kuzhal
A type of double reed musical instrument used in Kerala, India.

kyamancha
Alternative spelling of kamancheh.

kyamanchas
plural of kyamancha

kyng
Obsolete spelling of king.

kynge
Obsolete spelling of king.

kynges
plural of kynge

kyngs
plural of kyng

labrosone
A brass instrument, i.e. one played by causing vibrations with the lips.

labrosones
plural of labrosone

lagerphone
A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument.

lagerphones
plural of lagerphone

lahara
a repetitive instrumental melody used to accompany a tabla or pakhawaj solo in Hindustani classical music of North India; it is also used to accompany kathak dance performances

laharas
plural of lahara

lamellaphone
Alternative form of lamellophone.

lamellaphones
plural of lamellaphone

lamellophone
Any of several musical instruments (percussion idiophones) in which the sound is produced by plucking a series of thin lamellae attached to a sounding board.

lamellophones
plural of lamellophone

lampwork
A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
Glass pieces made by this method.
The activity of producing glass pieces using this method.

lantum
A type of wind instrument played with keys or buttons.

lantums
plural of lantum

laouta
plural of laouto

laouto
A Greek or Cypriot musical instrument of the lute family.

laoutos
plural of laouto

lapa
An open structure in South Africa, typically a thatched roof supported by wooden poles.

lapas
plural of lapa

latticini
plural of latticino

latticino
A glassblown article made from coloured glass canes.

launeddas
A traditional Sardinian polyphonic woodwind instrument made of three pipes, each of which has an idioglot single reed.

lavta
A plucked string music instrument from Constantinople.

leader
Any person who leads or directs.
Any person who leads or directs.
Any person who leads or directs.
Any person who leads or directs.
Any person who leads or directs.
Any person who leads or directs.
Any person who leads or directs.
An animal that leads.
An animal that leads.
An animal that leads.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.

leaders
plural of leader

leadpipe
The pipe or tube of a brass instrument into which the mouthpiece is placed.

leadpipes
plural of leadpipe

lijerica
A musical instrument from the Croatian region of Dalmatia and Croat parts of eastern Herzegovina.

likembe
A musical instrument found in sub-Saharan Africa; a kind of lamellophone.

likembes
plural of likembe

limba
A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments.

limbas
plural of limba

limberjack
An American folk percussion instrument consisting of a dancing wooden doll and a flexible plank.

limberjacks
plural of limberjack

linguaphone
Synonym of lamellaphone.

linguaphones
plural of linguaphone

lira
The basic unit of currency in Turkey.
The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar)
The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro

lirae
plural of lira

lirah
Archaic form of lira (“currency unit”).

lirahs
plural of lirah

liras
plural of lira

lire
Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin.
The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint.

lires
plural of lire

lirot
plural of lira

liroth
plural of lira

lithophones
plural of lithophone

loess
Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin.

loesses
plural of loess

lunette
A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.
A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door.
An image or other representation of a crescent moon.
A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks.
A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.
The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.
A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia.
A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.
A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
See lunettes.

lunettes
plural of lunette

lupophon
A woodwind instrument like an oboe.

lupophone
Alternative form of lupophon.

lupophones
plural of lupophone

lur
A long natural blowing horn without finger holes, played by embouchure.

lure
Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
A velvet smoothing brush.

lurs
plural of lur

lutar
Synonym of lute guitar.

lutars
plural of lutar

lute
A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

lutelet
A little lute (musical instrument).

lutelets
plural of lutelet

lutes
plural of lute

lutherie
The craft of making stringed musical instruments.

luthiery
The construction and repair of stringed instruments.

lyre
An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.
A composer of lyric poetry.

lyres
plural of lyre

lyresnake
Alternative form of lyre snake.

lyretail
Any of various fishes whose tails resemble a lyre (musical instrument).

lyretails
plural of lyretail

maddale
A type of percussion instrument used in Karnataka, India.

malimba
An African musical instrument of the mbira kind.

malimbas
plural of malimba

mandolin
A stringed instrument of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back.
A kitchen tool for julienning vegetables.

mandoline
Alternative form of mandolin (“kitchen tool”).
Archaic form of mandolin.

mandolins
plural of mandolin

mandolute
A musical instrument similar to a mandolin, but larger.

mandolutes
plural of mandolute

manjo
A mandolin-banjo

manzello
A modified saxello, with an upturned bell.

manzellos
plural of manzello

marfa
A percussion instrument thought to have originated in Africa
A form of Hyderabadi music inspired by Afro-Arab music that typically uses such instruments