English words: L

644 words under L; 301–400 on this page.

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• lexicographer noun (a lexicographer, lexicographers)
  A lexicographer is a person who writes or edits dictionaries.
• lhasa noun (Lhasa); proper noun
  Lhasa is the main city of Tibet, high in the Himalayas, now under China's rule.
• li fragment or name; noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  "Li" is not a usual English word; it is most often a piece of a longer word or a short form.
• liability noun (a liability, liabilities; liability, uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Liability is being legally responsible for something, especially for paying for damage or harm.
• liable adjective (liable)
  If you are liable for something, you are responsible by law, for example you must pay for damage.
• liaison noun (a liaison, liaisons)
  Liaison is the way people or groups talk to each other and work together.
• liar noun (a liar, liars)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A liar is a person who tells lies, saying things they know are not true to trick someone.
• libation noun (plural libations)
  A libation is a drink poured out on the ground or on an altar as a gift to a god, in old religious rites.
• libel noun (libel — uncountable; a libel, libels); verb…
  A false written or published statement that damages a person's good name.
• liberal adjective (liberal, more liberal, most liberal); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Respecting people's freedom and willing to accept ideas and ways of life different from your own.
• liberality noun (no plural)
  Liberality is being generous, giving freely and willingly to others.
• liberally adverbJewish tradition
  Liberally means in a generous way, giving a lot or giving freely.
• liberate verb (liberate, liberates, liberated, liberating)
  To set a person, animal, place or country free from control, prison or an enemy.
• liberated verb form and adjective…
  Set free from prison, an enemy army or control.
• liberation noun (liberation, uncountable; a liberation, rare)
  Liberation is setting people or a place free from someone who controlled or imprisoned them, such as an enemy army.
• liberator noun (a liberator, liberators)
  A person, army or group that sets people or a place free from enemies, slavery or prison.
• liberty noun (liberty, liberties)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Liberty is freedom: the right to live, speak and act as you choose without being controlled or imprisoned unfairly.
• libra nounJewish tradition
  The seventh sign of the zodiac, shown as scales.
• librarian noun (a librarian, librarians)
  A librarian is a person who works in a library, looks after the books and helps people find books and information.
• library noun (library, libraries)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A library is a place with many books, and often films and computers, that people can borrow or use.
• libyan adjectiveJewish tradition
  Of or from Libya, a country in North Africa.
• licence noun (a licence, licences); (US spelling: license)
  A licence is an official paper or card that gives you permission to do or own something, such as drive a car, catch fish or sell food.
• license noun (plural licences in British English); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A license is a written paper that says someone is allowed to do something, such as drive a car or keep a dog; in Britain the noun is…
• licensed adjective (licensed); verb form of license…
  Licensed means having official permission to do something, such as a licensed driver, a licensed taxi or a licensed doctor.
• lichen noun (a lichen, lichens; also uncountable: lichen)
  A lichen is a living thing that grows in crusty, leafy or bushy patches on rocks, walls, tree bark and gravestones; it is made of a fungus…
• lick verb (lick, licks, licked, licking); noun (a lick, licks)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To lick something means to move your tongue over it, to taste it, eat it or wet it.
• lid noun (a lid, lids)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A lid is a cover on top of a box, pot, jar or bin that you can lift or take off.
• lidar noun (lidar — usually no plural; lidar scanners)
  A way of measuring distance by sending out quick flashes of laser light and timing how long they take to bounce back.
• lidded adjective (lidded)
  Lidded means having a lid, a cover on top.
• lie verb (lie, lies, lay, lain, lying = rest flat); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To lie is to rest or be flat on something, like a bed or the ground.
• liege noun (plural lieges); adjective (old use)
  A liege is a lord or lady whom a person owes loyal service to, or a servant who owes such service.
• lien nounJewish tradition
  A mistaken printing of a name or word in an old scanned book; here it stands for "Rabbi" or a name such as "Ben" before Sira.
• lieth verb, old form of «lies» (he, she, it)
  «lieth» means «lies», a form of «lie»: To lie is to rest or be flat on something, like a bed or the ground.
