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1. [**lid**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lid.md) noun (a lid, lids) A lid is a cover on top of a box, pot, jar or bin that you can lift or take off.
2. [**lidar**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lidar.md) noun (lidar — usually no plural; lidar scanners) A way of measuring distance by sending out quick flashes of laser light and timing how long they take to bounce back.
3. [**lidded**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lidded.md) adjective (lidded) 1) Lidded means having a lid, a cover on top. 2) (literary) Lidded eyes are half-closed, with heavy eyelids, as if sleepy.
4. [**lie**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lie.md) verb (lie, lies, lay, lain, lying = rest flat); verb (lie, lies, lied, lying = say what is false); noun (a lie, lies) To lie is to rest or be flat on something, like a bed or the ground.
5. [**liege**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/liege.md) noun (plural lieges); adjective (old use) A liege is a lord or lady whom a person owes loyal service to, or a servant who owes such service.
6. [**lieu**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lieu.md) noun (only in «in lieu», «in lieu of») 1) (formal) In lieu of something means instead of it.
7. [**lieutenant**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lieutenant.md) noun (a lieutenant, lieutenants; Lt) An officer in the army, navy or air force, of a junior to middle rank.
8. [**life**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/life.md) noun (a life, lives — uncountable in the general sense) Being alive: what people, animals and plants have and stones do not (they grow, feed, breathe, reproduce).
9. [**lifeboat**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lifeboat.md) noun (a lifeboat, lifeboats) A strong boat kept on the coast that goes out to rescue people in danger at sea.
10. [**lifeguard**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lifeguard.md) noun (a lifeguard, lifeguards) 1) A lifeguard is a person whose job is to watch swimmers at a pool or beach and rescue anyone in danger in the water.
11. [**lifeless**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lifeless.md) adjective (lifeless) Lifeless means dead, or never having had life.
12. [**lifelike**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lifelike.md) adjective Lifelike means so like a real person or thing that it looks alive.
13. [**lifelong**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lifelong.md) adjective (lifelong) Lifelong means lasting or continuing for all of someone's life.
14. [**lifesaving**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lifesaving.md) adjective (lifesaving, life-saving); noun (lifesaving, uncountable) Lifesaving means saving or able to save someone's life, like lifesaving medicine.
15. [**lifespan**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lifespan.md) noun (a lifespan, lifespans); also life span A lifespan is how long a person, animal or plant lives, or usually lives.
16. [**lifetime**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lifetime.md) noun (a lifetime, lifetimes) The whole time that a person or animal is alive.
17. [**lift**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lift.md) verb (lift, lifts, lifted, lifting); noun (a lift, lifts) 1) To lift is to pick something up and raise it. 2) A lift is a machine that carries people up and down in a building; Americans call it…
18. [**ligament**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ligament.md) noun (a ligament, ligaments) A ligament is a strong, slightly stretchy band in your body that joins one bone to another at a joint, like the knee or ankle.
19. [**ligature**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ligature.md) noun (a ligature, ligatures) A ligature is a thread, string or band used to tie something tightly, especially by a doctor to tie off a blood vessel.
20. [**liger**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/liger.md) noun (a liger, ligers) A liger is the baby of a male lion and a female tiger; it is a hybrid, a mix of two kinds of animal.
21. [**light**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/light.md) noun (light, lights); adjective (light, lighter, lightest); verb (light, lights, lit or lighted, lighting) Light is what lets us see; it comes from the Sun, lamps and fire.
22. [**lightbulb**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lightbulb.md) noun (a lightbulb, lightbulbs) A lightbulb is a glass or plastic bulb that gives out light when electricity goes through it.
23. [**lighten**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lighten.md) verb (lighten, lightens, lightened, lightening) To lighten something is to make it less heavy: lighten your bag.
24. [**lighter**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lighter.md) noun (a lighter, lighters); adjective, comparative (light, lighter, lightest) A small device that makes a flame, used to light candles, cigarettes, stoves or fires.
25. [**lighthearted**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lighthearted.md) adjective (lighthearted / light-hearted; more lighthearted, most lighthearted) 1) Cheerful and free from worry. 2) Not serious; meant to be fun: «a lighthearted film».
