English words: left anarchism to legendaire

300 English words, part 25 of 76 of the words starting with L, A to Z. 26 have a page of their own.

English words left anarchism to legendaire

left anarchism noun: Anarchism as contrasted with right-wing ideologies that reference anarchism, such as anarcho-capitalism.
left anarchist adjective, noun: of, supporting, relating to, or advocating left anarchism
left and right adverb, noun: Two rapid successful shots from a double-barrelled gun.
left arm orthodox noun: A style of bowling used by a left-handed bowler in which finger spin is used to move the ball from leg to off (for a right-handed batsman).
left arm unorthodox noun: A style of bowling used by a left-handed bowler in which wrist spin is used to move the ball from off to leg (for a right-handed batsman).
left atrium noun: One of the chambers of the heart in humans and other mammals, which receives oxygenated blood from the lungs via the pulmonary veins, and pumps it into the...
left back noun: A defender who normally plays on the left side of the field.
left bank noun: The bank to the left of a river when facing downstream.
left behind noun, verb: A usually socially conservative member of the working class whose income is stagnating or falling in purchasing power.
left bower noun: The jack of the other suit of the same colour as the trump (whose jack is called the right bower), and next to it in value.
left bracket noun: A left or open parenthesis ⟨(⟩.
left brain noun: The left cerebral hemisphere; the part of the brain popularly associated with analysis and computation.
left-brainer noun: A logical-minded person.
left-click verb: To press the left button on a computer mouse.
left communism noun: A range of Marxist ideologies that advocate for communism but oppose Leninism and its concept of a revolutionary vanguard party.
left communist noun: A supporter of left communism.
left coset noun: A left coset of a subgroup is a copy of that subgroup, multiplied on the left by some element from the parent group
left-drag verb: To drag an item using the left mouse button.
left-edge deletion noun: In informal English, ellipsis at the start of an utterance or sentence.
left eigenvalue noun: An eigenvalue corresponding to the left transform of a given linear operator; i.e. λ such that urm A=uλ.
left eigenvector noun: An eigenvector corresponding to the left transform of a given linear operator; i.e. u such that urm A=uλ.
left exact adjective: Such that it preserves monomorphisms.
left face noun: The act of a person turning to the left.
left field noun /ˌlɛft ˈfild/: The part of a baseball field which is beyond the infield and to the left of a person standing on home plate and facing the pitcher.
left fielder noun: The outfield defensive player that stands to the left of the center fielder as viewed from home plate.
left-footed adjective: Of one who plays sports with their left foot in preference to, or more skillfully than their right.
left-footer noun: Someone who is left-footed.
left-half noun: A player who plays wide on the left side of midfield
left-hand adjective: Of, relating to, or located on the left.
left-hand drive adjective: Describes a motor vehicle with the steering wheel on the left-hand side, designed for use in countries such as the Americas (with a few small exceptions),...
left-handed adjective, noun /lɛftˈhændɪd/: Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
left-handed anti-neutrino noun: A hypothetical state of an antineutrino with left-handed chirality or helicity.
left-handed cigarette noun: A marijuana cigarette.
left-handed compliment noun: A complimentary remark which is ambiguous or ineptly worded, so that it may be interpreted as having an unflattering or dismissive sense.
left-handed monkey wrench noun: A fictional item, the subject of a fool's errand.
left-handed smoke shifter noun: A fictional item, the subject of a fool's errand among firefighters.
left-handed specialist noun: A left-handed relief pitcher who specializes in getting left-handed or poor right-handed switch batters out .
left-handedly adverb: In a left-handed manner.
left-handedness noun: The state of being left-handed.
left-hander noun: One who is left-handed.
left-handiness noun: Left-handedness.
left-handwise adjective, adverb: Anticlockwise.
left hook noun: A powerful punch thrown with the left hand, typically after a jab or a straight punch.
left hooker noun: A left-handed person.
left ideal noun: A subset of a ring which is closed under left-multiplication by any element of the ring.
