| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| liabilities | plural | of Liability |
| libelluloid | adjective | Like or pertaining to the dragon flies. |
| liberalized | imp. & past participle | of Liberalize |
| liberalizer | noun | One who, or that which, liberalizes. |
| libertarian | adjective | Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity., One who holds to the doctrine of free will. |
| liberticide | noun | The destruction of civil liberty., A destroyer of civil liberty. |
| libertinage | noun | Libertinism; license. |
| libertinism | noun | The state of a libertine or freedman., Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness., Licentiousness of principle or opinion. |
| libethenite | noun | A mineral of an olive-green color, commonly in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of copper. |
| licheniform | adjective | Having the form of a lichen. |
| lichenology | noun | The science which treats of lichens. |
| lick-spigot | noun | A tapster. |
| liedertafel | noun | A popular name for any society or club which meets for the practice of male part songs. |
| lieutenancy | noun | The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant., The body of lieutenants or subordinates. |
| life-giving | adjective | Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating. |
| life-saving | adjective | That saves life, or is suited to save life, esp. from drowning; as, the life-saving service; a life-saving station. |
| ligamentous | adjective | Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane. |
| light-armed | adjective | Armed with light weapons or accouterments. |
| lighthouses | plural | of Lighthouse |
| ligniferous | adjective | Yielding or producing wood. |
| like-minded | adjective | Having a like disposition or purpose; of the same mind. |
| lilliputian | noun | One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift’s “Voyage to Lilliput.”, A person or thing of very small size., Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants., Of very small size; diminutive; dwarfed. |
| lilly-pilly | noun | An Australian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Smithii), having smooth ovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers. The wood is hard and fine-grained. |
| lily-handed | adjective | Having white, delicate hands. |
| limitaneous | verb t. | Of or pertaining to a limit. |
| limitedness | noun | The quality of being limited. |
| lingeringly | adverb | With delay; slowly; tediously. |
| lingoa wood | Amboyna wood. | |
| linguacious | adjective | Given to the use of the tongue; loquacious. |
| linguistics | noun | The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology. |
| link motion | A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; — used very generally in locomotives and marine engines. | |
| lion’s foot | A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which several species are found in the United States., The edelweiss. | |
| lion’s leaf | A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap. | |
| lion’s tail | A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); — so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion’s tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort. | |
| lipocephala | noun pl. | Same as Lamellibranchia. |
| lipothymous | adjective | Pertaining, or given, to swooning; fainting. |
| liquefiable | adjective | Capable of being changed from a solid to a liquid state. |
| liquescency | noun | The quality or state of being liquescent. |
| liquidambar | noun | A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor., The balsamic juice which is obtained from these trees by incision. The liquid balsam of the Oriental tree is liquid storax. |
| liquidamber | noun | See Liquidambar. |
| liquidating | present participle & vb. noun | of Liquidate |
| liquidation | noun | The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. |
| liquidizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Liquidize |
| lirelliform | adjective | Like a lirella. |
| liriodendra | plural | of Liriodendron |
| literalized | imp. & past participle | of Literalize |
| literalizer | noun | A literalist. |
| literalness | noun | The quality or state of being literal; literal import. |
| lithargyrum | noun | Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales. |
| lithodomous | adjective | Like, or pertaining to, Lithodomus; lithophagous. |
| lithofellic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline, organic acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope. |
| lithogenesy | noun | The doctrine or science of the origin of the minerals composing the globe. |
| lithogenous | adjective | Stone-producing; — said of polyps which form coral. |
| lithography | noun | The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic. |
| lithologist | noun | One who is skilled in lithology. |
| lithophytic | adjective | Of or pertaining to lithophytes. |
| lithotomist | noun | One who performs the operation of cutting for stone in the bladder, or one who is skilled in the operation. |
| lithotripsy | noun | The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity. |
| lithotritor | A lithotriptor. | |
| lithotyping | present participle & vb. noun | of Lithotype |
| litigiously | adverb | In a litigious manner. |
| litterateur | noun | One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus. |
| little-ease | noun | An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. |
| liver-grown | adjective | Having an enlarged liver. |
| lixiviating | present participle & vb. noun | of Lixiviate |
| lixiviation | noun | Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching. |