| latex | (noun) a water-base paint that has a latex binder | Synonyms: latex paint, rubber-base paint |
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| (noun) a milky exudate from certain plants that coagulates on exposure to air | - |
| lath | (noun) a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework | - |
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| lathe | (noun) machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool | - |
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| lathee | (noun) club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India | Synonyms: lathi |
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| lather | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: soapsuds, suds |
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| (noun) the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse) | - |
| (noun) a workman who puts up laths | - |
| (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, stew, sweat, swither |
| (verb) rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning | Synonyms: soap |
| (verb) exude sweat or lather | - |
| (verb) form a lather | - |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| lathery | (adjective) resembling lather or covered with lather | Synonyms: sudsy |
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| lathi | (noun) club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India | Synonyms: lathee |
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| laticifer | (noun) a plant duct containing latex | - |
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| latinate | (adjective) derived from or imitative of Latin | - |
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| latinise | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicise, catholicize, latinize |
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| latinize | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicise, catholicize, latinise |
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| latish | (adjective) somewhat late | - |
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| latitude | (noun) scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction | - |
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| (noun) the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself | - |
| (noun) an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator | Synonyms: line of latitude, parallel, parallel of latitude |
| (noun) freedom from normal restraints in conduct | - |
| latitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to latitudes north or south | - |
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| latitudinarian | (adjective) unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) | Synonyms: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical |
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| (noun) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) | - |
| latke | (noun) made of grated potato and egg with a little flour | Synonyms: potato pancake |
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| latria | (noun) the worship given to God alone | Synonyms: adoration |
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| latrine | (noun) a public toilet in a military area | - |
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| lats | (noun) the basic unit of money in Latvia | - |
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| latte | (noun) strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk | Synonyms: caffe latte |
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| latten | (noun) brass (or a yellow alloy resembling brass) that was hammered into thin sheets; formerly used for church utensils | - |
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| latter | (adjective) referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several) | - |
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| (noun) the second of two or the second mentioned of two | - |
| latterly | (adverb) in the recent past | Synonyms: late, lately, of late, recently |
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| lattice | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, latticework |
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| (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: grille, wicket |
| (noun) an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions | - |
| latticed | (adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: fretted, interlaced, latticelike |
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| latticelike | (adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: fretted, interlaced, latticed |
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| latticework | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, lattice |
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| laud | (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, glorify, proclaim |
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| laudability | (noun) the quality of being worthy of praise | Synonyms: laudableness, praiseworthiness |
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| laudable | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: applaudable, commendable, praiseworthy |
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| laudableness | (noun) the quality of being worthy of praise | Synonyms: laudability, praiseworthiness |
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| laudably | (adverb) in an admirable manner | Synonyms: admirably, commendable, praiseworthily |
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| laudanum | (noun) narcotic consisting of an alcohol solution of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient | Synonyms: tincture of opium |
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| laudator | (noun) someone who communicates high praise | Synonyms: extoller, lauder |
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| laudatory | (adjective) full of or giving praise | Synonyms: praiseful, praising |
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| lauder | (noun) someone who communicates high praise | Synonyms: extoller, laudator |
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| laugh | (noun) the sound of laughing | Synonyms: laughter |
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| (noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: gag, jape, jest, joke |
| (noun) a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing | - |
| (verb) produce laughter | Synonyms: express joy, express mirth |
| laughable | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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| (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, funny, mirthful, risible |
| laughably | (adverb) so as to arouse or deserve laughter | Synonyms: ludicrously, preposterously, ridiculously |
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| laugher | (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, romp, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
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| (noun) a person who is laughing or who laughs easily | - |
| laughing | (adjective) showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness | Synonyms: riant |
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| laughingly | (adverb) with laughter; while laughing | - |
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| laughingstock | (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, stooge |
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| laughter | (noun) the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn | - |
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| (noun) the sound of laughing | Synonyms: laugh |
| lauhala | (noun) Polynesian screw pine | Synonyms: Pandanus tectorius, textile screw pine |
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| launce | (noun) very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches | Synonyms: sand eel, sand lance, sand launce |
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| launch | (noun) the act of propelling with force | Synonyms: launching |
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| (noun) a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck | - |
| (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) propel with force | - |
| (verb) launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage | - |
| (verb) get going; give impetus to | Synonyms: set in motion |
| (verb) smoothen the surface of | - |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, found, set up |
| launcher | (noun) armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket | Synonyms: rocket launcher |
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| (noun) a device that launches aircraft from a warship | Synonyms: catapult |
| launching | (noun) the act of propelling with force | Synonyms: launch |
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| (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, entry, first appearance, introduction, unveiling |
| (noun) the act of moving a newly built vessel into the water for the first time | - |
| launchpad | (noun) a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched | Synonyms: launch area, launch pad, launching pad, pad |
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| launder | (verb) convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones | - |
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| (verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: wash |
