Name Report For First Name LUD:
LUD
First name LUD's origin is English. LUD means "a myth name". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LUD below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of lud.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with LUD and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with LUD - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming LUD
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LUD AS A WHOLE:
aludra khulud ludmila ludmilla ludkhannah lludd luduvico ludwik ludwig ludlowNAMES RHYMING WITH LUD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ud) - Names That Ends with ud:
masud daoud abbud abdul-wadud da'ud hud mahmud saud su'ud bladud knud archaimbaud arnaud ehud gertrud isoud maud amaud archenhaud bud claud dawud drud jud mahmoud mccloud thibaud stroud suoud houd masoud audNAMES RHYMING WITH LUD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (lu) - Names That Begins with lu:
luana luane lubabah luc lucan lucas lucca lucena lucero lucette luci lucia lucian luciana lucianna luciano lucie lucien lucienne lucile lucille lucina lucine lucio lucita lucius lucky lucrece lucrecia lucrezia lucy lueius luel luell luella luete lufian lufti lugaidh lughaidh luighseach luigi luigina luiginw luijzika luis luisa luise luiza lujza luk lukacs lukas luki lukina lukman luloah lulu lulwa luminita lumumba lun luna lunden lundie lundy luned lunet lunete lunetta lunn lupe lupita luqman lur lurleen lurlene lurlina lurline lusala luthais luther lutz luvena luvenia luvina luvyna luxman luxovious luyu luz luzigeNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LUD:
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'd':
labid lad ladd laird lakeland lamond langford lawford leeland leland lenard lennard leod leonard leopold lind linford linwood lloyd lockwood lynd lynfordEnglish Words Rhyming LUD
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LUD AS A WHOLE:
| alluding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allude |
| aludel | noun (n.) One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation. |
| bludgeon | noun (n.) A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon. |
| colluding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collude |
| colluder | noun (n.) One who conspires in a fraud. |
| concluding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conclude |
| concludency | noun (n.) Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. |
| concludent | adjective (a.) Bringing to a close; decisive; conclusive. |
| concluder | noun (n.) One who concludes. |
| deludable | adjective (a.) Capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on; gullible. |
| deluding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delude |
| deluder | noun (n.) One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor. |
| eluding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elude |
| eludible | adjective (a.) Capable of being eluded; evadible. |
| excluding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exclude |
| illuding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Illude |
| including | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Include |
| included | adjective (a.) Inclosed; confined. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Include |
| includible | adjective (a.) Capable of being included. |
| inconcludent | adjective (a.) Not inferring a conclusion or consequence; not conclusive. |
| inconcluding | adjective (a.) Inferring no consequence. |
| ineludible | adjective (a.) Incapable of being eluded or evaded; unvoidable. |
| intercluding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interclude |
| interlude | noun (n.) A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting. |
| noun (n.) A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama. | |
| noun (n.) A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line. |
| interluded | adjective (a.) Inserted in the manner of an interlude; having or containing interludes. |
| interluder | noun (n.) An actor who performs in an interlude. |
| luddite | noun (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. |
| ludibrious | adjective (a.) Sportive; ridiculous; wanton. |
| ludibund | adjective (a.) Sportive. |
| ludicrous | adjective (a.) Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive. |
| ludification | noun (n.) The act of deriding. |
| ludificatory | adjective (a.) Making sport; tending to excite derision. |
| ludlamite | noun (n.) A mineral occurring in small, green, transparent, monoclinic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron. |
| ludwigite | noun (n.) A borate of iron and magnesia, occurring in fibrous masses of a blackish green color. |
| nonconcluding | adjective (a.) Not concluding. |
| occludent | noun (n.) That which closes or shuts up. |
| adjective (a.) Serving to close; shutting up. |
| paludal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to marshes or fens; marshy. |
| paludament | noun (n.) See Paludamentum. |
| paludamentum | noun (n.) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers. |
| paludicolae | noun (n. pl.) A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc. |
| paludicole | adjective (a.) Marsh-inhabiting; belonging to the Paludicolae |
| paludina | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond. |
| paludinal | adjective (a.) Inhabiting ponds or swamps. |
| paludine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a marsh. |
