LADD
First name LADD's origin is Other. LADD means "attendant". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LADD below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ladd.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with LADD and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming LADD
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LADD AS A WHOLE:
aladdin laddeNAMES RHYMING WITH LADD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (add) - Names That Ends with add:
bradd shadd taddRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (dd) - Names That Ends with dd:
gorsedd hefeydd medredydd odd dafydd jedd judd lludd rudd stodd tedd todd budd cedd gwenddydd nudd redd roddNAMES RHYMING WITH LADD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (lad) - Names That Begins with lad:
lad lada ladbroc ladislav ladonRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (la) - Names That Begins with la:
labaan laban labeeb labhaoise labhruinn labib labid labreshia lace lacee lacene lacey lach lache lachesis lachie lachlan lachlann laci laciann lacie lacina laco lacramioara lacy lacyann laec laefertun lael laertes laestrygones laetitia lafayette lahab laheeb lahela lahthan lai laibrook laidley laidly laila laili lailie lailoken laina laine lainey lainie lair laird laire lairgnen lais laius lajeune lajila lakeisha lakeland laken lakesha lakeshia lakiesha lakinzi lakisha lakishia lakshmi lakya lala lalage lali lalia lalima lalor lam lama lamaan lamandre lamar lamarion lamarr lamba lambart lambert lambrecht lambret lambrett lamees lameh lamia lamis lamond lamont lamorak lamoratNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LADD:
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'd':
langford lawford leeland leland lenard lennard leod leonard leopold lind linford linwood lloyd lockwood lud luned lynd lynfordEnglish Words Rhyming LADD
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LADD AS A WHOLE:
bladder | noun (n.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air. |
noun (n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid. | |
noun (n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp. | |
noun (n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. | |
verb (v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. | |
verb (v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard. |
bladdering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bladder |
bladderwort | noun (n.) A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium. |
bladdery | adjective (a.) Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder. |
gladding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glad |
gladdening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gladden |
gladder | noun (n.) One who makes glad. |
laddie | noun (n.) A lad; a male sweetheart. |
maladdress | noun (n.) Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one. |
stepladder | noun (n.) A portable set of steps. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LADD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (add) - English Words That Ends with add:
shadd | noun (n.) Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein. |
wadd | noun (n.) An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties. |
noun (n.) Plumbago, or black lead. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LADD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (lad) - Words That Begins with lad:
lad | noun (n.) A boy; a youth; a stripling. |
noun (n.) A companion; a comrade; a mate. | |
() p. p. of Lead, to guide. |
ladanum | noun (n.) A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus. It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation. |
lading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lade |
noun (n.) The act of loading. | |
noun (n.) That which lades or constitutes a load or cargo; freight; burden; as, the lading of a ship. |
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. |
lademan | noun (n.) One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant. |
laden | adjective (p. & a.) Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart. |
ladied | adjective (a.) Ladylike; not rough; gentle. |
ladin | noun (n.) A Romansch dialect spoken in some parts of Switzerland and the Tyrol. |
noun (n.) A person speaking Ladin as a mother tongue. |
ladino | noun (n.) One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a mestizo; -- so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge. |
noun (n.) The mixed Spanish and Hebrew language spoken by Sephardim. | |
noun (n.) A cunningly vicious horse. | |
noun (n.) A ladin. |
ladkin | noun (n.) A little lad. |
ladling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ladle |
ladleful | noun (n.) A quantity sufficient to fill a ladle. |
ladrone | noun (n.) A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal. |
lady | noun (n.) A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household. |
noun (n.) A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord. | |
noun (n.) A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart. | |
noun (n.) A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right. | |
noun (n.) A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; -- the feminine correlative of gentleman. | |
noun (n.) A wife; -- not now in approved usage. | |
noun (n.) The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike. | |
() The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25. See Annunciation. |
ladybird | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small beetles of the genus Coccinella and allied genera (family Coccinellidae); -- called also ladybug, ladyclock, lady cow, lady fly, and lady beetle. Coccinella seplempunctata in one of the common European species. See Coccinella. |
ladybug | noun (n.) Same as Ladybird. |
ladyclock | noun (n.) See Ladyrird. |
ladyfish | noun (n.) A large, handsome oceanic fish (Albula vulpes), found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish, grubber, French mullet, and macabe. |
noun (n.) A labroid fish (Harpe rufa) of Florida and the West Indies. |
