| lev | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bulgaria | - |
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| levallorphan | (noun) drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects | Synonyms: Lorfan |
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| levant | (verb) run off without paying a debt | - |
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| levanter | (noun) an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area | - |
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| levator | (noun) a muscle that serves to lift some body part (as the eyelid or lip) | - |
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| levee | (noun) an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing | - |
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| (noun) a pier that provides a landing place on a river | - |
| (noun) a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court) | - |
| level | (adjective) of the score in a contest | Synonyms: even, tied |
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| (adjective) being on a precise horizontal plane | - |
| (adjective) not showing abrupt variations | Synonyms: unwavering |
| (adjective) having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another | Synonyms: flat, plane |
| (adjective) oriented at right angles to the plumb | - |
| (noun) indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid | Synonyms: spirit level |
| (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, storey, story |
| (noun) a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line | Synonyms: horizontal surface |
| (noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: degree, grade |
| (noun) height above ground | - |
| (noun) an abstract place usually conceived as having depth | Synonyms: layer, stratum |
| (noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, point, stage |
| (noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group | Synonyms: grade, tier |
| (verb) become level or even | Synonyms: level off |
| (verb) talk frankly with; lay it on the line | - |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: charge, point |
| (verb) aim at | - |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, flush |
| (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: dismantle, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
| leveler | (noun) a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions | Synonyms: leveller |
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| levelheaded | (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: healthy, intelligent, level-headed, sound |
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| levelheadedness | (noun) the property of having or showing sound judgment. | - |
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| leveling | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, equalization |
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| (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: demolishing, razing, tearing down |
| (noun) changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface | Synonyms: grading |
| leveller | (noun) a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions | Synonyms: leveler |
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| levelness | (noun) The property of being the same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground. | - |
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| lever | (noun) a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum | - |
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| (noun) a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock | Synonyms: lever tumbler |
| (noun) a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum | - |
| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, prise, prize, pry |
| leverage | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leveraging |
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| (noun) strategic advantage; power to act effectively | - |
| (noun) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | Synonyms: purchase |
| (verb) provide with leverage | - |
| (verb) supplement with leverage | - |
| leveraging | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leverage |
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| leveret | (noun) a young hare especially one in its first year | - |
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| leviathan | (noun) the largest or most massive thing of its kind | - |
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| (noun) monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament | - |
| levirate | (noun) the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line | - |
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| levis | (noun) a popular brand of jeans | Synonyms: Levi's |
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| levitate | (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: hover |
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| (verb) cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity | - |
| levitation | (noun) the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means | - |
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| (noun) movement upward in virtue of lightness | - |
| (noun) the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means | - |
| levity | (noun) a manner lacking seriousness | - |
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| (noun) feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness | - |
| levodopa | (noun) the levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa); as a drug it is used to treat Parkinson's disease | Synonyms: Bendopa, Brocadopa, L-dopa, Larodopa |
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| levorotary | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotatory |
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| levorotation | (noun) rotation to the left | Synonyms: counterclockwise rotation |
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| levorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotary |
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| levulose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fructose, fruit sugar, laevulose |
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| levy | (noun) the act of drafting into military service | Synonyms: levy en masse |
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| (noun) a charge imposed and collected | - |
| (verb) cause to assemble or enlist in military | Synonyms: raise, recruit |
| (verb) impose and collect | Synonyms: impose |