4-letter words starting with l
- lima — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- limb — Astronomy. the edge of the disk of the sun, a moon, or a planet.
- lime — limelight.
- limn — to represent in drawing or painting.
- limo — a limousine.
- limp — to walk with a labored, jerky movement, as when lame.
- limy — consisting of, containing, or like lime.
- lina — a female given name.
- linc — 1. (language) A Burroughs/Unisys 4GL designed in New Zealand. 2. Laboratory Instrument Computer.
- lind — Jenny (Johanna Maria Lind Goldschmidt"The Swedish Nightingale") 1820–87, Swedish soprano.
- line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
- ling — an elongated, marine, gadid food fish, Molva molva, of Greenland and northern Europe.
- link — a torch, especially of tow and pitch.
- linn — a waterfall or torrent of rushing water in a river or stream.
- lino — linoleum.
- lins — a waterfall or torrent of rushing water in a river or stream.
- lint — minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- liny — full of or marked with lines.
- linz — a province in N Austria. 4631 sq. mi. (11,995 sq. km). Capital: Linz.
- lion — a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- lipa — a monetary unit of Croatia.
- lipe — a lurching or jerking movement
- lipl — Linear IPL. A linearised (i.e. horizontal format) version of IPL-V.
- lipo — a.d. 701?–762, Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty.
- lips — Plural form of lip.
- liq. — liquid
- lira — a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- lire — a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- lirk — (transitive, UK dialectal) To jerk.
- lirt — (transitive, UK dialectal) To deceive; beguile.
- lisa — a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- lise — a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- lisp — a high-level programming language that processes data in the form of lists: widely used in artificial intelligence applications.
- liss — Relief; ease; abatement; cessation; release.
- list — Friedrich [free-drik] /ˈfri drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1789–1846, U.S. political economist and journalist, born in Germany.
- lisw — licensed independent social worker
- lite — noting a commercial product that is low in calories or low in any substance considered undesirable, as compared with a product of the same type: used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products: lite beer.
- lith — an arm or leg; limb.
- lits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lit.
- litu — a plural of litas.
- liue — Obsolete typography of live.
- live — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- livy — (Titus Livius) 59 b.c.–a.d. 17, Roman historian.
- liza — a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- llm3 — /el el em trwa/ The assembly language for a virtual machine used as the implementation language for Le-Lisp. Developed by J. Chailloux of INRIA.
- llnl — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- llyr — the father of Manawydan: corresponds to the Irish Ler.
- lmao — (Internet slang) alternative capitalization of LMAO.
- lmda — Labour Market Development Agreement
- lmds — Local Multipoint Distribution System