| lube | (verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lubricate |
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| lubricate | (verb) make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant | - |
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| (verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lube |
| (verb) have lubricating properties | - |
| lucubrate | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out |
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| luff | (verb) flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides | - |
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| (verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: point |
| lug | (verb) carry with difficulty | Synonyms: tote, tug |
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| (verb) obstruct | Synonyms: block, choke up, stuff |
| luge | (verb) move along on a luge or toboggan | Synonyms: toboggan |
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| lull | (verb) become quiet or less intensive | Synonyms: calm down |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) calm by deception | - |
| lumber | (verb) cut lumber, as in woods and forests | Synonyms: log |
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| (verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: pound |
| luminesce | (verb) be or become luminescent; exhibit luminescence | - |
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| lump | (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: chunk, collocate |
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| (verb) put together indiscriminately | Synonyms: chunk |
| lunch | (verb) take the midday meal | - |
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| (verb) provide a midday meal for | - |
| lunge | (verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, thrust |
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| lurch | (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: skunk |
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| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: pitch, shift |
| (verb) move slowly and unsteadily | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, reel, stagger, swag |
| (verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: prowl |
| lure | (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: entice, tempt |
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| lurk | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) to monitor a web forum or similar without making your presence pubilc | - |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner | Synonyms: skulk |
| lust | (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, starve, thirst |
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| lustrate | (verb) purify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials | - |
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| luxate | (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, slip, splay |
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| luxuriate | (verb) thrive profusely or flourish extensively | - |
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| (verb) become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | Synonyms: wanton |
| (verb) enjoy to excess | Synonyms: indulge |