People and entertainment

• Long play
  • LP record
    LP record
    The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...
    
    , a vinyl record that spins at 33⅓ rpm
  • a recording mode for cassette deck
    Cassette deck
    A cassette deck is a type of tape recorder for playing or recording audio compact cassettes. A deck was formerly distinguished from a recorder as being part of a stereo component system, while a recorder had a self-contained power amplifier...
    
    s, digital video recorder
    Digital video recorder
    A digital video recorder , sometimes referred to by the merchandising term personal video recorder , is a consumer electronics device or application software that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card or other local or networked mass storage device...
    
    s, DVD recorder
    DVD recorder
    A DVD recorder , is an optical disc recorder that uses Optical disc recording technologies to digitally record analog signal or digital signals onto blank writable DVD media...
    
    s, VHS
    VHS
    The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....
    
    
• El-P, an American rapper
• Gibson Les Paul
  Gibson Les Paul
  The Gibson Les Paul was the result of a design collaboration between Gibson Guitar Corporation and the late jazz guitarist and electronics inventor Les Paul. In 1950, with the introduction of the Fender Telecaster to the musical market, electric guitars became a public craze. In reaction, Gibson...
  
  , electric guitar
• L.P. (singer), an American rock musician in the group L.P.
• LP (Ambulance LTD album)
  LP (Ambulance LTD album)
  LP is the debut album by the band Ambulance LTD. The album was released on March 23, 2004 in the US and March 14, 2005 in the UK via TVT Records.-Track listing:# "Yoga Means Union" – 4:54# "Primitive " – 3:58# "Anecdote" – 3:16...
  
  , a 2004 indie rock album by Ambulance LTD
• LP (Discovery album)
  LP (Discovery album)
  LP is the first album by the band Discovery, released July 7, 2009 on vinyl and July 14, 2009 on CD via XL Recordings.-Reception:Initial critical response to LP was generally favorable...
  
  , a 2009 indie R&B album by Discovery
• LP (Holy Fuck album)
  LP (Holy Fuck album)
  LP is the second album from lo-fi improvisational electronica band Holy Fuck. The album was nominated for Alternative Album of the Year at the 2008 Juno Awards and was nominated for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize. Owen Pallett contributed to the album, playing the violin part on 'Lovely Allen'...
  
  , a 2007 improvisational electronica album by Holy Fuck
• LP (The Rembrandts album)
  LP (The Rembrandts album)
  LP is the third album by The Rembrandts. It was released on East West Records on 23 May 1995. It has been certified platinum.The fifteenth track is "I'll Be There for You," which was used as the theme song for the popular sitcom Friends.-Track listing:#"End of the Beginning"#"Easy to Forget"#"My...
  
  , a 1995 rock album by The Rembrandts
• LP (Soviettes album)
  LP (Soviettes album)
  -Side one:#"Blue Stars" – 1:52#"Bottom's Up, Bottomed Out" – 1:37#"9th St." – 2:29#"1308" – 2:11#"Go Lambs Go!" – 2:03#"B Squad" – 1:56#"Tailwind" – 1:53-Side two:#"Matt's Song" – 2:48#"Clueless" – 1:27#"Thin Ice" – 1:17...
  
  , a 2003 punk rock album by The Soviettes
• The LP
  The LP
  The LP is the debut solo album of American emcee and producer Large Professor. It was released officially in 2009, after being shelved in 1996 by Geffen Records after several delays. "The Mad Scientist" and "IJUSTWANNACHILL" were released as singles prior to the anticipated release, and a bootleg...
  
  , a 1996 hip-hop album by Large Professor
• Latin Percussion
  Latin Percussion
  Latin Percussion, also known as LP, is a brand of percussion instruments, specializing in ethnic instruments engineered and manufactured to withstand the rigors of use in a drum kit, orchestral percussion section, and similar applications...
  
  , brand of percussion instruments
• Launchpad McQuack, a character in DuckTales and Darkwing Duck
• Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Indian music director duo
• License points, in the video game Final Fantasy XII
• Linkin Park
  Linkin Park
  Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries...
  
