First Names Rhyming LAMA
English Words Rhyming LAMA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LAMA AS A WHOLE:
| acclamation | noun (n.) A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause. |
| | noun (n.) A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy. |
| | noun (n.) In parliamentary usage, the act or method of voting orally and by groups rather than by ballot, esp. in elections; |
| | noun (n.) the election of a pope or other ecclesiastic by unanimous consent of the electors, without a ballot. |
| acclamatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation. |
| blamable | adjective (a.) Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy. |
| calamanco | noun (n.) A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked. |
| calamar | noun (n.) Alt. of Calamary |
| calamary | noun (n.) A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid. |
| clamant | adjective (a.) Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously. |
| clamation | noun (n.) The act of crying out. |
| clamatores | noun (n. pl.) A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing. |
| clamatorial | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the Clamatores. |
| conclamation | noun (n.) An outcry or shout of many together. |
| convallamarin | noun (n.) A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet. |
| declamation | noun (n.) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. |
| | noun (n.) A set or harangue; declamatory discourse. |
| | noun (n.) Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation. |
| declamator | noun (n.) A declaimer. |
| declamatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme. |
| | adjective (a.) Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style. |
| disclamation | noun (n.) A disavowing or disowning. |
| exclamation | noun (n.) A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief. |
| | noun (n.) A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also exclamation point. |
| exclamative | adjective (a.) Exclamatory. |
| exclamatory | adjective (a.) Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker. |
| glama | noun (n.) A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude. |
| inclamation | noun (n.) Exclamation. |
| klamaths | noun (n. pl.) A collective name for the Indians of several tribes formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake; -- called also Clamets and Hamati. |
| lama | noun (n.) See Llama. |
| | noun (n.) In Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism. |
| lamaic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Lamaism. |
| lamaism | noun (n.) A modified form of Buddhism which prevails in Thibet, Mongolia, and some adjacent parts of Asia; -- so called from the name of its priests. See 2d Lama. |
| lamaist | noun (n.) Alt. of Lamaite |
| lamaite | noun (n.) One who believes in Lamaism. |
| lamaistic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Lamaism. |
| lamantin | noun (n.) The manatee. |
| lamarckian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism. |
| lamarckianism | noun (n.) Lamarckism. |
| lamarckism | noun (n.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs. |
| lamasery | noun (n.) A monastery or convent of lamas, in Thibet, Mongolia, etc. |
| llama | noun (n.) A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes. |
| malamate | noun (n.) A salt of malamic acid. |
| monothalama | noun (n. pl.) A division of Foraminifera including those that have only one chamber. |
| monothalaman | noun (n.) A foraminifer having but one chamber. |
| palama | noun (n.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together. |
| proclamation | noun (n.) The act of proclaiming; official or general notice; publication. |
| | noun (n.) That which is proclaimed, publicly announced, or officially declared; a published ordinance; as, the proclamation of a king; a Thanksgiving proclamation. |
| palamate | adjective (a.) Web-footed. |
| reclamation | noun (n.) The act or process of reclaiming. |
| | noun (n.) Representation made in opposition; remonstrance. |
| salamander | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of Urodela, belonging to Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied genera, especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits. |
| | noun (n.) The pouched gopher (Geomys tuza) of the Southern United States. |
| | noun (n.) A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated, and held over pastry, etc., to brown it. |
| | noun (n.) A large poker. |
| | noun (n.) Solidified material in a furnace hearth. |
| salamandrina | noun (n.) A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders. |
| salamandrine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire. |
| salamandroid | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the salamanders. |
| salamandroidea | noun (n. pl.) A division of Amphibia including the Salamanders and allied groups; the Urodela. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LAMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ama) - English Words That Ends with ama:
| aceldama | noun (n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. |
| agama | noun (n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards. |
| amalgama | noun (n.) Same as Amalgam. |
| brama | noun (n.) See Brahma. |
| cariama | noun (n.) A large, long-legged South American bird (Dicholophus cristatus) which preys upon snakes, etc. See Seriema. |
| cosmorama | noun (n.) An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality. |
| cyclorama | noun (n.) A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially. |
| diorama | noun (n.) A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced. |
| | noun (n.) A building used for such an exhibition. |
| drama | noun (n.) A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage. |
| | noun (n.) A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest. |
| | noun (n.) Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature. |
