| lea | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, ley, pasture, pasture land, pastureland |
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| (noun) a unit of length of thread or yarn | - |
| leach | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leaching |
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| (verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid | Synonyms: strip |
| (verb) permeate or penetrate gradually | Synonyms: percolate |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate | - |
| leaching | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leach |
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| lead | (noun) the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge | - |
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| (noun) a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase `take the lead') | - |
| (noun) a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire | Synonyms: booster cable, jumper cable, jumper lead |
| (noun) thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing | Synonyms: leading |
| (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: leash, tether |
| (noun) the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: spark advance |
| (noun) an advantage held by a competitor in a race | - |
| (noun) evidence pointing to a possible solution | Synonyms: track, trail |
| (noun) a news story of major importance | Synonyms: lead story |
| (noun) the introductory section of a story | Synonyms: lead-in, lede |
| (noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, hint, steer, tip, wind |
| (noun) (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base | - |
| (noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: principal, star |
| (noun) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning | - |
| (noun) the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile) | - |
| (noun) mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil | Synonyms: pencil lead |
| (noun) a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey | Synonyms: atomic number 82, Pb |
| (verb) cause to undertake a certain action | - |
| (verb) preside over | Synonyms: chair, moderate |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, direct |
| (verb) travel in front of; go in advance of others | Synonyms: head |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, direct, guide, take |
| (verb) move ahead (of others) in time or space | Synonyms: precede |
| (verb) be in charge of | Synonyms: head |
| (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, contribute |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, pass, run |
| (verb) be ahead of others; be the first | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) lead, extend, or afford access | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: leave, result |
| (verb) tend to or result in | - |
| leaded | (adjective) treated or mixed with lead | - |
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| (adjective) (of panes of glass) fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead | - |
| (adjective) having thin strips of lead between the lines of type | - |
| leaden | (adjective) made of lead | - |
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| (adjective) darkened with overcast | Synonyms: dull |
| (adjective) lacking lightness or liveliness | Synonyms: heavy |
| (adjective) (of movement) slow and laborious | Synonyms: plodding |
| (adjective) made heavy or weighted down with weariness | Synonyms: weighted |
| leader | (noun) a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers | Synonyms: drawing card, loss leader |
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| (noun) a person who rules or guides or inspires others | - |
| leaders | (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leadership |
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| leadership | (noun) the activity of leading | Synonyms: leading |
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| (noun) the ability to lead | - |
| (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leaders |
| (noun) the status of a leader | - |
| leading | (adjective) going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way | - |
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| (adjective) greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement | Synonyms: preeminent |
| (adjective) having the leading position or higher score in a contest | Synonyms: ahead, in the lead |
| (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: prima, star, starring, stellar |
| (noun) thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing | Synonyms: lead |
| (noun) the activity of leading | Synonyms: leadership |
| leadless | (adjective) not treated with lead | Synonyms: unleaded |
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| leadplant | (noun) shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; thought to indicate the presence of lead ore | Synonyms: Amorpha canescens, lead plant |
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| leadwort | (noun) a plant of the genus Plumbago with blue flowers | Synonyms: Plumbago europaea |
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| leaf | (noun) hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door) | - |
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| (noun) a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book) | Synonyms: folio |
| (noun) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants | Synonyms: foliage, leafage |
| (verb) produce leaves, of plants | - |
| (verb) turn over pages | - |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, riff, riffle, thumb |
| leafage | (noun) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants | Synonyms: foliage, leaf |
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| leafed | (adjective) having leaves or leaves as specified; often used in combination | Synonyms: leaved |
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| leafhopper | (noun) small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants | - |
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| leafing | (noun) (botany) the process of forming leaves | Synonyms: foliation |
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| leafless | (adjective) having no leaves | - |
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| leaflet | (noun) a thin triangular flap of a heart valve | Synonyms: cusp |
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| (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, folder, pamphlet |
| (noun) part of a compound leaf | - |
| leaflike | (adjective) resembling a leaf | Synonyms: leaf-like |
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| leafstalk | (noun) the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf | Synonyms: petiole |
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| leafy | (adjective) having or covered with leaves | - |
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| league | (noun) an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action | - |
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| (noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: conference |
| (noun) an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles) | - |
| (verb) unite to form a league | - |
| leak | (noun) unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information | Synonyms: news leak |
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| (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leakage, outflow |
| (noun) an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape | - |
| (noun) a euphemism for urination | Synonyms: making water, passing water, wetting |
| (noun) soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi | - |
| (verb) have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out | - |
| (verb) enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure | - |
| (verb) tell anonymously | - |
| (verb) be leaked | Synonyms: leak out |
| leakage | (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leak, outflow |
