Name Report For First Name LOE:
LOE
First name LOE's origin is Arthurian Legend. LOE means "father of erec". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LOE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of loe.(Brown names are of the same origin (Arthurian Legend) with LOE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with LOE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming LOE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LOE AS A WHOLE:
aloeus anatloe philoetius chloe cloe cloee khloe kloey baerhloew barhloew loefel thurhloew hwithloew gwendoloenaNAMES RHYMING WITH LOE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (oe) - Names That Ends with oe:
autonoe beroe moshoeshoe zoe arwyroe joe monroe munroe noe roe roscoe shadoeNAMES RHYMING WITH LOE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (lo) - Names That Begins with lo:
loc lochlain lochlann locke locklyn lockwood locrine lodema lodima lodyma logan logen logestilla loghan logistilla lohengrin lohoot loiyan lojza lokelani lokni lola lola-jo loleta lolita lolitta lomahongva loman lomasi lomsky lomy lon lona lonato lonell loni lonn lonna lonnell lonnie lono lonyn lonzo lootah lora lorah loraina loraine loralee loralei loran lorance loranna lorant lorayne lorcan lorda lore loredana loreen loreene lorelai lorelei lorelie loren lorena lorence lorencz lorene lorenia lorenna lorenz lorenza lorenzo loreta loretta lorette lori loria lorian loriana loriann lorianne loriel lorilee lorilynn lorimar lorimer lorin lorinda lorineus loring loris lorita loritz lorna lorne lornell lorraina lorraineNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LOE:
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'e':
labhaoise lace lacee lacene lache lachie lacie ladde lafayette lailie laine lainie laire lajeune lalage lamandre lance lane lanette lange lanice lanie lannie laoghaire larae laraine laramie larcwide larie larine larisse larke larraine larue lasalle lashae lasse lassie laudegrance laudine lauraine lauralee laurelle laurence laurene laurenne laurette laurie lausanne laverne lawe lawrence laycie laylie layne lea-que leandre leane leanne lee leeanne legarre leighanne leilanie lele lenae lenee lennie lenore leocadie leodegrance leodegraunce leonce leone leonelle leonie leonore leontyne leopoldine leotie leslee leslie lethe letje leucippe levane levene lexie lexine lezlie liane libuse lidoine liliane lilie lilike lillee lillie liluye lindieEnglish Words Rhyming LOE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LOE AS A WHOLE:
aloe | noun (n.) The wood of the agalloch. |
noun (n.) A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries. | |
noun (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative. |
aloetic | noun (n.) A medicine containing chiefly aloes. |
adjective (a.) Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes. |
bloedite | noun (n.) A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium. |
diploe | noun (n.) The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull. |
diploetic | adjective (a.) Diploic. |
endophloeum | noun (n.) The inner layer of the bark of trees. |
felloe | noun (n.) See Felly. |
floe | noun (n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice. |
haloed | adjective (a.) Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Halo |
kyloes | noun (n. pl.) The cattle of the Hebrides, or of the Highlands. |
loellingite | noun (n.) A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite. |
loess | noun (n.) A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers. |
phloem | noun (n.) That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem. |
rosemaloes | noun (n.) The liquid storax of the East Indian Liquidambar orientalis. |
sloe | noun (n.) A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself. |
synaloepha | noun (n.) Same as Synalepha. |
vanilloes | noun (n. pl.) An inferior kind of vanilla, the pods of Vanilla Pompona. |
zoogloea | noun (n.) A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance. The zoogloea is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LOE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (oe) - English Words That Ends with oe:
beroe | noun (n.) A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora. |
canoe | noun (n.) A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder. |
noun (n.) A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages. | |
noun (n.) A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast. | |
verb (v. i.) To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe. |
chegoe | noun (n.) Alt. of Chegre |
chigoe | noun (n.) Alt. of Chigre |
crowtoe | noun (n.) The Lotus corniculatus. |
noun (n.) An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot. |
doe | noun (n.) A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck. |
noun (n.) A feat. [Obs.] See Do, n. |
euphroe | noun (n.) A block or long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up. |
foe | noun (n.) One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy. |
noun (n.) An enemy in war; a hostile army. | |
noun (n.) One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion. | |
verb (v. t.) To treat as an enemy. |
froe | noun (n.) A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. |
noun (n.) An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow. |
greggoe | noun (n.) Alt. of Grego |
hoe | noun (n.) A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle. |
noun (n.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn. | |
verb (v. i.) To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe. |
hoopoe | noun (n.) Alt. of Hoopoo |
horseshoe | noun (n.) A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof. |
noun (n.) Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab. | |
