Name Report For First Name LIA:
LIA
First name LIA's origin is Other. LIA means "bringer of good news". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LIA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of lia.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with LIA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with LIA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming LIA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LƯA AS A WHOLE:
naliaka odelia abelia adalia agalia basilia callia castalia cliantha eulallia filia helia idalia lelia obelia thalia theophilia xylia zelia halia melia miliani oliana rozalia emilia giulia liliana camelia cecilia delia iulia lilian relia lilia kamilia izmirlian eliaures william brigliadoro pelias iulian adelia ahelia ailia alia amalia amelia anacelia angilia aracelia arcelia ardelia atalia athalia audelia aurelia aureliana azelia bidelia caliana calliah camellia caroliana cecelia cerelia coralia cordelia dahlia dalia daliah dervilia eliana eliane ellia galiana gallia gilia gillian jamelia jamilia jilian jillian jilliane jillianna jillianne joelliana joelliane julia julianna julianne juliauna jullianna kamelia kaneilia keelia lalia lealia liana liane lianna liealia liliane lilianna lillian lilliana lylia mahalia malia marcellia maricelia millian nanelia natalia nelia neliah odilia orelia ottilia otylia rillia tahlia taliah tallia taylia tealia tsylia tullia weslia aureliano blian bliant cillian elia elias eliazar gedaliah ilias julian juliano kilian killian liam maximilian williamon williams williamson illias liosliath meliadus emiliana rosalia angelia galia talia evangelia clianthe anatolia guiliaine ophelia belia juliana tilian valiant magnolia ilia jilliann maximillian nathaliaNAMES RHYMING WITH LƯA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ia) - Names That Ends with ia:
afia aminia ashia efia fowsia kamaria safia tawia beornia bernia alaia badi'a dummonia amaia donia erensia kamia melodia saskia nubia tabia berengaria bethia cambria ingria aloysia agalaia aglaia alesia ambrosia anthia anysia artemia aspasia athanasia calligenia cassiopeia celosia cosimia cynthia demetria dionysia egeria eileithyia elefteria erytheia eunomia euphemia eurycleia gelasia georgia harmonia hedia hesperia hestia hippodamia hygeia hypatia iphegenia lamia lampetia laodamia lethia oleisia orithyia ortygia parthenia pelagia pelicia pelopia polyhymnia pythia sinovia sophia sophronia stasia terentia theophania titania urania xenia zenia zenobia kaiolohia anasztaizia viktoria zsofia albinia beatricia flavia grazia letizia lucrezia nicia octavia oria ottavia patrizia tiberia academiaNAMES RHYMING WITH LƯA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (li) - Names That Begins with li:
libby liberty libuse lichas licia lidia lidio lidmann lidoine lien liesbet liesheth liesl lieu liezel lifton ligia liisa liko lil lila lilah lili lilibet lilibeth lilie lilike lilis lilith lilium lillee lilli lillie lillis lilly lillyana lilo liluye lily lilyanna lilybell lilybeth lin lina lincoln lind linda lindael lindberg linddun lindeberg lindel lindell linden lindi lindie lindisfarne lindiwe lindl lindleigh lindley lindly lindsay lindsey lindy line linette linford linh link linka linleah linley linly linn linne linnea linnette linsay linsey lintang linton lintun linus linwood lion lionel lionell liora lioslaith lipp lippi lippio lippo lir liriel liriene lirienne lirit liritaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LƯA:
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'a':
labreshia lacina lacramioara lada laetitia lahela laila laina lajila lakeisha lakesha lakeshia lakiesha lakisha lakishia lakya lala lalima lama lamba lana lanaia landa landra landrada lanna lansa laqueta laquisha lara lareina larena laria larina larissa larunda lashea latasha lateefa lateisha latesha latia laticia latisha latoya laura laurana laurena laurencia laurentia lauretta laurinda laurita lavena laverna lavernia lavina lavinia layla lea leala leana leandra leanna lebna lecia leda leela leena leesa legaya leia leianna leila leilana leira leisha leitha lela lema lemuela lena lenmana lenora lenuta leoda leola leoma leona leonarda leonda leondra leondrea leonela leonora leontina leopolda leopoldina leota leppaEnglish Words Rhyming LIA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LƯA AS A WHOLE:
abdominalia | noun (n. pl.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages. |
abelian | noun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian |
acholia | noun (n.) Deficiency or want of bile. |
acutifoliate | adjective (a.) Having sharp-pointed leaves. |
adfiliated | adjective (a.) See Affiliated. |
adfiliation | noun (n.) See Affiliation. |
adversifoliate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Adversifolious |
aeolian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial. |
affiliable | adjective (a.) Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin. |
affiliating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affiliate |
affiliation | noun (n.) Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society. |
noun (n.) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation. | |
noun (n.) Connection in the way of descent. |
alias | noun (n.) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect. |
noun (n.) Another name; an assumed name. | |
adverb (adv.) Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson. | |
adverb (adv.) At another time. |
alliable | adjective (a.) Able to enter into alliance. |
alliaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions. |
alliance | noun (n.) The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England. |
noun (n.) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity. | |
noun (n.) The persons or parties allied. | |
verb (v. t.) To connect by alliance; to ally. |
alliant | noun (n.) An ally; a confederate. |
allophylian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. |
ametabolian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis. |
amphicoelian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Amphicoelous |
