9-letter words starting with lo
- 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.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- loan word — a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
- loanblend — a compound word or expression consisting of both native and foreign elements.
- loanshark — Alternative spelling of loan shark.
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- loanwords — Plural form of loanword.
- loathings — Plural form of loathing.
- loathness — Unwillingness; reluctance.
- loathsome — causing feelings of loathing; disgusting; revolting; repulsive: a loathsome skin disease.
- lobbyists — Plural form of lobbyist.
- lobectomy — excision of a lobe of an organ or gland.
- lobengula — ?1836–94, last Matabele king (1870–93); his kingdom was destroyed by the British
- lobscouse — a stew of meat, potatoes, onions, ship biscuit, etc.
- lobstered — Simple past tense and past participle of lobster.
- lobsterer — a person who catches lobsters
- lobularly — in a lobular manner
- lobulated — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
- loc. cit. — loco citato
- local bus — (hardware) A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
- localhost — (computing) The computer being used locally, contrasted with remote computers elsewhere on a network.
- localised — localisation
- localisms — Plural form of localism.
- localists — Plural form of localist.
- localized — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- localizer — (computing) A person who localizes.
- localizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of localize.
- localtalk — (networking) An Apple Computer network standard using Apple Computer's own networking hardware. Compare EtherTalk.
- locatable — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- locatelli — Pietro [pee-ey-troh;; Italian pye-traw] /piˈeɪ troʊ;; Italian ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1695–1764, Italian violinist and composer.
- locations — Plural form of location.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- locellate — split into secondary cells
- loch ness — a lake in NW Scotland, near Inverness. 23 miles (37 km) long.
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- lock away — put in prison
- lock down — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- lock gate — one of the two gates of a lock
- lock rail — the rail of a door that meets the shutting stile at the level of the lock.
- lock seam — a joint between two pieces of sheet metal, made by folding up the overlapping edges against each other, then folding them over in the same direction a number of times.
- lock step — a way of marching in such close file that the corresponding legs of the marchers must keep step precisely
- lockboxes — Plural form of lockbox.
- lockdowns — Plural form of lockdown.
- locked in — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- locked up — Synonym for hung, wedged.
- lockerbie — a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a passenger jet (Pan Am flight 103) was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town. Pop: 4009 (2001)
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