| georama | noun (n.) A hollow globe on the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside. |
| hypermyriorama | noun (n.) A show or exhibition having a great number of scenes or views. |
| kaama | noun (n.) The hartbeest. |
| kama | noun (n.) The Hindoo Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers. |
| | noun (n.) Desire; animal passion; |
| kokama | noun (n.) The gemsbok. |
| lecama | noun (n.) The hartbeest. |
| marinorama | noun (n.) A representation of a sea view. |
| mazama | noun (n.) Alt. of Mazame |
| melodrama | noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio". |
| monodrama | noun (n.) Alt. of Monodrame |
| myriorama | noun (n.) A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate pieces in such a manner as to admit of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes. |
| neorama | noun (n.) A panorama of the interior of a building, seen from within. |
| panorama | noun (n.) A complete view in every direction. |
| | noun (n.) A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point. |
| | noun (n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator. |
| panstereorama | noun (n.) A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like. |
| polyorama | noun (n.) A view of many objects; also, a sort of panorama with dissolving views. |
| pyjama | noun (n.) In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs. |
| shama | noun (n.) A saxicoline singing bird (Kittacincla macroura) of India, noted for the sweetness and power of its song. In confinement it imitates the notes of other birds and various animals with accuracy. Its head, neck, back, breast, and tail are glossy black, the rump white, the under parts chestnut. |
| squama | noun (n.) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium. |
| trama | noun (n.) The loosely woven substance which lines the chambers within the gleba in certain Gasteromycetes. |
| yama | noun (n.) The king of the infernal regions, corresponding to the Greek Pluto, and also the judge of departed souls. In later times he is more exclusively considered the dire judge of all, and the tormentor of the wicked. He is represented as of a green color, with red garments, having a crown on his head, his eyes inflamed, and sitting on a buffalo, with a club and noose in his hands. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LAMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (lam) - Words That Begins with lam:
| lamming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lam |
| lamb | noun (n.) The young of the sheep. |
| | noun (n.) Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb. |
| | noun (n.) A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized. |
| | verb (v. i.) To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep. |
| lambing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lamb |
| lambale | noun (n.) A feast at the time of shearing lambs. |
| lambative | noun (n.) A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture. |
| | adjective (a.) Taken by licking with the tongue. |
| lambda | noun (n.) The name of the Greek letter /, /, corresponding with the English letter L, l. |
| | noun (n.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull. |
| lambdacism | noun (n.) A fault in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously. |
| | noun (n.) A defect in pronunciation of the letter l when doubled, which consists in giving it a sound as if followed by y, similar to that of the letters lli in billion. |
| | noun (n.) The use of the sound of l for that of r in pronunciation; lallation; as, Amelican for American. |
| lambdoid | adjective (a.) Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (/); as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull. |
| lambdoidal | adjective (a.) Same as Lambdoid. |
| lambent | adjective (a.) Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. |
| | adjective (a.) Twinkling or gleaming; fickering. |
| lambkin | noun (n.) A small lamb. |
| lamblike | adjective (a.) Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive. |
| lamboys | noun (n. pl.) Same as Base, n., 19. |
| lambrequin | noun (n.) A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat. |
| | noun (n.) A leather flap hanging from a cuirass. |
| | noun (n.) A piece of ornament drapery or short decorative hanging, pendent from a shelf or from the casing above a window, hiding the curtain fixtures, or the like. |
| lambskin | noun (n.) The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of woolen. |
| lambskinnet | noun (n.) See Lansquenet. |
| lamdoidal | adjective (a.) Lambdoid. |
| laming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lame |
| lamel | noun (n.) See Lamella. |
| lamella | noun (n.) a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed. |
| lamellar | adjective (a.) Flat and thin; lamelliform; composed of lamellae. |
| lamellary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to lamella or to lamellae; lamellar. |
| lamellate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lamellated |
| lamellated | adjective (a.) Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennae. |
| lamellibranch | noun (n.) One of the Lamellibranchia. Also used adjectively. |
| lamellibranchia | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Lamellibranchiata |
| lamellibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc. |
| lamellibranchiate | noun (n.) One of the Lamellibranchia. |
| | adjective (a.) Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. |
| lamellicorn | noun (n.) A lamellicorn insect. |
| | adjective (a.) Having antennae terminating in a group of flat lamellae; -- said of certain coleopterous insects. |
| | adjective (a.) Terminating in a group of flat lamellae; -- said of antennae. |
| lamellicornia | noun (n. pl.) A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes. |
| lamelliferous | adjective (a.) Bearing, or composed of, lamellae, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated. |
| lamelliform | adjective (a.) Thin and flat; scalelike; lamellar. |