| launderette | (noun) a self-service laundry (service mark Laundromat) where coin-operated washing machines are available to individual customers | Synonyms: Laundromat |
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| laundering | (noun) washing clothes and bed linens | - |
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| laundress | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundrywoman, washerwoman, washwoman |
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| laundry | (noun) workplace where clothes are washed and ironed | - |
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| (noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: wash, washables, washing |
| laundryman | (noun) a man who operates an industrial washing machine | Synonyms: washerman |
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| laundrywoman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundress, washerwoman, washwoman |
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| laureate | (adjective) worthy of the greatest honor or distinction | - |
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| (noun) someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath | - |
| laurel | (noun) (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory | Synonyms: bay wreath, laurel wreath |
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| (noun) any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family | - |
| laureled | (adjective) crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory | Synonyms: crowned, laurelled |
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| laurelled | (adjective) crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory | Synonyms: crowned, laureled |
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| laurels | (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, award, honor, honour |
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| (noun) the state of being honored | Synonyms: honor, honour |
| laurelwood | (noun) tropical American tree; valued for its hard durable wood | Synonyms: Calophyllum candidissimum, lancewood tree |
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| lav | (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lavatory, privy, toilet |
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| lava | (noun) rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanoes; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface | - |
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| lavabo | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, wash-hand basin, washbasin, washbowl |
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| lavage | (noun) washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water | - |
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| lavalava | (noun) a skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton; worn by Polynesians (especially Samoans) | - |
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| lavalier | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavaliere, lavalliere |
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| lavaliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavalliere |
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| lavalliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavaliere |
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| lavation | (noun) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | Synonyms: wash, washing |
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| lavatory | (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, privy, toilet |
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| (noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: basin, washbasin, washbowl, washstand |
| (noun) a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it | Synonyms: flush toilet |
| lave | (verb) cleanse (one's body) with soap and water | Synonyms: wash |
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| (verb) wash one's face and hands | Synonyms: wash up |
| (verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lap, wash |
| lavender | (adjective) of a pale purple color | Synonyms: lilac-colored, lilac |
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| (noun) a pale purple color | - |
| (noun) any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated | - |
| laver | (noun) (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions | - |
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| (noun) seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds | Synonyms: sea lettuce |
| (noun) edible red seaweeds | Synonyms: red laver |
| lavish | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lucullan, plush, plushy |
| (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: shower |
| lavishly | (adverb) in a wasteful manner | Synonyms: extravagantly |
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| (adverb) in a rich and lavish manner | Synonyms: extravagantly, richly |
| lavishness | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, highlife, prodigality |
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| (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness |
| law | (noun) the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | Synonyms: practice of law |
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| (noun) a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | Synonyms: natural law |
| (noun) a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | Synonyms: law of nature |
| (noun) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | Synonyms: jurisprudence, legal philosophy |
| (noun) legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | - |
| (noun) the collection of rules imposed by authority | Synonyms: jurisprudence |
| (noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: constabulary, police, police force |
| lawbreaker | (noun) someone who violates the law | Synonyms: law offender, violator |
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| lawcourt | (noun) a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws | Synonyms: court of justice, court of law, law court |
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| lawful | (adjective) conformable to or allowed by law | - |
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| (adjective) authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law | Synonyms: legitimate, licit |
| (adjective) having a legally established claim | Synonyms: rightful, true |
| (adjective) according to custom or rule or natural law | Synonyms: rule-governed |
| lawfully | (adverb) by law; conforming to the law | Synonyms: de jure, legally |
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| (adverb) in a manner acceptable to common custom | Synonyms: legitimately, licitly |
| lawfulness | (noun) the quality of conforming to law | - |
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| lawgiver | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawmaker |
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| lawless | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchic, anarchical |
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| (adjective) disobedient to or defiant of law | Synonyms: outlaw |
| (adjective) lax in enforcing laws | Synonyms: wide-open |
| lawlessly | (adverb) in an illegal manner | Synonyms: illegally, illicitly |
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| lawlessness | (noun) illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law | Synonyms: outlawry |
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| (noun) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) | Synonyms: anarchy |
| lawmaker | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawgiver |
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| lawmaking | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: legislating, legislation |
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| lawman | (noun) an officer of the law | Synonyms: law officer, peace officer |
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| lawn | (noun) a field of cultivated and mowed grass | - |
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| lawrencium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium | Synonyms: atomic number 103, Lr |
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| lawsuit | (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, causa, cause, suit |
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| lawyer | (noun) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | Synonyms: attorney |
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| lawyerbush | (noun) stout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth | Synonyms: bush lawyer, lawyer bush, Rubus australis, Rubus cissoides |
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| lax | (adjective) lacking in firmness or tension; not taut | - |
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| (adjective) pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet') | - |
| (adjective) lacking in rigor or strictness | Synonyms: slack |
| (adjective) emptying easily or excessively | Synonyms: loose |
| laxation | (noun) the act of making something less tight | Synonyms: loosening |
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| (noun) the elimination of fecal waste through the anus | Synonyms: defecation, shitting |
| laxative | (adjective) stimulating evacuation of feces | - |
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| (noun) a mild cathartic | - |