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Leap Second
- noun - a second (as measured by an atomic clock) added to or subtracted from Greenwich Mean Time in order to compensate for slowing in the Earth''s rotation
- a second (as measured by an atomic clock) added to or subtracted from Greenwich Mean Time in order to compensate for slowing in the Earth's rotation
Leapfrogged
- verb - jump across; "He leapfrogged his classmates"
- progress by large jumps instead of small increments
Leatherwood
- noun - deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
- shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage
Left-Handed
- adjective - (of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
- (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior
- ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment"
- lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
- rotating to the left
- using or intended for the left hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors"
Legal Fraud
- noun - comprises all acts or omissions or concealments involving breach of equitable or legal duty or trust or confidence
Legitimated
- verb - make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone); "They legitimized their natural child"
- make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized"
- show or affirm to be just and legitimate
Legitimised
- verb - make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized"
Legitimized
- verb - make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized"
Leo Szilard
- noun - United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964)