| lordolatry | (noun) the worship of a lord because of his rank or title | - |
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| lordosis | (noun) an abnormal inward (forward) curvature of the vertebral column | Synonyms: hollow-back |
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| lordship | (noun) the authority of a lord | - |
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| lore | (noun) knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote | Synonyms: traditional knowledge |
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| lorgnette | (noun) eyeglasses that are held to the eyes with a long handle | - |
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| lorica | (noun) a hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists, for example) | - |
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| lorikeet | (noun) any of various small lories | - |
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| lorry | (noun) a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides | Synonyms: camion |
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| (noun) a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides | - |
| lory | (noun) small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits | - |
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| loser | (noun) a gambler who loses a bet | - |
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| (noun) a contestant who loses the contest | Synonyms: also-ran |
| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: failure, nonstarter, unsuccessful person |
| losings | (noun) something lost (especially money lost at gambling) | Synonyms: losses |
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| loss | (noun) the act of losing someone or something | - |
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| (noun) the disadvantage that results from losing something | Synonyms: deprivation |
| (noun) military personnel lost by death or capture | Synonyms: personnel casualty |
| (noun) the experience of losing a loved one | - |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, passing, release |
| (noun) the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue | Synonyms: red, red ink |
| (noun) something that is lost | - |
| (noun) gradual decline in amount or activity | - |
| losses | (noun) something lost (especially money lost at gambling) | Synonyms: losings |
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| lost | (noun) people who are destined to die soon | Synonyms: doomed |
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| lot | (noun) anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random | Synonyms: draw |
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| (noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: band, circle, set |
| (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: bunch, caboodle |
| (noun) a parcel of land having fixed boundaries | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, luck, portion |
| lota | (noun) a globular water bottle used in Asia | - |
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| loti | (noun) the basic unit of money in Lesotho | - |
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| lotion | (noun) any of various cosmetic preparations that are applied to the skin | - |
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| (noun) liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin | Synonyms: application |
| lots | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| lotte | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, monkfish |
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| lottery | (noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: drawing |
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| (noun) something that is regarded as a chance event | - |
| lotto | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, bingo, keno |
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| lotus | (noun) white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians | Synonyms: Egyptian water lily, Nymphaea lotus, white lily, white lotus |
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| (noun) native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers | Synonyms: Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, sacred lotus |
| lotusland | (noun) an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence | Synonyms: lotus land |
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| loudmouth | (noun) a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetly | Synonyms: blusterer |
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| loudness | (noun) the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) | Synonyms: intensity, volume |
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| (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
| loudspeaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| lough | (noun) Irish word for a lake | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland | - |
| lounge | (noun) a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait | Synonyms: waiting area, waiting room |
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| (noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person | Synonyms: couch, sofa |
| lounger | (noun) an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it | Synonyms: recliner, reclining chair |
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| (noun) an article of clothing designed for comfort and leisure wear | - |
| (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, mope |
| loungewear | (noun) clothing suitable for relaxation | - |
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| loupe | (noun) small magnifying glass (usually set in an eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists | Synonyms: jeweler's loupe |
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| louse | (noun) wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals | Synonyms: sucking louse |
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| (noun) any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants | Synonyms: plant louse |
| (noun) wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds | Synonyms: bird louse, biting louse |
| (noun) a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | Synonyms: dirt ball, insect, worm |
| lousiness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, wickedness |
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| (noun) infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching | Synonyms: pediculosis |
| lout | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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| loutishness | (noun) The state or quality of behaving like a troublemaker, often violent; like a rude violent person; like a yob. | - |
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| louvar | (noun) large silvery fish found worldwide in warm seas but nowhere common; resembles a whale and feeds on plankton | Synonyms: Luvarus imperialis |
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| louver | (noun) one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain | Synonyms: fin, louvre |
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| louvre | (noun) one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain | Synonyms: fin, louver |
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| lovage | (noun) stalks eaten like celery or candied like angelica; seeds used for flavoring or pickled like capers | - |
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| (noun) herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds | Synonyms: Levisticum officinale |
| lovastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Mevacor) to reduce blood cholesterol levels; used when dietary changes have proved inadequate | Synonyms: Mevacor |
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| love | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love life, lovemaking, making love, sexual love |
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| (noun) any object of warm affection or devotion | Synonyms: passion |
| (noun) a strong positive emotion of regard and affection | - |
| (noun) a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction | Synonyms: erotic love, sexual love |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, sweetheart, sweetie |
| (noun) a score of zero in tennis or squash | - |
| lovebird | (noun) small African parrot noted for showing affection for their mates | - |
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| (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
| loveliness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: beauteousness, comeliness, fairness |
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| lovely | (noun) a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model | Synonyms: cover girl, pin-up |
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| lovemaking | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love, love life, making love, sexual love |
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| lover | (noun) a person who loves someone or is loved by someone | - |
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| (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, devotee, fan |
| (noun) a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage | - |
| loveseat | (noun) small sofa that seats two people | Synonyms: love seat, tete-a-tete, vis-a-vis |
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| lovesickness | (noun) a pining for a loved one | - |
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| lovingness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: affectionateness, fondness, warmth |
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| (noun) a loving feeling | Synonyms: caring |
| low | (noun) the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving | Synonyms: first, first gear, low gear |
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| (noun) a low level or position or degree | - |
| (noun) an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation | Synonyms: depression |
| lowan | (noun) Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds | Synonyms: leipoa, Leipoa ocellata, mallee fowl |
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| lowboy | (noun) a low chest or table with drawers and supported on four legs | - |
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| lowbrow | (noun) a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits | Synonyms: anti-intellectual, philistine |
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| lower | (noun) the lower of two berths | Synonyms: lower berth |
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| lowercase | (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter |
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| lowerclassman | (noun) an undergraduate who is not yet a senior | Synonyms: underclassman |
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| lowering | (noun) the act of causing to become less | - |
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| (noun) the act of causing something to move to a lower level | Synonyms: letting down |
| lowland | (noun) low level country | - |
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| lowlife | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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| lowliness | (noun) a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation | Synonyms: low status, lowness |
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| (noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, obscureness, unimportance |
| lowness | (noun) the quality of being low; lacking height | - |
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| (noun) a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.) | - |
| (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, dispiritedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness |
| (noun) a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation | Synonyms: low status, lowliness |
| lox | (noun) brine-cured salmon that is lightly smoked | - |
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| loxapine | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade name Loxitane) used to treat schizophrenia | Synonyms: Loxitane |
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| loxodrome | (noun) a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction | Synonyms: rhumb, rhumb line |
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| loyalist | (noun) a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt) | Synonyms: stalwart |
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| loyalty | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, commitment, dedication |
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| (noun) the quality of being loyal | Synonyms: trueness |
| (noun) feelings of allegiance | - |
| lozenge | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: pill, tab, tablet |
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| (noun) a small aromatic or medicated candy | - |