ampliate | adjective (a.) Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects. |
verb (v. t.) To enlarge. |
ampliation | noun (n.) Enlargement; amplification. |
noun (n.) A postponement of the decision of a cause, for further consideration or re-argument. |
ampliative | adjective (a.) Enlarging a conception by adding to that which is already known or received. |
anglian | noun (n.) One of the Angles. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Angles. |
angustifoliate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Angustifolious |
antlia | noun (n.) The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera. |
appliable | adjective (a.) Applicable; also, compliant. |
appliance | noun (n.) The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience. |
noun (n.) The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances. |
aristotelian | noun (n.) A follower of Aristotle; a Peripatetic. See Peripatetic. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.). |
arundelian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624. |
asperifoliate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Asperifolious |
atrabiliar | adjective (a.) Melancholy; atrabilious. |
atrabiliary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys. |
adjective (a.) Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. |
aurelia | noun (n.) The chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies. |
noun (n.) A genus of jellyfishes. See Discophora. |
aurelian | noun (n.) An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the aurelia. |
australian | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Australia. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Australia. |
auxiliar | noun (n.) An auxiliary. |
adjective (a.) Auxiliary. |
auxiliary | noun (n.) A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise. |
noun (n.) Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force. | |
adjective (a.) Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. | |
(sing.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish. | |
(sing.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae. |
auxiliatory | adjective (a.) Auxiliary; helping. |
alalia | noun (n.) Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech. |
bacchanalia | noun (n. pl.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. |
noun (n. pl.) Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler. |
bacchanalian | noun (n.) A bacchanal; a drunken reveler. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. |
bacchanalianism | noun (n.) The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry. |
battalia | noun (n.) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. |
noun (n.) An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body. |
belial | noun (n.) An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. |
bifoliate | adjective (a.) Having two leaves; two-leaved. |
biliary | adjective (a.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. |
biliation | noun (n.) The production and excretion of bile. |
billiard | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. |
billiards | noun (n.) A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LƯA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ia) - English Words That Ends with ia:
acacia | noun (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals. |
noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates. | |
noun (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic. |
acinesia | noun (n.) Same as Akinesia. |
aconitia | noun (n.) Same as Aconitine. |
acontia | noun (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated. |
acrania | noun (n.) Partial or total absence of the skull. |
noun (n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists. |
acrasia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrasy |
acrisia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrisy |
actinaria | noun (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. |
actinia | noun (n.) An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.]. |
noun (n.) A genus in the family Actinidae. |
adansonia | noun (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. |
adelphia | noun (n.) A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc. |
adenalgia | noun (n.) Alt. of Adenalgy |
adularia | noun (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone. |
adversaria | noun (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. |
adynamia | noun (n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. |
aegicrania | noun (n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls. |
aerophobia | noun (n.) Alt. of Aerophoby |
aesthesia | noun (n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia. |
agalactia | noun (n.) Alt. of Agalaxy |
agraphia | noun (n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia. |
akinesia | noun (n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement. |
albuminuria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine. |
alcyonaria | noun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea. |
alfilaria | noun (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California. |
alleluia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alleluiah |
almadia | noun (n.) Alt. of Almadie |
alopecia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alopecy |
alpia | noun (n.) The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds. |
amblyopia | noun (n.) Alt. of Amblyopy |
ambrosia | noun (n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it. |
noun (n.) An unguent of the gods. | |
noun (n.) A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. | |
noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc. | |
noun (n.) The food of certain small bark beetles, family Scolytidae believed to be fungi cultivated by the beetles in their burrows. |
amentia | noun (n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding. |
ametropia | noun (n.) Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. |
amia | noun (n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin. |
