English words starting with L

Having the shape of the capital letter L

A test or trial, often used in technical or developmental contexts to denote a preliminary or experimental procedure.

A defensive encampment formed by a circle of wagons.

A room or building equipped for scientific experiments, research, or teaching.

Created or produced in a laboratory, especially as opposed to occurring naturally.

A small piece of paper, fabric, plastic, etc. attached to an object and giving information about it.

Having a label attached

The act of attaching a label to something.

past tense and past participle of 'label': to attach a label to something.

The act of attaching a label to something.

Relating to the lips or labia.

(Chemistry) Easily broken down or displaced; prone to change or instability.

Work, especially physical work

The total number of people who are available for work in a particular area, industry, or economy.

requiring a large amount of work or effort, especially of a physical kind, relative to capital or technology.

Relating to or involving both workers (or their unions) and employers or management.

The supply of available workers in relation to the available work

Designed to reduce the amount of work or effort required to do something.

A room or building equipped for scientific experiments, research, or teaching, or for the manufacture of drugs or chemicals.

Relating to or involving work done in a laboratory.

Done with great difficulty and effort; not natural or flowing.

a person who does physical work, especially work that requires strength rather than skill or education.

Working hard, especially doing physical work

Requiring considerable time and effort; involving hard work.

In a way that involves a lot of time, effort, or difficulty.

Work, especially physical work

A person who does physical work, especially work that requires strength rather than skill or education.

A rim or edge of a part of the body, especially the socket of the hip joint or shoulder joint.

A complicated, irregular network of passages or paths, typically designed to confuse; a maze.

(of a network, system, or structure) extremely complicated, tortuous, or convoluted

Relating to or characteristic of the psychoanalytic theories or methods of Jacques Lacan.

a delicate fabric made of yarn or thread in an open weblike pattern.

Having an edge or border trimmed or decorated with lace.

decorated with or having a border of lace

a shoe or boot that is fastened with laces

(of a drink or food) having a small amount of a substance, especially alcohol or a drug, added to it.

to tear or cut something, especially flesh, deeply and roughly

(of flesh, skin, etc.) badly torn or deeply cut.

a deep cut or tear in skin or flesh.

a slender insect with large, delicate, lacy wings, the larvae of which are beneficial predators of aphids and other pests.

Decorative work or fabric made of lace.

tending to cry easily; tearful

the act of fastening something with a lace

to not have something that is needed or wanted

lacking enthusiasm, energy, or determination; carelessly lazy

A servant who does all kinds of ordinary or unpleasant work for someone

not present or available; missing or deficient.

lacking in brightness, shine, or vitality; dull or mediocre

Using very few words; terse.

in a manner that uses very few words

a hard, shiny, and often decorative coating that is applied to surfaces such as wood or metal

coated with a hard, glossy varnish.

Relating to tears or the glands that produce them.

A team game, originally played by North American Indians, in which the ball is thrown, carried, and caught with a long-handled stick having a curved L-shaped or triangular frame at one end with a piece of shallow netting.

An enzyme produced in the small intestine that breaks down lactose (the sugar found in milk) into simpler sugars that can be absorbed.

(of a female mammal) to produce milk in the mammary glands and secrete it.

(of a female mammal) producing milk to feed young

The process of producing and secreting milk from the mammary glands.

Relating to or obtained from milk.

a type of sugar found in milk and used in some foods and medicines.

Unable to digest lactose properly, typically resulting in symptoms like bloating, diarrhea, or gas after consuming dairy products.

an empty space where something is missing, especially in a piece of writing or in a series of ideas.

relating to or associated with lakes.

made of or resembling lace; having a delicate, openwork pattern.

A boy or young man.

A piece of equipment for climbing up and down, consisting of two long pieces of wood or metal joined by shorter pieces called rungs.

A chair with a back consisting of a series of horizontal slats between two upright posts, resembling a ladder.

A boy or young man (used chiefly in Scottish English and Northern English).

heavily loaded or weighed down.

Women who attend a queen or princess as companions and assistants.

the action of loading a ship or other vessel with cargo.

A large, long-handled spoon with a cup-shaped bowl, used for serving soup, stew, or sauce.

the amount that a ladle can hold

a polite or formal way of referring to a woman.

A woman who attends a queen, princess, or other high-ranking woman.

A small, round, often red beetle with black spots.

a small, round, often red or orange beetle with black spots.

behaving in a polite, quiet, and dignified way that was traditionally considered typical of or appropriate for a lady.

To move or develop more slowly than others

A type of light beer that is pale in color and effervescent, typically brewed using bottom-fermenting yeast and stored at low temperatures.

A person who makes slow progress and falls behind others.

Moved or developed more slowly than others; fell behind.

falling behind in movement, progress, or development; not keeping pace

a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase.

a shallow area of salt water separated from the sea by a sandbank, coral reef, or similar barrier.

Relating to or derived from the work of the mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange, especially concerning a function used in the calculus of variations and analytical mechanics.

Past tense and past participle of 'lay'.

Relaxed and seeming not to be worried about anything

Describing a worker who has been dismissed from employment, typically because the job is no longer required or the company is reducing its workforce.

Arranged or spread out in a deliberate way, often to be clearly visible or accessible.

a place where a wild animal lives, especially one that is well hidden

a person who owns a large estate in scotland; a scottish landowner.

A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering, especially in economic affairs.

All the people who are not members of a particular profession or a specialized group, especially the clergy.

a large area of water that is surrounded by land

The land or property along the edge of a lake.

The land along the edge of a lake.

the land or area next to a lake

To hit or beat someone repeatedly

A South American mammal related to the camel but smaller and without a hump, valued for its wool and used as a beast of burden.

Relating to the theory of evolution proposed by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, which suggests that characteristics acquired by an organism during its lifetime can be passed on to its offspring.

a young sheep

a fast, sensual brazilian dance for couples, performed in close embrace and characterized by a pronounced swaying motion of the hips.

To criticize someone or something severely, usually in public.

to criticize someone or something severely, usually in public

The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet (Λ, λ)

(of light or fire) glowing or gleaming softly without much heat.

the process of giving birth to lambs

The skin of a lamb, especially when dressed with the fleece on and used as a soft, warm material for clothing or rugs.

unable to walk normally because of an injury or illness affecting the leg or foot

A person or thing that is disabled, damaged, or ineffectual, especially an elected official or administration continuing in office during the period between an election defeat and the inauguration of a successor.

In a way that is weak, unconvincing, or unsatisfactory

The condition of being lame, especially an inability to walk normally because of an injury or disability affecting a leg or foot.

To express sadness and regret about something, often in a loud, demonstrative way.

Deserving severe criticism or regret; very bad or disappointing.

In a manner that is unfortunate or regrettable; deplorably.

the act of expressing deep sorrow, grief, or regret.

Mourned for, especially after someone's death.

A thin layer, plate, or scale of material, especially in biological tissue or rock.

relating to or consisting of thin layers or plates.