  , a rock band from California
• Little person, a euphemism for those affected by Dwarfism
  Dwarfism
  Dwarfism is short stature resulting from a medical condition. It is sometimes defined as an adult height of less than 4 feet 10 inches  , although this definition is problematic because short stature in itself is not a disorder....
  
  
• Live Prayer
  Live Prayer
  Live Prayer is a Christian evangelical Internet and television ministry located in Tampa, Florida and run by Bill Keller.Currently the ministry is being operated out of a USED CAR LOT...
  
  , a Christian television program
• Longplay
  Longplay
  A longplay is a play-through of a computer or video game, created with the intent of completing it as fully as possible, mainly for the purposes of nostalgia, preservation, and possibly as a walkthrough. Also, for people unable or unwilling to play a certain game, yet wish to know and experience...
  
  , a play-through of a computer or video game, created with the intent of completing it as fully as possible
• Long Player (album)
  Long Player (album)
  Long Player, from 1971, was the second album by the British rock group Faces. Among the highlights are the live cover of Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed", the rave-up "Had Me a Real Good Time" and the opening "Bad 'n' Ruin"....
  
  , a 1971 album by Faces
• Lootpack
  Lootpack
  Lootpack were an American hip hop group signed to Stones Throw Records with members Madlib, Wildchild, and DJ Romes. They made their first appearance on the 1993 debut album by Tha Alkaholiks, 21 & Over....
  
  , an American Hip-hop group
• Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
  Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
  Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom for Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 3...
  
  & its sequel Lost Planet 2
  Lost Planet 2
  Lost Planet 2 is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the sequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, taking place ten years after the events of the first game, on the same fictional planet. The game was developed for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and...
  
  , a third-person action shooter series
• Love Parade
  Love Parade
  The Love Parade was a popular electronic dance music festival and parade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany. It was held in Germany annually between 1989 and 2003 in Berlin, and then from 2006 to 2010 in the Ruhr region...
  
  , yearly festival and parade
• Low-power broadcasting
  Low-power broadcasting
  Low-power broadcasting is electronic broadcasting at very low power and low cost, to a small community area.The terms "low-power broadcasting" and "micropower broadcasting" should not be used interchangeably, because the markets are not the same...
  
   AM, FM, or TV station
• Lucy Pinder
  Lucy Pinder
  Lucy Katherine Pinder is an English glamour model, from Winchester, Hampshire.-Modelling career:In the summer of 2003, Pinder was spotted by a freelance photographer while sunbathing on Bournemouth beach...
  
  , an English glamour model

Companies and organizations

• Latin Percussion
  Latin Percussion
  Latin Percussion, also known as LP, is a brand of percussion instruments, specializing in ethnic instruments engineered and manufactured to withstand the rigors of use in a drum kit, orchestral percussion section, and similar applications...
  
  , percussion instrument company
• LeapPad
  LeapPad
  LeapPad is an electronic interactive children's book platform for children aged 4–8 produced by LeapFrog Enterprises from 1999 to 2008. Various models of the toy were released up until 2008 when the Tag reading system superseded it.-Development history:...
  
  , an educational children's toy made in 1999
• Liberal Party
  Liberal Party
  Liberal Party is the name for dozens of political parties around the world. Liberal parties can be center-left, centrist, or center-right depending on their location...
  
  , a type of political party
• Libertarian Party (disambiguation), a type of political party
• Limited partnership
  Limited partnership
  A limited partnership is a form of partnership similar to a general partnership, except that in addition to one or more general partners , there are one or more limited partners . It is a partnership in which only one partner is required to be a general partner.The GPs are, in all major respects,...
  
  , in corporate law
• Lineas Aéreas Nacionales
  Lineas Aéreas Nacionales
  Líneas Aéreas Nacionales, or National Airlines, exist in:*Argentina*Ecuador *Chile *Peru**Líneas Aéreas Nacionales S. A. ; see also LANSA Flight 502 and LANSA Flight 508...
  
   or LAN Peru, IATA code
• Little People
  Little People
  Little People is a toy brand for preschoolers, originally produced by Fisher-Price in the 1960s as the Play Family. The current product line consists of playsets, mini-sets and accessories, books, CDs, and DVDs focusing on various configurations of five characters named Eddie, Sarah Lynn, Maggie,...
  
