Name Report For First Name LUR:
LUR
First name LUR's origin is Spanish. LUR means "earth". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LUR below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of lur.(Brown names are of the same origin (Spanish) with LUR and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with LUR - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming LUR
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LUR AS A WHOLE:
allura alurea amalur amalure lurleen lurlene lurlina lurline aluraNAMES RHYMING WITH LUR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ur) - Names That Ends with ur:
acheflour sur ashur fodjour zahur gassur surur abdul-sabur abdul-shakur mansur nour jagur arthur peredur edur wilbur blancheflour gvenour artur balfour dimitur dour eldur excalibur macarthur porteur priour sciymgeour seignour telfour thour tournour maur ebur macartur cur bailefour raybour anhur sagramour cour nur asfour sarsour scur seymour blanchefleur fleurNAMES RHYMING WITH LUR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (lu) - Names That Begins with lu:
luana luane lubabah luc lucan lucas lucca lucena lucero lucette luci lucia lucian luciana lucianna luciano lucie lucien lucienne lucile lucille lucina lucine lucio lucita lucius lucky lucrece lucrecia lucrezia lucy lud ludkhannah ludlow ludmila ludmilla luduvico ludwig ludwik lueius luel luell luella luete lufian lufti lugaidh lughaidh luighseach luigi luigina luiginw luijzika luis luisa luise luiza lujza luk lukacs lukas luki lukina lukman luloah lulu lulwa luminita lumumba lun luna lunden lundie lundy luned lunet lunete lunetta lunn lupe lupita luqman lusala luthais luther lutz luvena luvenia luvina luvyna luxman luxovious luyu luz luzigeNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LUR:
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'r':
lair lalor lamar lamarr lander lar latimer launder lawler lazar leander lear leathlobhair leicester leonor lester lir llyr lorimar lorimer lothair lothar lysander lysanorEnglish Words Rhyming LUR
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LUR AS A WHOLE:
| ailuroidea | noun (n. pl.) A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas. |
| allurance | noun (n.) Allurement. |
| alluring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allure |
| adjective (a.) That allures; attracting; charming; tempting. |
| allure | noun (n.) Allurement. |
| noun (n.) Gait; bearing. | |
| verb (v. t.) To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract. |
| allurement | noun (n.) The act alluring; temptation; enticement. |
| noun (n.) That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor. |
| allurer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, allures. |
| alure | noun (n.) A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds. |
| anoplura | noun (n. pl.) A group of insects which includes the lice. |
| blurring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blur |
| blur | noun (n.) That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance. |
| noun (n.) A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur. | |
| noun (n.) A moral stain or blot. | |
| verb (v. t.) To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation. |
| blurry | adjective (a.) Full of blurs; blurred. |
| blurting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blurt |
| chelura | noun (n.) A genus of marine amphipod crustacea, which bore into and sometimes destroy timber. |
| chevelure | noun (n.) A hairlike envelope. |
| chyluria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance. |
| ciselure | noun (n.) The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased. |
| colure | noun (n.) One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90¡ from the former, and is called the solstitial colure. |
| crystallurgy | noun (n.) Crystallization. |
| cannelure | noun (n.) A groove in any cylinder; specif., a groove around the cylinder of an elongated bullet for small arms to contain a lubricant, or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling. Also, a groove around the base of a cartridge, where the extractor takes hold. |
| coulure | noun (n.) A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit. |
| defailure | noun (n.) Failure. |
| doublure | noun (n.) The lining of a book cover, esp. one of unusual sort, as of tooled leather, painted vellum, rich brocade, or the like. |
| noun (n.) The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace. |
| encolure | noun (n.) The neck of horse. |
| failure | noun (n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. |
| noun (n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. | |
| noun (n.) Want of success; the state of having failed. | |
| noun (n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight. | |
| noun (n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business. | |
| noun (n.) A failing; a slight fault. |
| flurried | adjective (a.) Agitated; excited. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Flurry |
| flurry | noun (n.) A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind. |
| noun (n.) A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind. | |
| noun (n.) Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry. | |
