English words: last chance saloon to lateromedially
300 English words, part 15 of 76 of the words starting with L, A to Z. 23 have a page of their own.
English words last chance saloon to lateromedially
- last chance saloon noun /ˌlɑːs(t)tʃɑːns səˈluːn/: A saloon located at the end of a road or the outskirts of a town.
- last chicken in the shop noun: The penis.
- last common ancestor noun: Synonym of cenancestor.
- last dance noun: A last run, suggesting a sense of nostalgia.
- last day adverb: yesterday
- last ditch adjective /ˈlɑːs(t)dɪt͡ʃ/: Alternative form of last-ditch.
- last-ditcher noun: A person who is prepared to make a last-ditch effort; one very committed to a cause.
- last eight noun: A quarterfinal; the players in a quarterfinal
- last four noun: The semifinal.
- last frontier noun: Synonym of outer space.
- last full measure noun: A person's life, when lost through death in service to a nation or cause, particularly as a member of a military force in war or a semi-militarized...
- last gasp adjective, noun: Happening at the very end of an event.
- last hired, first fired phrase: The most recently hired employees in a business are likely to be the first to be sacked if the business needs to downsize.
- last honors noun: Funeral rites; obsequies.
- last honours noun: Alternative form of last honors.
- last hoorah noun: Alternative spelling of last hurrah.
- last hurrah noun /læst həˈɹɑː/: A final act (by a politician, etc.) or performance (by an actor, etc.) that marks the end of a career.
- last I checked phrase: Alternative form of last time I checked.
- last I heard phrase: Ellipsis of the last I heard.
- last in first out adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to any situation where the last to arrive is the first to go, or a data structure where the most recently added item is the first to be...
- last kilometre noun: Synonym of last mile.
- last known good phrase: The most recent configuration that works properly, used to roll back changes that might later prove problematic.
- last last adjective: Relating to the preceding time before the previous time.
- last man standing noun: The final person remaining in a battle or competition after everyone else has been eliminated.
- last meal noun: A final meal that a prisoner may choose before being executed.
- last-mentioned adjective: The last of a number of things or people mentioned, e.g. in the preceding text.
- last mile noun /ˌlɑːst ˈmaɪl/: The final stage of delivery of goods, etc., from a distribution centre to the consumer, often involving greater effort or expense.
- last mile school noun: A school geographically isolated or in a disadvantaged or conflict area.
- last minute adjective, noun: An arbitrary (non-specific) point in time, too close to a deadline to reasonably begin a critical task.
- last moment noun: Synonym of last minute.
- last nail in the coffin noun: Alternative form of final nail in the coffin.
- last name noun, verb: Synonym of surname, a person's family name.
- last-named adjective, verb: The last person or thing named, e.g. in the preceding text.
- last-nameless adjective: Without a last name.
- last night adverb, noun: The evening or night immediately before the present. (This entry is a translation hub.)
- last of the big spenders noun: Someone who does not spend much money.
- last of the big-time spenders noun: Alternative form of last of the big spenders.
- last orders noun: A short period of time, which is usually announced by ringing a bell and is between five and fifteen minutes long, just before closing time. This is...
- last out verb: To survive or endure.
- last parsec problem noun: Synonym of final parsec problem
- last photon orbit noun: Synonym of photon sphere.
- last post noun: The sounding of a bugle, signalling the evening hour to bed down, also used at military funerals and remembrance services.
- last quarter noun: The waning lunar phase halfway between full moon and new moon.
- last refuge noun: Synonym of last resort.
- last resort noun: The only remaining, often least desirable, option when all others have been excluded.
- last respects noun: Final visit to a person nearing death, or to a person who has just died.
- last rites noun: Final treatment of a dead man.
- last roundup noun: A final gathering of people or items; the final event in a series of events involving a group or organization.
- last scattering surface noun: The horizon in the distant past of the universe at which photons ceased scattering from matter and were able to travel unimpeded to be observed in the...
- last sixteen noun: The round in a knockout competition before the quarterfinal, in which sixteen teams or competitors remain.
- last stand noun /lɑːst stænd/: A military encounter, especially against (often greatly) superior odds, generally as a last resort, whether to save another army or city, or as a last act...
- last straw noun: A small addition to an already heavy burden which causes it to exceed the capacity.
- Last Supper noun: An artistic representation of this event.
- last survivor adjective: Describing a joint life insurance policy that pays out in the event that both of the lives assured have died (not necessarily at the same time).
- last thing adverb: late in the day
- last thing one needs noun: Something not wanted by someone, who is already burdened.
- last time adjective, adverb, noun: The ultimate occurrence.