  , a toy brand
• Lonely Planet
  Lonely Planet
  Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book and digital media publisher in the world. The company is owned by BBC Worldwide, which bought a 75% share from the founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler in 2007 and the final 25% in February 2011...
  
  , a travel guidebook publisher
• Louisiana-Pacific
  Louisiana-Pacific
  Louisiana-Pacific Corporation , commonly known as "LP", is a United States building materials manufacturer. It was founded in 1973 and is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. LP pioneered the U.S. production of oriented strand board panels. Today, LP is the world’s largest producer of OSB, and...
  
  , a corporation
• Lowercase people
  Lowercase people
  lowercase people is an organization that is divided into three major divisions: The lp Online Magazine, lp apparel, and the lowercase people Justice Fund. The organization was founded by the alternative rock band Switchfoot...
  
  , an organization founded by rock band Switchfoot

Education

• Lower Primary school, a subdivision of primary schools in certain places
• Lewiston Porter Central School, a school district in western New York
• Las Plumas High School
  Las Plumas High School
  Las Plumas High School is located in the north valley in Oroville, California about seventy miles north of Sacramento, California. The school was established in 1964. Its main sports rival is Oroville High School...
  
  , a high school in Oroville, California
• Lake Park High School
  Lake Park High School
  Lake Park High School is a public, four-year high school occupying two campuses, both located in Roselle, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. Freshmen and sophomores attend the East Campus , located near Medinah and juniors and seniors attend the West Campus. It is part of the Lake Park...
  
  , a high school in Roselle, Illinois
• Lorne Park Secondary School
  Lorne Park Secondary School
  Lorne Park Secondary School is a public high school located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It serves the Lorne Park area.-History:...
  
  , a high school in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Mathematics

• Larch Prover
  Larch Prover
  Larch Prover, or LP for short, is an interactive theorem proving system for multisorted first-order logic. It is currently used at MIT and elsewhere to reason about designs for circuits, concurrent algorithms, hardware, and software...
  
  , in automated theorem proving system
• Linear prediction
  Linear prediction
  Linear prediction is a mathematical operation where future values of a discrete-time signal are estimated as a linear function of previous samples....
  
  , a mathematical operation
• Linear programming
  Linear programming
  Linear programming is a mathematical method for determining a way to achieve the best outcome in a given mathematical model for some list of requirements represented as linear relationships...
  
  , in applied mathematics
• L^p space
  Lp space
  In mathematics, the Lp spaces are function spaces defined using a natural generalization of the p-norm for finite-dimensional vector spaces...
  
  

Computers and computer science

• Literate programming
  Literate programming
  Literate programming is an approach to programming introduced by Donald Knuth as an alternative to the structured programming paradigm of the 1970s....
  
  
• Logic programming
  Logic programming
  Logic programming is, in its broadest sense, the use of mathematical logic for computer programming. In this view of logic programming, which can be traced at least as far back as John McCarthy's [1958] advice-taker proposal, logic is used as a purely declarative representation language, and a...
  
  
• Linear programming
  Linear programming
  Linear programming is a mathematical method for determining a way to achieve the best outcome in a given mathematical model for some list of requirements represented as linear relationships...
  
  
• Long pointer or Long int, in Microsoft Windows programming
• lp (Unix)
  Lp (Unix)
  The lp command is used on many Unix-like systems to assign jobs to printer queues. The name derives from "lineprinter", though it has become the commonly used command for any sort of printer...
  
  , command for printing documents
• Line printer
  Line printer
  The line printer is a form of high speed impact printer in which one line of type is printed at a time. They are mostly associated with the early days of computing, but the technology is still in use...
  
  

Sports

• Long program, the second part of a figure skating competition
• LP Field
  LP Field
  LP Field is a football stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, owned by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County....
  
  , American football stadium in Nashville, Tennessee
• Lech Poznań
  Lech Poznan
  Lech Poznań is a Polish football club based in Poznań, Poland. The club is named after Lech, the legendary founder of Polish nation.The club was established in 1922 as Lutnia Dębiec, later changing its name several times. From 1933 until 1994, the club was closely linked to Polish State Railways...
  
