| liberalistic | (adjective) having or demonstrating belief in the essential goodness of man and the autonomy of the individual; favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority | - |
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| liberality | (noun) the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament | Synonyms: liberalness |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom | Synonyms: liberalness |
| liberalization | (noun) the act of making less strict | Synonyms: liberalisation, relaxation |
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| liberalize | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalise |
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| (verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalise |
| liberally | (adverb) freely in a nonliteral manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a generous manner | Synonyms: generously, munificently |
| liberalness | (noun) the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament | Synonyms: liberality |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom | Synonyms: liberality |
| liberate | (verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: free, release |
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| (verb) grant freedom to | Synonyms: set free |
| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: emancipate |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, loose, release, unloose, unloosen |
| liberated | (adjective) free from traditional social restraints | Synonyms: emancipated |
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| (adjective) (of a gas e.g.) released from chemical combination | - |
| liberation | (noun) the attempt to achieve equal rights or status | - |
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| (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, release, sack, sacking |
| (noun) the act of liberating someone or something | Synonyms: freeing, release |
| liberator | (noun) someone who releases people from captivity or bondage | - |
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| libertarian | (noun) someone who believes the doctrine of free will | - |
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| (noun) an advocate of libertarianism | - |
| libertarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action | - |
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| libertine | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, profligate, riotous |
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| (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: debauchee, rounder |
| libertinism | (noun) A lifestyle or pattern of behavior characterized by self-indulgence and lack of restraint, especially one involving sexual promiscuity and rejection of religious or other moral authority. | - |
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| liberty | (noun) an act of undue intimacy | Synonyms: familiarity, impropriety, indecorum |
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| (noun) immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence | Synonyms: autonomy |
| (noun) freedom of choice | - |
| (noun) personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression | - |
| (noun) leave granted to a sailor or naval officer | Synonyms: shore leave |
| limber | (adjective) (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely | Synonyms: supple |
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| (adjective) (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable | Synonyms: supple |
| (adjective) (used of artifacts) easily bent | - |
| (noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson | - |
| (verb) cause to become limber | - |
| (verb) attach the limber | Synonyms: limber up |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 |
| loganberry | (noun) large red variety of the dewberry | - |
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| (noun) red-fruited bramble native from Oregon to Baja California | Synonyms: Rubus loganobaccus, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus |
| longanberry | (noun) Asian fruit similar to litchi | Synonyms: dragon's eye |
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| (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, lungen, Nephelium longana |
| 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 |
| lubberly | (adjective) inexperienced in seamanship | Synonyms: landlubberly |
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| (adjective) clumsy and unskilled | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) cut lumber, as in woods and forests | Synonyms: log |
| (verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: pound |
| lumbering | (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: heavy, ponderous |
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| (noun) the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber | - |
| 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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| maleberry | (noun) deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers | Synonyms: he-huckleberry, Lyonia ligustrina, male berry, privet andromeda |
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| marlberry | (noun) tropical American shrub or small tree with brown wood and dark berries | Synonyms: Ardisia escallonoides, Ardisia paniculata |
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| mealberry | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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| member | (noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: appendage, extremity |
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| (noun) the male sex organ | Synonyms: penis, phallus |
| (noun) an organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations) | - |
| (noun) one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization) | Synonyms: fellow member |
| (noun) anything that belongs to a set or class | - |
| membered | (adjective) having members; normally used in chemistry in combination with a number | - |
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| memberless | (adjective) of a group or set having no members | - |
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| membership | (noun) the body of members of an organization or group | Synonyms: rank |
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| (noun) the state of being a member | - |
| misremember | (verb) remember incorrectly | - |
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| moneygrubber | (noun) someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking | - |
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| mulberry | (noun) sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus | - |
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| (noun) any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry | Synonyms: mulberry tree |
| neoliberal | (adjective) having or showing belief in the need for economic growth in addition to traditional liberalistic values | - |
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| (noun) a liberal who subscribes to neoliberalism | - |
| neoliberalism | (noun) a political orientation originating in the 1960s; blends liberal political views with an emphasis on economic growth | - |
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| nierembergia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: cupflower |
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| nonmember | (noun) a person who is not a member | - |
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| number | (noun) an item of clothing | - |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: figure |
| (noun) a clothing measurement | - |
| (noun) one of a series published periodically | Synonyms: issue |
| (noun) a symbol used to represent a number | Synonyms: numeral |
| (noun) a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification and may be attached to accounts, memberships, etc. | - |
| (noun) the number is used in calling a particular telephone | Synonyms: phone number, telephone number |
| (noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, routine, turn |
| (noun) the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural) | - |
| (noun) a numbered item in a series | - |
| (noun) a select company of people | - |
| (noun) a concept of quantity involving zero and units | - |
| (verb) place a limit on the number of | Synonyms: keep down |
| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, enumerate, numerate |
| (verb) enumerate | Synonyms: list |
| (verb) give numbers to | - |
| (verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, come, total |
| (verb) put into a group | Synonyms: count |
| numbering | (noun) a numbered list | Synonyms: enumeration |
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| numberless | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| numberplate | (noun) a plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number | Synonyms: license plate |
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| numbers | (noun) an illegal daily lottery | Synonyms: numbers game, numbers pool, numbers racket |
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| outnumber | (verb) be larger in number | - |
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| partridgeberry | (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, twinberry |
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| plumber | (noun) a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances | Synonyms: pipe fitter |
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| plumbery | (noun) the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) | Synonyms: plumbing |