• lieu noun (only in «in lieu», «in lieu of»)
  In lieu of something means instead of it.
• lieutenant noun (a lieutenant, lieutenants; Lt)
  An officer in the army, navy or air force, of a junior to middle rank.
• life noun (a life, lives — uncountable in the general sense)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Being alive: what people, animals and plants have and stones do not (they grow, feed, breathe, reproduce).
• lifeblood nounJewish tradition
  The blood that carries life in a body, or the thing a person's life depends on.
• lifeboat noun (a lifeboat, lifeboats)
  A strong boat kept on the coast that goes out to rescue people in danger at sea.
• lifeguard noun (a lifeguard, lifeguards)
  A lifeguard is a person whose job is to watch swimmers at a pool or beach and rescue anyone in danger in the water.
• lifeless adjective (lifeless)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Lifeless means dead, or never having had life.
• lifelike adjective
  Lifelike means so like a real person or thing that it looks alive.
• lifelong adjective (lifelong)
  Lifelong means lasting or continuing for all of someone's life.
• lifesaving adjective (lifesaving, life-saving); noun…
  Lifesaving means saving or able to save someone's life, like lifesaving medicine.
• lifespan noun (a lifespan, lifespans); also life span
  A lifespan is how long a person, animal or plant lives, or usually lives.
• lifetime noun (a lifetime, lifetimes)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The whole time that a person or animal is alive.
• lift verb (lift, lifts, lifted, lifting); noun (a lift, lifts)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To lift is to pick something up and raise it.
• ligament noun (a ligament, ligaments)
  A ligament is a strong, slightly stretchy band in your body that joins one bone to another at a joint, like the knee or ankle.
• ligature noun (a ligature, ligatures)
  A ligature is a thread, string or band used to tie something tightly, especially by a doctor to tie off a blood vessel.
• liger noun (a liger, ligers)
  A liger is the baby of a male lion and a female tiger; it is a hybrid, a mix of two kinds of animal.
• light noun (light, lights); adjective (light, lighter, lightest)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Light is what lets us see; it comes from the Sun, lamps and fire.
• lightbulb noun (a lightbulb, lightbulbs)
  A lightbulb is a glass or plastic bulb that gives out light when electricity goes through it.
• lighten verb (lighten, lightens, lightened, lightening)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To lighten something is to make it less heavy: lighten your bag.
• lighter noun (a lighter, lighters); adjective, comparative…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A small device that makes a flame, used to light candles, cigarettes, stoves or fires.
• lighthearted adjective…
  Cheerful and free from worry.
• lighthouse noun (lighthouse, lighthouses)
  A lighthouse is a tall tower by the sea with a bright light at the top that flashes to guide ships at night and warn them of rocks.
• lightless adjective (lightless)
  With no light at all; completely dark.
• lightly adverbeveryday · Jewish tradition
  Lightly means with little force or weight: «tap lightly».
• lightness noun (lightness, uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Lightness is being not heavy.
• lightning noun (lightning — uncountable; a flash/bolt of lightning)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The bright flash of light in the sky during a storm, made by a huge spark of electricity between clouds or between a cloud and the ground.
• lightweight adjective (lightweight); noun (a lightweight, lightweights)
  Lightweight means not heavy, weighing less than usual.
• lii nounJewish tradition
  A mistaken printing of letters in an old scanned book; here it stands for the word "his".
• like verb (like, likes, liked, liking); preposition (like)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To like something is to enjoy it or think it is good.
• likeable adjective (likeable, more likeable, most likeable)
  Likeable means easy to like; pleasant and friendly.
• likelihood noun (likelihood — usually uncountable)
  How likely something is to happen; the chance or probability of it.
• likely adjective…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Probably going to happen or be true: "It's likely to rain.".
• liken verb (liken, likens, likened, likening)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To say that one thing is like another; to compare them.
• likeness noun (a likeness, likenesses)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Being alike or similar; how much one thing looks like another.