26. [**lighthouse**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lighthouse.md) noun (lighthouse, lighthouses) 1) A lighthouse is a tall tower by the sea with a bright light at the top that flashes to guide ships at night and warn them of rocks.
27. [**lightless**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lightless.md) adjective (lightless) 1) With no light at all; completely dark.
28. [**lightly**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lightly.md) adverb Lightly means with little force or weight: «tap lightly».
29. [**lightness**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lightness.md) noun (lightness, uncountable) 1) Lightness is being not heavy. 2) Lightness is being bright or pale in colour. 3) Lightness is a gentle, cheerful, easy feeling or way…
30. [**lightning**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lightning.md) noun (lightning — uncountable; a flash/bolt of lightning) The bright flash of light in the sky during a storm, made by a huge spark of electricity between clouds or between a cloud and the ground.
31. [**lightweight**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lightweight.md) adjective (lightweight); noun (a lightweight, lightweights) Lightweight means not heavy, weighing less than usual.
32. [**like**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/like.md) verb (like, likes, liked, liking); preposition (like); conjunction (like — informal); noun (likes); adverb and filler (like — casual) To like something is to enjoy it or think it is good.
33. [**likeable**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/likeable.md) adjective (likeable, more likeable, most likeable) 1) Likeable means easy to like; pleasant and friendly.
34. [**likelihood**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/likelihood.md) noun (likelihood — usually uncountable) How likely something is to happen; the chance or probability of it.
35. [**likely**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/likely.md) adjective (likely, more likely/likelier, most likely/likeliest); adverb (likely — probably) Probably going to happen or be true: "It's likely to rain.".
36. [**liken**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/liken.md) verb (liken, likens, likened, likening) 1) To say that one thing is like another; to compare them. 2) Used with «to»: «liken A to B» means say A is similar to B.
37. [**likeness**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/likeness.md) noun (a likeness, likenesses) 1) Being alike or similar; how much one thing looks like another. 2) A picture, drawing or statue that looks like a real person.
38. [**likewise**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/likewise.md) adverb (likewise) Likewise means in the same way: «Watch me and do likewise.».
39. [**lilac**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lilac.md) noun (a lilac, lilacs; lilac — the colour); adjective (lilac) A lilac is a bush or small tree with large bunches of small, sweet-smelling purple, pink or white flowers in spring.
40. [**lilo**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lilo.md) noun (a lilo, lilos; also Li-Lo, a brand name) An inflatable mattress: a plastic bed filled with air, used for floating on water or for sleeping on when camping.
41. [**lily**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lily.md) noun (a lily, lilies); also a girl's name (Lily) A tall plant grown from a bulb, with large trumpet-shaped flowers, often white, orange or pink.
42. [**limb**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/limb.md) noun (limb, limbs) 1) A limb is an arm or a leg. 2) A limb is a large branch of a tree. 3) «Out on a limb» means alone, with an idea others do not support.
43. [**lime**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lime.md) noun (a lime, limes; lime — uncountable for the chemical and the colour); adjective (lime green) A small round green citrus fruit with sour juice.
44. [**limerick**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/limerick.md) noun (a limerick, limericks); proper noun (Limerick — a place) A limerick is a short, funny poem of five lines, with lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyming together and lines 3 and 4 rhyming together (AABBA).
45. [**limestone**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/limestone.md) noun (limestone) 1) Limestone is a soft, usually grey or white sedimentary rock made mostly from the shells and skeletons of tiny sea creatures.
46. [**limit**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/limit.md) noun (a limit, limits); verb (limit, limits, limited, limiting) A limit is the greatest (or smallest) amount that is allowed or possible: a speed limit.
47. [**limitation**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/limitation.md) noun (a limitation, limitations; limitation, uncountable) A limitation is something that limits what a person or thing can do: «The robot has some limitations».
48. [**limousine**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/limousine.md) noun (a limousine, limousines; informal: limo, limos) 1) A large, expensive, comfortable car, often with a long body and a driver (chauffeur), sometimes with a glass wall between driver and…
49. [**limp**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/limp.md) verb (limp, limps, limped, limping); noun (a limp); adjective (limp, limper, limpest) To limp is to walk unevenly because one leg or foot is hurt or stiff.
50. [**limpet**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/limpet.md) noun (a limpet, limpets) A limpet is a small sea animal with a cone-shaped shell that clings very tightly to rocks.
