| luau | (noun) an elaborate Hawaiian feast or party (especially one accompanied by traditional foods and entertainment) | - |
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| lubber | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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| (noun) an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage | Synonyms: landlubber, landsman |
| lube | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lubricant, lubricating substance, lubricator |
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| lubricant | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricating substance, lubricator |
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| lubrication | (noun) an application of a lubricant to something | - |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made smooth or slippery by the application of a lubricant | - |
| lubricator | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricant, lubricating substance |
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| lubricity | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, prurience, pruriency |
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| lucerne | (noun) important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop | Synonyms: alfalfa, Medicago sativa |
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| lucidity | (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
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| (noun) a lucid state of mind; not confused | - |
| lucidness | (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, pellucidity |
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| lucifer | (noun) lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction | Synonyms: friction match, match |
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| luciferin | (noun) pigment occurring in luminescent organisms (as fireflies); emits heatless light when undergoing oxidation | - |
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| luck | (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, fortune, hazard |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome | Synonyms: fortune |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, portion |
| luckiness | (noun) an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes | Synonyms: good fortune, good luck |
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| lucrativeness | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: gainfulness, profitability, profitableness |
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| lucre | (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| lucubration | (noun) laborious cogitation | - |
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| (noun) a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation | - |
| ludo | (noun) a simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice | - |
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| ludology | (noun) The study of games and gaming, especially video games. | Synonyms: game studies |
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| lues | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | Synonyms: lues venerea, pox, syph, syphilis |
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| luff | (noun) the act of sailing close to the wind | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast | - |
| luffa | (noun) any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge | Synonyms: dishcloth gourd, rag gourd, sponge gourd, strainer vine |
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| (noun) the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer | Synonyms: loofa, loofah, loufah sponge |
| lug | (noun) marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait | Synonyms: lobworm, lugworm |
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| (noun) a projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something | - |
| (noun) a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast | Synonyms: lugsail |
| luge | (noun) a racing sled for one or two people | - |
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| luger | (noun) someone who races the luge | Synonyms: slider |
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| luggage | (noun) cases used to carry belongings when traveling | Synonyms: baggage |
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| lugger | (noun) small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails | - |
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| luging | (noun) riding a light one-man toboggan | - |
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| lugsail | (noun) a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast | Synonyms: lug |
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| lugubriousness | (noun) the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness | Synonyms: gloominess, sadness |
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| lugworm | (noun) marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait | Synonyms: lobworm, lug |
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| lukewarmness | (noun) a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin | Synonyms: tepidity, tepidness |
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| (noun) lack of passion, force or animation | Synonyms: tepidness |
| lull | (noun) a period of calm weather | Synonyms: quiet |
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| (noun) a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished | Synonyms: letup |
| lullaby | (noun) the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: cradlesong |
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| (noun) a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: berceuse, cradlesong |
| lulu | (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
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| lulz | (noun) An objective that is worth achieving only for its own enjoyment | - |
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| lumbago | (noun) backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc | Synonyms: lumbar pain |
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| lumber | (noun) an implement used in baseball by the batter | Synonyms: baseball bat |
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| (noun) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material | Synonyms: timber |
| lumbering | (noun) the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber | - |
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| lumberjack | (noun) a short warm outer jacket | Synonyms: lumber jacket |
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| (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberman |
| lumberman | (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberjack |
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| lumbermill | (noun) a mill for dressing logs and lumber | Synonyms: sawmill |
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| lumberyard | (noun) a workplace where lumber is stocked for sale | - |
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| lumbus | (noun) either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds | Synonyms: loin |
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| lumen | (noun) a cavity or passage in a tubular organ | - |
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| (noun) a unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions | Synonyms: lm |
| luminaire | (noun) an electrical device used to create artificial light by use of an electric lamp; all light fixtures have a fixture body and a light socket to hold the lamp and allow for its replacement | Synonyms: light fitting, light fixture |
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| luminance | (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, light, luminosity, luminousness |
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| luminary | (noun) a celebrity who is an inspiration to others | Synonyms: guiding light, leading light, notability, notable |
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| luminescence | (noun) light from nonthermal sources | Synonyms: glow |
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| (noun) light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures | - |
| luminism | (noun) an artistic movement in the United States that was derived from the Hudson River school; active from 1850 to 1870; painted realistic landscapes in a style that pictured atmospheric light and the use of aerial perspective | - |
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| luminosity | (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, light, luminance, luminousness |
