| ling | (noun) elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried | Synonyms: Molva molva |
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| (noun) American hakes | - |
| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, eelpout, Lota lota |
| (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, heather, Scots heather |
| (noun) water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs | Synonyms: ling ko, Trapa bicornis |
| lingam | (noun) the Hindu phallic symbol of Siva | - |
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| lingberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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| lingcod | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings | Synonyms: Ophiodon elongatus |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States | - |
| lingenberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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| linger | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: dawdle |
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| (verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: tarry |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: hover |
| (verb) remain present although waning or gradually dying | - |
| lingerer | (noun) someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place | Synonyms: loiterer |
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| lingerie | (noun) women's underwear and nightclothes | Synonyms: intimate apparel |
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| lingering | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: tarriance |
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| lingeringly | (adverb) in a slow, leisurely or prolonged way | Synonyms: protractedly |
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| lingo | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| lingonberry | (noun) tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller | Synonyms: cowberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry |
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| (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
| lingua | (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: clapper, glossa, tongue |
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| lingual | (adjective) consisting of or related to language | Synonyms: linguistic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue | - |
| (noun) a consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs | - |
| lingually | (adverb) with respect to language | Synonyms: linguistically |
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| linguica | (noun) a highly seasoned Portuguese pork sausage flavored with garlic and onions | - |
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| linguine | (noun) pasta in long slender flat strips | Synonyms: linguini |
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| linguini | (noun) pasta in long slender flat strips | Synonyms: linguine |
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| linguist | (noun) a person who speaks more than one language | Synonyms: polyglot |
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| (noun) a specialist in linguistics | Synonyms: linguistic scientist |
| linguistic | (adjective) consisting of or related to language | Synonyms: lingual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the scientific study of language | - |
| linguistically | (adverb) with respect to language | Synonyms: lingually |
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| (adverb) with respect to the science of linguistics | - |
| linguistics | (noun) the scientific study of language | - |
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| (noun) the humanistic study of language and literature | Synonyms: philology |
| lingulate | (adjective) shaped like a tongue | Synonyms: tongue-shaped |
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