| lea | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, ley, pasture, pasture land, pastureland |
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| (noun) a unit of length of thread or yarn | - |
| leach | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leaching |
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| leaching | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leach |
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| lead | (noun) the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge | - |
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| (noun) a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase `take the lead') | - |
| (noun) a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire | Synonyms: booster cable, jumper cable, jumper lead |
| (noun) thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing | Synonyms: leading |
| (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: leash, tether |
| (noun) the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: spark advance |
| (noun) an advantage held by a competitor in a race | - |
| (noun) evidence pointing to a possible solution | Synonyms: track, trail |
| (noun) a news story of major importance | Synonyms: lead story |
| (noun) the introductory section of a story | Synonyms: lead-in, lede |
| (noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, hint, steer, tip, wind |
| (noun) (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base | - |
| (noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: principal, star |
| (noun) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning | - |
| (noun) the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile) | - |
| (noun) mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil | Synonyms: pencil lead |
| (noun) a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey | Synonyms: atomic number 82, Pb |
| leader | (noun) a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers | Synonyms: drawing card, loss leader |
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| (noun) a person who rules or guides or inspires others | - |
| leaders | (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leadership |
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| leadership | (noun) the activity of leading | Synonyms: leading |
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| (noun) the ability to lead | - |
| (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leaders |
| (noun) the status of a leader | - |
| leading | (noun) thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing | Synonyms: lead |
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| (noun) the activity of leading | Synonyms: leadership |
| leadplant | (noun) shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; thought to indicate the presence of lead ore | Synonyms: Amorpha canescens, lead plant |
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| leadwort | (noun) a plant of the genus Plumbago with blue flowers | Synonyms: Plumbago europaea |
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| leaf | (noun) hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door) | - |
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| (noun) a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book) | Synonyms: folio |
| (noun) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants | Synonyms: foliage, leafage |
| leafage | (noun) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants | Synonyms: foliage, leaf |
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| leafhopper | (noun) small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants | - |
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| leafing | (noun) (botany) the process of forming leaves | Synonyms: foliation |
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| leaflet | (noun) a thin triangular flap of a heart valve | Synonyms: cusp |
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| (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, folder, pamphlet |
| (noun) part of a compound leaf | - |
| leafstalk | (noun) the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf | Synonyms: petiole |
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| league | (noun) an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action | - |
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| (noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: conference |
| (noun) an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles) | - |
| leak | (noun) unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information | Synonyms: news leak |
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| (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leakage, outflow |
| (noun) an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape | - |
| (noun) a euphemism for urination | Synonyms: making water, passing water, wetting |
| (noun) soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi | - |
| leakage | (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leak, outflow |
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| leaker | (noun) a surreptitious informant | - |
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| leakiness | (noun) the condition of permitting leaks or leakage | - |
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| lean | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, leaning, list, tilt |
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| leaner | (noun) (horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake | - |
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| leaning | (noun) the act of deviating from a vertical position | - |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, list, tilt |
| (noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: proclivity, propensity |
| (noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: propensity, tendency |
| leanness | (noun) the property of having little body fat | Synonyms: spareness, thinness |
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| (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
| leap | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leaping, saltation, spring |
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| (noun) the distance leaped (or to be leaped) | - |
| (noun) an abrupt transition | Synonyms: jump, saltation |
| (noun) a sudden and decisive increase | Synonyms: jump |
| leaper | (noun) someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) | Synonyms: bounder |
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| leapfrog | (noun) a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over | - |
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| (noun) advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors | - |
| leaping | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, saltation, spring |
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| learnedness | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learning, scholarship |
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| learner | (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, scholar, student |
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| (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, prentice |
| learning | (noun) the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge | Synonyms: acquisition |
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| (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, scholarship |
| lease | (noun) a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment | - |
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| (noun) property that is leased or rented out or let | Synonyms: letting, rental |
| (noun) the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect | Synonyms: term of a contract |
| leasehold | (noun) land or property held under a lease | - |
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| leaseholder | (noun) a tenant who holds a lease | Synonyms: lessee |
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| leash | (noun) a figurative restraint | Synonyms: collar |
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| (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: lead, tether |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| least | (noun) something that is of no importance | - |
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| leather | (noun) an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning | - |
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| leatherback | (noun) wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle | Synonyms: Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle |
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| 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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| lebensraum | (noun) space sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding | Synonyms: living space |