noun (n.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab. |
joe | noun (n.) See Johannes. |
kickshoe | noun (n.) A kickshaws. |
mahoe | noun (n.) A name given to several malvaceous trees (species of Hibiscus, Ochroma, etc.), and to their strong fibrous inner bark, which is used for strings and cordage. |
misletoe | noun (n.) See Mistletoe. |
misseltoe | noun (n.) See Mistletoe. |
mistletoe | noun (n.) A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit. |
moe | noun (n.) A wry face or mouth; a mow. |
noun (a., adv., & n.) More. See Mo. | |
verb (v. i.) To make faces; to mow. |
oboe | noun (n.) One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy. |
overshoe | noun (n.) A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche. |
oxshoe | noun (n.) A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof. |
pahoehoe | noun (n.) A name given in the Sandwich Islands to lava having a relatively smooth surface, in distinction from the rough-surfaced lava, called a-a. |
pekoe | noun (n.) A kind of black tea. |
poe | noun (n.) Same as Poi. |
roe | noun (n.) A roebuck. See Roebuck. |
noun (n.) The female of any species of deer. | |
noun (n.) The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male. | |
noun (n.) A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany. |
shoe | noun (n.) A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg. |
noun (n.) Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use. | |
noun (n.) A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury. | |
noun (n.) A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow. | |
noun (n.) A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill. | |
noun (n.) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion. | |
noun (n.) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building. | |
noun (n.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone. | |
noun (n.) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill. | |
noun (n.) An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter. | |
noun (n.) An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile. | |
noun (n.) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; -- called also slipper, and gib. | |
noun (n.) To furnish with a shoe or shoes; to put a shoe or shoes on; as, to shoe a horse, a sled, an anchor. | |
noun (n.) To protect or ornament with something which serves the purpose of a shoe; to tip. | |
noun (n.) The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, esp. for an automobile. |
slipshoe | noun (n.) A slipper. |
snowshoe | noun (n.) A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow. |
soe | noun (n.) A large wooden vessel for holding water; a cowl. |
tampoe | noun (n.) The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple. |
throe | noun (n.) Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition. |
noun (n.) A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow. | |
verb (v. i.) To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize. | |
verb (v. t.) To put in agony. |
tiptoe | noun (n.) The end, or tip, of the toe. |
adjective (a.) Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert. | |
adjective (a.) Noiseless; stealthy. | |
verb (v. i.) To step or walk on tiptoe. |
toe | noun (n.) One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal. |
noun (n.) The fore part of the hoof or foot of an animal. | |
noun (n.) Anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate. | |
noun (n.) The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step. | |
noun (n.) A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved. | |
noun (n.) A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece. | |
verb (v. t.) To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark. | |
verb (v. i.) To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way). |
tuckahoe | noun (n.) A curious vegetable production of the Southern Atlantic United States, growing under ground like a truffle and often attaining immense size. The real nature is unknown. Called also Indian bread, and Indian loaf. |
uphroe | noun (n.) Same as Euphroe. |
vitoe | adjective (a.) See Durukuli. |
voe | noun (n.) An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands. |
zeekoe | noun (n.) A hippopotamus. |
woe | noun (n.) Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity. |
noun (n.) A curse; a malediction. | |
adjective (a.) Woeful; sorrowful. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LOE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (lo) - Words That Begins with lo:
loach | noun (n.) Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish. |
loading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Load |
noun (n.) The act of putting a load on or into. | |
noun (n.) A load; cargo; burden. |
loader | noun (n.) One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun. |
loadmanage | noun (n.) Alt. of Lodemanage |
lodemanage | noun (n.) Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. |
noun (n.) Pilotage. |
loadsman | noun (n.) Alt. of Lodesman |
lodesman | noun (n.) A pilot. |
noun (n.) Same as Loadsman. |
loadstar | noun (n.) Alt. of Lodestar |
lodestar | noun (n.) A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. |
noun (n.) Same as Loadstar. |
loadstone | noun (n.) Alt. of Lodestone |
lodestone | noun (n.) A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite. |
noun (n.) Same as Loadstone. |
loaf | noun (n.) Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake. |
verb (v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about. | |
verb (v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away. |
loafing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loaf |
loafer | noun (n.) One who loafs; a lazy lounger. |
