| locus | (noun) the set of all points or lines that satisfy or are determined by specific conditions | - |
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| (noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) | Synonyms: locale, venue |
| (noun) the specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome | - |
| locust | (noun) migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae | - |
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| (noun) any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae | Synonyms: locust tree |
| (noun) hardwood from any of various locust trees | - |
| locution | (noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: expression, saying |
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| lode | (noun) a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks | Synonyms: load |
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| lodestar | (noun) something that serves as a model or guide | Synonyms: loadstar |
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| (noun) guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy | Synonyms: loadstar |
| lodestone | (noun) a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically | Synonyms: loadstone |
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| lodge | (noun) any of various Native American dwellings | Synonyms: indian lodge |
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| (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostel, hostelry, inn |
| (noun) a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter | Synonyms: hunting lodge |
| (noun) small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener | - |
| (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, guild, order, social club, society |
| (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: charge, file |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, stick, wedge |
| (verb) provide housing for | Synonyms: accommodate |
| (verb) be a lodger; stay temporarily | - |
| lodgement | (noun) the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily | Synonyms: lodging, lodgment |
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| lodgepole | (noun) shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares | Synonyms: lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta, shore pine, spruce pine |
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| lodger | (noun) a tenant in someone's house | Synonyms: boarder, roomer |
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| lodging | (noun) the act of lodging | - |
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| (noun) structures collectively in which people are housed | Synonyms: housing, living accommodations |
| (noun) the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily | Synonyms: lodgement, lodgment |
| lodgings | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: diggings, digs, domiciliation, pad |
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| lodgment | (noun) the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily | Synonyms: lodgement, lodging |
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| loess | (noun) a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind | - |
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| loft | (noun) floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage | Synonyms: attic, garret |
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| (noun) a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept | Synonyms: pigeon loft |
| (noun) floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space | - |
| (noun) (golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air | - |
| (verb) lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull | - |
| (verb) propel through the air | - |
| (verb) kick or strike high in the air | - |
| (verb) store in a loft | - |
| loftily | (adverb) in a lofty manner | - |
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| loftiness | (noun) the quality of being high or lofty | Synonyms: highness |
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| (noun) impressiveness in scale or proportion | Synonyms: majesty, stateliness |
| lofty | (adjective) of imposing height; especially standing out above others | Synonyms: eminent, soaring, towering |
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| (adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: gallant, majestic, proud |
| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
| log | (noun) measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water | - |
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| (noun) a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane) | - |
| (noun) the exponent required to produce a given number | Synonyms: logarithm |
| (noun) a written record of messages sent or received | - |
| (noun) a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches | - |
| (verb) enter into a log, as on ships and planes | - |
| (verb) cut lumber, as in woods and forests | Synonyms: lumber |
| logagraphia | (noun) a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion | Synonyms: agraphia, anorthography |
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| loganberry | (noun) large red variety of the dewberry | - |
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| (noun) red-fruited bramble native from Oregon to Baja California | Synonyms: Rubus loganobaccus, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus |
| logarithm | (noun) the exponent required to produce a given number | Synonyms: log |
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| logarithmic | (adjective) of or relating to or using logarithms | - |
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| logarithmically | (adverb) in a logarithmic manner | - |
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| logbook | (noun) a book in which the log is written | - |
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| loge | (noun) balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine | - |
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| (noun) private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance | Synonyms: box |
| logger | (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, lumberjack, lumberman |
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| loggerhead | (noun) very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas | Synonyms: Caretta caretta, loggerhead turtle |
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| (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
| loggerheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| loggia | (noun) a roofed arcade or gallery with open sides stretching along the front or side of a building; often at an upper level | - |
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| logginess | (noun) a dull and listless state resulting from weariness | Synonyms: loginess |
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| logging | (noun) the work of cutting down trees for timber | - |
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| logic | (noun) the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference | - |
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| (noun) a system of reasoning | Synonyms: logical system, system of logic |
| (noun) reasoned and reasonable judgment | - |
| (noun) the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation | - |
| (noun) the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations | - |
| logical | (adjective) capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning | - |
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| (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherent, consistent, ordered |
| (adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: coherent, lucid |
| (adjective) based on known statements or events or conditions | Synonyms: legitimate |
| logicality | (noun) correct and valid reasoning | Synonyms: logicalness |
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| logically | (adverb) in a logical manner | - |
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| (adverb) according to logical reasoning | - |
| logicalness | (noun) correct and valid reasoning | Synonyms: logicality |
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| logician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logistician |
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| logicism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic | - |
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| loginess | (noun) a dull and listless state resulting from weariness | Synonyms: logginess |
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| logion | (noun) a saying of Jesus that is regarded as authentic although it is not recorded in the Gospels | - |
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| logistic | (adjective) of or relating to logistics | Synonyms: logistical |
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| logistical | (adjective) of or relating to logistics | Synonyms: logistic |
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| logistician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logician |
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| logistics | (noun) handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed | - |
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| logjam | (noun) an immovable mass of logs blocking a river | - |
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| (noun) any stoppage attributable to unusual activity | - |
| logo | (noun) a company emblem or device | Synonyms: logotype |
