LINUS

Name Report For First Name LINUS:

First name LINUS's origin is Greek. LINUS means "flaxen-haired". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LINUS below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of linus.(Brown names are of the same origin (Greek) with LINUS and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with LINUS - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming LINUS

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES L�NUS AS A WHOLE:

bellinus

NAMES RHYMING WITH L�NUS (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (inus) - Names That Ends with inus:

delphinus albinus

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (nus) - Names That Ends with nus:

yunus isdernus cassibellaunus alemannus avernus cronus cycnus dardanus helenus oceanus ocnus telegonus theoclymenus uranus janus venus brennus cassivellaunus magnus manus columbanus yoonus maponus

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (us) - Names That Ends with us:

el-nefous enygeus caeneus cestus iasius lotus negus maccus dabbous dassous fanous abdul-quddus boulus butrus dryhus thaddeus bagdemagus brademagus peredurus britomartus luxovious nemausus ondrus argus ambrosius batholomeus basilius bonifacius cecilius clementius egidius eugenius eustatius theodorus darius horus aldous brutus guiderius lorineus ferragus marsilius senapus brus marcus seorus klaus abderus absyrtus acastus achelous aconteus acrisius admetus adrastus aeacus aegeus aegisthus aegyptus aeolus aesculapius alcinous alcyoneus aloeus alpheus amphiaraus amycus anastasius ancaeus androgeus antaeus antilochus antinous archemorus aristaeus

NAMES RHYMING WITH L�NUS (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (linu) - Names That Begins with linu:

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (lin) - Names That Begins with lin:

lin lina lincoln lind linda lindael lindberg linddun lindeberg lindel lindell linden lindi lindie lindisfarne lindiwe lindl lindleigh lindley lindly lindsay lindsey lindy line linette linford linh link linka linleah linley linly linn linne linnea linnette linsay linsey lintang linton lintun linwood

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (li) - Names That Begins with li:

lia liam liana liane lianna libby liberty libuse lichas licia lidia lidio lidmann lidoine liealia lien liesbet liesheth liesl lieu liezel lifton ligia liisa liko lil lila lilah lili lilia lilian liliana liliane lilianna lilibet lilibeth lilie lilike lilis lilith lilium lillee lilli lillian lilliana lillie lillis lilly lillyana lilo liluye lily lilyanna lilybell lilybeth lion lionel lionell

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH L�NUS:

First Names which starts with 'li' and ends with 'us':

First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 's':

lachesis laertes laestrygones lais laius lamees lamis landers landis lapidos lapis lars lass lazarus leitis leonides lewis loris louis lourdes louredes loxias lsss lucas lucius lueius luis lukacs lukas luthais lycomedes lycoris lycurgus lynceus lyones lyonors lyris

English Words Rhyming LINUS

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES L�NUS AS A WHOLE:

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH L�NUS (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (inus) - English Words That Ends with inus:

acinus	noun (n.) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
	noun (n.) A grapestone.
	noun (n.) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.

delphinus	noun (n.) A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin, 1.
	noun (n.) The Dolphin, a constellation near the equator and east of Aquila.

dominus

noun (n.) Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.

echinus	noun (n.) A hedgehog.
	noun (n.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe.
	noun (n.) The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature.
	noun (n.) The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column
	noun (n.) A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.

encrinus

noun (n.) A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks.

fraxinus

noun (n.) A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.

marbrinus

noun (n.) A cloth woven so as to imitate the appearance of marble; -- much used in the 15th and 16th centuries.

minus

adjective (a.) Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.

pentacrinus

noun (n.) A genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere.

pinus

noun (n.) A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See Pine.

ricinus

noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi.

sinus	noun (n.) An opening; a hollow; a bending.
	noun (n.) A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.
	noun (n.) A cavity; a depression.
	noun (n.) A cavity in a bone or other part, either closed or with a narrow opening.
	noun (n.) A dilated vessel or canal.
	noun (n.) A narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice.
	noun (n.) A depression between adjoining lobes.
	(pl. ) of Sinus

terminus	noun (n.) Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
	noun (n.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.
	noun (n.) Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.
	noun (n.) Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.

uncinus

noun (n.) One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of tubicolous annelids belonging to the Uncinata.

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (nus) - English Words That Ends with nus:

agnus

noun (n.) Agnus Dei.

alaternus

noun (n.) An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.

alumnus

noun (n.) A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

anelectrotonus

noun (n.) The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

anthrenus

noun (n.) A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariae. The larvae are commonly confounded with moths.

anus

noun (n.) The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

bonus	noun (n.) A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter.
	noun (n.) An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.
	noun (n.) Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.

catelectrotonus

noun (n.) The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

clarisonus

adjective (a.) Having a clear sound.

conus	noun (n.) A cone.
	noun (n.) A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See Cone, n., 4.

cothurnus

noun (n.) Same as Cothurn.

cygnus

noun (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan.

cincinnus

noun (n.) A form of monochasium in which the lateral branches arise alternately on opposite sides of the false axis; -- called also scorpioid cyme.

clonus

noun (n.) A series of muscular contractions due to sudden stretching of the muscle, -- a sign of certain neuropathies.

