Words That Start With: LEM

• tasting sour like a lemon

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

• 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 subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition

• the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae

• the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry

• The spirits or ghosts of the dead in the Roman mythology, considered as troublesome unless exorcised or appeased.

• a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition

• the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae

• the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry

• large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails

• One beloved; a lover, a sweetheart of either sex (especially a secret lover, gallant, or mistress).

• (often negative) A paramour.

• yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh

• a strong yellow color

• a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit

• a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons

• an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory