Live oak Live oak or evergreen oak is a general term for a number of unrelated oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that happen to share the character of evergreen foliage. The name live oak comes from the fact that evergreen oaks are still green and "live" in winter, when other oaks are dormant, leafless and "dead"-looking.
	Live steam Live steam is steam under pressure, obtained by heating water in a boiler. The steam is used to operate stationary or moving equipment. See steam engine, steam locomotive, steamroller, stationary engine, steamboat, traction engine. Live steam is also used to produce sound in steam whistles.
	Liver The liver is an organ in vertebrates, including humans. It plays a major role in metabolism and has a number of functions in the body including glycogen storage, plasma protein synthesis, and drug detoxification. It also produces bile, which is important in digestion.
	Liverpool Liverpool is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in North West England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. Built across a ridge of hills rising up to a height of around 70 metres above sea-level at Everton Hill, the city's urban area runs directly into Bootle and Crosby, Merseyside in Sefton to the north, and Huyton and Prescot in Knowsley to the east.
	Liverwurst Liverwurst, literally meaning "liver sausage," is a typical sausage served in Germany and the Netherlands. This sausage is usually made with pork. Only about 10-20 % of the sausage is actually pork liver, which is enough to give it a distinctive liver taste. Other ingredients are meat, fat and some other organs.
	Livery Company The 107 Livery Companies are trade associations based in the City of London, each known as the Worshipful Company of the relevant trade or profession. The Livery Companies originally developed as guilds and were responsible for the regulation of their trades, controlling, for instance, wages and labour conditions.
	Livestock Livestock is the term used to refer to a domesticated animal intentionally reared in an agricultural setting to make produce such as food or fibre, or for its labour. Livestock may be raised for subsistence or for profit. Raising animals is an important component of modern agriculture.
	Living Dead Living Dead is a blanket term for various films and series that all originated with the seminal 1968 zombie movie Night of the Living Dead created by George A. Romero and John A. Russo. After the films initial success, the two creators split in disagreement regarding where the series should go and a contract was drawn up.
	Living room Living room is a room for entertaining guests, reading, watching television or other activities. In modern homes and apartments the living room has replaced the old fashioned parlour. The term marks the twentieth-century effort of architects and builders to strip the parlour of its burial and mourning associations.
	Living will A living will, also called will to live, advance health directive, or advance health care directive, is a specific type of power of attorney or health care proxy or advance directive. It is a legal instrument that usually is witnessed or notary public.
	Livistona Livistona is a genus of 28 species of Arecaceaes, native to southern and southeastern Asia, Australasia, and the Horn of Africa. They are List of Arecaceae genera#Tribe Corypheae, with the leaf with an armed petiole terminating in a rounded, costapalmate fan of numerous leaflets.
	Livonia Livonia once was the land of the Finnic Livonians, but came in the Middle Ages to designate a much broader territory controlled by the Livonian Order on the eastern coasts of the Baltic Sea in present-day Latvia and Estonia. Its frontiers are the Gulf of Riga and the Gulf of Finland in the north-west, Lake Peipus and Russia to the east, and Lithuania to the south.
	Livy Titus Livius , known as Livy in English language, wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe condita , from its founding through the reign of Augustus. Livy was a native of Padua in northern Italy.
	Lizard Lizards are reptiles of the order Squamata, which they share with the snakes . They are usually four-legged, with external ear openings and movable eyelids. Species range in adult length from a few centimeters to nearly three meters . Some lizard species called "glass snakes" or "glass lizards" have no functional legs, though there are some vestigial skeletal leg structures.
	Lizard Orchid The Lizard Orchid is more commonly known as Himantoglossum hircinum.
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	Llama The llama is a large camelid that originated in North America and then later on moved on to South America. The term llama is sometimes used more broadly, to indicate any of the four closely related animals that make up the South American branch of the family Camelidae: the true llama, the vicua, alpaca, and guanaco.
	Llano Estacado Llano Estacado is a region in the southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas. It is a large mesa, or tableland, and relatively flat over most of its terrain. It is dotted by numerous small playa lakes or seasonal depressions that fill with water, an important source of habitat for waterfowl.
	Llullaillaco Llullaillaco is a stratovolcano at the border of Argentina and Chile. It lies in the Puna de Atacama, a region of very high volcanic peaks on a high plateau within the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places in the world. Llullaillaco is the second highest active volcano in the world, surpassed only by Ojos del Salado.
