Name Report For First Name LON:
LON
First name LON's origin is Gaelic. LON means "fierce". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of lon.(Brown names are of the same origin (Gaelic) with LON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with LON - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming LON
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LON AS A WHOLE:
abellona ilona kalonice solon alonza nijlon accalon ganelon xylon lono tlazohtlaloni allona allonia alona alondra alonna alonnia alonsa apollonia avilon caylona cendrillon ellone fallon falon halona kyloni leiloni loni lonna lonnie lonyn wilona wilone yolonda alonso alonzo anlon braylon cadwallon camelon dallon dalon daylon devlon dillon dylon hanlon harlon jolon lonato lonzo malone maloney marlon nealon scanlon shaylon tallon taylon waylon zebulon apoloniusz lonn kaloni xylona solona solonie lona avalon talon cavalon alon blondell blondelle blondene lonell lonnell orlondo madelonNAMES RHYMING WITH LON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (on) - Names That Ends with on:
afton carnation aedon strephon sidon cihuaton sokanon odion sion dudon hebron pendragon antton erromon gotzon txanton zorion celyddon eburacon mabon bendision alston alton benton burton carelton fenton hamilton harrison histion kenton pierson preston ralston rawson remington rexton sexton stanton weston aymon vernon glendon anton acheron acteon aeson agamemnon alcmaeon amphion amphitryon andraemon arion bellerophon biton cadmon cenon cercyon charon chiron corydon creon daemon demogorgon demophon deucalion echion endymion erysichthon euryton geryon haemon hyperion iasion iason ion ixion jason kedalion korudon ladon laocoon laomedon lycaon machaon myron ophion palaemon panteleimon phaethon phaon philemon phlegethon poseidon pygmalion sarpedon sinon spyridon telamon tritonNAMES RHYMING WITH LON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (lo) - Names That Begins with lo:
loc lochlain lochlann locke locklyn lockwood locrine lodema lodima lodyma loe loefel logan logen logestilla loghan logistilla lohengrin lohoot loiyan lojza lokelani lokni lola lola-jo loleta lolita lolitta lomahongva loman lomasi lomsky lomy lootah lora lorah loraina loraine loralee loralei loran lorance loranna lorant lorayne lorcan lorda lore loredana loreen loreene lorelai lorelei lorelie loren lorena lorence lorencz lorene lorenia lorenna lorenz lorenza lorenzo loreta loretta lorette lori loria lorian loriana loriann lorianne loriel lorilee lorilynn lorimar lorimer lorin lorinda lorineus loring loris lorita loritz lorna lorne lornell lorraina lorraine lorren lorrin lorrina loryn lot lothair lothar lotharing lotte lotusNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LON:
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'n':
labaan laban labhruinn lachlan lachlann laciann lacyann laefertun lahthan lailoken lairgnen laken lamaan lamarion lan lancdon lancelin landen landon langdon langston lanston laochailan laodegan laren larson laryn laughlin lauralyn laureen laurelynn lauren laurian lauryn lavan lavern lawson lawton layden layken layton leachlainn leaman lean leanian leann leannan leathan leeann leigh-ann leighton leman len lenn lennon leodegan leon leron leverton lexann leyman lidmann lien lifton lilian lillian lin lincoln linddun linden linn linton lintun lion lishan litton livingston lizann llewelyn louden louellen loughlin lucan lucian lucien lufian lukman lun lunden lunn luqman lurleen luxman lyman lyn lyndon lynnEnglish Words Rhyming LON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LON AS A WHOLE:
| abalone | noun (n.) A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks. |
| abelonian | noun (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel. |
| abutilon | noun (n.) A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow. |
| alalonga | noun (n.) Alt. of Alilonghi |
| alilonghi | noun (n.) The tunny. See Albicore. |
| allhallond | noun (n.) Allhallows. |
| allonym | noun (n.) The name of another person assumed by the author of a work. |
| noun (n.) A work published under the name of some one other than the author. |
| allonymous | adjective (a.) Published under the name of some one other than the author. |
| alone | adjective (a.) Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. |
| adjective (a.) Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. | |
| adjective (a.) Sole; only; exclusive. | |
| adjective (a.) Hence; Unique; rare; matchless. | |
| adverb (adv.) Solely; simply; exclusively. |
| alonely | adjective (a.) Exclusive. |
| adverb (adv.) Only; merely; singly. |
| aloneness | noun (n.) A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. |
| alongshoreman | noun (n.) See Longshoreman. |
| anticyclone | noun (n.) A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone. |
| apollonian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Apollonic |
| apollonic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Apollo. |
| aquilon | noun (n.) The north wind. |
| babylonian | noun (n.) An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean. |
| noun (n.) An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean. |
| babylonic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Babylonical |
| babylonical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as, Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings. |
| adjective (a.) Tumultuous; disorderly. |
| babylonish | noun (n.) Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia. |
| noun (n.) Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8. | |
| noun (n.) Pertaining to Rome and papal power. | |
| noun (n.) Confused; Babel-like. |
| bellon | noun (n.) Lead colic. |
| bellona | noun (n.) The goddess of war. |
| belonging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belong |
| noun (n.) That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. | |
| noun (n.) That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. | |
