First Names Rhyming LATIMER
English Words Rhyming LATIMER
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LATÝMER AS A WHOLE:
| latimer | noun (n.) An interpreter. [Obs.] Coke. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LATÝMER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (atimer) - English Words That Ends with atimer:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (timer) - English Words That Ends with timer:
| timer | noun (n.) A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc. |
| | noun (n.) In electric ignition, an adjustable device for automatically timing the spark. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (imer) - English Words That Ends with imer:
| acclaimer | noun (n.) One who acclaims. |
| aimer | noun (n.) One who aims, directs, or points. |
| begrimer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, begrimes. |
| chimer | noun (n.) One who chimes. |
| claimer | noun (n.) One who claims; a claimant. |
| declaimer | noun (n.) One who declaims; an haranguer. |
| disclaimer | noun (n.) One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces. |
| | noun (n.) A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate. |
| | noun (n.) A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like. |
| dulcimer | noun (n.) An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer. |
| | noun (n.) An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery. |
| exclaimer | noun (n.) One who exclaims. |
| florimer | noun (n.) See Floramour. |
| limer | noun (n.) A limehound; a limmer. |
| lorimer | noun (n.) Alt. of Loriner |
| primer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, primes |
| | noun (n.) an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder. |
| | noun (n.) Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction. |
| | noun (n.) A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica. |
| | adjective (a.) First; original; primary. |
| proclaimer | noun (n.) One who proclaims. |
| reclaimer | noun (n.) One who reclaims. |
| reprimer | noun (n.) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again. |
| rimer | noun (n.) A rhymer; a versifier. |
| | noun (n.) A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder. |
| rudesheimer | noun (n.) A German wine made near Rudesheim, on the Rhine. |
| scrimer | noun (n.) A fencing master. |
| tasimer | noun (n.) An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured, causes variations in the strength of the current, which variations are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute changes of temperature. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (mer) - English Words That Ends with mer:
| affirmer | noun (n.) One who affirms. |
| aphorismer | noun (n.) A dealer in aphorisms. |
| assumer | noun (n.) One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. |
| astronomer | noun (n.) An astrologer. |
| | noun (n.) One who is versed in astronomy; one who has a knowledge of the laws of the heavenly orbs, or the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena. |
| autotransformer | noun (n.) A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil. |
| besomer | noun (n.) One who uses a besom. |
| bismer | noun (n.) Shame; abuse. |
| | noun (n.) A rule steelyard. |
| | noun (n.) The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia). |
| blamer | noun (n.) One who blames. |
| blasphemer | noun (n.) One who blasphemes. |
| bloomer | noun (n.) A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat. |
| | noun (n.) A woman who wears a Bloomer costume. |
| boomer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, booms. |
| | noun (n.) A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel. |
| | noun (n.) A large male kangaroo. |
| | noun (n.) One who works up a "boom". |
| breastsummer | noun (n.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows. |
| brestsummer | noun (n.) See Breastsummer. |
| brimmer | noun (n.) A brimful bowl; a bumper. |
| bummer | noun (n.) An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. |
| bushhammer | noun (n.) A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite. |
| barnstormer | noun (n.) An itinerant theatrical player who plays in barns when a theatre is lacking; hence, an inferior actor, or one who plays in the country away from the larger cities. |
| calmer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, makes calm. |
| charmer | noun (n.) One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician. |
| | noun (n.) One who delights and attracts the affections. |
| comer | noun (n.) One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present. |
| confirmer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates. |
| conformer | noun (n.) One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines. |
| consumer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food. |
| costumer | noun (n.) One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc. |
| crammer | noun (n.) One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared. |
| customer | noun (n.) One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. |
| | noun (n.) One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer. |
| | noun (n.) A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank. |
| | noun (n.) A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer. |
| | noun (n.) A lewd woman. |
| daydreamer | noun (n.) One given to daydreams. |
| defamer | noun (n.) One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator. |
| deformer | noun (n.) One who deforms. |
| disarmer | noun (n.) One who disarms. |
| disesteemer | noun (n.) One who disesteems. |
| dormer | noun (n.) Alt. of Dormer window |
| dreamer | noun (n.) One who dreams. |
| | noun (n.) A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer. |
| drummer | noun (n.) One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching. |
| | noun (n.) One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler. |
| | noun (n.) A fish that makes a sound when caught |
| | noun (n.) The squeteague. |
| | noun (n.) A California sculpin. |
| | noun (n.) A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call. |