| paludinous | adjective (a.) Paludinal. (b) Like or pertaining to the genus Paludina. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a marsh or fen. |
| paludism | noun (n.) The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition. |
| paludose | adjective (a.) Growing or living in marshy places; marshy. |
| peludo | noun (n.) The South American hairy armadillo (Dasypus villosus). |
| postlude | noun (n.) A voluntary at the end of a service. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LUD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ud) - English Words That Ends with ud:
| boud | noun (n.) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc. |
| bud | noun (n.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower. |
| noun (n.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra. | |
| verb (v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot. | |
| verb (v. i.) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. | |
| verb (v. t.) To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear. |
| badaud | noun (n.) A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler. |
| cloud | noun (n.) A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere. |
| noun (n.) A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor. | |
| noun (n.) A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title. | |
| noun (n.) That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect. | |
| noun (n.) A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection. | |
| noun (n.) A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head. | |
| verb (v. t.) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded. | |
| verb (v. t.) To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen. | |
| verb (v. t.) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn. | |
| verb (v. i.) To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up. |
| croud | noun (n.) See Crowd, a violin. |
| crud | noun (n.) See Curd. |
| cuckoobud | noun (n.) A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup. |
| cud | noun (n.) That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time. |
| noun (n.) A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid. | |
| noun (n.) The first stomach of ruminating beasts. |
| crapaud | noun (n.) A toad. |
| noun (n.) As a proper name, Johnny Crapaud, or Crapaud, a nickname for a Frenchman. |
| emeraud | noun (n.) An emerald. |
| feud | noun (n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. |
| noun (n.) A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed. | |
| noun (n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee. |
| fraud | noun (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick. |
| noun (n.) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another. | |
| noun (n.) A trap or snare. |
| fud | noun (n.) The tail of a hare, coney, etc. |
| noun (n.) Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy. |
| gaud | noun (n.) Trick; jest; sport. |
| noun (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice; device. | |
| noun (n.) An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. | |
| noun (n.) To sport or keep festival. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint. |
| goud | noun (n.) Woad. |
| heraud | noun (n.) A herald. |
| hud | noun (n.) A huck or hull, as of a nut. |
| maraud | noun (n.) An excursion for plundering. |
| verb (v. i.) To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder. |
| maud | noun (n.) A gray plaid; -- used by shepherds in Scotland. |
| misproud | adjective (a.) Viciously proud. |
| mud | noun (n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive. |
| verb (v. t.) To bury in mud. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make muddy or turbid. |
| overloud | adjective (a.) Too loud; noisy. |
| overproud | adjective (a.) Exceedingly or unduly proud. |
| pud | noun (n.) Same as Pood. |
| noun (n.) The hand; the first. |
| redbud | noun (n.) A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas. |
| ribaud | noun (n.) A ribald. |
| rosebud | noun (n.) The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open. |
| rud | noun (n.) Redness; blush. |
| noun (n.) Ruddle; red ocher. | |
| noun (n.) The rudd. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make red. |
| scud | noun (n.) The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation. |
| noun (n.) Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind. | |
| noun (n.) A slight, sudden shower. | |
| noun (n.) A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock. | |
| noun (n.) Any swimming amphipod crustacean. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pass over quickly. |
| shroud | noun (n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. |
| noun (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. | |
| noun (n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud. | |
| noun (n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt. | |
| noun (n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage. | |
| noun (n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts. | |
| noun (n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate. | |
| noun (n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave. | |
| noun (n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take shelter or harbor. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lop. See Shrood. |
| spud | noun (n.) A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes. |
