| lightwood | (noun) tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber | Synonyms: Acacia melanoxylon |
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| ligne | (noun) a linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons | - |
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| lignin | (noun) a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants | - |
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| lignite | (noun) intermediate between peat and bituminous coal | Synonyms: brown coal, wood coal |
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| lignosae | (noun) a category in some early taxonomies | - |
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| lignum | (noun) woody tissue | - |
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| ligule | (noun) (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap | - |
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| like | (noun) a kind of person | Synonyms: ilk |
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| (noun) a similar kind | Synonyms: the like, the likes of |
| likelihood | (noun) the probability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: likeliness |
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| likeliness | (noun) the probability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: likelihood |
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| likeness | (noun) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing | Synonyms: semblance |
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| (noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: alikeness, similitude |
| likening | (noun) the act of comparing similarities | - |
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| liking | (noun) a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment | - |
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| likuta | (noun) 100 makuta equal 1 zaire in Zaire | - |
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| lilac | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers | - |
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| lilangeni | (noun) the basic unit of money in Swaziland; equal to 100 cents | - |
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| liliopsid | (noun) a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside | Synonyms: endogen, monocot, monocotyledon |
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| lilliputian | (noun) a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian) | - |
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| lilt | (noun) a jaunty rhythm in music | Synonyms: swing |
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| lily | (noun) any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers | - |
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| lilyturf | (noun) Asiatic perennial tufted herb with grasslike evergreen foliage and clusters of dark mauve grapelike flowers; grown as ground cover | Synonyms: lily turf, Liriope muscari |
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| liman | (noun) a long narrow lagoon near the mouth of a river | - |
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| limb | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, branch |
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| (noun) the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles | - |
| (noun) either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip | - |
| (noun) one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm, leg, wing, flipper | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet | - |
| (noun) any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree | Synonyms: tree branch |
| limber | (noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson | - |
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| limbers | (noun) a channel or gutter on either side of a ship's keelson; carries bilge water into the pump well | - |
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| limbo | (noun) (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals) | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary place for lost or neglected things | - |
| (noun) the state of being disregarded or forgotten | Synonyms: oblivion |
| limbus | (noun) a border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished by color or structure | - |
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| lime | (noun) the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees | - |
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| (noun) any of various related trees bearing limes | Synonyms: Citrus aurantifolia, lime tree |
| (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: basswood, lime tree, linden, linden tree |
| (noun) a caustic substance produced by heating limestone | Synonyms: calcium hydrate, calcium hydroxide, caustic lime, hydrated lime, lime hydrate, slaked lime |
| (noun) a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide | Synonyms: burnt lime, calcined lime, calcium oxide, calx, fluxing lime, quicklime, unslaked lime |
| (noun) a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds | Synonyms: birdlime |
| limeade | (noun) sweetened beverage of lime juice and water | - |
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| limekiln | (noun) a kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime | - |
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| limelight | (noun) a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting | Synonyms: calcium light |
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| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, public eye, spotlight |
| limen | (noun) the smallest detectable sensation | Synonyms: threshold |
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| limerick | (noun) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
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| limestone | (noun) a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals | - |
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| limewater | (noun) solution of calcium hydroxide in water used as an antacid | - |
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| limey | (noun) a man of English descent | Synonyms: John Bull |
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| limit | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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| (noun) the boundary of a specific area | Synonyms: demarcation, demarcation line |
| (noun) as far as something can go | - |
| (noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limitation |
| (noun) the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity | Synonyms: limit point, point of accumulation |
| (noun) final or latest limiting point | Synonyms: terminal point, terminus ad quem |
| limitation | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: restriction |
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| (noun) the quality of being limited or restricted | - |
| (noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: restriction |
| (noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limit |
| (noun) (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought | - |
| limited | (noun) public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops | Synonyms: express |
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| limitedness | (noun) The state or characteristic of having certain (often specified) limits placed upon it. | - |
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| limiter | (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: clipper |
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| limiting | (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: modification, qualifying |
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| limitlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, unboundedness |
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| limner | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: portrait painter, portraitist, portrayer |
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| limnimeter | (noun) a tide gage used for measuring lake level variations. | - |
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| limning | (noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: delineation, depiction, line drawing |
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| limnologist | (noun) a specialist in the study of freshwater ponds and lakes | - |
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| limnology | (noun) the scientific study of bodies of fresh water for their biological and physical and geological properties | - |
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| limo | (noun) large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur | Synonyms: limousine |
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| limonene | (noun) a liquid terpene with a lemon odor; found in lemons and oranges and other essential oils | - |
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| limonite | (noun) a widely occurring iron oxide ore; a mixture of goethite and hematite and lepidocrocite | - |
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| limousine | (noun) large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur | Synonyms: limo |
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| limp | (noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hitch, hobble |
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| limpa | (noun) a rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar | - |
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| limper | (noun) someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait | Synonyms: hobbler |
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| limpet | (noun) any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas | - |
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| (noun) mollusk with a low conical shell | - |
| limpidity | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: pellucidity, pellucidness |
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| (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
| limping | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, gimpiness, lameness |
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| limpkin | (noun) wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call | Synonyms: Aramus pictus |
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| limpness | (noun) a flabby softness | Synonyms: flabbiness, flaccidity |
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| linac | (noun) ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path | Synonyms: linear accelerator |