- last time I checked phrase: As I last remember; last I recall.
- last to last adjective: Second-most recent; immediately prior to the latest.
- last trump noun: The moment of God's final judgement on Earth.
- last trumpet noun: Alternative form of last trump.
- last universal ancestor noun: Synonym of cenancestor.
- last universal common ancestor noun: Synonym of cenancestor.
- last will noun: Synonym of testament.
- last will and testament noun: Alternative form of last will.
- last word noun: The finest, highest, or ultimate representative of some class of objects.
- last-wordism noun: A tendency or attempt to have the last word in any argument, decision, or endeavor.
- last words noun: The final remarks uttered by a person before death.
- lastability noun: The degree to which something will last or endure.
- lastable adjective: Capable of lasting or enduring.
- lastage noun: A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
- lastborn adjective, noun /ˈlɑːstˌbɔː(ɹ)n/: The youngest child of a family.
- laster noun: A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts.
- lasthit noun, verb: to deal the final hitpoint of damage, usually to a basic enemy
- lasting adjective, noun, verb /ˈlɑːstɪŋ/: Persisting for an extended period of time.
- lastingly adverb: In a lasting manner, in a way that persists.
- lastingness noun /ˈlɑːstɪŋnɪs/: The property of lasting; duration, permanence.
- lastling noun: Someone or something that is last.
- lastly adverb /ˈlɑːstli/: Used to mark the beginning of the last in a list of items or propositions.
- lastmaker noun: A manufacturer of lasts for shoemaking.
- lastmaking noun: The manufacture of lasts for shoemaking.
- lastminute.com adjective: Synonym of last minute (“close to a deadline”).
- lastminutitis noun: The tendency to leave the completion of tasks to the last minute.
- lastness noun: The quality of being or coming last; finality.
- lastol noun: A form of polyolefin where the olefin units are cross-linked synthetic polymers with low but significant crystallinity, composed of at least 95% by mass of...
- Lastra proper noun: A surname.
- lastrile noun: A kind of elastic fiber made from a co-polymer composed of a diene and of not more than 50 per cent but not less than 10 per cent by mass of acrylonitrile...
- Laswell proper noun: A surname.
- lasya noun: A kind of Indian dance performed by women.
- Laszlo proper noun: A male given name from Hungarian.
- lat adjective, noun /lɑːt/: Initialism of lowest astronomical tide.
- lat. dorsi noun: Clipped compound of latissimus dorsi.
- lat/lon noun: latitude and longitude
- lat pulldown noun [læt ˈpʊldaʊ̯n]: An exercise performed by pulling a bar, attached to a weighted cable machine, toward one's upper chest.
- lat sahib noun: Lord sahib.
- lata noun: Alternative form of latah.
- latae sententiae adjective: Of a penalty, coming into force as soon as a law is broken, by force of the law itself (such as excommunication for various specified offences).
- Latagnon noun: Alternative form of Ratagnon.
- latah noun /ˈlɑːtə/: A condition found in Malaysia and nearby areas characterised by extreme suggestibility; also, a person suffering from this malady.
- latakia noun /latəˈkiːə/: A type of pungent Turkish tobacco.
- Latakian adjective, noun: Of, from, or pertaining to Latakia
- Latam proper noun: Latin America
- latamoxef noun: A particular oxacephem antibiotic
- latanoprost noun: A prostaglandin analogue used for controlling the progression of glaucoma or ocular hypertension by reducing intraocular pressure.
- Latanya proper noun: A female given name of African-American usage.
- Latasha proper noun: A female given name of African-American usage
- latasian adjective, noun: Encompassing both Latin American and Asian (particularly East/South and Southeast Asian) ancestry.
- Latavia proper noun: A female given name.
- latch noun, verb /læt͡ʃ/: To close or lock as if with a latch.
- latch key noun: Alternative form of latchkey.
- latch-key child noun: Alternative form of latchkey child.
- latch on verb: To grasp firmly; to become attached to.
- latch onto verb: To obtain, acquire or get and keep hold of something.
- latch-up noun: A kind of short circuit caused by the inadvertent creation of a low-impedance path between the power supply rails of a MOSFET circuit.
- latchable adjective: Capable of being fastened with a latch.
- latchbolt noun: A spring-loaded part of a lock that extends from the front of the lock and into a hole in the door frame, or strike, in order to hold the door closed.
- latcher noun: One who or that which latches.
- latchet noun: A small lever action crossbow with the cocking lever built into the top of the stock and a top mounted trigger.
- Latchford proper noun: A town in Ontario, Canada.
