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# English words: L

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644 words under L; 401–500 on this page.

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- [linseed](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/linseed/) — Linseed is the seed of the flax plant, also called flaxseed.
- [lint](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lint/) — Lint is tiny bits of fluff and fibre that come off clothes and cloth.
- [lintel](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lintel/) — The beam across the top of a door or window, resting on the side posts. — Jewish tradition
- [lion](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lion/) — A lion is a big wild cat with golden fur that lives mostly in Africa. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [lioness](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lioness/) — A female lion. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [lionfish](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lionfish/) — A lionfish is a striped red, brown and white sea fish with long fan-like fins and venomous spines.
- [lip](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lip/) — Your lips are the two soft edges around your mouth. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [lipogram](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lipogram/) — A piece of writing in which one letter of the alphabet is never used on purpose, for example a story with no letter "e".
- [lipped](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lipped/) — In old tales, «long lipped» means sulky, with the lower lip pushed out to show you are cross.
- [lipstick](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lipstick/) — Colour for the lips, usually in a small stick that comes out of a tube.
- [liquefy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/liquefy/) — To liquefy is to turn into a liquid, or to make a solid or gas become a liquid, often by heating or cooling or squeezing.
- [liquid](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/liquid/) — A liquid is something that flows and can be poured, like water, milk or juice.
- [liquidate](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/liquidate/) — To liquidate a company is to close it and sell everything it owns to pay its debts.
- [liquor](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/liquor/) — Liquor is a strong alcoholic drink, such as whisky or rum. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [list](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/list/) — A list is a set of words, names or numbers written one after another, often one under another. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [listen](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/listen/) — To listen is to pay attention to sounds or words so that you hear them: listen to music. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [listener](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/listener/) — A person who listens to someone or something.
- [lit](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lit/) — Lit is the past form of «light», as in to make something start burning (lit a candle) or to give light to a place (the room was lit by… — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [litany](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/litany/) — A litany is a long prayer in which a leader says a line and the people answer with the same response each time, like «Lord, have mercy».
- [literacy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/literacy/) — Literacy is the ability to read and write.
- [literal](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/literal/) — Taking words in their most basic, exact meaning, not as a joke or figure of speech. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [literally](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/literally/) — Literally means exactly as the words say, not as a figure of speech. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [literary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/literary/) — Literary means to do with literature: books, poems, plays and stories, and the people who write them. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [literati](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/literati/) — People who are well educated and know a lot about books and writing. — Jewish tradition
- [literature](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/literature/) — Written works such as novels, poems and plays, especially ones thought to be good or important. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [lithium](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lithium/) — Lithium is a very light, soft, silvery metal; it is a chemical element with the symbol Li.
- [lithosphere](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lithosphere/) — The lithosphere is the hard, rocky outer layer of the Earth: the crust plus the very top part of the mantle, about 100 km thick, broken…
- [lithuanian](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lithuanian/) — Lithuanian means from Lithuania, a country on the Baltic Sea in north-east Europe, or to do with its people.
- [litmus](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/litmus/) — Litmus is a dye made from lichens that turns red in acid and blue in alkali, used to test liquids.
- [litotes](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/litotes/) — Litotes is a kind of understatement where you say something by saying that its opposite is not true, like «not bad» meaning «good» or «not…
- [litre](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/litre/) — A litre is a unit for measuring liquids and the space inside things (volume).
- [litter](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/litter/) — Litter is rubbish like paper, cans and wrappers left lying on the ground in a public place. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [little](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/little/) — Little means small in size: a little house. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [liturgy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/liturgy/) — The set words, prayers and songs used in a religious service. — Jewish tradition
- [liv](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/liv/) — A short form of «living», as in «liv rm» for living room in house adverts or notes. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [live](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/live/) — To live is to be alive. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [livelihood](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/livelihood/) — A livelihood is the way a person earns money to pay for food and a home.
- [livelong](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/livelong/) — Livelong means whole or entire, used with a time: the livelong day is the whole day.
- [lively](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lively/) — Lively means full of energy, fun and activity. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [liver](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/liver/) — The liver is a large organ in your body, under your ribs on the right, that cleans the blood, stores energy and helps digest food. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [livery](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/livery/) — A special uniform worn by servants of a great house or by members of a company or guild in the past.
- [livestock](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/livestock/) — Animals kept on a farm for food, milk, wool or work, such as cows, sheep, pigs, goats and chickens. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [liveth](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/liveth/) — «liveth» means «lives», a form of «live»: To live is to be alive.
- [livid](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/livid/) — Very, very angry, so angry you can hardly keep calm.
- [lizard](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lizard/) — A lizard is a reptile with scaly skin, four short legs and a long tail, such as a gecko or iguana. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [llama](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/llama/) — A llama is a South American animal like a small camel without a hump, with a long neck and thick woolly coat, kept for carrying loads and…
- [lo](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lo/) — Look! See! Behold!
