4-letter words starting with l
- lsml — Lazy Standard ML
- lssd — level-sensitive scan design
- lsyd — Language for SYstems Development. A PL/I-like language with data structure and character extensions.
- lt-2 — An early system on the IBM 701.
- ltjg — Lieutenant, junior grade
- ltns — long time no see
- ltr3 — Version three of LTR, by A. Parayre of Delegation Generale pour l'Armement, France. LTR3 was widely used by the French military and avionics companies.
- ltsa — Land Transport Safety Authority
- luan — Alternative spelling of lauan.
- luau — a feast of Hawaiian food, usually held outdoors and usually accompanied by Hawaiian entertainment.
- luba — a member of any of various groups of agricultural and hunting people inhabiting the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo, some of whom are famous for their wood carvings.
- lube — lubricant.
- luce — Clare Boothe, 1903–87, U.S. writer, politician, and diplomat.
- luck — Polish name of Lutsk.
- lucy — a female given name.
- luda — former name of Dalian (def 1).
- lude — Quaalude.
- ludo — Alternative capitalization of Ludo.
- lued — Simple past tense and past participle of lu.
- lues — syphilis.
- luff — the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail.
- luft — (chess) Space made for a castled king to give it a flight square to prevent a back-rank mate.
- luge — a one- or two-person sled for coasting or racing down a chute, used especially in Europe.
- lugo — a city in NW Spain.
- lugs — (Geordie) Plural form of lug, ear lobes.
- luik — Flemish name of Liège.
- luke — an early Christian disciple and companion of Paul, a physician and probably a gentile: traditionally believed to be the author of the third Gospel and the Acts.
- luks — George Benjamin, 1867–1933, U.S. painter.
- lull — to put to sleep or rest by soothing means: to lull a child by singing.
- lulu — a fixed allowance paid to a legislator in lieu of reimbursement for actual expenses.
- lulz — laughs at someone else’s or one’s own expense
- luma — A monetary unit of Armenia, equal to one hundredth of a dram.
- lump — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- lums — Plural form of lum.
- luna — the ancient Roman goddess personifying the moon, sometimes identified with Diana.
- lund — a city in SE Sweden, northeast of Malmö: founded in about 1020 by the Danish King Canute; the archbishopric for all Scandinavia in the Middle Ages; university (1668). Pop: 101 427 (2004 est)
- lune — a line for securing a hawk.
- lung — either of the two saclike respiratory organs in the thorax of humans and the higher vertebrates.
- lunk — a dull or stupid person; blockhead.
- lunt — Alfred, 1893–1977, U.S. actor (husband of Lynn Fontanne).
- luny — lunatic; insane.
- lupe — a female given name.
- lure — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lurk — lurking
- lurt — (UK dialectal, Scotland) A lump of dirt or excrement; a turd.
- lurv — (informal) Alternative form of lurve.
- lush — (of vegetation, plants, grasses, etc.) luxuriant; succulent; tender and juicy.
- lusk — Lazy or slothful.
- lust — intense sexual desire or appetite.
- luta — former name of Dalian (def 1).