51. [**limping**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/limping.md) verb form (-ing of limp: he is limping); adjective (a limping dog); noun (limping, uncountable) Limping is walking unevenly because a leg or foot hurts.
52. [**lincoln**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lincoln.md) noun (Lincoln; a proper noun — a name) Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, who led the country during the American Civil War and worked to end slavery.
53. [**linden**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/linden.md) noun (plural lindens) A linden is a tree with heart-shaped leaves and sweet-smelling flowers, also called a lime tree.
54. [**line**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/line.md) noun (line, lines); verb (line, lines, lined, lining) A line is a row of people or things one behind another.
55. [**lineage**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lineage.md) noun (a lineage, lineages) A lineage is the line of your ancestors, the family members who came before you, such as parents, grandparents and great-grandparents.
56. [**linen**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/linen.md) noun (linen, uncountable) Linen is a strong, cool cloth made from the flax plant.
57. [**liner**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/liner.md) noun (a liner, liners) A big passenger ship that sailed across oceans on regular routes, like the Titanic (an ocean liner).
58. [**linesman**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/linesman.md) noun (a linesman, linesmen) 1) (sport) An official who helps the referee or umpire by watching the lines of the pitch or court and showing with a flag when the ball…
59. [**ling**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ling.md) noun (a ling, ling or lings — fish; ling, uncountable — plant); (Mandarin, pinyin) líng / lǐng / lìng A ling is a long sea fish of the cod family, caught for food in the North Atlantic and around Australia and New Zealand.
60. [**linger**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/linger.md) verb (linger, lingers, lingered, lingering) To linger is to stay somewhere longer than usual or than needed, because you do not want to leave.
61. [**lingua**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lingua.md) noun (lingua); Latin word «Lingua» is the Latin word for tongue and language.
62. [**linguistic**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/linguistic.md) adjective (linguistic) 1) To do with language or languages. 2) To do with linguistics, the science that studies how languages work.
63. [**linguistics**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/linguistics.md) noun (linguistics); uncountable, takes a singular verb 1) Linguistics is the scientific study of language: how sounds, words, grammar and meaning work, how languages change, and how people…
64. [**link**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/link.md) noun (a link, links); verb (link, links, linked, linking) A connection between two things, people or ideas: there is a link between sugar and tooth decay.
65. [**linnet**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/linnet.md) noun (a linnet, linnets) 1) A linnet is a small brown songbird of the finch family; the male has a pinkish-red chest and head in spring.
66. [**linseed**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/linseed.md) noun (linseed); uncountable Linseed is the seed of the flax plant, also called flaxseed.
67. [**lint**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lint.md) noun (lint, uncountable) Lint is tiny bits of fluff and fibre that come off clothes and cloth.
68. [**lion**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lion.md) noun (lion, lions; female lioness, lionesses) A lion is a big wild cat with golden fur that lives mostly in Africa.
69. [**lioness**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lioness.md) noun (a lioness, lionesses) 1) A female lion. 2) (figurative) A brave, strong woman who protects her family or team.
70. [**lionfish**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lionfish.md) noun (a lionfish, lionfish or lionfishes) 1) A lionfish is a striped red, brown and white sea fish with long fan-like fins and venomous spines.
71. [**lip**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lip.md) noun (a lip, lips) Your lips are the two soft edges around your mouth.
72. [**lipogram**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lipogram.md) noun (a lipogram, lipograms) 1) A piece of writing in which one letter of the alphabet is never used on purpose, for example a story with no letter "e".
73. [**lipped**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lipped.md) adjective (old use, usually in «long lipped») In old tales, «long lipped» means sulky, with the lower lip pushed out to show you are cross.
74. [**lipstick**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lipstick.md) noun (lipstick, uncountable; a lipstick, lipsticks) 1) Colour for the lips, usually in a small stick that comes out of a tube. 2) A stick or tube of this colour.
75. [**liquefy**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/liquefy.md) verb (liquefy, liquefies, liquefied, liquefying) 1) (science) To liquefy is to turn into a liquid, or to make a solid or gas become a liquid, often by heating or cooling or squeezing.
76. [**liquid**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/liquid.md) noun (liquid, liquids); adjective (liquid) A liquid is something that flows and can be poured, like water, milk or juice.
