larboard | (adjective) located on the left side of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: port |
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(noun) the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | Synonyms: port |
larcener | (noun) a person who commits larceny | Synonyms: larcenist |
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larcenist | (noun) a person who commits larceny | Synonyms: larcener |
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larcenous | (noun) having a disposition to steal | Synonyms: thievishness |
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larceny | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: stealing, theft, thievery, thieving |
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larch | (noun) any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves | Synonyms: larch tree |
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(noun) wood of a larch tree | - |
lard | (noun) soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog | - |
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(verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, pad |
(verb) prepare or cook with lard | - |
larder | (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: buttery, pantry |
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(noun) a supply of food especially for a household | - |
large | (adjective) above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: big |
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(adjective) having broad power and range and scope | - |
(adjective) conspicuous in position or importance | Synonyms: big, prominent |
(adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: big, magnanimous |
(adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, with child |
(adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid |
(adjective) fairly large or important in effect; influential | - |
(noun) a garment size for a large person | - |
(adverb) with the wind abaft the beam | - |
(adverb) at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark) | - |
(adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: big, boastfully, vauntingly |
largely | (adverb) in large part; mainly or chiefly | Synonyms: for the most part, mostly |
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(adverb) on a large scale | - |
largemouth | (noun) a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye | Synonyms: largemouth bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed bass, largemouthed black bass, Micropterus salmoides |
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largeness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: bigness |
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(noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: extensiveness |
(noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: pretension, pretentiousness |
(noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, comprehensiveness |
larger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: bigger |
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largess | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largesse, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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(noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largesse |
largesse | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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(noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largess |
larghetto | (adjective) (of tempo) less slow and broad than largo | - |
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(noun) (music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio | - |
larghissimo | (adjective) (of tempo) as slow and broad as possible | - |
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largish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: biggish |
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largo | (adjective) very slow in tempo and broad in manner | - |
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(noun) (music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner | - |
(adverb) slowly and broadly | - |
lari | (noun) the basic unit of money in Georgia | - |
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lariat | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lasso, reata, riata |
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larid | (noun) long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family | - |
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lark | (noun) any carefree episode | Synonyms: escapade |
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(noun) any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing | - |
(noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | Synonyms: pipit, titlark |
(noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: meadowlark |
(verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
larkspur | (noun) any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium | - |
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larn | (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: acquire, learn |
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larrup | (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: paddle, spank |
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larva | (noun) the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose | - |
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larvacean | (noun) any member of the class Larvacea | - |
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larvacide | (noun) an insecticide that kills the larvae of insects | - |
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larval | (adjective) relating to or typical of a larva | - |
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(adjective) immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage | - |
larvicide | (noun) a chemical used to kill larval pests | - |
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laryngeal | (adjective) of or relating to or situated in the larynx | - |
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laryngectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the larynx (usually to treat cancer of the larynx) | - |
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laryngismus | (noun) laryngeal spasm caused by the sudden contraction of laryngeal muscles | - |
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laryngitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx; characterized by hoarseness or loss of voice and coughing | - |
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laryngopharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to the larynx and pharynx | - |
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laryngopharyngitis | (noun) inflammation of the larynx and pharynx | - |
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laryngopharynx | (noun) the lower part of the pharynx | - |
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laryngoscope | (noun) a medical instrument for examining the larynx | - |
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laryngospasm | (noun) a closure of the larynx that blocks the passage of air to the lungs | - |
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laryngostenosis | (noun) abnormal narrowing of the larynx | - |
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laryngotracheobronchitis | (noun) inflammation of the larynx and trachea and bronchial passageways | - |
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larynx | (noun) a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech | Synonyms: voice box |
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