- [load](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/load/) — A load is something heavy that is carried, for example by a truck, a person or a washing machine. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [loaf](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loaf/) — A loaf is bread baked in one big piece, before it is cut into slices. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [loam](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loam/) — Loam is rich, dark soil made of a good mix of sand, silt and clay, with rotting plants in it; it is very good for growing things. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [loan](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loan/) — A loan is money that someone borrows and must pay back, often with extra money called interest. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [loanword](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loanword/) — A word one language has taken from another language and now uses as its own, like «pizza» from Italian or «kindergarten» from German.
- [loath](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loath/) — Loath means unwilling, not wanting to do something: loath to go. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [loathe](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loathe/) — To hate something and feel disgusted by it. — Jewish tradition
- [loathsome](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loathsome/) — Loathsome means so nasty or disgusting that people hate it. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [loathsomeness](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loathsomeness/) — The state of being disgusting or hateful to look at or think about. — Jewish tradition
- [lob](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lob/) — To lob something is to throw or hit it high in the air, in a slow curve.
- [lobby](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lobby/) — A large hall or entrance area just inside the front door of a hotel, theatre, flats or office building.
- [lobe](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lobe/) — An earlobe (lobe) is the soft round part at the bottom of your ear. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [lobed](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lobed/) — Having lobes: rounded parts that stick out, like the parts of an oak leaf or of an ear.
- [lobster](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lobster/) — A sea animal with a hard shell, ten legs and two big claws, related to crabs.
- [local](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/local/) — Local means belonging to or near the place where you live, or a particular area.
- [locality](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/locality/) — An area or neighbourhood; the place around a particular point. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [locally](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/locally/) — In or near the place where you are or where you live; nearby.
- [locate](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/locate/) — To find exactly where something or someone is.
- [located](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/located/) — If something is located in a place, it is there; that is where it is.
- [location](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/location/) — A place or position where something is or happens.
- [loch](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loch/) — A lake.
- [lock](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lock/) — A lock is a device on a door, box or bike that keeps it closed so it can only be opened with a key, code or card. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [lockbox](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lockbox/) — A small box with a lock for keeping money, papers or valuables safe.
- [lockdown](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lockdown/) — A lockdown is a time when people must stay at home and many places close, to stop a disease spreading.
- [locker](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/locker/) — A locker is a small cupboard with a door and a lock, at school, in a gym or at a pool, where you keep your things.
- [locket](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/locket/) — A small piece of jewellery that opens like a tiny box, hung on a chain round the neck, holding a photo, a lock of hair or a keepsake.
- [lockjaw](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lockjaw/) — An old everyday name for tetanus, a serious illness caused by germs getting into a wound, which makes muscles go stiff.
- [loco](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loco/) — Latin for "in the place" or "position" (as in "in the second place"). — Jewish tradition
- [locomotion](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/locomotion/) — Locomotion is the ability to move from one place to another, or the way an animal or person moves.
- [locomotive](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/locomotive/) — A railway engine that pulls a train.
- [locum](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/locum/) — Latin for "place"; a "locum" is a person who stands in for another for a time. — Jewish tradition
- [locust](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/locust/) — A large kind of grasshopper that sometimes gathers in huge swarms that fly far and eat all the crops. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [lodge](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lodge/) — A small house or cabin in the country, mountains or a park, used for holidays, hunting or skiing. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [lodger](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lodger/) — A person who pays to live in a room in someone else's house, often sharing the kitchen and bathroom with the family.
- [lodging](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lodging/) — A place to stay for a short time, such as a room in someone's house or an inn. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [loess](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loess/) — A very fine, yellowish-brown soil made of dust blown by the wind, often after the Ice Age.
- [loft](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loft/) — A loft is the room or space just under the roof of a house, often used for storage (US: attic).
- [loftily](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loftily/) — Loftily means in a proud, grand way, as if you think you are better than others. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [loftiness](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loftiness/) — The quality of being very high or proud. — Jewish tradition
- [lofty](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lofty/) — Very high or tall: lofty mountains. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [log](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/log/) — A log is a thick piece of a tree trunk or big branch that has been cut down. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [logger](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/logger/) — A person whose job is cutting down trees and taking the logs away; a lumberjack.
- [loggerhead](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loggerhead/) — To be «at loggerheads» with someone is to disagree strongly and argue with them.
- [logging](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/logging/) — Logging is the work of cutting down trees and taking the wood away to sell.
- [logic](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/logic/) — Logic is careful, clear thinking where each step follows from the one before, so you reach a sensible answer. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [logical](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/logical/) — Logical means following clear and correct reasoning, so each step makes sense.
- [logically](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/logically/) — In a way that follows clear reasoning. — Jewish tradition
- [logo](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/logo/) — A small picture, symbol or special design that a company, team, school or group uses so people recognise it.
- [loin](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loin/) — Loin is a cut of meat from the back of an animal, between the ribs and the hips: pork loin, lamb loin. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [loins](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loins/) — The lower part of the body between the ribs and the thighs; in these texts it also means the body as the source of children.
- [loiter](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loiter/) — To loiter is to stand or wait about without hurrying and without a clear reason.
- [lollipop](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lollipop/) — A hard sweet (candy) on a stick that you lick or suck.
- [lollop](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lollop/) — To move along in a clumsy, bouncing, loose way, like a big puppy or a rabbit.