loam | noun (n.) A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. |
noun (n.) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern. | |
verb (v. i.) To cover, smear, or fill with loam. |
loaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loam |
loamy | adjective (a.) Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam. |
loan | noun (n.) A loanin. |
noun (n.) The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services. | |
noun (n.) That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan. | |
noun (n. t.) To lend; -- sometimes with out. |
loaning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loan |
noun (n.) An open space between cultivated fields through which cattle are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a lane. |
loanable | adjective (a.) Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings. |
loanin | noun (n.) Alt. of Loaning |
loanmonger | noun (n.) A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans. |
loath | adjective (a.) Hateful; odious; disliked. |
adjective (a.) Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part. |
loathing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loathe |
noun (n.) Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation. |
loather | noun (n.) One who loathes. |
loathful | adjective (a.) Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. |
adjective (a.) Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting. |
loathliness | noun (n.) Loathsomeness. |
loathly | adjective (a.) Loathsome. |
adverb (adv.) Unwillingly; reluctantly. | |
adverb (adv.) (/) So as to cause loathing. |
loathness | noun (n.) Unwillingness; reluctance. |
loathsome | adjective (a.) Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting. |
loathy | adjective (a.) Loathsome. |
loaves | noun (n.) pl. of Loaf. |
(pl. ) of Loaf |
lob | noun (n.) A dull, heavy person. |
noun (n.) Something thick and heavy. | |
noun (n.) The European pollock. | |
noun (n.) The act of lobbing; specif., an (often gentle) stroke which sends a ball up into the air, as in tennis to avoid a player at the net. | |
verb (v. t.) To let fall heavily or lazily. | |
verb (v. t.) See Cob, v. t. |
lobbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lob |
lobar | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes. |
lobate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lobated |
lobated | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf. |
adjective (a.) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays. | |
adjective (a.) Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. (m) under Aves. |
lobbish | adjective (a.) Like a lob; consisting of lobs. |
lobby | noun (n.) A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved. |
noun (n.) That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency. | |
noun (n.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck. | |
noun (n.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard. | |
verb (v. i.) To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes. | |
verb (v. t.) To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill. |
lobbying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lobby |
lobbyist | noun (n.) A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation. |
lobcock | noun (n.) A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob. |
lobe | noun (n.) Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form |
noun (n.) A rounded projection or division of a leaf. | |
noun (n.) A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot. | |
noun (n.) A round projecting part of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, etc. See Illust. of Brain. | |
noun (n.) The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel. |
lobed | adjective (a.) Having lobes; lobate. |
lobefoot | noun (n.) A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope. |
lobelet | noun (n.) A small lobe; a lobule. |
lobelia | noun (n.) A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers. |
lobeliaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type. |
lobelin | noun (n.) A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic. |
lobeline | noun (n.) A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LOE:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'e':
labiate | noun (n.) A plant of the order Labiatae. |
adjective (a.) Having the limb of a tubular corolla or calyx divided into two unequal parts, one projecting over the other like the lips of a mouth, as in the snapdragon, sage, and catnip. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging to a natural order of plants (Labiatae), of which the mint, sage, and catnip are examples. They are mostly aromatic herbs. | |
verb (v. t.) To labialize. |
labile | adjective (a.) Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. |
labiose | adjective (a.) Having the appearance of being labiate; -- said of certain polypetalous corollas. |
laborsome | adjective (a.) Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence. |
adjective (a.) Likely or inclined to roll or pitch, as a ship in a heavy sea; having a tendency to labor. |
labradorite | noun (n.) A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar. |
labrose | adjective (a.) Having thick lips. |
laburnine | noun (n.) A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum. |
labyrinthine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal. |
laccolite | noun (n.) Alt. of Laccolith |
lace | noun (n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. |
noun (n.) A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. | |
noun (n.) A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress. | |
noun (n.) Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage. | |
verb (v. t.) To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces. | |
