| lantern | (noun) light in a transparent protective case | - |
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| lanternfish | (noun) small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night | - |
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| lanthanide | (noun) any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71) | Synonyms: lanthanoid, lanthanon, rare-earth element, rare earth |
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| lanthanoid | (noun) any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71) | Synonyms: lanthanide, lanthanon, rare-earth element, rare earth |
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| lanthanon | (noun) any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71) | Synonyms: lanthanide, lanthanoid, rare-earth element, rare earth |
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| lanthanum | (noun) a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth | Synonyms: atomic number 57, La |
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| lanugo | (noun) the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation | - |
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| lanyard | (noun) (nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships | Synonyms: laniard |
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| (noun) a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle | Synonyms: laniard |
| (noun) a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon | Synonyms: laniard |
| lap | (noun) touching with the tongue | Synonyms: lick |
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| (noun) movement once around a course | Synonyms: circle, circuit |
| (noun) a flap that lies over another part | Synonyms: overlap |
| (noun) the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs | Synonyms: lap covering |
| (noun) the upper side of the thighs of a seated person | - |
| (noun) an area of control or responsibility | - |
| laparocele | (noun) hernia through the abdomen | - |
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| laparoscope | (noun) a slender endoscope inserted through an incision in the abdominal wall in order to examine the abdominal organs or to perform minor surgery | - |
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| laparoscopy | (noun) laparotomy performed with a laparoscope that makes a small incision to examine the abdominal cavity (especially the ovaries and Fallopian tubes) | - |
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| laparotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the abdominal wall; often done to examine abdominal organs | - |
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| lapboard | (noun) writing board used on the lap as a table or desk | - |
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| lapdog | (noun) a dog small and tame enough to be held in the lap | - |
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| lapel | (noun) lap at the front of a coat; continuation of the coat collar | - |
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| lapful | (noun) the quantity that can be held in the lap | - |
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| lapidarist | (noun) an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them | Synonyms: lapidary |
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| lapidary | (noun) a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | Synonyms: lapidist |
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| (noun) an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them | Synonyms: lapidarist |
| lapidation | (noun) the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death) | Synonyms: stoning |
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| lapidator | (noun) an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill) | Synonyms: stoner |
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| lapidist | (noun) a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | Synonyms: lapidary |
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| lapin | (noun) castrated male rabbit | - |
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| (noun) the fur of a rabbit | Synonyms: rabbit |
| lappet | (noun) medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars | Synonyms: lappet moth |
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| (noun) a small lap on a garment or headdress | - |
| (noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards | Synonyms: wattle |
| lapping | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: imbrication, overlapping |
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| lapse | (noun) a mistake resulting from inattention | Synonyms: oversight |
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| (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
| (noun) a break or intermission in the occurrence of something | - |
| lapsing | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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| laptop | (noun) a portable computer small enough to use in your lap | Synonyms: laptop computer |
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| lapwing | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, peewit, pewit |
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| larboard | (noun) the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | Synonyms: port |
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| larcener | (noun) a person who commits larceny | Synonyms: larcenist |
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| larcenist | (noun) a person who commits larceny | Synonyms: larcener |
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| larcenous | (noun) having a disposition to steal | Synonyms: thievishness |
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| larceny | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: stealing, theft, thievery, thieving |
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| larch | (noun) any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves | Synonyms: larch tree |
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| (noun) wood of a larch tree | - |
| lard | (noun) soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog | - |
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| larder | (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: buttery, pantry |
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| (noun) a supply of food especially for a household | - |
| large | (noun) a garment size for a large person | - |
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| largemouth | (noun) a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye | Synonyms: largemouth bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed bass, largemouthed black bass, Micropterus salmoides |
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| largeness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: bigness |
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| (noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: extensiveness |
| (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: pretension, pretentiousness |
| (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, comprehensiveness |
| largess | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largesse, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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| (noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largesse |
| largesse | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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| (noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largess |
| larghetto | (noun) (music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio | - |
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| largo | (noun) (music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner | - |
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| lari | (noun) the basic unit of money in Georgia | - |
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| lariat | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lasso, reata, riata |
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| larid | (noun) long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family | - |
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| lark | (noun) any carefree episode | Synonyms: escapade |
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| (noun) any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing | - |
| (noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | Synonyms: pipit, titlark |
| (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: meadowlark |
| larkspur | (noun) any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium | - |
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| larva | (noun) the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose | - |