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| linage | (noun) a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted | Synonyms: lineage |
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| (noun) the number of lines in a piece of printed material | Synonyms: lineage |
| linalool | (noun) a colorless fragrant liquid found in many essential oils | - |
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| linchpin | (noun) pin inserted through an axletree to hold a wheel on | Synonyms: lynchpin |
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| (noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: anchor, backbone, keystone, lynchpin, mainstay |
| lincomycin | (noun) antibiotic (trade name Lincocin) obtained from a streptomyces bacterium and used in the treatment of certain penicillin-resistant infections | Synonyms: Lincocin |
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| lindane | (noun) a white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide | - |
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| linden | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: basswood, lime, lime tree, linden tree |
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| (noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: basswood |
| lindy | (noun) an energetic American dance that was popular in the 1930s (probably named for the aviator Charles Lindbergh) | Synonyms: lindy hop |
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| line | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: business, job, line of work, occupation |
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| (noun) acting in conformity | - |
| (noun) something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible | - |
| (noun) a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power | Synonyms: cable, transmission line |
| (noun) the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed | Synonyms: rail line, railway line |
| (noun) a commercial organization serving as a common carrier | - |
| (noun) a pipe used to transport liquids or gases | Synonyms: pipeline |
| (noun) a telephone connection | Synonyms: phone line, subscriber line, telephone circuit, telephone line |
| (noun) a particular kind of product or merchandise | Synonyms: business line, line of business, line of merchandise, line of products, product line |
| (noun) mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it | Synonyms: assembly line, production line |
| (noun) a conceptual separation or distinction | Synonyms: contrast, demarcation, dividing line |
| (noun) a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning | Synonyms: argument, argumentation, line of reasoning, logical argument |
| (noun) a mark that is long relative to its width | - |
| (noun) text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen | - |
| (noun) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence | Synonyms: air, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, tune |
| (noun) a short personal letter | Synonyms: billet, note, short letter |
| (noun) (often plural) a means of communication or access | Synonyms: channel, communication channel |
| (noun) persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress | - |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) a formation of people or things one behind another | - |
| (noun) a connected series of events or actions or developments | Synonyms: course |
| (noun) a formation of people or things one beside another | - |
| (noun) a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent | - |
| (noun) in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area | - |
| (noun) a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops) | - |
| (noun) a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum | - |
| (noun) the maximum credit that a customer is allowed | Synonyms: bank line, credit line, line of credit, personal credit line, personal line of credit |
| (noun) space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising | Synonyms: agate line |
| (noun) a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point | - |
| (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, furrow, seam, wrinkle |
| lineage | (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: ancestry, derivation, filiation |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted | Synonyms: linage |
| (noun) the number of lines in a piece of printed material | Synonyms: linage |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: descent, filiation, line of descent |
| lineament | (noun) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin | Synonyms: feature |
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| (noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | Synonyms: character, quality |
| linearity | (noun) the property of having one dimension | Synonyms: one-dimensionality |
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| lineation | (noun) the act of marking or outlining with lines | - |
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| (noun) the line that appears to bound an object | Synonyms: outline |
| linebacker | (noun) (American football) the position of a defensive football player who plays close behind the line of scrimmage | Synonyms: line backer |
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| (noun) a defensive football player who takes a position close behind the linemen | Synonyms: line backer |
| linecut | (noun) engraving consisting of a block that has been etched or engraved | Synonyms: line block, line engraving |
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| (noun) a print obtained from a line drawing | Synonyms: line engraving |
| lineman | (noun) (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage | - |
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| (noun) one of the players on the line of scrimmage | - |
| (noun) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | Synonyms: electrician, linesman |
| (noun) the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole | - |
| linemen | (noun) the football players who line up on the line of scrimmage | - |
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| linen | (noun) white goods or clothing made with linen cloth | - |
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| (noun) a fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant | - |
| (noun) a high-quality paper made of linen fibers or with a linen finish | Synonyms: linen paper |
| linendraper | (noun) a retail dealer in yard goods | - |
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| liner | (noun) (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter | Synonyms: line drive |
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| (noun) a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule) | Synonyms: ocean liner |
| (noun) a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment | Synonyms: lining |
| (noun) a protective covering that protects an inside surface | Synonyms: lining |
| linesman | (noun) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | Synonyms: electrician, lineman |
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| (noun) official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside) | - |
| lineup | (noun) (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat | Synonyms: batting order, card |
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| (noun) the schedule of programs for a particular period | - |
| (noun) a line of persons arranged by police for inspection or identification | Synonyms: identity parade, police lineup |
| ling | (noun) elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried | Synonyms: Molva molva |
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| (noun) American hakes | - |
| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, eelpout, Lota lota |
| (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, heather, Scots heather |
| (noun) water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs | Synonyms: ling ko, Trapa bicornis |
| lingam | (noun) the Hindu phallic symbol of Siva | - |
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| lingberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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| lingcod | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings | Synonyms: Ophiodon elongatus |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States | - |
| lingenberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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| lingerer | (noun) someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place | Synonyms: loiterer |
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| lingerie | (noun) women's underwear and nightclothes | Synonyms: intimate apparel |
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| lingering | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: tarriance |
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| lingo | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| lingonberry | (noun) tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller | Synonyms: cowberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry |
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| (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
| lingua | (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: clapper, glossa, tongue |
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| lingual | (noun) a consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs | - |
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| linguica | (noun) a highly seasoned Portuguese pork sausage flavored with garlic and onions | - |
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| linguine | (noun) pasta in long slender flat strips | Synonyms: linguini |
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| linguini | (noun) pasta in long slender flat strips | Synonyms: linguine |
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| linguist | (noun) a person who speaks more than one language | Synonyms: polyglot |
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| (noun) a specialist in linguistics | Synonyms: linguistic scientist |
| linguistics | (noun) the scientific study of language | - |
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| (noun) the humanistic study of language and literature | Synonyms: philology |
| liniment | (noun) a medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain | Synonyms: embrocation |
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