Lance Armstrong |
U.S. professional cyclist, and seven-time winner of the Tour de France (b.1971). |
lance corporal |
in the U.S. Marine Corps, the rank above that of private first class and below that of corporal. |
lancelet |
any of various slender fishlike marine organisms having a notochord instead of a true vertebral column. |
Lancelot |
in Arthurian legend, the greatest of the Knights of the Round Table and the lover of Guinevere. |
lanceolate |
resembling the head of a lance; narrow and pointed, as certain leaves. |
lancer |
a mounted soldier armed with a lance. |
lancers |
(used with a sing. verb) a set of quadrilles danced in sequence, or the music accompanying such dances. |
lancet |
a small, sharp, two-edged surgical knife used for small incisions or opening boils or abscesses. |
lancet arch |
a narrow sharply pointed arch, used esp. in Gothic windows. |
lancet window |
a tall narrow window terminating in a lancet arch. |
lancewood |
any of several tropical trees or the durable elastic wood they yield, used for fishing rods, billiard cues, and carriage shafts. |
land |
the solid portion of the earth's surface. [12 definitions] |
landau |
a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with wide facing seats, each having its own collapsible roof. [2 definitions] |
land bank |
a bank that finances transactions in real estate, esp. those involving farmland. |
land contract |
a real estate contract in which the buyer agrees to make periodic payments to the seller, taking title only when the purchase price has been paid in full. |
landed |
consisting of land. [2 definitions] |
lander |
one that lands, esp. a type of spacecraft that is designed to land on the surface of a planet, comet, or moon, for the purposes of retrieving or transmitting scientific data. |
landfall |
a sighting or reaching of land after a voyage, esp. by sea, or the land thus seen or reached. |
landfill |
a method of simultaneously building up land and disposing of solid waste by burying the waste in low-lying ground. [2 definitions] |
landform |
any of the earth's topographic features, such as a mountain or canyon, that have been formed by natural forces of movement, erosion, or the like. |
land-grabber |
a person who uses unfair or fraudulent tactics to gain possession of land. |