| noun (n.) Family; relations; household. |
| belonite | noun (n.) Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks. |
| billon | noun (n.) An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage. |
| bloncket | adjective (a.) Alt. of Blonket |
| blonket | adjective (a.) Gray; bluish gray. |
| blonde | noun (n.) A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes. |
| noun (n.) A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace. | |
| verb (v. t.) Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion. |
| blondness | noun (n.) The state of being blond. |
| bouillon | noun (n.) A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth. |
| noun (n.) An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog. |
| bullon | noun (n.) A West Indian fish (Scarus Croicensis). |
| barocyclonometer | noun (n.) An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles. |
| cacholong | noun (n.) An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal. |
| carillon | noun (n.) A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys. |
| noun (n.) A tune adapted to be played by musical bells. |
| cephalon | noun (n.) The head. |
| ceylonese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Ceylon. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Ceylon. |
| chalon | noun (n.) A bed blanket. |
| chelone | noun (n.) A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceae, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc. |
| chelonia | noun (n. pl.) An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix. |
| chelonian | noun (n.) One of the Chelonia. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind. |
| clonic | adjective (a.) Having an irregular, convulsive motion. |
| coilon | noun (n.) A testicle. |
| colon | noun (n.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.] |
| noun (n.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction. |
| colonel | noun (n.) The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general. |
| colonelcy | noun (n.) The office, rank, or commission of a colonel. |
| colonelship | noun (n.) Colonelcy. |
| coloner | noun (n.) A colonist. |
| colonial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars. |
| colonical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to husbandmen. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (on) - English Words That Ends with on:
| abacination | noun (n.) The act of abacinating. |
| abaction | noun (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale. |
| abaddon | noun (n.) The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus. |
| noun (n.) Hell; the bottomless pit. |
| abalienation | noun (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. |
| abandon | noun (n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease. |
| verb (v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. | |
| verb (v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense. | |
| verb (v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. | |
| verb (v.) Abandonment; relinquishment. |
| abannation | noun (n.) Alt. of Abannition |
| abannition | noun (n.) Banishment. |
| abarticulation | noun (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. |
| abbreviation | noun (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing. |
| noun (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. | |
| noun (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America. | |
| noun (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. |
| abdication | noun (n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority. |
| abduction | noun (n.) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. |
| noun (n.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. | |
| noun (n.) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress. | |
| noun (n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable. |
| aberration | noun (n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. |
| noun (n.) A partial alienation of reason. | |
| noun (n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4", and in the latter, to 0.3". Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth. | |
| noun (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus. | |
| noun (n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it. | |
| noun (n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B. |
| abevacuation | noun (n.) A partial evacuation. |
| abirritation | noun (n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia. |
| abjection | noun (n.) The act of bringing down or humbling. |
| noun (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out. | |
| noun (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. |
| abjudication | noun (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence. |
| abjuration | noun (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return. |
| noun (n.) A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. |
| ablactation | noun (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. |
| noun (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach. |
| ablaqueation | noun (n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. |
| ablation | noun (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal. |
| noun (n.) Extirpation. | |
| noun (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste. |
| ablegation | noun (n.) The act of sending abroad. |
| abligurition | noun (n.) Prodigal expense for food. |
| ablution | noun (n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite. |
| noun (n.) The water used in cleansing. | |
| noun (n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. |
| abluvion | noun (n.) That which is washed off. |
| abnegation | noun (n.) a denial; a renunciation. |
| abnodation | noun (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees. |
| abolition | noun (n.) The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc. |
| abomination | noun (n.) The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. |
