LEANDER

Name Report For First Name LEANDER:

First name LEANDER's origin is English. LEANDER means "form of leander. lionlike man". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LEANDER below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of leander.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with LEANDER and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with LEANDER - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming LEANDER

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LEANDER AS A WHOLE:

NAMES RHYMING WITH LEANDER (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (eander) - Names That Ends with eander:

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (ander) - Names That Ends with ander:

ander lysander philander aleksander alexander zander sander lander

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (nder) - Names That Ends with nder:

iskinder launder thunder

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (der) - Names That Ends with der:

nader yder bader calder eder ellder helder jader rydder ryder rider elder der balder alder ider rayder

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (er) - Names That Ends with er:

clover hesper gauthier fajer mountakaber saber shaker taher abdul-nasser kadeer kyner vortimer ager iker xabier usk-water fleischaker kusner molner bleecker devisser schuyler vanderveer an-her djoser narmer neb-er-tcher acker archer brewster bridger camber denver gardner jasper miller parker taburer tanner tucker turner wheeler witter symer dexter jesper ogier oliver fearcher keller lawler rainer rutger auster christopher homer kester meleager teucer helmer abeer amber cher claefer codier easter ember ester esther eszter ginger gwenyver

NAMES RHYMING WITH LEANDER (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (leande) - Names That Begins with leande:

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (leand) - Names That Begins with leand:

leandra leandre leandro

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (lean) - Names That Begins with lean:

lean leana leane leanian leann leanna leannan leanne

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (lea) - Names That Begins with lea:

lea lea-que leachlainn leah leal leala lealia leaman leamhnach lear leary leathan leathlobhair leax

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (le) - Names That Begins with le:

leb lebna lecia leda lee leeann leeanne leela leeland leena leeroy leesa legarre legaya legget leia leianna leicester leigb leigh leigh-ann leighanne leighton leiko leil leila leilah leilana leilani leilanie leilany leiloni leira leisha leith leitha leitis leksi lela leland lele lelia lema leman lemuel lemuela len lena lenae lenard lenci lendall lendell lenee leng lenmana lenn lennard lennell lennie lenno lennon lennox lenny lenora lenore lenuta leo leoc leocadie leod leoda leodegan leodegrance leodegraunce

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LEANDER:

First Names which starts with 'lea' and ends with 'der':

First Names which starts with 'le' and ends with 'er':

lester

First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'r':

lair lalor lamar lamarr lar latimer lazar leonor lir llyr lorimar lorimer lothair lothar lur luther lysanor

English Words Rhyming LEANDER

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LEANDER AS A WHOLE:

oleander

noun (n.) A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers. It is native of the East Indies, but the red variety has become common in the south of Europe. Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LEANDER (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (eander) - English Words That Ends with eander:

meander	noun (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.
	noun (n.) A tortuous or intricate movement.
	noun (n.) Fretwork. See Fret.
	verb (v. t.) To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
	verb (v. i.) To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.

Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (ander) - English Words That Ends with ander:

africander

noun (n.) One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

backhander

noun (n.) A backhanded blow.

bander

noun (n.) One banded with others.

bergander

noun (n.) A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.

bilander

noun (n.) A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.

birgander

noun (n.) See Bergander.

brander	noun (n.) One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron.
	noun (n.) A gridiron.

bylander

noun (n.) See Bilander.

bystander

noun (n.) One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.

colander

noun (n.) A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perforated metal, or the like.

commander	noun (n.) A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.
	noun (n.) An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army.
	noun (n.) The chief officer of a commandery.
	noun (n.) A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.

coriander

noun (n.) An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.

dander	noun (n.) Dandruff or scurf on the head.
	noun (n.) Anger or vexation; rage.
	verb (v. i.) To wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently.

demander

noun (n.) One who demands.

disslander	noun (n.) Slander.
	verb (v. t.) To slander.

dittander

noun (n.) A kind of peppergrass (Lepidium latifolium).

expander

noun (n.) Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.

filander

noun (n.) A species of kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea.

finlander

noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Finland.

gander

noun (n.) The male of any species of goose.

germander

noun (n.) A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamaedrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs.

goosander

noun (n.) A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.

gormander

noun (n.) See Gormand, n.

greenlander

noun (n.) A native of Greenland.

gynander

noun (n.) A plant having the stamens inserted in the pistil.

hander

noun (n.) One who hands over or transmits; a conveyer in succession.

highlander

noun (n.) An inhabitant of highlands, especially of the Highlands of Scotland.

hollander	noun (n.) A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman.
	noun (n.) A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker.

icelander

noun (n.) A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.

inlander

noun (n.) One who lives in the interior of a country, or at a distance from the sea.

islander

noun (n.) An inhabitant of an island.

jutlander

noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Jutland in Denmark.