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| luminousness | (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity |
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| lumma | (noun) 100 lumma equal 1 dram in Armenia | - |
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| lummox | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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| lump | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, clump, glob |
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| (noun) a large piece of something without definite shape | Synonyms: hunk |
| (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, stumblebum |
| (noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: puffiness, swelling |
| lumpectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a tumor without removing much of the surrounding tissue or lymph nodes; performed in some cases of breast cancer | - |
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| lumpenproletariat | (noun) (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | - |
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| lumper | (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics | - |
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| (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, stevedore |
| lumpfish | (noun) clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar | Synonyms: Cyclopterus lumpus |
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| lumpiness | (noun) The property of being full of lumps, not being smooth. | - |
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| lumpsucker | (noun) any of several very small lumpfishes | - |
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| lunacy | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, indulgence, tomfoolery |
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| (noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity | Synonyms: insaneness, madness |
| lunatic | (noun) an insane person | Synonyms: maniac |
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| (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, madcap, swashbuckler |
| lunation | (noun) the period between successive new moons (29.531 days) | Synonyms: lunar month, moon, synodic month |
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| lunch | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: dejeuner, luncheon, tiffin |
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| luncheon | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: dejeuner, lunch, tiffin |
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| luncher | (noun) someone who is eating lunch | - |
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| lunching | (noun) the act of eating lunch | - |
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| lunchroom | (noun) a restaurant (in a facility) where lunch can be purchased | - |
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| lunchtime | (noun) the customary or habitual hour for eating lunch | Synonyms: lunch period |
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| lunette | (noun) oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault | Synonyms: fenestella |
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| (noun) temporary fortification like a detached bastion | - |
| lung | (noun) either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood | - |
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| lunge | (noun) the act of moving forward suddenly | Synonyms: lurch |
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| (noun) (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward | Synonyms: passado, straight thrust |
| lungen | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longan, longanberry, Nephelium longana |
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| lunger | (noun) someone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing) | - |
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| (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: consumptive, tubercular |
| lungfish | (noun) air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought | - |
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| lungi | (noun) a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma | Synonyms: longyi, lungyi |
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| lungyi | (noun) a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma | Synonyms: longyi, lungi |
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| lunkhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| lunula | (noun) a crescent-shaped metal ornament of the Bronze Age | - |
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| (noun) the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail | Synonyms: half-moon, lunule |
| lunule | (noun) the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail | Synonyms: half-moon, lunula |
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| lupin | (noun) any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers | Synonyms: lupine |
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| lupine | (noun) any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers | Synonyms: lupin |
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| lupulin | (noun) Lupulin is a powder separated from the strobiles of common hop. | - |
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| lupus | (noun) any of several forms of ulcerative skin disease | - |
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| lurch | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: stagger, stumble |
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| (noun) the act of moving forward suddenly | Synonyms: lunge |
| (noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: pitch, pitching |
| (noun) a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage) | - |
| lurcher | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurker, skulker |
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| lure | (noun) something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed | Synonyms: bait, decoy |
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| (noun) qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward | Synonyms: come-on, enticement |
| (noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, hook, sweetener |
| luridness | (noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness |
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| (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness |
| (noun) the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes | Synonyms: sensationalism |
| lurker | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurcher, skulker |
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| lusciousness | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: delectability, deliciousness, toothsomeness |
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| lush | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, soaker, souse |
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| lushness | (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: luxuriance, voluptuousness |
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| lust | (noun) self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: luxuria |
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| (noun) a strong sexual desire | Synonyms: lecherousness, lustfulness |
| luster | (noun) a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain | Synonyms: lustre |
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| (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: brilliancy, lustre, splendor, splendour |
| (noun) the visual property of something that shines with reflected light | Synonyms: lustre, sheen, shininess |
| lusterlessness | (noun) the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss | Synonyms: flatness, lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte |
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| lusterware | (noun) pottery with a metallic sheen produced by adding metallic oxides to the glaze | - |
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| lustfulness | (noun) a strong sexual desire | Synonyms: lecherousness, lust |
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| lustiness | (noun) the property of being strong and healthy in constitution | Synonyms: hardiness, robustness |
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| lustre | (noun) a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain | Synonyms: luster |
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| (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: brilliancy, luster, splendor, splendour |
| (noun) the visual property of something that shines with reflected light | Synonyms: luster, sheen, shininess |