dictamnus

noun (n.) A suffrutescent, D. Fraxinella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable.

elaeagnus

noun (n.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.

electrotonus

noun (n.) The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.

eridanus

noun (n.) A long, winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar.

faunus

noun (n.) See Faun.

galvanotonus

noun (n.) Same as Electrotonus.

genus

noun (n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.

noun (n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus.

hemionus

noun (n.) A wild ass found in Thibet; the kiang.

janus

noun (n.) A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace.

manus	noun (n.) The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.
	(pl. ) of Manus

oceanus

noun (n.) The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.

onus

noun (n.) A burden; an obligation.

pandanus

noun (n.) A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine.

pannus

noun (n.) A very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids.

phototonus	noun (n.) A motile condition in plants resulting from exposure to light.
	noun (n.) An irritable condition of protoplasm, resulting in movement, due to a certain intensity of light.

pignus

noun (n.) A pledge or pawn.

platanus

noun (n.) A genus of trees; the plane tree.

pleurothotonus

noun (n.) A species of tetanus, in which the body is curved laterally.

prunus

noun (n.) A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.

rhamnus

noun (n.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.

silenus

noun (n.) See Wanderoo.

subgenus

noun (n.) A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.

syconus

noun (n.) A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.

tabanus

noun (n.) A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies.

tetanus	noun (n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.
	noun (n.) That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks.

tonus

noun (n.) Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus.

turnus

noun (n.) A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio, / Jasoniades, glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called also tiger swallowtail. See Illust. under Swallowtail.

thermotonus

noun (n.) A condition of tonicity with respect to temperature.

uranus	noun (n.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans.
	noun (n.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.

varanus

noun (n.) A genus of very large lizards native of Asia and Africa. It includes the monitors. See Monitor, 3.

venus	noun (n.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
	noun (n.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
	noun (n.) The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus.
	noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH L�NUS (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (linu) - Words That Begins with linu:

linum

noun (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants including the flax (Linum usitatissimum).

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (lin) - Words That Begins with lin:

lin	noun (n.) A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a fall of water.
	noun (n.) A waterfall, or cataract; as, a roaring lin.
	noun (n.) A steep ravine.
	verb (v. i.) To yield; to stop; to cease.
	verb (v. t.) To cease from.

linage

noun (n.) See Lineage.

linament

noun (n.) Lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.

linarite

noun (n.) A hydrous sulphate of lead and copper occurring in bright blue monoclinic crystals.

linch

noun (n.) A ledge; a right-angled projection.

linchi

noun (n.) An esculent swallow.

linchpin

noun (n.) A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.

lincture

noun (n.) Alt. of Linctus

linctus

noun (n.) Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.

lind

noun (n.) The linden. See Linden.

linden	noun (n.) A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.
	noun (n.) In America, the basswood, or Tilia Americana.

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.

lindiform

adjective (a.) Resembling the genus Lindia; -- said of certain apodous insect larvae.

line	noun (n.) Flax; linen.
	noun (n.) The longer and finer fiber of flax.
	noun (n.) A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.
	noun (n.) A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.
	noun (n.) The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.
	noun (n.) Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.
	noun (n.) A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.
	noun (n.) A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend.
	noun (n.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.
	noun (n.) Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
	noun (n.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.
	noun (n.) The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline.
	noun (n.) A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.
	noun (n.) Lineament; feature; figure.
	noun (n.) A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers.
	noun (n.) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.
	noun (n.) A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line.
	noun (n.) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
	noun (n.) The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line.
	noun (n.) A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.
	noun (n.) A measuring line or cord.
	noun (n.) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
	noun (n.) Instruction; doctrine.
	noun (n.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line.
	noun (n.) The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad.
	noun (n.) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to column.
	noun (n.) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
	noun (n.) A trench or rampart.
	noun (n.) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
	noun (n.) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
	noun (n.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
	noun (n.) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
	noun (n.) A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc.
	noun (n.) The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.
	noun (n.) The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.
	noun (n.) A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch.
	verb (v. t.) To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.
	verb (v. t.) To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.
	verb (v. t.) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers.
	verb (v. t.) To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals.
	verb (v. t.) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book.
	verb (v. t.) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
	verb (v. t.) To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn.
	verb (v. t.) To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops.

lining	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Line
	noun (n.) The act of one who lines; the act or process of making lines, or of inserting a lining.
	noun (n.) That which covers the inner surface of anything, as of a garment or a box; also, the contents of anything.

lineage

noun (n.) Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

lineal	adjective (a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant.
	adjective (a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).
	adjective (a.) Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs.
	adjective (a.) In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude.

lineality

noun (n.) The quality of being lineal.

lineament

noun (n.) One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; -- usually in the plural.

linear	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal.
	adjective (a.) Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf.

linearensate

adjective (a.) Having the form of a sword, but very long and narrow.

lineary

adjective (a.) Linear.

lineate

adjective (a.) Alt. of Lineated

lineated	adjective (a.) Marked with lines.
	adjective (a.) Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines; as, a lineate leaf.

