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Legionella
- noun - the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease
Leiden Jar
- noun - an electrostatic capacitor of historical interest
Leniencies
- noun - a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; "too much indulgence spoils a child"
- lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers
- mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant
Lententide
- noun - a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday
Lessenings
- noun - a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
Leuwenhoek
- noun - Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and who gave the first accurate descriptions of microbes and spermatozoa and blood corpuscles (1632-1723)
Leyden Jar
- noun - an electrostatic capacitor of historical interest
Lichenales
- noun - category used especially in former classifications for organisms now constituting the division Lichenes
Lightnings
- noun - abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
- the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
Lilienthal
- unknown - Otto Lilienthal was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the Glider King. He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful gliding flights