| lend | (verb) give temporarily; let have for a limited time | Synonyms: loan |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, contribute, impart |
| (verb) have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to | - |
| lendable | (adjective) available for lending | - |
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| lender | (noun) someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters | Synonyms: loaner |
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| lending | (noun) disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Synonyms: loaning |
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| length | (noun) a section of something that is long and narrow | - |
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| (noun) the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place | - |
| (noun) continuance in time | Synonyms: duration |
| (noun) the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end | - |
| (noun) size of the gap between two places | Synonyms: distance |
| lengthen | (verb) become long or longer | - |
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| (verb) make longer | - |
| lengthened | (adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially | Synonyms: elongated, extended, prolonged |
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| lengthening | (noun) the act of prolonging something | Synonyms: perpetuation, prolongation, protraction |
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| lengthily | (adverb) in a lengthy or prolix manner | Synonyms: at length |
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| lengthiness | (noun) amount or degree or range to which something extends | Synonyms: extension, prolongation |
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| (noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration | Synonyms: continuation, prolongation, protraction |
| lengthways | (adjective) running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing | Synonyms: lengthwise |
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| (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthwise, longitudinally, longways, longwise |
| lengthwise | (adjective) running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing | Synonyms: lengthways |
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| (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, longitudinally, longways, longwise |
| lengthy | (adjective) relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | Synonyms: drawn-out, extended, prolonged, protracted |
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| lenience | (noun) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers | Synonyms: leniency |
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| (noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: leniency, lenity, mildness |
| (noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: indulgence, leniency |
| leniency | (noun) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers | Synonyms: lenience |
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| (noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: lenience, lenity, mildness |
| (noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: indulgence, lenience |
| lenient | (adjective) characterized by tolerance and mercy | - |
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| (adjective) tolerant or lenient | Synonyms: indulgent, soft |
| (adjective) not strict | Synonyms: easy |
| leniently | (adverb) in a permissively lenient manner | Synonyms: laxly |
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| lenify | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, mollify, pacify, placate |
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| lenitive | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| (noun) remedy that eases pain and discomfort | - |
| lenity | (noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: lenience, leniency, mildness |
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| lens | (noun) a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images | Synonyms: lens system, lense |
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| (noun) electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons | Synonyms: electron lens |
| (noun) biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina | Synonyms: crystalline lens, lens of the eye |
| (noun) (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood | - |
| lense | (noun) a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images | Synonyms: lens, lens system |
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| lensman | (noun) someone who takes photographs professionally | Synonyms: photographer |
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| lenten | (adjective) of or relating to or suitable for Lent | - |
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| lentic | (adjective) of or relating to or living in still waters (as lakes or ponds) | - |
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| lenticel | (noun) one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue | - |
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| lenticular | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lentiform |
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| lentiform | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lenticular |
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| lentiginose | (adjective) relating to or covered with or resembling freckles | Synonyms: freckled, lentiginous |
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| lentiginous | (adjective) relating to or covered with or resembling freckles | Synonyms: freckled, lentiginose |
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| lentigo | (noun) a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin | Synonyms: freckle |
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| lentil | (noun) round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food | - |
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| (noun) widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder | Synonyms: Lens culinaris, lentil plant |
| (noun) the fruit or seed of a lentil plant | - |
| lentisk | (noun) an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin | Synonyms: mastic, mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus |
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| lentissimo | (adjective) (of tempo) very slow | - |
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| lento | (adjective) (of tempo) slow | - |
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| (adverb) in music | Synonyms: slowly |
| leoncita | (noun) small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail | Synonyms: lion marmoset, lion monkey, tamarin |
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| leone | (noun) the basic unit of money in Sierra Leone; equal to 100 cents | - |
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| leonine | (adjective) of or characteristic of or resembling a lion | - |
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| leopard | (noun) large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots | Synonyms: Panthera pardus |
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| (noun) the pelt of a leopard | - |
| leopardbane | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Doronicum having alternate often clasping stem leaves cultivated for their long stalks of yellow flower heads | Synonyms: leopard's-bane |
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| leopardess | (noun) female leopard | - |
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| leotard | (noun) a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance | Synonyms: body suit, cat suit, unitard |
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| leotards | (noun) skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls | Synonyms: tights |
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| leper | (noun) a pariah who is avoided by others | - |
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| (noun) a person afflicted with leprosy | Synonyms: lazar |
| lepidobotrys | (noun) African tree often classified in other families; similar to the Costa Rican caracolito in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds | - |
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| lepidocrocite | (noun) a red to reddish brown mineral consisting of iron oxide hydroxide; often found in iron ores together with goethite | - |
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| lepidolite | (noun) a mineral of the mica group; an important source of lithium | - |
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| lepidomelane | (noun) a mica that is a biotite containing iron | - |
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| lepidophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of snakes | - |
