Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
lanarkite |
noun |
A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color. |
lancegaye |
noun |
A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II. |
lanceolar |
adjective |
Lanceolate. |
lancewood |
noun |
A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseae). |
lanciform |
adjective |
Having the form of a lance. |
lanciname |
verb t. |
To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab. |
landamman |
noun |
A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons., The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic. |
landaulet |
noun |
A small landau. |
landflood |
noun |
An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. |
landgrave |
noun |
A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France. |
landloper |
noun |
Same as Landlouper. |
landowner |
noun |
An owner of land. |
land-poor |
adjective |
Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. |
landreeve |
noun |
A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward. |
landscape |
noun |
A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains., A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc., The pictorial aspect of a country. |
landslide |
noun |
The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc., The land which slips down. |
landsturm |
noun |
That part of the reserve force in Germany which is called out last. |
langridge |
noun |
See Langrage. |
languaged |
imp. & past participle |
of Language, Having a language; skilled in language; — chiefly used in composition. |
languente |
adverb |
In a languishing manner; pathetically. |
laniation |
noun |
A tearing in pieces. |
lanifical |
adjective |
Working in wool. |
lankiness |
noun |
The condition or quality or being lanky. |
lantanium |
noun |
Alt. of Lantanum |
lanterloo |
noun |
An old name of loo (a). |
lanterned |
imp. & past participle |
of Lantern |
lanthanum |
noun |
A rare element of the group of the earth metals, allied to aluminium. It occurs in certain rare minerals, as cerite, gadolinite, orthite, etc., and was so named from the difficulty of separating it from cerium, didymium, and other rare elements with which it is usually associated. Atomic weight 138.5. Symbol La. |