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Lescol
- noun - least expensive statin drug (trade name Lescol); usually taken orally at bedtime
Lescot
- unknown - Pierre Lescot (c. 1515 – 10 September 1578) was a French architect active during the French Renaissance. His most notable works include the Fontaine des Innocents and the Lescot wing of the Louvre in Paris.
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.
Litchi
- noun - Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried
- Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium
Lorcha
- - A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk.
Louche
- adjective - of questionable taste or morality; "a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting"
- Shady
Madcap
- adjective - a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
- characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic)