Name Report For First Name LANA:
LANA
First name LANA's origin is English. LANA means "fair: good-looking. abbreviation of alana". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LANA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of lana.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with LANA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with LANA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming LANA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LANA AS A WHOLE:
philana iolana malana giollanaebhin alana allana arlana elana gilana kaylana lanaia leilana milana millana silana solana flanagan ilana marlanaNAMES RHYMING WITH LANA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ana) - Names That Ends with ana:
ayana fana hasana tarana hana rihana sana' thana' aitana agana jana jaana durandana luana stephana kaimana mana moana oliana ivana dhana zigana drisana pithasthana rana andreana fabiana liliana sebastiana chu'mana huyana lenmana nahimana adriana ileana ioana loredana mariana oana roxana stefana tatiana bohdana bwana hakizimana mukhwana kana kohana abriana adana ahana aileana aiyana alhana aliyana ana andeana ariana arleana aryana assana audreana audriana aureliana aviana ayiana bibiana blyana bradana braiana breana bree-ana brezziana briana caliana caroliana cavana chana chiana christana christiana cipriana corazana daiana damiana dana daviana deana deeana diana duana dyana edana eliana eramana estebana estefana etana eviana farhanaNAMES RHYMING WITH LANA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (lan) - Names That Begins with lan:
lan lancdon lance lancelin lancelot landa landen lander landers landis landmari landon landra landrada landrey landry lane lanette laney lang langdon lange langford langit langleah langley langston langundo lanh lani lanice lanie lanna lannie lanny lansa lanston lanu lanyRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (la) - Names That Begins with la:
labaan laban labeeb labhaoise labhruinn labib labid labreshia lace lacee lacene lacey lach lache lachesis lachie lachlan lachlann laci laciann lacie lacina laco lacramioara lacy lacyann lad lada ladbroc ladd ladde ladislav ladon laec laefertun lael laertes laestrygones laetitia lafayette lahab laheeb lahela lahthan lai laibrook laidley laidly laila laili lailie lailoken laina laine lainey lainie lair laird laire lairgnen laisNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LANA:
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'a':
lajila lakeisha lakesha lakeshia lakiesha lakisha lakishia lakya lala lalia lalima lama lamba lamia lampetia laodamia laqueta laquisha lara lareina larena laria larina larissa larunda lashea latasha lateefa lateisha latesha latia laticia latisha latoya laura laurana laurena laurencia laurentia lauretta laurinda laurita lavena laverna lavernia lavina lavinia layla lea leala lealia leana leandra leanna lebna lecia leda leela leena leesa legaya leia leianna leila leira leisha leitha lela lelia lema lemuela lena lenora lenuta leoda leola leoma leona leonarda leonda leondra leondrea leonela leonora leontina leopolda leopoldina leota leppa lera leta letha lethia letitia letizia letya leucothea leucothia leunta leviaEnglish Words Rhyming LANA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LANA AS A WHOLE:
| aplanatic | adjective (a.) Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens. |
| aplanatism | noun (n.) Freedom from spherical aberration. |
| complanar | adjective (a.) See Coplanar. |
| diplanar | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to two planes. |
| esplanade | noun (n.) A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town. |
| noun (n.) The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country. | |
| noun (n.) A grass plat; a lawn. | |
| noun (n.) Any clear, level space used for public walks or drives; esp., a terrace by the seaside. |
| explanate | adjective (a.) Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form. |
| explanation | noun (n.) The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. |
| noun (n.) That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation. | |
| noun (n.) The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense. | |
| noun (n.) A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation. |
| explanative | adjective (a.) Explanatory. |
| explanatoriness | noun (n.) The quality of being explanatory. |
| explanatory | adjective (a.) Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes. |
| falanaka | noun (n.) A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc. |
| jambolana | noun (n.) A myrtaceous tree of the West Indies and tropical America (Calyptranthes Jambolana), with astringent bark, used for dyeing. It bears an edible fruit. |
| lanarkite | noun (n.) A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color. |
| lanary | noun (n.) A place for storing wool. |
| melanaemia | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles. |
| melanagogue | noun (n.) A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler. |
| miscellanarian | noun (n.) A writer of miscellanies. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to miscellanies. |
| misexplanation | noun (n.) An erroneous explanation. |
| planaria | noun (n.) Any species of turbellarian worms belonging to Planaria, and many allied genera. The body is usually flat, thin, and smooth. Some species, in warm countries, are terrestrial. |
| planarian | noun (n.) One of the Planarida, or Dendrocoela; any turbellarian worm. |
| planarida | noun (n. pl.) A division of Turbellaria; the Dendrocoela. |
| planarioid | adjective (a.) Like the planarians. |
| planary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a plane. |
| pozzuolana | noun (n.) Alt. of Pozzolana |
| pozzolana | noun (n.) Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water. |
| puzzolana | noun (n.) See Pozzuolana. |
| solanaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Solanaceae, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more. |
| villanage | noun (n.) The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord. |
| noun (n.) Baseness; infamy; villainy. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LANA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ana) - English Words That Ends with ana:
| banana | noun (n.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa. |
| bandana | noun (n.) A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form. |
