5-letter words starting with ly
- lyard — streaked or spotted with gray or white.
- lyase — any of various enzymes, as decarboxylase, that catalyze reactions involving the formation of or addition to a double bond.
- lycee — a secondary school, especially in France, maintained by the government.
- lycia — an ancient country in SW Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- lycos — (web) A web index, served by Carnegie Mellon University. It allows you to search on document title and content for a list of keywords. Lycos is probably the biggest such index on the web. By April 1995, the Lycos database contained 2.95 million unique documents. The Lycos database is built by a Web crawler that can bring in 5000 documents per day. The index searches document title, headings, links, and keywords it locates in these documents. The Lycos servers are efficient but overloaded. Failure to connect or "please try later" messages are common.
- lycra — Spandex.
- lydda — Lod
- lydia — an ancient kingdom in W Asia Minor: under Croesus, a wealthy empire including most of Asia Minor.
- lyell — Sir Charles, 1797–1875, English geologist.
- lyeth — Archaic third-person singular form of lye.
- lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
- lykes — Plural form of lyke.
- lyman — a male given name.
- lymph — Anatomy, Physiology. a clear yellowish, slightly alkaline, coagulable fluid, containing white blood cells in a liquid resembling blood plasma, that is derived from the tissues of the body and conveyed to the bloodstream by the lymphatic vessels.
- lynch — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- lynda — a female given name.
- lynen — Feodor [fey-aw-dawr] /feɪˈɔ dɔr/ (Show IPA), 1911–1979, German biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1964.
- lynix — (spelling) Misspelling of "Linux" (the Unix clone), or possibly "lynx" (the web browser).
- lyons — a river flowing from the Alps in S Switzerland through the Lake of Geneva and SE France into the Mediterranean. 504 miles (810 km) long.
- lyres — Plural form of lyre.
- lyric — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
- lysed — to cause dissolution or destruction of cells by lysins.
- lyses — a river in W Europe, in N France and W Belgium, flowing NE into the Scheldt River at Ghent. 120 miles (195 km) long.
- lysi- — freeing, loosening, dissolving
- lysin — an antibody causing the disintegration of erythrocytes or bacterial cells.
- lysis — Immunology, Biochemistry. the dissolution or destruction of cells by lysins.
- lyso- — indicating a dissolving or loosening
- lysol — a solution containing a mixture of cresols in water, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant
- lythe — (obsolete) soft; flexible.
- lytic — of, noting, or pertaining to lysis or a lysin.
- lytta — a long, worm-shaped cartilage in the tongue of the dog and other carnivorous animals.
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