| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| lanated | Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments. | |
| lancing | present participle & vb. noun | of Lance |
| lancely | adjective | Like a lance. |
| lanched | imp. & past participle | of Lanch |
| landing | present participle & vb. noun | of Land, Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore., A going or bringing on shore., A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc., The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another. |
| landmen | plural | of Landman |
| landman | noun | A man who lives or serves on land; — opposed to seaman., An occupier of land. |
| landtag | noun | The diet or legislative body; as, the Landtag of Prussia. |
| langaha | noun | A curious colubriform snake of the genus Xyphorhynchus, from Madagascar. It is brownish red, and its nose is prolonged in the form of a sharp blade. |
| langate | noun | A linen roller used in dressing wounds. |
| langdak | noun | A wolf (Canis pallipes), found in India, allied to the jackal. |
| langrel | noun | A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and rigging. It consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron fastened together or inclosed in a canister. |
| langret | noun | A kind of loaded die. |
| langued | adjective | Tongued; having the tongue visible. |
| languet | noun | Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth., That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard. |
| languid | adjective | Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull., Slow in progress; tardy., Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day. |
| languor | noun | A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity., Any enfeebling disease., Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope. |
| langure | verb i. | To languish. |
| laniard | noun | See Lanyard. |
| laniary | adjective | Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth., The shambles; a place of slaughter., A laniary, or canine, tooth. |
| laniate | verb t. | To tear in pieces. |
| lanioid | adjective | Of or pertaining to the shrikes (family Laniidae). |
| lanolin | noun | A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally. |
| lantern | noun | Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; — sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light., An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior., A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns., A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral., A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below)., A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; — called also lantern brass., A perforated barrel to form a core upon., See Aristotle’s lantern., To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse. |
| lanyard | noun | A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc., A strong cord, about twelve feet long, with an iron hook at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction tube. |