Levi's Levi's® is a brand of riveted denim jeans manufactured by Levi Strauss & Co.
	Leviathan Leviathan was a Bible sea monster referred to in the Old Testament. The word leviathan has become synonymous with any large monster or creature. In Modern Hebrew language, it simply means "whale".
	Levitation Levitation is the process by which an object is suspended against gravity, in a stable position, by a force without physical contact. Levitation pronounced is the raising of a human or other object in the air without mechanical aid. Also believed is that Christians were reputed to have had the power of becoming light at will and of moving through the air.
	Levodopa Levodopa or L-DOPA is an intermediate in dopamine biosynthesis. Clinically, levodopa is used in the management of Parkinson's disease. Biologically, it is a component in marine adhesives used by pelagic life.
	Lewis Lewis or The Isle of Lewis, is the northern part of the largest island of the Western Isles of Scotland or Outer Hebrides. The southern part of the island is called Harris. The two names however refer to the two parts of the same island despite the use of the terms 'Isle of Lewis' and 'Isle of Harris'.
	Lewis and Clark Expedition The Lewis and Clark expedition was the first United States overland expedition to the Pacific Ocean coast and back, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, of the United States Army. It is also known as the Corps of Discovery.
	Lewis Carroll The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an England author, mathematics, logic, Anglican clergyman, and photography. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky".
	Leycesteria Leycesteria is a genus of flowering plants in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae, native to temperate Asia in the Himalaya and southwestern China. It contains six or seven species of shrubs with short-lived stems with soft wood, growing to 1-2.5 m tall.
	Leycesteria formosa Leycesteria formosa is a deciduous shrub in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to the Himalaya and southwestern China. It has soft, hollow, upright green stems 1-2 m tall, which only last for 2-5 years before collapsing and being replaced by new stems from the roots. The leaf are opposite, dark green, 6-18 cm long and 4-9 cm broad, with an entire or wavy margin.
	Leyden jar The Leyden jar was the original capacitor, invented in 1745 by Ewald Jrgen Georg von Kleist and used to conduct many early experiments in electricity.
	Leyte Leyte is a Provinces of the Philippines of the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas Regions of the Philippines. Its capital is Tacloban City and occupies the northern three-quarters of the Leyte Island. Leyte is located west of Samar province, north of Southern Leyte and south of Biliran.
	Leyte Island Leyte is an island in the Visayas group of the Philippines. The island measures about 180 km north-south and about 65 km at its widest point. In the north it nearly joins Samar, separated by the San Juanico Strait, which becomes as narrow as 2 km in some places. The island province of Biliran is also to the north of Leyte and is joined to Leyte island by a bridge across the narrow Biliran Strait.
	Lhasa Lhasa, sometimes spelled Llasa, is the traditional capital of Tibet and the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It is also the traditional seat of the Dalai Lama. Lhasa literally means "place of the gods", although ancient Tibetan documents and inscriptions demonstrate that the place was first called Rasa, which means "courtyard place" or "goat place".
	Lhasa Apso The Lhasa Apso is a small dog breed of dog originally from Tibet. They were used as watchdogs inside Tibetan Monastery for over 1200 years, for which they are uniquely suited with keen intelligence, acute hearing, and instincts for identifying friends from strangers.
	Lhotse Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and is connected to Mount Everest via the South Col. In addition to the main summit at 8,516 metres above sea level, Lhotse Middle is 8,414 metres and Lhotse Shar is 8,383 metres. It is located at the border between People's Republic of China and Nepal.
	Liana A liana is a woody climber that starts at ground level, and uses trees to climb up the canopy where they will spread from tree to tree to get as much light as possible. Lianas are especially characteristic of tropical moist deciduous forests and rainforests. These climbers often form bridges between the forest canopy, connect the entire forest and provide arboreal with paths across the forest.
	Liatris Liatris is a genus of flowers in the Asteraceae family. Liatris is a popular summer flower for bouquets.
	Libation A libation is a ritual pouring of a drink as an offering to a deity. It was common in the religions of Ancient history, including Judaism:The liquid used in libations varied; most commonly it was wine or olive oil, and in India, ghee. The vessels used in the ritual, including the patera, often had a significant form which differentiated it from secular vessels.