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| logogram | (noun) a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation | Synonyms: logograph |
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| logogrammatic | (adjective) of or relating to logograms or logographs | Synonyms: logographic |
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| logogrammatically | (adverb) by means of logograms | - |
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| logograph | (noun) a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation | Synonyms: logogram |
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| logographic | (adjective) of or relating to logograms or logographs | Synonyms: logogrammatic |
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| logomach | (noun) someone given to disputes over words | Synonyms: logomachist |
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| logomachist | (noun) someone given to disputes over words | Synonyms: logomach |
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| logomachy | (noun) argument about words or the meaning of words | - |
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| logomania | (noun) pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking | Synonyms: logorrhea |
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| logorrhea | (noun) pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking | Synonyms: logomania |
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| logotype | (noun) a company emblem or device | Synonyms: logo |
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| logroll | (verb) work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes | - |
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| logrolling | (noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) | Synonyms: birling |
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| (noun) act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects | - |
| logwood | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, campeachy, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood tree |
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| (noun) very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye | - |
| logy | (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, foggy, groggy, stuporous |
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| lohan | (noun) a Buddhist who has attained nirvana | Synonyms: Arhant, Arhat |
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| loin | (noun) either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds | Synonyms: lumbus |
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| (noun) a cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump | - |
| loincloth | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechcloth, breechclout |
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| loins | (noun) the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs | Synonyms: pubes, pubic region |
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| (noun) the region of the hips and groin and lower abdomen | - |
| loir | (noun) large European dormouse | Synonyms: Glis glis |
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| loiter | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
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| loiterer | (noun) someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place | Synonyms: lingerer |
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| loligo | (noun) somewhat flattened cylindrical squid | - |
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| loll | (verb) be lazy or idle | Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
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| (verb) hang loosely or laxly | Synonyms: droop |
| lollipop | (noun) hard candy on a stick | Synonyms: all-day sucker, sucker |
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| (noun) ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick | Synonyms: ice lolly, lolly, popsicle |
| lollop | (verb) walk clumsily and with a bounce | - |
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| lolly | (noun) ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick | Synonyms: ice lolly, lollipop, popsicle |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| lollygag | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
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| lomatia | (noun) any of various ornamental evergreens of the genus Lomatia having attractive fragrant flowers | - |
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| loment | (noun) seedpods that are constricted between the seeds and that break apart when mature into single-seeded segments | - |
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| lomustine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug often used to treat brain tumors or Hodgkin's disease | - |
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| lone | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lonesome, only, sole, solitary |
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| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lonely, solitary |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lonely, solitary |
| loneliness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, lonesomeness, solitariness |
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| (noun) sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned | Synonyms: desolation, forlornness |
| (noun) the state of being alone in solitary isolation | Synonyms: solitariness |
| lonely | (adjective) marked by dejection from being alone | Synonyms: lonesome |
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| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lone, solitary |
| (adjective) devoid of creatures | Synonyms: solitary, unfrequented |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lone, solitary |
| loner | (noun) a person who avoids the company or assistance of others | Synonyms: lone hand, lone wolf |
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| lonesome | (adjective) marked by dejection from being alone | Synonyms: lonely |
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| (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, only, sole, solitary |
| lonesomeness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, loneliness, solitariness |
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| long | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: recollective, retentive, tenacious |
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| (adjective) primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified | - |
| (adjective) primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified | - |
| (adjective) (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration | - |
| (adjective) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices | - |
| (adjective) having or being more than normal or necessary | - |
| (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, longsighted, prospicient |
| (adjective) of relatively great height | - |
| (adjective) involving substantial risk | - |
| (adverb) for an extended time or at a distant time | - |
| (adverb) for an extended distance | - |
| (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: hanker, yearn |
| longan | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longanberry, lungen, Nephelium longana |
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| longanberry | (noun) Asian fruit similar to litchi | Synonyms: dragon's eye |
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| (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longan, lungen, Nephelium longana |
| longanimity | (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: forbearance, patience |
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| longanimous | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: forbearing |
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| longbeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, greybeard, long-beard |
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| longboat | (noun) the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel | - |
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| longbow | (noun) a powerful wooden bow drawn by hand; usually 5-6 feet long; used in medieval England | - |
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| longbowman | (noun) a medieval English archer who used a longbow | - |
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| longer | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: thirster, yearner |
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| (adverb) for more time | - |
| longest | (adverb) for the most time | - |
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| longevity | (noun) duration of service | Synonyms: length of service |
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| (noun) the property of being long-lived | Synonyms: seniority |
| longhand | (adjective) having words written out in full by hand | - |
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| (noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive, cursive script, running hand |
| longhorn | (noun) long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern United States | Synonyms: Texas longhorn |
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| longicorn | (noun) long-bodied beetle having very long antennae | Synonyms: long-horned beetle, longicorn beetle |
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| longing | (noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: hungriness, yearning |
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