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.

laplander

noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Lapland; -- called also Lapp.

lowlander

noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of the Lowlands of Scotland, as distinguished from Highlander.

misunderstander

noun (n.) One who misunderstands.

monander

noun (n.) One of the Monandria.

norlander

noun (n.) A northener; a person from the north country.

octander

noun (n.) One of the Octandria.

outlander

noun (n.) A foreigner.

overlander

noun (n.) One who travels over lands or countries; one who travels overland.

palissander	noun (n.) Violet wood.
	noun (n.) Rosewood.

pander	noun (n.) A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.
	noun (n.) Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
	verb (v. t.) To play the pander for.
	verb (v. i.) To act the part of a pander.

philander	noun (n.) A lover.
	noun (n.) A South American opossum (Didelphys philander).
	noun (n.) An Australian bandicoot (Perameles lagotis).
	verb (v. i.) To make love to women; to play the male flirt.

polander

noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Pole.

pomander	noun (n.) A perfume to be carried with one, often in the form of a ball.
	noun (n.) A box to contain such perfume, formerly carried by ladies, as at the end of a chain; -- more properly pomander box.

reprimander

noun (n.) One who reprimands.

salamander	noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of Urodela, belonging to Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied genera, especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits.
	noun (n.) The pouched gopher (Geomys tuza) of the Southern United States.
	noun (n.) A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated, and held over pastry, etc., to brown it.
	noun (n.) A large poker.
	noun (n.) Solidified material in a furnace hearth.

scaphander

noun (n.) The case, or impermeable apparel, in which a diver can work while under water.

shebander

noun (n.) A harbor master, or ruler of a port, in the East Indies.

Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (nder) - English Words That Ends with nder:

absconder

noun (n.) One who absconds.

amender

noun (n.) One who amends.

apprehender

noun (n.) One who apprehends.

attainder	noun (n.) The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder.
	noun (n.) A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation.

attender

noun (n.) One who, or that which, attends.

bartender

noun (n.) A barkeeper.

bender	noun (n.) One who, or that which, bends.
	noun (n.) An instrument used for bending.
	noun (n.) A drunken spree.
	noun (n.) A sixpence.

bhunder

noun (n.) An Indian monkey (Macacus Rhesus), protected by the Hindoos as sacred. See Rhesus.

binder	noun (n.) One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.
	noun (n.) Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.

blender

noun (n.) One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.

blinder	noun (n.) One who, or that which, blinds.
	noun (n.) One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.

blunder	noun (n.) Confusion; disturbance.
	noun (n.) A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.
	verb (v. i.) To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
	verb (v. i.) To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to blunder.
	verb (v. t.) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

bonder	noun (n.) One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
	noun (n.) A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.
	noun (n.) A freeholder on a small scale.

bookbinder

noun (n.) One whose occupation is to bind books.

bounder

noun (n.) One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.

bunder

noun (n.) A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.

calender	noun (n.) A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.
	noun (n.) One who pursues the business of calendering.
	noun (n.) To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc.
	noun (n.) One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.

chavender

noun (n.) The chub.

cinder	noun (n.) Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
	noun (n.) A hot coal without flame; an ember.
	noun (n.) A scale thrown off in forging metal.
	noun (n.) The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.

commender

noun (n.) One who commends or praises.

compounder	noun (n.) One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines.
	noun (n.) One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish, ends by compromises.
	noun (n.) One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
	noun (n.) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
	noun (n.) A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.

conder

noun (n.) One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.

confounder

noun (n.) One who confounds.

contender

noun (n.) One who contends; a contestant.

cullender

noun (n.) A strainer. See Colander.

cylinder	noun (n.) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
	noun (n.) The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.
	noun (n.) Any hollow body of cylindrical form
	noun (n.) The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.
	noun (n.) The barrel of an air or other pump.
	noun (n.) The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.
	noun (n.) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.
	noun (n.) The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.

defender

noun (n.) One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.

depender

noun (n.) One who depends; a dependent.

descender

noun (n.) One who descends.

desponder

noun (n.) One who desponds.

detainder

noun (n.) A writ. See Detinue.

discommender

noun (n.) One who discommends; a dispraiser.

dispender

noun (n.) One who dispends or expends; a steward.

dunder

noun (n.) The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.

emender

noun (n.) One who emends.

ender

noun (n.) One who, or that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life.

engender	noun (n.) One who, or that which, engenders.
	verb (v. t.) To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
	verb (v. i.) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
	verb (v. i.) To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.

expounder

noun (n.) One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.

extender

noun (n.) One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.

