Name Report For First Name LOT:

LOT

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

Rhymes with LOT - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming LOT

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LOT AS A WHOLE:

clotho lotus philothea cozamalotl launcelot phelot charlot zelotes camelot carlota carlotta charlotta charlotte clotilde lancelot lothair lothar lotharing clotilda lotye karlotta lotte shalott yolotli

NAMES RHYMING WITH LOT (According to last letters):

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

groot daedbot margot amot bemot daviot eliot elliot estcot jacot jeannot lohoot preostcot prescot scot talbot talehot tibbot weallcot westcot wolfcot wulfcot wilmot bernot arnot dermot talebot walcot ascot abbot heorot annot

NAMES RHYMING WITH LOT (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 loiyan lojza lokelani lokni lola lola-jo loleta lolita lolitta lomahongva loman lomasi lomsky lomy lon lona lonato lonell loni lonn lonna lonnell lonnie lono lonyn lonzo 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

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LOT:

First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 't':

lambart lambert lambrecht lambret lambrett lamont lamorat langit laurent laurit legget leveret leverett liesbet lilibet lirit lisabet lisavet lisbet list lizbet lunet lynet lynett lynnet lyonet

English Words Rhyming LOT

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LOT AS A WHOLE:

acolothistnoun (n.) See Acolythist.

aeolotropicadjective (a.) Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic.

aeolotropynoun (n.) Difference of quality or property in different directions.

allottingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allot

allotheismnoun (n.) The worship of strange gods.

allotmentnoun (n.) The act of allotting; assignment.
 noun (n.) That which is allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed; that which is assigned by lot, or by the act of God; anything set apart for a special use or to a distinct party.
 noun (n.) The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person.

allotriophagynoun (n.) A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.

allotropicadjective (a.) Alt. of Allotropical

allotropicaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to allotropism.

allotropicitynoun (n.) Allotropic property or nature.

allotropismnoun (n.) Alt. of Allotropy

allotropynoun (n.) The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.

allottableadjective (a.) Capable of being allotted.

allotteenoun (n.) One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made.

allotternoun (n.) One who allots.

allotterynoun (n.) Allotment.

ambloticadjective (a.) Tending to cause abortion.

anchyloticadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to anchylosis.

angelotnoun (n.) A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI.
 noun (n.) An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused.
 noun (n.) A sort of small, rich cheese, made in Normandy.

anoplotherenoun (n.) Alt. of Anoplotherium

anoplotheriumnoun (n.) A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

anthropoglotnoun (n.) An animal which has a tongue resembling that of man, as the parrot.

aplotomynoun (n.) Simple incision.

applottingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Applot

applotmentnoun (n.) Apportionment.

axolotlnoun (n.) An amphibian of the salamander tribe found in the elevated lakes of Mexico; the siredon.

allotrophicadjective (a.) Changed or modified in nutritive power by the process of digestion.
 adjective (a.) Dependent upon other organisms for nutrition; heterotrophic; -- said of plants unable to perform photosynthesis, as all saprophytes; -- opposed to autotrophic.

ballotnoun (n.) Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
 noun (n.) The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.
 noun (n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.
 noun (n.) To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
 verb (v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to.

ballotingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ballot

ballotationnoun (n.) Voting by ballot.

balloternoun (n.) One who votes by ballot.

ballotinnoun (n.) An officer who has charge of a ballot box.

balotadenoun (n.) See Ballotade.

barmclothnoun (n.) Apron.

bedclothesnoun (n. pl.) Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.

billotnoun (n.) Bullion in the bar or mass.

blottingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blot

blotnoun (n.) A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
 noun (n.) An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
 noun (n.) A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
 noun (n.) An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
 noun (n.) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
 noun (n.) A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
 verb (v. t.) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
 verb (v. t.) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
 verb (v. t.) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
 verb (v. t.) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.
 verb (v. t.) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
 verb (v. t.) To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
 verb (v. i.) To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.

blotchadjective (a.) A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.
 adjective (a.) A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.

blotchedadjective (a.) Marked or covered with blotches.

blotchyadjective (a.) Having blotches.

blotingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blote

blotlessadjective (a.) Without blot.

