5-letter words starting with l
- leroy — a male given name: from Old French, meaning “the king.”.
- lesbo — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
- leshy — (Slavic mythology) A male woodland spirit in Slavic mythology who protects wild animals and forests.
- lesse — Archaic form of less.
- lesya — any of six possible colors given to the monad, or individual soul, by its karma and being lighter or darker according to the proportion of good or evil included in the karma.
- let's — Archaic. to hinder, prevent, or obstruct.
- letch — a lecherous desire or craving.
- letha — a female given name.
- lethe — Classical Mythology. a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it.
- letup — cessation; pause; relief.
- levee — (in Great Britain) a public court assembly, held in the early afternoon, at which men only are received.
- level — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- leven — Loch, a lake in E Scotland: ruins of a castle in which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned.
- lever — tool for lifting
- levet — (obsolete) A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
- levin — lightning.
- levis — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- levo- — toward or on the left-hand side
- lewer — Comparative form of lew.
- lewes — George Henry, 1817–78, English writer and critic.
- lewis — Carl (Frederick Carlton Lewis) born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
- lexan — a polycarbonate resin, used in molded products, as a substitute for glass, etc.
- lexer — lexical analyser
- lexie — (literary theory) A minimal unit of reading, such as a sentence or sentence fragment.
- lexis — the vocabulary of a language, as distinct from its grammar; the total stock of words and idiomatic combinations of them in a language; lexicon.
- leyte — an island in the E central Philippines: focal point of the U.S. invasion of the Philippines 1944. 3085 sq. mi. (7990 sq. km).
- lezza — Alternative form of lezzer.
- lgbti — lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex
- lgbtq — pertaining to gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders, and queers (and/or those questioning their sexual or gender orientation) collectively.
- lh-rh — luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone
- lharc — (compression, algorithm) A compression program developed by Rahul Dhesi. LHARC was later replaced with LHA, which produces files with extension ".lzh".
- lhasa — Also, Thibet. Also called Sitsang, Xizang. Official name Tibet Autonomous Region. an administrative division of China, N of the Himalayas: prior to 1950 a theocracy under the Dalai Lama; the highest country in the world, average elevation about 16,000 feet (4877 meters). 471,660 sq. mi. (1,221,599 sq. km). Capital: Lhasa.
- li bo — Li Po.
- li po — a.d. 701?–762, Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty.
- li-lo — a kind of inflatable mattress or raft used to lie on at the beach
- liana — any of various usually woody vines that may climb as high as the tree canopy in a tropical forest.
- liane — Archaic form of liana.
- liang — a Chinese unit of weight, equal to 1/16 (0.0625) catty, and equivalent to about 1.33 ounces (38 grams).
- liard — a former silver coin of France, the fourth part of a sol, issued from the 15th century to 1793 and made from copper after 1650.
- liars — Plural form of liar.
- liase — Misspelling of liaise.
- libau — German name of Liepāja.
- libby — Willard Frank, 1908–80, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1960.
- libel — the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals: blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
- liber — an ancient Italian god of wine and vineyards, in later times identified with Bacchus.
- libia — Libya.
- libor — London Inter-Bank Offer Rate: the standard rate of interest for loans between financial institutions
- libra — the ancient Roman pound (containing 5053 grains or 327.4 grams).
- libre — (free software movement) With very few limitations on distribution or improvement; including source code.
- libri — phloem.