	Load Load may mean: * The structural load or forces applied to a structure. * Cargo, Freight or Lading * The load of a mutual fund; see Mutual fund fees and expenses. * The genetic load of a population * The parasite load of an organism * Load , by Metallica
	Loading dock A loading dock is an architectural fixture where trucks may be loaded and unloaded. They are commonly found on large commercial and industrial buildings. Warehouses that handle palletized freight use a dock leveler so items can be easily loaded and unloaded using power moving equipment.
	Loadstar Loadstar is a disk magazine for the Commodore 64 computer, published since 1984, and still in publication as of 2005. It derived its name from the command used to cause the first file on a Commodore 1541 disk to execute, LOAD "*",8,1, with inspiration from the word "lodestar".
	Lobata Lobata is an order of Ctenophora in the class Tentaculata with smaller tentacles than other ctenophores. It was first named by Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz in 1825. They are found in the Black Sea as well as the Caspian Sea. They are about 25 cm long.
	Lobelia Lobelia is a genus in the family Campanulaceae, comprising some 200 species, some of which are cultivated in gardens. These include Lobelia cardinalis, Lobelia siphilitica, Lobelia fulgens and Lobelia erinus, as well as some hybrids. Some botanists place the genus and its relatives in the separate family Lobeliaceae.
	Lobelia cardinalis Lobelia cardinalis, the Cardinal Flower, is a perennial that grows 2-4 feet tall and is found in wet places, streambanks, and swamps. Leaves are lanceolate to oval and toothed. The plant flowers during the summer, with vibrant red blooms cited by Roger Tory Peterson as "America's favorite".
	Lobeliaceae The Lobeliaceae or Lobelia family comprises about 375 species of herbs, shrubs, or sometimes trees. Most are native to tropical or warm temperate regions. Not all classifications recognize the family and some place its members in the family Campanulaceae instead.
	Lobito Lobito is a city and a municipality of the province of Benguela, in Angola. It dates from 1905 and owes its existence to the bay of the same name having been chosen as the sea terminus of a railway to the far interior, passing through Lua to Katanga. The city is located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
	Loblolly Pine The Loblolly Pine is one of the pines native to the southeastern United States. The trees reach a height of 30-35 m with a diameter of 0.4-1.5 m. Exceptional specimens may reach 45 m tall, the largest of the southern pines. Its needles are in bundles of three, sometimes twisted, and measure 12-22 cm long: an intermediate length for southern pines, shorter than those of the Longleaf Pine or Slash Pine, but longer than those of the Shortleaf Pine and Spruce Pine.
	Lobotomy A lobotomy is a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy . It consists of cutting the connections to and from, or simply destroying, the prefrontal cortex. These procedures often result in major personality changes. Lobotomies have been used in the past to treat a wide range of mental illnesses including schizophrenia, clinical depression, and various anxiety disorders.
	Lobster Clawed lobsters comprise a family of large marine crustaceans. Lobsters are an economically important type of seafood, the basis of a global industry that nets United States dollar1.8 billion in trade annually.
	Lobster Thermidor Lobster Thermidor is a French cuisine dish consisting of a creamy, cheese mixture of cooked lobster meat, egg yolks, and brandy or sherry, stuffed into a lobster shell, and optionally served with an oven-browned cheese crust. Lobster Thermidor was created in 1894 by Marie's, a Paris restaurant near the theatre Comedie-Français, to honor the opening of the play "Thermidor," by Victorien Sardou.
	Lobularia Lobularia is a genus of four or five species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, closely related to the genus Alyssum. The genus is native to Macaronesia and the Mediterranean region, and comprises annual plants growing to 10-40 cm tall, with oblong-oval leaves and white flowers.
	Lobularia maritima Lobularia maritima is a low-growing flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to the Mediterranean region and Macaronesia. It is an annual plant growing to 10-30 cm tall. The leaf are 1-4 cm long and 3-5 mm broad, oval to lanceolate, with an entire margin.
	Local area network A local area network is a computer network covering a local area, like a home, office, or group of buildings. Current LANs are most likely to be based on switched IEEE 802.3 Ethernet, or on Wi-Fi technology running at 10, 100 or 1,000 Megabit per second. The defining characteristics of LANs in contrast to Wide area networks are: their much higher data rates; smaller geographic range; and that they do not require leased telecommunication lines.
	Loch A loch is a body of water which is either: * a lake or; * a sea inlet, which may be also a firth, fjord, estuary or bay. Sea-inlet lochs are often called sea lochs. This name for a body of water is Scottish Gaelic language in origin and is applied to most lakes in Scotland and to many sea inlets in the west and north of Scotland.
