| local | (adjective) relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area | - |
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| (adjective) affecting only a restricted part or area of the body | - |
| (adjective) of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood | - |
| (noun) public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops | - |
| (noun) anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body | Synonyms: local anaesthetic, local anesthetic, topical anaesthetic, topical anesthetic |
| locale | (noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) | Synonyms: locus, venue |
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| localisation | (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localization, locating, location |
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| (noun) (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body | Synonyms: localisation of function, localisation principle, localization, localization of function, localization principle |
| localise | (verb) locate | Synonyms: localize, place, set |
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| (verb) restrict something to a particular area | Synonyms: localize |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localize |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localize, place |
| localised | (adjective) made local or oriented locally | Synonyms: localized |
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| (adjective) confined or restricted to a particular location | Synonyms: localized |
| localism | (noun) a partiality for some particular place | Synonyms: provincialism, sectionalism |
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| (noun) a phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality | - |
| locality | (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity |
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| localization | (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localisation, locating, location |
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| (noun) (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body | Synonyms: localisation, localisation of function, localisation principle, localization of function, localization principle |
| localize | (verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, place, set |
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| (verb) restrict something to a particular area | Synonyms: localise |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localise |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, place |
| localized | (adjective) made local or oriented locally | Synonyms: localised |
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| (adjective) confined or restricted to a particular location | Synonyms: localised |
| locally | (adverb) by a particular locality | - |
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| (adverb) to a restricted area of the body | Synonyms: topically |
| localness | (noun) The state or condition of being from a nearby location. | - |
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| locate | (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: settle |
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| (verb) discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining | Synonyms: turn up |
| (verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: place, site |
| (verb) determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey | Synonyms: situate |
| located | (adjective) situated in a particular spot or position | Synonyms: placed, set, situated |
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| locater | (noun) a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims | Synonyms: locator |
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| locating | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, location, placement, position, positioning |
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| (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localisation, localization, location |
| location | (noun) a point or extent in space; a point or extent in space | - |
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| (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localisation, localization, locating |
| (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, placement, position, positioning |
| (noun) a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made | - |
| locative | (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: locative role |
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| (noun) A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein. | Synonyms: locative case |
| locator | (noun) a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims | Synonyms: locater |
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| loch | (noun) Scottish word for a lake | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked) | - |
| lochia | (noun) substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth | - |
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| lock | (noun) any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured | - |
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| (noun) a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed | - |
| (noun) a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key | Synonyms: ignition lock |
| (noun) enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it | Synonyms: lock chamber |
| (noun) a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun | - |
| (noun) a strand or cluster of hair | - |
| (verb) become rigid or immoveable | - |
| (verb) fasten with a lock | - |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, mesh, operate |
| (verb) place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape | Synonyms: lock away, lock in, lock up, put away, shut away, shut up |
| (verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: interlock |
| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, interlock |
| (verb) build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels | - |
| (verb) hold fast (in a certain state) | - |
| (verb) pass by means through a lock in a waterway | - |
| lockage | (noun) passage through a lock in a canal or waterway | - |
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| (noun) a system of locks in a canal or waterway | - |
| (noun) a fee charged for passage through a lock in a canal or waterway | - |
| lockbox | (noun) a fireproof metal strongbox (usually in a bank) for storing valuables | Synonyms: deposit box, safe-deposit, safe-deposit box, safety-deposit, safety deposit box |
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| lockdown | (noun) the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot) | - |
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| locker | (noun) a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock | Synonyms: cabinet, storage locker |
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| (noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: footlocker |
| (noun) a fastener that locks or closes | - |
| locket | (noun) a small ornamental case; usually contains a picture or a lock of hair and is worn on a necklace | - |
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| locking | (noun) the act of locking something up to protect it | Synonyms: lockup |
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| lockjaw | (noun) an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages | Synonyms: tetanus |
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| lockkeeper | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockman, lockmaster |
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| lockman | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockmaster |
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| lockmaster | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockman |
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| locknut | (noun) supplementary nut that is screwed down on a primary nut to prevent it from loosening | Synonyms: safety nut |
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| lockout | (noun) a management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms | - |
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| lockring | (noun) washer that prevents a nut from loosening | Synonyms: lock ring, lock washer |
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| locksmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs locks | - |
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| lockstep | (noun) a manner of marching in file in which each person's leg moves with and behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead | - |
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| (noun) a standard procedure that is followed mindlessly | - |
| lockstitch | (noun) machine stitch in which the top thread interlocks with the bobbin thread | - |
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| lockup | (noun) the act of locking something up to protect it | Synonyms: locking |
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| (noun) jail in a local police station | - |
| loco | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| locoism | (noun) a disease of livestock caused by locoweed poisoning; characterized by weakness and lack of coordination and trembling and partial paralysis | Synonyms: loco disease |
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| locomote | (verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically | Synonyms: go, move, travel |
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| locomotion | (noun) self-propelled movement | Synonyms: travel |
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| (noun) the power or ability to move | Synonyms: motive power, motivity |
| locomotive | (adjective) of or relating to locomotion | Synonyms: locomotor |
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| (noun) a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks | Synonyms: engine, locomotive engine, railway locomotive |
| locomotor | (adjective) of or relating to locomotion | Synonyms: locomotive |
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| locoweed | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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| (noun) any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | Synonyms: crazy weed, crazyweed |
| locule | (noun) a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal | Synonyms: loculus |
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| loculus | (noun) a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal | Synonyms: locule |
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| locum | (noun) someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession | Synonyms: locum tenens |
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| 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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