Name Report For First Name LEN:
LEN
First name LEN's origin is English. LEN means "abbreviation of leonard". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LEN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of len.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with LEN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with LEN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming LEN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LEN AS A WHOLE:
zelenka guendolen helene celena helen yalena kalena lenci allena elena kolenya kuwanlelenta lenmana lenuta marilena ylenia jelena zeleny glendon helenus kalen adalene adilene aerlene aiglentina alena alene allene analena angellena arlena arlene arlenna ashlen belen carlene celene charlena charlene cholena colene collena collene corlene dalena dalene dalenna darelene darlena darlene darylene earlena earlene edlen eilena eilene eleni ellen ellena ellene ellenweorc emelene erlene evalene galen galena galenia galenka gaylen gaylene glenna haylen helena ilena ilene islene jalen jaylene jillene joellen jolena jolene jollene kaelene karlen karlene kathlene kaylen kolena kristalena lena lenae lenee lenora lenore louellen lurlene madalen madalena madalene maddalen maddalena maddalene madelena madelene madolen magdalen magdalena magdalene maialen marlena marlene marlenne matxalen millenny noelene nolene orlene selena selene shalene sharlene starlene suellen valencia allen arlen balen caillen clennan cullen dalen dallen daylen dylen faelen galeno garlen glenn harlen jaylend kaelen karlens kellen kylen lendall lendell leng lenn lennell lennie lenno lennon lennox lenny macclennan millen nolen telen valen valentin valentine valentino vallen dobhailen cailen ailen kailen acwellen elenora elene yalene olena melena malene glen orlena aiglentine gwendolen ablendan rivalen valentina kailene kaylene baylen raylen lenard lennard dillenNAMES RHYMING WITH LEN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (en) - Names That Ends with en:
cwen raven coleen hien huyen quyen tien tuyen yen aren essien mekonnen shaheen yameen kadeen arden kailoken nascien bingen evnissyen lairgnen nisien yspaddaden hoben christiansen jorgen joren espen adeben akhenaten amen aten moswen braden heikkinen mustanen seppanen valkoinen soren vaden camden fagen girven jurgen bastien evzen hymen owen jurrien kelemen sebestyen joben sen eugen chien dien nguyen nien vien addisen adeen aideen aileen alberteen aleen ambreen anwen ardeen arleen arwen ashleen ashten augusteen berneen brishen bronwen bysen caden carleen carmen carsten cathleen charleen chereen christeen christen colleen coreen correen cristen dareen darleen daveen deneen doreen edeen eden eileen elleen erleenNAMES RHYMING WITH LEN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (le) - Names That Begins with le:
lea lea-que leachlainn leah leal leala lealia leaman leamhnach lean leana leander leandra leandre leandro leane leanian leann leanna leannan leanne lear leary leathan leathlobhair leax 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 leo leoc leocadie leod leoda leodegan leodegrance leodegraunce leof leola leoma leon leona leonard leonarda leonardo leonce leonda leondra leondrea leone leonel leonela leonelle leonides leonie leonor leonoraNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LEN:
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'n':
labaan laban labhruinn lachlan lachlann laciann lacyann ladon laefertun lahthan lailoken laken lamaan lamarion lan lancdon lancelin landen landon langdon langston lanston laochailan laocoon laodegan laomedon laren larson laryn laughlin lauralyn laureen laurelynn lauren laurian lauryn lavan lavern lawson lawton layden layken layton leron leverton lexann leyman lidmann lien lifton lilian lillian lin lincoln linddun linden linn linton lintun lion lishan litton livingston lizann llewelyn lochlain lochlann locklyn logan logen loghan lohengrin loiyan loman lon lonn lonyn loran lorcan loreen loren lorian loriann lorilynn lorin lorren lorrin loryn louden loughlin lucan lucian lucien lufian lukman lun lunden lunn luqman lurleenEnglish Words Rhyming LEN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LEN AS A WHOLE:
| ableness | noun (n.) Ability of body or mind; force; vigor. |
| abominableness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. |
| acceptableness | noun (n.) The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability. |
| accommodableness | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being accommodable. |
| acetylene | noun (n.) A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. |
| acidulent | adjective (a.) Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous. |
| adaptableness | noun (n.) The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. |
| admirableness | noun (n.) The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence. |
| adorableness | noun (n.) The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. |
| affableness | noun (n.) Affability. |
| agileness | noun (n.) Agility; nimbleness. |
| agreeableness | noun (n.) The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. |
| noun (n.) The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency. | |
| noun (n.) Resemblance; concordance; harmony; -- with to or between. |
| allowableness | noun (n.) The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. |
| allylene | noun (n.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine. |
| alterableness | noun (n.) The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability. |
| amenableness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness. |
| amiableness | noun (n.) The quality of being amiable; amiability. |
| amicableness | noun (n.) The quality of being amicable; amicability. |
| ampleness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness. |
| amylene | noun (n.) One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group. |
| anileness | noun (n.) Anility. |
| answerableness | noun (n.) The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent. |
| antisplenetic | noun (n.) An antisplenetic medicine. |
| adjective (a.) Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. |
| approachableness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility. |
| associableness | noun (n.) Associability. |
| astyllen | noun (n.) A small dam to prevent free passage of water in an adit or level. |
| attainableness | noun (n.) The quality of being attainable; attainability. |
| attollent | adjective (a.) Lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle. |
| audibleness | noun (n.) The quality of being audible. |