  , Polish football club

Miscellaneous

• Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII
  Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII
  Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, edited by James Gairdner, is a twenty-four volume collection of documents from the reign of Henry VIII of England....
  
  
• Licensed Psychologist, a mental health professional
• Large-print, a style of book typesetting arrangement
• Language planning
  Language planning
  Language planning is a deliberate effort to influence the function, structure, or acquisition of languages or language variety within a speech community. It is often associated with government planning, but is also used by a variety of non-governmental organizations, such as grass-roots...
  
   in linguistics
• Lego Piece
  Lego
  Lego is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts...
  
  , an acronym used among avid Lego collectors
• Life points, a form of health (game mechanic)
  Health (game mechanic)
  Health is a game mechanic used in role-playing, computer and video games to give value to characters, enemies, NPCs, and related objects. This value can either be numerical, semi-numerical as in hit/health points, or arbitrary as in a life bar....
  
  , the currency of life in some video games
• Liber Pontificalis
  Liber Pontificalis
  The Liber Pontificalis is a book of biographies of popes from Saint Peter until the 15th century. The original publication of the Liber Pontificalis stopped with Pope Adrian II or Pope Stephen V , but it was later supplemented in a different style until Pope Eugene IV and then Pope Pius II...
  
  , a biography of the Popes from Saint Peter through the fifteenth century
• Light pollution
  Light pollution
  Light pollution, also known as photopollution or luminous pollution, is excessive or obtrusive artificial light.The International Dark-Sky Association defines light pollution as:...
  
  , in the dark-sky movement
• Liquefied petroleum gas, a hydrocarbon gas mixture
• Liquid Propane
  Propane
  Propane is a three-carbon alkane with the molecular formula , normally a gas, but compressible to a transportable liquid. A by-product of natural gas processing and petroleum refining, it is commonly used as a fuel for engines, oxy-gas torches, barbecues, portable stoves, and residential central...
  
  
• Loss prevention
  Loss prevention
  Retail loss prevention is a form of private investigation into larceny or theft. The focus of such investigations generally includes shoplifting, package pilferage, embezzlement, credit fraud, and check fraud...
  
  , a form of private investigation
• Lostpedia
  Lostpedia
  Lostpedia is a wiki-powered online encyclopedia of information regarding the American television drama Lost. Launched on September 22, 2005 by Kevin Croy, the site uses MediaWiki software to maintain a user-created database of information...
  
  , a popular Lost fansite
• Low punch (strike)
  Punch (strike)
  A punch is a striking blow with the fist. It is the most commonly used attack in hand to hand combat. It is used in some martial arts and combat sports, most notably boxing where it is the only type of technique allowed...
  
  
• LPMud
  LPMud
  LPMud, abbreviated LP, is a family of MUD server software. Its first instance, the original LPMud game driver, was developed in 1989 by Lars Pensjö...
  
  , a type of virtual world server software
• Lumbar puncture
  Lumbar puncture
  A lumbar puncture is a diagnostic and at times therapeutic procedure that is performed in order to collect a sample of cerebrospinal fluid for biochemical, microbiological, and cytological analysis, or very rarely as a treatment to relieve increased intracranial pressure.-Indications:The...
  
  , a spinal tap
• United Nations Laissez-Passer
  United Nations Laissez-Passer
  A United Nations Laissez-Passer is a travel document issued by the United Nations under the provisions of Article VII of the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations in its offices in New York and Geneva, as well as by the International Labor Organization...
  
  , a travel document issued by the United Nations to its staff
• Learner's permit
  Learner's permit
  A driver's permit, learner's permit or learner's license, is a restricted license that is given to a person who is learning to drive, but has not yet satisfied the requirements to obtain a driver's license...
  
  
• "Let's Play", a type of walkthrough
  Walkthrough
  A walkthrough may refer to one of the following topics:* Strategy guide* Software walkthrough* Tutoring* Rehearsal* Audit* Virtual tour-See also:* Classroom walkthrough* Cognitive walkthrough* List of gaming topics...
  
  with commentary, often humorous.