Word origins

• lenitudeThe quality or habit of being lenient; lenity.
• lenocinantLewd; lascivious; lustful.
• lenociniumA husband's connivance at his wife's adultery.
• lenticOf or pertaining to, or living in still waters (such as lakes, ponds, or wetlands).
• lenticulaA kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.
• lentiformShaped like a biconvex lens.
• lentiginousOf, pertaining to, resembling or having lentigines.
• lentiscusThe mastic-tree (Pistacia lentiscus).
• lentiskA tree, the lentiscus, Pistacia lentiscus.
• lentitudeSlowness; sluggishness.
• lentitudinousslow; sluggish
• lentousviscid; viscous; tenacious
• LeodensianSomeone from Leeds in northern England.
• LeontiniAn ancient city in Sicily, now Lentini
• leontomorphicIn the form of a lion.
• lepidpleasant; amusing
• LeponticAn extinct language attested in Europe until c. 100BC, usually considered to be a member of the Celtic family.
• LepontiiThe Lepontii, an Alpine Celtic tribe, who dwelt in the valleys of the south side of the Alps, in roughly Switzerland.
• leporiformSynonym of rabbitlike.
• leporineOf, relating to, or characteristic of a hare or a rabbit.
• leporiphobiaFear of rabbits.
• lepraSynonym of leprosy.
• Leptis MagnaA former city in Libya, one of the cities of Tripoli that did not survive to modern times.
• Lesser AsiaSynonym of Asia Minor.
• lethargusA quiescent sleeplike state in some arthropods and nematodes.
• letheanOf or relating to the river Lethe, one of the four rivers of Hades. Those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness.
• lethiferousDeadly, lethal.
• let the buyer bewareIt is the buyer’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of goods or services prior to their purchase.
• leucolinequinoline.
• LevanaAn Ancient Roman goddess involved in rituals relating to childbirth.
• levari faciasA writ of execution at common law.
• levationThe lifting of a corpse during a religious service.
• levator scapulaeA skeletal muscle located at the back and side of the neck.
• levigateTo make smooth or polish.
• levigationThe act or operation of levigating (making into fine powder)
• leviraticalOf, relating to, or in accordance with levirate marriage.
• levo-Left; on the left; toward the left.
• lexi-word; lexeme.
• l exilisclear l
• lex lataThe law as it is.
• lex talionislaw of equivalent retaliation.
• LezgiA member of an ethnic group living predominantly in southern Dagestan and northeastern Azerbaijan.
• libamentA libation.
• libantSipping; touching lightly.
• libateTo pour a liquid, most often wine, in sacrifice on the ground, on a ritual object, or on a victim, in honor of some deity.
• libellaA small balance.
• libellaryPertaining to the Roman form of law in which the plaintiff files a formal petition.
• liberal artsThe academic course of instruction intended to provide general knowledge and usually comprising the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, as opposed to professional or technical subjects.
• liberformA superclass of trypanosomatid parasites with a flagellum that is not laterally-attached .
• libidinistA lecher or oversexed person.
• libido dominandiThe will to power; the desire to dominate; the lust for government.
• LibitinaAn ancient Roman goddess of funerals and burial.
• libralOf a pound in weight.
• librateTo oscillate (like the beam of a balance).
• libratiousCharacterized by libration.
• libricideThe destruction of books.
• libriformResembling or having the form of liber, or bast.
• librocubicularistA person who reads in bed.
• liceityThe legitimacy of an act or its consequences, by opposition to the validity.
• lichanosIn Ancient Greek musical theory, the higher-pitched of the two movable notes in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre, pitched lower than the mese and higher than the parhypate.
• licitationauction
• lictorAn officer in Ancient Rome, attendant on a consul or magistrate, who bore the fasces and was responsible for punishing criminals.
• lienalOf or pertaining to the spleen.
• lienculusan accessory spleen
• lienicOf or pertaining to the spleen.
• lieno-spleen
• lientericOf or relating to, or of the nature of, lientery.
• lienteryA form of diarrhea in which food passes through the body with little or no digestion.
• ligneousOf, or resembling wood; woody.
• ligniferousYielding or producing wood.
• ligniformLike wood.
• lignifyTo become wood.
• ligniperdousWood-destroying
• lignivorousThat feeds on wood.
• ligno-wood
• lignoselignin
• lignum vitaeguaiacum trees, of species Guaiacum officinale and Guaiacum sanctum.
• liguresThe ancient Ligurians.
• limaciformslug-shaped
• limacologyThe scientific study of slugs.
• limationThe act of filing, polishing, or refining.
• limatureThe act of filing.
• limbateHaving a distinct edge, especially one of a different colour; bordered.
• limenA liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response.
• limitaneousOf or pertaining to a limit.
• limitaryOf or pertaining to a limit or boundary.
• limitateBounded by a distinct line or boundary.
• limivorousEating mud or soil for organic matter in it.
• limousmuddy; slimy; viscous
• linamentLint (fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth, used for dressing wounds), especially when made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.
• linctureA linctus.
• linctusAny syrupy medication; especially a remedy for coughs.
• linea albaA fibrous structure that runs down the midline of the abdomen in humans and other vertebrates.
• linea nigraA dark vertical line, running up the abdomen from the pubis to the navel (though it sometimes runs further, to the top of the abdomen) that forms during pregnancy.
• lineateTo mark with lines.
• lineoidthe set of points in 3-dimensional space that are also points in 4-dimensional space
• lineolateMarked with little lines.
• lingenceA linctus.
• linguaciousTalkative; loquacious.
• Lingua IgnotaA Latin-influenced mystical 12th-century constructed language recorded by St. Hildegard of Bingen, and apparently the first entirely artificial language.