Words in english starting with L

• lower-ranking — Adjective – English ～ inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
• loss ratio — Noun – English ～ the ratio of the annual claims paid by an insurance company to the premiums received
• Lord Rayleigh — Noun – English ～ English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon; made important contributions to acoustic theory (1842-1919)
• law of action and reaction — Noun – English ～ action and reaction are equal and opposite
• light reaction — Noun – English ～ the first stage of photosynthesis during which energy from light is used for the production of ATP
• learned reaction — Noun – English ～ a reaction that has been acquired by learning
• liquid metal reactor — Noun – English ～ a nuclear reactor using liquid metal as a coolant
• lip-read — Verb – English ～ interpret by lipreading; of deaf people
• lay reader — Noun – English ～ a layman who is authorized by the bishop to read parts of the service in an Anglican or Episcopal church
• lip reader — Noun – English ～ someone who can understand spoken words by watching the movements of a speaker's lips
• line of reasoning — Noun – English ～ a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your line of reasoning"
• Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces — Noun – English ～ a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government; leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths
• law of reciprocal proportions — Noun – English ～ (chemistry) law stating that the proportions in which two elements separately combine with a third element are also the proportions in which they combine together
• lateral rectus muscle — Noun – English ～ the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward
• lateral rectus — Noun – English ～ the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward
• Lewisia rediviva — Noun – English ～ showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower
• light reflex — Noun – English ～ reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller
• land reform — Noun – English ～ a redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action)
• Lothian Region — Noun – English ～ a district in southeast central Scotland (south side of the Firth of Forth) and the location of Edinburgh
• Lampris regius — Noun – English ～ large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean

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