| lamellirostral | adjective (a.) Having a lamellate bill, as ducks and geese. |
| lamellirostres | noun (n. pl.) A group of birds embracing the Anseres and flamingoes, in which the bill is lamellate. |
| lamellose | adjective (a.) Composed of, or having, lamellae; lamelliform. |
| lameness | noun (n.) The condition or quality of being lame; as, the lameness of an excuse or an argument. |
| lamenting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lament |
| | noun (n.) Lamentation. |
| lamentable | adjective (a.) Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. |
| | adjective (a.) Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. |
| | adjective (a.) Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense. |
| lamentation | noun (n.) The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. |
| | noun (n.) A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents. |
| lamented | adjective (a.) Mourned for; bewailed. |
| | (imp. & p. p.) of Lament |
| lamenter | noun (n.) One who laments. |
| lamentin | noun (n.) See Lamantin. |
| lames | noun (n. pl.) Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor. |
| lametta | noun (n.) Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass. |
| lamia | noun (n.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch. |
| lamina | noun (n.) A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals. |
| | noun (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower. |
| | noun (n.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather. |
| laminability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being laminable. |
| laminable | adjective (a.) Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip. |
| laminar | adjective (a.) Alt. of Laminal |
| laminal | adjective (a.) In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LAMA:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'a':
| labia | noun (n. pl.) See Labium. |
| | (pl. ) of Labium |
| labyrinthodonta | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala. |
| lacerta | noun (n.) A fathom. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of lizards. See Lizard. |
| | noun (n.) The Lizard, a northern constellation. |
| lacertilia | noun (n. pl.) An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards. |
| lacinia | noun (n.) One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers. |
| | noun (n.) A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf. |
| | noun (n.) The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillae of insects. |
| lacinula | noun (n.) A diminutive lacinia. |
| lactuca | noun (n.) A genus of composite herbs, several of which are cultivated foe salad; lettuce. |
| lacuna | noun (n.) A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus. |
| | noun (n.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane. |
| laemodipoda | noun (n. pl.) A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples. |
| lagena | noun (n.) The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians. |
| lagemorpha | noun (n. pl.) A group of rodents, including the hares. They have four incisors in the upper jaw. Called also Duplicidentata. |
| lagophthalmia | noun (n.) Alt. of Lagophthalmos |
| laminaria | noun (n.) A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp. |
| lamnunguia | noun (n. pl.) Same as Hyracoidea. |
| langaha | noun (n.) A curious colubriform snake of the genus Xyphorhynchus, from Madagascar. It is brownish red, and its nose is prolonged in the form of a sharp blade. |
| langya | noun (n.) One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life; -- called also walking fishes. |
| larva | noun (n.) Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvae of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage. In other groups of insects the larvae are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape. |
| larvalia | noun (n. pl.) An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See Appendicularia. |
| latakia | noun (n.) A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea. |
| latria | noun (n.) The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints. |
| laura | noun (n.) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior. |
| lava | noun (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States. |
| lavolta | noun (n.) An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound. |
| lawsonia | noun (n.) An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis), with smooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is prepared from the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptian privet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette. |
| lea | noun (n.) A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay. |
| | noun (n.) A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle. |
| | noun (n.) A meadow or sward land; a grassy field. |
| lectica | noun (n.) A kind of litter or portable couch. |
| legatura | noun (n.) A tie or brace; a syncopation. |
| leipoa | noun (n.) A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant. |
| lemma | noun (n.) A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic. |
| lemniscata | noun (n.) Alt. of Lemniscate |
| lemuria | noun (n.) A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant. |
| lemuroidea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of primates, including the lemurs, the aye-aye, and allied species. |
| lena | noun (n.) A procuress. |
| lenticula | noun (n.) A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle. |
| | noun (n.) A lens of small size. |
| | noun (n.) A lenticel. |
| lepidoptera | noun (n. pl.) An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored. |
| lepidosauria | noun (n. pl.) A division of reptiles, including the serpents and lizards; the Plagiotremata. |
| lepisma | noun (n.) A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug. |