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| poisonberry | (noun) Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible | Synonyms: black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum |
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| prepubertal | (adjective) (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth | Synonyms: prepubescent |
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| prepuberty | (noun) a period of two years immediately prior to the onset of puberty when growth and changes leading to sexual maturity occur | - |
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| protuberance | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, swelling |
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| (noun) the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out | - |
| protuberant | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy |
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| protuberate | (verb) form a rounded prominence | - |
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| (verb) cause to bulge out or project | - |
| pubertal | (adjective) of or related to puberty | - |
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| puberty | (noun) the time of life when sex glands become functional | Synonyms: pubescence |
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| puberulent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, pubescent, sericeous |
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| raspberry | (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, razz, razzing, snort |
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| (noun) red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries | - |
| (noun) woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries | Synonyms: raspberry bush |
| redberry | (noun) small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries | Synonyms: red-berry, Rhamnus croceus |
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| (noun) North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries | Synonyms: Actaea rubra, red-berry, red baneberry, snakeberry |
| remember | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, retrieve, think |
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| (verb) keep in mind for attention or consideration | Synonyms: think of |
| (verb) recapture the past; indulge in memories | Synonyms: think back |
| (verb) exercise, or have the power of, memory | - |
| (verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: commemorate |
| (verb) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship | Synonyms: commend |
| (verb) mention favorably, as in prayer | - |
| (verb) show appreciation to | - |
| remembering | (noun) the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered | Synonyms: memory |
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| reverberance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| reverberant | (adjective) having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected | - |
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| reverberate | (verb) treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace | - |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, resound, ring |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reflect |
| (verb) be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves | - |
| (verb) have a long or continuing effect | - |
| reverberating | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberative |
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| reverberation | (noun) the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves | Synonyms: echo, replication, sound reflection |
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| (noun) a remote or indirect consequence of some action | Synonyms: repercussion |
| reverberative | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating |
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| robber | (noun) a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence | - |
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| robbery | (noun) larceny by threat of violence | - |
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| (noun) plundering during riots or in wartime | Synonyms: looting |
| rougeberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, bloodberry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant |
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| rowanberry | (noun) decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree | - |
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| rubber | (adjective) returned for lack of funds | Synonyms: no-good |
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| (noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, galosh, golosh, gumshoe |
| (noun) contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse | Synonyms: condom, prophylactic, safe, safety |
| (noun) an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil | Synonyms: pencil eraser, rubber eraser |
| (noun) a contest consisting of a series of successive matches between the same sides | - |
| (noun) an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products | Synonyms: caoutchouc, gum elastic, India rubber, natural rubber |
| (noun) any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber | Synonyms: synthetic rubber |
| (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubberise, rubberize |
| rubberise | (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubber, rubberize |
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| rubberize | (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubber, rubberise |
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| rubberlike | (adjective) having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness | Synonyms: rubbery |
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| rubberneck | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubbernecker |
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| (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, sightseer, tripper |
| (verb) strain to watch; stare curiously | - |
| rubbernecker | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubberneck |
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| rubberstamp | (verb) approve automatically | - |
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| (verb) stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document | Synonyms: handstamp |
| rubbery | (adjective) having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness | Synonyms: rubberlike |
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| (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: cartilaginous, gristly |
| rydberg | (noun) a wave number characteristic of the wave spectrum of each element | Synonyms: rydberg constant, rydberg unit |
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| saber | (noun) a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back | Synonyms: cavalry sword, sabre |
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| (noun) a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle | Synonyms: sabre |
| (verb) kill with a saber | Synonyms: sabre |
| (verb) cut or injure with a saber | Synonyms: sabre |
| sabertooth | (noun) any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene | Synonyms: saber-toothed tiger |
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| sabertoothed | (adjective) having teeth that resemble sabers | Synonyms: saber-toothed, sabre-toothed |
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| salmonberry | (noun) large erect red-flowered raspberry of western North America having large pinkish-orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus spectabilis |
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| (noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, thimbleberry |
| (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: bakeapple, baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus |
| sandberry | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, wild cranberry |
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| scriber | (noun) a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut | Synonyms: scratch awl, scribe |
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| scrubber | (noun) a purifier that removes impurities from a gas | - |
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| (noun) a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning | Synonyms: scrub brush, scrubbing brush |
| (noun) a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck) | - |
| serviceberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, shadberry |
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| (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, shadblow, shadbush |
| shadberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, serviceberry |
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| sherbert | (noun) a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin | Synonyms: sherbet |
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| shrubbery | (noun) a collection of shrubs growing together | - |
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| (noun) an area where a number of shrubs are planted | - |
| silverberry | (noun) deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits | Synonyms: Elaeagnus commutata, silver-bush, silver berry, silverbush |
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| slabber | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slaver, slobber |
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| slobber | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool |
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| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slabber, slaver |
| slobberer | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, drooler |
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