| lampion |
a small oil lamp, usu. with a colored glass chimney, formerly used as a light on carriages. |
| lamplight |
the light or glow produced by a lamp. |
| lamplighter |
a person formerly employed to light and extinguish gas street lights. [2 definitions] |
| lampoon |
an attack through ridicule, as in an essay, cartoon, or comedy; satire. [2 definitions] |
| lamppost |
a post that supports a lamp, esp. a street lamp. |
| lamprey |
any of various eel-like fish, found in fresh and salt water, with a jawless, sucking mouth with which it attaches itself to other fish and sucks their blood; lamprey eel. |
| lampshade |
a device placed over or around a lamp for the purpose of diffusing, reflecting, or reducing its light. |
| LAN |
abbreviation of "Local Area Network," a group of computers, such as work stations in a business, connected with each other by their own data communications network that allows sharing of devices and data within a limited area. |
| lanai |
(Hawaiian) a roofed porch or patio. |
| lance |
a spearlike weapon with a long shaft and pointed metal head, used by mounted troops. [3 definitions] |
| 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. |