lavatory
- n a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- n a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- n a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it
lavender cotton
- n branching aromatic Mediterranean shrub with woolly stems and leaves and yellow flowers
laver
- n Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he repeated this feat (born in 1938)
- n (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions
- n edible red seaweeds
- n seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
lavishness
- n the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive
- n excessive spending
lavoisier
- n French chemist known as the father of modern chemistry; discovered oxygen and disproved the theory of phlogiston (1743-1794)
lavrenti pavlovich beria
- n Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin; was executed by his associates in the power struggle following Stalin's death (1899-1953)
law
- n the collection of rules imposed by authority
civilization presupposes respect for the law - n legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
there is a law against kidnapping - n a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
- n a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
the laws of thermodynamics - n the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
- n the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
he studied law at Yale - n the force of policemen and officers
the law came looking for him
law-breaking
- n (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act
law degree
- n degree conferred on someone who successfully completes law school
law enforcement agency
- n an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws
law merchant
- n the body of rules applied to commercial transactions; derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence
law of action and reaction
- n action and reaction are equal and opposite
law of archimedes
- n (hydrostatics) the apparent loss in weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid
law of areas
- n a law concerning the speed at which planets travel; a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times
law of averages
- n a law affirming that in the long run probabilities will determine performance
law of chemical equilibrium
- n (chemistry) the principle that (at chemical equilibrium) in a reversible reaction the ratio of the rate of the forward reaction to the rate of the reverse reaction is a constant for that reaction