| noun (n.) The violent spasms of a dying whale. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm. |
| flurrying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flurry |
| flurt | noun (n.) A flirt. |
| glycoluric | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, glycol and urea; as, glycoluric acid, which is called also hydantoic acid. |
| glycoluril | noun (n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, obtained by the reduction of allantoin. |
| hydrometallurgical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to hydrometallurgy; involving the use of liquid reagents in the treatment or reduction of ores. |
| hydrometallurgy | noun (n.) The art or process of assaying or reducing ores by means of liquid reagents. |
| hydrotellurate | noun (n.) A salt formed by the union of hydrotelluric acid and the base. |
| hydrotelluric | adjective (a.) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium; as, hydrotelluric acid, or hydrogen telluride. |
| lurcation | noun (n.) Gluttony; gormandizing. |
| lurch | noun (n.) An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables. |
| noun (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch. | |
| noun (n.) A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind. | |
| verb (v. i.) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up. | |
| verb (v. t.) To leave in the lurch; to cheat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To steal; to rob. | |
| verb (v. i.) To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man. | |
| verb (v. i.) To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk. | |
| verb (v. i.) To dodge; to shift; to play tricks. |
| lurching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lurch |
| lurcher | noun (n.) One that lurches or lies in wait; one who watches to pilfer, or to betray or entrap; a poacher. |
| noun (n.) One of a mongrel breed of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel. It hunts game silently, by scent, and is often used by poachers. | |
| noun (n.) A glutton; a gormandizer. |
| lurchline | noun (n.) The line by which a fowling net was pulled over so as to inclose the birds. |
| lurdan | noun (n.) A blockhead. |
| adjective (a.) Stupid; blockish. |
| lure | noun (n.) A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks. |
| noun (n.) Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy. | |
| noun (n.) A velvet smoothing brush. | |
| noun (n.) To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract. | |
| verb (v. i.) To recall a hawk or other animal. |
| luring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lure |
| lurg | noun (n.) A large marine annelid (Nephthys caeca), inhabiting the sandy shores of Europe and America. It is whitish, with a pearly luster, and grows to the length of eight or ten inches. |
| lurid | adjective (a.) Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. |
| adjective (a.) Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. | |
| adjective (a.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray. |
| lurking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lurk |
| lurker | noun (n.) One who lurks. |
| noun (n.) A small fishing boat. |
| lurry | noun (n.) A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds. |
| maclurea | noun (n.) A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks. |
| maclurin | noun (n.) See Morintannic. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LUR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ur) - English Words That Ends with ur:
| accoucheur | noun (n.) A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician. |
| achatour | noun (n.) Purveyor; acater. |
| admittatur | noun (n.) The certificate of admission given in some American colleges. |
| allocatur | noun (n.) "Allowed." The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer. |
| amateur | noun (n.) A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally. |
| amour | noun (n.) Love; affection. |
| noun (n.) Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair. |
| augur | noun (n.) An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences. |
| noun (n.) One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet. | |
| verb (v. i.) To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow. | |
| verb (v. i.) To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill. | |
| verb (v. t.) To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer. |
| avauntour | noun (n.) A boaster. |
| balisaur | noun (n.) A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris). |
| belamour | noun (n.) A lover. |
| noun (n.) A flower, but of what kind is unknown. |
| bittor bittour | noun (n.) The bittern. |
| bour | noun (n.) A chamber or a cottage. |
| bucentaur | noun (n.) A fabulous monster, half ox, half man. |
| noun (n.) The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic. |
| bur | noun (n.) Alt. of Burr |
| butterbur | noun (n.) A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter. |
| bahadur | noun (n.) Alt. of Bahaudur |
| bahaudur | noun (n.) A title of respect or honor given to European officers in East Indian state papers, and colloquially, and among the natives, to distinguished officials and other important personages. |