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| lepidopteran | (noun) insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales | Synonyms: lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect |
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| lepidopterist | (noun) an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths | Synonyms: butterfly collector, lepidopterologist |
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| lepidopterologist | (noun) an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths | Synonyms: butterfly collector, lepidopterist |
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| lepidopterology | (noun) the branch of entomology dealing with Lepidoptera | Synonyms: lepidoptery |
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| lepidopteron | (noun) insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales | Synonyms: lepidopteran, lepidopterous insect |
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| lepidoptery | (noun) the branch of entomology dealing with Lepidoptera | Synonyms: lepidopterology |
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| lepidote | (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy |
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| lepiota | (noun) any fungus of the genus Lepiota | - |
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| leporid | (noun) rabbits and hares | Synonyms: leporid mammal |
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| leporide | (noun) red breed of domestic rabbits; hybrid between Old World rabbit and hare | Synonyms: Belgian hare |
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| leppy | (noun) motherless calf in a range herd of cattle | Synonyms: dogie, dogy |
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| leprechaun | (noun) a mischievous elf in Irish folklore | - |
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| leprose | (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, scabrous, scaly, scurfy |
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| leprosy | (noun) chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae | Synonyms: Hansen's disease |
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| leprous | (adjective) relating to or resembling or having leprosy | - |
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| leptocephalus | (noun) slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes | - |
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| leptodactylid | (noun) toothed frogs: terrestrial or aquatic or arboreal | Synonyms: leptodactylid frog |
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| leptomeninges | (noun) the two innermost layers of the meninges; cerebrospinal fluid circulates between these innermost layers | - |
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| leptomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the leptomeninges | - |
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| lepton | (noun) an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0 | - |
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| (noun) 100 lepta equal 1 drachma in Greece | - |
| leptorhine | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorrhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic |
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| leptorrhine | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic |
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| leptorrhinian | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinic |
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| leptorrhinic | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinian |
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| leptospira | (noun) important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever | - |
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| leptospirosis | (noun) an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever | Synonyms: swamp fever |
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| leptosporangiate | (adjective) (of ferns) having each sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell | - |
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| leptosporangium | (noun) a sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell; characteristic of the Filicales or of almost all modern ferns | - |
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| leptotene | (noun) the first stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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| leresis | (noun) rambling talkativeness (especially in the aged) | - |
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| lerot | (noun) dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa | - |
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| lesbian | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations between woman | Synonyms: sapphic |
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| (noun) a female homosexual | Synonyms: gay woman, tribade |
| lesbianism | (noun) female homosexuality | Synonyms: sapphism |
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| lesion | (noun) any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part | - |
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| (noun) an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) | Synonyms: wound |
| lespedeza | (noun) shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States | Synonyms: bush clover |
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| less | (adjective) (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree | - |
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| (adjective) (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer | - |
| (adjective) (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality | - |
| (adverb) used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs, indicates that the adjective or adverb is less of something | Synonyms: to a lesser extent |
| (adverb) comparative of little | - |
| lessee | (noun) a tenant who holds a lease | Synonyms: leaseholder |
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| lessen | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, diminish, fall |
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| (verb) wear off or die down | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: decrease, minify |
| lessened | (adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: diminished, vitiated, weakened |
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| (adjective) decreased in severity; made less harsh | - |
| lessening | (noun) a change downward | Synonyms: decrease, drop-off |
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| lesser | (adjective) of less size or importance | - |
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| (adjective) smaller in size or amount or value | - |
| lesson | (noun) a task assigned for individual study | - |
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| (noun) a unit of instruction | - |
| (noun) punishment intended as a warning to others | Synonyms: deterrent example, example, object lesson |
| (noun) the significance of a story or event | Synonyms: moral |
| lessor | (noun) someone who grants a lease | Synonyms: lease giver |
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| let | (noun) a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again | Synonyms: net ball |
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| (verb) leave unchanged | - |
| (verb) cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition | Synonyms: get, have |
| (verb) actively cause something to happen | - |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, countenance, permit |
| (verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: lease, rent |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: allow, permit |
| letch | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lech, lecher, satyr |
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| letdown | (noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: disappointment |
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| lethal | (adjective) of an instrument of certain death | Synonyms: deadly |
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| lethality | (noun) the quality of being deadly | Synonyms: deadliness |
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| lethargic | (adjective) deficient in alertness or activity | Synonyms: unenergetic |
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| lethargically | (adverb) without energy; in a lethargic manner | Synonyms: unenergetically |
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| lethargy | (noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: inanition, lassitude, slackness |
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| (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, languor, phlegm, sluggishness |
| (noun) a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) | Synonyms: lassitude, sluggishness |