verb (v. t.) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver. | |
verb (v. t.) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. | |
verb (v. t.) To add spirits to (a beverage). | |
verb (v. i.) To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace. | |
verb (v. t.) To twine or draw as a lace; to interlace; to intertwine. |
lacerable | adjective (a.) That can be lacerated or torn. |
lacerate | adjective (p. a.) Alt. of Lacerated |
verb (v. t.) To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart. |
lacerative | adjective (a.) Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors. |
lacertine | adjective (a.) Lacertian. |
lache | noun (n.) Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; delay to assert a claim. |
lachrymable | adjective (a.) Lamentable. |
lachrymose | adjective (a.) Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful. |
laciniate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Laciniated |
laciniolate | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniae. |
lacklustre | noun (n.) A want of luster. |
adjective (a.) Wanting luster or brightness. |
lacrosse | noun (n.) A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field. |
lactage | noun (n.) The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which is made from it. |
lactamide | noun (n.) An acid amide derived from lactic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance having a neutral reaction. It is metameric with alanine. |
lactarene | noun (n.) A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico. |
lactate | noun (n.) A salt of lactic acid. |
lactescence | noun (n.) The state or quality of producing milk, or milklike juice; resemblance to milk; a milky color. |
noun (n.) The latex of certain plants. See Latex. |
lactide | noun (n.) A white, crystalline substance, obtained from also, by extension, any similar substance. |
lactifuge | noun (n.) A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body. |
lactimide | noun (n.) A white, crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid. |
lactone | noun (n.) One of a series of organic compounds, regarded as anhydrides of certain hydroxy acids. In general, they are colorless liquids, having a weak aromatic odor. They are so called because the typical lactone is derived from lactic acid. |
lactoscope | noun (n.) An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity. |
lactose | noun (n.) Sugar of milk or milk sugar; a crystalline sugar present in milk, and separable from the whey by evaporation and crystallization. It has a slightly sweet taste, is dextrorotary, and is much less soluble in water than either cane sugar or glucose. Formerly called lactin. |
noun (n.) See Galactose. |
lactucone | noun (n.) A white, crystalline, tasteless substance, found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium. |
lacune | noun (n.) A lacuna. |
lacunose | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lacunous |
lacustrine | adjective (a.) Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in them; as, lacustrine flowers. |
laddie | noun (n.) A lad; a male sweetheart. |
lade | noun (n.) The mouth of a river. |
noun (n.) A passage for water; a ditch or drain. | |
verb (v. t.) To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object. | |
verb (v. t.) To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern. | |
verb (v. t.) To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw water. | |
verb (v. t.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc. |
ladrone | noun (n.) A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal. |
ladylike | adjective (a.) Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred. |
adjective (a.) Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners. | |
adjective (a.) Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate. |
ladylove | noun (n.) A sweetheart or mistress. |
laevigate | adjective (a.) Having a smooth surface, as if polished. |
laevulose | noun (n.) See Levulose. |
lafayette | noun (n.) The dollar fish. |
noun (n.) A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States. |
lagune | noun (n.) See Lagoon. |
lainere | noun (n.) See Lanier. |
lake | noun (n.) A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc. |
noun (n.) A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. | |
noun (n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. | |
verb (v. i.) To play; to sport. |
lakke | noun (n. & v.) See Lack. |
lamaite | noun (n.) One who believes in Lamaism. |
lambale | noun (n.) A feast at the time of shearing lambs. |
lambative | noun (n.) A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture. |
adjective (a.) Taken by licking with the tongue. |
lamblike | adjective (a.) Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive. |
lamellate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lamellated |
lamellibranchiate | noun (n.) One of the Lamellibranchia. |
adjective (a.) Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. |
lamellose | adjective (a.) Composed of, or having, lamellae; lamelliform. |
lamentable | adjective (a.) Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. |
adjective (a.) Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. | |
adjective (a.) Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense. |
laminable | adjective (a.) Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip. |
laminarite | noun (n.) A broad-leafed fossil alga. |
laminate | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated. |
verb (v. t.) To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates. | |
verb (v. t.) To form, as metal, into a thin plate, as by rolling. | |
verb (v. i.) To separate into laminae. |
lampadrome | noun (n.) A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished, gained the prize. |