	Liberal arts The term liberal arts has come to mean studies that are intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills, rather than more specialized occupational or professional skills. The scope of the liberal arts has changed with society. It once emphasised the education of elites in the classics; but, with the rise of other humanities during the Age of Enlightenment, the scope and meaning of "liberal arts" expanded to include them.
	Liberalism Liberalism is an ideology, philosophical view, and political tradition which holds that liberty is the primary political value. Liberalism has its roots in the Western Enlightenment, but the term now encompasses a diversity of political thought. Broadly speaking, contemporary liberalism emphasizes individual rights.
	Libération Libration is a France newspaper founded in Paris in 1973 by Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Victor alias Benny Lvy and Serge July in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Libration was the first French daily newspaper to have a website.
	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam , also known as the Tamil Tigers, is a politico-military organisation that has been waging a secessionist campaign against the Sri Lankan government since the 1970s in order to secure a separate state for the Tamil people majority regions in the North and East of Sri Lanka.
	Liberia Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Cte d'Ivoire. Liberia, which means "Land of the Free", was founded as an independent nation by free-born and formerly history of slavery in the United States African Americans.
	Liberian dollar The dollar has been the currency of Liberia since 1943. It was also the country's currency between 1847 and 1907. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively L$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies. It is divided into 100 cents.
	Libertarianism | |- | |} Libertarianism is a political philosophy advocating that individuals should be free to do whatever they wish with their individual rights or property rights, as long as they do not infringe on the same liberty of others. Libertarians hold as a fundamental maxim that all human interaction should be voluntary and consensual.
	Liberty Liberty is generally considered a concept of political philosophy and identifies the condition in which an individual has immunity from the arbitrary exercise of authority. Political philosophies rooted in individualism and socialism often conceive of liberty differently; individualism and liberalism conceptions of liberty relate to the freedom of the individual from outside compulsion; a socialism perspective, for example, equates liberty with equality, claiming that libert
	Liberty Bell The Liberty Bell, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, is an United States bell of great historic significance. The Liberty Bell is perhaps one of the most prominent symbols associated with early History of the United States and the American Revolutionary War and freedom.
	Liberty Island Liberty Island, formerly called Bedloe's Island, is a small uninhabited island in Upper New York Bay in the United States, best known as the location of the Statue of Liberty. The name Liberty Island has been in use since the early 20th century, although the name was not officially changed until 1956.
	Liberty ship The Liberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II. They were cheap and quick to build, and came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. Based on vessels ordered by United Kingdom to replace ships torpedoed by Germany U-boats, they were purchased for the U.S.
	Líbido L?bido is a Peruvian rock Rock music Musical ensemble formed in 1996. Band members are Salim Vera (vocals, guitars), Antonio Jauregui (bass guitar), Manolo Hidalgo (lead guitar), Jeffry Fischman (drums) (1996-2005) and Ivan Mindreau (drums) (2005-Present).
	Librarian A librarian is an expert in the practical organization and retrieval of information in service to people with information needs. Librarianship is the professional activity of selecting, procuring, organizing, preserving, and making available data, information, and creative and scholarly works, and providing services which assist and instruct people in the most efficient and effective ways to identify, locate, access, and use information and resources.
	Library In the traditional sense of the word, a library is a collection of books and periodicals. It can refer to an individual's private library, but more often it is a large collection of information resources and a group of services that is funded and maintained by a city or institution.
	Library catalog A library catalog is a register of all bibliographic items found in a particular library or group of libraries, such as those belonging to a university system spread out over several geographic locations. A bibliographic item can be any information entity, that is considered library material, or a group of library materials, or linked from the catalog as far as it is relevant to the catalog and to the users of the library.
	Libration In astronomy a libration is a very slow oscillation, real or apparent, of a satellite as viewed from the larger celestial body around which it revolves. Used alone, the term usually refers to the apparent movements of the Moon relative to Earth, which can be compared to the rocking of a pair of scales about the point of balance.