| availableness | noun (n.) Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. |
| noun (n.) Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. |
| benevolence | noun (n.) The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness. |
| noun (n.) An act of kindness; good done; charity given. | |
| noun (n.) A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity. |
| benevolent | adjective (a.) Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. |
| bivalency | noun (n.) The quality of being bivalent. |
| blenching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blench |
| blench | noun (n.) A looking aside or askance. |
| verb (v. i.) To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fly off; to turn aside. | |
| verb (v. t.) To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw back from; to deny from fear. | |
| verb (v. i. & t.) To grow or make pale. |
| blencher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. |
| noun (n.) One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back. |
| blending | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blend |
| noun (n.) The act of mingling. | |
| noun (n.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. |
| blend | noun (n.) A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins. |
| adjective (a.) To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. | |
| verb (v. i.) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. |
| blende | noun (n.) A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous. |
| noun (n.) A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster. |
| blender | noun (n.) One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending. |
| blendous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende. |
| blendwater | noun (n.) A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected. |
| blennioid | adjective (a.) Alt. of Blenniid |
| blenniid | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies. |
| blennogenous | adjective (a.) Generating mucus. |
| blennorrhea | noun (n.) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus. |
| noun (n.) Gonorrhea. |
| blenny | noun (n.) A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidae; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous. |
| bollen | adjective (a.) See Boln, a. |
| adjective (a.) Swollen; puffed out. |
| breathableness | noun (n.) State of being breathable. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LEN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (en) - English Words That Ends with en:
| abdomen | noun (n.) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity. |
| noun (n.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda. |
| acrogen | noun (n.) A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia. |
| acumen | noun (n.) Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. |
| aethogen | noun (n.) A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride. |
| agnomen | noun (n.) An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus. |
| noun (n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just. |
| albumen | noun (n.) The white of an egg. |
| noun (n.) Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Albumin. |
| alien | noun (n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage. |
| noun (n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies. | |
| adjective (a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores. | |
| adjective (a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. | |
| verb (v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership. |
| alkargen | noun (n.) Same as Cacodylic acid. |
| alpen | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Alps. |
| alumen | noun (n.) Alum. |
| alunogen | noun (n.) A white fibrous mineral frequently found on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; -- also called feather alum, and hair salt. |
| amen | noun (interj., adv., & n.) An expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily. |
| verb (v. t.) To say Amen to; to sanction fully. |
| amidogen | noun (n.) A compound radical, NH2, not yet obtained in a separate state, which may be regarded as ammonia from the molecule of which one of its hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido. |
| amphigen | noun (n.) An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium. |
| armozeen | noun (n.) Alt. of Armozine |
| arpen | noun (n.) Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English. |
| arthen | adjective (a.) Same as |
| ashen | noun (n.) obs. pl. for Ashes. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ash tree. | |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray. |
| aspen | noun (n.) Alt. of Asp |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood. |
| attagen | noun (n.) A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe. |
| ayegreen | noun (n.) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum). |
| amylogen | noun (n.) That part of the starch granule or granulose which is soluble in water. |
| analgen | noun (n.) Alt. of Analgene |
| baleen | noun (n.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth. |
| barken | adjective (a.) Made of bark. |
| barren | noun (n.) A tract of barren land. |
| noun (n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. | |
| adjective (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals. | |
| adjective (a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile. | |
| adjective (a.) Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty. | |
| adjective (a.) Mentally dull; stupid. |
| beaten | adjective (a.) Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. |
| adjective (a.) Vanquished; conquered; baffled. | |
| adjective (a.) Exhausted; tired out. | |
| adjective (a.) Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. | |
| adjective (a.) Tried; practiced. | |
| () of Beat |
| beaverteen | noun (n.) A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. |
| beden | noun (n.) The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible. |
| beechen | adjective (a.) Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. |
| behen | noun (n.) Alt. of Behn |
| beholden | adjective (p. a.) Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted. |
| (p. p.) of Behold |
| ben | noun (n.) A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis). |
| adverb (adv. & prep.) Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment. | |
| adverb (adv.) The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment. | |
| () Alt. of Ben nut | |
| () An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be. |
| beseen | adjective (a.) Seen; appearing. |
| adjective (a.) Decked or adorned; clad. | |