| downcomer | noun (n.) A pipe to conduct something downwards; |
| | noun (n.) A pipe for leading the hot gases from the top of a blast furnace downward to the regenerators, boilers, etc. |
| | noun (n.) In some water-tube boilers, a tube larger in diameter than the water tubes to conduct the water from each top drum to a bottom drum, thus completing the circulation. |
| embalmer | noun (n.) One who embalms. |
| esteemer | noun (n.) One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing. |
| farmer | noun (n.) One who farms |
| | noun (n.) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. |
| | noun (n.) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. |
| | noun (n.) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues. |
| | noun (n.) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown. |
| fathomer | noun (n.) One who fathoms. |
| flemer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, banishes or expels. |
| former | noun (n.) One who forms; a maker; a creator. |
| | noun (n.) A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed. |
| | noun (n.) A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped. |
| | noun (n.) A cutting die. |
| | adjective (a.) Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past. |
| | adjective (a.) Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument. |
| | adjective (a.) Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned. |
| framer | noun (n.) One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution. |
| fumer | noun (n.) One that fumes. |
| | noun (n.) One who makes or uses perfumes. |
| gammer | noun (n.) An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man. |
| gastronomer | noun (n.) One fond of good living; an epicure. |
| gimmer | noun (n.) Alt. of Gimmor |
| glimmer | noun (n.) A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam. |
| | noun (n.) Mica. See Mica. |
| | verb (v. i.) To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. |
| gomer | noun (n.) A Hebrew measure. See Homer. |
| | noun (n.) A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor. |
| gossamer | noun (n.) A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders. |
| | noun (n.) Any very thin gauzelike fabric; also, a thin waterproof stuff. |
| | noun (n.) An outer garment, made of waterproof gossamer. |
| groomer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LATÝMER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (latime) - Words That Begins with latime:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (latim) - Words That Begins with latim:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (lati) - Words That Begins with lati:
| latian | adjective (a.) Belonging, or relating, to Latium, a country of ancient Italy. See Latin. |
| latibulizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Latibulize |
| latibulum | noun (n.) A concealed hiding place; a burrow; a lair; a hole. |
| laticiferous | adjective (a.) Containing the latex; -- applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found. |
| laticlave | noun (n.) A broad stripe of purple on the fore part of the tunic, worn by senators in ancient Rome as an emblem of office. |
| laticostate | adjective (a.) Broad-ribbed. |
| latidentate | adjective (a.) Broad-toothed. |
| latifoliate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Latifolious |
| latifolious | adjective (a.) Having broad leaves. |
| latin | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman. |
| | noun (n.) The language of the ancient Romans. |
| | noun (n.) An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin. |
| | noun (n.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language. |
| | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom. |
| | verb (v. t.) To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin. |
| latinism | noun (n.) A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model. |
| latinist | noun (n.) One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. |
| latinistic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom. |
| latinitaster | noun (n.) One who has but a smattering of Latin. |
| latinity | noun (n.) The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. |
| latinization | noun (n.) The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. |
| latinizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Latinize |
| lation | noun (n.) Transportation; conveyance. |
| latirostral | adjective (a.) Alt. of Latirostrous |
| latirostrous | adjective (a.) Having a broad beak. |
| latirostres | noun (n. pl.) The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies. |
| latish | adjective (a.) Somewhat late. |
| latisternal | adjective (a.) Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; -- said of anthropoid apes. |
| latitancy | noun (n.) Act or state of lying hid, or lurking. |
| latitant | adjective (a.) Lying hid; concealed; latent. |
| latitat | noun (n.) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding. |
| latitation | noun (n.) A lying in concealment; hiding. |
| latitude | noun (n.) Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width. |
| | noun (n.) Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence. |
| | noun (n.) Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.; extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Extent; size; amplitude; scope. |
| | noun (n.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian. |
| | noun (n.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic. |
| latitudinal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude. |
| latitudinarian | noun (n.) One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking. |
| | noun (n.) A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed. |
| | noun (n.) One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy. |
| | adjective (a.) Not restrained; not confined by precise limits. |
| | adjective (a.) Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. |
| | adjective (a.) Lax in moral or religious principles. |
| latitudinarianism | noun (n.) A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief. |
| latitudinous | adjective (a.) Having latitude, or wide extent. |
