English Words: L

The practice or act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death, as punishment

Of the nature of stone; stony.

The state or quality of being lapidescent.

Capable of petrifying other bodies.

That lives around or under rocks or stones

Forming or converting into stone; petrifying.

The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction, turning to stone

To become stone or stony.

A lapidary (“person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones; expert in gems and precious stones”).

A moshav in Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council council area, Northern District, Israel.

An orthorhombic-disphenoidal steel gray mineral containing antimony, copper, nickel, and sulfur.

A surname from French.

A surname from French, equivalent to English Stone.

A pyroclastic rock mostly composed of lapilli.

Synonym of lapillus (“lava fragment”).

A fragment of lava ejected from a volcano.

Rabbit fur.

A constructed language created by author Richard Adams for his 1972 novel Watership Down, where it is spoken by rabbit characters.

To attenuate a virus, such that it can be used to make a vaccine, by passage through rabbits.

A surname from Polish.

Ellipsis of lapis lazuli.

A precious stone resembling lapis lazuli, but softer, and intermixed with veins of green rather than pyrite.

Synonym of calamine, a pink form of zinc oxide formed as a byproduct during sublimation.

Fused silver nitrate; lunar caustic.

A deep blue stone, used in making jewelry, and traditionally used to make the pigment ultramarine.

plural of lapis

Dated form of lapis lazuli.

An ancient material culture of Oceania who may have spoken Proto-Oceanic and were the ancestors of many modern peoples in the region.

One of a semi-legendary, semi-historical race of Thessaly.

A napkin for one's lap, often large, and typically used at outdoor food events (e.g. cookouts, camping, etc.).

A surname from French, famously held by

An expression for the determinant |B| of an n × n matrix B that is a weighted sum of the determinants of n submatrices (or minors) of B, each of size (n − 1) × (n − 1).

A differential operator, denoted ∆ and defined on ℝⁿ as Δ=∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ(∂²)/(∂x_i²), used in the modeling of wave propagation, heat flow and many other applications.

an integral transform of positive real function f(t) to a complex function F(s); given by

A creature in a thought experiment that knows the precise location and momentum of every atom in the universe, and therefore (according to determinism) can compute their past and future values using the laws of classical mechanics.

The partial differential equation (∂²φ)/(∂x_1²)+(∂²φ)/(∂x_2²)+⋯+(∂²φ)/(∂x_n²)=0, commonly written Δφ=0 or ∇²φ=0, where Δ(=∇²) is the Laplace operator and φ is a scalar function.

Alternative form of Laplacian.

Alternative form of Laplacean.

A square n×n matrix which describes an undirected graph of n vertices by letting rows and columns correspond to vertices, letting its diagonal elements contain the degrees of corresponding vertices and letting its non-diagonal elements contain either −1 or 0 depending on whether there is or there is not (respectively) an edge connecting the pair of corresponding vertices.

The northern parts of Scandinavia and Finland with the Kola Peninsula in Russia, traditionally inhabited by the Sami people.

A native or inhabitant of Swedish historical province Lapland

Of or relating to Lapland.

Of Lapland.

The assistant to a houngan or mambo.

Without a lap.

A type of tablet computer that includes a (removable) keyboard which may double as a screen cover.

Resembling or characteristic of a lap.

One who has been fondled to excess; one fond of ease and sensual delights.

A visible excess of paint marking an edge of a strip of paint application.

A surname from French.