Reverse Dictionary: LANG – LAQ

LANGUAGE – adjectives
– ALL NICELY WRAPPED UP in seemly language …L19 colloq.
– AMPHIBOLOUS of language: ambiguous in sense …1647
​- BABYLONISH confused in language…1663
– BAGGY of language: inflated, verbose …1866
– BAWDY † of language: vile, abominable, barbarous …1519
– BILINGUOUS † bilingual, speaking two languages …1730
– BLACKGUARD characterized by abusive or obscene language …1806 Amer. dial.
– BLASPHEMATORY † blasphemous; cursing and swearing; using vile reproachful language …1611
– BLUE of language: coarse or offensive …1832 
– BRAID having a strong dialect language or accent …Bk1911 Sc.
– COLLINGUAL * pert. to or using the same language; agreeing together in language …1847
– DIGLOSSAL using the same language in two ways, as colloquially and formally …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– FAIR † of language, diction: elegant …c1380
– GALLANT † of language; full of showy expressions, ornate, specious …1484
– GLOTTICAL † concerned with the study of languages …1660
– ILL-GABBED foul-mouthed; having a habit of using insolent, abusive language …1895 Sc.
– ILL-TONGUED having a malicious tongue; speaking evil; slanderous; using bad language; foul-mouthed …a1300
– LARGE †* of language: used in a wide sense, loose, inaccurate …c1400
– LINGUISHED † skilled in languages …1607
– LUSTY † of language, eloquence, etc.: pleasing, agreeable …1399
– MONOGLOT 1. speaking or using only one language …1830
2. written in only one language…1890
– NEAT †* of a language: pure …1686
– OCTOGLOT written in eight languages …1888
– OMNILINGUAL speaking or understanding all languages …1893
– PANTOGLOSSICAL †* belonging to all tongues or languages …1716
– PANTOGLOT knowing or speaking all languages …1895
– PENTAGLOTTICAL † skilled or written in five languages …1656
– POLYGLOTTOUS speaking or writing in many or several languages; using many languages …1861
– QUADRILINGUAL using or written in four languages …1876
– QUEER PROPER of language: formal or standard, as opposed to colloquial or dialectal …1963 Amer. dial.
– ROTTEN of language: morally offensive; obscene …1589
– SALTY of language: obscene …1920s US teen sl.
– UGLY-MOUTHED foul-mouthed, given to bad language …1889 Eng. dial.
– VERNACULARY † of a language or dialect: that is naturally spoken by the people of a particular country or district; native, indigenous …1652
– VERNACULE †* of a language or dialect: that is naturally spoken by the people of a particular country or district; native, indigenous …1669
– VERNACULOUS † that writes, uses, or speaks the native or indigenous language of a country or district …1658
language – adverbs
– VERNACLY † vernacularly, in the native or mother tongue …1673
language – nouns 
– ABSONISM †* something discordant in the use of language …1593
– ACYROLOGY † incorrect use of language or words; improper speech …1656
– ALSATIA PHRASE terms from slang or criminal jargon …E17 sl.
– AMPERLASH saucy, abusive language …1879 Eng. dial.
– ANGUAGELA language …L19 sl.
– ANIMAL a translation of a foreign language text …1900 Amer. students’ sl.
– ARMY LATIN foul or profane language …1864 US jocular
– AUSSIE Australian English …1945 Aust. sl.
– AUSTRALIAN Australian English …1902 Aust.
– BACK-JAW impudence; abusive language …1932 Sc.
– BAFFLEGAB incomprehensible or pretentious verbiage or jargon …1952 colloq., chiefly N. Amer.
– BALDERDASH filthy or obscene talk or writing; impudent language; abuse …1715 Eng. dial.
– BARBARY † uncultivated speech as opposed to a classical language or classic diction …1509
– BARNYARD EXPRESSION coarse or vulgar language; slang …1968 Amer. dial.
– BARRIKIN high-flown language; unintelligible language; gibberish, jargon …1851 Eng. sl.
– BAT, THE the colloquial speech or language of a foreign country …1892
– BAWDY lewd, obscene language, lewdness, obscenity …1698
– BESTIALITY filthy language, obscenity …1879
– BRAVERIE fine or ornate language …Bk1911 Sc.
– CANT † 1. the peculiar phraseology of a religious sect or class …1681
2. a stock phrase that is much affected at the time, or is repeated as a matter of habit or form …1681 arch.