| noun (n.) A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure. |
| bimana | noun (n. pl.) Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia. |
| campana | noun (n.) A church bell. |
| noun (n.) The pasque flower. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Gutta. |
| curtana | noun (n.) The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor. |
| damiana | noun (n.) A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac. |
| diana | noun (n.) The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. |
| dulciana | noun (n.) A sweet-toned stop of an organ. |
| guana | noun (n.) See Iguana. |
| guarana | noun (n.) A preparation from the seeds of Paullinia sorbilis, a woody climber of Brazil, used in making an astringent drink, and also in the cure of headache. |
| gitana | noun (n. masc.) Alt. of Gitano |
| havana | noun (n.) An Havana cigar. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar |
| iguana | noun (n.) Any species of the genus Iguana, a genus of large American lizards of the family Iguanidae. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits. |
| jacana | noun (n.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird. |
| kerana | noun (n.) A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians. |
| levana | noun (n.) A goddess who protected newborn infants. |
| liana | noun (n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region. |
| nicotiana | noun (n.) A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species yield tobacco. See Tobacco. |
| nirvana | noun (n.) In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism. |
| nagana | noun (n.) The disease caused by the tsetse fly. |
| quadrumana | noun (n. pl.) A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone. |
| noun (n. pl.) A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone. |
| pedimana | noun (n. pl.) A division of marsupials, including the opossums. |
| poinciana | noun (n.) A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments. |
| purana | noun (n.) One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas. |
| ramayana | noun (n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita. |
| rana | noun (n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs. |
| salangana | noun (n.) The salagane. |
| sultana | noun (n.) The wife of a sultan; a sultaness. |
| noun (n.) A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey. |
| tana | noun (n.) Same as Banxring. |
| thana | noun (n.) A police station. |
| torana | noun (n.) A gateway, commonly of wood, but sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple. |
| tramontana | noun (n.) A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic. |
| zenana | noun (n.) The part of a dwelling appropriated to women. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LANA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (lan) - Words That Begins with lan:
| lance | noun (n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. |
| noun (n.) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer. | |
| noun (n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home. | |
| noun (n.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch. |
| lancing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lance |
| lancegay | noun (n.) Alt. of Lancegaye |
| lancegaye | noun (n.) A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II. |
| lancelet | noun (n.) A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia. |
| lancely | adjective (a.) Like a lance. |
| lanceolar | adjective (a.) Lanceolate. |
| lanceolate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lanceolated |
| lanceolated | adjective (a.) Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf. |
| lancepesade | noun (n.) An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal. |
| lancer | noun (n.) One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations. |
| noun (n.) A lancet. | |
| noun (n.) A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement. |
| lancet | noun (n.) A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc. |
| noun (n.) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. |
| lancewood | noun (n.) 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). |
| lanching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lanch |
| lanciferous | adjective (a.) Bearing a lance. |
| lanciform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a lance. |
| lancinating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lanciname |
| adjective (a.) Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains). |
| lancination | noun (n.) A tearing; laceration. |
| land | noun (n.) Urine. See Lant. |
| noun (n.) The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage. | |
| noun (n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract. | |
| noun (n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land. | |
| noun (n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people. | |
| noun (n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands. | |
| noun (n.) The ground or floor. | |
| noun (n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing. | |
| noun (n.) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate. | |
| noun (n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing. | |
| noun (n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves. | |
| verb (v. t.) To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark. | |
| verb (v. t.) To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish. | |
| verb (v. t.) To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes. | |
| verb (v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course. |
| landing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Land |
| noun (n.) A going or bringing on shore. | |
| noun (n.) A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc. | |
| noun (n.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another. | |
| adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore. |
| landamman | noun (n.) A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons. |
| noun (n.) The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic. |
| landau | noun (n.) A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage. |
| landaulet | noun (n.) A small landau. |
| landed | adjective (a.) Having an estate in land. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting in real estate or land; as, landed property; landed security. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Land |