| adjective (a.) Accomplished; versed. |
| between | noun (n.) Intermediate time or space; interval. |
| prep (prep.) In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. | |
| prep (prep.) Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two. | |
| prep (prep.) Belonging in common to two; shared by both. | |
| prep (prep.) Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion. | |
| prep (prep.) With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations. | |
| prep (prep.) In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock. |
| biogen | noun (n.) Bioplasm. |
| birchen | adjective (a.) Of or relating to birch. |
| birken | adjective (a.) Birchen; as, birken groves. |
| verb (v. t.) To whip with a birch or rod. |
| bitten | adjective (a.) Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse. |
| (p. p.) of Bite | |
| () p. p. of Bite. |
| bitumen | noun (n.) Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt. |
| noun (n.) By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas. |
| blowen | noun (n.) Alt. of Blowess |
| bonchretien | noun (n.) A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett. |
| botryogen | noun (n.) A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form. |
| boughten | adjective (a.) Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. |
| bounden | adjective (p. p & a.) Bound; fastened by bonds. |
| adjective (p. p & a.) Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden. | |
| adjective (p. p & a.) Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding. | |
| () of Bind |
| boxen | adjective (a.) Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus). |
| bracken | noun (n.) A brake or fern. |
| brasen | adjective (a.) Same as Brazen. |
| brazen | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass. |
| adjective (a.) Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass. | |
| adjective (a.) Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through. |
| breaden | adjective (a.) Made of bread. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LEN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (le) - Words That Begins with le:
| 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. |
| 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. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LEN:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'n':
| labefaction | noun (n.) The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin. |
| labialization | noun (n.) The modification of an articulation by contraction of the lip opening. |
| labyrinthian | adjective (a.) Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal. |
| labyrinthodon | noun (n.) A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus. |
| laccin | noun (n.) A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac. |
| lacedaemonian | noun (n.) A Spartan. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Lacedaemon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus. |
| laceman | noun (n.) A man who deals in lace. |
| laceration | noun (n.) The act of lacerating. |
| noun (n.) A breach or wound made by lacerating. |
| lacertian | noun (n.) One of the Lacertilia. |
| adjective (a.) Like a lizard; of or pertaining to the Lacertilia. |
| lacertilian | noun (a. & n.) Same as Lacertian. |
| lachrymation | noun (n.) The act of shedding tears; weeping. |
| lackbrain | noun (n.) One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. |
| laconian | noun (n.) An inhabitant of Laconia; esp., a Spartan. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Laconia, a division of ancient Greece; Spartan. |
| lactation | noun (n.) A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland. |
| lactean | adjective (a.) Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk. |
| adjective (a.) Lacteal; conveying chyle. |
| lactin | noun (n.) See Lactose. |
| lactoabumin | noun (n.) The albumin present on milk, apparently identical with ordinary serum albumin. It is distinct from the casein of milk. |
| lactoprotein | noun (n.) A peculiar albuminous body considered a normal constituent of milk. |
| lactucin | noun (n.) A white, crystalline substance, having a bitter taste and a neutral reaction, and forming one of the essential ingredients of lactucarium. |
| lademan | noun (n.) One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant. |
| laden | adjective (p. & a.) Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart. |
| ladin | noun (n.) A Romansch dialect spoken in some parts of Switzerland and the Tyrol. |
| noun (n.) A person speaking Ladin as a mother tongue. |
| ladkin | noun (n.) A little lad. |
| ladykin | noun (n.) A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary. |
| lagan | noun (n. & v.) See Ligan. |
| lagenian | adjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to, Lagena, a genus of Foraminifera having a straight, chambered shell. |
| lagoon | noun (n.) A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice. |
| noun (n.) A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll. |
| lakin | noun (n.) See Ladykin. |
| lallation | noun (n.) An imperfect enunciation of the letter r, in which it sounds like l. |
| lamantin | noun (n.) The manatee. |
| lamarckian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism. |
| lambkin | noun (n.) A small lamb. |
| lambrequin | noun (n.) A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat. |
| noun (n.) A leather flap hanging from a cuirass. | |
| noun (n.) A piece of ornament drapery or short decorative hanging, pendent from a shelf or from the casing above a window, hiding the curtain fixtures, or the like. |
| lambskin | noun (n.) The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively. |
| noun (n.) A kind of woolen. |
| lamellicorn | noun (n.) A lamellicorn insect. |
| adjective (a.) Having antennae terminating in a group of flat lamellae; -- said of certain coleopterous insects. | |
| adjective (a.) Terminating in a group of flat lamellae; -- said of antennae. |
| lamentation | noun (n.) The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. |
| noun (n.) A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents. |
| lamentin | noun (n.) See Lamantin. |
| laminarian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow. |
| lamination | noun (n.) The process of laminating, or the state of being laminated. |
| lampern | noun (n.) The river lamprey (Ammocoetes, / Lampetra, fluviatilis). |
| lampoon | noun (n.) A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress. |
| verb (v. t.) To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon. |
| lampron | noun (n.) See Lamprey. |
| lacasterian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them. |