ammonia | noun (n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn. |
amnesia | noun (n.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. |
amphibia | noun (n. pl.) One of the classes of vertebrates. |
(pl. ) of Amphibium |
anaemia | adjective (a.) A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity. |
anaesthesia | noun (n.) Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic. |
analgesia | noun (n.) Absence of sensibility to pain. |
anaphrodisia | noun (n.) Absence of sexual appetite. |
anesthesia | adjective (a.) Alt. of Anesthetic |
anglomania | noun (n.) A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc. |
anglophobia | noun (n.) Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. |
anomia | noun (n.) A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment. |
anopsia | adjective (a.) Alt. of Anopsy |
anorexia | noun (n.) Alt. of Anorexy |
anosmia | noun (n.) Loss of the sense of smell. |
anthobranchia | noun (n. pl.) A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris. |
anthomania | noun (n.) A extravagant fondness for flowers. |
antonomasia | noun (n.) The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LƯA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (li) - Words That Begins with li:
liad | noun (n.) A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer. |
lister | noun (n.) A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish. |
noun (n.) One who makes a list or roll. | |
noun (n.) Same as Leister. | |
noun (n.) A double-moldboard plow which throws a deep furrow, and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow. |
liability | noun (n.) The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law. |
noun (n.) That which one is under obligation to pay, or for which one is liable. | |
noun (n.) the sum of one's pecuniary obligations; -- opposed to assets. |
liableness | noun (n.) Quality of being liable; liability. |
liage | noun (n.) Union by league; alliance. |
liaison | noun (n.) A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman. |
liane | noun (n.) Alt. of Liana |
liana | noun (n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region. |
liar | noun (n.) A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies. |
liard | noun (n.) A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou. |
adjective (a.) Gray. |
lias | noun (n.) The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology. |
liassic | noun (n.) Same as Lias. |
adjective (a.) Of the age of the Lias; pertaining to the Lias formation. |
libament | noun (n.) Libation. |
libant | adjective (a.) Sipping; touching lightly. |
libation | noun (n.) The act of pouring a liquid or liquor, usually wine, either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice, in honor of some deity; also, the wine or liquid thus poured out. |
libatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to libation. |
libbard | noun (n.) A leopard. |
libel | noun (n.) A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc. |
noun (n.) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire. | |
noun (n.) A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law. | |
noun (n.) The crime of issuing a malicious defamatory publication. | |
noun (n.) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks. | |
verb (v. t.) To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon. | |
verb (v. t.) To proceed against by filing a libel, particularly against a ship or goods. | |
verb (v. i.) To spread defamation, written or printed; -- with against. |
libeling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Libel |
libelant | noun (n.) One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court. |
libeler | noun (n.) One who libels. |
libelist | noun (n.) A libeler. |
li bella | noun (n.) A small balance. |
noun (n.) A level, or leveling instrument. |
libellulid | noun (n.) A dragon fly. |
libelluloid | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the dragon flies. |
libelous | adjective (a.) Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet. |
liber | noun (n.) The inner bark of plants, lying next to the wood. It usually contains a large proportion of woody, fibrous cells, and is, therefore, the part from which the fiber of the plant is obtained, as that of hemp, etc. |
liberal | noun (n.) One who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer; in English politics, a member of the Liberal party, so called. Cf. Whig. |
adjective (a.) Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies. | |
adjective (a.) Bestowing in a large and noble way, as a freeman; generous; bounteous; open-handed; as, a liberal giver. | |
adjective (a.) Bestowed in a large way; hence, more than sufficient; abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal discharge of matter or of water. | |
adjective (a.) Not strict or rigorous; not confined or restricted to the literal sense; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language. | |
adjective (a.) Not narrow or contracted in mind; not selfish; enlarged in spirit; catholic. | |
adjective (a.) Free to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint; licentious. | |
adjective (a.) Not bound by orthodox tenets or established forms in political or religious philosophy; independent in opinion; not conservative; friendly to great freedom in the constitution or administration of government; having tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party. |
liberalism | noun (n.) Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party. |
liberalist | noun (n.) A liberal. |
liberalistic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions. |
liberality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. |
noun (n.) A gift; a gratuity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, a prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities. |
liberalization | noun (n.) The act of liberalizing. |
liberalizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Liberalize |
liberalizer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, liberalizes. |