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| leaker | (noun) a surreptitious informant | - |
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| leakiness | (noun) the condition of permitting leaks or leakage | - |
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| leakproof | (adjective) not subject to leaks | - |
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| leaky | (adjective) permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases | - |
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| (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, talebearing, tattling |
| (adjective) used informally; unable to retain urine | - |
| leal | (adjective) faithful and true | - |
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| lean | (adjective) lacking in mineral content or combustible material | - |
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| (adjective) lacking excess flesh | Synonyms: thin |
| (adjective) not profitable or prosperous | - |
| (adjective) containing little excess | Synonyms: skimpy |
| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, leaning, list, tilt |
| (verb) rely on for support | - |
| (verb) cause to lean or incline | - |
| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, slant, tilt, tip |
| (verb) cause to lean to the side | Synonyms: list |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, run, tend |
| leaner | (noun) (horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake | - |
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| leaning | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: atilt, canted, tilted, tipped |
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| (noun) the act of deviating from a vertical position | - |
| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, list, tilt |
| (noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: proclivity, propensity |
| (noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: propensity, tendency |
| leanness | (noun) the property of having little body fat | Synonyms: spareness, thinness |
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| (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
| leap | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leaping, saltation, spring |
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| (noun) the distance leaped (or to be leaped) | - |
| (noun) an abrupt transition | Synonyms: jump, saltation |
| (noun) a sudden and decisive increase | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) pass abruptly from one state or topic to another | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: bound, jump, spring |
| (verb) cause to jump or leap | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) jump down from an elevated point | Synonyms: jump, jump off |
| leaper | (noun) someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) | Synonyms: bounder |
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| leapfrog | (noun) a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over | - |
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| (noun) advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors | - |
| (verb) progress by large jumps instead of small increments | - |
| (verb) to vault | - |
| leaping | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, saltation, spring |
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| learn | (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: acquire, larn |
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| (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, pick up, see |
| (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: read, study, take |
| (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, memorise, memorize |
| (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: instruct, teach |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, determine, find out, see, watch |
| learned | (adjective) established by conditioning or learning | Synonyms: conditioned |
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| (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowing, knowledgeable, lettered, well-educated, well-read |
| (adjective) having or showing profound knowledge | Synonyms: erudite |
| learnedly | (adverb) with erudition; in an erudite manner | Synonyms: eruditely |
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| learnedness | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learning, scholarship |
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| learner | (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, scholar, student |
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| (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, prentice |
| learning | (noun) the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge | Synonyms: acquisition |
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| (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, scholarship |
| lease | (noun) a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment | - |
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| (noun) property that is leased or rented out or let | Synonyms: letting, rental |
| (noun) the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect | Synonyms: term of a contract |
| (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, rent, take |
| (verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: let, rent |
| (verb) let for money | Synonyms: rent |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, hire, rent |
| leased | (adjective) hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers | Synonyms: chartered, hired |
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| leasehold | (noun) land or property held under a lease | - |
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| leaseholder | (noun) a tenant who holds a lease | Synonyms: lessee |
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| leash | (noun) a figurative restraint | Synonyms: collar |
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| (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: lead, tether |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| (verb) fasten with a rope | Synonyms: rope |
| least | (adjective) the superlative of `little' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree | - |
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| (noun) something that is of no importance | - |
| (adverb) used to form the superlative, smallest in size or degree | Synonyms: to the lowest degree |
| leastways | (adverb) if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial) | Synonyms: at any rate, at least, leastwise |
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| leastwise | (adverb) if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial) | Synonyms: at any rate, at least, leastways |
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| leather | (noun) an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning | - |
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| (verb) whip with a leather strap | - |
| leatherback | (noun) wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle | Synonyms: Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle |
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| leathered | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leatherlike, leathery |
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| leatherette | (noun) fabric made to look like leather | Synonyms: imitation leather |
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| leatherfish | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjack | (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjacket | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherfish |
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| (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjack |
| (noun) tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies | - |
| leatherleaf | (noun) north temperate bog shrub with evergreen leathery leaves and small white cylindrical flowers | Synonyms: Chamaedaphne calyculata |
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| (noun) stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib | Synonyms: coast polypody, leathery polypody, Polypodium scouleri |