	Loch Achray Loch Achray is a small freshwater loch 11 kilometres west of Callander in Stirling_(district) district, Scotland. The loch lies between Loch Katrine and Loch Venachar in the heart of the Trossachs and has an average depth of 11 metres. The south side of the loch is woodland and well served by woodland tracks and forest roads.
	Loch Linnhe Loch Linnhe is a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland. Loch Linnhe extends 15 kilometers and is an average of 2 kilometers wide. It opens onto the Firth of Lorne at its southwestern end by Loch Leven. The town of Fort William, Scotland lies at the northeast end of the loch at the mouth of the River Lochy.
	Loch Ness This page is about the body of water in Scotland. for the movie, see Loch Ness . Loch Ness is a large, deep freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands extending for approximately 37 km southwest of Inverness. The Loch's surface is 15.8 metres above sea level. Loch Ness is best known for the alleged sightings of the legendary Loch Ness Monster , although it is scenic in its own right.
	Loch Ness Monster The Loch Ness Monster, sometimes called Nessie or Ness is a mysterious and unidentified animal or group of animals claimed by some to inhabit Loch Ness, a large deep freshwater loch near the city of Inverness in northern Scotland. Nessie is usually categorized as a type of lake monster.
	Lockstitch A lockstitch is the mechanical stitch most commonly made by a sewing machine.
	Locomotive A locomotive is a Rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. In contrast, many trains feature self-propelled payload-carrying vehicles; these are not normally considered locomotives, and may be referred to as multiple units or railcars; the use of these self-propelled vehicles is increasingly common for passenger trains, but very rare for freight .
	Locust Locust is the name given to the swarming phase of short-horned grasshoppers of the family Acrididae. The origins and apparent extinction of certain species of locust—some of which reach 6 inches in length—are unclear. These are species that can breed rapidly under suitable conditions and subsequently become gregarious and migratory.
	Lodestone Lodestone or loadstone refers to either: * Magnetite, a magnetic mineral form of iron(II) oxide, iron(III) oxide Fe3O4, one of several iron oxides. * A piece of intensely magnetic magnetite that was used as an early form of magnetic compass.
	Lodgepole Pine Lodgepole Pine is a common tree in western North America. Like all pines, it is evergreen. There are three subspecies, one of them with two varieties: *Pinus contorta subsp. contorta - Pacific Coast, southern Alaska to California **Pinus contorta subsp. contorta var.
	Lódz Ldz is Poland's second largest city . It is located in the centre of the country and serves as the capital of the Ldz Voivodeship. In Polish language, the word also means "boat", which thus appears on the coat of arms .
	Loess Among the classifications of soil types, loess is a fine, silty, windblown type of unconsolidated deposit; sometimes the term refers to the soil derived from it. It is derived from glacier deposits, where glacial activity has ground rocks very fine. After drying, these deposits are highly susceptible to wind erosion, and downwind deposits may become very deep, even a hundred metres or more, as in areas of China and the Midwest United States.
	LOEWE LOEWE is a German electronics manufacturer founded 1923 by Siegmund Loewe in Berlin. The company now is located in Kronach. It is a Germany-based supplier of electronic entertainment products. Loewe is one of Europes most highly regarded brands. Their history is long and illustrious.
	Lofoten Lofoten is an archipelago and a Districts of Norway in the county of Nordland, Norway.
	Loft The term loft mainly refers to two different types of rooms: # An upper room or floor in a building, directly under the roof, used either for storage, for a specific purpose, e.g. an "organ loft" in a church, or to sleep in. In this sense it is roughly synonymous with attic.
	Log cabin A log cabin is a small house built from loggings. It is a fairly simple type of log house, and was established both in rural areas and in cities in timber-rich regions, particularly in early United States and Canada. Some very old buildings in the American Midwest and the Canadian Prairies are actually log structures covered with Clapboard or other materials.
	Loganberry The loganberry is a hybrid produced from crossing a blackberry and a raspberry.
	Logarithm The logarithm is the mathematics operation that is the inverse function of exponentiation . The logarithm of a number x in base b is the number n such that x = b'n. It is usually written as For example, since If n is a negative and non-negative numbers integer, b'n means the product of n factors equal to b.
	Logarithmic scale A logarithmic scale is a scale that uses the logarithm of a physical quantity instead of the quantity itself. Presentation of data on a logarithmic scale can be helpful when the data covers a large range of values; the logarithm reduces this to a more manageable range.