| calambour | noun (n.) A species of agalloch, or aloes wood, of a dusky or mottled color, of a light, friable texture, and less fragrant than calambac; -- used by cabinetmakers. |
| calembour | noun (n.) A pun. |
| centaur | noun (n.) A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse. |
| noun (n.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross. |
| chasseur | noun (n.) One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements. |
| noun (n.) An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword. |
| claqueur | noun (n.) One of the claque employed to applaud at a theater. |
| clotbur | noun (n.) The burdock. |
| noun (n.) Same as Cocklebur. |
| cocklebur | noun (n.) A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur. |
| cockspur | noun (n.) A variety of Crataegus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn. |
| collaborateur | noun (n.) See Collaborator. |
| colour | noun (n.) See Color. |
| colporteur | noun (n.) A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books. |
| connoisseur | noun (n.) One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. |
| contour | noun (n.) The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery. |
| noun (n.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification. |
| countour | noun (n.) Alt. of Countourhouse |
| cur | noun (n.) A mongrel or inferior dog. |
| noun (n.) A worthless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt. |
| chauffeur | noun (n.) Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money. |
| noun (n.) One who manages the running of an automobile; esp., the paid operator of a motor vehicle. |
| coiffeur | noun (n.) A hairdresser. |
| couleur | noun (n.) Color; -- chiefly used in a few French phrases, as couler de rose, color of rose; and hence, adjectively, rose-colored; roseate. |
| noun (n.) A suit of cards, as hearts or clubs; -- used in some French games. |
| deinosaur | noun (n.) See Dinosaur. |
| detour | noun (n.) A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi. |
| detur | noun (n.) A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize. |
| dinosaur | noun (n.) Alt. of Dinosaurian |
| dissimulour | noun (n.) A dissembler. |
| dortour | noun (n.) Alt. of Dorture |
| douceur | noun (n.) Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness. |
| noun (n.) A gift for service done or to be done; an honorarium; a present; sometimes, a bribe. |
| dour | adjective (a.) Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. |
| downpour | noun (n.) A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower. |
| dur | adjective (a.) Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major. |
| ecraseur | noun (n.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows. |
| enaliosaur | noun (n.) One of the Enaliosauria. |
| entrepreneur | noun (n.) One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed. |
| excalibur | noun (n.) The name of King Arthur's mythical sword. |
| exequatur | noun (n.) A written official recognition of a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned. |
| noun (n.) Official recognition or permission. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LUR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (lu) - Words That Begins with lu:
| lubbard | noun (n.) A lubber. |
| adjective (a.) Lubberly. |
| lubber | noun (n.) A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. |
| lubberly | adjective (a.) Like a lubber; clumsy. |
| adverb (adv.) Clumsily; awkwardly. |
| lubric | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lubrical |
| lubrical | adjective (a.) Having a smooth surface; slippery. |
| adjective (a.) Lascivious; wanton; lewd. |
| lubricant | noun (n.) That which lubricates; specifically, a substance, as oil, grease, plumbago, etc., used for reducing the friction of the working parts of machinery. |
| adjective (a.) Lubricating. |
| lubrication | noun (n.) The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery. |
| lubricator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, lubricates. |
| noun (n.) A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery. |
| lubricity | noun (n.) Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. |
| noun (n.) Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune. | |
| noun (n.) Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency. |
| lubricous | adjective (a.) Lubric. |
| lubrification | noun (n.) Alt. of Lubrifaction |
| lubrifaction | noun (n.) The act of lubricating, or making smooth. |
| lucarne | noun (n.) A dormer window. |
| lucchese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Lucca, in Tuscany; in the plural, the people of Lucca. |
| luce | noun (n.) A pike when full grown. |
| lucency | noun (n.) The quality of being lucent. |
| lucent | adjective (a.) Shining; bright; resplendent. |
| lucern | noun (n.) A sort of hunting dog; -- perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland. |
| noun (n.) An animal whose fur was formerly much in request (by some supposed to be the lynx). | |
| noun (n.) A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa. | |
| noun (n.) A lamp. |
| lucernal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a lamp. |
| 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. |
| lucernarian | noun (n.) One of the Lucernarida. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida. |