lampate | noun (n.) A supposed salt of lampic acid. |
lampyrine | noun (n.) An insect of the genus Lampyris, or family Lampyridae. See Lampyris. |
lanarkite | noun (n.) A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color. |
lance | noun (n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. |
noun (n.) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer. | |
noun (n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell. | |
noun (n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home. | |
noun (n.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure. | |
verb (v. t.) To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon. | |
verb (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess. | |
verb (v. t.) To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch. |
lancegaye | noun (n.) A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II. |
lanceolate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lanceolated |
lancepesade | noun (n.) An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal. |
landgrave | noun (n.) A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France. |
landgraviate | noun (n.) The territory held by a landgrave. |
noun (n.) The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave. |
landgravine | noun (n.) The wife of a landgrave. |
landreeve | noun (n.) A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward. |
landscape | noun (n.) A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. |
noun (n.) A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. | |
noun (n.) The pictorial aspect of a country. |
landslide | noun (n.) The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc. |
noun (n.) The land which slips down. |
lane | noun (n.) A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, rocks, and other natural obstructions; hence, in a general sense, a narrow passageway; as, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice. |
adjective (a.) Alone. |
langate | noun (n.) A linen roller used in dressing wounds. |
langrage | noun (n.) Alt. of Langrel |
langridge | noun (n.) See Langrage. |
langsyne | noun (adv. & n.) Long since; long ago. |
language | noun (n.) Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth. |
noun (n.) The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality. | |
noun (n.) The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation. | |
noun (n.) The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style. | |
noun (n.) The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants. | |
noun (n.) The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers. | |
noun (n.) The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology. | |
noun (n.) A race, as distinguished by its speech. | |
verb (v. t.) To communicate by language; to express in language. |
lanifice | noun (n.) Anything made of wool. |
lanthanite | noun (n.) Hydrous carbonate of lanthanum, found in tabular while crystals. |
lanthopine | noun (n.) An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance. |
lanuginose | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lanuginous |
laparocele | noun (n.) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions. |
lapicide | noun (n.) A stonecutter. |
lapidescence | noun (n.) The state or quality of being lapidescent. |
noun (n.) A hardening into a stone substance. | |
noun (n.) A stony concretion. |
lapsable | adjective (a.) Lapsible. |
lapse | noun (n.) A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses. |
noun (n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude. | |
noun (n.) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege. | |
noun (n.) A fall or apostasy. | |
verb (v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses. | |
verb (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake. | |
verb (v. i.) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc. | |
verb (v. i.) To become ineffectual or void; to fall. | |
verb (v. t.) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass. | |
verb (v. t.) To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender. |
lapsible | adjective (a.) Liable to lapse. |
lapstone | noun (n.) A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather. |
lapstrake | adjective (a.) Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats. |
lare | noun (n.) Lore; learning. |
noun (n.) Pasture; feed. See Lair. | |
verb (v. t.) To feed; to fatten. |
large | noun (n.) A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves. |
superlative (superl.) Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; -- opposed to small; as, a large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city. | |
superlative (superl.) Abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions. | |
superlative (superl.) Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. | |
superlative (superl.) Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart. | |
superlative (superl.) Free; unembarrassed. | |
superlative (superl.) Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. | |
superlative (superl.) Prodigal in expending; lavish. | |
superlative (superl.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. | |
adverb (adv.) Freely; licentiously. |
largesse | adjective (a.) Liberality; generosity; bounty. |
adjective (a.) A present; a gift; a bounty bestowed. |
larine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Gull family (Laridae). |
larve | noun (n.) A larva. |
larungoscope | noun (n.) An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image. |
laryngotome | noun (n.) An instrument for performing laryngotomy. |
lassie | noun (n.) A young girl; a lass. |
lassitude | noun (n.) A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness. |