loach | (noun) slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes | - |
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load | (noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: burden, loading |
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(noun) the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents | Synonyms: payload, warhead |
(noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, loading, payload, shipment |
(noun) electrical device to which electrical power is delivered | - |
(noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus |
(noun) a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks | Synonyms: lode |
(noun) the power output of a generator or power plant | - |
(noun) a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time | Synonyms: loading |
(noun) an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate | - |
(verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, stretch |
(verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, laden, load up |
(verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: charge |
(verb) put (something) on a structure or conveyance | - |
(verb) transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory | - |
loaded | (adjective) (of weapons) charged with ammunition | - |
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(adjective) filled with a great quantity | Synonyms: laden, ladened |
(adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
(adjective) (of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence | - |
(adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
loader | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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(noun) an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game | - |
loading | (noun) the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc. | - |
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(noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, payload, shipment |
(noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: burden, load |
(noun) a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time | Synonyms: load |
(noun) the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift | - |
loads | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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loadstar | (noun) something that serves as a model or guide | Synonyms: lodestar |
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(noun) guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy | Synonyms: lodestar |
loadstone | (noun) a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically | Synonyms: lodestone |
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loaf | (noun) a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating | Synonyms: loaf of bread |
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(noun) a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape | - |
(verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
(verb) be lazy or idle | Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
loafer | (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout |
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loafing | (noun) having no employment | Synonyms: idleness, idling |
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loam | (noun) a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials | - |
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loamless | (adjective) having no loam | - |
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loamy | (adjective) consisting of or having the character of loam | - |
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loan | (noun) a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English | Synonyms: loanword |
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(noun) the temporary provision of money (usually at interest) | - |
(verb) give temporarily; let have for a limited time | Synonyms: lend |
loanblend | (noun) a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) | Synonyms: hybrid, loan-blend |
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loaner | (noun) a car that is lent as a replacement for one that is under repair | - |
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(noun) someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters | Synonyms: lender |
loaning | (noun) disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Synonyms: lending |
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loanword | (noun) a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English | Synonyms: loan |
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loasa | (noun) any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers | - |
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loath | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, averse, indisposed, loth |
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(adjective) unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom | Synonyms: loth, reluctant |
loathe | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, abominate, execrate |
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loather | (noun) one who hates or loathes | Synonyms: abominator |
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loathing | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, odium |
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loathly | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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loathsome | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
loathsomeness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: lousiness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, wickedness |
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