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3,347 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

lactoglobuline: lactoglobulin
lactomètre: lactometer
lactone: lactone
lactonique: lactonic
lactoremplaceur: Milk replacer (for infants)
lactose: lactose
lactosurie: lactosuria
lactosérum: whey
lactucarium: lactucarium, lettuce opium
lactucique: lactucic
lacté: milk; milky
lactéal: lacteal
lacunaire: incomplete (having gaps)
lacune: gap; vacuum, empty space; lack; thing that is missing; ignorance, shortcoming
lacustre: lake; lacustrine
lacédémonien: Lacedaemonian
lacération: laceration
lacérer: lacerate (to tear, rip or wound)
lacéroïque: lacceroic
lad: stable lad; stable hand
ladanum: labdanum
ladin: Ladin
ladin: Ladin (language)
ladino: Ladino (language)
ladre: miser; leper (person with leprosy)
ladre: miserly; leprous (having leprosy)
ladrerie: miserliness
lady: lady (wife of a British lord; important woman, usually British)
ladé: there
lae: Alternate form of lea
lafontainien: Lafontainian
lagan: lagan
lagide: Lagid
lagniappe: tip (extra money given to, for example, a waiter in appreciation of service); lagniappe (extra or unexpected gift or benefit to, for example, a customer); windfall, unexpected turn of good fortune
lagomorphe: lagomorph (animal of the order Lagomorpha)
lagon: lagoon (shallow body of water)
lagonite: An earthy, hydrous iron borate, H¹⁴Fe⁴Bo¹²O³¹ + 2[Fe²]ᵛⁱBo⁶O¹² + 7Aq
lagopède: any of the birds in the genus Lagopus
lagrangien: Lagrangian
laguiole: a kind of knife; laguiole (cheese)
lagunage: the construction of a wetland area in order to purify polluted water
lagunaire: lagoon
lagune: lagoon, shallow body of coastal water
lahan: gwop, skrilla, moola
lahmacun: alternative spelling of lahmajoun (lahmacun)
lahmajoon: alternative spelling of lahmajoun
lahmajoun: lahmacun
lahmajun: alternative spelling of lahmajoun
lahorite: Lahorite
lai: 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
lai: lay (not clerical); Still used in the terms frère lai, sœur laie, which see.
laid: physically ugly; morally corrupt
laid comme le péché: ugly as sin (extremely ugly)
laid comme les sept péchés capitaux: ugly as sin; looking like the back end of a bus (extremely ugly)
laid comme un pou: ugly as sin; looking like the back end of a bus (extremely ugly)
laidement: uglily
laideron: an ugly girl or young woman
laideur: ugliness
laidir: to uglify (become ugly)
laie: Female boar; wild sow