Name Report For First Name LACY:
LACY
First name LACY's origin is English. LACY means "derived from lacey which is a french nobleman's surname brought to british isles after norman conquest". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LACY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of lacy.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with LACY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with LACY - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming LACY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LACY AS A WHOLE:
lacyannNAMES RHYMING WITH LACY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (acy) - Names That Ends with acy:
kacy macy tacy tracy ignacy jacy stacy treacy dacyRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (cy) - Names That Ends with cy:
percy darcy kelcy lucy nancy clancy quincy yancy mercy aldercy chauncy delancyNAMES RHYMING WITH LACY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (lac) - Names That Begins with lac:
lace lacee lacene lacey lach lache lachesis lachie lachlan lachlann laci laciann lacie lacina laco lacramioaraRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (la) - Names That Begins with la:
labaan laban labeeb labhaoise labhruinn labib labid labreshia lad lada ladbroc ladd ladde ladislav ladon 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 LACY:
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'y':
landrey landry laney langley lanny lany larry lavy lawley lawly lay leary leeroy leilany lenny leroy lesley levey lewy lexy ley libby liberty lilly lily lindley lindly lindsay lindsey lindy linley linly linsay linsey lomsky lomy lucky lundy lyndsay lyndsey lynley lynsey lynzeyEnglish Words Rhyming LACY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LACY AS A WHOLE:
| depopulacy | noun (n.) Depopulation; destruction of population. |
| disconsolacy | noun (n.) The state of being disconsolate. |
| fallacy | noun (n.) Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception. |
| noun (n.) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism. |
| inviolacy | noun (n.) The state or quality of being inviolate; as, the inviolacy of an oath. |
| populacy | noun (n.) Populace. |
| prelacy | noun (n.) The office or dignity of a prelate; church government by prelates. |
| noun (n.) The order of prelates, taken collectively; the body of ecclesiastical dignitaries. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LACY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (acy) - English Words That Ends with acy:
| abbacy | noun (n.) The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot. |
| accuracy | noun (n.) The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. |
| acritochromacy | noun (n.) Color blindness; achromatopsy. |
| adequacy | noun (n.) The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure. |
| advocacy | noun (n.) The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession. |
| alternacy | noun (n.) Alternateness; alternation. |
| archiepiscopacy | noun (n.) That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops. |
| noun (n.) The state or dignity of an archbishop. |
| aristocracy | noun (n.) Government by the best citizens. |
| noun (n.) A ruling body composed of the best citizens. | |
| noun (n.) A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy. | |
| noun (n.) The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect. |
| autocracy | noun (n.) Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. |
| noun (n.) Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat. | |
| noun (n.) Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy. | |
| noun (n.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. |
| bureaucracy | noun (n.) A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system. |
| noun (n.) Government officials, collectively. |
| candidacy | noun (n.) The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship. |
| celibacy | noun (n.) The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry. |
| coefficacy | noun (n.) Joint efficacy. |
| complicacy | noun (n.) A state of being complicate or intricate. |
| concubinacy | noun (n.) The practice of concubinage. |
| confederacy | noun (n.) A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance. |
| noun (n.) The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation. | |
| noun (n.) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy. | |
| noun (n.) With the, the Confederate States of America. |
| congeneracy | noun (n.) Similarity of origin; affinity. |
| conspiracy | noun (n.) A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot. |
| noun (n.) A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement. | |
| noun (n.) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy. |
| contumacy | noun (n.) Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority. |
| noun (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned. |
| curacy | noun (n.) The office or employment of a curate. |
| degeneracy | adjective (a.) The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. |
| adjective (a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. |
| delegacy | adjective (a.) The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power. |
| adjective (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation. |
| delicacy | adjective (a.) The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. |
| adjective (a.) Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame. | |
| adjective (a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action. | |
| adjective (a.) Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment. | |
| adjective (a.) Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy. | |
| adjective (a.) The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance. | |
| adjective (a.) That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table. | |
| adjective (a.) Pleasure; gratification; delight. |
| deliracy | noun (n.) Delirium. |
| democracy | noun (n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people. |
| noun (n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic. | |
| noun (n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government. | |
| noun (n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called. |
