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

liver pudding
liver sausage noun sausage containing ground liver

liver spot
noun a type of skin disease that causes brown spots on the skin

liver-colored
liver adjective having a reddish-brown color

liver-spotted dalmatian
noun a brown-spotted dalmatian

liveried
adjective wearing livery; `liveried footmen stood on the palace steps`

Livermore
Mary Ashton Rice Livermore noun United States suffragist (1820-1905)

Liverpool
noun a large city in northwestern England; its port is the country`s major outlet for industrial exports

Liverpudlian
adjective of or relating to Liverpool or its people; `Liverpudlian streets`; `Liverpudlian street urchins`

liverwort
hepatic noun any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses

livery
noun uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs

livery
legal transfer noun the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another

livery company
noun one of the chartered companies of London originating with the craft guilds

livery stable
noun stable where horses and vehicles are kept for hire

liveryman
noun a worker in a livery stable

livestock
stock noun not used technically; any animals kept for use or profit

livid
adjective (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity; `livid lightning streaked the sky`; `a thousand flambeaux...turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day`- E.A.Poe

lividity
noun a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored

lividly
adverb in a livid manner

lividness
lividity noun unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)

living
adjective true to life; lifelike; `the living image of her mother`

living arrangement
noun an arrangement to allow people (or ideas) to coexist

living death
noun a state of constant misery

living granite
living rock 2 stone mimicry plant noun highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa

living quarters
quarters noun housing available for people to live in; `he found quarters for his family`; `I visited his bachelor quarters`

living rock
noun usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States

living room
living-room noun a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax

living space
lebensraum noun space sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding

living thing
animate thing noun a living (or once living) entity

living trust
inter vivos trust noun a trust created and operating during the grantor`s lifetime

living wage
noun a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably

living(a)
adjective (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; `carved into the living stone`;

livingroom suite
livingroom set noun a suite of furniture for the living room

Livingston
Robert R. Livingston noun American Revolutionary leader who served in the Continental Congress and as minister to France (1746-1813)

Livingstone
David Livingstone noun Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873)

livingstone daisy
Dorotheanthus bellidiformis noun low-growing showy succulent annual of South Africa having white or pink or red or orange flowers and spatulate leaves covered in papillae that resemble small crystals

Livistona
genus Livistona noun fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia

Livistona australis
noun Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young

Livonia
noun a region on the Baltic that is divided between northern Estonia and southern Latvia

Livonian
noun the Finnic language spoken by the people of Livonia in Estonia and Latvia

Livonian-speaking
adjective able to communicate in Livonian

Livy
Titus Livius noun Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17)

liza
Mugil liza noun similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region

lizard
noun relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail

lizard orchid
Himantoglossum hircinum noun an orchid of the genus Himantoglossum

lizard`s-tail
swamp lily noun North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers

lizard-like
adjective resembling a lizard

lizardfish
snakefish noun tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide

Ljubljana
noun the capital of Slovenia

llama
noun wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump

llano
noun an extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America)

Llano Estacado
noun a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains

Llew Llaw Gyffes
noun son of Gwydion and Arianrhod; supported by magic of Gwydion; cursed by Arianrhod

Llewelyn Powys
noun British writer of essays; one of three literary brothers (1884-1939)

Lloyd
Harold Lloyd noun United States comic actor in silent films; he used physical danger as a source of comedy (1893-1971)

LLud
noun a Celtic warrior god

Llullaillaco
noun a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (22,057 feet high)

Llyr
noun Celtic deity who was the father of Manawydan; corresponds to Irish Lir

Lo-Ovral
noun trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel

loach
noun slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes

load
noun weight to be borne or conveyed

load
verb fill or place a load on; `load a car`; `load the truck with hay`

load down
verb load with a pack

load factor
noun (aeronautics) the ratio of an external load to the weight of the aircraft (measured in g)

load line
Plimsoll line noun waterlines to show the level the water should reach when the ship is properly loaded

load up
verb fill or place a load on; `load a car`; `load the truck with hay`

load-bearing(a)
supporting(a) adjective capable of bearing a structural load; `a supporting wall`

load-shedding
noun cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply

loaded
adjective (of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence; `a loaded question`

loading
noun the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.; `the loading took 2 hours`

loading dock
noun a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded

loading zone
loading area noun a stop where carriers can be loaded and unloaded

loaf of bread
loaf noun a shaped mass of baked bread

Loafer
noun a low leather step-in shoe; the top resembles a moccasin but it has a broad flat heel

loam
noun a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials

loamless
adjective having no loam; `a stony loamless yard`

loamy
adjective consisting of or having the character of loam; `richy loamy soil`

loan
noun the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)

loan application
noun an application to borrow money

loan approval
noun formal authorization to get a loan (usually from a bank)

loan collection
noun a number of pictures loaned by their owners for exhibition

loan office
noun an office where loans are negotiated and repaid

loanblend
loan-blend noun a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual` has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)

loaner
noun a car that is lent as a replacement for one that is under repair

loanword
loan noun a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz` is a German word borrowed into modern English

loasa
noun any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers

Loasaceae
family Loasaceae noun family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia

loath
loth adjective unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; `a reluctant smile`; `loath to admit a mistake`; `unwilling to face facts`

loathsomeness
repulsiveness noun the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions; `the vileness of his language surprised us`

lob
noun the act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc

Lobachevsky
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky noun Russian mathematician who independently discovered non-Euclidean geometry (1792-1856)

lobar
adjective of or relating to or affecting a lobe; `lobar pneumonia`

lobar pneumonia
noun pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection

Lobata
order Lobata noun ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage; body compressed vertically having two large oral lobes and four pointed processes

lobate
lobated adjective having or resembling a lobe or lobes; `a lobate tongue`

lobate foot
noun a foot having separate toes each with membranous flaps along the sides

lobby
pressure group noun a group of people who try actively to influence legislation

lobbying expense
noun expenses incurred in promoting or evaluating legislation; `many lobbying expenses are deductible by a taxpayer`

lobbyism
noun the practice of lobbying; the activities of a lobbyist

lobbyist
noun someone who tries to persuade legislators to vote for bills that the lobbyists favor

lobe
noun a rounded projection that is part of a larger structure