| noun (n.) A dagger. | |
| noun (n.) Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat. | |
| noun (n.) A potato. |
| stroud | noun (n.) A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians. |
| stud | noun (n.) A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc. |
| noun (n.) A stem; a trunk. | |
| noun (n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss. | |
| noun (n.) An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable. | |
| noun (n.) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal. | |
| noun (n.) A stud bolt. | |
| noun (n.) An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable. | |
| verb (v. t.) To adorn with shining studs, or knobs. | |
| verb (v. t.) To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs. |
| sunnud | noun (n.) A charter or warrant; also, a deed of gift. |
| tacaud | noun (n.) The bib, or whiting pout. |
| talmud | noun (n.) The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch. |
| thud | noun (n.) A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth. |
| verb (v. i. & t.) To make, or strike so as to make, a dull sound, or thud. |
| thundercloud | noun (n.) A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder. |
| yaud | noun (n.) See Yawd. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LUD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (lu) - Words That Begins with lu:
| lubbard | noun (n.) A lubber. |
| adjective (a.) Lubberly. |
| lubber | noun (n.) A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. |
| lubberly | adjective (a.) Like a lubber; clumsy. |
| adverb (adv.) Clumsily; awkwardly. |
| lubric | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lubrical |
| lubrical | adjective (a.) Having a smooth surface; slippery. |
| adjective (a.) Lascivious; wanton; lewd. |
| lubricant | noun (n.) That which lubricates; specifically, a substance, as oil, grease, plumbago, etc., used for reducing the friction of the working parts of machinery. |
| adjective (a.) Lubricating. |
| lubrication | noun (n.) The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery. |
| lubricator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, lubricates. |
| noun (n.) A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery. |
| lubricity | noun (n.) Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. |
| noun (n.) Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune. | |
| noun (n.) Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency. |
| lubricous | adjective (a.) Lubric. |
| lubrification | noun (n.) Alt. of Lubrifaction |
| lubrifaction | noun (n.) The act of lubricating, or making smooth. |
| lucarne | noun (n.) A dormer window. |
| lucchese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Lucca, in Tuscany; in the plural, the people of Lucca. |
| luce | noun (n.) A pike when full grown. |
| lucency | noun (n.) The quality of being lucent. |
| lucent | adjective (a.) Shining; bright; resplendent. |
| lucern | noun (n.) A sort of hunting dog; -- perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland. |
| noun (n.) An animal whose fur was formerly much in request (by some supposed to be the lynx). | |
| noun (n.) A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa. | |
| noun (n.) A lamp. |
| lucernal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a lamp. |
| 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. |
| lucernarian | noun (n.) One of the Lucernarida. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Lucernarida. |
| 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. |
| lucerne | noun (n.) See Lucern, the plant. |
| lucid | noun (n.) Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven. |
| noun (n.) Clear; transparent. | |
| noun (n.) Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear. | |
| noun (n.) Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval. |
| lucidity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being lucid. |
| lucidness | noun (n.) The quality of being lucid; lucidity. |
| lucifer | noun (n.) The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. |
| noun (n.) Hence, Satan. | |
| noun (n.) A match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also lucifer match, and locofoco. See Locofoco. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages. |
| luciferian | noun (n.) One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in the fourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because they would not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride of Lucifer; satanic; devilish. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Luciferians or their leader. |
| luciferous | adjective (a.) Giving light; affording light or means of discovery. |
| lucific | adjective (a.) Producing light. |
| luciform | adjective (a.) Having, in some respects, the nature of light; resembling light. |
| lucifrian | adjective (a.) Luciferian; satanic. |
| lucimeter | noun (n.) an instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer. |
| luck | noun (n.) That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill. |
| luckiness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event. |
| noun (n.) Good fortune; favorable issue or event. |
| luckless | adjective (a.) Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid. |
| lucrative | adjective (a.) Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office. |
| adjective (a.) Greedy of gain. |