blotternoun (n.) One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.
 noun (n.) A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.

blottesqueadjective (a.) Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation.

breechclothnoun (n.) A cloth worn around the breech.

broadclothnoun (n.) A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.

ballotagenoun (n.) In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates.

bibelotnoun (n.) A small decorative object without practical utility.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LOT (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ot) - English Words That Ends with ot:


abbotnoun (n.) The superior or head of an abbey.
 noun (n.) One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.

algarotnoun (n.) Alt. of Algaroth

aliquotadjective (a.) An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to aliquant.

apricotnoun (n.) A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

argotnoun (n.) A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

arnotnoun (n.) Alt. of Arnut

arrowrootnoun (n.) A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.
 noun (n.) A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of Maranta and Curcuma.

assotadjective (a.) Dazed; foolish; infatuated.
 verb (v. t.) To besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate.

bandicootnoun (n.) A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.
 noun (n.) A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.

bergamotnoun (n.) A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit.
 noun (n.) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).
 noun (n.) The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
 noun (n.) A variety of pear.
 noun (n.) A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
 noun (n.) A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit.

bigotnoun (n.) A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite.
 noun (n.) A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
 adjective (a.) Bigoted.

birthrootnoun (n.) An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.

bitterrootnoun (n.) A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaet'lum.

blackfootnoun (n.) A Blackfoot Indian.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.

blackrootnoun (n.) See Colicroot.

bloodrootnoun (n.) A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria.

bloodshotadjective (a.) Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated.

bonmotnoun (n.) A witty repartee; a jest.

bootnoun (n.) Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
 noun (n.) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
 noun (n.) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
 noun (n.) A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
 noun (n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
 noun (n.) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
 noun (n.) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
 noun (n.) An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
 noun (n.) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
 noun (n.) Booty; spoil.
 verb (v. t.) To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?
 verb (v. t.) To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
 verb (v. t.) To put boots on, esp. for riding.
 verb (v. t.) To punish by kicking with a booted foot.
 verb (v. i.) To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.

botnoun (n.) See Bots.

bowknotnoun (n.) A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.

bowshotnoun (n.) The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

breadrootnoun (n.) The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.

breastknotnoun (n.) A knot of ribbons worn on the breast.

brideknotnoun (n.) A knot of ribbons worn by a guest at a wedding; a wedding favor.

bridgepotnoun (n.) The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle.

browspotnoun (n.) A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.

buckshotnoun (n.) A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.

burbotnoun (n.) A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.

burgamotnoun (n.) See Bergamot.

cachalotnoun (n.) The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale.

cachepotnoun (n.) An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc.

cagotnoun (n.) One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.

cahootnoun (n.) Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person.

callotnoun (n.) A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte.
 noun (n.) A close cap without visor or brim.
 noun (n.) Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law.
 noun (n.) Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets.
 noun (n.) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church.

camelotnoun (n.) See Camelet.

candiotadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Candia; Cretary.

capotnoun (n.) A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points.
 verb (v. t.) To win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet.

carlotnoun (n.) A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman.

carmotnoun (n.) The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed.

carrotnoun (n.) An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.
 noun (n.) The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color.

chariotnoun (n.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc.
 noun (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat.
 verb (v. t.) To convey in a chariot.

chassepotnoun (n.) A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.

cherootnoun (n.) A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco.

cheviotnoun (n.) A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills.
 noun (n.) A woolen fabric, for men's clothing.

clotnoun (n.) A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
 verb (v. i.) To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.
 verb (v. t.) To form into a slimy mass.

clubfootnoun (n.) A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.

coffeepotnoun (n.) A covered pot in which coffee is prepared, or is brought upon the table for drinking.

colicrootnoun (n.) A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.

coltsfootnoun (n.) A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LOT (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (lo) - Words That Begins with lo:


loachnoun (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.

loadingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Load
 noun (n.) The act of putting a load on or into.
 noun (n.) A load; cargo; burden.

loadernoun (n.) One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.

loadmanagenoun (n.) Alt. of Lodemanage

lodemanagenoun (n.) Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman.
 noun (n.) Pilotage.