| noun (n.) That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. | |
| noun (n.) A cause of pollution or wickedness. |
| abortion | noun (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage. |
| noun (n.) The immature product of an untimely birth. | |
| noun (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. | |
| noun (n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion. |
| abrasion | noun (n.) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins. |
| noun (n.) The substance rubbed off. | |
| noun (n.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. |
| abrenunciation | noun (n.) Absolute renunciation or repudiation. |
| abreption | noun (n.) A snatching away. |
| abrogation | noun (n.) The act of abrogating; repeal by authority. |
| abruption | noun (n.) A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. |
| abscession | noun (n.) A separating; removal; also, an abscess. |
| abscision | noun (n.) See Abscission. |
| abscission | noun (n.) The act or process of cutting off. |
| noun (n.) The state of being cut off. | |
| noun (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more." |
| absentation | noun (n.) The act of absenting one's self. |
| absolution | noun (n.) An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. |
| noun (n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. | |
| noun (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven. | |
| noun (n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication. | |
| noun (n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved. | |
| noun (n.) Delivery, in speech. |
| absorbition | noun (n.) Absorption. |
| absorption | noun (n.) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger. |
| noun (n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc. | |
| noun (n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs. | |
| noun (n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment. |
| abstention | adjective (a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. |
| abstersion | noun (n.) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. |
| abstraction | adjective (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. |
| adjective (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects. | |
| adjective (a.) An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions. | |
| adjective (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction. | |
| adjective (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects. | |
| adjective (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. | |
| adjective (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. |
| abstrusion | noun (n.) The act of thrusting away. |
| absumption | noun (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. |
| acceleration | noun (n.) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. |
| accension | noun (n.) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. |
| accentuation | noun (n.) Act of accentuating; applications of accent. |
| noun (n.) pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy. |
| acceptation | noun (n.) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. |
| noun (n.) The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (lo) - Words That Begins with lo:
| loach | noun (n.) Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish. |
| loading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Load |
| noun (n.) The act of putting a load on or into. | |
| noun (n.) A load; cargo; burden. |
| loader | noun (n.) One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun. |
| loadmanage | noun (n.) Alt. of Lodemanage |
| lodemanage | noun (n.) Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. |
| noun (n.) Pilotage. |
| loadsman | noun (n.) Alt. of Lodesman |
| lodesman | noun (n.) A pilot. |
| noun (n.) Same as Loadsman. |
| loadstar | noun (n.) Alt. of Lodestar |
| lodestar | noun (n.) A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. |
| noun (n.) Same as Loadstar. |
| loadstone | noun (n.) Alt. of Lodestone |
| lodestone | noun (n.) A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite. |
| noun (n.) Same as Loadstone. |
| loaf | noun (n.) Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake. |
| verb (v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about. | |
| verb (v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away. |
| loafing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loaf |
| loafer | noun (n.) One who loafs; a lazy lounger. |
| loam | noun (n.) A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. |
| noun (n.) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cover, smear, or fill with loam. |
| loaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loam |
| loamy | adjective (a.) Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam. |
| loan | noun (n.) A loanin. |
| noun (n.) The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services. | |
| noun (n.) That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan. | |
| noun (n. t.) To lend; -- sometimes with out. |
| loaning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loan |
| noun (n.) An open space between cultivated fields through which cattle are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a lane. |
| loanable | adjective (a.) Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings. |
| loanin | noun (n.) Alt. of Loaning |
| loanmonger | noun (n.) A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans. |
| loath | adjective (a.) Hateful; odious; disliked. |
| adjective (a.) Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part. |
| loathing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loathe |
| noun (n.) Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation. |
| loather | noun (n.) One who loathes. |
| loathful | adjective (a.) Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. |
| adjective (a.) Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting. |
| loathliness | noun (n.) Loathsomeness. |
| loathly | adjective (a.) Loathsome. |
