| blucher | (noun) a high shoe with laces over the tongue | - |
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| cluck | (noun) the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) | Synonyms: clucking |
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| (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: clack, click |
| clucking | (noun) the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) | Synonyms: cluck |
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| dextroglucose | (noun) an isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits | Synonyms: dextrose, grape sugar |
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| elucidate | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clarify, clear up |
| elucidation | (noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: clarification, illumination |
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| (noun) an act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on | - |
| elucidative | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: clarifying |
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| elucubration | (noun) a written work produced by elucubrating. | - |
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| felucca | (noun) a fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean | - |
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| fluctuate | (verb) be unstable | - |
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| (verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: vacillate, waver |
| (verb) cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern | - |
| fluctuating | (adjective) having unpredictable ups and downs | - |
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| fluctuation | (noun) the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes | Synonyms: wavering |
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| (noun) an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change | Synonyms: variation |
| (noun) a wave motion | - |
| glucagon | (noun) a hormone secreted by the pancreas; stimulates increases in blood sugar levels in the blood (thus opposing the action of insulin) | - |
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| glucinium | (noun) a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element | Synonyms: atomic number 4, Be, beryllium |
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| glucocorticoid | (noun) a steroid hormone that is produced by the adrenal cortex of animals; affects functioning of gonads and has anti-inflammatory activity | - |
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| glucosamine | (noun) an amino derivative of glucose that is a component of many polysaccharides | - |
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| glucose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy | - |
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| glucoside | (noun) a glycoside derived from glucose | - |
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| glucosuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of glucose in the urine | - |
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| hallucinate | (verb) perceive what is not there; have illusions | - |
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| hallucinating | (adjective) experiencing delirium | Synonyms: delirious |
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| hallucination | (noun) a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea | Synonyms: delusion |
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| (noun) an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode | - |
| (noun) illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder | - |
| hallucinatory | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of hallucination | - |
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| hallucinogen | (noun) a psychoactive drug that induces hallucinations or altered sensory experiences | Synonyms: hallucinogenic drug, psychedelic drug, psychodelic drug |
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| hallucinogenic | (adjective) capable of producing hallucinations | - |
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| hallucinosis | (noun) a mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations | - |
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| ineluctability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: unavoidability |
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| ineluctable | (adjective) impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: inescapable, unavoidable |
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| ineluctably | (adverb) by necessity | Synonyms: inescapably, inevitably, unavoidably |
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| involucrate | (adjective) having an involucre | - |
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| involucre | (noun) a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence | - |
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| lucent | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: aglow, lambent, luminous |
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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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| lucid | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, luculent, pellucid, perspicuous |
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| (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, pellucid, transparent |
| (adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: coherent, logical |
| (adjective) having a clear mind | - |
| 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 | - |
| lucidly | (adverb) in a clear and lucid manner | Synonyms: limpidly, pellucidly, perspicuously |
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| 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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| lucifugal | (adjective) light-avoiding | Synonyms: lucifugous |
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| lucifugous | (adjective) light-avoiding | Synonyms: lucifugal |
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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 |
| luckily | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortuitously, fortunately |
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| luckiness | (noun) an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes | Synonyms: good fortune, good luck |
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| luckless | (adjective) having or bringing misfortune | Synonyms: unlucky |
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| lucky | (adjective) having or bringing good fortune | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by chance | - |
| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, golden, prosperous |
| lucrative | (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: moneymaking, remunerative |
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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 |
| 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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| lucubration | (noun) laborious cogitation | - |
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| (noun) a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation | - |
| luculent | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, perspicuous |
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| lucullan | (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lavish, plush, plushy |
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| noctiluca | (noun) large bioluminescent marine protozoan | Synonyms: Noctiluca miliaris |
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| noctilucent | (adjective) shining or glowing by night | - |
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| pellucid | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, perspicuous |
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| (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, transparent |
| pellucidity | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: limpidity, pellucidness |
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| (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness |
| pellucidly | (adverb) in a clear and lucid manner | Synonyms: limpidly, lucidly, perspicuously |
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| pellucidness | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: limpidity, pellucidity |
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| pluck | (noun) the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord | - |
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| (noun) the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury | Synonyms: gutsiness, pluckiness |
| (verb) pull or pull out sharply | Synonyms: pick off, pull off, tweak |
| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pick |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pick, plunk |
| (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pull, tear |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, roll |
| plucked | (adjective) of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum | - |
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| (adjective) having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl | - |
| pluckily | (adverb) in a plucky manner | - |
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| pluckiness | (noun) the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury | Synonyms: gutsiness, pluck |
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| plucky | (adjective) marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited | Synonyms: gutsy |
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| (adjective) showing courage | Synonyms: feisty, spunky |
| pollucite | (noun) a rare mineral that is an important source of cesium | - |
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| potluck | (noun) whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all | - |
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| pseudohallucination | (noun) an image vivid enough to be a hallucination but recognized as unreal | - |
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| radiolucent | (adjective) almost complete transparent to X-rays or other forms of radiation | - |
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| reluctance | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition |
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| (noun) (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance) | - |
| reluctant | (adjective) disinclined to become involved | - |
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| (adjective) not eager | - |
| (adjective) unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom | Synonyms: loath, loth |
| reluctantly | (adverb) with reluctance | - |
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| reluctivity | (noun) (physics) the resistance of a material to the establishment of a magnetic field in it | - |
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| translucence | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparency, translucency |
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| translucency | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparency, translucence |
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| translucent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparent |
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| unfluctuating | (adjective) not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall | Synonyms: firm, steady |
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| unluckily | (adverb) by bad luck | Synonyms: alas, regrettably, unfortunately |
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| unlucky | (adjective) having or bringing misfortune | Synonyms: luckless |
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| (adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune | Synonyms: doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred |