LudoSportA modern, lightsaber-inspired combat sport created in Italy, blending martial arts, fencing, and Star Wars fantasy into a fitness-focused activity with codified techniques, forms, and tournaments.
lumicanThe major keratin sulfate proteoglycan of the cornea.
luminaphoneA kind of organ whose keys project light beams through perforated revolving disks onto selenium cells in order to produce electrical vibrations that generate the sound.
lunicurrentRelated to changes in currents that depend on the moon's phases.
lunisticeThe farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution.
lunomancydivination by interpreting shadows created by moonlight on a person's face dusted with silver. This is most often done on the full moon to have the highest moonlight intensity.
lunulaSomething shaped like a crescent or half-moon; especially the pale area at the base of the fingernail.
LupercusA god who protected flocks, in some sources identified with Faunus in the aspect of Inuus, and by extension as the equivalent of the Greek Πὰν Λυκαῖος (Pàn Lukaîos, “Lycaean Pan”).
lustrateSynonym of purify, to ritually cleanse or renew, particularly to do so with a propitiatory offering or (historical) the lustration, quinquennial ritual of the Roman censor to cleanse the city after a census.
lustrationA rite of purification, especially washing.
lustrumA lustration: a ceremonial purification of the people of Rome performed every five years after the census.
lususThe supposed son or companion of Bacchus, god of wine and divine madness, to whom Portuguese national mythology attributed the foundation of ancient Lusitania and the fatherhood of the Lusitanians.
lusus naturaeA sportive quality in Nature to which abnormal forms were formerly ascribed; a supposed capricious act of Nature regarded as the cause and origin of anomalies in a given organism.
lutariousOf, pertaining to, or like mud; living in mud.
lutationThe act or method of luting vessels, of cementing vessels using lute (the material)
luteinizing hormoneA hormone, produced by anterior part of the pituitary gland, that stimulates ovulation and the development of the corpus luteum in female mammals, and the production of androgens by male mammals.