany |
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| hemiplegia | (noun) paralysis of one side of the body | Synonyms: unilateral paralysis |
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| hemiplegic | (noun) a person who has hemiplegia (is paralyzed on one side of the body) | - |
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| illegibility | (noun) the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered | - |
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| illegitimacy | (noun) unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law | - |
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| (noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, bastardy |
| illegitimate | (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: bastard, by-blow, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
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| legibility | (noun) a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read | Synonyms: readability |
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| (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: discernability |
| leging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, legging |
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| legion | (noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: horde, host |
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| (noun) a large military unit | - |
| (noun) association of ex-servicemen | - |
| (noun) archaic terms for army | Synonyms: host |
| legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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| legionella | (noun) the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease | Synonyms: Legionella pneumophilia |
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| legionnaire | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionary |
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| legislating | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislation |
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| legislation | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislating |
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| (noun) law enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: statute law |
| legislator | (noun) someone who makes or enacts laws | - |
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| legislatorship | (noun) the office of legislator | - |
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| legislature | (noun) persons who make or amend or repeal laws | Synonyms: general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body |
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| legitimacy | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law | - |
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| (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: authenticity, genuineness |
| legitimation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legalization |
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| (noun) the act of rendering a person legitimate | - |
| monoplegia | (noun) paralysis of a single limb | - |
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| ophthalmoplegia | (noun) paralysis of the motor nerves of the eye | - |
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| paraplegia | (noun) paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma) | - |
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| paraplegic | (noun) a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down) | - |
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| quadriplegia | (noun) paralysis of both arms and both legs | - |
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| quadriplegic | (noun) a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs | - |
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| sacrilegiousness | (noun) profaneness by virtue of committing sacrilege | - |
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