| adverb (adv.) Unwillingly; reluctantly. | |
| adverb (adv.) (/) So as to cause loathing. |
| loathness | noun (n.) Unwillingness; reluctance. |
| loathsome | adjective (a.) Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting. |
| loathy | adjective (a.) Loathsome. |
| loaves | noun (n.) pl. of Loaf. |
| (pl. ) of Loaf |
| lob | noun (n.) A dull, heavy person. |
| noun (n.) Something thick and heavy. | |
| noun (n.) The European pollock. | |
| noun (n.) The act of lobbing; specif., an (often gentle) stroke which sends a ball up into the air, as in tennis to avoid a player at the net. | |
| verb (v. t.) To let fall heavily or lazily. | |
| verb (v. t.) See Cob, v. t. |
| lobbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lob |
| lobar | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes. |
| lobate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lobated |
| lobated | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf. |
| adjective (a.) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays. | |
| adjective (a.) Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. (m) under Aves. |
| lobbish | adjective (a.) Like a lob; consisting of lobs. |
| lobby | noun (n.) A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved. |
| noun (n.) That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency. | |
| noun (n.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck. | |
| noun (n.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard. | |
| verb (v. i.) To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes. | |
| verb (v. t.) To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill. |
| lobbying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lobby |
| lobbyist | noun (n.) A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation. |
| lobcock | noun (n.) A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob. |
| lobe | noun (n.) Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form |
| noun (n.) A rounded projection or division of a leaf. | |
| noun (n.) A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot. | |
| noun (n.) A round projecting part of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, etc. See Illust. of Brain. | |
| noun (n.) The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel. |
| lobed | adjective (a.) Having lobes; lobate. |
| lobefoot | noun (n.) A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope. |
| lobelet | noun (n.) A small lobe; a lobule. |
| 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. |
| lobeliaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type. |
| lobelin | noun (n.) A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic. |
| lobeline | noun (n.) A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LON:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'n':
| labefaction | noun (n.) The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin. |
| labialization | noun (n.) The modification of an articulation by contraction of the lip opening. |
| labyrinthian | adjective (a.) Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal. |
| labyrinthodon | noun (n.) A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus. |
| laccin | noun (n.) A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac. |
| 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. |
| laceration | noun (n.) The act of lacerating. |
| noun (n.) A breach or wound made by lacerating. |
| lacertian | noun (n.) One of the Lacertilia. |
| adjective (a.) Like a lizard; of or pertaining to the Lacertilia. |
| lacertilian | noun (a. & n.) Same as Lacertian. |
| lachrymation | noun (n.) The act of shedding tears; weeping. |
| lackbrain | noun (n.) One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. |
| laconian | noun (n.) An inhabitant of Laconia; esp., a Spartan. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Laconia, a division of ancient Greece; Spartan. |
| lactation | noun (n.) A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland. |
| lactean | adjective (a.) Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk. |
| adjective (a.) Lacteal; conveying chyle. |
| lactin | noun (n.) See Lactose. |
| lactoabumin | noun (n.) The albumin present on milk, apparently identical with ordinary serum albumin. It is distinct from the casein of milk. |
| lactoprotein | noun (n.) A peculiar albuminous body considered a normal constituent of milk. |
| lactucin | noun (n.) A white, crystalline substance, having a bitter taste and a neutral reaction, and forming one of the essential ingredients of lactucarium. |
| lademan | noun (n.) One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant. |
| laden | adjective (p. & a.) Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart. |
| ladin | noun (n.) A Romansch dialect spoken in some parts of Switzerland and the Tyrol. |
| noun (n.) A person speaking Ladin as a mother tongue. |
| ladkin | noun (n.) A little lad. |
| ladykin | noun (n.) A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary. |
| lagan | noun (n. & v.) See Ligan. |
| lagenian | adjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to, Lagena, a genus of Foraminifera having a straight, chambered shell. |
| lagoon | noun (n.) A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice. |
| noun (n.) A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll. |
| lakin | noun (n.) See Ladykin. |
| lallation | noun (n.) An imperfect enunciation of the letter r, in which it sounds like l. |
| lamantin | noun (n.) The manatee. |
| lamarckian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism. |
| lambkin | noun (n.) A small lamb. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| lamentin | noun (n.) See Lamantin. |
| laminarian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow. |
| lamination | noun (n.) The process of laminating, or the state of being laminated. |
| lampern | noun (n.) The river lamprey (Ammocoetes, / Lampetra, fluviatilis). |
| lampoon | noun (n.) A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress. |