| demonocracy | noun (n.) The power or government of demons. |
| determinacy | noun (n.) Determinateness. |
| diplomacy | noun (n.) The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed. |
| noun (n.) Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact. | |
| noun (n.) The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body. |
| docimacy | noun (n.) The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of facts pertaining to physiology. |
| doulocracy | noun (n.) A government by slaves. |
| dulocracy | noun (n.) See Doulocracy. |
| effeminacy | noun (n.) Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men. |
| efficacy | noun (n.) Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer. |
| episcopacy | noun (n.) Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind. |
| equivocacy | noun (n.) Equivocalness. |
| extacy | noun (n.) See Ecstasy. |
| fermacy | noun (n.) Medicine; pharmacy. |
| fugacy | noun (n.) Banishment. |
| gerontocracy | noun (n.) Government by old men. |
| gunocracy | noun (n.) See Gyneocracy. |
| gynecocracy | noun (n.) Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy. |
| gyneocracy | noun (n.) See Gynecocracy. |
| gynocracy | noun (n.) Female government; gynecocracy. |
| hagiocracy | noun (n.) Government by a priesthood; hierarchy. |
| hierocracy | noun (n.) Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy. |
| idiocracy | noun (n.) Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy. |
| illegitimacy | noun (n.) The state of being illegitimate. |
| illiteracy | noun (n.) The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census. |
| noun (n.) An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder. |
| immediacy | noun (n.) The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness. |
| immoderacy | noun (n.) Immoderateness. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LACY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (lac) - Words That Begins with lac:
| lac | noun (n.) Alt. of Lakh |
| noun (n.) A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance. |
| laccic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to lac, or produced from it; as, laccic acid. |
| laccin | noun (n.) A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac. |
| laccolite | noun (n.) Alt. of Laccolith |
| laccolith | noun (n.) A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata. |
| lace | noun (n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. |
| noun (n.) A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. | |
| noun (n.) A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress. | |
| noun (n.) Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces. | |
| verb (v. t.) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver. | |
| verb (v. t.) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. | |
| verb (v. t.) To add spirits to (a beverage). | |
| verb (v. i.) To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace. | |
| verb (v. t.) To twine or draw as a lace; to interlace; to intertwine. |
| lacing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lace |
| noun (n.) The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces. | |
| noun (n.) A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts. | |
| noun (n.) A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut. |
| 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 |
| lacedaemonian | noun (n.) A Spartan. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Lacedaemon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus. |
| laceman | noun (n.) A man who deals in lace. |
| lacerable | adjective (a.) That can be lacerated or torn. |
| lacerating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lacerate |
| lacerate | adjective (p. a.) Alt. of Lacerated |
| verb (v. t.) To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart. |
| 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 |
| laceration | noun (n.) The act of lacerating. |
| noun (n.) A breach or wound made by lacerating. |
| lacerative | adjective (a.) Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors. |
| lacert | noun (n.) A muscle of the human body. |
| lacerta | noun (n.) A fathom. |
| noun (n.) A genus of lizards. See Lizard. | |
| noun (n.) The Lizard, a northern constellation. |
| lacertian | noun (n.) One of the Lacertilia. |
| adjective (a.) Like a lizard; of or pertaining to the Lacertilia. |
| lacertilia | noun (n. pl.) An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards. |
| lacertilian | noun (a. & n.) Same as Lacertian. |
| lacertiloid | adjective (a.) Like or belonging to the Lacertilia. |
| lacertine | adjective (a.) Lacertian. |
| lacertus | noun (n.) A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibers. |
| lacewing | noun (n.) Any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus Chrysopa and allied genera. They have delicate, lacelike wings and brilliant eyes. Their larvae are useful in destroying aphids. Called also lace-winged fly, and goldeneyed fly. |
| laches | noun (n.) Alt. of Lache |
| lache | noun (n.) Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; delay to assert a claim. |
| lachrymable | adjective (a.) Lamentable. |
| lachrymal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the lachrymal gland. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the lachrymal organs; as, lachrymal bone; lachrymal duct. |
| lacrymal | noun (n.) Alt. of Lacrymal |
| noun (n.) See Lachrymatory. | |
| noun (n. & a.) See Lachrymatory, n., and Lachrymal, a. |
| lachrymary | adjective (a.) Containing, or intended to contain, tears; lachrymal. |
| lachrymation | noun (n.) The act of shedding tears; weeping. |
| lachrymatory | noun (n.) A "tear-bottle;" a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal. |
| lachrymiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a tear; tear-shaped. |
| lachrymose | adjective (a.) Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful. |
| 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. |
| laciniate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Laciniated |
| laciniated | adjective (a.) Fringed; having a fringed border. |
| adjective (a.) Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed. |
| laciniolate | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniae. |
| lacinula | noun (n.) A diminutive lacinia. |
