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 |