| leptocardia | noun (n. pl.) The lowest class of Vertebrata, including only the Amphioxus. The heart is represented only by a simple pulsating vessel. The blood is colorless; the brain, renal organs, and limbs are wanting, and the backbone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus. |
| leptostraca | noun (n. pl.) An order of Crustacea, including Nebalia and allied forms. |
| lernaea | noun (n.) A Linnaean genus of parasitic Entomostraca, -- the same as the family Lernaeidae. |
| lernaeacea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young, however, are active and swim freely. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| leuchaemia | noun (n.) See Leucocythaemia. |
| leucocythaemia | noun (n.) Alt. of Leucocythemia |
| leucocythemia | noun (n.) A disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchaemia. |
| leucoma | noun (n.) A white opacity in the cornea of the eye; -- called also albugo. |
| leucorrhoea | noun (n.) A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. |
| leukaemia | noun (n.) Leucocythaemia. |
| levana | noun (n.) A goddess who protected newborn infants. |
| liana | noun (n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region. |
| li bella | noun (n.) A small balance. |
| | noun (n.) A level, or leveling instrument. |
| libra | noun (n.) The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus / in almanacs, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A southern constellation between Virgo and Scorpio. |
| ligula | noun (n.) See Ligule. |
| | noun (n.) The central process, or front edge, of the labium of insects. It sometimes serves as a tongue or proboscis, as in bees. |
| | noun (n.) A tongue-shaped lobe of the parapodia of annelids. See Parapodium. |
| lima | noun (n.) The capital city of Peru, in South America. |
| limacina | noun (n.) A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales. |
| lim naea | noun (n.) A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail. |
| limuloidea | noun (n. pl.) An order of Merostomata, including among living animals the genus Limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of the Carboniferous period. Called also Xiphosura. |
| lindia | noun (n.) A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoologists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda. |
| linga | noun (n.) Alt. of Lingam |
| lingua | noun (n.) A tongue. |
| | noun (n.) A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue. |
| linguatulida | noun (n. pl.) Same as Linguatulina. |
| linguatulina | noun (n. pl.) An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida. |
| lingula | noun (n.) A tonguelike process or part. |
| | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of brachiopod shells belonging to the genus Lingula, and related genera. See Brachiopoda, and Illustration in Appendix. |
| lipaemia | noun (n.) A condition in which fat occurs in the blood. |
| lipocephala | noun (n. pl.) Same as Lamellibranchia. |
| lipoma | noun (n.) A tumor consisting of fat or adipose tissue. |
| lira | noun (n.) An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc. |
| lirella | noun (n.) A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens. |
| lissencephala | noun (n. pl.) A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc. |
| lithaemia | noun (n.) A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood. |
| lithia | noun (n.) The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium. |
| littorina | noun (n.) A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle. |
| liza | noun (n.) The American white mullet (Mugil curema). |
| lobelia | noun (n.) A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers. |
| lobosa | noun (n. pl.) An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba. |
| lochia | noun (n. pl.) The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth. |
| locusta | noun (n.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. |
| locustella | noun (n.) The European cricket warbler. |
| loggia | noun (n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room. |
| loma | noun (n.) A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap. |
| longicornia | noun (n. pl.) A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust. |
| lophopoda | noun (n. pl.) Same as Phylactolemata. |
| lorcha | noun (n.) A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk. |
| lorica | noun (n.) A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like. |
| | noun (n.) Lute for protecting vessels from the fire. |
| | noun (n.) The protective case or shell of an infusorian or rotifer. |
| loricata | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos. |
| | noun (n. pl.) The crocodilia. |
| lucernaria | noun (n.) A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel. |
| lucernarida | noun (n. pl.) A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; -- called also Calycozoa. |
| | noun (n. pl.) A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora. |
| lucuma | noun (n.) An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits. |
| lumachella | noun (n.) A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections. |
| luna | noun (n.) The moon. |
| | noun (n.) Silver. |
| lunula | noun (n.) Same as Lunule. |
| lupercalia | noun (n. pl.) A feast of the Romans in honor of Lupercus, or Pan. |
| lycanthropia | noun (n.) See Lycanthropy, 2. |
| lyencephala | noun (n. pl.) A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; -- so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary. |
| lymphadenoma | noun (n.) See Lymphoma. |
| lymphoma | noun (n.) A tumor having a structure resembling that of a lymphatic gland; -- called also lymphadenoma. |
| lyopomata | noun (n. pl.) An order of brachiopods, in which the valves of shell are not articulated by a hinge. It includes the Lingula, Discina, and allied forms. |
| lyra | noun (n.) A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyrae, or Vega. |
| | noun (n.) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain. |
| lyssa | noun (n.) Hydrophobia. |
| lytta | noun (n.) A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog. |
