legger
A bootlegger.
A man employed by the owners of a canal to push boats through narrow canal tunnels. The legger would lie on his back on a piece of wood on the boat with his feet reaching to the tunnel wall, and walk it along. This could be done by the boat's crew, but the canals employed men specifically for the task because they could do it faster and prevent a tunnel becoming a bottleneck for traffic.
Something having the specified number of legs.

leggers
plural of legger

leisureplexes
plural of leisureplex

lentiginosis
The presence of lentigines on the skin in large numbers or in a distinctive configuration.

leone
A unit of currency of Sierra Leone, divided into 100 cents.

leones
plural of leone

leptocytes
plural of leptocyte

lethech
Alternative form of lethek: a former Hebrew unit of dry volume.

lethechs
plural of lethech

lethek
A former Hebrew measure of dry volume, equal to about 115 L or 3¼ bushels.

letheks
plural of lethek

leucocytopenia
Misspelling of leukocytopenia.

leucogram
Alternative form of leukogram.

leucograms
plural of leucogram

leukocytemia
The presence of (an unusual amount of) leukocytes in the blood

leukocytopaenia
Alternative form of leukocytopenia.

leukocytopaenias
plural of leukocytopaenia

leukocytopenia
Leukopenia.

leukocytopenias
plural of leukocytopenia

leukogram
A tabulation of the type and quantity of leukocytes present in a blood sample.

leukograms
plural of leukogram

levelage
The act or process of leveling.
The measured level of something.

levelages
plural of levelage

lexon
A unit of lexis.

lexons
plural of lexon

liang
Synonym of tael, a former Chinese unit of weight (about 40 g) and a related unit of silver currency.

liangs
plural of liang

lidar
The optical analogue of radar, using intense pulses of laser light to measure the composition and structure of the atmosphere.
A device that provides such imaging.

lidars
plural of lidar

lieges
plural of liege

lifefuls
plural of lifeful

lifethread
Synonym of thread of life.

liftings
plural of lifting

lightyear
Alternative spelling of light year.

lightyears
plural of lightyear

lignage
Obsolete form of lineage.

lignages
plural of lignage

limiteds
plural of limited

linage
Alternative spelling of lineage.

linages
plural of linage

lineage
Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
A number of lines of text in a column.
A fee or rate paid per line of text.

lineages
plural of lineage

linefill
The amount of liquid that fills a certain length of pipeline.
substance that fills a pipeline to ensure a continuous flow of product.

linefills
plural of linefill

linewidth
A measure of the width of the band of frequencies of radiation emitted or absorbed in an atomic or molecular transition; a result of the uncertainty principle.

linewidths
plural of linewidth

linha
A traditional short Portuguese unit of length, usually about equal to 2.3 mm.

linkman
An adult linkboy; one bearing a torch or light.
A player who uses speed and dexterity to keep an attacking team's downfield progress fluid.
A man who acts as a link or connection.
A presenter who provides the connecting verbiage between a number of separate items in a broadcast.

linkmen
plural of linkman

linkrot
The steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed.

lipidaemia
Alternative form of lipidemia.

lipidaemias
plural of lipidaemia

lipidemia
The presence of lipids in the blood (which is always true); especially, their relative disposition: their amounts and significance.

lipidemias
plural of lipidemia

lipohyperplasia
hyperplasia involving lipocytes

lipohyperplasias
plural of lipohyperplasia

lipometer
Any of various devices used to measure subcutaneous fat

lipometers
plural of lipometer

lippedness
The state or quality of having a particular number of type of lips.

lipuria
The presence of abnormal amounts of lipids in urine.

lipurias
plural of lipuria

lispound
A unit of weight formerly used in the Baltic countries, varying between 17 and 19 pounds.

lispounds
plural of lispound

lispund
Alternative form of lispound.

lispunds
plural of lispund

listenability
A measure of the ease or pleasure in listening to something, such as music.

literage
Alternative form of litreage.

literages
plural of literage

litigationer
A litigator who conducts an excessive number of lawsuits.

litigationers
plural of litigationer

litrage
Alternative form of litreage.

litrages
plural of litrage

litreage
An amount measured in litres.

litreages
plural of litreage

litres
plural of litre

littersize
The number of newborn animals in a litter

littersizes
plural of littersize

livermorium
The chemical element with atomic number 116.

livre
A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
A lira
An ancient French unit of weight, equal to about 1 avoirdupois pound.

livres
plural of livre

loadage
The load; the amount loaded.

loadages
plural of loadage

loadsamoneys
plural of loadsamoney

loadstar
Misspelling of lodestar.

loadstars
plural of loadstar

locant
That part of the name of a compound (often a letter or number) that describes the position of an atom, residue or functional group.

locants
plural of locant

lockdown
The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.
A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.

lockdowns
plural of lockdown

lod
Initialism of logarithm of odds, a measure of likelihood calculated by taking the log of the ratio of the probability of a hypothesis being true given the observed data over the probability that the hypothesis is false.

lodestar
A star used as a navigation reference, particularly a pole star such as Polaris.
A guiding tenet or principle.
A calculated amount to award as attorney's fees derived by multiplying the reasonable number of hours spent working on a case by the reasonable hourly billing rate.

lodestars
plural of lodestar

lods
plural of lod

logarithm
For a number x, the exponent by which a given base number must be raised in order to obtain the power x. Written log _bx. For example, log ₁₀1000=3 because 10³=1000 and log ₂16=4 because 2⁴=16.

logarithmand
The number for which one is obtaining a logarithm. Thus, if a = bᶜ, then c is the logarithm (base b) of a, and a is the logarithmand.

logarithmands
plural of logarithmand

logarithms
plural of logarithm

logbook
A book in which measurements from the ship's log are recorded, along with other salient details of the voyage.
A book in which events are recorded; a journal, especially of travel.
A record of the ownership, and licensing of a motor car.

logbooks
plural of logbook

logit
The inverse of the sigmoid or logistic function used in mathematics, especially in statistics. The logit of a number p between 0 and 1 is given by the formula
A logistic regression, which applies such a mathematical function.

logits
plural of logit

logogen
A unit of word recognition, encapsulating a variety of properties about a given word, such as its appearance, sound, and meaning.

logogens
plural of logogen

longage
The opposite of a shortage; an excessive amount.

longages
plural of longage

longbill
Any of a number of birds with long bills.
A bird in the genera Toxorhamphus and Oedistoma.

longbills
plural of longbill

longitude
Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.
Length.

longitudes
plural of longitude

longtitude
Obsolete form of longitude.

longtitudes
plural of longtitude