All English words - page 1927

Meanings of Lanced:

verb

Prick or cut open (an abscess or boil) with a lancet or other sharp instrument.

Usage examples:

Abscesses should not be lanced until there is a soft spot in the centre

noun

A long weapon with a wooden shaft and a pointed steel head, formerly used by a horseman in charging.

Usage examples:

The warriors bore lances tipped with iron or steel

Meanings of Lancelot:

proper noun

(in arthurian legend) the most famous of arthur's knights, lover of queen guinevere and father of galahad.

Meanings of Lanceolate:

adjective

Shaped like a lance head; of a narrow oval shape tapering to a point at each end.

Usage examples:

Lanceolate leaves

Meanings of Lancer:

noun

A soldier of a cavalry regiment armed with lances.

Usage examples:

If at that moment, the swordsman lunges, forcing the lance to the outside, he is safe and the lance…

Meanings of Lancet:

noun

A small, broad two-edged surgical knife or blade with a sharp point.

Usage examples:

Medical wastes are defined as discarded sharps (needles, scalpel blades, lancets, and broken glass)…

Meanings of Lancetfishes:

noun

A long slender predatory fish with a large sail-like dorsal fin, living in the deeper waters of open oceans.

Usage examples:

The lancetfish was caught off the eastern cape coast - hundreds of kilometres away from its usual h…

Meanings of Lancets:

noun

A small, broad two-edged surgical knife or blade with a sharp point.

Usage examples:

Medical wastes are defined as discarded sharps (needles, scalpel blades, lancets, and broken glass)…

Meanings of Lancewood:

noun

Any of a number of hardwood trees with tough elastic timber.

Usage examples:

He is regenerating mahoe, karaka (called kopi in the chathams), ribbonwood, matipo, karamu, nikau p…

Meanings of Land:

noun

The part of the earth's surface that is not covered by water.

Usage examples:

The reptiles lay their eggs on land

verb

Put (someone or something) on land from a boat.

Usage examples:

He landed his troops at hastings

Meanings of Land-agent:

noun

A person who manages a farm or large area of land for someone else

Usage examples:

If you do not want to farm yourself, you can use a land agent to hire a contractor to farm the land…

Meanings of Land-someone-with:

phrasal verb

If someone or something lands you with something, he, she, or it causes problems for you

Usage examples:

I hope you don't mind me landing you with the kids at such short notice., alan's gone off on holida…

Meanings of Landed:

adjective

Owning much land, especially through inheritance.

Usage examples:

The landed aristocracy

verb

Put (someone or something) on land from a boat.

Usage examples:

He landed his troops at hastings

Meanings of Landfill:

noun

The disposal of waste material by burying it, especially as a method of filling in and reclaiming excavated pits.

Usage examples:

Landfill sites

verb

Bury in a landfill.

Usage examples:

Many tons of edible food are landfilled

Meanings of Landform:

noun

A natural feature of the earth's surface.

Usage examples:

During this period, total cover of many shade-intolerant spring ephemeral forb species is significa…

Meanings of Landholders:

noun

A person who owns land, especially one who either makes their living from it or rents it out to others.

Usage examples:

Similarly in urban areas landholders have anticipated clearing land for residential and other urban…

Meanings of Landholding:

noun

A piece of land owned or rented.

Usage examples:

Wealthy merchants purchased landholdings

Meanings of Landholdings:

noun

A piece of land owned or rented.

Usage examples:

Wealthy merchants purchased landholdings

Meanings of Landing-strip:

noun

A long flat area of ground that is used by aircraft with wings when taking off and landing

Meanings of Landings:

noun

An instance of coming or bringing something to land, either from the air or from water.

Usage examples:

We made a perfect landing at the airstrip

Meanings of Landladies:

noun

A woman who rents out land, a building, or accommodation.

Usage examples:

It had been difficult to find a landlady willing to rent to us - a jobless teenager and his runaway…

Meanings of Landlady:

noun

A woman who rents out land, a building, or accommodation.

Usage examples:

It had been difficult to find a landlady willing to rent to us - a jobless teenager and his runaway…

Meanings of Landler:

noun

An austrian folk dance in triple time, a precursor of the waltz.

Usage examples:

A german-austrian turning dance in 3/4 or 3/8 times whose origins are not clear, though it bears si…

Meanings of Landless:

adjective

(especially of an agricultural worker) owning no land.

Usage examples:

Much of the rural population of chile is landless and poverty-stricken

Meanings of Landline:

noun

A conventional telecommunications connection by cable laid across land.

Usage examples:

More and more people are using mobile phones as their home phone, keeping their landlines strictly …

Meanings of Landlords:

noun

A man (in legal use also a woman) who rents out land, a building, or accommodation.

Usage examples:

The goal is to educate tenants about the legal amount their landlord can up their rent.