Lounge car A lounge car is a type of passenger car where riders can purchase food and drinks. The car may feature large windows and comfortable seating to create a relaxing diversion from standard coach or dining options. In earlier times, a lounge car was more likely to have a small kitchen, or grill and a limited menu.
	Louse Lice , also known as fly babies, are an order of over 3,000 species of wingless parasitic insects. They are obligate parasite of every mammals and birds order, with the notable exception of Monotremata and Chiroptera . A louse Egg is commonly called a nit.
	Louvar The louvar or luvar, Luvarus imperialis, is a species of perciform fish, the only species in the genus Luvarus and family Luvaridae. It is closely related to the surgeonfish. The juvenile form has a pair of spines near the base of the tail, like the surgeonfish, though they are lost in the adult.
	Louver A louver is a frame with horizontal and vertical slats, which are angled to admit light and air, but to keep out rain and sun shine.With the betterment in building management services and the fast rapid changing technology these louvers have been automated to save upon the overall cost and yet provide with ambient living environment inside the buildings.
	Louvre The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, is one of the largest, oldest, most important and famous art gallery and museum in the world. It is famous for holding several of the world's most prestigious works of art, such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Virgin of the Rocks and Alexandros of Antioch's Venus de Milo.
	Lovage Lovage is a plant, the Leaf and "seeds" or fruit of which are used to flavor food, especially in South European cuisine. It is a tall perennial that vaguely resembles celery in appearance and in flavor. Lovage also sometimes gets referred to as smallage, but this is more properly used for celery.
	Lovastatin Lovastatin is a member of the drug class of statins, used for lowering cholesterol in those with hypercholesterolemia and so preventing cardiovascular disease.
	Love Love is a profound feeling of tender affection for or intense interpersonal attraction to another. It is considered a deep, ineffability feeling shared in passionate or intimacy interpersonal relationships. However, in different contexts, the word love has a variety of related but distinct meanings: in addition to romantic love, which is characterized by a mix of emotional and human sexuality desire, other forms include platonic love, love
	Love Story Love Story is a 1970 in film romance film film drama based on the 1970 best-seller, written by Erich Segal, and directed by Arthur Hiller. The film, well-known as a tear-jerking tragedy, is considered one of the most romantic of all time by the American Film Institute.
	Lovebird A lovebird is a very social and affectionate parrot. The name "lovebird" stems from these birds' affectionate nature. Lovebirds form very close bonds with their mates, usually lasting a lifetime. This is reflected by the lovebird's name in other languages: in German language, "die Unzertrennlichen," and in French language "les insparables"- "inseparables." For this reason, many people feel strongly that lovebirds in captivity should be kept only in pairs.
	Low Countries The Low Countries, the historical region of de Nederlanden, are the country on low-lying land around the river delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse River rivers. The term is not particularly current in modern contexts because the region does not very exactly correspond with the sovereigntys of The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, for which an alternate term, the Benelux was applied after World War II.
	Low German Low German is a name for the regional language varieties of the West Germanic languages spoken mainly in Northern Germany where it is officially called Niederdeutsch, and in Eastern Netherlands where it is officially called Nedersaksisch. Also, there are some speakers in the coastal areas of Poland, and immigrant communities in several places of the world, for instance in Canada.
	Low-pass filter A low-pass filter is a electronic filter that passes low frequency well, but attenuates frequencies higher than the cutoff frequency. The actual amount of attenuation for each frequency varies from filter to filter. It is sometimes called a high-cut filter, or treble cut filter when used in audio applications.
	Lowell Thomas Lowell Jackson Thomas was an United States writer, broadcaster, and traveller best known as the man who made T. E. Lawrence famous. So varied were Thomas's activities that when it came time for the Library of Congress to catalog his memoirs they were forced to put them in "CT" in their Library of Congress Classification--biographies of subjects who don't fit into any other category.
	Lower Saxony With an area of 47,618 km and nearly eight million inhabitants, Lower Saxony ) lies in northern Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the country's sixteen States of Germany of Germany. In rural areas Low German is still spoken, but the number of speakers is declining.
