| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| liableness | noun | Quality of being liable; liability. |
| libellulid | noun | A dragon fly. |
| liberalism | noun | Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party. |
| liberalist | noun | A liberal. |
| liberality | noun | The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity., A gift; a gratuity; — sometimes in the plural; as, a prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities. |
| liberalize | verb t. | To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. |
| liberating | present participle & vb. noun | of Liberate |
| liberation | noun | The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. |
| liberatory | adjective | Tending, or serving, to liberate. |
| libidinist | noun | One given to lewdness. |
| libidinous | adjective | Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious. |
| librettist | noun | One who makes a libretto. |
| licensable | adjective | That can be licensed. |
| licentiate | noun | One who has a license to exercise a profession; as, a licentiate in medicine or theology., A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy., One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor., On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor., To give a license to. |
| licentious | adjective | Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press., Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life. |
| licitation | noun | The act of offering for sale to the highest bidder. |
| lieberkuhn | noun | A concave metallic mirror attached to the object-glass end of a microscope, to throw down light on opaque objects; a reflector. |
| lierne rib | In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another. | |
| lieutenant | noun | An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty., A commissioned officer in the army, next below a captain., A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank next below a commander., A commissioned officer in the United States navy, in rank next below a lieutenant commander. |
| lifespring | noun | Spring or source of life. |
| lifestring | noun | A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life. |
| life-weary | adjective | Weary of living. |
| ligamental | adjective | Alt. of Ligamentous |
| light-boat | noun | Light-ship. |
| lightening | present participle & vb. noun | of Lighten |
| lighterage | noun | The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter., The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter. |
| lightermen | plural | of Lighterman |
| lighterman | noun | A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter. |
| light-foot | adjective | Alt. of Light-footed |
| lighthouse | noun | A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos. |
| light-ship | noun | A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners. |
| lign-aloes | noun | Aloes wood, or agallochum. See Agallochum., A fragrant tree mentioned in the Bible. |
| lignifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Lignify |
| lignireose | noun | See Lignin. |
| lignoceric | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the formic acid series, found in the tar, wax, or paraffine obtained by distilling certain kinds of wood, as the beech. |
| likelihood | noun | Appearance; show; sign; expression., Likeness; resemblance., Appearance of truth or reality; probability; verisimilitude. |
| likeliness | noun | Likelihood; probability., Suitableness; agreeableness. |
| liliaceous | adjective | Of or pertaining to a natural order of which the lily, tulip, and hyacinth are well-known examples., Like the blossom of a lily in general form. |
| limberness | noun | The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness. |
| limicoline | adjective | Shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to the Limicolae. |
| limitarian | adjective | Tending to limit. |
| limitation | verb t. | The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council., That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought., A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district., A limited time within or during which something is to be done., A certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit., A settling of an estate or property by specific rules., A restriction of power; as, a constitutional limitation. |
| limpidness | noun | Quality of being limpid; limpidity. |
| limuloidea | noun pl. | An order of Merostomata, including among living animals the genus Limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of the Carboniferous period. Called also Xiphosura. |
| linguality | noun | The quality of being lingual. |
| linguiform | adjective | Having the form of the tongue; tongue-shaped. |
| linguistic | adjective | Alt. of Linguistical |
| linigerous | adjective | Bearing flax; producing linen. |
| lion-heart | noun | A very brave person. |
| lion’s ear | A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia. | |
| lipothymic | adjective | Tending to swoon; fainting. |
| liquefying | present participle & vb. noun | of Liquefy |
| liquescent | adjective | Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt; melting. |
| liquidated | imp. & past participle | of Liquidate |
| liquidator | noun | One who, or that which, liquidates., An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company. |
| liquidized | imp. & past participle | of Liquidize |
| liquidness | noun | The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency. |
| liroconite | noun | A hydrated arseniate of copper, occurring in obtuse pyramidal crystals of a sky-blue or verdigris-green color. |
| literalism | noun | That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter., The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization. |
| literalist | noun | One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter. |
| literalize | verb t. | To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; — opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture. |
| literation | noun | The act or process of representing by letters. |
| literature | noun | Learning; acquaintance with letters or books., The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry., The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres., The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work. |
| lithagogue | noun | A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine. |
| lithobilic | adjective | Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones. |
| lithoclast | noun | An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder. |
| lithodomus | noun | A genus of elongated bivalve shells, allied to the mussels, and remarkable for their ability to bore holes for shelter, in solid limestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus. |
| lithoglyph | noun | An engraving on a gem. |
| lithograph | verb t. | To trace on stone by the process of lithography so as to transfer the design to paper by printing; as, to lithograph a design; to lithograph a painting. See Lithography., A print made by lithography. |
| litholatry | noun | The worship of a stone or stones. |
| lithologic | adjective | Alt. of Lithological |
| lithomancy | noun | Divination by means of stones. |
| lithomarge | noun | A clay of a fine smooth texture, and very sectile. |
| lithophane | noun | Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, — as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade. |
| lithophyll | noun | A fossil leaf or impression of a leaf. |
| lithophyse | noun | A spherulitic cavity often with concentric chambers, observed in some volcanic rocks, as in rhyolitic lavas. It is supposed to be produced by expanding gas, whence the name. |
| lithophyte | noun | A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals. |
| lithotomic | adjective | Alt. of Lithotomical |
| lithotrite | Alt. of Lithotritor | |
| lithotrity | noun | The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided. |
| lithotyped | imp. & past participle | of Lithotype |
| lithotypic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or produced by, lithotypy. |
| lithuanian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Lithuania (formerly a principality united with Poland, but now Russian and Prussian territory)., A native, or one of the people, of Lithuania; also, the language of the Lithuanian people. |
| litigating | present participle & vb. noun | of Litigate |
| litigation | noun | The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest. |
| litraneter | noun | An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of liquids. |
| littleness | noun | The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. |
| liturgical | Pertaining to, of or the nature of, a liturgy; of or pertaining to public prayer and worship. | |
| livelihood | noun | Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance., Liveliness; appearance of life. |
| liveliness | noun | The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age., An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait., Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors. |
| livingness | noun | The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening. |
| lixiviated | imp. & past participle | of Lixiviate |