LEAR

Name Report For First Name LEAR:

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

Rhymes with LEAR - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming LEAR

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LEAR AS A WHOLE:

cleary leary

NAMES RHYMING WITH LEAR (According to last letters):

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

aurear ear gear spear eibhear

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

fembar anbar izdihar kawthar dagmar devamatar anwar babukar dalmar al-ahmar antar ashquar bazar dahwar dammar dawar dinar ektibar ferar gabbar geedar nahar abdul-jabbar abdul-qahhar azhar jafar sayyar umar yasar zafar mar magar conchobar ferchar huarwar bednar kovar mlynar pekar rybar tesar caesar ejnar hjalmar holgar kolinkar pedar abubakar ausar kontar osahar war gaspar iomar peadar elazar oszkar cesar cezar ingemar adar ashar auriar bethiar ciar dagomar hildemar hildimar izar manaar pilar star tamar taylar adalgar ahmar algar anouar athdar athemar balthazar blar bonnar briar caffar car conchobhar cougar edgar eimar eliazar fearchar ferehar finbar finnbar

NAMES RHYMING WITH LEAR (According to first letters):

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

lea lea-que leachlainn leah leal leala lealia leaman leamhnach lean leana leander leandra leandre leandro leane leanian leann leanna leannan leanne 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 leof

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LEAR:

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

lair lalor lamar lamarr lander lar latimer launder lawler lazar leonor lester lir llyr lorimar lorimer lothair lothar lur luther lysander lysanor

English Words Rhyming LEAR

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LEAR AS A WHOLE:

balearic

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia.

binuclear

adjective (a.) Alt. of Binucleate

blearing

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

bleared	adjective (a.) Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Blear

bleareye

noun (n.) A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.

bleareyedness

noun (n.) The state of being blear-eyed.

bleary

adjective (a.) Somewhat blear.

clear	noun (n.) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.
	superlative (superl.) Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
	superlative (superl.) Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.
	superlative (superl.) Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.
	superlative (superl.) Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
	superlative (superl.) Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.
	superlative (superl.) Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.
	superlative (superl.) Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.
	superlative (superl.) Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.
	superlative (superl.) Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.
	superlative (superl.) Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.
	superlative (superl.) Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.
	adverb (adv.) In a clear manner; plainly.
	adverb (adv.) Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.
	verb (v. t.) To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.
	verb (v. t.) To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
	verb (v. t.) To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.
	verb (v. t.) To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.
	verb (v. t.) To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out.
	verb (v. t.) To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.
	verb (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
	verb (v. t.) To gain without deduction; to net.
	verb (v. i.) To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away.
	verb (v. i.) To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
	verb (v. i.) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.
	verb (v. i.) To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day.

clearing	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clear
	noun (n.) The act or process of making clear.
	noun (n.) A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.
	noun (n.) A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts.
	noun (n.) The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house.

clearage

noun (n.) The act of removing anything; clearance.

clearance	noun (n.) The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.
	noun (n.) A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.
	noun (n.) Clear or net profit.
	noun (n.) The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages.

clearedness

noun (n.) The quality of being cleared.

clearer	noun (n.) One who, or that which, clears.
	noun (n.) A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.

clearness

noun (n.) The quality or state of being clear.

clearstraching

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

clearstarcher

noun (n.) One who clearstarches.

clearstory

noun (n.) Alt. of Clerestory

clearwing

noun (n.) A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Aegeriadae, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.

cochlear

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the cochlea.

cochleare	noun (n.) A spoon.
	noun (n.) A spoonful.

cocleariform

adjective (a.) Spoon-shaped.

cochleary

adjective (a.) Same as Cochleate.

clearcole	noun (n.) A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
	verb (v. t.) To coat or paint with clearcole.

clearcoling

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

epitrochlear

adjective (a.) Relating to the epitrochlea.

flear	noun (n.) A word or look of derision or mockery.
	noun (n.) A grin of civility; a leer.
	verb (v. t. & i.) See Fleer.

infratrochlear

adjective (a.) Below a trochlea, or pulley; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.

intranuclear

adjective (a.) Within the nucleus of a cell; as. the intranuclear network of fibrils, seen in the first stages of karyokinesis.