- latching adjective, noun, verb: That latches.
- latchkey adjective, noun, verb /ˈlæt͡ʃˌki/: A key, especially to an outside door.
- latchkey child noun: Synonym of latchkey kid.
- latchkey kid noun: A schoolchild who carries keys to their residence because there is usually no parent home when school finishes.
- latchkey program noun: A childcare service that provides a supervised environment for elementary school-aged children before and after school, while their parents are working;...
- latchless adjective: Without a latch.
- latchman noun: A person employed to run in front of a locomotive and open the latch to turn it into a siding for trams to pass.
- latchpan noun: Synonym of dripping pan.
- latchstring noun: A string attached to a latch allowing it to be disengaged from the opposite side.
- latchup noun: Alternative form of latch-up.
- latd. noun: Abbreviation of latitude.
- late adjective, adverb, noun /leɪt/: Near the end of a period of time.
- late antique adjective: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see late, antique.
- late binding noun: Dynamic binding.
- late blight noun: Synonym of potato blight.
- late bloomer noun: A person who reaches puberty or who matures comparatively later than is typical.
- late-blooming adjective: Being a late bloomer; attaining maturity or success comparatively late in life.
- late-bound adjective: Subject to late binding.
- late-breaking adjective: Occurring very shortly before publication on the topic.
- Late Bronze Age noun: The final period of the Bronze Age.
- late capitalism noun: The most recent or current form of capitalism, especially as characterized by monopoly, globalization, exploitation, and excess.
- late capitalist adjective: Characteristic of late capitalism.
- late effect noun: A condition that appears after the acute phase of an earlier, causal condition has run its course.
- late fee noun: A fee charged by a library for the late return of an item
- late harvest noun: The grapes left on the vine for several weeks past peak ripeness; this extended time dehydrates the grapes, concentrating their sugars and acids, resulting...
- late in the day adjective: Too late, or almost too late; belated.
- late in the game phrase: Very late in the course of an event, so as to have diminished relevance, importance, etc.
- late innings noun: The seventh, eighth, and ninth innings of a game.
- late lamented adjective, noun: Sadly missed due to death.
- late model adjective: Recently designed or fabricated; new.
- late modern adjective: of or pertaining to late modernity
- late modernity noun: The current time period, perceived as an ongoing part of modernity rather than a separate postmodern.
- late night adjective, noun /ˌleɪt ˈnaɪt/: Of, or related to the late night time.
- late on adverb: at a late stage of something
- late pass noun: A slip or piece of paper notifying that a student's lateness is excused
- late position noun: The position of the last players to play the current hand, usually not counting the blinds, such as: BTN (button), CO (cutoff).
- late riser noun: Someone who gets up late in the morning.
- late stage capitalism noun: Alternative form of late capitalism.
- late tackle noun: A mistimed attempt to take the ball of an opposing player that results in the tackler making contact with the player and not the ball
- late talker noun: A toddler experiencing a delay in language onset with no other diagnosed disabilities (LLE).
- late-term adjective: In, pertaining to, or occurring during an advanced stage, especially of pregnancy.
- late-to-bedder noun: A person who goes to bed late.
- late to the ball adjective: Synonym of late to the party.
- late to the game adjective: Synonym of late to the party.
- late to the party adjective: Late in taking an action or adopting an idea.
- late-type star noun: a star of spectral type K or M
- late unpleasantness noun: A recent war, especially (historical) the American Civil War.
- late-wake noun: lich-wake
- latebra noun: The cavity in the foodyolk of a meroblastic ovum.
- latebricole adjective /ləˈtɛ.bɹəˌkoʊl/: Of an animal, especially a spider: living concealed in a hole.
- latecomer noun /ˈleɪtˌkʌm.ə/: One who has arrived comparatively recently.
- latecoming adjective: Arriving late.
- lated adjective: Belated; too late; also, overtaken by night; delayed.
- Lateef proper noun: A male given name from Arabic.
- lateen noun /ləˈtiːn/: A triangular fore-and-aft sail set on a boom in such way that the tack is attached to the hull of the vessel and the free end of the boom lifts the sail.
- lateened adjective: Having lateen sails.
- lateener noun /læˈtiːnə/: A ship with a lateen rig.
- lateish adjective, adverb /ˈleɪtɪʃ/: Quite late
- lately adverb /ˈleɪt.li/: Recently; not long ago; of late; not long since.
- laten verb: To grow late; become later.
- latency noun /ˈleɪ.tən.si/: Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
- latency time noun: A time delay between the cause and effect of a physical change in a system that is being observed.
- lateness noun /ˈleɪt.nɪs/: The state of being late.
