| 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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