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	Lox Lox is smoked salmon Fillet that has been curing and then often Cold smoking. The cold smoking does not cook the fish, resulting in its characteristic smooth texture, similar to the raw product. The English language word is derived from the Yiddish lox–which is a cognate of Swedish language, Danish language/Norwegian language, German language, and Old English language.
	Loxapine Loxapine is a typical antipsychotic medication, used primarily in the treatment of schizophrenia. It is a member of the dibenzodiazepine family and structurally related to clozapine. Several researchers have argued that Loxapine may behave as an atypical antipsychotic PMID 10340686
	Loya jirga Loya jirga, occasionally loya jirgah, is a large meeting held in Afghanistan, originally attended by Pashtun groups but later including other ethnic groups. The word is from the Pashto language -- loya means "great" or "grand" and jirga means "council", "assembly" or "meeting" .
	Lozenge A lozenge is a form of rhombus. The definition of lozenge is not strictly fixed, and it is sometimes used simply as a synonym for rhombus. Most often, though, lozenge refers to a thin rhombus — a rhombus with acute angles of 45. The lozenge shape is often used in parquetry and as decoration on ceramics, silverware, and textiles.
	Lozier The Lozier Motor Company was a Brass Era car producer of automobiles in the United States. The company produced luxury automobiles from 1900 to 1915. The Lozier Motor Company was founded by Henry A. Lozier, an Ohio born sewing machine and bicycle manufacturer in Plattsburgh, New York.
	LSD Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly called LSD, or LSD-25, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug. The short form LSD comes from the German "Lysergsure-diethylamid". A typical single dose of LSD during the 1960s was between 100 and 200 kilograms, an amount roughly equal to one-tenth the mass of a grain of sand.
	Luanda Luanda is the largest city and capital of Angola. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, it is both Angola's chief seaport and administrative centre. It has a population of approximately 4.5 million , and is the capital city of Luanda Province. Luanda is located at 850'18" South, 1314'4" East .
	Lublin Lublin is the biggest city in eastern Poland and the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 355,954. It is Poland's ninth largest city.
	Luce Luce is a town and a municipality in Slovenia.
	Lucerne Lucerne is a city in central Switzerland with a population of 60,274, capital of the Canton of Lucerne. The city is located on the shore of Lake Lucerne with a famous wooden bridge and within sight of Mount Pilatus and Rigi.
	Luchino Visconti Luchino Visconti, Duke of Modrone was an Italy theatre director and film director and writer best known for his extravagant films such as The Leopard . Visconti, who was openly bisexual, despite being of nobility declared himself to be a Communist.
	Luciano Pavarotti Luciano Pavarotti, an Italy tenor, is one of the most famous living singers, not only in the world of opera, but across all genres. He was born in Modena, in northern Italy.
	Lucifer In modern and late Medieval Christian thought, Lucifer is a fallen angel commonly associated with Satan, the embodiment of evil and enemy of God. Lucifer is generally considered, based on the influence of Christian literature and legend, to have been a prominent archangel in heaven , prior to having been motivated by pride to rebel against God.
	Luciferin Luciferin is a generic name for light-emitting pigments found in organisms capable of bioluminescence, like Firefly, deep-sea fish and microbes. It was named after the Roman God of light, Lucifer. Luciferin is redox in the presence of the enzyme luciferase to produce oxyluciferin and energy in the form of light.
	Lucille Ball Lucille Dsire Ball was an iconic United States actress, comedian and star of the landmark sitcom I Love Lucy, a three time Emmy Award winner and charter member of the Television Hall of Fame. A 'B-grade' movie star and "glamour girl" of the 1930s and 1940s, she later achieved tremendous success as a television actress, and became one of the most popular stars the medium has ever produced.
	Luck Luck (also called fortuity) is a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a person's control. Luck can be good or bad.
	Lucknow Lucknow is the capital city of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It had a population of 2,207,340 in 2001. Lucknow is also the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division.