loadsmannoun (n.) Alt. of Lodesman

lodesmannoun (n.) A pilot.
 noun (n.) Same as Loadsman.

loadstarnoun (n.) Alt. of Lodestar

lodestarnoun (n.) A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure.
 noun (n.) Same as Loadstar.

loadstonenoun (n.) Alt. of Lodestone

lodestonenoun (n.) A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.
 noun (n.) Same as Loadstone.

loafnoun (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.

loafingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loaf

loafernoun (n.) One who loafs; a lazy lounger.

loamnoun (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.

loamingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loam

loamyadjective (a.) Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.

loannoun (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.

loaningnoun (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.

loanableadjective (a.) Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings.

loaninnoun (n.) Alt. of Loaning

loanmongernoun (n.) A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.

loathadjective (a.) Hateful; odious; disliked.
 adjective (a.) Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part.

loathingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loathe
 noun (n.) Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation.

loathernoun (n.) One who loathes.

loathfuladjective (a.) Full of loathing; hating; abhorring.
 adjective (a.) Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting.

loathlinessnoun (n.) Loathsomeness.

loathlyadjective (a.) Loathsome.
 adverb (adv.) Unwillingly; reluctantly.
 adverb (adv.) (/) So as to cause loathing.

loathnessnoun (n.) Unwillingness; reluctance.

loathsomeadjective (a.) Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting.

loathyadjective (a.) Loathsome.

loavesnoun (n.) pl. of Loaf.
  (pl. ) of Loaf

lobnoun (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.

lobbingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lob

lobaradjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.

lobateadjective (a.) Alt. of Lobated

lobatedadjective (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.

lobbishadjective (a.) Like a lob; consisting of lobs.

lobbynoun (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.

lobbyingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lobby

lobbyistnoun (n.) A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation.

lobcocknoun (n.) A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob.

lobenoun (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.

lobedadjective (a.) Having lobes; lobate.

lobefootnoun (n.) A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.

lobeletnoun (n.) A small lobe; a lobule.

lobelianoun (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.

lobeliaceousadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.

lobelinnoun (n.) A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.

lobelinenoun (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 LOT:

English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 't':

labadistnoun (n.) A follower of Jean de Labadie, a religious teacher of the 17th century, who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism, and the obligation of community of property among Christians.

labentadjective (a.) Slipping; sliding; gliding.

laborantnoun (n.) A chemist.

labyrinthodontnoun (n.) One of the Labyrinthodonta.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta.

lacertnoun (n.) A muscle of the human body.

lactantadjective (a.) Suckling; giving suck.

lactescentadjective (a.) Having a milky look; becoming milky.
 adjective (a.) Producing milk or a milklike juice or fluid, as the milkweed. See Latex.

lakeletnoun (n.) A little lake.

lamaistnoun (n.) Alt. of Lamaite

lambentadjective (a.) Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.
 adjective (a.) Twinkling or gleaming; fickering.

lambskinnetnoun (n.) See Lansquenet.

lampadistnoun (n.) One who gained the prize in the lampadrome.

lamplightnoun (n.) Light from a lamp.

lanceletnoun (n.) A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.

lancetnoun (n.) A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.
 noun (n.) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.

landauletnoun (n.) A small landau.

landscapistnoun (n.) A painter of landscapes.

landstreightnoun (n.) A narrow strip of land.

langretnoun (n.) A kind of loaded die.

languetnoun (n.) Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth.
 noun (n.) That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.

languishmentnoun (n.) The state of languishing.
 noun (n.) Tenderness of look or mien; amorous pensiveness.

lanneretnoun (n. m.) A long-tailed falcon (Falco lanarius), of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie falcon.

lansquenetnoun (n.) A German foot soldier in foreign service in the 15th and 16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; -- a term used in France and Western Europe.
 noun (n.) A game at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet.

lantnoun (n.) Urine.
 noun (n.) Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and the American species (A. Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also launce, and sand eel.
 noun (n.) See Lanterloo.

lapidescentnoun (n.) Any substance which has the quality of petrifying other bodies, or of converting or being converted into stone.
 adjective (a.) Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.

lapidistnoun (n.) A lapidary.