ladyhood | noun (n.) The state or quality of being a lady; the personality of a lady. |
ladykin | noun (n.) A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary. |
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. |
ladylikeness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being ladylike. |
ladylove | noun (n.) A sweetheart or mistress. |
ladyship | noun (n.) The rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by her or your). |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LADD:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'd':
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. |
labiated | adjective (a.) Same as Labiate, a. (a). |
labored | adjective (a.) Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Labor |
labroid | adjective (a.) Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family Labridae, an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The tautog and cunner are American examples. |
laced | adjective (a.) Fastened with a lace or laces; decorated with narrow strips or braid. See Lace, v. t. |
verb (v. t.) Decorated with the fabric lace. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Lace |
lacerated | adjective (p. a.) Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. |
adjective (p. a.) Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Lacerate |
lacertiloid | adjective (a.) Like or belonging to the Lacertilia. |
laciniated | adjective (a.) Fringed; having a fringed border. |
adjective (a.) Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed. |
laemodipod | noun (n.) One of the Laemodipoda. |
laggard | noun (n.) One who lags; a loiterer. |
adjective (a.) Slow; sluggish; backward. |
laird | noun (n.) A lord; a landholder, esp. one who holds land directly of the crown. |
lakeweed | noun (n.) The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America. |
lambdoid | adjective (a.) Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (/); as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull. |
lamellated | adjective (a.) Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennae. |
lamented | adjective (a.) Mourned for; bewailed. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Lament |
laminated | adjective (a.) Laminate. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Laminate |
lampad | noun (n.) A lamp or candlestick. |
lanceolated | adjective (a.) Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf. |
lancewood | noun (n.) A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseae). |
land | noun (n.) Urine. See Lant. |
noun (n.) The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage. | |
noun (n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract. | |
noun (n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land. | |
noun (n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people. | |
noun (n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands. | |
noun (n.) The ground or floor. | |
noun (n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing. | |
noun (n.) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate. | |
noun (n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing. | |
noun (n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves. | |
verb (v. t.) To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark. | |
verb (v. t.) To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish. | |
verb (v. t.) To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes. | |
verb (v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course. |
landed | adjective (a.) Having an estate in land. |
adjective (a.) Consisting in real estate or land; as, landed property; landed security. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Land |
landflood | noun (n.) An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. |
landlocked | adjective (a.) Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land. |
adjective (a.) Confined to a fresh-water lake by reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon. |
landlord | noun (n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants. |
noun (n.) The master of an inn or of a lodging house. |
languaged | adjective (a.) Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Language |
langued | adjective (a.) Tongued; having the tongue visible. |
languid | adjective (a.) Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. |
adjective (a.) Slow in progress; tardy. | |
adjective (a.) Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day. |
laniard | noun (n.) See Lanyard. |
lanioid | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the shrikes (family Laniidae). |
lanyard | noun (n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc. |
noun (n.) A strong cord, about twelve feet long, with an iron hook at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction tube. |
lapboard | noun (n.) A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors. |
lapelled | adjective (a.) Furnished with lapels. |
lapsed | adjective (a.) Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses. |
adjective (a.) Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of insurance; a lapsed legacy. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Lapse |
lapsided | adjective (a.) See Lopsided. |
larboard | noun (n.) The left-hand side of a ship to one on board facing toward the bow; port; -- opposed to starboard. |
adjective (a.) On or pertaining to the left-hand side of a vessel; port; as, the larboard quarter. |
lard | noun (n.) Bacon; the flesh of swine. |
noun (n.) The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained. | |
noun (n.) To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as, to lard poultry. | |
noun (n.) To fatten; to enrich. | |
noun (n.) To smear with lard or fat. | |
noun (n.) To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard. | |
verb (v. i.) To grow fat. |
laroid | adjective (a.) Like or belonging to the Gull family (Laridae). |
larvated | adjective (a.) Masked; clothed as with a mask. |
lated | adjective (a.) Belated; too late. |
latered | adjective (a.) Inclined to delay; dilatory. |
laund | noun (n.) A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade. |
