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levée du corps: transportation of the body of a deceased person
lexical: lexical
lexicalement: lexically
lexicalisation: lexicalisation
lexicaliser: lexicalize (to convert to a single lexical unit)
lexicographe: lexicographer
lexicographie: lexicography, dictionary-writing, the art or craft of writing dictionaries
lexicographique: of lexicography; lexicographic
lexicographiquement: lexicographically
lexicologie: lexicology
lexicologique: lexicological
lexicologiquement: lexicologically
lexicologue: lexicologist
lexicomane: word-loving
lexicomane: a lover of words
lexicométrie: lexicometry
lexicostatistique: lexicostatistical
lexie: lexie
lexigraphique: lexigraphic
lexique: vocabulary; lexicon; glossary
lexème: lexeme
lez: next to, near (still used in some place names)
leçon: lesson
leçon de vie: life lesson
li: li (Chinese unit of distance)
li: him; it
liage: tying; binding
liaison: link, bond; friendship; liaison (romantic encounter); liaison (communication); liaison (phonological phenomenon)
liaison covalente: covalent bond
liane: herbaceous or woody vine; creeper
lianescent: Having the form of a liana
liant: flexible, elastic; sociable
liant: binder; affability
liard: liard (a small bronze coin, equivalent to a quarter of a sou); a trifling amount, a red cent, a pittance; cottonwood
liarder: to skimp (be parsimonious)
liasique: liassic
liasse: wad, bundle (e.g. money)
libanais: Lebanese
libaniser: to Lebanize
libanisme: Lebanism
libanité: Lebaneseness
libation: libation
libeccio: synonym of labech
libelle: libel; libelle
libeller: to write; make out; write out (a check); to price; price up (a product)
libelliste: libeller
libellule: dragonfly (an insect of the suborder Anisoptera)
libellé: wording
liber: bast (of a tree); book
libero: Pre-1990 spelling of libéro.
libertaire: opposed to authoritative or illegitimate powers (political, economical, religious, military or otherwise) ; anarchist, anarchistic ; (left-wing) libertarian
libertarianisme: libertarianism
libertarien: libertarian
libertarien: libertarian
libertarisme: libertarianism
liberticide: liberticide (one who causes the destruction of liberty)
liberticide: liberticide, liberticidal
liberticide: liberticide (the destruction of liberty)
libertin: libertine
libertin: libertine