ladyfish
1: game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller [syn: {tenpounder}, {Elops saurus}]
ladylike
1: befitting a woman of good breeding; "ladylike manners"
Ladyship
1: a title used to address any peeress except a duchess; "Your Ladyship"; "Her Ladyship"
laelia
1: any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors
Laertes
1: (Greek mythology) the father of Odysseus
laetrile
1: a substance derived from amygdalin; publicized as an antineoplastic drug although there is no supporting evidence
laevulose
1: a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits [syn: {fructose}, {fruit sugar}, {levulose}]
Lafayette
1: French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834) [syn: {La Fayette}, {Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier}, {Marquis de Lafayette}] 2: a town in so...
Laffer
1: United States economist who proposed the Laffer curve (born in 1940) [syn: {Arthur Laffer}]
Laffer curve
1: a graph purporting to show the relation between tax rates and government income; income increases as tax rates increase up to an optimum beyond which income declines
Laffite
1: French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826) [syn: {Lafitte}, {Jean Laffite}, {Jean Lafitte}]
Lafitte
1: French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826) [syn: {Laffite}, {Jean Laffite}, {Jean Lafitte}]
Lafora's disease
1: epilepsy characterized by clonus of muscle groups and progressive mental deterioration and genetic origin [syn: {myoclonus epilepsy}]
lag
1: the act of slowing down or falling behind [syn: {slowdown}, {retardation}] 2: the time between one event, process, or period and another [syn: {interim}] 3: one of several thin slats of wood formin...
Lag b'Omer
1: (Judaism) Jewish holy day; the 33rd day after the 2nd day of Passover; the 18th day of Iyar
lag bolt
1: a heavy woodscrew with a square or hexagonal head that is driven in with a wrench [syn: {lag screw}]
lag screw
1: a heavy woodscrew with a square or hexagonal head that is driven in with a wrench [syn: {lag bolt}]
lagan
1: goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered [syn: {lagend}, {ligan}]
Lagarostrobus
1: genus of dioecious evergreen trees of New Zealand and Tasmania; similar to genus Dacrydium [syn: {genus Lagarostrobus}]
Lagarostrobus colensoi
1: timber tree of New Zealand having shiny white wood [syn: {westland pine}, {silver pine}]
Lagarostrobus franklinii
1: Tasmanian timber tree with yellow aromatic wavy-grained wood used for carving and ship building; sometimes placed in genus Dacrydium [syn: {huon pine}, {Dacrydium franklinii}]
Lagenaria
1: bottle gourds [syn: {genus Lagenaria}]
Lagenaria siceraria
1: Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits [syn: {bottle gourd}, {calabash}]
lagend
1: goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered [syn: {lagan}, {ligan}]
Lagenophera
1: small genus of herbs of Australia and South America having small solitary white or purple flowers similar to true daisies of genus Bellis [syn: {genus Lagenophera}]
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lager
1: a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons [syn: {laager}] 2: a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or A...
lager beer
1: a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September [syn: {lager}]
Lagerstroemia
1: shrubs or small trees of tropical Asia and Africa usually with showy white, pink, or purplish flowers [syn: {genus Lagerstroemia}]
Lagerstroemia indica
1: ornamental shrub from eastern India commonly planted in the southern United States [syn: {crape myrtle}, {crepe myrtle}, {crepe flower}]
Lagerstroemia speciosa
1: native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma; used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers [syn: {Queen's crape myrtle}, {pride-of-India}]
laggard
1: inclined to waste time and lag behind [syn: {dilatory}] 2: wasting time [syn: {dilatory}, {poky}, {pokey}] n : someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind [syn: {dawdler}, {...
lagger
1: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind [syn: {dawdler}, {drone}, {laggard}, {trailer}]
Lagidium
1: a genus of Chinchillidae [syn: {genus Lagidium}]
lagniappe
1: a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase)
Lagodon
1: a genus of Sparidae [syn: {genus Lagodon}]
Lagodon rhomboides
1: similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States [syn: {pinfish}, {sailor's-choice}, {squirrelfish}]
lagomorph
1: relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing [syn: {gnawing mammal}]
Lagomorpha
1: rabbits; hares; pikas; formerly considered the suborder Duplicidentata of the order Rodentia [syn: {order Lagomorpha}]
lagoon
1: a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral [syn: {laguna}, {lagune}]
lagophthalmos
1: abnormal condition in which an eye cannot close completely
Lagopus
1: ptarmigans [syn: {genus Lagopus}]
Lagopus scoticus
1: reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain [syn: {red grouse}, {moorfowl}, {moorbird}, {moor-bird}, {moorgame}]
Lagos
1: chief port and economic center of Nigeria; located in southwestern Nigeria on the Gulf of Guinea; former capital of Nigeria
Lagostomus maximus
1: gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas [syn: {viscacha}, {chinchillon}]
Lagothrix
1: woolly monkeys [syn: {genus Lagothrix}]
laguna
1: a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral [syn: {lagoon}, {lagune}]
Laguncularia
1: a genus of Laguncularia [syn: {genus Laguncularia}]
Laguncularia racemosa
1: shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America; locally important as a source of tannin [syn: {white mangrove}]
lagune
1: a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral [syn: {lagoon}, {laguna}]
lah
1: the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization [syn: {la}]
lahar
1: an avalanche of volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano
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