Name Report For First Name LEX:
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First name LEX's origin is English. LEX means "abbreviation of alexander". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LEX below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of lex.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with LEX and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with LEX - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming LEX
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LEX AS A WHOLE:
alexandrine lexine alexandreina alexandre plexippus alexandru alexa alexandra alexandrea alexandria alexandrina alexi alexia alexina alexine alexis alexondra alexys elexa ilex lexandra lexie lexy olexa alex alexander alexavier lexina lexann tlexictliNAMES RHYMING WITH LEX (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ex) - Names That Ends with ex:
ferrex porrex calbex calvexNAMES RHYMING WITH LEX (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 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 leodegranceNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LEX:
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'x':
lerouxEnglish Words Rhyming LEX
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LEX AS A WHOLE:
| alexanders | noun (n.) Alt. of Alisanders |
| alexandrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library. |
| adjective (a.) Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n. |
| alexandrine | noun (n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. |
| alexipharmac | noun (a. & n.) Alt. of Alexipharmacal |
| alexipharmacal | noun (a. & n.) Alexipharmic. |
| alexipharmic | noun (n.) An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Alexipharmical |
| alexipharmical | adjective (a.) Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal. |
| alexipyretic | noun (n.) A febrifuge. |
| adjective (a.) Serving to drive off fever; antifebrile. |
| alexiteric | noun (n.) A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Alexiterical |
| alexiterical | adjective (a.) Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic. |
| amplexation | noun (n.) An embrace. |
| amplexicaul | adjective (a.) Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves. |
| anteflexion | noun (n.) A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself. |
| apoplex | noun (n.) Apoplexy. |
| apoplexed | adjective (a.) Affected with apoplexy. |
| apoplexy | noun (n.) Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain. |
| alexia | noun (n.) As used by some, inability to read aloud, due to brain disease. |
| noun (n.) More commonly, inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness. |
| circumflex | noun (n.) A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable. |
| noun (n.) A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2. | |
| adjective (a.) Moving or turning round; circuitous. | |
| adjective (a.) Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. |
| circumflexing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circumflex |
| circumflexion | noun (n.) The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form. |
| noun (n.) A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold. |
| complex | noun (n.) Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea. |
| noun (n.) Involving many parts; complicated; intricate. | |
| noun (n.) Assemblage of related things; collection; complication. |
| complexed | adjective (a.) Complex, complicated. |
| complexedness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication. |
| complexion | noun (n.) The state of being complex; complexity. |
| noun (n.) A combination; a complex. | |
| noun (n.) The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature. | |
| noun (n.) The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face. | |
| noun (n.) The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news. |
| complexional | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion. |
| complexionary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it. |
| complexioned | adjective (a.) Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark-complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. |
| complexity | noun (n.) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement. |
| noun (n.) That which is complex; intricacy; complication. |
| complexness | noun (n.) The state of being complex; complexity. |
| complexus | noun (n.) A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication. |
| culex | noun (n.) A genus of dipterous insects, including the gnat and mosquito. |
| noun (n.) A genus of mosquitoes to which most of the North American species belong. Some members of this genus are exceedingly annoying, as C. sollicitans, which breeds in enormous numbers in the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast, and C. pipiens, breeding very widely in the fresh waters of North America. (For characters distinguishing these from the malaria mosquitoes, see Anopheles, above.) The yellow-fever mosquito is now placed in another genus, Stegomyia. |
| cataplexy | noun (n.) A morbid condition caused by an overwhelming shock or extreme fear and marked by rigidity of the muscles. |
| contraplex | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the sending of two messages in opposite directions at the same time. |
| decomplex | adjective (a.) Repeatedly compound; made up of complex constituents. |
| deflexed | adjective (a.) Bent abruptly downward. |
| deflexion | noun (n.) See Deflection. |
| deflexure | noun (n.) A bending or turning aside; deflection. |
| duplex | adjective (a.) Double; twofold. |
| adjective (a.) To arrange, as a telegraph line, so that two messages may be transmitted simultaneously; to equip with a duplex telegraphic outfit. |
| diplex | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the sending of two messages in the same direction at the same time. Diplex and contraplex are the two varieties of duplex. |
| elextrometry | noun (n.) The art or process of making electrical measurements. |
| epiplexis | noun (n.) A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding. |
| euplexoptera | noun (n. pl.) An order of insects, including the earwig. The anterior wings are short, in the form of elytra, while the posterior wings fold up beneath them. See Earwig. |
| flexing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flex |
| flex | noun (n.) Flax. |
| verb (v. t.) To bend; as, to flex the arm. |
| flexanimous | adjective (a.) Having power to change the mind. |
| flexibility | noun (n.) The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. |
| flexible | adjective (a.) Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. |
| adjective (a.) Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering. | |
| adjective (a.) Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language. |
| flexicostate | adjective (a.) Having bent or curved ribs. |
| flexile | adjective (a.) Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LEX (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ex) - English Words That Ends with ex:
| annex | noun (n.) Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing. |
| verb (v. t.) To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. | |
| verb (v. t.) To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. | |
| verb (v. t.) To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt. | |
| verb (v. i.) To join; to be united. |
| apex | noun (n.) The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf. |
| noun (n.) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface. |
| aruspex | noun (n.) One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods. |
| biconvex | adjective (a.) Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens. |
| carex | noun (n.) A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceae; the sedges. |
| carnifex | noun (n.) The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman. |