	Libretto A libretto is the complete study of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, Musical theater, and ballet. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as Mass and requiem.
	Libya Libya , officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya , is a country in North Africa. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya lies between Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.
	Libyan Desert The Libyan Desert is an Africa desert that is located in the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert and occupies southwestern Egypt, eastern Libya and northwestern Sudan. Covering an area of approximately 1,100,000 square kilometers it extends approximately 1,100 km from east to west, and 1,000 km from north to south, in about the shape of a rectangle.
	License To grant license or licence is to give permission. License may be granted by a party to another party as an element of an agreement between those parties.
	Lichen Lichens are symbiosis associations of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner that can produce food for the lichen from sunlight. The photobiont is usually either a green alga or a cyanobacterium, but a few lichens are known to contain yellow-green algae, and in one case, a brown alga instead.
	Licking Licking refers to passing the tongue over a surface, typically either to deposit saliva onto the surface or to collect liquid onto the tongue for ingestion. Many animals both grooming themselves and drinking by licking.
	Licorice Roots Licorice Roots is a psychedelic pop band formerly known as Raymond Listen. This Delaware-based band is centered around singer/songwriter Edward Moyse.
	LIDAR LIDAR is a technology that determines distance to an object or surface using laser pulses. Like the similar radar technology, which uses radio waves instead of light, the range to an object is determined by measuring the time delay between transmission of a pulse and detection of the reflected signal.
	Lido Venice's Lido is an 11-mile long bar, home to about 20,000 residents, greatly augmented by the tourists who move in every summer. The island's casino has recently closed down - it used to operate in the summer months, moving to a palazzo in Venice for the winter. The Venice film festival takes place at Lido every September.
	Liebig condenser The Liebig condenser is a piece of laboratory equipment where a straight glass pipe goes through a water jacket. It is used in distillation and reflux to condensation vapours into liquid.
	Liechtenstein The Principality of Liechtenstein is a small, landlocked#Doubly landlocked countries country in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to its west and by Austria to its east. Mountainous, it is a winter sports resort, though it is perhaps best-known as a tax haven.
	Liege Lord Liege Lord was a American Speed metal/Power metal metal band, active in the 1980s. The band featured Joe Comeau, who would later go on to play with thrash metal bands Overkill and Annihilator.
	Liepaja Liepaja is a city in western Latvia on the Baltic sea. It is the third-largest city of Latvia and an important ice-free port. As of 1 January 2006 Liepaja has a population of 85,915. The Coat of Arms of Liepaja was adopted four days after it gained city rights on 22 March 1625.
	Lieutenant Lieutenant is a military, paramilitary, fire service or police commissioned officer military rank.
	Lieutenant Commander Lieutenant Commander is a commissioned officer military rank in many navy superior to a Lieutenant and subordinate to a Commander. The corresponding rank in most army, Marine and air forces is Major, and in the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth of Nations air forces is Squadron Leader.
	Lieutenant governor A Lieutenant Governor or Lieutenant-Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. In India this position is slightly different.
	Life expectancy Life expectancy is heavily dependent on the criteria used to select the group. In countries with high infant mortality rates, the life expectancy at birth is highly sensitive to the rate of death in the first few years of life. In these cases, another measure such as life expectancy at age 5 can be used to exclude the effects of infant mortality to reveal the effects of other causes of death.
	Life Savers Life Savers is a traditional United States brand of ring-shaped mint and fruit-flavored hard candy. The candy is known for its distinctive packaging, coming in aluminium foil rolls of 14 pieces. Life Savers was a subsidiary of Kraft Foods before being purchased by the Wrigley Company in 2004.
	Lifeblood Lifeblood is the seventh studio album by Manic Street Preachers. It was recorded in New York and Wales by Tony Visconti, Tom Elmhirst and frequent collaborator Greg Haver. Released on November 1, 2004 and preceded by the number two single "The Love of Richard Nixon", the album entered the UK Albums Chart at a disappointing #13 and only spent two weeks in the top 75.