• liketh verb, old form of «likes» (he, she, it)
  «liketh» means «likes», a form of «like»: To like something is to enjoy it or think it is good.
• likewise adverb (likewise)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Likewise means in the same way: «Watch me and do likewise.».
• lilac noun (a lilac, lilacs; lilac — the colour); adjective…
  A lilac is a bush or small tree with large bunches of small, sweet-smelling purple, pink or white flowers in spring.
• lilo noun (a lilo, lilos; also Li-Lo, a brand name)
  An inflatable mattress: a plastic bed filled with air, used for floating on water or for sleeping on when camping.
• lily noun (a lily, lilies); also a girl's name (Lily)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A tall plant grown from a bulb, with large trumpet-shaped flowers, often white, orange or pink.
• limb noun (limb, limbs)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A limb is an arm or a leg.
• lime noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A small round green citrus fruit with sour juice.
• limerick noun (a limerick, limericks); proper noun…
  A limerick is a short, funny poem of five lines, with lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyming together and lines 3 and 4 rhyming together (AABBA).
• limestone noun (limestone)
  Limestone is a soft, usually grey or white sedimentary rock made mostly from the shells and skeletons of tiny sea creatures.
• limit noun (a limit, limits); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A limit is the greatest (or smallest) amount that is allowed or possible: a speed limit.
• limitation noun (a limitation, limitations; limitation, uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A limitation is something that limits what a person or thing can do: «The robot has some limitations».
• limousine noun (a limousine, limousines; informal: limo, limos)
  A large, expensive, comfortable car, often with a long body and a driver (chauffeur), sometimes with a glass wall between driver and…
• limp verb (limp, limps, limped, limping); noun (a limp)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To limp is to walk unevenly because one leg or foot is hurt or stiff.
• limpet noun (a limpet, limpets)
  A limpet is a small sea animal with a cone-shaped shell that clings very tightly to rocks.
• limping verb form (-ing of limp: he is limping); adjective…
  Limping is walking unevenly because a leg or foot hurts.
• lincoln noun (Lincoln; a proper noun — a name)
  Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, who led the country during the American Civil War and worked to end slavery.
• linden noun (plural lindens)
  A linden is a tree with heart-shaped leaves and sweet-smelling flowers, also called a lime tree.
• line noun (line, lines); verb (line, lines, lined, lining)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A line is a row of people or things one behind another.
• lineage noun (a lineage, lineages)
  A lineage is the line of your ancestors, the family members who came before you, such as parents, grandparents and great-grandparents.
• linear adjectiveJewish tradition
  Made of lines, or in the form of straight lines rather than pictures.
• linen noun (linen, uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Linen is a strong, cool cloth made from the flax plant.
• liner noun (a liner, liners)
  A big passenger ship that sailed across oceans on regular routes, like the Titanic (an ocean liner).
• linesman noun (a linesman, linesmen)
  An official who helps the referee or umpire by watching the lines of the pitch or court and showing with a flag when the ball goes out or…
• ling noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A ling is a long sea fish of the cod family, caught for food in the North Atlantic and around Australia and New Zealand.
• linger verb (linger, lingers, lingered, lingering)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To linger is to stay somewhere longer than usual or than needed, because you do not want to leave.
• lingua noun (lingua); Latin word
  «Lingua» is the Latin word for tongue and language.
• lingual adjectiveJewish tradition
  Having to do with the tongue.
• linguist nounJewish tradition
  A person who studies languages.
• linguistic adjective (linguistic)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To do with language or languages.
• linguistically adverbJewish tradition
  In a way that has to do with language.
• linguistics noun (linguistics); uncountable, takes a singular verb
  Linguistics is the scientific study of language: how sounds, words, grammar and meaning work, how languages change, and how people learn…
• link noun (a link, links); verb (link, links, linked, linking)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A connection between two things, people or ideas: there is a link between sugar and tooth decay.
• linnet noun (a linnet, linnets)
  A linnet is a small brown songbird of the finch family; the male has a pinkish-red chest and head in spring.

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