| lander | noun (n.) One who lands, or makes a landing. |
| noun (n.) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore. |
| landfall | noun (n.) A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner. |
| noun (n.) Sighting or making land when at sea. |
| landflood | noun (n.) An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. |
| landgrave | noun (n.) A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France. |
| landgraviate | noun (n.) The territory held by a landgrave. |
| noun (n.) The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave. |
| landgravine | noun (n.) The wife of a landgrave. |
| landholder | noun (n.) A holder, owner, or proprietor of land. |
| landlady | noun (n.) A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants. |
| noun (n.) The mistress of an inn or lodging house. |
| landleaper | noun (n.) See Landlouper. |
| landless | adjective (a.) Having no property in land. |
| landlocked | adjective (a.) Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land. |
| adjective (a.) Confined to a fresh-water lake by reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon. |
| landloper | noun (n.) Same as Landlouper. |
| landlord | noun (n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants. |
| noun (n.) The master of an inn or of a lodging house. |
| landlordism | noun (n.) The state of being a landlord; the characteristics of a landlord; specifically, in Great Britain, the relation of landlords to tenants, especially as regards leased agricultural lands. |
| landlordry | noun (n.) The state of a landlord. |
| landlouper | noun (n.) A vagabond; a vagrant. |
| landlouping | adjective (a.) Vagrant; wandering about. |
| landlubber | noun (n.) One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule. |
| landman | noun (n.) A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman. |
| noun (n.) An occupier of land. |
| landmark | noun (n.) A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved. |
| noun (n.) Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple. |
| landowner | noun (n.) An owner of land. |
| landowning | noun (n.) The owning of land. |
| adjective (a.) Having property in land; of or pertaining to landowners. |
| landreeve | noun (n.) A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward. |
| landscape | noun (n.) A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. |
| noun (n.) 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. | |
| noun (n.) The pictorial aspect of a country. |
| landscapist | noun (n.) A painter of landscapes. |
| landskip | noun (n.) A landscape. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LANA:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'a':
| labia | noun (n. pl.) See Labium. |
| (pl. ) of Labium |
| labyrinthodonta | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala. |
| lacerta | noun (n.) A fathom. |
| noun (n.) A genus of lizards. See Lizard. | |
| noun (n.) The Lizard, a northern constellation. |
| lacertilia | noun (n. pl.) An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards. |
| lacinia | noun (n.) One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers. |
| noun (n.) A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf. | |
| noun (n.) The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillae of insects. |
| lacinula | noun (n.) A diminutive lacinia. |
| lactuca | noun (n.) A genus of composite herbs, several of which are cultivated foe salad; lettuce. |
| lacuna | noun (n.) A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus. |
| noun (n.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane. |
| laemodipoda | noun (n. pl.) A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples. |
| lagena | noun (n.) The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians. |
| lagemorpha | noun (n. pl.) A group of rodents, including the hares. They have four incisors in the upper jaw. Called also Duplicidentata. |
| lagophthalmia | noun (n.) Alt. of Lagophthalmos |
| lama | noun (n.) See Llama. |
| noun (n.) In Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism. |
| lambda | noun (n.) The name of the Greek letter /, /, corresponding with the English letter L, l. |
| noun (n.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull. |
| lamella | noun (n.) a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed. |
| lamellibranchia | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Lamellibranchiata |
| lamellibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc. |
| lamellicornia | noun (n. pl.) A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes. |
| lametta | noun (n.) Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass. |
| lamia | noun (n.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch. |
| lamina | noun (n.) A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals. |
| noun (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower. | |
| noun (n.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather. |
| laminaria | noun (n.) A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp. |
| lamnunguia | noun (n. pl.) Same as Hyracoidea. |
| langaha | noun (n.) A curious colubriform snake of the genus Xyphorhynchus, from Madagascar. It is brownish red, and its nose is prolonged in the form of a sharp blade. |
| langya | noun (n.) One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life; -- called also walking fishes. |
| larva | noun (n.) Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvae of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage. In other groups of insects the larvae are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc. |
| noun (n.) The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape. |
| larvalia | noun (n. pl.) An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See Appendicularia. |
| latakia | noun (n.) A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea. |
| latria | noun (n.) The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints. |
| laura | noun (n.) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior. |
| lava | noun (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States. |
| lavolta | noun (n.) An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound. |
| lawsonia | noun (n.) An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis), with smooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is prepared from the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptian privet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette. |
