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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

legate
official emissary noun a member of a legation

legatee
noun someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed

legation
legateship noun the post or office of legate

legato
adjective (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected; `a legato passage`

legendary
adjective so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend; `the legendary exploits of the arctic trailblazers`

legendary creature
noun a monster that is unverifiable but popularly accepted as possibly factual

Leger
Fernand Leger noun French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955)

legged
adjective having legs of a specified kind or number; `four-legged animals`; `a peg-legged man`

legging
legin noun a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle)

leggy
long-shanked adjective having long legs

legibility
noun writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read

legible
adjective (of handwriting, print, etc.) able to be read; `legible handwriting`

legibly
decipherably adverb in a legible manner; `you must write legibly`

Legionella pneumophilia
legionella noun the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires` disease

legionnaire
legionary noun a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion)

Legionnaires` disease
noun acute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough

legislate
verb make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; `They passed the amendment`; `We cannot legislate how people`s spend their free time`

legislation
statute law noun law enacted by a legislative body

legislative
adjective of or relating to or created by legislation; `legislative proposal`

legislative act
statute noun an act passed by a legislative body

legislative branch
noun the branch of the United States government that has the power of legislating

legislative council
noun a unicameral legislature

legislatively
adverb by legislation; `legislatively determined`

legislator
noun someone who makes or enacts laws

legislatorship
noun the office of legislator

legislature
legislative assembly noun persons who make or amend or repeal laws

legitimacy
noun lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law

legitimate
logical adjective based on known statements or events or conditions; `rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year`

legitimately
adverb in a lawfully recognized manner; `let`s get married so our child can be born legitimately`

legitimately
adverb in a manner acceptable to common custom; `you cannot do this legitimately!`

legless
adjective not having legs; `a legless man in a wheelchair`

legless lizard
noun degenerate wormlike burrowing lizard of California closely related to alligator lizards

leglike
adjective resembling or functioning like a leg; `leglike appendages`

Lego
Lego set noun (trademark) a child`s plastic construction set for making mechanical models

legs
noun staying power; `that old Broadway play really has legs`

legume
noun the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)

leguminious
adjective of or resembling the legumes; `leguminious plants`

Leguminosae
family Leguminosae noun a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae

leguminous
adjective relating to or consisting of legumes

Lehar
Franz Lehar noun Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948)

Lehigh River
noun a rive in eastern Pennsylvania that flows southeast into the Delaware River

Leibniz
Leibnitz noun German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)

Leibnizian
Leibnitzian adjective of or relating to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz or to his mathematics or philosophy

Leicester
noun an industrial city in Leicestershire in central England; built on the site of a Roman settlement

Leicestershire
noun a largely agricultural county in central England

Leichtlin`s camas
Camassia leichtlinii noun camas found to the west of Cascade Mountains

Leiden
Leyden noun a city in the western Netherlands; residence of the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620

Leiden jar
Leyden jar noun an electrostatic capacitor of historical interest

leiomyoma
noun benign tumor of smooth muscle (usually in the uterus or digestive tract)

leiomyosarcoma
noun sarcoma of smooth muscle; occurs most often digestive tract or uterus or bladder or prostate

Leiopelma
genus Leiopelma noun type and sole genus of the family Leiopelmatidae

Leiopelmatidae
family Leiopelmatidae noun primitive New Zealand frogs

Leiophyllum
genus Leiophyllum noun one species: sand myrtle

Leipzig
noun a city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center

Leishmania
genus Leishmania noun flagellate protozoan that causes leishmaniasis

leishmaniasis
leishmaniosis noun sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies

leister
noun a spear with three or more prongs; used for spearing fish (especially salmon)

leisure
noun freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity; `he lacked the leisure for golf`

leisure wear
noun informal clothing designed to be worn when you are relaxing

leisured
adjective free from duties or responsibilities; `he writes in his leisure hours`; `life as it ought to be for the leisure classes`- J.J.Chapman; `even the artist and the sculptor were not regarded...as leisured men`- Ida Craven

leisureliness
noun slowness by virtue of being leisurely

leitmotiv
leitmotif noun a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner`s operas)

Leitneria
genus Leitneria noun one species: corkwood

Leitneriaceae
family Leitneriaceae noun coextensive with the genus Leitneria; commonly isolated in a distinct order

lek
noun the basic unit of money in Albania

lekvar
noun a sweet filling made of prunes or apricots

Lemaireocereus
genus Lemaireocereus noun tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit

Lemaitre
Georges Henri Lemaitre noun Belgian cosmologist who proposed the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe (1894-1966)

lemma
noun a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition

lemming
noun any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution

Lemmus
genus lemmus noun lemmings

Lemna
genus Lemna noun minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root

Lemnaceae
family Lemnaceae noun family of small free-floating thalloid plants

lemniscus
fillet noun a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus

Lemnos
Limnos noun a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea; famous for a reddish-brown clay that has medicinal properties

lemon
stinker noun an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory

lemon balm
noun lemony leaves used for a tisane or in soups or fruit punches

lemon curd
lemon cheese noun a conserve with a thick consistency; made with lemons and butter and eggs and sugar

lemon drop
noun a hard candy with lemon flavor and a yellow color and (usually) the shape of a lemon

lemon extract
noun a flavoring made from (or imitating) lemons

lemon geranium
noun a common garden geranium with lemon-scented foliage

lemon grove
noun a grove of lemon trees

lemon juice
noun usually freshly squeezed juice of lemons

lemon lily
Hemerocallis lilio-asphodelus noun a day lily with yellow flowers

lemon meringue pie
noun pie containing lemon custard and topped with meringue

lemon mint
noun an annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico

lemon oil
noun fragrant yellow oil obtained from the lemon peel

lemon peel
lemon rind noun the rind of a lemon

lemon shark
Negaprion brevirostris noun common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerous

lemon sole
Solea lascaris noun small European sole

lemon sole
noun flesh of American flounder; important in the winter

lemon zest
noun tiny bits of lemon peel

lemon-scented
adjective smelling of lemons

lemon-scented gum
Eucalyptus citriodora noun similar to but smaller than the spotted gum and having lemon-scented leaves

lemonade
noun sweetened beverage of diluted lemon juice

lemonade mix
noun a mix commercial mix for making lemonade

lemongrass
lemon grass noun an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines

lemonwood
lemon-wood noun South African evergreen having hard tough wood

lemony
lemonlike adjective tasting sour like a lemon

lempira
noun the basic unit of money in Honduras; equal to 100 centavos