Nouns

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loquaciousness

noun

the quality of being wordy and talkative

loquacity

noun

the quality of being wordy and talkative

loquat

noun

yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free ston...

lorentz

noun

Dutch physicist noted for work on electromagnetic theory (18...

lorica

noun

a hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists...

lorgnette

noun

eyeglasses that are held to the eyes with a long handle

lorikeet

noun

any of various small lories

loti

noun

the basic unit of money in Lesotho

lough

noun

a long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland

louvar

noun

large silvery fish found worldwide in warm seas but nowhere...

louver

noun

one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit...

lovage

noun

herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible st...

lowboy

noun

a low chest or table with drawers and supported on four legs

lowerclassman

noun

an undergraduate who is not yet a senior

lowlander

noun

a native of the Lowlands of Scotland

loxodrome

noun

a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle...

lubeck

noun

a city in northwestern Germany and an important Baltic port;...

lubricity

noun

feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness

lubumbashi

noun

a city in southeastern Congo near the border with Zambia; a...

luciferin

noun

pigment occurring in luminescent organisms (as fireflies); e...

lucrativeness

noun

the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit

lucubration

noun

a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogi...

lues

noun

a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum s...

luffa

noun

the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus...

lufkin

noun

a town in eastern Texas

luganda

noun

the Bantu language of the Buganda people; spoken in Uganda

lugger

noun

small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails

lugsail

noun

a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is...

lugworm

noun

marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of...

lugubriousness

noun

the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

lukewarmness

noun

a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin

luluabourg

noun

a city in southwestern Congo; former name (until 1966) was L...

lumbermill

noun

a mill for dressing logs and lumber

luminal

noun

a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative

luminance

noun

the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light

lumpfish

noun

clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic...

lumpenproletariat

noun

(Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat wh...

lumpsucker

noun

any of several very small lumpfishes

lunation

noun

the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)

lunette

noun

oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vaul...

lungfish

noun

air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paire...

lunger

noun

a person with pulmonary tuberculosis

lungyi

noun

a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used...

lunula

noun

the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail

lunule

noun

the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail

lurcher

noun

someone waiting in concealment

luridness

noun

unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sic...

lusciousness

noun

extreme appetizingness

lusatian

noun

a Slavonic language spoken in rural area of southeastern Ger...

lushness

noun

the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to th...