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| larvacean | (noun) any member of the class Larvacea | - |
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| larvacide | (noun) an insecticide that kills the larvae of insects | - |
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| larvicide | (noun) a chemical used to kill larval pests | - |
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| laryngectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the larynx (usually to treat cancer of the larynx) | - |
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| laryngismus | (noun) laryngeal spasm caused by the sudden contraction of laryngeal muscles | - |
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| laryngitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx; characterized by hoarseness or loss of voice and coughing | - |
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| laryngopharyngitis | (noun) inflammation of the larynx and pharynx | - |
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| laryngopharynx | (noun) the lower part of the pharynx | - |
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| laryngoscope | (noun) a medical instrument for examining the larynx | - |
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| laryngospasm | (noun) a closure of the larynx that blocks the passage of air to the lungs | - |
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| laryngostenosis | (noun) abnormal narrowing of the larynx | - |
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| laryngotracheobronchitis | (noun) inflammation of the larynx and trachea and bronchial passageways | - |
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| larynx | (noun) a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech | Synonyms: voice box |
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| lasagna | (noun) very wide flat strips of pasta | Synonyms: lasagne |
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| (noun) baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables | Synonyms: lasagne |
| lasagne | (noun) very wide flat strips of pasta | Synonyms: lasagna |
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| (noun) baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables | Synonyms: lasagna |
| lascar | (noun) an East Indian sailor | - |
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| lasciviousness | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lubricity, prurience, pruriency |
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| laser | (noun) an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light | Synonyms: optical maser |
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| lash | (noun) a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object | Synonyms: whip, whiplash |
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| (noun) leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip | Synonyms: thong |
| (noun) any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | Synonyms: cilium, eyelash |
| lasher | (noun) a driver who urges the animals on with lashes of a whip | - |
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| lashing | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flagellation, flogging, tanning, whipping |
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| (noun) rope that is used for fastening something to something else | - |
| lashings | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| lasiocampid | (noun) medium-sized stout-bodied neutral-colored moths with comb-like antennae | Synonyms: lasiocampid moth |
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| lass | (noun) a girl or young woman who is unmarried | Synonyms: jeune fille, lassie, young girl |
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| lassie | (noun) a girl or young woman who is unmarried | Synonyms: jeune fille, lass, young girl |
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| lassitude | (noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: inanition, lethargy, slackness |
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| (noun) a feeling of lack of interest or energy | Synonyms: languor, listlessness |
| (noun) a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) | Synonyms: lethargy, sluggishness |
| lasso | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lariat, reata, riata |
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| last | (noun) a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do | - |
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| (noun) holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes | Synonyms: cobbler's last, shoemaker's last |
| (noun) the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence | Synonyms: end |
| (noun) a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels | - |
| (noun) a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds | - |
| (noun) the last or lowest in an ordering or series | - |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, finish, stopping point |
| (noun) the time at which life ends; continuing until dead | Synonyms: death |
| lastingness | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, enduringness, strength |
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| lat | (noun) a broad flat muscle on either side of the back | Synonyms: latissimus dorsi |
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| latakia | (noun) aromatic Turkish tobacco | - |
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| latanier | (noun) fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region | Synonyms: latanier palm |
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| latch | (noun) catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove | - |
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| (noun) spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key | Synonyms: door latch |
| latchet | (noun) a leather strap or thong used to attach a sandal or shoe to the foot | - |
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| latchkey | (noun) key for raising or drawing back a latch or opening an outside door | - |
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| latchstring | (noun) opener consisting of a string that can be passed through a hole in a door for raising the latch from outside | - |
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| latecomer | (noun) someone who arrives late | - |
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| lateen | (noun) a triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean | Synonyms: lateen sail |
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| latency | (noun) the state of being not yet evident or active | - |
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| (noun) the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it | Synonyms: latent period, reaction time, response time |
| (noun) (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head | Synonyms: rotational latency |
| lateness | (noun) quality of coming late or later in time | - |
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| lateral | (noun) a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer | Synonyms: lateral pass |
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| lateralisation | (noun) localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain | Synonyms: laterality, lateralization |
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| laterality | (noun) superior development of one side of the body | Synonyms: dominance |
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| (noun) the property of using one hand more than the other | Synonyms: handedness |
| (noun) localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain | Synonyms: lateralisation, lateralization |
| lateralization | (noun) localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain | Synonyms: lateralisation, laterality |
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| latergram | (noun) a photo to be posted to Instagram at a later date | - |
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| laterite | (noun) a red soil produced by rock decay; contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides | - |
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| latest | (noun) the most recent news or development | - |
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| latex | (noun) a water-base paint that has a latex binder | Synonyms: latex paint, rubber-base paint |
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| (noun) a milky exudate from certain plants that coagulates on exposure to air | - |
| lath | (noun) a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework | - |
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| lathe | (noun) machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool | - |
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