liberating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Liberate |
liberate | adjective (a.) To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases. |
liberation | noun (n.) The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. |
liberator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer. |
liberatory | adjective (a.) Tending, or serving, to liberate. |
libertarian | noun (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of free will. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity. |
libertarianism | noun (n.) Libertarian principles or doctrines. |
liberticide | noun (n.) The destruction of civil liberty. |
noun (n.) A destroyer of civil liberty. |
libertinage | noun (n.) Libertinism; license. |
libertine | noun (n.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman. |
noun (n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women. | |
noun (n.) One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. | |
noun (n.) A defamatory name for a freethinker. | |
noun (n.) Free from restraint; uncontrolled. | |
noun (n.) Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. |
libertinism | noun (n.) The state of a libertine or freedman. |
noun (n.) Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness. | |
noun (n.) Licentiousness of principle or opinion. |
liberty | noun (n.) The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection. |
noun (n.) Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion. | |
noun (n.) A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like. | |
noun (n.) Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe. | |
noun (n.) The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised. | |
noun (n.) A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison. | |
noun (n.) A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty. | |
noun (n.) The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing. | |
noun (n.) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse. | |
noun (n.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore. |
libethenite | noun (n.) A mineral of an olive-green color, commonly in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of copper. |
libidinist | noun (n.) One given to lewdness. |
libidinosity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being libidinous; libidinousness. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LƯA:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'a':
labia | noun (n. pl.) See Labium. |
(pl. ) of Labium |
labyrinthodonta | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala. |
lacerta | noun (n.) A fathom. |
noun (n.) A genus of lizards. See Lizard. | |
noun (n.) The Lizard, a northern constellation. |
lacertilia | noun (n. pl.) An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards. |
lacinia | noun (n.) One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers. |
noun (n.) A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf. | |
noun (n.) The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillae of insects. |
lacinula | noun (n.) A diminutive lacinia. |
lactuca | noun (n.) A genus of composite herbs, several of which are cultivated foe salad; lettuce. |
lacuna | noun (n.) A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus. |
noun (n.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane. |
laemodipoda | noun (n. pl.) A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples. |
lagena | noun (n.) The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians. |
lagemorpha | noun (n. pl.) A group of rodents, including the hares. They have four incisors in the upper jaw. Called also Duplicidentata. |
lagophthalmia | noun (n.) Alt. of Lagophthalmos |
lama | noun (n.) See Llama. |
noun (n.) In Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism. |
lambda | noun (n.) The name of the Greek letter /, /, corresponding with the English letter L, l. |
noun (n.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull. |
lamella | noun (n.) a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed. |
lamellibranchia | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Lamellibranchiata |
lamellibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc. |
lamellicornia | noun (n. pl.) A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes. |
lametta | noun (n.) Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass. |
lamia | noun (n.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch. |
lamina | noun (n.) A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals. |
noun (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower. | |
noun (n.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather. |
laminaria | noun (n.) A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp. |
lamnunguia | noun (n. pl.) Same as Hyracoidea. |
langaha | noun (n.) A curious colubriform snake of the genus Xyphorhynchus, from Madagascar. It is brownish red, and its nose is prolonged in the form of a sharp blade. |
langya | noun (n.) One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life; -- called also walking fishes. |
larva | noun (n.) Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvae of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage. In other groups of insects the larvae are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc. |
noun (n.) The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape. |
larvalia | noun (n. pl.) An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See Appendicularia. |
latakia | noun (n.) A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea. |
latria | noun (n.) The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints. |
laura | noun (n.) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior. |
lava | noun (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States. |
lavolta | noun (n.) An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound. |
lawsonia | noun (n.) An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis), with smooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is prepared from the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptian privet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette. |