finder	noun (n.) One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.
	noun (n.) A slide ruled in squares, so as to assist in locating particular points in the field of vision.

flounder	noun (n.) A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.
	noun (n.) A tool used in crimping boot fronts.
	noun (n.) The act of floundering.
	verb (v. i.) To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.

founder	noun (n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
	noun (n.) One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.
	noun (n.) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.
	noun (n.) An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.
	verb (v. i.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
	verb (v. i.) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
	verb (v. i.) To fail; to miscarry.
	verb (v. t.) To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.

gender	noun (n.) Kind; sort.
	noun (n.) Sex, male or female.
	noun (n.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
	noun (n.) To beget; to engender.
	verb (v. i.) To copulate; to breed.

grinder	noun (n.) One who, or that which, grinds.
	noun (n.) One of the double teeth, used to grind or masticate the food; a molar.
	noun (n.) The restless flycatcher (Seisura inquieta) of Australia; -- called also restless thrush and volatile thrush. It makes a noise like a scissors grinder, to which the name alludes.

hellbender

noun (n.) A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.

highbinder

noun (n.) A ruffian; one who hounds, or spies upon, another; app. esp. to the members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese.

hinder	adjective (a.) Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse.
	adjective (a.) To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going.
	adjective (a.) To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out.
	verb (v. i.) To interpose obstacles or impediments; to be a hindrance.

impounder

noun (n.) One who impounds.

intender

noun (n.) One who intends.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LEANDER (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (leande) - Words That Begins with leande:

Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (leand) - Words That Begins with leand:

Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (lean) - Words That Begins with lean:

leaning	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lean
	noun (n.) The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.

lean	noun (n.) That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat.
	noun (n.) Unremunerative copy or work.
	verb (v. t.) To conceal.
	verb (v. i.) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column.
	verb (v. i.) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc.
	verb (v. i.) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against.
	verb (v. i.) To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.
	verb (v. i.) Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.
	verb (v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages.
	verb (v. i.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.

leanness

noun (n.) The condition or quality of being lean.

leany

adjective (a.) Lean.

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (lea) - Words That Begins with lea:

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.

leach	noun (n.) See 3d Leech.
	noun (n.) A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
	noun (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
	noun (n.) See Leech, a physician.
	verb (v. t.) To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
	verb (v. t.) To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.
	verb (v. i.) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

leaching

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leach

leachy

adjective (a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.

lead	noun (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.
	noun (n.) An article made of lead or an alloy of lead
	noun (n.) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea.
	noun (n.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
	noun (n.) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
	noun (n.) A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils.
	noun (n.) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another.
	noun (n.) precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's length, or of half a second.
	noun (n.) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead.
	noun (n.) An open way in an ice field.
	noun (n.) A lode.
	noun (n.) The course of a rope from end to end.
	noun (n.) The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
	noun (n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
	noun (n.) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
	noun (n.) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
	noun (n.) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
	noun (n.) In an internal-combustion engine, the distance, measured in actual length of piston stroke or the corresponding angular displacement of the crank, of the piston from the end of the compression stroke when ignition takes place; -- called in full lead of the ignition. When ignition takes place during the working stroke the corresponding distance from the commencement of the stroke is called negative lead.
	noun (n.) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
	noun (n.) In spiral screw threads, worm wheels, or the like, the amount of advance of any point in the spiral for a complete turn.
	noun (n.) A conductor conveying electricity, as from a dynamo.
	noun (n.) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
	noun (n.) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
	noun (n.) A r/le for a leading man or leading woman; also, one who plays such a r/le.
	verb (v. t.) To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
	verb (v. t.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter.
	verb (v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man.
	verb (v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil.
	verb (v. t.) To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party.
	verb (v. t.) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages.
	verb (v. t.) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause.
	verb (v. t.) To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
	verb (v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led.
	verb (v. i.) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t.
	verb (v. t.) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices.

leading	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lead
	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lead
	noun (n.) The act of guiding, directing, governing, or enticing; guidance.
	noun (n.) Suggestion; hint; example.
	adjective (a.) Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example.

leaded	adjective (a.) Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows.
	adjective (a.) Separated by leads, as the lines of a page.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Lead

leaden	adjective (a.) Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball.
	adjective (a.) Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky.
	adjective (a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish.

