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  • leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
  • leptospirosis — an infectious disease of humans and of horses, dogs, swine, and other animals, caused by the spirochete Leptospira interrogans and characterized by fever, muscle pain, and jaundice, and in severe cases involving the liver and kidney.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.
  • libel tourist — someone who engages in libel tourism.
  • liberationism — the principles of liberationists
  • liberationist — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
  • lichenization — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • lifted domain — (theory)   In domain theory, a domain with a new bottom element added. Given a domain D, the lifted domain, lift D contains an element lift d corresponding to each element d in D with the same ordering as in D and a new element bottom which is less than every other element in lift D. In functional languages, a lifted domain can be used to model a constructed type, e.g. the type data LiftedInt = K Int contains the values K minint .. K maxint and K bottom, corresponding to the values in Int, and a new value bottom. This denotes the fact that when computing a value v = (K n) the computation of either n or v may fail to terminate yielding the values (K bottom) or bottom respectively. (In LaTeX, a lifted domain or element is indicated by a subscript \perp). See also tuple.
  • light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
  • light-o'-love — a lover.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • lightsomeness — (archaic) The quality of being lightsome.
  • line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
  • linearisation — Alternative spelling of linearization.
  • linearization — The modification of a system such that its output is linearly dependent on its input.
  • liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • listerellosis — listeriosis.
  • literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
  • lithesomeness — the quality of being flexible and supple
  • lithium oxide — a white powder, Li 2 O, with strong alkaline properties: used in ceramics and glass.
  • lithotripters — Plural form of lithotripter.
  • litigiousness — of or relating to litigation.
  • little alfold — a plain in NW Hungary and S Slovakia.
  • little casino — the two of spades.
  • little office — (sometimes initial capital letters) Roman Catholic Church. an office similar to but shorter than the divine office, in honor of a saint, a mystery, or, especially, the Virgin Mary.
  • little people — small supernatural beings, such as elves, pixies, or leprechauns
  • live together — cohabit
  • living stones — any of various succulent plants of the genus Lithops, native to Africa, having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones.
  • load the dice — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • logging stone — rocking stone.
  • long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
  • loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
  • loose-fitting — (of a garment) fitting loosely; not following the contours of the body closely.
  • loose-jointed — having or marked by easy, free movement; limber.
  • lose sight of — no longer see
  • losing battle — attempt doomed to failure
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • louis pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
  • love triangle — relationship between three people
  • love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
  • low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
  • lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
  • lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
  • lunar orbiter — one of a series of space probes that orbited and photographed the moon in 1966 and 1967.
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