| legibly | (adverb) in a legible manner | Synonyms: decipherably, readably |
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| leging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, legging |
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| legion | (adjective) amounting to a large indefinite number | Synonyms: numerous |
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| (noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: horde, host |
| (noun) a large military unit | - |
| (noun) association of ex-servicemen | - |
| (noun) archaic terms for army | Synonyms: host |
| legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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| legionella | (noun) the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease | Synonyms: Legionella pneumophilia |
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| legionnaire | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionary |
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| legislate | (verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: pass |
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| legislating | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislation |
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| legislation | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislating |
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| (noun) law enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: statute law |
| legislative | (adjective) of or relating to or created by legislation | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature | - |
| legislatively | (adverb) by legislation | - |
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| legislator | (noun) someone who makes or enacts laws | - |
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| legislatorship | (noun) the office of legislator | - |
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| legislature | (noun) persons who make or amend or repeal laws | Synonyms: general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body |
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| legitimacy | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law | - |
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| (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: authenticity, genuineness |
| legitimate | (adjective) of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful | - |
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| (adjective) in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles | - |
| (adjective) authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law | Synonyms: lawful, licit |
| (adjective) based on known statements or events or conditions | Synonyms: logical |
| (verb) make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone) | - |
| (verb) show or affirm to be just and legitimate | - |
| (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
| legitimately | (adverb) in a lawfully recognized manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner acceptable to common custom | Synonyms: lawfully, licitly |
| legitimation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legalization |
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| (noun) the act of rendering a person legitimate | - |
| legitimatise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legitimatize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legitimise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimize |
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| legitimize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise |
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| legless | (adjective) not having legs | - |
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| leglike | (adjective) resembling or functioning like a leg | - |
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| legs | (noun) staying power | - |
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| legume | (noun) the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) | - |
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| (noun) an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae | Synonyms: leguminous plant |
| (noun) the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case | - |
| leguminous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of legumes | - |
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| longlegs | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, stilt, stilt plover, stiltbird |
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| medicolegal | (adjective) pertaining to legal aspects of the practice of medicine (as malpractice or patient consent for operations or patient information) | - |
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| monoplegia | (noun) paralysis of a single limb | - |
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| nonlegal | (adjective) not regulated or sanctioned by law | Synonyms: extralegal |
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| ophthalmoplegia | (noun) paralysis of the motor nerves of the eye | - |
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| paralegal | (noun) a person with specialized training who assists lawyers | Synonyms: legal assistant |
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| paraplegia | (noun) paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma) | - |
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| paraplegic | (adjective) suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord | - |
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| (noun) a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down) | - |
| pegleg | (noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: leg, peg, wooden leg |
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| phlegm | (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, languor, lethargy, sluggishness |
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| (noun) expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness | Synonyms: sputum |
| (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality |
| phlegmatic | (adjective) showing little emotion | Synonyms: phlegmatical |
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| phlegmatical | (adjective) showing little emotion | Synonyms: phlegmatic |
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| phlegmatically | (adverb) in a phlegmatic manner | - |
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| phlegmatizer | (noun) a material added to an explosive to make it less susceptible to detonation and thus more stable and safer to handle and transport. | - |
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| phlegmy | (adjective) characterized by phlegm | - |
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| phototelegraph | (noun) an apparatus for transmitting pictures by phototelegraphy. | - |
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| phototelegraphy | (noun) an early technology for the transmission of facsimiles. | - |
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| privilege | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, prerogative |
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| (noun) (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship | - |
| (noun) a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all | - |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| privileged | (adjective) blessed with privileges | - |
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| (adjective) confined to an exclusive group | Synonyms: inner, inside |
| (adjective) not subject to usual rules or penalties | - |
| prolegomenon | (noun) a preliminary discussion inserted at the beginning of a book or treatise | - |
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| quadriplegia | (noun) paralysis of both arms and both legs | - |
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| quadriplegic | (noun) a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs | - |
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| radiotelegraph | (noun) the use of radio to send telegraphic messages (usually by Morse code) | Synonyms: radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraph, wireless telegraphy |
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| (noun) telegraphy that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraphy |
| radiotelegraphy | (noun) the use of radio to send telegraphic messages (usually by Morse code) | Synonyms: radiotelegraph, wireless telegraph, wireless telegraphy |
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| (noun) telegraphy that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelegraph, wireless telegraphy |
| relegate | (verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: classify |
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| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs |
| (verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: banish, bar |
| (verb) refer to another person for decision or judgment | Synonyms: pass on, submit |
| relegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, delegation, deputation, relegation |
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| relegation | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, delegation, deputation, relegating |
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| (noun) mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position | - |
| (noun) the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category | - |
| roughleg | (noun) large hawk of the Northern Hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers | Synonyms: Buteo lagopus, rough-legged hawk |
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| sacrilege | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, profanation |
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| sacrilegious | (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: blasphemous, profane |
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| sacrilegiously | (adverb) in a sacrilegious manner | - |
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| sacrilegiousness | (noun) profaneness by virtue of committing sacrilege | - |
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| semilegality | (noun) The property of being of partial or questionable legality. | Synonyms: semi-legality |
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| spindlelegs | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
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| (noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
| staplegun | (noun) a hand-held machine for driving staples home | Synonyms: staple gun, tacker |
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| telegnosis | (noun) apparent knowledge of distant events without using sensory perceptions | - |
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| telegnostic | (adjective) obtaining knowledge of distant events allegedly without use of normal sensory mechanisms | - |
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| telegram | (noun) a message transmitted by telegraph | Synonyms: wire |
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| telegraph | (noun) apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) | Synonyms: telegraphy |
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| (verb) send cables, wires, or telegrams | Synonyms: cable, wire |
| telegrapher | (noun) someone who transmits messages by telegraph | Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegraphist |
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| telegraphese | (noun) language characterized by terseness and ellipsis as in telegrams | - |
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| telegraphic | (adjective) of or relating to or transmitted by telegraph | - |
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| (adjective) having the style of a telegram with many short words left out | - |
| telegraphically | (adverb) in a short and concise manner | Synonyms: tersely |
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| telegraphist | (noun) someone who transmits messages by telegraph | Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegrapher |
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| telegraphy | (noun) apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) | Synonyms: telegraph |
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| (noun) communicating at a distance by electric transmission over wire | - |
| underprivileged | (adjective) lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society | - |
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| yellowlegs | (noun) either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs | - |
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