| lucre | noun (n.) Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense. |
| lucriferous | adjective (a.) Gainful; profitable. |
| lucrific | adjective (a.) Producing profit; gainful. |
| luctation | noun (n.) Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavor. |
| luctual | adjective (a.) Producing grief; saddening. |
| lucubrated | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lucubrate |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Lucubrate |
| lucubrate | noun (n.) To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night. |
| verb (v. t.) To elaborate, perfect, or compose, by night study or by laborious endeavor. |
| lucubration | noun (n.) The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation. |
| noun (n.) That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition. |
| lucubrator | noun (n.) One who studies by night; also, one who produces lucubrations. |
| lucubratory | adjective (a.) Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking. |
| lucule | noun (n.) A spot or fleck on the sun brighter than the surrounding surface. |
| luculent | adjective (a.) Lucid; clear; transparent. |
| adjective (a.) Clear; evident; luminous. | |
| adjective (a.) Bright; shining in beauty. |
| lucullite | noun (n.) A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LUD:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'd':
| liad | noun (n.) A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer. |
| labiated | adjective (a.) Same as Labiate, a. (a). |
| labored | adjective (a.) Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Labor |
| labroid | adjective (a.) Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family Labridae, an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The tautog and cunner are American examples. |
| laced | adjective (a.) Fastened with a lace or laces; decorated with narrow strips or braid. See Lace, v. t. |
| verb (v. t.) Decorated with the fabric lace. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Lace |
| lacerated | adjective (p. a.) Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. |
| adjective (p. a.) Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Lacerate |
| lacertiloid | adjective (a.) Like or belonging to the Lacertilia. |
| laciniated | adjective (a.) Fringed; having a fringed border. |
| adjective (a.) Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed. |
| lad | noun (n.) A boy; a youth; a stripling. |
| noun (n.) A companion; a comrade; a mate. | |
| () p. p. of Lead, to guide. |
| ladied | adjective (a.) Ladylike; not rough; gentle. |
| ladybird | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small beetles of the genus Coccinella and allied genera (family Coccinellidae); -- called also ladybug, ladyclock, lady cow, lady fly, and lady beetle. Coccinella seplempunctata in one of the common European species. See Coccinella. |
| ladyhood | noun (n.) The state or quality of being a lady; the personality of a lady. |
| laemodipod | noun (n.) One of the Laemodipoda. |
| laggard | noun (n.) One who lags; a loiterer. |
| adjective (a.) Slow; sluggish; backward. |
| laird | noun (n.) A lord; a landholder, esp. one who holds land directly of the crown. |
| lakeweed | noun (n.) The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America. |
| lambdoid | adjective (a.) Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (/); as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull. |
| lamellated | adjective (a.) Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennae. |
| lamented | adjective (a.) Mourned for; bewailed. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Lament |
| laminated | adjective (a.) Laminate. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Laminate |
| lampad | noun (n.) A lamp or candlestick. |
| lanceolated | adjective (a.) Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf. |
| lancewood | noun (n.) A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseae). |
| land | noun (n.) Urine. See Lant. |
| noun (n.) The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage. | |
| noun (n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract. | |
| noun (n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land. | |
| noun (n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people. | |
| noun (n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands. | |
| noun (n.) The ground or floor. | |
| noun (n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing. | |
| noun (n.) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate. | |
| noun (n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing. | |
| noun (n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves. | |
| verb (v. t.) To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark. | |
| verb (v. t.) To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish. | |
| verb (v. t.) To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes. | |
| verb (v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course. |
| landed | adjective (a.) Having an estate in land. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting in real estate or land; as, landed property; landed security. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Land |
| landflood | noun (n.) An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. |
| landlocked | adjective (a.) Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land. |
| adjective (a.) Confined to a fresh-water lake by reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon. |