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| lecanopteris | (noun) any of several bizarre ferns of the genus Lecanopteris having swollen hollow rhizomes that provide homes for symbiotic ants | - |
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| lecanora | (noun) any lichen of the genus Lecanora; some used in dyeing; some used for food | - |
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| lech | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lecher, letch, satyr |
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| lechatelierite | (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: crystal, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
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| lecher | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lech, letch, satyr |
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| lecherousness | (noun) a strong sexual desire | Synonyms: lust, lustfulness |
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| lechery | (noun) unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity | - |
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| lechwe | (noun) tawny-colored African antelope inhabiting wet grassy plains; a threatened species | Synonyms: Kobus leche |
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| lecithin | (noun) a yellow phospholipid essential for the metabolism of fats; found in egg yolk and in many plant and animal cells; used commercially as an emulsifier | - |
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| lectern | (noun) desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer | Synonyms: reading desk |
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| lectin | (noun) any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies but are not antibodies in that they are not evoked by an antigenic stimulus | - |
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| lector | (noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lecturer, reader |
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| (noun) someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: reader |
| lecture | (noun) teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) | Synonyms: lecturing |
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| (noun) a speech that is open to the public | Synonyms: public lecture, talk |
| (noun) a lengthy rebuke | Synonyms: speech, talking to |
| lecturer | (noun) someone who lectures professionally | - |
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| (noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lector, reader |
| lectureship | (noun) the post of lecturer | - |
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| lecturing | (noun) teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) | Synonyms: lecture |
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| lede | (noun) the introductory section of a story | Synonyms: lead-in, lead |
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| lederhosen | (noun) leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria | - |
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| ledge | (noun) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water | Synonyms: shelf |
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| ledgeman | (noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: breaker |
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| ledger | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: daybook |
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| (noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book, book of account, leger |
| lee | (noun) the side of something that is sheltered from the wind | Synonyms: lee side, leeward |
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| leech | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, hirudinean |
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| (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: parasite, sponge, sponger |
| leechee | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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| leek | (noun) related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves | - |
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| (noun) plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum | Synonyms: Allium porrum, scallion |
| leer | (noun) a suggestive or sneering look or grin | - |
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| (noun) a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls | Synonyms: sneer |
| lees | (noun) the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage | - |
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| leeward | (noun) the side of something that is sheltered from the wind | Synonyms: lee, lee side |
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| (noun) the direction in which the wind is blowing | - |
| leeway | (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: allowance, margin, tolerance |
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| (noun) (of a ship or plane) sideways drift | - |
| leflunomide | (noun) an anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally; can slow the progression of rheumatoid arthritis by slowing the proliferation of white blood cells which reduces inflammation in the synovium | Synonyms: Arava |
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| left | (noun) a turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east | - |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left | Synonyms: left field, leftfield |
| (noun) the hand that is on the left side of the body | Synonyms: left hand |
| (noun) those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare | Synonyms: left wing |
| (noun) location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east | - |
| leftfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate) | Synonyms: left field |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left | Synonyms: left, left field |
| lefthander | (noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefty, southpaw |
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| leftism | (noun) the ideology of the political left; belief in or support of the tenets of the political left | - |
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| leftist | (noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: collectivist, left-winger |
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| leftover | (noun) a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists | Synonyms: remnant |
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| leftovers | (noun) food remaining from a previous meal | - |
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| lefty | (noun) a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right | Synonyms: left-hander, southpaw |
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| (noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefthander, southpaw |
| leg | (noun) a section or portion of a journey or course | Synonyms: stage |
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| (noun) (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack | - |
| (noun) a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg | - |
| (noun) one of the supports for a piece of furniture | - |
| (noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: peg, pegleg, wooden leg |
| (noun) a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle | - |
| (noun) a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion | - |
| (noun) the limb of an animal used for food | - |
| (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: branch, ramification |
| legacy | (noun) (law) a gift of personal property by will | Synonyms: bequest |
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| legalese | (noun) a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law | - |
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| legalisation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalization, legitimation |
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| legalism | (noun) strict conformity to the letter of the law rather than its spirit | - |
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| legality | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute | - |
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| legalization | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legitimation |
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| legate | (noun) a member of a legation | Synonyms: official emissary |
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| legatee | (noun) someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed | - |
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