| 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. |
| lucerne | noun (n.) See Lucern, the plant. |
| lucid | noun (n.) Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven. |
| noun (n.) Clear; transparent. | |
| noun (n.) Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear. | |
| noun (n.) Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval. |
| lucidity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being lucid. |
| lucidness | noun (n.) The quality of being lucid; lucidity. |
| lucifer | noun (n.) The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. |
| noun (n.) Hence, Satan. | |
| noun (n.) A match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also lucifer match, and locofoco. See Locofoco. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages. |
| luciferian | noun (n.) One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in the fourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because they would not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride of Lucifer; satanic; devilish. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Luciferians or their leader. |
| luciferous | adjective (a.) Giving light; affording light or means of discovery. |
| lucific | adjective (a.) Producing light. |
| luciform | adjective (a.) Having, in some respects, the nature of light; resembling light. |
| lucifrian | adjective (a.) Luciferian; satanic. |
| lucimeter | noun (n.) an instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer. |
| luck | noun (n.) That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill. |
| luckiness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event. |
| noun (n.) Good fortune; favorable issue or event. |
| luckless | adjective (a.) Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid. |
| lucrative | adjective (a.) Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office. |
| adjective (a.) Greedy of gain. |
| lucre | noun (n.) Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense. |
| lucriferous | adjective (a.) Gainful; profitable. |
| lucrific | adjective (a.) Producing profit; gainful. |
| luctation | noun (n.) Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavor. |
| luctual | adjective (a.) Producing grief; saddening. |
| lucubrated | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lucubrate |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Lucubrate |
| lucubrate | noun (n.) To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night. |
| verb (v. t.) To elaborate, perfect, or compose, by night study or by laborious endeavor. |
| lucubration | noun (n.) The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation. |
| noun (n.) That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition. |
| lucubrator | noun (n.) One who studies by night; also, one who produces lucubrations. |
| lucubratory | adjective (a.) Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking. |
| lucule | noun (n.) A spot or fleck on the sun brighter than the surrounding surface. |
| luculent | adjective (a.) Lucid; clear; transparent. |
| adjective (a.) Clear; evident; luminous. | |
| adjective (a.) Bright; shining in beauty. |
| lucullite | noun (n.) A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LUR:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'r':
| labeler | noun (n.) One who labels. |
| labidometer | noun (n.) A forceps with a measuring attachment for ascertaining the size of the fetal head. |
| labimeter | noun (n.) See Labidometer. |
| labor | noun (n.) Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work. |
| noun (n.) Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history. | |
| noun (n.) That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. | |
| noun (n.) Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth. | |
| noun (n.) Any pang or distress. | |
| noun (n.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. | |
| noun (n.) A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres. | |
| noun (n.) To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. | |
| noun (n.) To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains. | |
| noun (n.) To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of. | |
| noun (n.) To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth. | |
| noun (n.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. | |
| noun (n.) A store or set of stopes. | |
| verb (v. t.) To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care. | |
| verb (v. t.) To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument. | |
| verb (v. t.) To belabor; to beat. |
| laborer | noun (n.) One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan. |
| labrador | noun (n.) A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland. |
| lacker | noun (n.) One who lacks or is in want. |
| noun (n. & v.) See Lacquer. |
| lackluster | noun (n.) Alt. of Lacklustre |
| lacquer | noun (n.) A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for varnishing metals, papier-mache, and wood. The name is also given to varnishes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made. |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with lacquer. |
| lacquerer | noun (n.) One who lacquers, especially one who makes a business of lacquering. |
