Words Starting L & Ending A

• eye disease consisting of an opaque white spot on the cornea

• (preceded by definite article) A fast-paced, erotic Brazilian dance in which couples dance with their stomachs touching.

• The music to which it is danced.

• A strong hit, the act of hitting someone/something with a piece of wood or club.

• the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet

• the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull

• the basic unit of money in Honduras; equal to 100 centavos

• substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth

• A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.

• The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.

• (psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.

• The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.

• One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.

• a seaport on the western coast of Syria

• aromatic Turkish tobacco

• the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer

• any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge