| lucent | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: aglow, lambent, luminous |
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| lucerne | (noun) important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop | Synonyms: alfalfa, Medicago sativa |
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| lucid | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, luculent, pellucid, perspicuous |
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| (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, pellucid, transparent |
| (adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: coherent, logical |
| (adjective) having a clear mind | - |
| lucidity | (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
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| (noun) a lucid state of mind; not confused | - |
| lucidly | (adverb) in a clear and lucid manner | Synonyms: limpidly, pellucidly, perspicuously |
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| lucidness | (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, pellucidity |
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| lucifer | (noun) lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction | Synonyms: friction match, match |
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| luciferin | (noun) pigment occurring in luminescent organisms (as fireflies); emits heatless light when undergoing oxidation | - |
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| lucifugal | (adjective) light-avoiding | Synonyms: lucifugous |
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| lucifugous | (adjective) light-avoiding | Synonyms: lucifugal |
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| luck | (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, fortune, hazard |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome | Synonyms: fortune |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, portion |
| luckily | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortuitously, fortunately |
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| luckiness | (noun) an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes | Synonyms: good fortune, good luck |
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| luckless | (adjective) having or bringing misfortune | Synonyms: unlucky |
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| lucky | (adjective) having or bringing good fortune | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by chance | - |
| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, golden, prosperous |
| lucrative | (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: moneymaking, remunerative |
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| lucrativeness | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: gainfulness, profitability, profitableness |
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| lucre | (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| lucubrate | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out |
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| lucubration | (noun) laborious cogitation | - |
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| (noun) a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation | - |
| luculent | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, perspicuous |
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| lucullan | (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lavish, plush, plushy |
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