| latigo | noun (n.) A strap for tightening a saddle girth. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (lat) - Words That Begins with lat:
| latakia | noun (n.) A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea. |
| latch | noun (n.) That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare. |
| | noun (n.) A movable piece which holds anything in place by entering a notch or cavity; specifically, the catch which holds a door or gate when closed, though it be not bolted. |
| | noun (n.) A latching. |
| | noun (n.) A crossbow. |
| | noun (n.) To catch so as to hold. |
| | noun (n.) To catch or fasten by means of a latch. |
| | verb (v. t.) To smear; to anoint. |
| latching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Latch |
| | noun (n.) A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket. |
| latchet | noun (n.) The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring. |
| latchkey | noun (n.) A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch. |
| latchstring | noun (n.) A string for raising the latch of a door by a person outside. It is fastened to the latch and passed through a hole above it in the door. |
| late | adjective (a.) After the usual or proper time, or the time appointed; after delay; as, he arrived late; -- opposed to early. |
| | adjective (a.) Not long ago; lately. |
| | adjective (a.) Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie abed late; to sit up late at night. |
| | verb (v.) Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring. |
| | verb (v.) Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life. |
| | verb (v.) Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration. |
| | verb (v.) Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the late rains; we have received late intelligence. |
| | verb (v.) Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher. |
| lated | adjective (a.) Belated; too late. |
| lateen | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a peculiar rig used in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa. See below. |
| latence | noun (n.) Latency. |
| latency | noun (n.) The state or quality of being latent. |
| lateness | noun (n.) The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the season. |
| latent | adjective (a.) Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action. |
| later | noun (n.) A brick or tile. |
| | adverb (a.) Compar. of Late, a. & adv. |
| lateral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree. |
| | adjective (a.) Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. |
| | adjective (a.) Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. |
| laterality | noun (n.) The state or condition of being lateral. |
| lateran | noun (n.) The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. |
| latered | adjective (a.) Inclined to delay; dilatory. |
| laterifolious | adjective (a.) Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower. |
| laterite | noun (n.) An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India. |
| lateritic | adjective (a.) Consisting of, containing, or characterized by, laterite; as, lateritic formations. |
| lateritious | adjective (a.) Like bricks; of the color of red bricks. |
| lates | noun (n.) A genus of large percoid fishes, of which one species (Lates Niloticus) inhabits the Nile, and another (L. calcarifer) is found in the Ganges and other Indian rivers. They are valued as food fishes. |
| latescence | noun (n.) A slight withdrawal from view or knowledge. |
| latescent | adjective (a.) Slightly withdrawn from view or knowledge; as, a latescent meaning. |
| latewake | noun (n.) See Lich wake, under Lich. |
| latex | noun (n.) A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation. |
| lath | noun (n.) A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover or line with laths. |
| lathing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lath |
| | noun (n.) The act or process of covering with laths; laths, collectively; a covering of laths. |
| lathe | noun (n.) Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent. |
| | noun (n.) A granary; a barn. |
| | noun (n.) A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool. |
| | noun (n.) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten. |
| lather | noun (n.) Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water. |
| | noun (n.) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse. |
| | noun (n.) To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face. |
| | verb (v. i.) To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse. |
| | verb (v. t.) To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog. |
| lathering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lather |
| lathereeve | noun (n.) Alt. of Lathreeve |
| lathreeve | noun (n.) Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe. |
| lathwork | noun (n.) Same as Lathing. |
| lathy | adjective (a.) Like a lath; long and slender. |
| laton | noun (n.) Alt. of Latoun |
| latoun | noun (n.) Latten, 1. |
| latrant | adjective (a.) Barking. |
| latration | noun (n.) A barking. |
| latreutical | adjective (a.) Acting as a hired servant; serving; ministering; assisting. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to latria. |
| 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. |
| latrine | noun (n.) A privy, or water-closet, esp. in a camp, hospital, etc. |
| latrociny | noun (n.) Theft; larceny. |
| latten | noun (n.) A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass. |
| | noun (n.) Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets; as, gold latten. |
| latter | adjective (a.) Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain. |
| | adjective (a.) Of two things, the one mentioned second. |
| | adjective (a.) Recent; modern. |
| | adjective (a.) Last; latest; final. |
| latterkin | noun (n.) A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice. |
| lattermath | noun (n.) The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath. |
| lattice | noun (n.) Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework. |
| | noun (n.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a lattice of; as, to lattice timbers. |
