Words in english starting with L

• lay — Verb – English ～ put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
• lay into — Verb – English ～ hit violently, as in an attack
• lay — Verb – English ～ put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"
• lay away — Verb – English ～ save up as for future use
• lay — Verb – English ～ prepare or position for action or operation; "lay a fire"; "lay the foundation for a new health care plan"
• lay — Adjective – English ～ characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy; "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the lay ministry"
• lay — Adjective – English ～ not of or from a profession; "a lay opinion as to the cause of the disease"
• layabout — Noun – English ～ person who does no work; "a lazy bum"
• layby — Noun – English ～ designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily
• layer — Noun – English ～ thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
• layer — Noun – English ～ a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
• layer cake — Noun – English ～ cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting
• layer — Noun – English ～ an abstract place usually conceived as having depth; "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously"
• layer — Noun – English ～ single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"
• layer — Noun – English ～ a hen that lays eggs
• layer — Verb – English ～ make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands"
• layered — Adjective – English ～ with one layer on top of another; "superimposed rocks"
• layette — Noun – English ～ kit consisting of a complete outfit (clothing and accessories) for a new baby
• Layia — Noun – English ～ genus of western United States annuals with showy yellow or white flowers
• laying claim — Noun – English ～ the act of taking possession of or power over something; "his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba"; "the Nazi assumption of power in 1934"; "he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts"

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