| leatherlike | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leathery |
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| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| leatherwood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, moose-wood, moosewood, ropebark, wicopy |
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| (noun) shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage | Synonyms: cyrilla, Cyrilla racemiflora, white titi |
| leatherwork | (noun) work made of leather | - |
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| leathery | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike |
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| leave | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: farewell, leave-taking, parting |
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| (noun) permission to do something | - |
| (noun) the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty | Synonyms: leave of absence |
| (verb) leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking | Synonyms: leave alone, leave behind, let alone |
| (verb) be survived by after one's death | Synonyms: leave behind |
| (verb) leave behind unintentionally | Synonyms: forget |
| (verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness | - |
| (verb) move out of or depart from | Synonyms: exit, get out, go out |
| (verb) go away from a place | Synonyms: go away, go forth |
| (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: bequeath, will |
| (verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: give, impart, pass on |
| (verb) put into the care or protection of someone | Synonyms: entrust |
| (verb) remove oneself from an association with or participation in | Synonyms: depart, pull up stakes |
| (verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: lead, result |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow, allow for, provide |
| (verb) act or be so as to become in a specified state | - |
| (verb) have left or have as a remainder | - |
| leaved | (adjective) having leaves or leaves as specified; often used in combination | Synonyms: leafed |
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| leaven | (noun) an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something | Synonyms: leavening |
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| (noun) a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid | Synonyms: leavening |
| (verb) cause to puff up with a leaven | Synonyms: prove, raise |
| leavened | (adjective) made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder; often used as a combining form | - |
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| leavening | (noun) an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something | Synonyms: leaven |
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| (noun) a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid | Synonyms: leaven |
| leaver | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: departer, goer |
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| leaving | (noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: departure, going, going away |
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| lebensraum | (noun) space sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding | Synonyms: living space |
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| lecanopteris | (noun) any of several bizarre ferns of the genus Lecanopteris having swollen hollow rhizomes that provide homes for symbiotic ants | - |
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| lecanora | (noun) any lichen of the genus Lecanora; some used in dyeing; some used for food | - |
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| lech | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lecher, letch, satyr |
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| lechatelierite | (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: crystal, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
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| lecher | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lech, letch, satyr |
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| lecherous | (adjective) given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity | - |
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| lecherousness | (noun) a strong sexual desire | Synonyms: lust, lustfulness |
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| lechery | (noun) unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity | - |
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| lechwe | (noun) tawny-colored African antelope inhabiting wet grassy plains; a threatened species | Synonyms: Kobus leche |
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| lecithin | (noun) a yellow phospholipid essential for the metabolism of fats; found in egg yolk and in many plant and animal cells; used commercially as an emulsifier | - |
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| lectern | (noun) desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer | Synonyms: reading desk |
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| lectin | (noun) any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies but are not antibodies in that they are not evoked by an antigenic stimulus | - |
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| lector | (noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lecturer, reader |
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| (noun) someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: reader |
| lecture | (noun) teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) | Synonyms: lecturing |
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| (noun) a speech that is open to the public | Synonyms: public lecture, talk |
| (noun) a lengthy rebuke | Synonyms: speech, talking to |
| (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, lambaste, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| (verb) deliver a lecture or talk | Synonyms: talk |
| lecturer | (noun) someone who lectures professionally | - |
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| (noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lector, reader |
| lectureship | (noun) the post of lecturer | - |
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| lecturing | (noun) teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) | Synonyms: lecture |
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| lede | (noun) the introductory section of a story | Synonyms: lead-in, lead |
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| lederhosen | (noun) leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria | - |
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| ledge | (noun) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water | Synonyms: shelf |
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| ledgeman | (noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: breaker |
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| ledger | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: daybook |
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| (noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book, book of account, leger |
| lee | (adjective) towards the side away from the wind | Synonyms: downwind |
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| (noun) the side of something that is sheltered from the wind | Synonyms: lee side, leeward |
| leech | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, hirudinean |
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| (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: parasite, sponge, sponger |
| (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, phlebotomise, phlebotomize |
| leechee | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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| leechlike | (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: bloodsucking, parasitic, parasitical |
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