left identity noun: An element of a structure that produces an identity mapping when applied on the left.
left in the lurch adjective: Stranded in a difficult and helpless position.
left inverse noun: A related function that, given the output of the original function, returns the input that produced that output.
left join noun: Ellipsis of left outer join.
left-justified adjective: Of text, laid out so that the left ends of lines are vertically aligned, leaving the right ends unaligned.
left lane camper noun: Synonym of left lane hog.
left lane hog noun: A motorist who occupies the left (especially leftmost) lane (passing lane) of a multi-lane road or highway, without moving over to allow faster-moving...
left lane hogger noun: Synonym of left lane hog.
left lane hugger noun: Synonym of left lane hog.
left lateral adjective: Of a strike-slip fault, a block on the far side moving to the left when viewed from either side of the fault.
left-leaning adjective: On the left wing politically.
left-libertarian adjective, noun: One who advocates left-libertarianism.
left-libertarianism noun: A type of libertarianism that stresses both individual freedom and social equality, and advocates shared ownership of natural resources.
left luggage noun: A place, especially in a station, airport or similar, where luggage can temporarily be stored
left-luggage office noun: A place at a railway station or airport where luggage may be left for a small charge.
left main noun: Ellipsis of left main coronary artery.
left nullspace noun: The vector space of all row vectors whose dot products with the columns of a given matrix are zero; the nullspace of the transpose of a given matrix.
left-of-center adjective: American standard spelling of left-of-centre.
left-of-centre adjective: Having opinions that are moderately more socialist than conservative.
left off noun, verb: cast-off; scrap
left out adjective, verb: Not included or accepted in a group or event.
left outer join noun: A join yielding a set of records for two tables, where all rows of the "left" table are enlisted with all rows of the "right" table, even if the join...
left over adjective, verb: Alternative form of leftover.
left-overs noun: Alternative form of leftovers.
left periphery noun: The part of a syntactic tree above the inflectional phrase(s) (expressing tense, aspect, and/or mood), where topic, focus, illocutionary force, etc. are...
left recursion noun: The case in which a string (in a language) may be decomposed to another string and a suffix
left-recursive adjective: Relating to left recursion
left, right and center adverb: Alternative form of left and right.
left, right and centre adverb: Alternative form of left and right.
left, right, goodnight noun: A series of three hits (typically punches): one with the left hand, then one with the right hand, then one that knocks the recipient out.
left shift noun, verb: A bit shift to the left, in which all of the bits of an operand are shifted by a given number of positions to the left.
left to right adjective, adverb: That is written (and is read) from left to right.
left-to-right assimilation noun: Synonym of progressive assimilation.
left total adjective: Such that every element of the domain is related to at least one element of the codomain: such that ∀a∈A;;∃b∈B:(a,b)∈R
left turn interjection, noun, verb /ˌlɛf(t)ˈtɜːn/: An unexpected change from the way things seemed to be going.
left ventricle noun: One of the four chambers of the heart of humans and other mammals, which receives oxygenated blood from the left atrium and pumps it out through the aorta.
left ventricular ejection time noun: The time interval from the moment of the opening of the aortic valve to the moment of its closure.
left wing adjective, noun: Of political ideologies: favoring political, social, and economic equality.
left-wing anarchism noun: Synonym of left anarchism.
left-wing anarchist adjective, noun: left anarchist
left-wing populism noun: a political ideology that combines left-wing politics with populist rhetoric and themes, typically framing social, political and economic inequality as the...
left-winger noun: A person who espouses left-wing political views.
left-wingy adjective: Somewhat left-wing.
leftback noun: Alternative form of left back.
leftclick verb: Alternative form of left-click.
leftcom noun: Clipping of left communist (“a supporter of left communism”).
lefteous adjective: Pertaining to the left (all senses: left-side, political left, etc.)
lefter adjective, noun: One aligned with left.
leftern adjective: Left (opposite of right).