| lancination | noun (n.) A tearing; laceration. |
| landamman | noun (n.) A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons. |
| noun (n.) The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic. |
| landman | noun (n.) A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman. |
| noun (n.) An occupier of land. |
| landsman | noun (n.) One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman. |
| noun (n.) A sailor on his first voyage. |
| laniation | noun (n.) A tearing in pieces. |
| lanolin | noun (n.) A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally. |
| lantern | noun (n.) Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light. |
| noun (n.) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior. | |
| noun (n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns. | |
| noun (n.) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral. | |
| noun (n.) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below). | |
| noun (n.) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass. | |
| noun (n.) A perforated barrel to form a core upon. | |
| noun (n.) See Aristotle's lantern. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse. |
| lanthorn | noun (n.) See Lantern. |
| laocoon | noun (n.) A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.) |
| noun (n.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil. |
| laodicean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion. |
| lapidarian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to stone; inscribed on stone; as, a lapidarian record. |
| lapidation | noun (n.) The act of stoning. |
| lapidification | noun (n.) The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction. |
| lapillation | noun (n.) The state of being, or the act of making, stony. |
| lapponian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lapponic |
| laputan | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy. |
| larchen | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the larch. |
| lardacein | noun (n.) A peculiar amyloid substance, colored blue by iodine and sulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into the spleen, liver, etc. |
| lardon | noun (n.) Alt. of Lardoon |
| lardoon | noun (n.) A bit of fat pork or bacon used in larding. |
| laryngean | adjective (a.) See Laryngeal. |
| lateen | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a peculiar rig used in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa. See below. |
| lateran | noun (n.) The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. |
| latian | adjective (a.) Belonging, or relating, to Latium, a country of ancient Italy. See Latin. |
| latin | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman. |
| noun (n.) The language of the ancient Romans. | |
| noun (n.) An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin. | |
| noun (n.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language. | |
| adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom. | |
| verb (v. t.) To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin. |
| latinization | noun (n.) The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. |
| lation | noun (n.) Transportation; conveyance. |
| latitation | noun (n.) A lying in concealment; hiding. |
| latitudinarian | noun (n.) One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking. |
| noun (n.) A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed. | |
| noun (n.) One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy. | |
| adjective (a.) Not restrained; not confined by precise limits. | |
| adjective (a.) Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. | |
| adjective (a.) Lax in moral or religious principles. |
| laton | noun (n.) Alt. of Latoun |
| latoun | noun (n.) Latten, 1. |
| latration | noun (n.) A barking. |
| latten | noun (n.) A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass. |
| noun (n.) Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets; as, gold latten. |
| latterkin | noun (n.) A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice. |
| laundryman | noun (n.) A man who follows the business of laundering. |
| laureation | noun (n.) The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title. |
| laurentian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or near, the St. Lawrence River; as, the Laurentian hills. |
| laurin | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin ethers of several organic acids. |
| lavation | noun (n.) A washing or cleansing. |
| lawn | noun (n.) An open space between woods. |
| noun (n.) Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown. |
| laxation | noun (n.) The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened. |
| layman | noun (n.) One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do. |
| noun (n.) A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above). |
| leathern | adjective (a.) Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. |
| leaven | noun (n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm. |
| noun (n.) Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment. | |
| verb (v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate. |
| leban | noun (n.) Alt. of Lebban |
| lebban | noun (n.) Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same. |
| lecanorin | noun (n.) See Lecanoric. |
| lecithin | noun (n.) A complex, nitrogenous phosphorized substance widely distributed through the animal body, and especially conspicuous in the brain and nerve tissue, in yolk of eggs, and in the white blood corpuscles. |
| lectern | noun (n.) See Lecturn. |
| lection | noun (n.) A lesson or selection, esp. of Scripture, read in divine service. |
| noun (n.) A reading; a variation in the text. |
| lecturn | noun (n.) A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern.] |
| leden | noun (n.) Alt. of Ledden |
| ledden | noun (n.) Language; speech; voice; cry. |
| leetman | noun (n.) One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet. |
| legalization | noun (n.) The act of making legal. |
| legation | noun (n.) The sending forth or commissioning one person to act for another. |
| noun (n.) A legate, or envoy, and the persons associated with him in his mission; an embassy; or, in stricter usage, a diplomatic minister and his suite; a deputation. | |
| noun (n.) The place of business or official residence of a diplomatic minister at a foreign court or seat of government. | |
| noun (n.) A district under the jurisdiction of a legate. |
| legerdemain | noun (n.) Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick. |
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