legong
A Balinese dance traditionally performed by girls before the age of puberty.
A girl who performs such a dance.

legongs
plural of legong

legsie
A photo of one's suntanned legs usually taken with a smartphone and shared on social media.

legsies
plural of legsie

leimma
Alternative form of limma.

leitmotif
A melodic theme associated with a particular character, place, thing or idea in an opera.
A recurring theme.

leitmotifs
plural of leitmotif

leitmotiv
Alternative form of leitmotif.

leitmotive
plural of leitmotiv

leitmotivs
plural of leitmotiv

lekythia
plural of lekythion

lekythion
In classical Greek and Latin poetry, a metric pattern defined by a sequence of seven alternating long and short syllables at the end of a verse.

lemmatiser
A program or function that attempts to find the lemma that corresponds to an inflected word

lemmatisers
plural of lemmatiser

lemmatizer
Alternative spelling of lemmatiser.

lemmatizers
plural of lemmatizer

lemniscata
Archaic form of lemniscate (type of curve).

lemniscatas
plural of lemniscata

lemniscate
A closed curve having the shape of a figure eight or an infinity symbol (∞).
The lemniscate of Bernoulli
Any of a variety of quartic functions producing similar figure-of-eight closed curves.

lemniscates
plural of lemniscate

lepidochronology
dating (of plants) by means of leaf scales

lerky
A variation of the kick the can game.

lesene
A low-relief, vertical pillar or pilaster in a wall, usually without a base or capital; used in architecture to divide a facade or other wall surface visually.

lesenes
plural of lesene

lesfic
Fiction focusing on lesbian characters.

letterbook
A book in which letters (written correspondence) or copies of letters are kept.

letterbooks
plural of letterbook

letteret
A brief letter (written communication).

letterets
plural of letteret

letterform
The shape of an individual letter.
The design and development of such shapes.

letterforms
plural of letterform

letterlocking
The securing of a letter without an envelope, by folding and cutting so that portions of the paper can be interlocked.

letterset
A set of letters of the alphabet.
A sheet of letters or other characters to be applied by dry transfer.

lettersets
plural of letterset

lettershop
A business that provides custom printing services, typically for the purpose of direct marketing.

lettershops
plural of lettershop

letterzine
A fanzine that is all or mostly composed of letters of comment.

letterzines
plural of letterzine

leucophereses
plural of leucopheresis

leucopheresis
leukapheresis

levalto
volta (a kind of dance)

lexicalism
The theory that grammatical information is rooted in the lexicon of a language.

lexifier
The language of a pidgin or creole that serves as the basis for most of its vocabulary.

lexifiers
plural of lexifier

lexigram
A symbol that represents a word but is not necessarily indicative of the object referenced by the word, used in studies of communication

lexigrams
plural of lexigram

lexigraph
A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.

lexigraphs
plural of lexigraph

lezginka
A fast-paced dance of many peoples in the Caucasus Mountains.

lezh
The phonetic symbol ɮ.

lezhes
plural of lezh

liard
A small French coin, equivalent to a quarter of a sou.

liards
plural of liard

libanomancy
Divination by interpreting the smoke or ash of incense.

libelle
A pamphlet or book that slanders a public political figure.

libelles
plural of libelle

liberalese
Language used by political liberals.

liberalspeak
Language used by political liberals; liberalese.

librettology
The study of opera librettos

libspeak
Language used by political liberals; liberalese.

licanomancy
Alternative form of lecanomancy.

lichanoi
plural of lichanos

lichanos
In Ancient Greek musical theory, the higher-pitched of the two movable notes in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre, pitched lower than the mese and higher than the parhypate.

lidden
A noise or din.
A saying, song or story.

liddens
plural of lidden

lightmap
A precomputed data structure that stores the brightnesses of surfaces in a video game, etc.

lightmaps
plural of lightmap

lignography
Engraving on wood.

liknoi
plural of liknon

liknon
A winnowing fan in Ancient Greece, involved in Dionysian rites and the Eleusinian Mysteries.

liknons
plural of liknon

likuta
A former unit of currency, one hundredth of a zaïre.

lilangeni
The currency of Eswatini.

lilangenis
plural of lilangeni

limeraiku
A jocular poetic form, combining aspects of the limerick and the Western haiku.

limeric
Dated form of limerick (humorous verse).

limerick
A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.

limericks
plural of limerick

limerics
plural of limeric

limma
Any of several small musical intervals, such as the semitone. Most commonly referrs to the diatonic semitone or minor second, which has a ratio of approximately 16/15 or 27/25 in meantone temperaments or 256/243 in Pythagorean tuning.

limmas
plural of limma

linecut
A print obtained from a line drawing; a line engraving.

linecuts
plural of linecut

linguaculture
A culture with its associated language.

linguacultures
plural of linguaculture

linguaphilia
The love of language and words.

linguicide
The death of a language, either naturally or from political causes.

linguicism
The unfair treatment of an individual or community based on their use of language.

linguicisms
plural of linguicism

linguistics
The systematic and scholarly study of language.

linguistry
linguistics

linguonym
The name of a language; a glossonym.

linguonyms
plural of linguonym

linklist
A list of hyperlinks.

linklists
plural of linklist

linoblock
A linoleum block used in block printing.

linoblocks
plural of linoblock

lipogram
A word or writing that does not use a particular symbol or symbols.

lipograms
plural of lipogram

lipographies
plural of lipography

lipography
A scribal or typographical error where a letter or group of letters that should be written twice is written once.

lirazza
A Venetian silver coin that circulated in 1762-1797 and was equal to 30 soldi.

lirazzas
plural of lirazza

lisente
plural of sente

listicle
An article based around a list.

listicles
plural of listicle

listmaking
The compilation of a list.

listview
A user interface control that can display a series of icons, possibly with accompanying text captions.

listviews
plural of listview

litai
plural of litas

litas
The former currency or money of Lithuania, divided into 100 centai.

literalism
Literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating.
The style of art portraying a subject as literally and accurately as possible.

literalisms
plural of literalism

literaryism
literary style or expression

literaryisms
plural of literaryism

lithargyrum
crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales.

lithochromy
Lithochromatic printing.

lithoglyptics
The art of cutting and engraving gems.

lithozonation
Arrangement or distribution into lithozones.

lithozonations
plural of lithozonation

litmag
a literature magazine

litmags
plural of litmag

litra
A silver coin in ancient Sicily, worth one fifth of a drachm.

litras
plural of litra

livity
Harmony in a natural world and living faith.

loanword
A word directly taken into one language from another one.

loanwords
plural of loanword

logarithmancy
Divination using logarithms.

logfile
A file that serves as a log.

logfiles
plural of logfile

loggats
plural of loggat
Alternative spelling of loggets (“game”).

loggets
plural of logget

logject
An object with embedded software capable of monitoring and recording, in some manner, its own activity and operation.

logjects
plural of logject

loglang
A language designed to allow (or enforce) unambiguous statements; a logical language.

loglangs
plural of loglang