	Lúcky L?cky may refer to several villages in Slovakia: *L?cky, Michalovce District *L?cky, Ru?omberok District *L?cky, ?iar nad Hronom District de:L?cky eo:L?cky it:L?cky hu:L?cky sk:L?cky
	Lucretius Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman Republic poet and philosopher. His only work that we know of is the philosophical long poem De Rerum Natura, On the Nature of Things. Stylistically, most scholars attribute the full blossoming of Latin hexameter to Virgil.
	Lucrezia Borgia Lucrezia Borgia was the bastard daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. Her brother was the notorious despot Cesare Borgia. Lucrezia's family later came to epitomize the ruthless Niccol Machiavelli politics and sexual corruption alleged to be characteristic of the Renaissance Papacy.
	Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a song written mostly by John Lennon in 1967 and recorded by The Beatles for their album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The song has a complex arrangement typical of later Lennon-McCartney compositions; much of the song is in triple metre or 3/4 time, except in the chorus where it switches to 4/4 time.
	Lucy Maud Montgomery ', and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canada author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables.
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	Ludwig Boltzmann Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics.
	Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German architect. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, along with Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture. Mies, like many of his post war contemporaries, sought to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as classical and gothic did for their own eras.
	Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a Germany composer and piano. He is widely regarded as one of history's greatest composers, and was the predominant figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in Western classical music.
	Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who contributed several ground-breaking works to contemporary philosophy, primarily on the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century.
	Luffa The luffas are tropical and subtropical annual vines comprising the genus Luffa. The fruit of at least two species, L. acutangula and L. aegyptiaca, is grown to be harvested before maturity and eaten as a vegetable, sometimes called Chinese okra, popular in Asia and Africa.
	Luftwaffe The Deutsche Luftwaffe or Luftwaffe is the commonly used term for the Germany air force. Generally, the word Luftwaffe is not restricted to any particular country, so "die Britische Luftwaffe" would mean "the British Air Force". The history of the German military aviation forces began in 1910 with the founding of the Imperial German Army Air Service, yet it has not been continuous because Germany lost both World Wars .
	Luge A luge is small one- or two-person sled on which one sleighs Supine position and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners or pulling straps attached to the sled's runners. Luge is also the name of the sport which involves racing with such sleds. It is a competition in which these sleds race against the clock.
	Luggage Baggage can be synonymous with "luggage", or can refer to the train of people and goods, both military and of a personal nature, which commonly followed pre-modern armies on campaign. Typically, the baggage would consist of the possessions of the military personnel, together with their wives, children, male and female prostitutes, and other non-fighting personnel.
	Lugger A lugger is a type of small sailing vessel setting lugsails on two or more mast and perhaps lug topsails. While this article is written in the present tense, in European waters at least, except as museum pieces, luggers are things of the past.
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	Lugworm The Lugworm is a large marine worm of the Phylum Annelida. Its coiled castings are a familiar sight on a beach at low tide but the animal itself is not seen except by those who, from curiosity or to use as fishing bait, dig the worm out of the sand.
	Luigi Cherubini Luigi Cherubini was an Italy composer who spent most of his working life in France. Although his music is not well known today, it was greatly admired by many of his contemporaries. Ludwig van Beethoven considered him to be the greatest dramatic composer of his time.
	Luigi Galvani Luigi Galvani was an Italy physician and physicist who lived and died in Bologna and who discovered that muscle and neuron produce electricity. Dissecting a frog at a table where he had been conducting experiments with static electricity, Galvani's assistant touched an exposed sciatic nerve of the frog with a metal scalpel, which had picked up a charge.
	Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello was an Italy dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934.
	Luis Buñuel Luis Buuel Portols was a Spanish-born filmmaker who worked mainly in Mexico and France, but also in his native country and the United States.
	Lullaby A lullaby is a soothing song sung to children before they go to sleep. The idea is that the song sung by a familiar voice will lull the child to sleep. Lullabies written by established European classical music composers are often given the form-name berceuse, which is a French language word for lullaby, or cradle song.
