kitharai
plural of kithara

kitharas
plural of kithara

kiton
Alternative spelling of chiton.

kitons
plural of kiton

klepsudra
Alternative form of clepsydra.

klepsydra
Alternative form of clepsydra.

klepsydrae
plural of klepsydra

klepsydras
plural of klepsydra

klipkous
abalone, ear-shell, ormer

knob mudalia
Leptoxis minor, a freshwater snail endemic to the United States.

knobbed whelk
Busycon carica, a large predatory sea snail.

knobhead
Synonym of glans penis.
A fool; an idiot; a contemptible person.

knobheads
plural of knobhead

kondakarion
Alternative form of kontakarion.

konistra
Alternative form of conistra.

kontakaria
plural of kontakarion

kontakarion
A hymnbook containing kontakia.

kora
A type of harp or lute played in West Africa.

koras
plural of kora

kotylae
plural of kotyle

kotylai
plural of kotyle

kotyle
Synonym of cantharus (“a kind of ancient Greek and Roman cup”).

kotyles
plural of kotyle

kotyloi
plural of kotylos

kotylos
Synonym of cantharus (“a kind of ancient Greek and Roman cup”).

kowrie
Alternative spelling of kauri.
Alternative spelling of cowrie.

krobyloi
plural of krobylos

krobylos
An ancient Athenian hairstyle in which the hair was rolled up into a kind of knot on the crown of the head, and fastened with golden clasps in the shape of grasshoppers.

kuia
A Maori female elder.

kuias
plural of kuia

kujichagulia
self-determination (in the context of African-American culture)

kylices
plural of kylix

kylikes
plural of kylix

kylix
An Ancient Greek drinking cup with a stem, two handles, and a broad, shallow body.

kylixes
plural of kylix

labis
A spoon used in the Eucharist.

lacinia
One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers.
A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf.
The posterior inner process of the stipes on the maxillae of insects.

laciniae
plural of lacinia

lactolysis
the hydrolysis of lactose (typically by a galactosidase)

lacuna
A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.
A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.
A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.

lacunae
plural of lacuna

lacunas
plural of lacuna

lacune
A lacunar stroke or infarct.
A lacuna.

lacunes
plural of lacune

lalkaras
plural of lalkara

lamellibranch
Synonym of bivalve.

lamellibranchs
plural of lamellibranch

laminaria
Any of the genus Laminaria of brown algae.
A thin rod made of the dried stems of this alga, used to dilate the cervix.

laminarias
plural of laminaria

lampas
A type of luxury fabric with a background weft.

lampases
plural of lampas

lampass
Alternative form of lampas.

lampers
Alternative form of lampas.

land slugs
plural of land slug

land snail
Any species of snail that lives on land (Caenogastropoda spp. etc.).

landsnail
Alternative form of land snail.

landsnails
plural of landsnail

lanx
A platter or dish for serving food in Ancient Rome.

legumen
Dated form of legume.

legumens
plural of legumen

legumina
plural of legumen

lens
An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
A device which focuses or defocuses other waves or radiation, such as microwave radiation, electron beams, sound waves (acoustic lenses), or explosions (explosive lenses).
A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
A genus of the legume family; its bean.
The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
A convex layer of fresh groundwater that floats above the denser saltwater, usually found on small coral or limestone islands and atolls.
A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.

lense
Misspelling of lens.
Alternative spelling of lens.

lenses
plural of lens

lentes
plural of lens

lenticularis
a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.

lentigines
plural of lentigo

lentigo
A brown pigmented spot on the skin.

lentigos
plural of lentigo

leopard slug
Limax maximus, a large slug whose coloration resembles that of a leopard's fur.

lepidotrichia
plural of lepidotrichium

lepton
A coin used since ancient times in Greece, serving in modern times as one hundredth of a phoenix, a drachma, and a euro (as the Greek form of the Eurocent).
A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century BCE, considered by some to be the widow's mite.

leptons
plural of lepton

lettuce sea slug
A species of large sacoglossan sea slug, Elysia crispata, ranging in colours from green, blue, or very pale with red lines or yellow lines.

leukomas
plural of leukoma

leukomata
plural of leukoma

librigenae
plural of librigena

ligninolysis
The enzymatic breakdown of lignin

lignolysis
Misspelling of ligninolysis.
The breakdown of wood

ligula
A strap or strap-shaped object, especially such a development in plants or insects.

ligulae
plural of ligula

ligulas
plural of ligula

lilliput
Any of various small freshwater mussels of the genus Toxolasma, found mainly in the southeastern United States.

lilliputs
plural of lilliput

lima
Lima bean.

liman
A wide estuary formed as a lagoon at the mouth of one or more rivers, where flow is constrained by a bar of sediments (created by either the current of a sea or a sediment-saturated river), especially in the Black Sea region.

limans
plural of liman

limas
plural of lima

limax
A slug or slug-like creature.

limpet
Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape patelliform and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.
Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.

limpets
plural of limpet

limpin
A limpet.

limpins
plural of limpin

lined chiton
Any of the chitons in the genus Tonicella, found in shallow waters in the Pacific Ocean.

linga
Alternative form of lingam.

lingas
plural of linga

linter
The short fibres that cling to cottonseeds after the first ginning.
A machine for removing these fibres.
A person or device that collects lint for use in making hats etc.

linters
plural of linter

litholysis
The dissolving of urinary calculi

lituites
plural of lituite

lituiticone
A conch or shell which completes few whorls in the beginning, and thereafter becomes a straight cone.

lituiticones
plural of lituiticone

lochea
Alternative spelling of lochia.

loligo
A member of the Loligo genus of cephalopods; a squid.

loligos
plural of loligo

long-armed squid
Synonym of bigfin squid (“Any member of the genus Magnapinna of rarely seen squid, characterized by extremely long arms and tentacles, and being the only squid known to inhabit the hadal zone of the ocean.”).
A species of chiroteuthid squid, Chiroteuthis veranii, having exceptionally long arms, and a total length of 130 cm (51 in).

lorica
A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.
Lute for protecting vessels from the fire.
The protective case or shell of a Loricifera, infusorian or rotifer

loricae
plural of lorica

loricas
plural of lorica

loy
A type of one-eared spade used in Ireland.

loys
plural of loy

lucines
plural of lucine

luteolysis
The structural and functional degradation of the corpus luteum, occurring at the end of the luteal phase of both the estrous and menstrual cycles in the absence of pregnancy.

lutites
plural of lutite