English Words: L

16,425 words · Page 38 of 329

land of the livingname

The mortal world, as opposed to the afterlife.

Land of the Rising Sunname

Japan (a country in Asia).

land onverb

To land atop of; to fall on the surface of.

Land Parkname

A neighborhood of Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, United States.

land pooradj

In a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other financial requirements for one's land holdings.

land registernoun

A public record of land ownership and related information.

land registersnoun

plural of land register

land sailingnoun

A sport in which one drives a lightweight vehicle powered by a large sail.

land sakesintj

An expression of surprise or dismay.

land sharknoun

Alternative form of landshark.

land slugnoun

A terrestrial slug.

land smocknoun

A simple smock-style dress or garment worn by women for working or dressing casually around the house or garden.

land snailnoun

Any species of snail that lives on land (Caenogastropoda spp. etc.).

land tenurenoun

The legal regime in which land "owned" by an individual is possessed by someone else who is said to "hold" the land, based on an agreement between both individuals.

land undernoun

Complete flooding of a North Sea Hallig during a storm tide.

land upverb

To end up; to arrive or result, especially if it is not planned.

land up overnoun

The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, or another Northern Hemisphere country, from the perspective of Australia and New Zealand.

Land van Cuijkname

A municipality of North Brabant, Netherlands.

land withverb

To assign extra work or burdensome work to (someone).

land with one's bum in the butterverb

To find oneself in fortunate circumstances.

land yachtnoun

A vehicle used in land sailing, consisting of little more than a carriage and a sail.

land-farernoun

One who travels by or over land.

land-holdernoun

Dated form of landholder.

land-jobbingnoun

The buying and selling of land on speculation.

land-leechnoun

A leech that lives on land; a terrestrial leech.

land-massnoun

Alternative form of landmass.

land-salamandernoun

A salamander (Order Caudata) that habitually or permanently lives its life on land.

land-sharkingnoun

The speculative purchase of large amounts of land for the sole purpose of selling it at a profit.

land-takenoun

An acquisition or taking of land for a particular purpose.

land-useadj

Of, or related to the use of land.

Landaname

A surname from Spanish.

landabilitynoun

The quality of being landable.

landableadj

Capable of being landed.

Landammannnoun

A chief magistrate in certain cantons or other administrative districts in Switzerland.

landaunoun

A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.

Landau diamagnetismnoun

Diamagnetism in a free electron gas.

Landau levelnoun

Any of the discrete energy values that represent the only cyclotron orbits that a charged particle can occupy in a magnetic field, as a result of Landau quantization.

Landau's problemsname

Four basic unsolved problems about prime numbers: (i) is Goldbach's conjecture true?; (ii) is the twin prime conjecture true?; (iii) is Legendre's conjecture true?; (iv) are there infinitely many primes p such that p − 1 is a perfect square?

Landau-Kleffner syndromenoun

A rare childhood neurological syndrome, characterized by the sudden or gradual development of aphasia and an abnormal electroencephalogram.

Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensorname

A stress–energy–momentum pseudotensor for combined matter (including photons and neutrinos) plus gravity, allowing the energy–momentum conservation laws to be extended into general relativity.

Landau-Ramanujan constantname

The constant of proportionality (approximately 0.7642) in the relationship between the number of positive integers less than x that are the sum of two square numbers, for large x, and the expression x/√.

Landauername

A surname from German.

Landauer limitnoun

A theoretical lower limit on the energy consumption of a computation, derived from Landauer's principle.

Landauer's principlename

The principle that any logically irreversible manipulation of information must entail an increase in the entropy of the information-processing apparatus or its environment.

landauitenoun

A trigonal-rhombohedral black mineral containing iron, lead, manganese, oxygen, potassium, sodium, titanium, and zinc.

landauletnoun

A small landau.

landaulettenoun

A small landau.

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The English alphabetical index for the letter L contains 16,425 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 329 pages, and you are currently viewing page 38. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

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