	Lumbar puncture In medicine, a lumbar puncture is a diagnostic procedure that is done to collect a sample of cerebrospinal fluid for biochemistry, microbiology and cytology analysis, or rarely to relieve increased CSF pressure. Indications
	Lumberjack A lumberjack is a tradesman in the logging industry, who performs the initial harvesting of trees for lumber and pulpwood. The term is somewhat archaic, having been mostly replaced by logger. When the term "lumberjack" is used, it usually refers to a logger from an earlier era before the advent of chainsaws, feller-bunchers and other modern logging equipment.
	Lummox 1) Northern England slang word, as in "You great lummox", meaning inept/bumbling person. 2)Lummox was a punk rock band based in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada. The band originally consisted of Murray Acton on guitar and vocals, John London on drums, and Merrick Atkinson on bass.
	Lumpsucker Lumpsuckers or Lumpfish are mostly small scorpaeniform marine fish of the family Cyclopteridae. They are found in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Pacific Ocean oceans. The greatest number of species are found in the North Pacific.
	Lunar eclipse An eclipse refers to the phenomenon of one body passing into the shadow cast by another body. In astronomy, the best-known type of eclipse occurs whenever the Sun, Earth and Moon line up exactly. If this occurrence is at the time of a full moon where the Moon passes through the Earth's shadow, it is called a lunar eclipse.
	Lunaria Lunaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to central and southern Europe. It includes two species, Perennial honesty and Annual honesty. They are widely grown as ornamental plants in gardens, and have become naturalisation in many temperate areas away from their native habitat.
	Lunatic A lunatic is commonly used term for a person who is mental illness, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable, a condition once called lunacy. The word is borrowed via French language from Latin "lunaticus", which gains its stem from "luna" for moon, which denotes the traditional link made in folklore between lunar effect.
	Lunch Lunch is a meal that is taken in the early afternoon. The term was derived from "luncheon", which the OED reports from 1580, as a word for a meal that was inserted between more substantial meals, as during the eighteenth century what was originally called "dinner"— a word still sometimes used to mean a noontime meal in the British Isles, and in parts of the United States, Canada and Australia— was moved by stages later in the day and came in the course of the nineteenth century to be eaten at ni
	Lund ' International Phonetic Alphabet: is a Towns of Skåne in Skåne in southern Sweden. The city is held to have been founded around 990, when the Scanian lands belonged to Denmark. It soon became the Christianity center with an archbishop and with the towering Lund Cathedral, built in 1103.
	Lunds Lunds and Byerly's are supermarkets under common ownership in the Minneapolis, Minnesota and Saint Paul, Minnesota region of Minnesota. Lunds was founded as Hove's in the early twentieth century at the corner of Lake Street and Hennepin Avenue in the Uptown, Minneapolis neighborhood of Minneapolis.
	Lunette In architecture, a lunette is a half-moon shaped space, either masonry or void. A lunette is formed when a horizontal cornice transects a round-headed arch at the level of the imposts, where the arch springs. If a door is set within a round-headed arch, the space within the arch above the door, masonry or glass, is a lunette.
	Lung The lung is the essential respiration organ in air-breathing vertebrates. Its principal function is to transport oxygen from the Earth's atmosphere into the bloodstream, and to excrete carbon dioxide from the bloodstream into the atmosphere. This exchange of gasses is accomplished in the mosaic of specialized cell that form millions of tiny, exceptionally thin-walled air sacs called alveoli.
	Lung cancer Lung cancer is a cancer of the lungs characterized by the presence of malignant tumours. Most commonly it is bronchogenic carcinoma . Lung cancer is the most lethal of cancers worldwide, causing up to 3 million deaths annually. Only one in ten patients diagnosed with this disease will survive the next five years.
	Lungfish Lungfishes are Sarcopterygii fish belonging to the order Dipnoi. Lungfish are best-known for retaining characteristics primitive within the Osteichthyes, including the ability to breathe air, and structures primitive within Sarcopterygii, including the presence of lobed fins with a well-developed internal skeleton.
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