lineation

noun (n.) Delineation; a line or lines.

lineature

noun (n.) Anything having outline.

lineman	noun (n.) One who carries the line in surveying, etc.
	noun (n.) A man employed to examine the rails of a railroad to see if they are in good condition; also, a man employed to repair telegraph lines.

linen	noun (n.) Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.
	noun (n.) Resembling linen cloth; white; pale.
	noun (n.) Thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; -- used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc.
	noun (n.) Underclothing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen.

linener

noun (n.) A dealer in linen; a linen draper.

lineolate	adjective (a.) Marked with little lines.
	adjective (a.) Marked longitudinally with fine lines.

liner	noun (n.) One who lines, as, a liner of shoes.
	noun (n.) A vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a line-of-battle ship; a ship of the line.
	noun (n.) A thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc.; a shim.
	noun (n.) A lining within the cylinder, in which the piston works and between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to form a steam jacket.
	noun (n.) A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.
	noun (n.) A ball which, when struck, flies through the air in a nearly straight line not far from the ground.

ling	noun (n.) Heather (Calluna vulgaris).
	adjective (a.) A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle.
	adjective (a.) The burbot of Lake Ontario.
	adjective (a.) An American hake of the genus Phycis.
	adjective (a.) A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.

linga

noun (n.) Alt. of Lingam

lingam

noun (n.) The phallic symbol under which Siva is principally worshiped in his character of the creative and reproductive power.

lingel	noun (n.) A shoemaker's thread.
	noun (n.) A little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts.

lingence

noun (n.) A linctus.

lingering	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Linger
	adjective (a.) Delaying.
	adjective (a.) Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease.

linger	adjective (a.) To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.
	verb (v. t.) To protract; to draw out.
	verb (v. t.) To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed.

lingerer

noun (n.) One who lingers.

linget

noun (n.) An ingot.

lingism

noun (n.) A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.

lingle

noun (n.) See Lingel.

lingo

noun (n.) Language; speech; dialect.

lingot

noun (n.) A linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals. See Linget.

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.

linguacious

adjective (a.) Given to the use of the tongue; loquacious.

linguadental	noun (n.) An articulation pronounced by the aid or use of the tongue and teeth.
	adjective (a.) Formed or uttered by the joint use of the tongue and teeth, or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth; dentolingual, as the letters d and t.

lingual	noun (n.) A consonant sound formed by the aid of the tongue; -- a term especially applied to certain articulations (as those of t, d, th, and n) and to the letters denoting them.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter.

linguality

noun (n.) The quality of being lingual.

linguatulida

noun (n. pl.) Same as Linguatulina.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH L�NUS:

English Words which starts with 'li' and ends with 'us':

libelous

adjective (a.) Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet.

libidinous

adjective (a.) Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious.

licentious	adjective (a.) Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press.
	adjective (a.) Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life.

lichenous

adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens.

lickerous

adjective (a.) Lickerish; eager; lustful.

licorous

adjective (a.) See Lickerish.

lienculus

noun (n.) One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.

ligamentous

adjective (a.) Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.

ligneous

adjective (a.) Made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody.

ligniferous

adjective (a.) Yielding or producing wood.

ligniperdous

adjective (a.) Wood-destroying; -- said of certain insects.

lignitiferous

adjective (a.) Producing or containing lignite; lignitic.

lignous

adjective (a.) Ligneous.

liguliflorous

adjective (a.) Bearing only ligulate flowers; -- said of a large suborder of composite plants, such as the dandelion, lettuce, hawkweed, etc.

likerous

noun (n.) Alt. of Likerousness

liliaceous	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of which the lily, tulip, and hyacinth are well-known examples.
	adjective (a.) Like the blossom of a lily in general form.

limaceous

adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs.

limbus	noun (n.) An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.
	noun (n.) Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.
	noun (n.) A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea.

limbous

adjective (a.) With slightly overlapping borders; -- said of a suture.

limous

adjective (a.) Muddy; slimy; thick.

limulus

noun (n.) The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot.

linigerous

adjective (a.) Bearing flax; producing linen.

lipothymous

adjective (a.) Pertaining, or given, to swooning; fainting.

liquorous

adjective (a.) Eagerly desirous. See Lickerish.

literatus

noun (n.) A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural.

lithodomous

adjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to, Lithodomus; lithophagous.

lithodomus

noun (n.) A genus of elongated bivalve shells, allied to the mussels, and remarkable for their ability to bore holes for shelter, in solid limestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus.

lithogenous

adjective (a.) Stone-producing; -- said of polyps which form coral.

lithophagous	adjective (a.) Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.
	adjective (a.) Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. See Lithodomus.

lithophytous

adjective (a.) Lithophytic.

litigious	adjective (a.) Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation.
	adjective (a.) Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to legal disputes.

litmus

noun (n.) A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens (Roccella tinctoria, Lecanora tartarea, etc.), as a blue amorphous mass which consists of a compound of the alkaline carbonates with certain coloring matters related to orcin and orcein.

lituus	noun (n.) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.
	noun (n.) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.
	noun (n.) A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.

lixivious

adjective (a.) See Lixivial.

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