| landlord | noun (n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants. |
| noun (n.) The master of an inn or of a lodging house. |
| languaged | adjective (a.) Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Language |
| langued | adjective (a.) Tongued; having the tongue visible. |
| languid | adjective (a.) Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. |
| adjective (a.) Slow in progress; tardy. | |
| adjective (a.) Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day. |
| laniard | noun (n.) See Lanyard. |
| lanioid | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the shrikes (family Laniidae). |
| lanyard | noun (n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc. |
| noun (n.) A strong cord, about twelve feet long, with an iron hook at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction tube. |
| lapboard | noun (n.) A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors. |
| lapelled | adjective (a.) Furnished with lapels. |
| lapsed | adjective (a.) Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses. |
| adjective (a.) Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of insurance; a lapsed legacy. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Lapse |
| lapsided | adjective (a.) See Lopsided. |
| larboard | noun (n.) The left-hand side of a ship to one on board facing toward the bow; port; -- opposed to starboard. |
| adjective (a.) On or pertaining to the left-hand side of a vessel; port; as, the larboard quarter. |
| lard | noun (n.) Bacon; the flesh of swine. |
| noun (n.) The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained. | |
| noun (n.) To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as, to lard poultry. | |
| noun (n.) To fatten; to enrich. | |
| noun (n.) To smear with lard or fat. | |
| noun (n.) To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard. | |
| verb (v. i.) To grow fat. |
| laroid | adjective (a.) Like or belonging to the Gull family (Laridae). |
| larvated | adjective (a.) Masked; clothed as with a mask. |
| lated | adjective (a.) Belated; too late. |
| latered | adjective (a.) Inclined to delay; dilatory. |
| laund | noun (n.) A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade. |
| laureled | adjective (a.) Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate. |
| lawnd | noun (n.) See Laund. |
| layland | noun (n.) Land lying untilled; fallow ground. |
| lead | noun (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. |
| noun (n.) An article made of lead or an alloy of lead | |
| noun (n.) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. | |
| noun (n.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. | |
| noun (n.) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. | |
| noun (n.) A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. | |
| noun (n.) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another. | |
| noun (n.) precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's length, or of half a second. | |
| noun (n.) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead. | |
| noun (n.) An open way in an ice field. | |
| noun (n.) A lode. | |
| noun (n.) The course of a rope from end to end. | |
| noun (n.) The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke. | |
| noun (n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment. | |
| noun (n.) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. | |
| noun (n.) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts. | |
| noun (n.) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others. | |
| noun (n.) In an internal-combustion engine, the distance, measured in actual length of piston stroke or the corresponding angular displacement of the crank, of the piston from the end of the compression stroke when ignition takes place; -- called in full lead of the ignition. When ignition takes place during the working stroke the corresponding distance from the commencement of the stroke is called negative lead. | |
| noun (n.) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft. | |
| noun (n.) In spiral screw threads, worm wheels, or the like, the amount of advance of any point in the spiral for a complete turn. | |
| noun (n.) A conductor conveying electricity, as from a dynamo. | |
| noun (n.) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles. | |
| noun (n.) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it. | |
| noun (n.) A r/le for a leading man or leading woman; also, one who plays such a r/le. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man. | |
| verb (v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil. | |
| verb (v. t.) To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party. | |
| verb (v. t.) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause. | |
| verb (v. t.) To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course). | |
| verb (v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led. | |
| verb (v. i.) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices. |
| leaded | adjective (a.) Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows. |
| adjective (a.) Separated by leads, as the lines of a page. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Lead |
| leafed | adjective (a.) Having (such) a leaf or (so many) leaves; -- used in composition; as, broad-leafed; four-leafed. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Leaf |
| learned | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Learn |