lappetnoun (n.) A small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
 verb (v. t.) To decorate with, or as with, a lappet.

larcenistnoun (n.) One who commits larceny.

largetnoun (n.) A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.

largiloquentadjective (a.) Grandiloquent.

lariatnoun (n.) A long, slender rope made of hemp or strips of hide, esp. one with a noose; -- used as a lasso for catching cattle, horses, etc., and for picketing a horse so that he can graze without wandering.
 verb (v. t.) To secure with a lariat fastened to a stake, as a horse or mule for grazing; also, to lasso or catch with a lariat.

laryngologistnoun (n.) One who applies himself to laryngology.

laryngoscopistnoun (n.) One skilled in laryngoscopy.

lascivientadjective (a.) Lascivious.

laserwortnoun (n.) Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Laserpitium, of several species (as L. glabrum, and L. siler), the root of which yields a resinous substance of a bitter taste. The genus is mostly European.

lasketnoun (n.) latching.

lastnoun (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers; of pitch and tar, fourteen barrels; of wool, twelve sacks; of flax or feathers, 1,700 lbs.
 noun (n.) The burden of a ship; a cargo.
 adjective (a.) Being after all the others, similarly classed or considered, in time, place, or order of succession; following all the rest; final; hindmost; farthest; as, the last year of a century; the last man in a line of soldiers; the last page in a book; his last chance.
 adjective (a.) Next before the present; as, I saw him last week.
 adjective (a.) Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
 adjective (a.) Lowest in rank or degree; as, the last prize.
 adjective (a.) Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely; having least fitness; as, he is the last person to be accused of theft.
 adjective (a.) At a time or on an occasion which is the latest of all those spoken of or which have occurred; the last time; as, I saw him last in New York.
 adjective (a.) In conclusion; finally.
 adjective (a.) At a time next preceding the present time.
 verb (v. i.) To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence.
 verb (v. i.) To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter.
 verb (v. i.) A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.
 verb (v. t.) To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last; as, to last a boot.
  (3d pers. sing. pres.) of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

latchetnoun (n.) The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.

latentadjective (a.) Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action.

latescentadjective (a.) Slightly withdrawn from view or knowledge; as, a latescent meaning.

latinistnoun (n.) One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar.

latitantadjective (a.) Lying hid; concealed; latent.

latitatnoun (n.) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.

latrantadjective (a.) Barking.

lavaretnoun (n.) A European whitefish (Coregonus laveretus), found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland.

lavementnoun (n.) A washing or bathing; also, a clyster.

lavishmentnoun (n.) The act of lavishing.

lavoltnoun (n.) Alt. of Lavolta

lawsuitnoun (n.) An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.

lazaretnoun (n.) Alt. of Lazaretto
 noun (n.) Alt. of Lazaretto

lazaristnoun (n.) Alt. of Lazarite

lazarwortnoun (n.) Laserwort.

leadwortnoun (n.) A genus of maritime herbs (Plumbago). P. Europaea has lead-colored spots on the leaves, and nearly lead-colored flowers.

leafetnoun (n.) A leaflet.

leafletnoun (n.) A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.
 noun (n.) One of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole.
 noun (n.) A leaflike organ or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes.

leastadjective (a.) Smallest, either in size or degree; shortest; lowest; most unimportant; as, the least insect; the least mercy; the least space.
 adverb (adv.) In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others; as, to reward those who least deserve it.
  (conj.) See Lest, conj.

leatnoun (n.) An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill.

leatheretnoun (n.) Alt. of Leatherette

ledgementnoun (n.) See Ledgment.

ledgmentnoun (n.) A string-course or horizontal suit of moldings, such as the base moldings of a building.
 noun (n.) The development of the surface of a body on a plane, so that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained.

leechcraftnoun (n.) The art of healing; skill of a physician.

leetnoun (n.) A portion; a list, esp. a list of candidates for an office.
 noun (n.) A court-leet; the district within the jurisdiction of a court-leet; the day on which a court-leet is held.
 noun (n.) The European pollock.
  (obs. imp.) of Let, to allow.

