Nouns starting with L

• lacrosse player — Noun – English ～ an athlete who plays lacrosse
• lady of pleasure — Noun – English ～ a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
• lumbar plexus — Noun – English ～ a plexus of nerves formed by the ventral branches of the first four lumbar nerves
• lumbosacral plexus — Noun – English ～ a nerve plexus formed by the ventral divisions of the coccygeal and sacral and lumbar nerves; supplies the lower limbs and perineum and coccygeal area
• lumbar plexus — Noun – English ～ a lymphatic plexus located along the lower portion of the aorta and iliac vessels
• locking pliers — Noun – English ～ pliers that can be locked in place
• lister plough — Noun – English ～ moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow
• lister plow — Noun – English ～ moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow
• Libocedrus plumosa — Noun – English ～ New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress
• lobar pneumonia — Noun – English ～ pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection
• Legionella pneumophilia — Noun – English ～ the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease
• Li Po — Noun – English ～ Chinese lyric poet (700-762)
• locust pod — Noun – English ～ long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute
• lyric poem — Noun – English ～ a short poem of songlike quality
• line of poetry — Noun – English ～ a single line of words in a poem
• lake poets — Noun – English ～ English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it
• limit point — Noun – English ～ the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
• lubber's point — Noun – English ～ a fixed line on a ship's compass indicating its heading
• lead poisoning — Noun – English ～ toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system
• Limulus polyphemus — Noun – English ～ large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse

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