Starting with L

Deterioration or downfall

Liable to change, easily altered

Requiring considerable time and effort

An intricate and confusing arrangement

Tear or make deep cuts in flesh or skin

Unreasonable delay in asserting a claim, which may result in its dismissal

Lacking enthusiasm and determination, carelessly lazy

A servant

Lacking in vitality, force, or conviction

Speech or a  style of writing using very few words

An unfilled space, a gap

A person who makes slow progress and falls behind others

Of the laity, secular

The policy of leaving things to take their own coure without interfering

Criticise someone or something harshly

Glowing, gleaming or flickering with a soft radiance

A passionate expression of grief or sorrow

Publicly criticise someone or something by using ridicule, irony or sarcasm

Having or showing a disinclination for physical exertion or effort

Lose or lack vitality, grow weak

Tiredness or inactivity, especially when pleasurable

Relating to the engraving, cutting or polishing of stones & gems

A brief or temporary failure of concentration, memory or judgement

A slip of the tongue

Theft of personal property

Generosity in bestowing money or gifts upon others

Feeling or reveraling an overt sexual interest or desire

A state of physical or mental weariness, lack of energy

Existing but not yet developed or manifest, hidden or concealed

Scope for freedom of action or thought

• Occuring or situated nearer to the end of something than the beginning
• Recent
• Denoting the second or second mentioned of two people or things

Praise highly

A person who is honoured with an award for outstanding creative or intellectual acheivement

Sumptuously rich, elaborate or luxurious

Not sufficiently strict, severe or careful

Having acquired much knowledge through study

A pervasive influence that modifies something or transforms it for the better

A lecherous man

Look or gaze in a lascivious or unpleasant way

Deception, trickery

Clear enough to read

Conforming to the law or to rules

More merciful or tolerant than expected

The quality of being kind or gentle

Resembling a lion or lions

Presumptious or disrespectful behaviour

To avoid the risk of

Sufficient to cause death

Lack of energy and enthusiasm

A thing that is very large or powerful, especially an organisation

Rise or cause to rise and hover in the air

The treatment oof a serious matter with humour or lack of due respect

Crude and offensive in a sexual way

The law of retaliation, whereby a punishment resembles the offence committed in kind and degree

The vocabulary of a person, language or branch of knowledge

The total stock of words in a language

Cooperate on a matter of mutual concern

A drink poured out as an offering to a deity

Willing to respect or accept behaviour or opinions different from one's own

A person who believes in free will

A person who freely indulges in sensual pleasures without regard to moral principles

Sexual desire

Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters

Not forbidden, lawful

As happily, as gladly

A right to keep possession of property belonging to another person until a debt owed by that person is discharged.

Instead

Made, consisting of, or resembling wood

A trivial or very small person or thing

A characteristic rising and falling of the voice when speaking

Relating to or having the characteristics of slugs

An uncertain period of awaiting a decision or resolution; an intermediate state or condition

The border or margin of a structure

The focus of public attention

Relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process

Depict or describe in painting or words

People and things that cling tightly

Completely clear and transparent

Direct descent from an ancestor

A person or thing vital to an enterprise or organisation

Thick liquid medicine, especially cough medicine

A language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different

Thin, supple and graceful

Lacking energy or enthusiasm

A tedious recital or repetitive series

Taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or exaggeration

Someone who can read or write

Well-educated people who are interested in literature

Letter by letter

Thin, supple and graceful

Excessively prone to litigate

A figure of speech in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary as in not bad at all

A writer of literary works

Relating to the shore of a lake, sea or ocean

Angry and enraged

An idler, someone who does not work

Reluctant, unwilling

To feel hatred, disgust or intense aversion for

Make someone less able to function mentally or emotionally

A place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it

Move from one place to another

Movement or the ability to move from one place to another

A particular position or place where something occurs or is situated

A passage considered to be the best known or most authoritative on a particular subject

A word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom

Something that serves as a guide or on which attention is fixed

Haughty, proud

Reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity

A saying attributed to Christ

The detailed organisation and implementation of a complex operation

An argument about words

The love of words

A lover of words

A tendency to extreme loquacity

Stand or wait around without apparent purpose

Move in an ungainly way in a series of clumsy paces or bounds

Solitary or lonely

Long life

Prolonged, unceasing or earnest desire

Appear as a vague form, especially one that is large or threatening

A long, easy stride

Tending to talk a great deal

A body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth

A pair of eyeglasses mounted on a long handle

Disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing way

Look angry or sullen; scowl

Unhappy because of unrequited love

A low point, a point at which things are at their worst

A big, clumsy person

Glowing with or giving off light

Clear or transparent, easily understood

Profitable, remunerative

Money, especially when regarded as sordid or distasteful or gained in a dishonourable way

Write or study, especially by night

Clearly expressed

person who opposes the introduction of new technology

Ridiculous, amusingly absurd

Looking or sounding sad or dismal

Moderately warm, tepid

A person who inspires or influences others, especially one prominent in a particular sphere

Giving off light, bright or shining

The unorganised and unpolitical lower orders of society who are not interested in revolutionary advancement

Resembling the wolf

Presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms

Appealing strongly to the senses

Sexual desire or appetite

A gentle sheen or soft glow