leftfield adjective: From out of left field; off-the-wall; unconventional.
leftfielder noun: Alternative form of left fielder.
lefthand adjective: Alternative form of left-hand.
lefthanded adjective: Alternative spelling of left-handed.
lefthandedly adverb: Alternative form of left-handedly.
lefthandedness noun: Alternative form of left-handedness.
lefthander noun: Alternative spelling of left-hander.
leftie noun: Alternative form of lefty.
leftish adjective /ˈlɛftɪʃ/: Leaning towards the political left.
leftism noun: Belief in the principles of left-wing politics.
leftist adjective, noun /ˈlɛf.tɪst/: A person who holds views associated with the political left.
leftistly adverb: In a leftist way; according to a leftist perspective.
leftneck noun: A redneck who is on the political left.
leftness noun: The property of being on, or moving toward, the left.
leftover adjective, noun: Remaining; left behind; extra; odd; in reserve.
Leftpondian adjective, noun: From or of Leftpondia.
LeftTuber noun: Synonym of BreadTuber.
leftugee noun /ˈlɛfjʊd͡ʒiː/: One who leaves a liberal blue state to live in a conservative red state, (often) doing so in favour of fewer regulations and lower taxes.
leftwaffe noun: Left-wing activists or groups, collectively.
leftward adjective, adverb: To or from the left.
leftwardly adverb: In a leftward direction.
leftwardness noun: Quality of being leftward.
leftwards adverb: Leftward; towards the left.
Leftwich proper noun: A surname.
leftwing adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of left wing.
leftwinger noun: Alternative form of left-winger.
leftwise adjective, adverb: By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise.
lefty adjective, noun /ˈlɛfti/: One who is left-handed.
lefty loosey, righty tighty phrase: Alternative form of righty tighty, lefty loosey.
lefull adjective: permissible, permitted; allowable, allowed
leg adjective, adverb, noun, verb /lɛɡ/: A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
leg around verb: To hang around a person or place to suck up to them, to lobby them or to otherwise get special treatment.
leg art noun: Suggestive pictures of scantily clad young women.
leg bail noun: Escape from custody by running away.
leg band noun: Alternative form of legband.
leg before adverb: Leg before wicket.
leg before wicket adverb, noun: Describing the way of getting out in which the ball would have hit the batsman's wicket, but hits the batsman's legs or more rarely another part of the...
leg biter noun: Synonym of ankle-biter (“a small child”).
leg break noun: a normal ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, moving from leg to off (for a right-handed batsman)
leg breaker noun: A violent thug, especially one employed as an enforcer by a criminal organization (e.g., a mafia, a loan shark).
leg bridge noun: A type of bridge for small spans in which the floor girders are rigidly secured at their extremities to supporting steel legs, driven into the ground as...
leg business noun: Ballet.
leg bye noun: A run scored by a batting side arising from the ball striking any part of the batsman's body (other than the hand) without touching the bat.
leg cuff noun: A cuff.
leg curl noun: An exercise performed on a machine in which the hamstring muscles are exerted to bend the knee while acting against resistance applied to the lower calf....
leg cutter noun: a ball bowled by a fast bowler who uses finger spin to move the ball from leg to off (for a right-handed batsman)
leg day noun: A day dedicated to leg exercises.
leg drop noun: An attack in professional wrestling in which the wrestler jumps and lands his or her leg across a fallen opponent.
leg extension noun: An exercise performed on a machine while seated. The quadriceps (thigh muscles) are exerted to straighten the knee while acting against resistance applied...
leg glance noun, verb: A shot played by a batsman with a vertical bat, deflecting the ball behind the square leg area of the field.
leg iron noun: Synonym of legcuff.
leg irons noun: A fetter or shackle attached at the ankle.
leg it verb: To run away, to flee.
leg lock noun: Alternative form of leglock.
leg man noun: Alternative form of legman.
leg-o'-mutton sleeve noun: Alternative form of leg-of-mutton sleeve.