| lack | noun (n.) Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. |
| noun (n.) Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. | |
| verb (v. t.) To blame; to find fault with. | |
| verb (v. t.) To be without or destitute of; to want; to need. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be in want. | |
| (interj.) Exclamation of regret or surprise. |
| lacking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lack |
| lackadaisical | adjective (a.) Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental. |
| lackadaisy | adjective (a.) Lackadaisical. |
| (interj.) An expression of languor. |
| lackbrain | noun (n.) One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. |
| lacker | noun (n.) One who lacks or is in want. |
| noun (n. & v.) See Lacquer. |
| lackeying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lackey |
| lackluster | noun (n.) Alt. of Lacklustre |
| lacklustre | noun (n.) A want of luster. |
| adjective (a.) Wanting luster or brightness. |
| lacmus | noun (n.) See Litmus. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LACY:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'y':
| lability | noun (n.) Liability to lapse, err, or apostatize. |
| laboratory | noun (n.) The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile. |
| lactary | noun (n.) a dairyhouse. |
| adjective (a.) Milky; full of white juice like milk. |
| lactory | adjective (a.) Lactiferous. |
| 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. |
| laevorotatory | adjective (a.) Same as Levorotatory. Cf. Dextrorotatory. |
| laicality | noun (n.) The state or quality of being laic; the state or condition of a layman. |
| laidly | adjective (a.) Ugly; loathsome. |
| laity | adjective (a.) The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders. |
| adjective (a.) The state of a layman. | |
| adjective (a.) Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it. |
| laky | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a lake. |
| adjective (a.) Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles. |
| lamasery | noun (n.) A monastery or convent of lamas, in Thibet, Mongolia, etc. |
| lamellary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to lamella or to lamellae; lamellar. |
| laminability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being laminable. |
| laminary | adjective (a.) Laminar. |
| lampoonry | noun (n.) The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons. |
| lamprey | noun (n.) An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side. |
| lanary | noun (n.) A place for storing wool. |
| lancegay | noun (n.) Alt. of Lancegaye |
| lancely | adjective (a.) Like a lance. |
| landlady | noun (n.) A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants. |
| noun (n.) The mistress of an inn or lodging house. |
| landlordry | noun (n.) The state of a landlord. |
| langarey | noun (n.) One of numerous species of long-winged, shrikelike birds of Australia and the East Indies, of the genus Artamus, and allied genera; called also wood swallow. |
| laniary | adjective (a.) Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth. |
| adjective (a.) The shambles; a place of slaughter. | |
| adjective (a.) A laniary, or canine, tooth. |
| lanky | adjective (a.) Somewhat lank. |
| laparotomy | noun (n.) A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Caesarean section. |
| lapidary | noun (n.) An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones. |
| noun (n.) A virtuoso skilled in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the art of cutting stones, or engraving on stones, either gems or monuments; as, lapidary ornamentation. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to monumental inscriptions; as, lapidary adulation. |
| laguay | noun (n.) A lackey. |
| laqueary | adjective (a.) Using a noose, as a gladiator. |
| larceny | noun (n.) The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement. |
| lardery | noun (n.) A larder. |
| lardry | noun (n.) A larder. |
| lardy | adjective (a.) Containing, or resembling, lard; of the character or consistency of lard. |
| larry | noun (n.) Same as Lorry, or Lorrie. |
| lary | noun (n.) A guillemot; -- called also lavy. |
| laryngology | noun (n.) Systematized knowledge of the action and functions of the larynx; in pathology, the department which treats of the diseases of the larynx. |
| laryngophony | noun (n.) The sound of the voice as heard through a stethoscope when the latter is placed upon the larynx. |
| laryngoscopy | noun (n.) The art of using the laryngoscope; investigations made with the laryngoscope. |
| laryngotomy | noun (n.) The operation of cutting into the larynx, from the outside of the neck, for assisting respiration when obstructed, or for removing foreign bodies. |
| laryngotracheotomy | noun (n.) The operation of cutting into the larynx and the upper part of the trachea, -- a frequent operation for obstruction to breathing. |
| lasciviency | noun (n.) Lasciviousness; wantonness. |
| lastery | noun (n.) A red color. |
| latchkey | noun (n.) A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch. |
| latency | noun (n.) The state or quality of being latent. |
| laterality | noun (n.) The state or condition of being lateral. |
| lathy | adjective (a.) Like a lath; long and slender. |
| latinity | noun (n.) The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. |
| latitancy | noun (n.) Act or state of lying hid, or lurking. |
| latrociny | noun (n.) Theft; larceny. |
| laudability | noun (n.) Laudableness; praiseworthiness. |
| laudatory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise; as, laudatory verses; the laudatory powers of Dryden. |
| laughworthy | adjective (a.) Deserving to be laughed at. |
| laundry | noun (n.) A laundering; a washing. |
| noun (n.) A place or room where laundering is done. |
| lavatory | noun (n.) A place for washing. |
| noun (n.) A basin or other vessel for washing in. | |
| noun (n.) A wash or lotion for a diseased part. | |
| noun (n.) A place where gold is obtained by washing. | |
| adjective (a.) Washing, or cleansing by washing. |
| lawny | adjective (a.) Having a lawn; characterized by a lawn or by lawns; like a lawn. |
| adjective (a.) Made of lawn or fine linen. |
