| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| liability | noun | The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law., That which one is under obligation to pay, or for which one is liable., the sum of one’s pecuniary obligations; — opposed to assets. |
| libelling | of Libel | |
| liberally | adverb | In a liberal manner. |
| liberated | imp. & past participle | of Liberate |
| liberator | noun | One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer. |
| libertine | noun | A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman., One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women., One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee., A defamatory name for a freethinker., Free from restraint; uncontrolled., Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. |
| liberties | plural | of Liberty |
| librarian | noun | One who has the care or charge of a library., One who copies manuscript books. |
| libraries | plural | of Library |
| librating | present participle & vb. noun | of Librate |
| libration | noun | The act or state of librating., A real or apparent libratory motion, like that of a balance before coming to rest. |
| libratory | adjective | Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level. |
| librettos | plural | of Libretto |
| libriform | adjective | Having the form of liber, or resembling liber. |
| licensing | present participle & vb. noun | of License |
| licensure | noun | A licensing. |
| lichenous | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens. |
| lickerish | adjective | Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy., Tempting the appetite; dainty., Lecherous; lustful. |
| lickerous | adjective | Lickerish; eager; lustful. |
| lickpenny | noun | A devourer or absorber of money. |
| liegiancy | noun | See Ligeance. |
| lienculus | noun | One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen. |
| lienteric | adjective | Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, a lientery., A lientery. |
| lifeblood | noun | The blood necessary to life; vital blood., Fig.: That which gives strength and energy. |
| life-size | adjective | Of full size; of the natural size. |
| lightable | adjective | Such as can be lighted. |
| lightened | imp. & past participle | of Lighten |
| lightless | adjective | Destitute of light; dark. |
| lightness | noun | The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace., Illumination, or degree of illumination; as, the lightness of a room., Absence of depth or of duskiness in color; as, the lightness of a tint; lightness of complexion. |
| lightning | noun | A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder., The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers., Lightening. |
| lightroom | noun | A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows. |
| lightsome | adjective | Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright., Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. |
| lightwood | noun | Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze. |
| ligniform | adjective | Like wood. |
| lignified | imp. & past participle | of Lignify |
| ligulated | adjective | Like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped., Composed of ligules. |
| ligustrin | noun | A bitter principle found in the bark of the privet (Ligustrum vulgare), and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a warm, bitter taste; — called also ligustron. |
| limaceous | adjective | Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs. |
| limbering | present participle & vb. noun | of Limber |
| limehound | noun | A dog used in hunting the wild boar; a leamer. |
| limestone | noun | A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble. |
| lime twig | See under 4th Lime. | |
| limewater | noun | Water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes. |
| limicolae | noun pl. | A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallae. |
| limitable | adjective | Capable of being limited. |
| limitedly | adverb | With limitation. |
| limitless | adjective | Having no limits; unbounded; boundless. |
| limpidity | noun | The quality or state of being limpid. |
| limpingly | adverb | In a limping manner. |
| limpitude | noun | Limpidity. |
| lindiform | adjective | Resembling the genus Lindia; — said of certain apodous insect larvae. |
| lineality | noun | The quality of being lineal. |
| lineament | noun | One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; — usually in the plural. |
| lineation | noun | Delineation; a line or lines. |
| lineature | noun | Anything having outline. |
| lineolate | adjective | Marked with little lines., Marked longitudinally with fine lines. |
| ling-bird | noun | The European meadow pipit; — called also titling. |
| lingering | present participle & vb. noun | of Linger, Delaying., Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. |
| lingulate | adjective | Shaped like the tongue or a strap; ligulate. |
| linnaeite | noun | A mineral of pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, occurring in isometric crystals, and also massive. It is a sulphide of cobalt containing some nickel or copper. |
| linoleate | noun | A salt of linoleic acid. |
| lintwhite | noun | See Linnet. |
| lionizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Lionize |
| lipochrin | noun | A yellow coloring matter, soluble in ether, contained in the small round fat drops in the retinal epithelium cells. It is best obtained from the eyes of frogs. |
| lipothymy | noun | A fainting; a swoon. |
