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- lake mead — a reservoir in NW Arizona and SE Nevada, formed by the Hoover Dam across the Colorado River: one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. Area: 588 sq km (227 sq miles)
- lampadary — a person who lights the lamps in an Orthodox Greek Church
- lampadist — (in ancient Greece) a competitor in a race run by young men with torches
- lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- launchpad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- lead foot — a person who drives a motor vehicle too fast, especially habitually.
- lead line — a line by which a lead is lowered into the water to take soundings: in deep-sea practice, divided into levels one fathom apart, variously treated as marks and deeps.
- lead pipe — a pipe made of lead
- lead shot — small round pellets of lead, used in cartridges
- lead time — the period of time between the initial phase of a process and the emergence of results, as between the planning and completed manufacture of a product.
- lead tree — any of several tropical trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Leucaena, of the legume family, especially L. glauca, having pinnate leaves and white flowers.
- lead-foot — a person who drives a motor vehicle too fast, especially habitually.
- lead-free — unleaded.
- leadbelly — Huddie [huhd-ee] /ˈhʌd i/ (Show IPA), ("Leadbelly") 1885?–1949, U.S. folk singer.
- leaderene — a female leader, esp one who is strong and formidable
- leadplant — a North American shrub, Amorpha canescens, of the legume family, the leaves and twigs of which have a gray cast.
- leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
- leadville — a town in central Colorado: historic mining boom town.
- leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
- leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
- legal pad — a ruled writing tablet, usually yellow and measuring 8½ × 14 inches (22 × 36 cm).
- lemonades — Plural form of lemonade.
- leninabad — former (1936–91) name of Khodzhent.
- leningrad — a former name (1924–91) of St. Petersburg (def 1)
- link road — a road used to link two cities or two more major hubs of road transport
- link-dead — Said of a MUD character who has frozen in place because of a dropped network connection.
- live load — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- load down — If you load someone down with things, especially heavy things, you give them a large number of them or put a large number of them on them.
- load fund — a mutual fund that carries transaction charges, usually a percentage of the initial investment.
- load line — Also called Plimsoll line. any of various lines marked on the sides of a cargo vessel to indicate the depth to which a vessel may be immersed under certain conditions. Compare freeboard (def 1a).
- loadspace — the area in a motor vehicle where a load can be carried
- loadstone — a variety of magnetite that possesses magnetic polarity and attracts iron.
- lookahead — (computing) The analysis in advance of subsequent decisions that would be made if a particular branch of an algorithm was followed.
- loosehead — (rugby) prop who plays on the left hand side of the front row of the scrum.
- low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
- lowlihead — lowly state; lowliness.
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.
- lustihead — lustiness
- macadamia — any Australian tree of the genus Macadamia, especially M. ternifolia, having whorled leaves and elongated clusters of pink flowers.
- mad about — passionate about
- mad money — a small sum of money carried or kept in reserve for minor expenses, emergencies, or impulse purchases.
- madariaga — Salvador de [sahl-vah-th awr th e] /ˌsɑl vɑˈðɔr ðɛ/ (Show IPA), (Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo) 1886–1978, Spanish diplomat, historian, and writer in England.
- madarosis — the abnormal loss of eyebrows or eyelashes
- maddening — driving to madness or frenzy: a maddening thirst.
- made dish — a dish consisting of a number of different ingredients cooked together
- made mast — a wooden mast formed of several shaped, longitudinal pieces joined together.
- madeleine — a small shell-shaped cake made of flour, eggs, sugar, and butter and baked in a mold.
- madhouses — Plural form of madhouse.
- madonsela — Thuli (ˈtʊlɪ). born 1962, South African advocate; in her term as Public Protector (2009–16) she was noted for exposing political corruption
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.