	Logbook A ' is a book for recording readings from the log The log was used to determine the distance a ship traveled within a certain amount of time. The readings of the log have been recorded in equal times to give the distance traveled with respect to a given start position. Today logbooks are still widely used for e.g.
	Loggerhead Shrike The Loggerhead Shrike is a passerine bird. It is the only member of the shrike family endemic to North America. These birds have a large hooked bill; the head and back are grey with white underparts. They have black wings and tail, with white patches on the wings and white on the outer tail feather.
	Loggia Loggia is the name given to an architectural feature, originally of Italy design, which is often a gallery or corridor generally on the ground level, or sometimes higher, on the facade of a building and open to the air on one side, where it is supported by columns or pierced openings in the wall.
	Logging Logging is the process in which trees are felled and transported to a mill. It can supply sawlogs for lumber production or pulpwood for paper, and can also remove fuels that can contribute to forest fire risk. Logging is a controversial aspect of forestry, due to its environmental and aesthetic impacts.
	Logic gate A logic gate performs a logical operation on one or more logic inputs and produces a single logic output. The logic normally performed is Boolean logic and is most commonly found in digital circuits. Logic gates are primarily implemented electronics using diodes or transistors, but can also be constructed using electromagnetic relays, fluidic logic, optical or even machine elements.
	Logistics Logistics is the art and science of managing and controlling the flow of goods, energy, information and other resources like Products, services, and people, from the source of production to the marketplace. It is difficult to accomplish any marketing or manufacturing without logistical support.
	Logo A logo is the conglomerate of a graphic element, symbol, or icon of a trademark or brand and its logotype, which is set in a unique typeface or arranged in a particular way. The effect of which should be immediate recognition. The shapes, colors, fonts and images are usually different from others in a similar market.
	Logogram A logogram, or logograph, is a single grapheme which represents a word or a morpheme . This stands in contrast to other writing systems, such as syllabary, abugidas, abjads, and alphabets, where each symbol primarily represents a sound or a combination of sounds.
	Logrońo Logroo is a city in northern Spain, on the Ebro River. It is the capital of the autonomous community of La Rioja, formerly known as Logroo Province. The population of Logroo in 2004 was 142,143. The city is a centre of the trade in Rioja wine, for which the area is noted, and also produces wood, metal, and textile products.
	Logwood The Logwood tree was once an important source of red dye. The tree's scientific name means 'bloodwood' from the Campeche region of Mexico's Yucatn Peninsula. The Logwood grows throughout Central America. It led to the founding of the modern nation of Belize, which grew from British logging camps of the 17th century.
	Loincloth A loincloth is one-piece garment, sometimes kept in place by a belt, that is used: *in societies where no other clothing is needed or wanted *as an undergarment *to express soberness **Mohandas Gandhi wore a dhoti, a Hinduism loincloth, as a way of identifying with the poorest Indians, even though he knew it could be taken as a sign of primitiveness.
	Loire River The Loire River, the longest river in France with a length of just over 1 E6 m, drains an area of 1 E11 m, more than a fifth of France. The central part of the Loire Valley was added on the World Heritage Sites list by the UNESCO On December 2, 2000.
	Loki Loki Laufeyjarson is the mythical being of mischief in Norse mythology, a son of the Jotun Frbauti and Laufey, and foster-brother of Odin. He is described as the "contriver of all fraud". He mixed freely with the gods for a long time, even becoming Odin's blood brother.
	Lola Montez Eliza Rosanna Gilbert , better known by the stage name Lola Montez, was an Ireland-born dancer and actress who became famous as an exotic dancer, courtesan and the mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria.
	Loligo Loligo is a genus of squids and one of the most representative and widely distributed group of Myopsinas. The genus was first described by Jean Baptiste Lamarck in 1798. However, the name had been used earlier than Lamarck and might even have been used by Pliny the Elder.
	Lolita Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1955. The novel is both famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the book's narrator and main character Humbert Humbert becomes sexually obsessed with a pubescent girl. The novel was adapted to film twice, once Lolita by Stanley Kubrick and again Lolita by Adrian Lyne.
	Lolium temulentum Lolium temulentum, typically known as darnel or cockle, is an annual plant that forms part of the Poaceae family and part of the Lolium genus. The plant stem can grow up to 1 meter tall, with inflorescence in the ears and purple grain. It usually it grows en the same production zones as wheat and is considered a weed.