- 05.135 Really it was only a leak of sunshine
- 09.060 and being rather leaky had now shipped a small amount of water.
Author: lfsaldenbirch
Lazybones
The OED hyphenates this! And apparently there’s never only one lazy bone.
- 07.109 Get up lazybones,’
“ˈlazy-bones, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 25 July 2015.
Late-comer
- 01.051 for the late-comers to eat
One word in the OED entry, but hyphenated sometimes in the examples
“latecomer, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/390883. Accessed 15 September 2017.
Lass
This word in currency from northern England and Scotland probably comes from Norse roots meaning “free from ties” and therefore unmarried.
- 01.017 and lasses going off into the Blue for mad adventures?
“lass, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 25 July 2015.
Lash
- 09.065 The barrels now all lashed together
- 12.101 with the lashings of his huge tail,
Larch
these conifers can grow up to forty-five meters!
- 06.052 and Kili were at the top of a tall larch
Landslide
- 06.040 the remains of a landslide.
Landing-place
- 10.045 to meet them at their appointed landing-place.
This word appears in OED.
“ˈlanding-place, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/105474. Accessed 15 September 2017.
Lamp-like
- 05.012 He was looking out of his pale lamp-like eyes for blind fish,
This word is attested in OED with a reference I’m certain that Tolkien knew:
a1822 Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 356 Fire will burn his lamp-like eyes.
“lamp, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/105340. Accessed 14 September 2017.
Lament
- 08.032 and lamenting the loss of the boat
- 08.079 he lamented.
- 14.025 lamenting their lost town
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