leg-of-mutton fist noun: Synonym of mutton fist.
leg-of-mutton sleeve noun: A sleeve that is extremely wide over the upper arm and narrow from the elbow to the wrist.
leg out verb: To dispose of a debt to avoid integrated treatment under US tax law.
leg over noun, verb: To treat badly so as to cheat or ruin.
leg press noun: An exercise performed by using the legs to press weight away from one's body, while the body remains stationary.
leg-pull noun: A joke, fib or tease.
leg-puller noun: Alternative form of legpuller.
leg-pulling noun: Joking, fibbing or teasing.
leg raise noun: An exercise constituted by ventral elevation of the extended leg.
leg rope noun, verb: A cord tied to the surfboard (usually near the tail) and attached to the surfer's leg.
leg show noun: A titillating theatrical performance by young women who dance in costumes that reveal their legs.
leg side noun: The side of the pitch on the same side as the batsman's legs as he takes his stance at the wicket; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
leg slip noun: a fielding position on the leg side of the wicket-keeper, designed to catch a ball after it hits the bat and deflects by a small amount
leg spin noun: A style of bowling in which a (right-handed) bowler spins the ball such that, after bouncing, it moves from leg to off (for a right-handed batsman).
leg spinner noun: A bowler who bowls leg spin.
leg stump noun: The stump on the leg side of the batsman's wicket.
leg sweep noun: A swipe of a fighter's leg meant to destabilize the adversary
leg theory noun: The tactic of bowling at or near the line of leg stump, so as to cramp the batsman.
leg up noun, verb: The act of assisting another's progress over a wall or other obstacle by forming a step for one of their feet with one's hands.
leg up on noun: an advantage over another person.
leg warmer noun: A type of garment similar to a footless sock, which usually extends from below the knee to above the ankle.
leg work noun: Alternative spelling of legwork.
Lega noun: A member of a polytheistic ethnic group of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
legable adjective: Capable of being bequeathed.
legacy adjective, noun /ˈlɛɡəsi/: Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
legacy code noun: Source code that relates to an obsolete operating system or other obsolete technology.
legacy-free adjective: Lacking certain older components such as a floppy disk drive, legacy ports, and ISA or other expansion bus.
legacy hunter noun: One that strives after an inheritance.
legacy Oscar noun: An Academy Award perceived to have been given in recognition of the awardee's career and performances in prior films, rather than for the performance...
legacy sequel noun: A sequel, a new entry, in an old media property that has lain dormant for a long time; which in relation to the fictional timeline, may function as a...
legacy student noun: A student who is admitted to a school (often a college or university) primarily because one or both of their parents are alumni of the same institution.
legacy system noun: An old computer system or application program that continues to be used because the user (typically an organization) does not want to replace or redesign it.
legacyquel noun: A sequel to a classic movie which features the original star passing the torch to a cast of new younger actors.
legal adjective, noun /ˈliː.ɡəl/: Relating to the law or to lawyers.
legal action noun: Legal proceedings; a lawsuit.
legal advice noun: The giving of a formal opinion regarding the substance or procedure of the law, usually received from a solicitor, barrister or lawyer, ordinarily for a fee.
legal age noun: Synonym of age of majority.
legal agreement noun: An agreement that is legally binding on the parties in some way.
legal aid noun: Free or low-cost service in the field of law, for the indigent.
legal assistant noun: Someone occupied with legal services in place of a lawyer.
legal beagle noun /ˌliːɡl̩ ˈbiːɡl̩/: A lawyer, specifically one regarded as astute and skilful.
legal blindness noun: A degree of visual acuity that is low enough to determine that a person needs special assistance.
legal cap noun: A kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets, often with a red line down the left side.
legal capacity noun: The ability of a person to make binding amendments to their rights, duties and obligations, such as getting married or merging, entering into contracts,...
legal certainty noun: The principle which holds that the law must provide those subject to it with the ability to regulate their conduct.