77. [**liquidate**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/liquidate.md) verb (liquidate, liquidates, liquidated, liquidating) To liquidate a company is to close it and sell everything it owns to pay its debts.
78. [**liquor**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/liquor.md) noun (plural liquors) Liquor is a strong alcoholic drink, such as whisky or rum.
79. [**list**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/list.md) noun (list, lists); verb (list, lists, listed, listing) A list is a set of words, names or numbers written one after another, often one under another.
80. [**listen**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/listen.md) verb (listen, listens, listened, listening) To listen is to pay attention to sounds or words so that you hear them: listen to music.
81. [**listener**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/listener.md) noun (a listener, listeners) 1) A person who listens to someone or something. 2) A person who listens to a radio programme or podcast.
82. [**lit**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lit.md) verb form (past of light: light, lights, lit, lighting); adjective (lit, lit up); slang adjective (lit — exciting, informal) 1) Lit is the past form of «light», as in to make something start burning (lit a candle) or to give light to a place (the room was lit by…
83. [**litany**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/litany.md) noun (a litany, litanies) A litany is a long prayer in which a leader says a line and the people answer with the same response each time, like «Lord, have mercy».
84. [**literacy**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/literacy.md) noun (literacy); uncountable 1) Literacy is the ability to read and write. 2) Literacy is knowledge and skill in a certain area, such as computer literacy, money…
85. [**literal**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/literal.md) adjective (literal) Taking words in their most basic, exact meaning, not as a joke or figure of speech.
86. [**literally**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/literally.md) adverb (literally) Literally means exactly as the words say, not as a figure of speech.
87. [**literary**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/literary.md) adjective (literary, more literary) Literary means to do with literature: books, poems, plays and stories, and the people who write them.
88. [**literature**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/literature.md) noun (literature — uncountable) Written works such as novels, poems and plays, especially ones thought to be good or important.
89. [**lithium**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lithium.md) noun (lithium, uncountable) Lithium is a very light, soft, silvery metal; it is a chemical element with the symbol Li.
90. [**lithosphere**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lithosphere.md) noun (the lithosphere, uncountable) 1) (science) The lithosphere is the hard, rocky outer layer of the Earth: the crust plus the very top part of the mantle, about 100 km…
91. [**lithuanian**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lithuanian.md) adjective (Lithuanian); noun (a Lithuanian, Lithuanians; Lithuanian — the language) Lithuanian means from Lithuania, a country on the Baltic Sea in north-east Europe, or to do with its people.
92. [**litmus**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/litmus.md) noun (litmus, uncountable); adjective (litmus — in litmus test, litmus paper) Litmus is a dye made from lichens that turns red in acid and blue in alkali, used to test liquids.
93. [**litotes**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/litotes.md) noun (litotes — uncountable; plural also litotes) 1) Litotes is a kind of understatement where you say something by saying that its opposite is not true, like «not bad» meaning «good» or…
94. [**litre**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/litre.md) noun (litre, litres; US spelling liter, liters) A litre is a unit for measuring liquids and the space inside things (volume).
95. [**litter**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/litter.md) noun (litter, uncountable; a litter, litters); verb (litter, litters, littered, littering) Litter is rubbish like paper, cans and wrappers left lying on the ground in a public place.
96. [**little**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/little.md) adjective (little, littler, littlest — usually smaller, smallest); determiner, pronoun (little, less, least; a little); adverb 1) Little means small in size: a little house. 2) Little means young: my little brother. 3) «A little» means a small amount, some: a…
97. [**liv**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/liv.md) fragment / abbreviation; proper noun (Liv) A short form of «living», as in «liv rm» for living room in house adverts or notes.
98. [**live**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/live.md) verb (live, lives, lived, living) [rhymes with give]; adjective (live) [rhymes with five]; adverb (live) 1) To live is to be alive. 2) To live somewhere is to have your home there. 3) To live a certain way is to spend your life like that: live…
99. [**livelihood**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/livelihood.md) noun (livelihoods) A livelihood is the way a person earns money to pay for food and a home.
100. [**livelong**](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/livelong.md) adjective (old use, no change) Livelong means whole or entire, used with a time: the livelong day is the whole day.

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