lauroylsarcosine
the N-lauroyl derivative of sarcosine; its sodium salt is an ionic detergent used to purify membrane proteins

lavabo
A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist.
The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual.
A washbasin, particularly (Christianity) the one in a church used in the ritual.
A trough used for washing at some medieval monasteries.
A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

lavaboes
plural of lavabo

lavabos
plural of lavabo

lavador
A machine used in mining placer deposits, which washes paydirt slurries pumped into the top of machine, extracting pebbled ores though its sluice runs into its riffles, grates and miner's moss, a type of washplant.

lavadors
plural of lavador

lavvies
plural of lavvie
plural of lavvy

lavvy
A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.

lawnmower
A device used for cutting grass to a chosen height, typically of landscaped lawns of residences or institutions.
A person who landscapes and in particular mows lawns.
A dance move in which the dancer mimics using a petrol lawn mower by pulling the starter cord and then pushing the mower forwards to the beat of the music.

lawnmowers
plural of lawnmower

laybarge
A specialized barge equipped for laying subsea pipelines, typically used in offshore oil and gas operations. Laybarges are outfitted with welding stations, tensioners, stingers, and other equipment necessary for assembling and installing pipelines on the seabed.

laybarges
plural of laybarge

laydee
Eye dialect spelling of lady.

laydees
plural of laydee

laydeez
plural of laydee

leadscrew
A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.

leadscrews
plural of leadscrew

leaf
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
Tea leaves.
A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
Cannabis.
A Canadian person.
A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.

leafblower
Alternative form of leaf blower.

leafblowers
plural of leafblower

leafbud
Alternative form of leaf bud.

leafbuds
plural of leafbud

leafcasting
A means of strengthening paper so as to preserve it, covering existing pieces of weak paper with stronger sheets using mechanical equipment.

leafcutter
Alternative spelling of leaf-cutter.

leafcutters
plural of leafcutter

leaflitter
Alternative form of leaf litter

leaflute
A leaf that is used to produce music by placing it in the mouth, curled up, and blowing.

leaflutes
plural of leaflute

leafmine
Alternative form of leaf miner.

leafmines
plural of leafmine

leafmold
Alternative form of leaf mold.

leafmolds
plural of leafmold

leafmould
Alternative form of leaf mold.

leafmoulds
plural of leafmould

leafroller
Alternative spelling of leaf roller.

leafrollers
plural of leafroller

leafsheath
Alternative form of leaf sheath.

leafsheaths
plural of leafsheath

leafspring
Alternative form of leaf spring.

leafsprings
plural of leafspring

leaftier
Alternative form of leaf tier.

leaftiers
plural of leaftier

leapyear
Alternative form of leap year.

leapyears
plural of leapyear

leatherseller
A tradesman who sells leather.

lebenswecker
A medical device used in Baunscheidtism to pierce the skin with many fine needles, and used on skin treated with toxic oil, the resulting inflammation claimed to draw the body's attention away from various illnesses in other parts of the body.

lebensweckers
plural of lebenswecker

lectern
A stand with a slanted top used to support a Bible from which passages are read during a church service.
A similar stand to support a lecturer's notes.

lecterns
plural of lectern

lectostratotype
A stratotype used to describe a stratigraphic unit that does not already have a sufficient holostratotype.

lectostratotypes
plural of lectostratotype

lecturn
Obsolete form of lectern.

lecturns
plural of lecturn

leeuwendaalder
A silver coin minted from 1575 by the rebelling Dutch provinces and subsequently the Dutch Republic with a nominal value varying between 32 and 42 stivers, also used for trade in the American colonies and the Levant, in use until the 18th century.

leeuwendaalders
plural of leeuwendaalder

legaliser
Alternative form of legalizer.

legalisers
plural of legaliser

legalizer
That which makes legal.
A tool that takes invalid input and creates valid output, such as for chip placement to move digital standard cell gates into legal positions.

legalizers
plural of legalizer

lehr
A long oven or kiln, often having a moving belt, used for annealing glass.

lehrs
plural of lehr

lenacapavir
An antiretroviral medication used to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS.

lenalidomide
A derivative of thalidomide used to treat some myelomas

lengua
A Mexican dish consisting of beef tongue used to make tacos.

leniolisib
A kinase inhibitor used to treat activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta syndrome (APDS).

leno
A type of weave used to make light, open cotton fabric used for window curtains.

lenograstim
A synthetic hormone used to stimulate the immune system.

lenoi
plural of lenos

lenos
plural of leno.

lensboard
Alternative spelling of lens board.

lensboards
plural of lensboard

lenslet
A small lens that is part of an array used to generate illumination of uniform intensity

lenslets
plural of lenslet

leprosaria
Synonym of leprosarium.

leprosariae
plural of leprosaria

leprosarias
plural of leprosaria

leprosarium
An isolated building or community used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.

leprosariums
plural of leprosarium

leptometer
An instrument for measuring the viscosity of oil.

leptometers
plural of leptometer

letterboard
A signboard for lettering or text.
A board marked with letters of the alphabet, used for communication by the disabled.
A board on which matter in type is placed for storage or manipulation.

letterboards
plural of letterboard

letterhead
A portion of text at the top of a letter, identifying the sender and often giving their address etc., used for formal correspondence.
Paper marked with a letterhead.

letterheadings
plural of letterheading

letterheads
plural of letterhead

lettern
Archaic form of lectern.

letterns
plural of lettern

letterpress
The printing process in which ink is applied to the top surface of a raised image area, which is then pressed against paper to transfer the image.
Printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
A machine used for such printing.

letterpresses
plural of letterpress

leucometer
Alternative form of leukometer.

leucometers
plural of leucometer

leucoscope
An instrument for testing the colour perception of the eye, or for comparing different lights in terms of their constituent colour or relative whiteness.

leucoscopes
plural of leucoscope

leucotome
An instrument used to perform a leucotomy.

leucotomes
plural of leucotome

leukometer
A device used for measuring whiteness or brightness.

leukometers
plural of leukometer

leukotome
Alternative form of leucotome.

leukotomes
plural of leukotome