Nouns starting with L

• logic programming — Noun – English ～ a computer language designed in Europe to support natural language processing
• logical proof — Noun – English ～ proof of a logical theorem
• law of constant proportion — Noun – English ～ (chemistry) law stating that every pure substance always contains the same elements combined in the same proportions by weight
• law of equivalent 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
• law of multiple proportions — Noun – English ～ (chemistry) law stating that when two elements can combine to form more than one compound the amounts of one of them that combines with a fixed amount of the other will exhibit a simple multiple relation
• law of definite proportions — Noun – English ～ (chemistry) law stating that every pure substance always contains the same elements combined in the same proportions by weight
• law of proximity — Noun – English ～ a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit
• liver pudding — Noun – English ～ sausage containing ground liver
• leg-pull — Noun – English ～ as a joke: trying to make somebody believe something that is not true
• leg-pulling — Noun – English ～ as a joke: trying to make somebody believe something that is not true
• lift pump — Noun – English ～ pump used to lift rather than force a liquid up
• Liatris punctata — Noun – English ～ herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico
• Lepomis punctatus — Noun – English ～ inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida; esteemed panfish
• lumbar puncture — Noun – English ～ removal by centesis of fluid from the subarachnoid space of the lumbar region of the spinal cord for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes
• Louisiana Purchase — Noun – English ～ territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million; extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada
• late purple aster — Noun – English ～ a variety of aster
• Lablab purpureus — Noun – English ～ perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
• Liatris pycnostachya — Noun – English ～ perennial of southeastern and central United States having very dense spikes of purple flowers; often cultivated for cut flowers
• lounging pyjama — Noun – English ～ pajamas worn while lounging
• Leptarrhena pyrolifolia — Noun – English ～ plant with basal leathery elliptic leaves and erect leafless flower stalks each bearing a dense roundish cluster of tiny white flowers; moist places of northwestern North America to Oregon and Idaho

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