Nouns starting with L

• little ebony spleenwort — Noun – English ～ fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil
• lanceolate spleenwort — Noun – English ～ a spleenwort of western Europe
• lobed spleenwort — Noun – English ～ a spleenwort of eastern and southern United States
• Lathyrus splendens — Noun – English ～ shrubby California perennial having large pink or violet flowers; cultivated as an ornamental
• loufah sponge — Noun – English ～ the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer
• Limnodium spongia — Noun – English ～ American plant with roundish heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves; usually rooted in muddy bottoms of ponds and ditches
• liver spot — Noun – English ～ a type of skin disease that causes brown spots on the skin
• liver-spotted dalmatian — Noun – English ～ a brown-spotted dalmatian
• little spotted skunk — Noun – English ～ small skunk with a marbled black and white coat; of United States and Mexico
• leaf spring — Noun – English ～ long narrow spring consisting of several layers of metal springs bracketed together
• leafy spurge — Noun – English ～ tall European perennial naturalized and troublesome as a weed in eastern North America
• line squall — Noun – English ～ a squall advancing along a front that forms a definite line
• Latin square — Noun – English ～ a square matrix of n rows and columns; cells contain n different symbols so arranged that no symbol occurs more than once in any row or column
• least squares — Noun – English ～ a method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve
• Lake St. Clair — Noun – English ～ a lake between Ontario and Michigan; connected with Lake Huron and Lake Erie
• low St Andrew's cross — Noun – English ～ low shrubby plant having yellow flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; Bermuda and southeastern United States to West Indies and eastern Mexico
• livery stable — Noun – English ～ stable where horses and vehicles are kept for hire
• latency stage — Noun – English ～ (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities
• left stage — Noun – English ～ the part of the stage on the actor's left as the actor faces the audience
• landing stage — Noun – English ～ platform from which passengers and cargo can be (un)loaded

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