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. |
lecama | noun (n.) The hartbeest. |
lectica | noun (n.) A kind of litter or portable couch. |
legatura | noun (n.) A tie or brace; a syncopation. |
leipoa | noun (n.) A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant. |
lemma | noun (n.) A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic. |
lemniscata | noun (n.) Alt. of Lemniscate |
lemuria | noun (n.) A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant. |
lemuroidea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of primates, including the lemurs, the aye-aye, and allied species. |
lena | noun (n.) A procuress. |
lenticula | noun (n.) A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle. |
noun (n.) A lens of small size. | |
noun (n.) A lenticel. |
lepidoptera | noun (n. pl.) An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored. |
lepidosauria | noun (n. pl.) A division of reptiles, including the serpents and lizards; the Plagiotremata. |
lepisma | noun (n.) A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug. |
lepra | noun (n.) Leprosy. |
leptocardia | noun (n. pl.) The lowest class of Vertebrata, including only the Amphioxus. The heart is represented only by a simple pulsating vessel. The blood is colorless; the brain, renal organs, and limbs are wanting, and the backbone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus. |
leptostraca | noun (n. pl.) An order of Crustacea, including Nebalia and allied forms. |
lernaea | noun (n.) A Linnaean genus of parasitic Entomostraca, -- the same as the family Lernaeidae. |
lernaeacea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young, however, are active and swim freely. See Illustration in Appendix. |
leuchaemia | noun (n.) See Leucocythaemia. |
leucocythaemia | noun (n.) Alt. of Leucocythemia |
leucocythemia | noun (n.) A disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchaemia. |
leucoma | noun (n.) A white opacity in the cornea of the eye; -- called also albugo. |
leucorrhoea | noun (n.) A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. |
leukaemia | noun (n.) Leucocythaemia. |
levana | noun (n.) A goddess who protected newborn infants. |
libra | noun (n.) The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus / in almanacs, etc. |
noun (n.) A southern constellation between Virgo and Scorpio. |
ligula | noun (n.) See Ligule. |
noun (n.) The central process, or front edge, of the labium of insects. It sometimes serves as a tongue or proboscis, as in bees. | |
noun (n.) A tongue-shaped lobe of the parapodia of annelids. See Parapodium. |
lima | noun (n.) The capital city of Peru, in South America. |
limacina | noun (n.) A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales. |
lim naea | noun (n.) A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail. |
limuloidea | noun (n. pl.) An order of Merostomata, including among living animals the genus Limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of the Carboniferous period. Called also Xiphosura. |
lindia | noun (n.) A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoologists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda. |
linga | noun (n.) Alt. of Lingam |
lingua | noun (n.) A tongue. |
noun (n.) A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue. |
linguatulida | noun (n. pl.) Same as Linguatulina. |
linguatulina | noun (n. pl.) An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida. |
lingula | noun (n.) A tonguelike process or part. |
noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of brachiopod shells belonging to the genus Lingula, and related genera. See Brachiopoda, and Illustration in Appendix. |
lipaemia | noun (n.) A condition in which fat occurs in the blood. |
lipocephala | noun (n. pl.) Same as Lamellibranchia. |
lipoma | noun (n.) A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue. |
lira | noun (n.) An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc. |
lirella | noun (n.) A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens. |
lissencephala | noun (n. pl.) A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc. |
lithaemia | noun (n.) A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood. |
lithia | noun (n.) The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium. |
littorina | noun (n.) A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle. |
liza | noun (n.) The American white mullet (Mugil curema). |
llama | noun (n.) A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes. |
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. |
lobosa | noun (n. pl.) An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba. |
lochia | noun (n. pl.) The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth. |
locusta | noun (n.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. |
locustella | noun (n.) The European cricket warbler. |
loggia | noun (n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room. |
loma | noun (n.) A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap. |
longicornia | noun (n. pl.) A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust. |
lophopoda | noun (n. pl.) Same as Phylactolemata. |
lorcha | noun (n.) A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk. |
lorica | noun (n.) A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like. |
noun (n.) Lute for protecting vessels from the fire. | |
noun (n.) The protective case or shell of an infusorian or rotifer. |
loricata | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos. |
noun (n. pl.) The crocodilia. |
lucernaria | noun (n.) A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel. |
lucernarida | noun (n. pl.) A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; -- called also Calycozoa. |
noun (n. pl.) A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora. |
lucuma | noun (n.) An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits. |
lumachella | noun (n.) A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections. |
luna | noun (n.) The moon. |
noun (n.) Silver. |
lunula | noun (n.) Same as Lunule. |