| lea | noun (n.) A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay. |
| noun (n.) A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle. | |
| noun (n.) A meadow or sward land; a grassy field. |
| lecama | noun (n.) The hartbeest. |
| lectica | noun (n.) A kind of litter or portable couch. |
| legatura | noun (n.) A tie or brace; a syncopation. |
| leipoa | noun (n.) A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant. |
| lemma | noun (n.) A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic. |
| lemniscata | noun (n.) Alt. of Lemniscate |
| lemuria | noun (n.) A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant. |
| lemuroidea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of primates, including the lemurs, the aye-aye, and allied species. |
| lena | noun (n.) A procuress. |
| lenticula | noun (n.) A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle. |
| noun (n.) A lens of small size. | |
| noun (n.) A lenticel. |
| lepidoptera | noun (n. pl.) An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored. |
| lepidosauria | noun (n. pl.) A division of reptiles, including the serpents and lizards; the Plagiotremata. |
| lepisma | noun (n.) A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug. |
| lepra | noun (n.) Leprosy. |
| leptocardia | noun (n. pl.) The lowest class of Vertebrata, including only the Amphioxus. The heart is represented only by a simple pulsating vessel. The blood is colorless; the brain, renal organs, and limbs are wanting, and the backbone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus. |
| leptostraca | noun (n. pl.) An order of Crustacea, including Nebalia and allied forms. |
| lernaea | noun (n.) A Linnaean genus of parasitic Entomostraca, -- the same as the family Lernaeidae. |
| lernaeacea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young, however, are active and swim freely. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| leuchaemia | noun (n.) See Leucocythaemia. |
| leucocythaemia | noun (n.) Alt. of Leucocythemia |
| leucocythemia | noun (n.) A disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchaemia. |
| leucoma | noun (n.) A white opacity in the cornea of the eye; -- called also albugo. |
| leucorrhoea | noun (n.) A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. |
| leukaemia | noun (n.) Leucocythaemia. |
| li bella | noun (n.) A small balance. |
| noun (n.) A level, or leveling instrument. |
| libra | noun (n.) The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus / in almanacs, etc. |
| noun (n.) A southern constellation between Virgo and Scorpio. |
| ligula | noun (n.) See Ligule. |
| noun (n.) The central process, or front edge, of the labium of insects. It sometimes serves as a tongue or proboscis, as in bees. | |
| noun (n.) A tongue-shaped lobe of the parapodia of annelids. See Parapodium. |
| lima | noun (n.) The capital city of Peru, in South America. |
| limacina | noun (n.) A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales. |
| lim naea | noun (n.) A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail. |
| limuloidea | noun (n. pl.) An order of Merostomata, including among living animals the genus Limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of the Carboniferous period. Called also Xiphosura. |
| lindia | noun (n.) A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoologists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda. |
| linga | noun (n.) Alt. of Lingam |
| lingua | noun (n.) A tongue. |
| noun (n.) A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue. |
| linguatulida | noun (n. pl.) Same as Linguatulina. |
| linguatulina | noun (n. pl.) An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida. |
| lingula | noun (n.) A tonguelike process or part. |
| noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of brachiopod shells belonging to the genus Lingula, and related genera. See Brachiopoda, and Illustration in Appendix. |
| lipaemia | noun (n.) A condition in which fat occurs in the blood. |
| lipocephala | noun (n. pl.) Same as Lamellibranchia. |
| lipoma | noun (n.) A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue. |
| lira | noun (n.) An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc. |
| lirella | noun (n.) A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens. |
| lissencephala | noun (n. pl.) A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc. |
| lithaemia | noun (n.) A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood. |
| lithia | noun (n.) The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium. |
| littorina | noun (n.) 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. |
| liza | noun (n.) The American white mullet (Mugil curema). |
| llama | noun (n.) A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes. |
| lobelia | noun (n.) A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers. |
| lobosa | noun (n. pl.) An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba. |
| lochia | noun (n. pl.) The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth. |
| locusta | noun (n.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. |
| locustella | noun (n.) The European cricket warbler. |
| loggia | noun (n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room. |
| loma | noun (n.) A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap. |
| longicornia | noun (n. pl.) A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust. |
| lophopoda | noun (n. pl.) Same as Phylactolemata. |
| lorcha | noun (n.) A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk. |
| lorica | noun (n.) A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like. |
| noun (n.) Lute for protecting vessels from the fire. | |
| noun (n.) The protective case or shell of an infusorian or rotifer. |
| loricata | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos. |
| noun (n. pl.) The crocodilia. |
| lucernaria | noun (n.) A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel. |
| lucernarida | noun (n. pl.) A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; -- called also Calycozoa. |
| noun (n. pl.) A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora. |
| lucuma | noun (n.) An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits. |
| lumachella | noun (n.) A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections. |
| luna | noun (n.) The moon. |
| noun (n.) Silver. |
| lunula | noun (n.) Same as Lunule. |
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