	Lifeboat A lifeboat is a rigid or inflatable boat designed to rescue people in trouble at sea. Lifeboats are kept in harbour or near a harbour, in a special building, at an offshore platform or on board a ship or aircraft. Inflatable lifeboats, also called life rafts, may be equipped with auto-inflation carbon dioxide canisters or mechanical pumps.
	Lifeguard The modern lifeguard profession originated in Australia in 1906 and in the most general sense of the word is defined as an emergency service worker, who is a qualified strong swimming, trained and certified in water rescue, first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and, sometimes the use of automated external defibrillator; who is responsible for overseeing the safety of users of a recreational water feature, such as a swimming pool, a water park
	Lifesaving Lifesaving is the saving of life through the prevention of accidents, personal survival and the rescue of others.
	LIFO LIFO stands for last in, first out which in computer science and queuing theory refers to the way items stored in a data structure are processed. The last data to be added to the structure will be the first data to be removed. LIFO mechanisms include data structures such as Stacks.
	Lift bridge A lift bridge or vertical lift bridge is a type of movable bridge in which a span rises vertically while remaining parallel with the deck. The vertical lift offers several benefits over other movable bridges such as the bascule bridge and swing bridge.
	Lifter The Lifter is an electrokinetic, or electrohydrodynamic device. The term "Lifter" dates back to the 1960s, an era in which EHD experiments were at their peak. In its basic form, it simply consists of two Series and parallel circuits#Parallel circuits Electrical conduction electrodes, one in the form of a fine wire and the other a foil skirt with a smooth round surface, which when powered by high voltage in the range of a few kilovolts, produces thrust.
	Liger The liger is a crossbreeding between a male lion and a female tiger. It has also been known as a lion-tiger mule. A liger looks like a giant lion with diffused stripes. Some male ligers grow sparse manes. Like tigers, but unlike lions, ligers enjoy swimming. A cross between a male tiger and a female lion is called a tigon.
	Light Light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength that is visible to the eye or, in a technical or scientific context, electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength. The elementary particle that defines light is the photon. The three basic dimension of light are:
	Light beam A light beam or beam of light is a narrow cone of light energy radiating from a small source. To produce such a beam, a lamp and a parabolic reflector is used in many lighting devices such as spotlights, headlight, Stage_lighting#PAR_lights and Light-emitting diode housings.
	Light machine gun A light machine gun is a categorization type of machine guns that are generally lighter than other machine guns of its period, and usually designed to be carried by an individual soldier, but sometimes with an assistant. In practice, they are either automatic rifles or medium machine guns with a bipod, a Stock, and sometimes a pistol grip.
	Light meter A light meter is a device used to measure the intensity of light. In photography, a light meter is used to determine proper exposure. Given a film speed, the meter will show the camera settings that nominally result in the “best” picture. With some photographic light meters, a shutter speed also is selected, and the meter indicates the required f-number.
	Light Up Light Up is a binary-determination logic puzzle published by Nikoli. As of 2006, two books consisting entirely of Light Up puzzles have been published by Nikoli.
	Light Years Light Years is the seventh album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue and was released in 2000. It reached number two on the United Kingdom album charts, and became her first number one album in Australia. Light Years is largely seen as Minogue's "comeback" album as it saw her return to her pop roots and to the top of the charts.
	Light-emitting diode A light-emitting diode is a semiconductor device that emits coherence narrow-spectrum light when electrically Voltage bias in the forward direction. This effect is a form of electroluminescence. The color of the emitted light depends on the composition and condition of the semiconducting material used, and can be near-ultraviolet, visible spectrum or infrared.
	Lighter A lighter is a portable device used to create a flame. It consists of a metal or plastic container filled with lighter fluid, as well as a means of ignition and some provision for extinguishing the flame, either by depriving it of air or of fuel. Lighters using naphtha have a wick which is immersed in the fluid and becomes saturation.
	Lighthouse An aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lens or, in older times, from a fire. More primitive navigational aids were once used such as a fire on top of a hill or cliff .
	Lighting Lighting refers to either artificial light sources such as lamps or to natural illumination of interiors from daylight. Lighting represents a major component of energy consumption, accounting for a significant part of all energy consumed worldwide. In major cities, light pollution is of growing concern.