l

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• abbreviation length
• noun The 12th letter of the modern English alphabet.
• noun Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter l.
• noun The 12th in a series.
• noun Something shaped like the letter L.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A part of a house or other structure projecting at a right angle from the main body, so as to form with it the figure of the letter L: as, the building has an L of 20 feet.
• noun A rectangularly bent pipe-connection. Also ell in both senses.
• noun An abbreviation of the Latin (New Latin) Baccalaureus Litterarum, Bachelor of Letters.
• noun In musical notation, an abbreviation for left hand.
• An abbreviation of Latin locus sigilli, ‘place of the seal’: usually inserted within brackets in copies of documents to indicate the position of the seal in the originals.
• noun Used colloquially for el., an abbreviation of elevated, shortened from elevated railway.
• noun An abbreviation of Literate in Arts.
• An abbreviation of the Latin Legum Baccalaureus, Bachelor of Laws.
• The twelfth letter and ninth consonant of the English alphabet.
• A symbol
• in chem., for lithium: also Li;
• in Roman numerals, for 50, and with a line drawn above it (L) for 50,000.
• An abbreviation.
• [lowercase] in music, of la (in solmization);
• of Laiin;
• in stage-directions, of left;
• [lowercase] of liber, a book, as a division of a literary work;
• [lowercase or cap.] of libra, pound sterling, when written after the figures (when before the figures, it has the conventional form £): as, 100l. = £100;
• [lowercase] in a ship's log-book, of lightning;
• [lowercase] in references, of line: as, Milton, Lycidas, l. 72;
• [lowercase] of logarithm;
• [lowercase] in astronomy, of longitude (l denoting the heliocentric and λ the geocentric longitude);
• [lowercase] of lege;
• [cap. or lowercase] in anatomy, of lumbar: used in vertebral formulæ.
• noun abbreviation
• noun An abbreviation of letter of credit.
• noun An abbreviation
• noun in printing, of lower case (that is, small letters, as opposed to capitals);
• noun of the Latin loco citato, in the place cited: used to avoid repetition of a citation or reference already given.
• noun An abbreviation of Life Guards;
• noun of Low German (often Low German).
• noun An abbreviation of Light Infantry;
• noun of Licentiate of Instruction;
• noun of Long Island.
• A symbol:
• In chem., l- before certain compounds has reference to their levorotation, as distinguished from dextrorotation (d-) or inaction (i-).
• In mineralogy, the final letter of the general symbol hkl, given to the face of a crystal in the system of Miller. See symbol, 7.
• In electricity, the symbol for inductance (which see).
• In physical, for length: used in formulæ.
• An abbreviation
• of Lady;
• of Lake;
• of lane;
• of Latitude;
• of law;