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legal guardian |
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a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit |
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liegeman |
Noun
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a person holding a fief |
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liege subject |
Noun
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a person holding a fief |
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laundryman |
Noun
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operates industrial washing machine |
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life principle |
Noun
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a hypothetical force to which the functions and qualities peculiar to living things are sometimes ascribed |
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laundrywoman |
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a working woman who takes in washing |
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laundress |
Noun
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a working woman who takes in washing |
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living dead |
Noun
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a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force |
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le Carre |
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English writer of novels of espionage (born in 1931) |
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luck |
Noun
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an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another |
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luck |
Noun
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an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome |
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luck |
Noun
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your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) |
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light beam |
Noun
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a column of light (as from a beacon) |
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light air |
Noun
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wind moving 1-3 knots |
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light breeze |
Noun
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wind moving 4-7 knots |
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line of force |
Noun
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an imaginary line in a field of force |
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lode |
Noun
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a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks |
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laser beam |
Noun
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a beam of light generated by a laser |
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low beam |
Noun
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the beam of a car's headlights that provides illumination for a short distance |
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latent heat |
Noun
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heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure |
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lamplight |
Noun
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light from a lamp |
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levanter |
Noun
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an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area |
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life cycle |
Noun
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a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage |
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life cycle |
Noun
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the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced |
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line storm |
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a violent rainstorm near the time of an equinox |
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line spectrum |
Noun
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a spectrum in which energy is concentrated at particular wavelengths |
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luminous energy |
Noun
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the energy associated with visible light |
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long wave |
Noun
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a radio wave with a wavelength longer than a kilometer (a frequency below 300 kilohertz) |
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liverwort |
Noun
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any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses |
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laminar flow |
Noun
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nonturbulent streamline flow in parallel layers (laminae) |
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life force |
Noun
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(biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms |
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line squall |
Noun
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a squall advancing along a front that forms a definite line |
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leafy liverwort |
Noun
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moss-like liverwort with tiny scalelike leaves |
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limber pine |
Noun
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western North American pine with long needles and very flexible limbs and dark-grey furrowed bark |
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lodgepole pine |
Noun
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shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States |
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loblolly pine |
Noun
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tall spreading three-needled pine of southeastern United States having reddish-brown fissured bark and a full bushy upper head |
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longleaf pine |
Noun
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large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs |
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liliopsid family |
Noun
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family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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liliid monocot family |
Noun
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family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae |
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liliopsid genus |
Noun
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genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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liliid monocot genus |
Noun
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genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils |
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larch |
Noun
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any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves |
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larch |
Noun
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wood of a larch tree |
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larch tree |
Noun
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any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves |
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lowland fir |
Noun
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lofty fir of the Pacific coast of northwestern America having long curving branches and deep green leaves |
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lowland white fir |
Noun
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lofty fir of the Pacific coast of northwestern America having long curving branches and deep green leaves |
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lancewood |
Noun
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source of most of the lancewood of commerce |
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lancewood |
Noun
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durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree |
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lancewood tree |
Noun
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source of most of the lancewood of commerce |
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lancewood tree |
Noun
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tropical American tree |