- latenight adjective: Alternative form of late-night.
- latensification noun: The uniform pre-exposure of a photographic film.
- latent adjective, noun /ˈleɪ.tənt/: Existing or present, but concealed or inactive.
- latent fingerprint noun: A fingerprint that is not fully visible or analyzable but can be developed in laboratory conditions.
- latent heat noun: The heat that is released or absorbed accompanying a change of state or of a phase.
- latent news noun: A surrealist game in which a newspaper article is cut into individual words or phrases and rapidly reassembled.
- latent print noun: Alternative form of latent fingerprint.
- latent space noun: A multidimensional spatial representation of latent variables, where related concepts are positioned closer to one another.
- latent time noun: Synonym of reaction time.
- latent value noun: Synonym of eigenvalue.
- latent variable noun: A variable that is not directly measured but is inferred by means of a mathematical model from one or more directly observed variables.
- latent vector noun: An eigenvector.
- latently adverb: In a latent manner
- latentness noun: The quality of being latent.
- lateover noun: Synonym of sleepunder.
- later adjective, adverb, interjection, suffix /ˈleɪ.tə/: comparative form of late: more late
- later-day adjective: Synonym of latter-day.
- later, gator interjection: Goodbye, see you later.
- later on adverb, interjection /lɛjtəˈɹɔn/: At some time in the future; subsequently; later.
- later, skater interjection: Goodbye, see you later.
- later, tater phrase: Au revoir, see you soon.
- laterad adverb: Toward the side of the body; away from the mesial plane.
- lateral adjective, noun, verb /ˈlæt(ə)ɹəl/: Situated on one side or other of the body or of an organ, especially in the region furthest from the median plane.
- lateral aberration noun /ˈlæt.ɚ.l̩ ˌæb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩/: Deviation from the correct point of focus measured perpendicular to the axis.
- lateral area noun: The sum of the areas of the lateral (vertical) faces of a cylinder, cone, frustum, or the like.
- lateral canthus noun: The outer corner of the eye.
- lateral cricoarytenoid muscle noun: A muscle of the larynx that arises from the upper margin of the arch of the cricoid cartilage, inserts into the front of the process of the arytenoid...
- lateral cuneiform bone noun: One of the three cuneiform bones of the foot.
- lateral flow test noun: Any of various simple tests for the presence of a substance in a body fluid.
- lateral fricative noun: A fricative pronounced by directing the airstream around the sides of the tongue.
- lateral gene transfer noun: Horizontal gene transfer.
- lateral geniculate nucleus noun: The nucleus of the thalamus which receives input from the optic tract.
- lateral hood noun: Synonym of dorsal hood.
- lateral line noun: A sense organ of a fish running lengthwise down each of its sides from the vicinity of the operculum to the base of the tail, used to detect movement and...
- lateral mal noun: Lateral malleolus.
- lateral malleolus noun: The prominence on the outer side of the ankle, formed by the lower end of the fibula.
- lateral mark noun: A buoy or other navigational mark denoting the port or starboard edge of a channel
- lateral meningocele syndrome noun: A rare skeletal disorder with facial anomalies, hypotonia, and meningocele-related neurologic dysfunction.
- lateral meristem noun: Meristem forming a cylinder within some plants' organs (primarily stems, branches and roots) and allowing them to increase in girth (lateral growth).
- lateral moraine noun: Moraine of eroded debris carried along the edge of the glacier.
- lateral pass noun: a pass thrown laterally and that counts as a hand-off
- lateral pectoral nerve noun: A nerve that branches from the lateral cord and innervates the pectoralis major muscle.
- lateral pontine syndrome noun: A brain-stem stroke syndrome of the lateral aspect of the pons.
- lateral pterygoid muscle noun: A muscle that arises from the greater wing of the sphenoid bone and from the outer surface of the lateral pterygoid plate, is inserted into the condyle of...
- lateral pterygoid nerve noun: A branch of the mandibular nerve that is distributed to the lateral pterygoid muscle.
- lateral pterygoid plate noun: A broad thin plate that forms the lateral part of the pterygoid process and gives attachment to the lateral pterygoid muscle on its lateral surface and to...
- lateral raise noun: A shoulder exercise in which the arm is raised and lowered against resistance – such as through use of a dumbbell, cable, or resistance band –, isolating...
- lateral rectus noun: The longest of the four extraocular muscles of the eyeball in the orbit, which arises by two heads from the border of the optic foramen and inserts into the...
- lateral scale noun: One of the scales along the midside that spans from the rear edge of the gill cover to the base of the caudal fin of a fish, usually along a lateral line.
