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All 79 3-Letter Words Starting With L
lab(colloquial) A laboratory.lacA resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect.ladA boy or young man.lagLast made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.lah(music) Alternative spelling of la.lai(historical) A mostly North European medieval form of lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance, with stanzas that do not repeat.lakPronunciation spelling of like, representing African-American Vernacular English.lam(transitive, informal) To beat or thrash.lapThe loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.lar(Roman mythology, chiefly in the plural) singular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself.lat(weaponry, rare) A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind.lau(Polari) To place upon; to put down onto.lav(UK, Ireland, slang) Clipping of lavatory.lawA binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.lax(now chiefly UK dialectal, Scotland) A salmon.layTo place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.lbfAbbreviation of pound-force (“unit of force”).lbmAbbreviation of pound-mass (“unit of mass”).lbsplural of lb; poundslbwAlternative letter-case form of LBW.lcm(mathematics) Initialism of least common multiple.leaAn open field, meadow, pasture.ledsimple past and past participle of leadlee(nautical) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.legA limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.lehUsed to convey uncertainty (in response to inconsistent information).leiA garland of flowers in Hawaii.lek(biology) An aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display.lel(Internet slang, text messaging) Variation of lol.leo(informal) Clipping of leotard.les(colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of let'slet(transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).leuThe unit of currency of Romania, equal to one hundred bani.levThe currency of Bulgaria from 1880 to 2025; divided into 100 stotinki.lew(Scotland, obsolete) A French gold coin circulated in 15th-century Scotland.lex(computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.ley(agriculture) Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.lib(politics) liberallicAbbreviation of license or licence.lidThe top or cover of a container.lie(intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.lig(intransitive, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Teesdale) To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.lil(gypsy slang, obsolete) A book.lim(obsolete) Alternative form of limb.lin(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To desist, to stop, to cease.lip(countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.lis(heraldry) Clipping of fleur-de-lis.litsimple past and past participle of light (“illuminate; start a fire; etc”)loaIn the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.lob(transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.loc(informal, usually in the plural) A dreadlock.lod(statistics) Initialism of logarithm of odds, a measure of likelihood calculated by taking the log of the ratio of the probability of a hypothesis being true given the observed data over the probability that the hypothesis is false.loeObsolete spelling of lo.logThe trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.lol(Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative form of LOL.lon(geography) Clipping of longitude.loo(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.lopTo hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.lorTagged at the end of a sentence to convey a sense of resignation or inevitability.losObsolete form of loss.lotA large quantity or number; a great deal.lowSituated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.lox(US) Salmon that is cured in brine and then smoked at a low temperature so that the flesh remains uncooked.ltdAbbreviation of limited.lth(mathematics) Occurring at position l in a sequence.ltrAbbreviation of letter.lud(UK) Pronunciation spelling of lord (used for addressing a judge).lue(mining, dialect, transitive) To sift using a sieve, particularly in mining tin or silver.lugThe act of hauling or dragging.lumA chimney; also, the top part of a chimney.lun(Newfoundland, UK regional) Alternative form of lown.lur(music, historical) A long natural blowing horn without finger holes, played by embouchure.lusthird-person singular simple present indicative of luluvDeliberate misspelling of love.luxIn the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lxluzThe almond treelwaAlternative form of loa.lyeAn alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).lynAlternative form of linn (“waterfall”).
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