Words in english starting with L

• Leontocebus oedipus — Noun – English ～ South American tamarin with a tufted head
• law of nature — Noun – English ～ a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"
• law of gravitation — Noun – English ～ (physics) the law that states any two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
• law of common fate — Noun – English ～ a Gestalt principle of organization holding that aspects of perceptual field that move or function in a similar manner will be perceived as a unit
• law of Archimedes — Noun – English ～ (hydrostatics) the apparent loss in weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid
• law of conservation of energy — Noun – English ～ the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes
• law of equal areas — Noun – English ～ a law concerning the speed at which planets travel; a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times; "Kepler's second law means that a planet's orbital speed changes with its distance from the sun"
• law of mass action — Noun – English ～ (chemistry) the law that states the following principle: the rate of a chemical reaction is directly proportional to the molecular concentrations of the reacting substances
• law of continuation — Noun – English ～ a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction
• law of chemical equilibrium — Noun – English ～ (chemistry) the principle that (at chemical equilibrium) in a reversible reaction the ratio of the rate of the forward reaction to the rate of the reverse reaction is a constant for that reaction
• law of large numbers — Noun – English ～ (statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics
• law of conservation of mass — Noun – English ～ a fundamental principle of classical physics that matter cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system
• law of effect — Noun – English ～ (psychology) the principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences; behavior having good consequences tends to be repeated whereas behavior that leads to bad consequences is not repeated
• law of motion — Noun – English ～ one of three basic laws of classical mechanics
• law of closure — Noun – English ～ a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric
• law of conservation of matter — Noun – English ～ a fundamental principle of classical physics that matter cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system
• Lawrence of Arabia — Noun – English ～ Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)
• law of areas — Noun – English ～ a law concerning the speed at which planets travel; a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times; "Kepler's second law means that a planet's orbital speed changes with its distance from the sun"
• Law of Moses — Noun – English ～ the laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah)
• law of averages — Noun – English ～ a law affirming that in the long run probabilities will determine performance

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