| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| leafiness | noun | The state of being leafy. |
| leafstalk | noun | The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf. |
| leaguerer | noun | A besieger. |
| leakiness | noun | The quality of being leaky. |
| leapingly | adverb | By leaps. |
| leap year | Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile. | |
| learnable | adjective | Such as can be learned. |
| leasehold | adjective | Held by lease., A tenure by lease; specifically, land held as personalty under a lease for years. |
| leastways | adverb | Alt. of Leastwise |
| leastwise | adverb | At least; at all events. |
| leathered | imp. & past participle | of Leather |
| leatheret | noun | Alt. of Leatherette |
| leaveless | adjective | Leafless. |
| leavening | present participle & vb. noun | of Leaven, The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven., That which leavens or makes light. |
| leavenous | adjective | Containing leaven. |
| leaviness | noun | Leafiness. |
| lecanoric | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid which is obtained from several varieties of lichen (Lecanora, Roccella, etc.), as a white, crystalline substance, and is called also orsellic, / diorsellinic acid, lecanorin, etc. |
| lecanorin | noun | See Lecanoric. |
| lechering | present participle & vb. noun | of Lecher |
| lecherous | adjective | Like a lecher; addicted to lewdness; lustful; also, lust-provoking. |
| lecturing | present participle & vb. noun | of Lecture |
| ledgement | noun | See Ledgment. |
| leeringly | adverb | In a leering manner. |
| left-hand | adjective | Situated on the left; nearer the left hand than the right; as, the left-hand side; the left-hand road. |
| legalized | imp. & past participle | of Legalize |
| legantine | adjective | See Legatine. |
| legendary | adjective | Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous., A book of legends; a tale or narrative., One who relates legends. |
| leggiadro | adjective & adverb | Alt. of Leggiero |
| legionary | adjective | Belonging to a legion; consisting of a legion or legions, or of an indefinitely great number; as, legionary soldiers; a legionary force., A member of a legion. |
| legislate | verb i. | To make or enact a law or laws. |
| leguleian | adjective | Lawyerlike; legal., A lawyer. |
| leisurely | adjective | Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk., In a leisurely manner. |
| leitmotif | noun | See Leading motive, under Leading, a. |
| lemniscus | noun | One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala. |
| lengthful | adjective | Long. |
| lengthily | adverb | In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent. |
| leniently | adverb | In a lenient manner. |
| lenticula | noun | A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle., A lens of small size., A lenticel. |
| lentiform | adjective | Lenticular. |
| lentiscus | noun | Alt. of Lentisk |
| lentitude | adjective | Slowness; sluggishness. |
| leontodon | noun | A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the fall dandelion (L. autumnale), and formerly the true dandelion; — called also lion’s tooth. |
| lepidoted | adjective | Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster. |
| lepismoid | adjective | Like or pertaining to the Lepisma. |
| leprosity | noun | The state or quality of being leprous or scaly; also, a scale. |
| leptiform | adjective | Having a form somewhat like leptus; — said of active insect larvae having three pairs of legs. See Larva. |
| leptology | noun | A minute and tedious discourse on trifling things. |
| leptynite | noun | See Granulite. |
| lessening | present participle & vb. noun | of Lessen |
| lessoning | present participle & vb. noun | of Lesson |
| let-alone | adjective | Letting alone. |
| lethality | noun | The quality of being lethal; mortality. |
| lethargic | adjective | Alt. of Lethargical |
| lettering | present participle & vb. noun | of Letter, The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting., The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign. |
| letterure | noun | Letters; literature. |
| leucitoid | noun | The trapezohedron or tetragonal trisoctahedron; — so called as being the form of the mineral leucite. |
| leucocyte | noun | A colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of bone, connective tissue, etc. |
| leucoline | noun | A nitrogenous organic base from coal tar, and identical with quinoline. Cf. Quinoline. |
| leucosoid | adjective | Like or pertaining to the Leucosoidea, a tribe of marine crabs including the box crab or Calappa. |
| leucoxene | noun | A nearly opaque white mineral, in part identical with titanite, observed in some igneous rocks as the result of the alteration of titanic iron. |
| leukaemia | noun | Leucocythaemia. |
| leukeness | noun | See Luke, etc. |
| levantine | noun | Of or pertaining to the Levant., A native or inhabitant of the Levant., A stout twilled silk fabric, formerly made in the Levant. |
| levelling | of Level | |
| levelness | noun | The state or quality of being level. |
| leverwood | noun | The American hop hornbeam (Ostrya Virginica), a small tree with very tough wood. |
| leviathan | noun | An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture., The whale, or a great whale. |
| levigable | verb t. | Capable of being levigated. |
| levigated | imp. & past participle | of Levigate |
| levitical | adjective | Of or pertaining to a Levite or the Levites., Priestly., Of or pertaining to, or designating, the law contained in the book of Leviticus. |
| leviticus | noun | The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law. |
| levulinic | adjective | Pertaining to, or denoting, an acid (called also acetyl-propionic acid), C5H8O3, obtained by the action of dilute acids on various sugars (as levulose). |
| levulosan | noun | An unfermentable carbohydrate obtained by gently heating levulose. |