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Let-Up
- - Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up.
Lethal
- adjective - of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"
Letter
- noun - a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention); "he followed instructions to the letter"; "he obeyed the letter of the law"
- a written message addressed to a person or organization; "mailed an indignant letter to the editor"
- an award earned by participation in a school sport; "he won letters in three sports"
- mark letters on or mark with letters
- owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire
- set down or print with letters
- the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"
- win an athletic letter
Lettic
- - Of or pertaining to the Letts; Lettish. (b) Of or pertaining to a branch of the Slavic family, subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian. -- n. (a) The language of the Letts; Lettish. (b) The language of the Lettic race, including Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian.
Letups
- noun - a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished; "there was never a letup in the noise"
Leucin
- - a naturally occurring alpha-amino acid ((CH3)2CH.CH2.CH(NH2)-COOH), one of the building units of almost all proteins of living organisms, both animal and vegetable. It is one of the essential amino acids (not synthesized by the human body, a required component for proper nutrition), and is hydrophobic in character when bound in proteins. In isolated form it is a white, crystalline, zwitterionic substance formed, e. g. by the decomposition of proteins by pancreatic digestion, by the action of boiling dilute mineral acid, or by putrefaction. Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid. It occurs as two optical isomers, the L- and D-forms. The L-form, L-leucine, is the natural form, present in most proteins.
Levana
- - A goddess who protected newborn infants.
Levant
- noun - a heavy morocco often used in bookbinding
- run off without paying a debt
- the former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel
Levees
- noun - 4. sovereign's assembly
- a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)
- a pier that provides a landing place on a river
- an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing