Words starting with L that are validated

• latency phase — 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
• luteal phase — Noun – English ～ the second half of the menstrual cycle after ovulation; the corpus luteum secretes progesterone which prepares the endometrium for the implantation of an embryo; if fertilization does not occur then menstrual flow begins
• Lilium philadelphicum — Noun – English ～ lily of eastern North America having orange to orange-red purple-spotted flowers
• legal philosophy — Noun – English ～ the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
• love-philter — Noun – English ～ a drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it
• love-philtre — Noun – English ～ a drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it
• Little Phoebe — Noun – English ～ the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
• Lycaon pictus — Noun – English ～ a powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs; now rare in settled area
• lemon meringue pie — Noun – English ～ pie containing lemon custard and topped with meringue
• long pillow — Noun – English ～ a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows
• limber pine — Noun – English ～ western North American pine with long needles and very flexible limbs and dark-grey furrowed bark
• loblolly pine — Noun – English ～ tall spreading three-needled pine of southeastern United States having reddish-brown fissured bark and a full bushy upper head
• lodgepole pine — Noun – English ～ shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares
• longleaf pine — Noun – English ～ large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs; bark is red-brown deeply ridged; an important timber tree
• lantern pinion — Noun – English ～ a small pinion having cylindrical bars instead of teeth, used chiefly in inexpensive clocks
• lavender-pink — Adjective – English ～ of pink tinged with lavender
• lilac-pink — Adjective – English ～ of pink tinged with lavender
• labial pipe — Noun – English ～ organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
• Luigi Pirandello — Noun – English ～ Italian novelist and playwright (1867-1936)
• literary pirate — Noun – English ～ someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

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