legal chemistry noun: Chemistry used in forensic investigations.
legal code noun: All the official laws of a country or state
legal consequence noun: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see legal, consequence.
legal cynicism noun: A perspective under which criminal law and law enforcement are seen as unresponsive or indifferent to public safety, and instead serve primarily to exclude...
legal doctrine noun: A procedure or set of rules through which a legal case can be adjudicated.
legal doublet noun: A standardized phrase used frequently in English legal language consisting of two or more coordinated words that are irreversible binomials and frequently...
legal duty noun: A duty prescribed by the law, to act or forbear from acting.
legal eagle noun: A skillful and adroit attorney.
legal effect noun: A particular state of the rights in consequence of a defined state or course of things.
legal effect and consequence noun: Synonym of legal effect.
legal entity noun: An organization such as a company or trust fund that the law treats as if it were a person, capable of entering into contracts and of being sued.
legal fiction noun: An assumption, not necessarily true, made by a court in order to apply a legal rule.
legal force noun: Synonym of legal effect.
legal gap noun: Synonym of legal vacuum.
legal gender noun: A person's sex or gender which is recognized under the law.
legal height noun: The minimum height under a house which would allow for another residence underneath, as mandated by local council.
legal heir noun: Synonym of heir-at-law.
legal high noun: A substance that has similar effects to an illegal drug but is not itself illegal.
legal hold noun: The preservation of documents and other information, suspending normal processing, when an organization expects litigation.
legal holiday noun: Synonym of public holiday.
legal instrument noun: Any formal written document that records and expresses a legally enforceable act, process, or contractual duty, obligation, or right, and therefore...
legal interest noun: The amount of interest that is allowed or required to be charged by law; an interest rate determined by law.
legal name noun: The name of a natural person recognized on official records, especially as recorded on a birth certificate or as changed by a legal process.
legal notice noun: In some common law jurisdictions, a form of delegated legislation enacted under a power derived from an enactment.
legal pad noun: A large writing pad, made using yellow paper, especially one measuring 8½ by 14 inches and with a margin down the side of each page.
legal person noun: An aggregate of people, legal entity, or body corporate who have (some of) the legal rights and responsibilities of a natural person under the law.
legal positivism noun: A school of thought in jurisprudence in which the law is seen as separated from moral values, i.e. the law is posited by lawmakers (humans).
legal professional privilege noun: Synonym of attorney-client privilege.
legal recourse noun: An action that can be taken by an individual or a corporation to attempt to remedy a legal difficulty.
legal relationship noun: The relations provided by law between two persons as a consequence of a certain state of affairs.
legal remedy noun: The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong
legal representative noun: A lawyer, solicitor, etc, who acts on behalf of a client in legal matters.
legal researcher noun: One responsible for researching legal cases and evidence to prepare a lawyer for litigation.
legal secretary noun: One who performs clerical work and obtains and provides information, under supervision, for a legal case.
legal separation noun: A legal arrangement in which a married couple live in separate homes while remaining legally married.
legal service noun: An aid provided by a lawyer, or any other person licensed to practice law, to a client.
legal sex noun: A person's sex or gender which is recognized under the law.
legal-size adjective: Of paper: in sheets measuring 8.5 × 14 inches (215.9 × 355.6 mm).
legal studies noun: The study of law, especially as a subject taken during high school.
legal system noun: The process by which a governing body enforces the law and legal procedures.
legal tender noun: Any form of currency that, by law, cannot be refused as payment to extinguish a debt equal to the amount offered.
legal theory noun: Synonym of jurisprudence (“the theoretical study of law”)
legal vacuum noun: A state of regulation that is uncomfortable by there being no conspicuous provision for a certain situation.
legal void noun: Synonym of legal vacuum.
legal wall noun: A designated public space where artists can paint or create graffiti without fear of criminal charges.
legal year noun: In English law and some other common-law jurisdictions, the annual period (traditionally divided into terms) during which the judges sit in court.