| verb (v. t.) To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon. |
| lampron | noun (n.) See Lamprey. |
| lacasterian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them. |
| lancination | noun (n.) A tearing; laceration. |
| landamman | noun (n.) A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons. |
| noun (n.) The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic. |
| landman | noun (n.) A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman. |
| noun (n.) An occupier of land. |
| landsman | noun (n.) One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman. |
| noun (n.) A sailor on his first voyage. |
| laniation | noun (n.) A tearing in pieces. |
| lanolin | noun (n.) A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally. |
| lantern | noun (n.) Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light. |
| noun (n.) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior. | |
| noun (n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns. | |
| noun (n.) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral. | |
| noun (n.) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below). | |
| noun (n.) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass. | |
| noun (n.) A perforated barrel to form a core upon. | |
| noun (n.) See Aristotle's lantern. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse. |
| lanthorn | noun (n.) See Lantern. |
| laocoon | noun (n.) A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.) |
| noun (n.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil. |
| laodicean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion. |
| lapidarian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to stone; inscribed on stone; as, a lapidarian record. |
| lapidation | noun (n.) The act of stoning. |
| lapidification | noun (n.) The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction. |
| lapillation | noun (n.) The state of being, or the act of making, stony. |
| lapponian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lapponic |
| laputan | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy. |
| larchen | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the larch. |
| lardacein | noun (n.) A peculiar amyloid substance, colored blue by iodine and sulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into the spleen, liver, etc. |
| lardon | noun (n.) Alt. of Lardoon |
| lardoon | noun (n.) A bit of fat pork or bacon used in larding. |
| laryngean | adjective (a.) See Laryngeal. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| latian | adjective (a.) Belonging, or relating, to Latium, a country of ancient Italy. See Latin. |
| 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. |
| latinization | noun (n.) The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. |
| lation | noun (n.) Transportation; conveyance. |
| latitation | noun (n.) A lying in concealment; hiding. |
| 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. |
| laton | noun (n.) Alt. of Latoun |
| latoun | noun (n.) Latten, 1. |
| latration | noun (n.) A barking. |
| 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. |
| latterkin | noun (n.) A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice. |
| laundryman | noun (n.) A man who follows the business of laundering. |
| laureation | noun (n.) The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title. |
| laurentian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or near, the St. Lawrence River; as, the Laurentian hills. |
| laurin | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin ethers of several organic acids. |
| lavation | noun (n.) A washing or cleansing. |
| lawn | noun (n.) An open space between woods. |
| noun (n.) Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown. |
| laxation | noun (n.) The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened. |
| layman | noun (n.) One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do. |
| noun (n.) A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above). |
| leaden | adjective (a.) Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball. |
| adjective (a.) Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky. | |
| adjective (a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish. |
| leadman | noun (n.) One who leads a dance. |
| leadsman | noun (n.) The man who heaves the lead. |
| lean | noun (n.) That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat. |
| noun (n.) Unremunerative copy or work. | |
| verb (v. t.) To conceal. | |
| verb (v. i.) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column. | |
| verb (v. i.) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest. | |
| verb (v. i.) Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle. | |
| verb (v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages. | |
| verb (v. i.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type. |
| leathern | adjective (a.) Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. |
| leaven | noun (n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm. |
| noun (n.) Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment. | |
| verb (v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate. |
| leban | noun (n.) Alt. of Lebban |
| lebban | noun (n.) Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same. |
| lecanorin | noun (n.) See Lecanoric. |
| lecithin | noun (n.) A complex, nitrogenous phosphorized substance widely distributed through the animal body, and especially conspicuous in the brain and nerve tissue, in yolk of eggs, and in the white blood corpuscles. |
| lectern | noun (n.) See Lecturn. |
| lection | noun (n.) A lesson or selection, esp. of Scripture, read in divine service. |
| noun (n.) A reading; a variation in the text. |
| lecturn | noun (n.) A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern.] |
| leden | noun (n.) Alt. of Ledden |
| ledden | noun (n.) Language; speech; voice; cry. |
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