| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| luce | noun | A pike when full grown. |
| luck | noun | That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one’s interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one’s habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill. |
| lues | noun | Disease, especially of a contagious kind. |
| luff | noun | The side of a ship toward the wind., The act of sailing a ship close to the wind., The roundest part of a ship’s bow., The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails., To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind. |
| luke | adjective | Moderately warm; not hot; tepid. |
| lull | verb t. | To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet., To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls., The power or quality of soothing; that which soothes; a lullaby., A temporary cessation of storm or confusion. |
| lump | noun | A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore., A mass or aggregation of things., A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel., To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars., To take in the gross; to speak of collectively., To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n’t like it, he can lump it. |
| luna | noun | The moon., Silver. |
| lune | noun | Anything in the shape of a half moon., A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles., A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. |
| lung | noun | An organ for aerial respiration; — commonly in the plural. |
| lunt | noun | The match cord formerly used in firing cannon., A puff of smoke. |
| luny | adjective | Crazy; mentally unsound. |
| lure | noun | A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; — used by falconers in recalling hawks., Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy., A velvet smoothing brush., To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract., To recall a hawk or other animal. |
| lurg | noun | A large marine annelid (Nephthys caeca), inhabiting the sandy shores of Europe and America. It is whitish, with a pearly luster, and grows to the length of eight or ten inches. |
| lurk | verb i. | To lie hid; to lie in wait., To keep out of sight. |
| lush | adjective | Full of juice or succulence. |
| lusk | adjective | Lazy; slothful., A lazy fellow; a lubber., To be idle or unemployed. |
| lust | noun | Pleasure., Inclination; desire., Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; — in a had sense; as, the lust of gain., Licentious craving; sexual appetite., Hence: Virility; vigor; active power., To list; to like., To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; — often with after. |
| lute | noun | A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; — called also luting., A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc., A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold., To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint., A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or “sides,” arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed., To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats., To play on a lute, or as on a lute. |
| luth | noun | The leatherback. |
| luxe | noun | Luxury. |