legalisation noun: Non-Oxford British spelling of legalization.
legalise verb /ˈliːɡəlaɪz/: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of legalize.
legaliser noun: Alternative form of legalizer.
legalism noun: The focusing on the text of written law to the exclusion of the intent of law, elevating strict adherence to law over justice, mercy, grace and common sense.
legalist adjective, noun /ˈliː.ɡə.lɪst/: Of or related to legalism, in its various senses.
legalistic adjective: Of a person, following the letter of the law.
legalistically adverb: In a legalistic manner; in a manner promoting legalism.
legalistics noun: The technical legal aspects of a topic or issue.
legalitarian adjective, noun: In favour of legislation as a means of bringing about equality.
legalitarianism noun: The use of legislation as a means of bring about equality.
legality noun /liˈɡælɪti/: Lawfulness.
legality panel noun: A piece of vehicle bodywork that is required by the technical regulations but has no essential function in racing.
legalizable adjective: Capable of being legalized.
legalization noun: The process of making something legal, the process to legalize, decriminalization.
legalize verb /ˈliːɡəlaɪz/: To make legal or permit under law. Either by decriminalising something that has been illegal or by specifically permitting it.
legalizer noun: That which makes legal.
legally adverb /ˈliːɡəli/: As permitted by law; not contrary to law.
legally binding adjective: That is enforceable by law.
legally blind adjective: Legally defined as blind due to having a low enough degree of visual acuity.
legalman noun: An enlisted sailor who serves as a paralegal.
legalness noun: The state of being legal, or within the law.
legalspeak noun: Synonym of legalese.
legaltech noun: Legal technology, the use of technology (such as automation software and algorithms) to help in legal services.
Legan proper noun: A surname.
Leganés proper noun: A city in central Spain, about 11 km southwest of central Madrid
Legarda proper noun: A surname from Basque.
Legare proper noun: A surname.
legasequel noun: Alternative spelling of legacyquel.
Legaspi proper noun: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
legat noun: A legal attaché.
legatary noun: A legatee.
legate noun, verb /ˈlɛɡɪt/: A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
legatee noun /ˌlɛɡəˈtiː/: One who receives a legacy (inheritance).
legateeship noun: The role or status of legatee.
legateship noun: The office or authority of a legate.
legatine adjective: Belonging to a legate.
legation noun: The purpose for which a legate is sent; a legate's mission or commission. Now rare (cf. OED)
legationary adjective: Relating to a legation.
legative adjective /ˈlɛɡətɪv/: Of or relating to a legate.
legato adverb, noun /ləˈɡɑ.təʊ/: Smoothly, in a connected manner.
legator noun: A testator.
legatura noun: A tie or brace (curvedline); a syncopation.
legature noun: legateship
Legault proper noun: A surname from French.
Legazpi proper noun /ləˈɡæspi/: A city, the provincial capital of Albay, Bicol Region, Luzon, Philippines.
legband noun: A band worn around the leg.
Legbar noun: A rare British autosexing breed of chicken, a crossbreed of American barred Plymouth Rock birds and brown leghorns.
legbone noun: A bone in the leg.
legbreak noun: Alternative form of leg break.
legbreaker noun: Alternative spelling of leg-breaker.
legcuff noun: A fastening consisting of two metal rings, designed to go around a person's legs, and connected by a chain or hinge.
lege noun, verb /ˈlɛd͡ʒ/: Clipping of legislature.
leged adjective: Alternative form of legged.
legend noun, verb /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənd/: The life story of a saint (such stories are often embellished, but any kind is called a legend).
legend in one's own lifetime noun: One who achieves great fame while alive.
legend in one's own lunchtime noun: One whose fame is insignificant, fleeting or imaginary.
legend in one's own mind noun: An egotistical, self-important person.
legend in one's own time noun: Synonym of legend in one's own lifetime.
legendaire adjective: legendary in act or function.

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.