English Words: L

plural of lazaretto

A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.

Alternative form of lazar house.

A colourless monoclinic mineral containing cadmium, sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen.

A member of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission founded by St Vincent de Paul.

Synonym of leprous: afflicted with Hansen's disease or visibly covered in similar sores and lesions.

Full of sores; leprous.

A surname.

Lazarus of Bethany, a man supposedly raised from the dead by Jesus Christ and later (Christianity) revered as a saint.

The sudden recovery of a terminally ill patient when given appropriate treatment, especially for AIDS.

An impoverished segment of society that may be forced by necessity to work for a low wage.

A reflex movement in brain-dead or brainstem failure patients, which causes them to briefly raise their arms and drop them crossed on their chests.

A species that was thought to be extinct but has been rediscovered.

The spontaneous return of circulation after failed attempts at resuscitation.

A taxon that disappears from the fossil record, suggesting extinction, only to reappear later.

A surname.

A city in Alytus, Lithuania.

To be lazy, waste time.

To do nothing in particular; to be idle.

simple past and past participle of laze

To make or become lazed or lazy

One who lazes.

third-person singular simple present indicative of laze

third-person singular simple present indicative of laze

A historical and cultural region of the southwestern Caucasus and northeastern Anatolia along the Black Sea coastline, traditionally inhabited by the Laz people, also called Lazistan in Turkish and Laz and Lazona in Laz.

Laz, pertaining to Laz people, history, culture or traditions, including their historical ancestors or related ethnic groups, such as modern day Megrelians.

A region and kingdom in eastern shore of Black Sea corresponding to the ancient Colchis.

plural of lazy

In a lazy manner.

The quality of being lazy

present participle and gerund of laze

An administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital. It corresponds to ancient Latium.

The sanjak comprising the Laz or Lazuri-speaking population on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea.

A male given name from Hungarian László

A historical and cultural region of the southwestern Caucasus and northeastern Anatolia along the Black Sea coastline, traditionally inhabited by the Laz people, also called Lazistan.

Pale blue

Of or relating to lazulite.

A commune and village in Bihor County, Romania.

A mineral of metamorphosed limestones. Lazurite forms the gemstone lapis lazuli, and crushed lazurite provided the ultramarine color in artists' paint of the Old Masters. Sodalite and lazurite form the sodalite group of silicate minerals. Chemical composition: Sodium aluminum silicate with sulphur, Na₄₋₅Al₃Si₃O₁₂S.

Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.

Exceptionally lazy.

A person who is lazy.

A fin-stabilized aerial-bomb-shaped solid-steel slug that is dropped from high altitude aircraft, to achieve kinetic bombardment of the targeted area below. This unpowered ballistic projectile contains no explosives and achieves its aims through kinetic energy strikes alone, typically striking at 500 mph.

Any of a variety of computing techniques that delay the computation of expressions until (and unless) the results are needed.

A job that is well paid, does not demand long hours or too much effort, and can often be done remotely.

A lazy person.

To fetch data only when it is absolutely required.

Shelled, dressed lobster.

One who is lazy; a lazy ass.

A heavy and potentially harmful or unmanageable load that should be split into two smaller loads.