laureled | adjective (a.) Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate. |
lawnd | noun (n.) See Laund. |
layland | noun (n.) Land lying untilled; fallow ground. |
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. |
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 |
leafed | adjective (a.) Having (such) a leaf or (so many) leaves; -- used in composition; as, broad-leafed; four-leafed. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Leaf |
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 |
leasehold | noun (n.) A tenure by lease; specifically, land held as personalty under a lease for years. |
adjective (a.) Held by lease. |
leatherhead | noun (n.) The friar bird. |
leatherwood | noun (n.) A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. |
leaved | adjective (a.) Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long-leaved. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Leave |
leeboard | noun (n.) A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught. |
leed | noun (n.) Alt. of Leede |
leeward | noun (n.) The lee side; the lee. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the part or side toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward berth; a leeward ship. | |
adverb (adv.) Toward the lee. |
legend | noun (n.) That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses. |
noun (n.) A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature. | |
noun (n.) Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable. | |
noun (n.) An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration. | |
verb (v. t.) To tell or narrate, as a legend. |
legged | adjective (a.) Having (such or so many) legs; -- used in composition; as, a long-legged man; a two-legged animal. |
legioned | adjective (a.) Formed into a legion or legions; legionary. |
leisured | adjective (a.) Having leisure. |
lemurid | noun (a. & n.) Same as Lemuroid. |
lemuroid | noun (n.) One of the Lemuroidea. |
adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the lemurs or the Lemuroidea. |
lentoid | adjective (a.) Having the form of a lens; lens-shaped. |
leod | noun (n.) People; a nation; a man. |
leonced | adjective (a.) See Lionced. |
leonid | noun (n.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo. |
leopard | noun (n.) A large, savage, carnivorous mammal (Felis leopardus). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther (Felis pardus) is regarded as a variety of leopard. |
leopardwood | noun (n.) See Letterwood. |
lepadoid | noun (n.) A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas, or family Lepadidae; a goose barnacle. Also used adjectively. |
lepered | adjective (a.) Affected or tainted with leprosy. |
lepid | adjective (a.) Pleasant; jocose. |
lepidodendrid | noun (n.) One of an extinct family of trees allied to the modern club mosses, and including Lepidodendron and its allies. |
lepidodendroid | noun (n.) A lepidodendrid. |
adjective (a.) Allied to, or resembling, Lepidodendron. |
lepidoganoid | noun (n.) Any one of a division (Lepidoganoidei) of ganoid fishes, including those that have scales forming a coat of mail. Also used adjectively. |
lepidoted | adjective (a.) Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster. |
lepismoid | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the Lepisma. |
letheed | adjective (a.) Caused by Lethe. |
lettered | adjective (a.) Literate; educated; versed in literature. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned. | |
adjective (a.) Inscribed or stamped with letters. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Letter |
letterwood | noun (n.) The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum (B. Aubletii), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks. |
leucitoid | noun (n.) The trapezohedron or tetragonal trisoctahedron; -- so called as being the form of the mineral leucite. |
leucoplastid | noun (n.) One of certain very minute whitish or colorless granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the nuclei around which starch granules will form. |
leucosoid | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the Leucosoidea, a tribe of marine crabs including the box crab or Calappa. |
leverwood | noun (n.) The American hop hornbeam (Ostrya Virginica), a small tree with very tough wood. |
liard | noun (n.) A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou. |
adjective (a.) Gray. |
libbard | noun (n.) A leopard. |
libellulid | noun (n.) A dragon fly. |
libelluloid | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the dragon flies. |
licensed | adjective (a.) Having a license; permitted or authorized by license; as, a licensed victualer; a licensed traffic. |
(imp. & p. p.) of License |
lichened | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or covered with, lichens. |
lid | noun (n.) That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk. |
noun (n.) The cover of the eye; an eyelid. | |
noun (n.) The cover of the spore cases of mosses. | |
noun (n.) A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti. | |
noun (n.) The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts. |
lidded | adjective (a.) Covered with a lid. |
lied | noun (n.) A lay; a German song. It differs from the French chanson, and the Italian canzone, all three being national. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Lie |
lifeblood | noun (n.) The blood necessary to life; vital blood. |
noun (n.) Fig.: That which gives strength and energy. |
lifehold | noun (n.) Land held by a life estate. |
lightwood | noun (n.) Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze. |
ligulated | adjective (a.) Like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped. |
adjective (a.) Composed of ligules. |
likehood | noun (n.) Likelihood. |
likelihood | noun (n.) Appearance; show; sign; expression. |
noun (n.) Likeness; resemblance. | |
noun (n.) Appearance of truth or reality; probability; verisimilitude. |
lilied | adjective (a.) Covered with, or having many, lilies. |
limbed | adjective (a.) Having limbs; -- much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed. |
limehound | noun (n.) A dog used in hunting the wild boar; a leamer. |