leftnoun (n.) That part of surrounding space toward which the left side of one's body is turned; as, the house is on the left when you face North.
 noun (n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who are in the opposition; the advanced republicans and extreme radicals. They have their seats at the left-hand side of the presiding officer. See Center, and Right.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action of the limbs is usually weaker than on the other side; -- opposed to right, when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the left hand, or arm; the left ear. Also said of the corresponding side of the lower animals.
 adjective (a.) Situated so that the left side of the body is toward it; as, the left side of a deliberative meeting is that to the left of the presiding officer; the left wing of an army is that to the left of the center to one facing an enemy.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Leave
  (imp. & p. p.) of Leave.

legalistnoun (n.) One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 (a).

legementnoun (n.) See Ledgment.

legerdemainistnoun (n.) One who practices sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.

legistnoun (n.) One skilled in the laws; a writer on law.

legitimatistnoun (n.) See Legitimist.

legitimistnoun (n.) One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.
 noun (n.) Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France.

lenientnoun (n.) A lenitive; an emollient.
 adjective (a.) Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of.
 adjective (a.) Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.

lenimentnoun (n.) An assuasive.

lenocinantadjective (a.) Given to lewdness.

lentnoun (n.) A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.
 adjective (a.) Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats.
 adjective (a.) See Lento.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Lend
  () imp. & p. p. of Lend.

lepidopteristnoun (n.) One who studies the Lepidoptera.

lerotnoun (n.) A small European rodent (Eliomys nitela), allied to the dormouse.

lestnoun (n.) Lust; desire; pleasure.
 adjective (a.) Last; least.
 adjective (a.) For fear that; that . . . not; in order that . . . not.
 adjective (a.) That (without the negative particle); -- after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension.
 verb (v. i.) To listen.

letnoun (n.) A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; -- common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic.
 noun (n.) A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.
 verb (v. t.) To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.
 verb (v. t.) To leave; to relinquish; to abandon.
 verb (v. t.) To consider; to think; to esteem.
 verb (v. t.) To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.
 verb (v. t.) To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.
 verb (v. t.) To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.
 verb (v. t.) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.
 verb (v. i.) To forbear.
 verb (v. i.) To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under Let, v. t.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Let

leucoplastnoun (n.) Alt. of Leucoplastid

leukoplastnoun (n.) See Leucoplast.

levantnoun (n.) The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
 noun (n.) A levanter (the wind so called).
 adjective (a.) Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
 adjective (a.) Eastern.
 verb (v. i.) To run away from one's debts; to decamp.

leveretnoun (n.) A hare in the first year of its age.

levetnoun (n.) A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.

lexicographistnoun (n.) A lexicographer.

lexicologistnoun (n.) One versed in lexicology.

lexiconistnoun (n.) A writer of a lexicon.

libamentnoun (n.) Libation.

libantadjective (a.) Sipping; touching lightly.

libelantnoun (n.) One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court.

libelistnoun (n.) A libeler.

liberalistnoun (n.) A liberal.

libidinistnoun (n.) One given to lewdness.

libration pointnoun (n.) any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body.

librettistnoun (n.) One who makes a libretto.

lichenographistnoun (n.) One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.

lichenologistnoun (n.) One versed in lichenology.

lichwortnoun (n.) An herb, the wall pellitory. See Pellitory.

licitadjective (a.) Lawful.

lieutenantnoun (n.) An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty.
 noun (n.) A commissioned officer in the army, next below a captain.
 noun (n.) A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank next below a commander.
 noun (n.) A commissioned officer in the United States navy, in rank next below a lieutenant commander.

lifeboatnoun (n.) A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.

liftnoun (n.) The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
 noun (n.) Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
 noun (n.) The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
 noun (n.) Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
 noun (n.) That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
 noun (n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
 noun (n.) A handle.
 noun (n.) An exercising machine.
 noun (n.) A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
 noun (n.) A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
 noun (n.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
 noun (n.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
 noun (n.) A layer of leather in the heel.
 noun (n.) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
 verb (v. t.) To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.
 verb (v. t.) To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
 verb (v. t.) To bear; to support.
 verb (v. t.) To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
 verb (v. t.) To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
 verb (v. i.) To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
 verb (v. i.) To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
 verb (v. t.) To live by theft.