| leasehold | noun (n.) A tenure by lease; specifically, land held as personalty under a lease for years. |
| adjective (a.) Held by lease. |
| leatherhead | noun (n.) The friar bird. |
| leatherwood | noun (n.) A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. |
| leaved | adjective (a.) Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long-leaved. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Leave |
| leeboard | noun (n.) A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught. |
| leed | noun (n.) Alt. of Leede |
| leeward | noun (n.) The lee side; the lee. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the part or side toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward berth; a leeward ship. | |
| adverb (adv.) Toward the lee. |
| legend | noun (n.) That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses. |
| noun (n.) A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature. | |
| noun (n.) Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable. | |
| noun (n.) An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tell or narrate, as a legend. |
| legged | adjective (a.) Having (such or so many) legs; -- used in composition; as, a long-legged man; a two-legged animal. |
| legioned | adjective (a.) Formed into a legion or legions; legionary. |
| leisured | adjective (a.) Having leisure. |
| lemurid | noun (a. & n.) Same as Lemuroid. |
| lemuroid | noun (n.) One of the Lemuroidea. |
| adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the lemurs or the Lemuroidea. |
| lentoid | adjective (a.) Having the form of a lens; lens-shaped. |
| leod | noun (n.) People; a nation; a man. |
| leonced | adjective (a.) See Lionced. |
| leonid | noun (n.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo. |
| leopard | noun (n.) A large, savage, carnivorous mammal (Felis leopardus). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther (Felis pardus) is regarded as a variety of leopard. |
| leopardwood | noun (n.) See Letterwood. |
| lepadoid | noun (n.) A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas, or family Lepadidae; a goose barnacle. Also used adjectively. |
| lepered | adjective (a.) Affected or tainted with leprosy. |
| lepid | adjective (a.) Pleasant; jocose. |
| lepidodendrid | noun (n.) One of an extinct family of trees allied to the modern club mosses, and including Lepidodendron and its allies. |
| lepidodendroid | noun (n.) A lepidodendrid. |
| adjective (a.) Allied to, or resembling, Lepidodendron. |
| lepidoganoid | noun (n.) Any one of a division (Lepidoganoidei) of ganoid fishes, including those that have scales forming a coat of mail. Also used adjectively. |
| lepidoted | adjective (a.) Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster. |
| lepismoid | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the Lepisma. |
| letheed | adjective (a.) Caused by Lethe. |
| lettered | adjective (a.) Literate; educated; versed in literature. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned. | |
| adjective (a.) Inscribed or stamped with letters. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Letter |
| letterwood | noun (n.) The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum (B. Aubletii), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks. |
| leucitoid | noun (n.) The trapezohedron or tetragonal trisoctahedron; -- so called as being the form of the mineral leucite. |
| leucoplastid | noun (n.) One of certain very minute whitish or colorless granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the nuclei around which starch granules will form. |
| leucosoid | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the Leucosoidea, a tribe of marine crabs including the box crab or Calappa. |
| leverwood | noun (n.) The American hop hornbeam (Ostrya Virginica), a small tree with very tough wood. |
| liard | noun (n.) A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou. |
| adjective (a.) Gray. |
| libbard | noun (n.) A leopard. |
| libellulid | noun (n.) A dragon fly. |
| libelluloid | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the dragon flies. |
| licensed | adjective (a.) Having a license; permitted or authorized by license; as, a licensed victualer; a licensed traffic. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of License |
| lichened | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or covered with, lichens. |
| lid | noun (n.) That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk. |
| noun (n.) The cover of the eye; an eyelid. | |
| noun (n.) The cover of the spore cases of mosses. | |
| noun (n.) A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti. | |
| noun (n.) The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts. |
| lidded | adjective (a.) Covered with a lid. |
| lied | noun (n.) A lay; a German song. It differs from the French chanson, and the Italian canzone, all three being national. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Lie |
| lifeblood | noun (n.) The blood necessary to life; vital blood. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: That which gives strength and energy. |
| lifehold | noun (n.) Land held by a life estate. |
| lightwood | noun (n.) Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze. |
| ligulated | adjective (a.) Like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped. |
| adjective (a.) Composed of ligules. |
| likehood | noun (n.) Likelihood. |
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