| lactobutyrometer | noun (n.) An instrument for determining the amount of butter fat contained in a given sample of milk. |
| lactodensimeter | noun (n.) A form of hydrometer, specially graduated, for finding the density of milk, and thus discovering whether it has been mixed with water or some of the cream has been removed. |
| lactometer | noun (n.) An instrument for estimating the purity or richness of milk, as a measuring glass, a specific gravity bulb, or other apparatus. |
| lacunar | noun (n.) The ceiling or under surface of any part, especially when it consists of compartments, sunk or hollowed without spaces or bands between the panels. |
| noun (n.) One of the sunken panels in such a ceiling. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or having, lacunae; as, a lacunar circulation. |
| laemmergeyer | noun (n.) See Lammergeir. |
| lager | noun (n.) Lager beer. |
| lagger | noun (n.) A laggard. |
| lair | noun (n.) A place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast. |
| noun (n.) A burying place. | |
| noun (n.) A pasture; sometimes, food. |
| lamellar | adjective (a.) Flat and thin; lamelliform; composed of lamellae. |
| lamenter | noun (n.) One who laments. |
| laminar | adjective (a.) Alt. of Laminal |
| laminiplantar | adjective (a.) Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks. |
| lammergeir | noun (n.) Alt. of Lammergeier |
| lammergeier | noun (n.) A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle. |
| lamplighter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps. |
| noun (n.) The calico bass. |
| lampooner | noun (n.) The writer of a lampoon. |
| lanceolar | adjective (a.) Lanceolate. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| landholder | noun (n.) A holder, owner, or proprietor of land. |
| landleaper | noun (n.) See Landlouper. |
| landloper | noun (n.) Same as Landlouper. |
| landlouper | noun (n.) A vagabond; a vagrant. |
| landlubber | noun (n.) One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule. |
| landowner | noun (n.) An owner of land. |
| landwaiter | noun (n.) See Landing waiter, under Landing, a. |
| landwehr | noun (n.) That part of the army, in Germany and Austria, which has completed the usual military service and is exempt from duty in time of peace, except that it is called out occasionally for drill. |
| languisher | noun (n.) One who languishes. |
| languor | noun (n.) A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity. |
| noun (n.) Any enfeebling disease. | |
| noun (n.) Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope. |
| lanier | noun (n.) A thong of leather; a whip lash. |
| noun (n.) A strap used to fasten together parts of armor, to hold the shield by, and the like. |
| lanner | noun (n. m.) Alt. of Lanneret |
| lanyer | noun (n.) See Lanier. |
| laplander | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Lapland; -- called also Lapp. |
| lapper | noun (n.) One who takes up food or liquid with his tongue. |
| laquear | noun (n.) A lacunar. |
| lar | noun (n.) A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house. |
| noun (n.) A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon. |
| larcener | noun (n.) Alt. of Larcenist |
| larder | noun (n.) A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked. |
| larderer | noun (n.) One in charge of the larder. |
| larker | noun (n.) A catcher of larks. |
| noun (n.) One who indulges in a lark or frolic. |
| larkspur | noun (n.) A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Delphinium), having showy flowers, and a spurred calyx. They are natives of the North Temperate zone. The commonest larkspur of the gardens is D. Consolida. The flower of the bee larkspur (D. elatum) has two petals bearded with yellow hairs, and looks not unlike a bee. |
| larmier | noun (n.) See Tearpit. |
| lascar | noun (n.) A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower. |
| lasher | noun (n.) One who whips or lashes. |
| noun (n.) A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another; -- called also lashing. | |
| noun (n.) A weir in a river. |
| laster | noun (n.) A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a last. |
| later | noun (n.) A brick or tile. |
| adverb (a.) Compar. of Late, a. & adv. |
| lather | noun (n.) Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water. |
| noun (n.) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse. | |
| noun (n.) To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse. | |
| verb (v. t.) To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog. |
| latimer | noun (n.) An interpreter. [Obs.] Coke. |
| latinitaster | noun (n.) One who has but a smattering of Latin. |
| latter | adjective (a.) Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain. |
| adjective (a.) Of two things, the one mentioned second. | |
| adjective (a.) Recent; modern. | |
| adjective (a.) Last; latest; final. |
| laudator | noun (n.) One who lauds. |
| noun (n.) An arbitrator. |
| lauder | noun (n.) One who lauds. |
| laugher | noun (n.) One who laughs. |
| noun (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon. |
| launder | noun (n.) A washerwoman. |
| noun (n.) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore. | |
| verb (v. i.) To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts. | |
