| legateship | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legation |
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| legation | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legateship |
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| (noun) a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister | Synonyms: foreign mission |
| legend | (noun) brief description accompanying an illustration | Synonyms: caption |
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| (noun) a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events | Synonyms: fable |
| leger | (noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book, book of account, ledger |
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| legerdemain | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| legerity | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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| legging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, leging |
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| leghorn | (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: boater, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat |
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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 | - |
| legs | (noun) staying power | - |
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| legume | (noun) the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) | - |
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| (noun) an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae | Synonyms: leguminous plant |
| (noun) the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case | - |
| lei | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, garland, wreath |
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| leiomyoma | (noun) benign tumor of smooth muscle (usually in the uterus or digestive tract) | - |
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| leiomyosarcoma | (noun) sarcoma of smooth muscle; occurs most often digestive tract or uterus or bladder or prostate | - |
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| leipoa | (noun) Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds | Synonyms: Leipoa ocellata, lowan, mallee fowl |
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| leishmaniasis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniosis |
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| leishmaniosis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniasis |
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| leister | (noun) a spear with three or more prongs; used for spearing fish (especially salmon) | - |
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| leisure | (noun) freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity | - |
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| (noun) time available for ease and relaxation | Synonyms: leisure time |
| leisureliness | (noun) slowness by virtue of being leisurely | - |
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| leitmotif | (noun) a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner's operas) | Synonyms: leitmotiv |
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| leitmotiv | (noun) a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner's operas) | Synonyms: leitmotif |
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| lek | (noun) the basic unit of money in Albania | - |
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| lekvar | (noun) a sweet filling made of prunes or apricots | - |
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| lemanderin | (noun) hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel | Synonyms: Citrus limonia, rangpur, rangpur lime |
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| lemma | (noun) a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition | - |
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| (noun) the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry | - |
| (noun) the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae | Synonyms: flowering glume |
| lemming | (noun) any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution | - |
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| lemniscate | (noun) any of several plane algebraic curves in the shape of a figure eight | - |
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| lemniscus | (noun) a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus | Synonyms: fillet |
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| lemon | (noun) an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory | Synonyms: stinker |
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| (noun) a strong yellow color | Synonyms: gamboge, lemon yellow, maize |
| (noun) a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons | - |
| (noun) yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh | - |
| (noun) a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit | Synonyms: Citrus limon, lemon tree |
| lemonade | (noun) sweetened beverage of diluted lemon juice | - |
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| lemongrass | (noun) a tropical grass native to India and Sri Lanka | Synonyms: lemon grass |
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| (noun) an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines | Synonyms: lemon grass, lemongrass oil |
| lemonwood | (noun) South African evergreen having hard tough wood | Synonyms: lemon-wood, lemon-wood tree, lemonwood tree, Psychotria capensis |
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| (noun) hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods | - |
| lempira | (noun) the basic unit of money in Honduras; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| lemur | (noun) large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails | - |
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| lender | (noun) someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters | Synonyms: loaner |
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| lending | (noun) disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Synonyms: loaning |
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| length | (noun) a section of something that is long and narrow | - |
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| (noun) the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place | - |
| (noun) continuance in time | Synonyms: duration |
| (noun) the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end | - |
| (noun) size of the gap between two places | Synonyms: distance |
| lengthening | (noun) the act of prolonging something | Synonyms: perpetuation, prolongation, protraction |
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| lengthiness | (noun) amount or degree or range to which something extends | Synonyms: extension, prolongation |
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| (noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration | Synonyms: continuation, prolongation, protraction |
| lenience | (noun) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers | Synonyms: leniency |
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| (noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: leniency, lenity, mildness |
| (noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: indulgence, leniency |
| leniency | (noun) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers | Synonyms: lenience |
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| (noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: lenience, lenity, mildness |
| (noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: indulgence, lenience |