| | verb (v. i.) To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice; as, to lattice a window. |
| latticing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lattice |
| | noun (n.) The act or process of making a lattice of, or of fitting a lattice to. |
| | noun (n.) A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LATÝMER:
English Words which starts with 'lat' and ends with 'mer':
English Words which starts with 'la' and ends with 'er':
| labeler | noun (n.) One who labels. |
| labidometer | noun (n.) A forceps with a measuring attachment for ascertaining the size of the fetal head. |
| labimeter | noun (n.) See Labidometer. |
| laborer | noun (n.) One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan. |
| lacker | noun (n.) One who lacks or is in want. |
| | noun (n. & v.) See Lacquer. |
| lackluster | noun (n.) Alt. of Lacklustre |
| lacquer | noun (n.) A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for varnishing metals, papier-mache, and wood. The name is also given to varnishes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover with lacquer. |
| lacquerer | noun (n.) One who lacquers, especially one who makes a business of lacquering. |
| lactobutyrometer | noun (n.) An instrument for determining the amount of butter fat contained in a given sample of milk. |
| lactodensimeter | noun (n.) A form of hydrometer, specially graduated, for finding the density of milk, and thus discovering whether it has been mixed with water or some of the cream has been removed. |
| lactometer | noun (n.) An instrument for estimating the purity or richness of milk, as a measuring glass, a specific gravity bulb, or other apparatus. |
| laemmergeyer | noun (n.) See Lammergeir. |
| lager | noun (n.) Lager beer. |
| lagger | noun (n.) A laggard. |
| lamenter | noun (n.) One who laments. |
| lammergeier | noun (n.) A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle. |
| lamplighter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps. |
| | noun (n.) The calico bass. |
| lampooner | noun (n.) The writer of a lampoon. |
| lancer | noun (n.) One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations. |
| | noun (n.) A lancet. |
| | noun (n.) A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement. |
| lander | noun (n.) One who lands, or makes a landing. |
| | noun (n.) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore. |
| landholder | noun (n.) A holder, owner, or proprietor of land. |
| landleaper | noun (n.) See Landlouper. |
| landloper | noun (n.) Same as Landlouper. |
| landlouper | noun (n.) A vagabond; a vagrant. |
| landlubber | noun (n.) One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule. |
| landowner | noun (n.) An owner of land. |
| landwaiter | noun (n.) See Landing waiter, under Landing, a. |
| languisher | noun (n.) One who languishes. |
| lanier | noun (n.) A thong of leather; a whip lash. |
| | noun (n.) A strap used to fasten together parts of armor, to hold the shield by, and the like. |
| lanner | noun (n. m.) Alt. of Lanneret |
| lanyer | noun (n.) See Lanier. |
| laplander | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Lapland; -- called also Lapp. |
| lapper | noun (n.) One who takes up food or liquid with his tongue. |
| larcener | noun (n.) Alt. of Larcenist |
| larder | noun (n.) A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked. |
| larderer | noun (n.) One in charge of the larder. |
| larker | noun (n.) A catcher of larks. |
| | noun (n.) One who indulges in a lark or frolic. |
| larmier | noun (n.) See Tearpit. |
| lasher | noun (n.) One who whips or lashes. |
| | noun (n.) A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another; -- called also lashing. |
| | noun (n.) A weir in a river. |
| laster | noun (n.) A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a last. |
| lauder | noun (n.) One who lauds. |
| laugher | noun (n.) One who laughs. |
| | noun (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon. |
| launder | noun (n.) A washerwoman. |
| | noun (n.) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore. |
| | verb (v. i.) To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts. |
| | verb (v. i.) To lave; to wet. |
| launderer | noun (n.) One who follows the business of laundering. |
| lavender | noun (n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts. |
| | noun (n.) The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac. |
| laver | noun (n.) A vessel for washing; a large basin. |
| | noun (n.) A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet. |
| | noun (n.) One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed. |
| | noun (n.) That which washes or cleanses. |
| | noun (n.) One who laves; a washer. |
| | noun (n.) The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan. |
| lavisher | noun (n.) One who lavishes. |
| lavoltateer | noun (n.) A dancer of the lavolta. |
| lawbreaker | noun (n.) One who disobeys the law; a criminal. |
| lawgiver | noun (n.) One who makes or enacts a law or system of laws; a legislator. |
| lawmaker | noun (n.) A legislator; a lawgiver. |
| lawmonger | noun (n.) A trader in law; one who practices law as if it were a trade. |
| lawyer | noun (n.) One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates. |
| | noun (n.) The black-necked stilt. See Stilt. |
| | noun (n.) The bowfin (Amia calva). |
| | noun (n.) The burbot (Lota maculosa). |
| layer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, lays. |
| | noun (n.) That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. |
| | noun (n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation. |
| | noun (n.) An artificial oyster bed. |
| layner | noun (n.) A whiplash. |
| laager | noun (n.) A camp, esp. one with an inclosure of travelers' wagons for temporary defense. |
| | noun (n.) To form into, or camp in, a laager, or protected camp. |
| laker | noun (n.) One that is connected with a lake or lakes, as in habitation, toil, etc.: |
| | noun (n.) One of the poets of the Lake school. See Lake poets, under Lake, n. |
| | noun (n.) A fish living in, or taken from, a lake, esp. the namaycush. |
| | noun (n.) A lake steamer or canal boat. |