| verb (v. i.) To lave; to wet. |
| launderer | noun (n.) One who follows the business of laundering. |
| laurer | noun (n.) Laurel. |
| lavender | noun (n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts. |
| noun (n.) The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac. |
| laver | noun (n.) A vessel for washing; a large basin. |
| noun (n.) A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet. | |
| noun (n.) One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed. | |
| noun (n.) That which washes or cleanses. | |
| noun (n.) One who laves; a washer. | |
| noun (n.) The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan. |
| lavisher | noun (n.) One who lavishes. |
| lavoltateer | noun (n.) A dancer of the lavolta. |
| lavour | noun (n.) A laver. |
| lawbreaker | noun (n.) One who disobeys the law; a criminal. |
| lawer | noun (n.) A lawyer. |
| lawgiver | noun (n.) One who makes or enacts a law or system of laws; a legislator. |
| lawmaker | noun (n.) A legislator; a lawgiver. |
| lawmonger | noun (n.) A trader in law; one who practices law as if it were a trade. |
| lawyer | noun (n.) One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates. |
| noun (n.) The black-necked stilt. See Stilt. | |
| noun (n.) The bowfin (Amia calva). | |
| noun (n.) The burbot (Lota maculosa). |
| laxator | noun (n.) That which loosens; -- esp., a muscle which by its contraction loosens some part. |
| layer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, lays. |
| noun (n.) That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. | |
| noun (n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation. | |
| noun (n.) An artificial oyster bed. |
| layner | noun (n.) A whiplash. |
| lazar | noun (n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. |
| leader | noun (n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor. |
| noun (n.) One who goes first. | |
| noun (n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander. | |
| noun (n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins. | |
| noun (n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places. | |
| noun (n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery. | |
| noun (n.) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses. | |
| noun (n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor. | |
| noun (n.) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached. | |
| noun (n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one. | |
| noun (n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article. | |
| noun (n.) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face. | |
| noun (n.) a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number. |
| leaguer | noun (n.) The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general. |
| noun (n.) A siege or beleaguering. | |
| verb (v. t.) To besiege; to beleaguer. |
| leaguerer | noun (n.) A besieger. |
| leamer | noun (n.) A dog held by a leam. |
| leaper | noun (n.) One who, or that which, leaps. |
| noun (n.) A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage. |
| lear | noun (n.) Lore; lesson. |
| noun (n.) An annealing oven. See Leer, n. | |
| adjective (a.) See Leer, a. | |
| verb (v. t.) To learn. See Lere, to learn. |
| learner | noun (n.) One who learns; a scholar. |
| leaseholder | noun (n.) A tenant under a lease. |
| leaser | noun (n.) One who leases or gleans. |
| noun (n.) A liar. |
| leather | noun (n.) The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively. |
| noun (n.) The skin. | |
| verb (v. t.) To beat, as with a thong of leather. |
| leaver | noun (n.) One who leaves, or withdraws. |
| lecher | noun (n.) A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women. |
| verb (v. i.) To practice lewdness. |
| lecherer | noun (n.) See Lecher, n. |
| lector | noun (n.) A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate. |
| lecturer | noun (n.) One who lectures; an assistant preacher. |
| ledger | noun (n.) A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads. |
| noun (n.) A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb. | |
| noun (n.) A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight. |
| leer | noun (n.) An oven in which glassware is annealed. |
| noun (n.) The cheek. | |
| noun (n.) Complexion; aspect; appearance. | |
| noun (n.) A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion. | |
| adjective (a.) Empty; destitute; wanting | |
| adjective (a.) Empty of contents. | |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse. | |
| adjective (a.) Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words. | |
| verb (v. t.) To learn. | |
| verb (v. i.) To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look. | |
| verb (v. t.) To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin. |
| legator | noun (n.) A testator; one who bequeaths a legacy. |
| leger | noun (n.) Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place. |
| noun (n.) A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government. | |
| noun (n.) A ledger. | |
| adjective (a.) Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident; as, leger ambassador. | |
| adjective (a.) Light; slender; slim; trivial. |
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