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.

multinuclear

adjective (a.) Containing many nuclei; as, multinuclear cells.

nuclear

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; as, the nuclear spindle (see Illust. of Karyokinesis) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell; the nuclear part of a comet, etc.

overlearned

adjective (a.) Too learned.

palearctic

adjective (a.) Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.

perinuclear

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.

polynuclear

adjective (a.) Containing many nuclei.

supratrochlear

adjective (a.) Situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.

trochlear

noun (n.) Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye.

trochleary

adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve.

unlearned	adjective (a.) Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.
	adjective (a.) Not gained by study; not known.
	adjective (a.) Not exhibiting learning; as, unlearned verses.

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

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ear) - English Words That Ends with ear:

appear	noun (n.) Appearance.
	verb (v. i.) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
	verb (v. i.) To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.
	verb (v. i.) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
	verb (v. i.) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.
	verb (v. i.) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.

arrear	noun (n.) That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes.
	adverb (adv.) To or in the rear; behind; backwards.

asmear

adjective (a.) Smeared over.

bear	noun (n.) A bier.
	noun (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
	noun (n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
	noun (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
	noun (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
	noun (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
	noun (n.) A portable punching machine.
	noun (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
	noun (n.) Alt. of Bere
	verb (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up.
	verb (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey.
	verb (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
	verb (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
	verb (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
	verb (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
	verb (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
	verb (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
	verb (v. t.) To gain or win.
	verb (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward.
	verb (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
	verb (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
	verb (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct.
	verb (v. t.) To behave; to conduct.
	verb (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with.
	verb (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
	verb (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
	verb (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
	verb (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient.
	verb (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
	verb (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
	verb (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
	verb (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
	verb (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
	verb (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.

bilinear

adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates.

bugbear	noun (n.) Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc.
	noun (n.) Same as Bugaboo.
	adjective (a.) Causing needless fright.
	verb (v. t.) To alarm with idle phantoms.

chear

noun (n. & v.) See Cheer.

cudbear	noun (n.) A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea.
	noun (n.) A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained.

curvilinear

adjective (a.) Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure.

dear	noun (n.) A dear one; lover; sweetheart.
	superlative (superl.) Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.
	superlative (superl.) Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.
	superlative (superl.) Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious.
	superlative (superl.) Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention.
	superlative (superl.) Of agreeable things and interests.
	superlative (superl.) Of disagreeable things and antipathies.
	adverb (adv.) Dearly; at a high price.
	verb (v. t.) To endear.

drawgear	noun (n.) A harness for draught horses.
	noun (n.) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.

drear	noun (n.) Sadness; dismalness.
	adjective (a.) Dismal; gloomy with solitude.

ear	noun (n.) The organ of hearing; the external ear.
	noun (n.) The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only.
	noun (n.) That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell.
	noun (n.) Same as Acroterium.
	noun (n.) Same as Crossette.
	noun (n.) Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention.
	noun (n.) The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels.
	verb (v. t.) To take in with the ears; to hear.
	verb (v. i.) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well.
	verb (v. t.) To plow or till; to cultivate.

eelspear

noun (n.) A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.

fear	noun (n.) A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.
	noun (n.) A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
	noun (n.) Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.
	noun (n.) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
	noun (n.) That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.
	noun (n.) To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.
	noun (n.) To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.
	noun (n.) To be anxious or solicitous for.
	noun (n.) To suspect; to doubt.
	noun (n.) To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.
	verb (v. i.) To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.

forbear	noun (n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
	verb (v. i.) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
	verb (v. i.) To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
	verb (v. i.) To control one's self when provoked.
	verb (v. t.) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
	verb (v. t.) To treat with consideration or indulgence.
	verb (v. t.) To cease from bearing.

forebear

noun (n.) An ancestor. See Forbear.