- lateral sclerosis noun: name of a number of chronic, progressive nervous diseases.
- lateral sinus noun: Synonym of transverse sinus.
- lateral stratum noun: The area of divergent hyphae which is on either side of the central zone (mediostratum).
- lateral sulcus noun: Synonym of sylvian fissure.
- lateral surface noun: All of the sides of the object, excluding its base and top (when they exist).
- lateral thinker noun: One who uses lateral thinking.
- lateral thinking noun: The use of reasoned thought in a nonstandard, or nonlinear logical way to find a solution to a problem.
- lateral transfer noun: The movement of an employee from his/her current post to a different position without noticeable benefits.
- lateralisation noun: Alternative spelling of lateralization.
- lateralise verb: Alternative form of lateralize.
- lateralism noun: An organizational structure in which competing interests of equal power negotiate with each other.
- lateralist adjective, noun: Characteristic of lateralism; pertaining to the interactions of opposing interests of equal power.
- laterality noun: the state or quality of being lateral
- lateralization noun: Localization of a function, such as speech, to the right or left side of the brain.
- lateralize verb: To localize a function to either the left or right side of the brain
- lateralizing adjective, verb: That lateralizes
- laterally adverb /ˈlæ.tə.ɹə.li/: Done in a lateral manner.
- lateralmost adjective: Most lateral
- lateraloccipital adjective: lateral and occipital
- lateralward adverb: In a lateral direction; towards the side of the body.
- Lateran proper noun: A church and palace in Rome; used attributively to describe several councils and treaties.
- laterborn adjective: That was born later than another
- latericeous adjective: Alternative form of lateritious.
- latericious adjective: Alternative form of lateritious.
- latericorn noun: One of several horny pieces on the sides of a bird's upper beak below the culminicorn.
- latericumbent adjective: laterally recumbent (lying on its side)
- lateriflexion noun: Alternative form of lateroflexion.
- laterifolious adjective: Growing on the side of a leaf at the base.
- laterigrade adjective /ˈlædərɪˌɡreɪd/: Having a mode of locomotion involving sideways movement.
- laterisation noun: Alternative form of laterization.
- laterise verb: Alternative form of laterize.
- laterite noun /ˈlatəɹʌɪt/: A red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil formed in the tropics that has been leached of soluble minerals leaving insoluble iron and aluminium oxides and...
- lateritic adjective /ˌlætəˈɹɪtɪk/: Of or pertaining to laterite.
- lateritious adjective /ˌlæt əˈrɪʃ əs/: Of the reddish color of bricks.
- lateriversion noun: Alternative form of lateroversion.
- laterizable adjective: Capable of being laterized, or converted to laterite.
- laterization noun: The weathering process by which rock is changed to laterite.
- laterize verb: To convert to laterite.
- laterly adverb: Synonym of later.
- laternulid noun: Any clam in the family Laternulidae.
- latero- prefix: Relating to the side of something.
- lateroanterior adjective: lateral and anterior
- laterobasal adjective: lateral and basal
- laterobasally adverb: In a laterobasal manner or direction
- laterocaudal adjective: lateral and caudal
- laterocaudally adverb: In a laterocaudal manner.
- lateroccipital adjective: Alternative form of laterooccipital.
- laterocervical adjective: lateral and cervical
- laterocidin noun: A cyclodecapeptide antibiotic present in Bacillus laterosporus
- laterocollis noun: The tilting of the head from side to side.
- laterocone noun: A small pointed cusp on the lateral side of the incisors of some plesiadapiforms
- laterocranial adjective: At the side of the cranium
- laterocytic adjective: Having (a particular type of) cells on the side
- laterodistal adjective: At the side and away from the body
- laterodistally adverb: In a laterodistal manner or direction
- laterodorsal adjective: Both lateral and dorsal
- laterodorsally adverb: In a laterodorsal direction
- lateroduction noun: Movement (of a limb or eye) away from the midline.
- laterofixation noun: lateral fixation (of a body part)
- lateroflexion noun: Lateral flexion (bending to one side).
- lateroflexive adjective: Relating to, or exhibiting, lateroflexion.
- lateroflexor noun: Any muscle used for lateroflexion
- laterofrontal adjective: lateral and frontal
- lateroinferior adjective: lateral and inferior
- laterolateral adjective: side-to-side
- laterolingual adjective: lateral and lingual
- laterolingually adverb: In a laterolingual manner or direction
- lateromedial adjective: mediolateral
- lateromedially adverb: In a lateromedial direction
Part 14 · Part 16 · English words: L
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under L: 22,765 words, in 76 parts.