| alleviant | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviator, palliative |
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| alleviation | (noun) the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Synonyms: easement, easing, relief |
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| (noun) the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced | Synonyms: assuagement, relief |
| alleviator | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, palliative |
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| (noun) a therapist who makes suffering more endurable | - |
| boulevard | (noun) a wide street or thoroughfare | Synonyms: avenue |
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| boulevardier | (noun) a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris) | - |
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| cantilever | (noun) projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only | - |
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| cleverness | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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| (noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: brightness, smartness |
| (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness |
| clevis | (noun) a coupler shaped like the letter U with holes through each end so a bolt or pin can pass through the holes to complete the coupling; used to attach a drawbar to a plow or wagon or trailer etc. | - |
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| elevated | (noun) a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level | Synonyms: el, elevated railroad, elevated railway, overhead railway |
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| elevation | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandisement, aggrandizement |
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| (noun) drawing of an exterior of a structure | - |
| (noun) distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level) | - |
| (noun) (ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump | - |
| (noun) the event of something being raised upward | Synonyms: lift, raising |
| (noun) a raised or elevated geological formation | Synonyms: natural elevation |
| (noun) angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | Synonyms: ALT, altitude, EL |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| elevator | (noun) lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building | Synonyms: lift |
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| (noun) the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend | - |
| eleven | (noun) a team that plays football | Synonyms: football team |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one | Synonyms: 11, XI |
| eleventh | (noun) position 11 in a countable series of things | - |
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| irrelevance | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevancy |
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| irrelevancy | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevance |
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| lev | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bulgaria | - |
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| levallorphan | (noun) drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects | Synonyms: Lorfan |
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| levanter | (noun) an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area | - |
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| levator | (noun) a muscle that serves to lift some body part (as the eyelid or lip) | - |
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| levee | (noun) an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing | - |
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| (noun) a pier that provides a landing place on a river | - |
| (noun) a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court) | - |
| level | (noun) indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid | Synonyms: spirit level |
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| (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, storey, story |
| (noun) a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line | Synonyms: horizontal surface |
| (noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: degree, grade |
| (noun) height above ground | - |
| (noun) an abstract place usually conceived as having depth | Synonyms: layer, stratum |
| (noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, point, stage |
| (noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group | Synonyms: grade, tier |
| leveler | (noun) a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions | Synonyms: leveller |
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| levelheadedness | (noun) the property of having or showing sound judgment. | - |
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| leveling | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, equalization |
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| (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: demolishing, razing, tearing down |
| (noun) changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface | Synonyms: grading |
| leveller | (noun) a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions | Synonyms: leveler |
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| levelness | (noun) The property of being the same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground. | - |
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| lever | (noun) a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum | - |
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| (noun) a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock | Synonyms: lever tumbler |
| (noun) a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum | - |
| leverage | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leveraging |
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| (noun) strategic advantage; power to act effectively | - |
| (noun) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | Synonyms: purchase |
| leveraging | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leverage |
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| leveret | (noun) a young hare especially one in its first year | - |
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| leviathan | (noun) the largest or most massive thing of its kind | - |
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| (noun) monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament | - |
| levirate | (noun) the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line | - |
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| levis | (noun) a popular brand of jeans | Synonyms: Levi's |
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| levitation | (noun) the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means | - |
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| (noun) movement upward in virtue of lightness | - |
| (noun) the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means | - |
| levity | (noun) a manner lacking seriousness | - |
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| (noun) feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness | - |
| levodopa | (noun) the levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa); as a drug it is used to treat Parkinson's disease | Synonyms: Bendopa, Brocadopa, L-dopa, Larodopa |
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| levorotation | (noun) rotation to the left | Synonyms: counterclockwise rotation |
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| levulose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fructose, fruit sugar, laevulose |
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| levy | (noun) the act of drafting into military service | Synonyms: levy en masse |
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| (noun) a charge imposed and collected | - |
| maglev | (noun) high-speed rail technology; train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction | Synonyms: magnetic levitation |
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| malevolence | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolency, malice |
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| (noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malignity |
| malevolency | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolence, malice |
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| mendelevium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol) | Synonyms: atomic number 101, Md, Mv |
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| relevance | (noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: relevancy |
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| relevancy | (noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: relevance |
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| televangelism | (noun) evangelism at a distance by the use of television | - |
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| televangelist | (noun) an evangelist who conducts services on television | - |
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| television | (noun) a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points | Synonyms: television system |
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| (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television receiver, television set, telly, tv, tv set |
| (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: telecasting, TV, video |
| televisuality | (noun) Quality of being of, relating to, or being suitable for broadcast by television. | - |
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