8-letter words starting with lo
- lockdown — the confining of prisoners to their cells, as following a riot or other disturbance.
- lockfast — (Scottish) Fastened or secured with a lock.
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- lockings — Plural form of locking.
- lockless — without locks
- locknuts — Plural form of locknut.
- lockouts — Plural form of lockout.
- lockpick — a device that enables a burglar to open a lock.
- lockport — a city in W New York, on the New York State Barge Canal.
- lockstep — a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
- lockwood — Belva Ann Bennett [bel-vuh] /ˈbɛl və/ (Show IPA), 1830–1917, U.S. lawyer and women's-rights activist.
- locofoco — (sometimes lowercase) a member of the radical faction of the New York City Democrats, organized in 1835 to oppose the conservative members of the party.
- locomote — to move about, especially under one's own power.
- locoweed — any of various leguminous plants of the genera Astragalus and Oxytropis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, causing locoism in sheep, horses, etc.
- loculate — having one or more locules.
- locustal — of or relating to locusts
- locution — a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- locutory — locutorium.
- lodesman — a person who steers a ship
- lodestar — a star that shows the way.
- lodgeing — Obsolete form of lodging.
- lodgings — accommodation in a house, especially in rooms for rent: to furnish board and lodging.
- lodgment — the act of lodging.
- lodicule — one of the specialized scales at the base of the ovary of certain grass flowers.
- loeffler — Charles Martin Tornov [tawr-nof] /ˈtɔr nɒf/ (Show IPA), 1861–1935, U.S. violinist and composer, born in France.
- loessial — a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
- loft bed — a bed raised, as on supports, high enough overhead to allow the use of the floor area below for various purposes, as for part of a living room
- loftiest — extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
- loftless — (of a building) not having a loft
- loftlike — Resembling a loft.
- loftsman — a person who prepares molds and patterns.
- log book — A log book is a book in which someone records details and events relating to something, for example a journey or period of their life, or a vehicle.
- log chip — the wooden chip of a chip log, for holding the end of the log line.
- log file — a file that records all the activity that has occurred on a system
- log fire — a fire on which logs are burned
- log line — the line by which a log or patent log is streamed.
- log reel — a reel from which the line of a log chip runs.
- log roll — to procure the passage of (a bill) by logrolling.
- log ship — log chip.
- log-wood — a portion or length of the trunk or of a large limb of a felled tree.
- logboard — a board used for logging a ship's records
- logbooks — Plural form of logbook.
- loggings — the process, work, or business of cutting down trees and transporting the logs to sawmills.
- logician — a person who is skilled in logic.
- logicise — to make logical; give logical form to: to logicize a sequence of events.
- logicism — the doctrine, developed chiefly by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, that mathematics can be reduced to logic.
- logicist — (philosophy) An adherent of logicism.
- logicize — to make logical; give logical form to: to logicize a sequence of events.
- logining — a username and password that allows a person to log in to a computer system, network, mobile device, or user account.
- logistic — of or relating to logistic.