| lade | (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: laden, load, load up |
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| (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: laden, ladle |
| laden | (adjective) burdened psychologically or mentally | Synonyms: oppressed |
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| (adjective) filled with a great quantity | Synonyms: ladened, loaded |
| (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, ladle |
| (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, load, load up |
| ladened | (adjective) filled with a great quantity | Synonyms: laden, loaded |
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| lading | (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment |
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| ladle | (noun) a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another | - |
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| (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, laden |
| (verb) put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle | - |
| lady | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, gentlewoman, ma'am, madam |
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| (noun) a polite name for any woman | - |
| ladybeetle | (noun) small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests | Synonyms: lady beetle, ladybird, ladybird beetle, ladybug |
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| ladybird | (noun) small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests | Synonyms: lady beetle, ladybeetle, ladybird beetle, ladybug |
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| ladybug | (noun) small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests | Synonyms: lady beetle, ladybeetle, ladybird, ladybird beetle |
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| ladyfinger | (noun) small finger-shaped sponge cake | - |
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| ladyfish | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, tenpounder |
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| ladylike | (adjective) befitting a woman of good breeding | - |
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| ladylikeness | (noun) behavior befitting a lady | - |
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| ladylove | (noun) a woman who is a man's sweetheart | Synonyms: dulcinea |
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| laelia | (noun) any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors | - |
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| laetrile | (noun) a substance derived from amygdalin; publicized as an antineoplastic drug although there is no supporting evidence | - |
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| laevulose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fructose, fruit sugar, levulose |
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| lag | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: retardation, slowdown |
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| (noun) one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket | Synonyms: stave |
| (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, meantime, meanwhile |
| (verb) throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins | - |
| (verb) cover with lagging to prevent heat loss | - |
| (verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. | Synonyms: dawdle, fall back, fall behind |
| (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, put away, put behind bars, remand |
| lagan | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagend, ligan |
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| lagend | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagan, ligan |
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| lager | (noun) a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons | Synonyms: laager |
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| (noun) a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September | Synonyms: lager beer |
| lagerphone | (noun) an Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground | - |
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| laggard | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, pokey, poky |
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| (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, lagger, poke, trailer |
| lagger | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, laggard, poke, trailer |
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| lagging | (noun) insulation used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat | - |
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| lagniappe | (noun) a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase) | - |
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| lagomorph | (noun) relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: gnawing mammal |
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| lagoon | (noun) a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | Synonyms: laguna, lagune |
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| lagophthalmos | (noun) abnormal condition in which an eye cannot close completely | - |
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| laguna | (noun) a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | Synonyms: lagoon, lagune |
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| lagune | (noun) a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | Synonyms: lagoon, laguna |
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| lah | (noun) the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization | Synonyms: la |
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| lahar | (noun) an avalanche of volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano | - |
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| laic | (adjective) characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy | Synonyms: lay, secular |
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| laicise | (verb) reduce to lay status | Synonyms: laicize |
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| laicize | (verb) reduce to lay status | Synonyms: laicise |
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| laid | (adjective) set down according to a plan | Synonyms: set |
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| lair | (noun) the habitation of wild animals | Synonyms: den |
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| laird | (noun) a landowner | - |
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| laity | (noun) in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy | Synonyms: temporalty |
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| lake | (noun) a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments | - |
| (noun) a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal | - |
| lakefront | (noun) land bordering a lake | - |
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| lakeshore | (noun) the shore of a lake | Synonyms: lakeside |
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| lakeside | (noun) the shore of a lake | Synonyms: lakeshore |
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| lakh | (noun) the cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten | Synonyms: 100000, hundred thousand |
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| lallation | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babble, babbling |
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| (noun) defective articulation of the `l' phoneme or the phoneme `r' is pronounced as `l' | - |
| lally | (noun) support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete | Synonyms: lally column |
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| lallygag | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
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| lam | (noun) a rapid escape (as by criminals) | Synonyms: getaway |
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| (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, thrash, thresh |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| lama | (noun) a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism | - |
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| lamasery | (noun) a monastery for lamas | - |