| lenitive | (noun) remedy that eases pain and discomfort | - |
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| lenity | (noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: lenience, leniency, mildness |
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| lens | (noun) a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images | Synonyms: lens system, lense |
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| (noun) electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons | Synonyms: electron lens |
| (noun) biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina | Synonyms: crystalline lens, lens of the eye |
| (noun) (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood | - |
| lense | (noun) a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images | Synonyms: lens, lens system |
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| lensman | (noun) someone who takes photographs professionally | Synonyms: photographer |
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| lenticel | (noun) one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue | - |
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| lentigo | (noun) a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin | Synonyms: freckle |
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| lentil | (noun) round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food | - |
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| (noun) widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder | Synonyms: Lens culinaris, lentil plant |
| (noun) the fruit or seed of a lentil plant | - |
| lentisk | (noun) an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin | Synonyms: mastic, mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus |
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| leoncita | (noun) small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail | Synonyms: lion marmoset, lion monkey, tamarin |
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| leone | (noun) the basic unit of money in Sierra Leone; equal to 100 cents | - |
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| leopard | (noun) large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots | Synonyms: Panthera pardus |
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| (noun) the pelt of a leopard | - |
| leopardbane | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Doronicum having alternate often clasping stem leaves cultivated for their long stalks of yellow flower heads | Synonyms: leopard's-bane |
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| leopardess | (noun) female leopard | - |
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| leotard | (noun) a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance | Synonyms: body suit, cat suit, unitard |
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| leotards | (noun) skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls | Synonyms: tights |
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| leper | (noun) a pariah who is avoided by others | - |
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| (noun) a person afflicted with leprosy | Synonyms: lazar |
| lepidobotrys | (noun) African tree often classified in other families; similar to the Costa Rican caracolito in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds | - |
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| lepidocrocite | (noun) a red to reddish brown mineral consisting of iron oxide hydroxide; often found in iron ores together with goethite | - |
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| lepidolite | (noun) a mineral of the mica group; an important source of lithium | - |
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| lepidomelane | (noun) a mica that is a biotite containing iron | - |
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| lepidophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of snakes | - |
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| lepidopteran | (noun) insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales | Synonyms: lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect |
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| lepidopterist | (noun) an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths | Synonyms: butterfly collector, lepidopterologist |
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| lepidopterologist | (noun) an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths | Synonyms: butterfly collector, lepidopterist |
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| lepidopterology | (noun) the branch of entomology dealing with Lepidoptera | Synonyms: lepidoptery |
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| lepidopteron | (noun) insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales | Synonyms: lepidopteran, lepidopterous insect |
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| lepidoptery | (noun) the branch of entomology dealing with Lepidoptera | Synonyms: lepidopterology |
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| lepiota | (noun) any fungus of the genus Lepiota | - |
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| leporid | (noun) rabbits and hares | Synonyms: leporid mammal |
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| leporide | (noun) red breed of domestic rabbits; hybrid between Old World rabbit and hare | Synonyms: Belgian hare |
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| leppy | (noun) motherless calf in a range herd of cattle | Synonyms: dogie, dogy |
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| leprechaun | (noun) a mischievous elf in Irish folklore | - |
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| leprosy | (noun) chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae | Synonyms: Hansen's disease |
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| leptocephalus | (noun) slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes | - |
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| leptodactylid | (noun) toothed frogs: terrestrial or aquatic or arboreal | Synonyms: leptodactylid frog |
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| leptomeninges | (noun) the two innermost layers of the meninges; cerebrospinal fluid circulates between these innermost layers | - |
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| leptomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the leptomeninges | - |
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| lepton | (noun) an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0 | - |
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| (noun) 100 lepta equal 1 drachma in Greece | - |
| leptospira | (noun) important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever | - |
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| leptospirosis | (noun) an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever | Synonyms: swamp fever |
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| leptosporangium | (noun) a sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell; characteristic of the Filicales or of almost all modern ferns | - |
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| leptotene | (noun) the first stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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| leresis | (noun) rambling talkativeness (especially in the aged) | - |
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| lerot | (noun) dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa | - |
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| lesbian | (noun) a female homosexual | Synonyms: gay woman, tribade |
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