gear	noun (n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments.
	noun (n.) Goods; property; household stuff.
	noun (n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.
	noun (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
	noun (n.) Warlike accouterments.
	noun (n.) Manner; custom; behavior.
	noun (n.) Business matters; affairs; concern.
	noun (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
	noun (n.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
	noun (n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
	noun (n.) See 1st Jeer (b).
	noun (n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.
	verb (v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
	verb (v. t.) To provide with gearing.
	verb (v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear.

head gear

noun (n.) Alt. of Headgear

headgear	noun (n.) Headdress.
	noun (n.) Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well.

heartdear

adjective (a.) Sincerely beloved.

interlinear

adjective (a.) Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc.

laquear

noun (n.) A lacunar.

linear	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal.
	adjective (a.) Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf.

mear

noun (n.) A boundary. See Mere.

mixtilinear

adjective (a.) Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve.

neckwear

noun (n.) A collective term for cravats, collars, etc.

outlinear

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an outline; being in, or forming, an outline.

overwear	noun (n.) Clothing worn over the ordinary indoor closing, as overcoats, wraps, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To wear too much; to wear out.

pear

noun (n.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.

rear	noun (n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.
	noun (n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
	adjective (a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.
	adverb (adv.) Early; soon.
	verb (v. t.) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
	verb (v. t.) To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.
	verb (v. t.) To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.
	verb (v. t.) To lift and take up.
	verb (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.
	verb (v. t.) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.
	verb (v. t.) To rouse; to stir up.
	verb (v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.

rectilinear

adjective (a.) Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course.

sear	noun (n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.
	adjective (a.) Alt. of Sere
	adjective (a.) To wither; to dry up.
	adjective (a.) To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively.

smear	noun (n.) To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
	noun (n.) To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.
	noun (n.) A fat, oily substance; oinment.
	noun (n.) Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.

spear	noun (n.) A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.
	noun (n.) Fig.: A spearman.
	noun (n.) A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.
	noun (n.) A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
	noun (n.) The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.
	noun (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
	verb (v. t.) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.
	verb (v. i.) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.

tear	noun (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
	noun (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
	noun (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
	noun (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.
	noun (n.) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
	verb (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.
	verb (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
	verb (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
	verb (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
	verb (v. t.) To move violently; to agitate.
	verb (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.
	verb (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.

trilinear

adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, three lines; as, trilinear coordinates.

underwear

noun (n.) That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes.

vertilinear

adjective (a.) Straight; rectilinear.

year	noun (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
	noun (n.) The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
	noun (n.) Age, or old age; as, a man in years.

yesteryear

noun (n.) The year last past; last year.

wear	noun (n.) Same as Weir.
	noun (n.) The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.
	noun (n.) The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
	noun (n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.
	noun (n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
	noun (n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
	noun (n.) The result of wearing or use; consumption, diminution, or impairment due to use, friction, or the like; as, the wear of this coat has been good.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.
	verb (v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.
	verb (v. t.) To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
	verb (v. t.) To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
	verb (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
	verb (v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
	verb (v. t.) To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
	verb (v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.
	verb (v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.

wheatear

noun (n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

leaser	noun (n.) One who leases or gleans.
	noun (n.) A liar.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LEAR:

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.

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.

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.

legislator

noun (n.) A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body.

leiger

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

leister

noun (n.) Alt. of Lister

lister	noun (n.) A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.
	noun (n.) One who makes a list or roll.
	noun (n.) Same as Leister.
	noun (n.) A double-moldboard plow which throws a deep furrow, and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow.

lemur

noun (n.) One of a family (Lemuridae) of nocturnal mammals allied to the monkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle, and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and are mostly natives of Madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus (Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo.

lender

noun (n.) One who lends.

lenger

adjective (a.) Alt. of Lengest

lenticular

adjective (a.) Resembling a lentil in size or form; having the form of a double-convex lens.

lentor	adjective (a.) Tenacity; viscidity, as of fluids.
	adjective (a.) Slowness; delay; sluggishness.

leper

noun (n.) A person affected with leprosy.

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