| caudex | noun (n.) The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant. |
| cimex | noun (n.) A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug. |
| codex | noun (n.) A book; a manuscript. |
| noun (n.) A collection or digest of laws; a code. | |
| noun (n.) An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament. | |
| noun (n.) A collection of canons. |
| convex | noun (n.) A convex body or surface. |
| adjective (a.) Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. |
| cortex | noun (n.) Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering. |
| noun (n.) Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark. | |
| noun (n.) The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain. |
| darnex | noun (n.) Alt. of Darnic |
| dentex | noun (n.) An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percidae. |
| devex | noun (n.) Devexity. |
| adjective (a.) Bending down; sloping. |
| forfex | noun (n.) A pair of shears. |
| frutex | noun (n.) A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub. |
| ibex | noun (n.) One of several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also steinbok. |
| ilex | noun (n.) The holm oak (Quercus Ilex). |
| noun (n.) A genus of evergreen trees and shrubs, including the common holly. |
| implex | adjective (a.) Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex. |
| incomplex | adjective (a.) Not complex; uncompounded; simple. |
| index | noun (n.) That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses. |
| noun (n.) That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist. | |
| noun (n.) A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and the like, in a book; -- usually alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the volume. | |
| noun (n.) A prologue indicating what follows. | |
| noun (n.) The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger. | |
| noun (n.) The figure or letter which shows the power or root of a quantity; the exponent. | |
| noun (n.) The ratio, or formula expressing the ratio, of one dimension of a thing to another dimension; as, the vertical index of the cranium. | |
| verb (v. t.) To provide with an index or table of references; to put into an index; as, to index a book, or its contents. |
| interrex | noun (n.) An interregent, or a regent. |
| kex | noun (n.) A weed; a kecksy. |
| noun (n.) A dry husk or covering. |
| latex | noun (n.) A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation. |
| lex | noun (n.) Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terrae, the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants. |
| multiplex | adjective (a.) Manifold; multiple. |
| murex | noun (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas. |
| narthex | noun (n.) A tall umbelliferous plant (Ferula communis). See Giant fennel, under Fennel. |
| noun (n.) The portico in front of ancient churches; sometimes, the atrium or outer court surrounded by ambulatories; -- used, generally, for any vestibule, lobby, or outer porch, leading to the nave of a church. |
| quadruplex | adjective (a.) Fourfold; folded or doubled twice. |
| adjective (a.) Fourfold; folded or doubled twice. |
| perplex | adjective (a.) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. |
| adjective (a.) To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety. | |
| adjective (a.) To plague; to vex; to tormen. | |
| adjective (a.) Intricate; difficult. |
| petrosilex | noun (n.) Felsite. |
| pollex | noun (n.) The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing. |
| pontifex | noun (n.) A high priest; a pontiff. |
| proscolex | noun (n.) An early larval form of a trematode worm; a redia. See Redia. |
| pulex | noun (n.) A genus of parasitic insects including the fleas. See Flea. |
| reflex | noun (n.) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade. |
| noun (n.) An involuntary movement produced by reflex action. | |
| adjective (a.) Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective. | |
| adjective (a.) Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return. | |
| adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness. | |
| verb (v. t.) To reflect. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bend back; to turn back. |
| retroflex | adjective (a.) Alt. of Retroflexed |
| rex | noun (n.) A king. |
| scolex | noun (n.) The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus. |
| noun (n.) One of the Scolecida. |
| sex | noun (n.) The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female. |
| noun (n.) One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female. | |
| noun (n.) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes. | |
| noun (n.) One of the groups founded on this distinction. |
| silex | noun (n.) Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic. |
| sorex | noun (n.) A genus of small Insectivora, including the common shrews. |
| sphex | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of sand wasps of the genus Sphex and allied genera. These wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by a slender pedicel. See Illust. of Sand wasp, under Sand. |
| subindex | noun (n.) A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a letter or symbol to distinguish the symbol; thus, a0, b1, c2, xn, have 0, 1, 2, and n as subindices. |
| spinifex | noun (n.) A genus of chiefly Australian grasses, the seeds of which bear an elastic spine. S. hirsutus (black grass) and S. longifolius are useful as sand binders. S. paradoxusis a valuable perennial fodder plant. Also, a plant of this genus. |
| noun (n.) Any of several Australian grasses of the genus Tricuspis, which often form dense, almost impassable growth, their leaves being stiff and sharp-pointed. |
| tremex | noun (n.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail. |
| triplex | adjective (a.) Havingthree principal operative parts or motions, so as to produce a three-fold effect. |
| vertex | noun (n.) A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex. |
| noun (n.) The top, or crown, of the head. | |
| noun (n.) The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead. | |
| noun (n.) The point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base. |
| vortex | noun (n.) A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy. |
| noun (n.) A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices. | |
| noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| wex | noun (n.) Wax. |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To grow; to wax. | |
| (imp.) Waxed. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LEX (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 LEX:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'x':
| larynx | noun (n.) The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammals, is protected by a lidlike epiglottis. |
| lax | noun (n.) A looseness; diarrhea. |
| verb (v. t.) Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber. | |
| verb (v. t.) Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal. | |
| verb (v. t.) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal. |
| legislatrix | noun (n.) A woman who makes laws. |
| leptothrix | noun (n.) A genus of bacteria, characterized by having their filaments very long, slender, and indistinctly articulated. |
| noun (n.) Having the form of a little chain; -- applied to bacteria when, as in multiplication by fission, they form a chain of filiform individuals. |
| leucoryx | noun (n.) A large antelope of North Africa (Oryx leucoryx), allied to the gemsbok. |
| limax | noun (n.) A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug. |
| lummox | noun (n.) A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler. |
| lynx | noun (n.) Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx. They have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears. |
| noun (n.) One of the northern constellations. |
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