levisticum officinale
- n herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds
lewiston
- n a town in southwestern Maine to the north of Portland
- n a town in northwestern Idaho
levi
- n (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally considered to be the author of the first Gospel
levi-lorrain dwarf
- n a dwarf whose condition is caused by a deficiency of growth hormones, rather than by genetic factors (as in the case of the achondroplastic dwarf)
levi-strauss
- n French cultural anthropologist who promoted structural analysis of social systems (born in 1908)
leviathan
- n the largest or most massive thing of its kind
it was a leviathan among redwoods
they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks - n monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament
levirate
- n the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line
levis
- n a popular brand of jeans
- n (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally considered to be the author of the first Gospel
levitation
- n the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means
- n movement upward in virtue of lightness
- n the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means
levite
- n a member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi (especially the branch that provided male assistants to the temple priests)