| lawyerly | adjective (a.) Like, or becoming, a lawyer; as, lawyerlike sagacity. |
| laxity | adjective (a.) The state or quality of being lax; want of tenseness, strictness, or exactness. |
| lay | noun (n.) The laity; the common people. |
| noun (n.) A meadow. See Lea. | |
| noun (n.) Faith; creed; religious profession. | |
| noun (n.) A law. | |
| noun (n.) An obligation; a vow. | |
| noun (n.) That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother. | |
| adjective (a.) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant. | |
| adjective (a.) Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease. | |
| adjective (a.) A song; a simple lyrical poem; a ballad. | |
| adjective (a.) A melody; any musical utterance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table. | |
| verb (v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan. | |
| verb (v. t.) To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to lie dead or dying. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs. | |
| verb (v. t.) To apply; to put. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impute; to charge; to allege. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one. | |
| verb (v. t.) To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one. | |
| verb (v. t.) To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue. | |
| verb (v. t.) To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place (new type) properly in the cases. | |
| verb (v. i.) To produce and deposit eggs. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft. | |
| verb (v. i.) To lay a wager; to bet. | |
| verb (v. t.) A wager. | |
| verb (v. t.) A job, price, or profit. | |
| verb (v. t.) A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay. | |
| verb (v. t.) A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a). | |
| verb (v. t.) The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3. | |
| verb (v. t.) A plan; a scheme. | |
| (imp.) of Lie, to recline. | |
| (imp.) of Lie |
| lazarly | adjective (a.) Full of sores; leprous. |
| leachy | adjective (a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like. |
| leady | adjective (a.) Resembling lead. |
| leany | adjective (a.) Lean. |
| leasy | adjective (a.) Flimsy; vague; deceptive. |
| leathery | adjective (a.) Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. |
| leavy | adjective (a.) Leafy. |
| lecanomancy | noun (n.) divination practiced with water in a basin, by throwing three stones into it, and invoking the demon whose aid was sought. |
| lechery | noun (n.) Free indulgence of lust; lewdness. |
| noun (n.) Selfish pleasure; delight. |
| lectionary | noun (n.) A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service. |
| ledgy | adjective (a.) Abounding in ledges; consisting of a ledge or reef; as, a ledgy island. |
| leeway | noun (n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift. |
| legacy | noun (n.) A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease. |
| noun (n.) A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like. |
| legality | noun (n.) The state or quality of being legal; conformity to law. |
| noun (n.) A conformity to, and resting upon, the letter of the law. |
| legatary | noun (n.) A legatee. |
| legendary | noun (n.) A book of legends; a tale or narrative. |
| noun (n.) One who relates legends. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous. |
| legerity | noun (n.) Lightness; nimbleness. |
| leggy | adjective (a.) Having long legs. |
| legibility | noun (n.) The quality of being legible; legibleness. |
| legionary | noun (n.) A member of a legion. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to a legion; consisting of a legion or legions, or of an indefinitely great number; as, legionary soldiers; a legionary force. |
| legionry | noun (n.) A body of legions; legions, collectively. |
| legitimacy | adjective (a.) The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock. |
| leisurely | adjective (a.) Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk. |
| adverb (adv.) In a leisurely manner. |
| leniency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency. |
| lenity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor. |
| l'envoy | noun (n.) One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry. |
| noun (n.) A conclusion; a result. |
| leprosity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being leprous or scaly; also, a scale. |
| leprosy | noun (n.) A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious. |
| lepry | noun (n.) Leprosy. |
| leptology | noun (n.) A minute and tedious discourse on trifling things. |
| letchy | adjective (a.) See Leachy. |
| lethality | noun (n.) The quality of being lethal; mortality. |
| lethargy | noun (n.) Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked. |
| noun (n.) A state of inaction or indifference. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lethargize. |
| lethy | adjective (a.) Lethean. |
| letuary | noun (n.) Electuary. |
| leucopathy | noun (n.) The state of an albino, or of a white child of black parents. |
| leucophlegmacy | noun (n.) A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats. |
| levity | noun (n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity. |
| noun (n.) Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity. | |
| noun (n.) Lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility. |
| levorotatory | adjective (a.) Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc. |
| levy | noun (n.) A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d. |
| noun (n.) The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc. | |
| noun (n.) That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise, as a siege. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions. | |
| verb (v. t.) To gather or exact; as, to levy money. | |
| verb (v. t.) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution. | |
| verb (v. i.) To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods. |
| lexicography | noun (n.) The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries. |
| lexicology | noun (n.) The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words. |
| lexigraphy | noun (n.) The art or practice of defining words; definition of words. |
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