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.

leadership

noun (n.) The office of a leader.

leadhillite

noun (n.) A mineral of a yellowish or greenish white color, consisting of the sulphate and carbonate of lead; -- so called from having been first found at Leadhills, Scotland.

leadman

noun (n.) One who leads a dance.

leadsman

noun (n.) The man who heaves the lead.

leadwort

noun (n.) A genus of maritime herbs (Plumbago). P. Europaea has lead-colored spots on the leaves, and nearly lead-colored flowers.

leady

adjective (a.) Resembling lead.

leaf	noun (n.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
	noun (n.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.
	noun (n.) Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
	verb (v. i.) To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.

leafing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leaf

leafage

noun (n.) Leaves, collectively; foliage.

leafcup

noun (n.) A coarse American composite weed (Polymnia Uvedalia).

leafed	adjective (a.) Having (such) a leaf or (so many) leaves; -- used in composition; as, broad-leafed; four-leafed.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Leaf

leafet

noun (n.) A leaflet.

leafiness

noun (n.) The state of being leafy.

leafless

adjective (a.) Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage.

leaflet	noun (n.) A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.
	noun (n.) One of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole.
	noun (n.) A leaflike organ or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes.

leafstalk

noun (n.) The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf.

league	noun (n.) A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each.
	noun (n.) A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
	noun (n.) An alliance or combination of two or more nations, parties, or persons, for the accomplishment of a purpose which requires a continued course of action, as for mutual defense, or for furtherance of commercial, religious, or political interests, etc.
	verb (v. i.) To unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support; to confederate.
	verb (v. t.) To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements.

leaguing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of League

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.

leak	noun (n.) To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
	noun (n.) To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out.
	noun (n.) A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs.
	adjective (a.) Leaky.
	verb (v.) A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.
	verb (v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.

leaking

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leak

leakage	noun (n.) A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.
	noun (n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.
	noun (n.) A leak; also; the quantity of electricity thus wasted.

leakiness

noun (n.) The quality of being leaky.

leal

adjective (a.) Faithful; loyal; true.

leam	noun (n. & v. i.) See Leme.
	noun (n.) A cord or strap for leading a dog.

leamer

noun (n.) A dog held by a leam.

leap	noun (n.) A basket.
	noun (n.) A weel or wicker trap for fish.
	noun (n.) The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.
	noun (n.) Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
	noun (n.) A fault.
	noun (n.) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.
	verb (v. i.) To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse.
	verb (v. i.) To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.
	verb (v. t.) To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.
	verb (v. t.) To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.

leaping	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leap
	noun (a. & n.) from Leap, to jump.

leaper	noun (n.) One who, or that which, leaps.
	noun (n.) A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.

leapfrog

noun (n.) A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.

leapful

noun (n.) A basketful.

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.

learning	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Learn
	noun (n.) The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.
	noun (n.) The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition; literature; science; as, he is a man of great learning.

learnable

adjective (a.) Such as can be learned.

learned	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Learn

learner

noun (n.) One who learns; a scholar.

leasable

adjective (a.) Such as can be leased.

leasing	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lease
	adjective (a.) The act of lying; falsehood; a lie or lies.

leasehold	noun (n.) A tenure by lease; specifically, land held as personalty under a lease for years.
	adjective (a.) Held by lease.

leaseholder

noun (n.) A tenant under a lease.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LEANDER:

English Words which starts with 'lea' and ends with 'der':

English Words which starts with 'le' and ends with 'er':

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.

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.

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.

leiger

noun (n.) See Leger, n., 2.

leister

noun (n.) Alt. of Lister

lender

noun (n.) One who lends.

lenger

adjective (a.) Alt. of Lengest

leper

noun (n.) A person affected with leprosy.

lepidopter

noun (n.) One of the Lepidoptera.

lessener

noun (n.) One who, or that which, lessens.

lesser	adjective (a.) Less; smaller; inferior.
	adverb (adv.) Less.

letter	noun (n.) One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
	noun (n.) One who retards or hinders.
	noun (n.) A mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language.
	noun (n.) A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.
	noun (n.) A writing; an inscription.
	noun (n.) Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement.
	noun (n.) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
	noun (n.) Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.
	noun (n.) A letter; an epistle.
	noun (n.) A telegram longer than an ordinary message sent at rates lower than the standard message rate in consideration of its being sent and delivered subject to priority in service of regular messages. Such telegrams are called by the Western Union Company day, / night, letters according to the time of sending, and by The Postal Telegraph Company day, / night, lettergrams.
	verb (v. t.) To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.

letterer

noun (n.) One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.

levanter	noun (n.) A strong easterly wind peculiar to the Mediterranean.
	verb (v.) One who levants, or decamps.

leveler	noun (n.) One who, or that which, levels.
	noun (n.) One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.

lever	noun (n.) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; -- used for transmitting and modifying force and motion. Specif., a bar of metal, wood, or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
	noun (n.) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
	noun (n.) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
	adjective (a.) More agreeable; more pleasing.
	adverb (adv.) Rather.