| lippitude | noun | Soreness of eyes; the state of being blear-eyed; blearedness. |
| liquation | noun | The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid., The process of separating, by heat, an easily fusible metal from one less fusible; eliquation. |
| liquefier | noun | That which liquefies. |
| liquefied | imp. & past participle | of Liquefy |
| liquidate | verb t. | To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and certain., In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of , and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness)., To discharge; to pay off, as an indebtedness., To make clear and intelligible., To make liquid. |
| liquidity | noun | The state or quality of being liquid. |
| liquidize | verb t. | To render liquid. |
| liquoring | present participle & vb. noun | of Liquor |
| liquorice | noun | See Licorice. |
| liquorish | adjective | See Lickerish. |
| liquorous | adjective | Eagerly desirous. See Lickerish. |
| lispingly | adverb | With a lisp; in a lisping manner. |
| listening | present participle & vb. noun | of Listen |
| listerian | adjective | Of or pertaining to listerism. |
| listerism | noun | The systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the treatment of wounds; — so called from Joseph Lister, an English surgeon. |
| literalty | noun | The state or quality of being literal. |
| literally | adverb | According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh., With close adherence to words; word by word. |
| literatim | adverb | Letter for letter. |
| literator | noun | One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster., A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age., A learned person; a literatus. |
| literatus | noun | A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; — chiefly used in the plural. |
| lithaemia | noun | A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood. |
| litheness | noun | The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness. |
| lithesome | adjective | Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom. |
| lithiasis | noun | The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages. |
| lithocarp | noun | Fossil fruit; a fruit petrified; a carpolite. |
| lithocyst | noun | A sac containing small, calcareous concretions (otoliths). They are found in many Medusae, and other invertebrates, and are supposed to be auditory organs. |
| lithodome | noun | Any one of several species of bivalves, which form holes in limestone, in which they live; esp., any species of the genus Lithodomus. |
| lithoidal | adjective | Like a stone; having a stony structure. |
| lithology | noun | The science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature., A treatise on stones found in the body. |
| lithosian | noun | Any one of various species of moths belonging to the family Lithosidae. Many of them are beautifully colored. |
| lithotint | noun | A kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted drawing is produced, as if made with India ink., A picture produced by this process. |
| lithotome | noun | A stone so formed by nature as to appear as if cut by art., An instrument used for cutting the bladder in operations for the stone. |
| lithotomy | noun | The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder. |
| lithotype | noun | A kind of stereotype plate made by lithotypy; also, that which in printed from it. See Lithotypy., To prepare for printing with plates made by the process of lithotypy. See Lithotypy. |
| lithotypy | noun | The art or process of making a kind of hard, stereotypeplate, by pressing into a mold, taken from a page of type or other matter, a composition of gum shell-lac and sand of a fine quality, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state. |
| litigable | adjective | Such as can be litigated. |
| litigated | imp. & past participle | of Litigate |
| litigator | noun | One who litigates. |
| litigious | adjective | Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation., Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious., Of or pertaining to legal disputes. |
| littering | present participle & vb. noun | of Litter |
| littorina | noun | A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle. |
| lituiform | adjective | Having the form of a lituus; like a lituite. |
| liturgics | noun | The science of worship; history, doctrine, and interpretation of liturgies. |
| liturgist | noun | One who favors or adheres strictly to a liturgy. |
| liturgies | plural | of Liturgy |
| livelihed | noun | See Livelihood. |
| liverleaf | noun | Same as Liverwort. |
| liverwort | noun | A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; — called also squirrel cups., A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. |
| liverymen | plural | of Liveryman |
| liveryman | noun | One who wears a livery, as a servant., A freeman of the city, in London, who, having paid certain fees, is entitled to wear the distinguishing dress or livery of the company to which he belongs, and also to enjoy certain other privileges, as the right of voting in an election for the lord mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain, etc., One who keeps a livery stable. |
| lividness | noun | Lividity. |
| livraison | noun | A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part. |
| lixiviate | adjective | Alt. of Lixivited, To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances. |
| lixivited | adjective | Of or pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts., Impregnated with salts from wood ashes. |
| lixivious | adjective | See Lixivial. |