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| lamb | (noun) young sheep | - |
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| (noun) the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food | - |
| (noun) a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) | Synonyms: dear |
| (noun) a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters) | - |
| (verb) give birth to a lamb | - |
| lambast | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
| lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
| lambchop | (noun) chop cut from a lamb | Synonyms: lamb-chop, lamb chop |
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| lambda | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull | - |
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| (noun) the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
| lambdacism | (noun) speech defect involving excessive use or unusual pronunciation of the phoneme `l' | - |
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| lambency | (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming, glow |
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| lambent | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: aglow, lucent, luminous |
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| lambert | (noun) a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter | Synonyms: L |
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| lambkill | (noun) North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock | Synonyms: Kalmia angustifolia, pig laurel, sheep laurel |
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| lambkin | (noun) a very young lamb | - |
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| lamblike | (adjective) like a lamb in meekness and gentleness | - |
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| lambrequin | (noun) short and decorative hanging for a shelf edge or top of a window casing | - |
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| (noun) a scarf that covers a knight's helmet | - |
| lambskin | (noun) the skin of a lamb with the wool still on | - |
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| (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: parchment, sheepskin |
| lame | (adjective) pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness | Synonyms: feeble |
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| (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halt, halting |
| (noun) a fabric interwoven with threads of metal | - |
| (noun) someone who doesn't understand what is going on | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg | Synonyms: cripple |
| lamedh | (noun) the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| lamella | (noun) thin plate | - |
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| (noun) a thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form bones | - |
| (noun) any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus | Synonyms: gill |
| lamellibranch | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: pelecypod, pelecypodous |
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| (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, pelecypod |
| lamely | (adverb) in a weak and unconvincing manner | - |
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| lameness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, gimpiness, limping |
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| (noun) an imperfection or defectiveness | - |
| lament | (noun) a mournful poem; a lament for the dead | Synonyms: elegy |
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| (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, dirge, requiem, threnody |
| (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lamentation, plaint, wail |
| (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, deplore |
| (verb) express grief verbally | Synonyms: keen |
| lamentable | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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| lamentably | (adverb) in an unfortunate or deplorable manner | Synonyms: deplorably, sadly, woefully |
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| lamentation | (noun) the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | Synonyms: mourning |
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| (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lament, plaint, wail |
| lamented | (adjective) mourned or grieved for | - |
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| lamenter | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, mourner, sorrower |
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| lamenting | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: wailful, wailing |
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| lamia | (noun) (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living | Synonyms: vampire |
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| lamina | (noun) a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral) | - |
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| laminal | (adjective) arranged in or consisting of laminae | Synonyms: laminar |
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| laminar | (adjective) arranged in or consisting of laminae | Synonyms: laminal |
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| laminate | (noun) a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers | - |
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| (verb) cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material | - |
| (verb) press or beat (metals) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) split (wood) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material | - |
| lamination | (noun) bonding thin sheets together | - |
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| (noun) a layered structure | - |
| laminator | (noun) Any of a range of machines used for lamination. | Synonyms: laminating machine |
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| (noun) a person who makes laminates (especially plastic laminates) | - |
| laminectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the bony arches on one or more vertebrae | - |
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| laminitis | (noun) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse | Synonyms: founder |
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| lamivudine | (noun) a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor that is very effective in combination with zidovudine in treating AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: 3TC |
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| lammergeier | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeyer |
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| lammergeyer | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeier |
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| lamp | (noun) an artificial source of visible illumination | - |
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| (noun) a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs | - |
| lampblack | (noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, crock, smut, soot |
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| lamphouse | (noun) housing that holds a lamp (as in a movie projector) | Synonyms: lamp house, lamp housing |
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| lamplight | (noun) light from a lamp | - |
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| lamplighter | (noun) (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights | - |
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| lamplit | (adjective) lighted by a lamp | - |
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| lampoon | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| (verb) ridicule with satire | Synonyms: satirise, satirize |
| lampooner | (noun) mimics literary or musical style for comic effect | Synonyms: parodist |
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| lamppost | (noun) a metal post supporting an outdoor lamp (such as a streetlight) | - |
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| lamprey | (noun) primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue | Synonyms: lamper eel, lamprey eel |
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