3. the special phraseology of a particular class of persons, or belonging to a particular subject; professional or technical jargon; always depreciative or contemptuous …1684
4. the secret speech or jargon of the vagrant classes – gypsies, thieves, beggars, etc; hence, contemptuously, the peculiar phraseology of a particular class or subject …1706
– CHAT terminology, a special language, jargon …1950s sl.
– DAGO (derogatory) a southern European language, esp. Italian or Spanish; broadly, a foreign language …1823 US sl.
– DAMSON-PIE abuse; a slanging match; obscene language …c1865 colloq.
– DAMSON TART a humorous term for profane language …1887 Eng. dial.
– DOUBLE DUTCH unintelligible or garbled speech or language …1875 sl.
– DYSPHEMISM the use of an unpleasant or derogatory word or expression for a pleasant or inoffensive one; opposed to ‘euphemism’ …1884
– FAGLISH gay slang …1980s US gay sl.
– FIVE-DOLLAR EXPRESSIONS language that the speaker considers to be unnecessarily difficult or intellectual …20C US sl.
– FIVE-DOLLAR WORDS language that the speaker considers to be unnecessarily difficult or intellectual …20C US sl.
– FLASH-LINGO patter interlarded with cant words and phrases … Bk1893 sl.
– FLUBDUB bombastic or inept language; nonsense, balderdash …1888 Amer. dial.
– FRENCH dirty words or swear words in English …20C US colloq.
– GAB a language …a1845 jocular nonce use
– GALEE bad language …Bk1892 Anglo-Indian sl.
– GALLEY-SLANG the neological barbarisms foisted into sea-language …1867
– GAMMON † the language of cant …1797 UK sl.
– GAMMON AND PATTER † the language of cant …1789 UK sl.
– GAMMY cant or criminal language …1812 UK criminals’ sl.
– GANSEL a severe rebuke; a scolding; insolent language …1710 Sc.
– GLOSSOLALIA the faculty or practice of speaking with ‘tongues’ …1879
– GLOSSOLOGY † the study of a language or languages; linguistic learning …1716
– GOO-GOO an unintelligible foreign language …1970s US sl.
– GOOK (derogatory) any foreign language …1910s sl., orig. US military
– GUM-CHEWING WORDS slang …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HAM SANDWICH language …1988 Sc. rhyming sl.
– IDIOTISM † the speech, language, or dialect peculiar to a country, age, etc. …1588
– ILL-GAB insolent, impudent language; the power to use such language …Bk1905 Sc.
– ILL-JAW bad language; an abusive tongue …1824 Sc.
– ILL TONGUE bad language, an abusive tongue …1785 Sc.
– ILL-MOUTH insolent, abusive language …Bk1905 Sc.
– ILL-WEEN bad language; an abusive tongue …Bk1905 Sc.
– HAGGERSNASH tart language …B1900 Sc.
– JABBERWOCK nonsense language or verse …19C
– JAZZ JARGON slang …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– JIBS language; speech …Bk1896 cant
– KABAC GENALS backslang …L19 sl.
– KABGNALS backslang …L19 sl.
– KENNICK a mixture of ‘flash-patter’ (cant) and ‘padding-ken’ (low lodging-house) talk …1860s sl.
– KIM-KAM an altercation; irritating language …B1900 Eng. dial.
– KING’S ENGLISH standard American English …1920s US Black sl.
– LAND-SPEECH † a language, tongue …c1250
– LANGUE †* a tongue or language …c1330
– LEDEN † the language of a nation, people, or race; a ‘tongue’ …c1000
– LEED † language, tongue …1513
– LEFT-HAND TONGUE † a language written from right to left, as Hebrew or Arabic …a1632
– LINGUIPOTENCE * mastery of language or languages; ability to use language …a1834 
– MOUTH language …Bk1995 US sl.
– NASH-GAB insolent language; impertinence …Bk1902 sl.
– NATIVE native speech …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NATURAL †* native language …1665
– OFFICIALESE the language characteristic of officials or of official documents …1884 nonce word
– OLIGOGLOTTISM slight knowledge of languages …Bk1909
– OLLAPOD a hotchpotch; a medley; an incongruous mixture; a mixture of languages …1804
– OLLAPODISM a sentence made up of various languages …1837 nonce word
– OLLA PODRIDA a hotchpotch, a medley; a mixture of languages …a1634
– ORDURE foul language ‘thrown’ at a person …c1374
– ORIENTALS † oriental languages …1680
– PARL † language, parlance, vocabulary …1733 Sc. nonce use
– PARLEYVOO the French language …M18 sl.
– PEDDLER’S FRENCH underworld slang …1530
– PEDLAR’S FRENCH underworld slang …1530
– QUEER PATTER a foreign language …E19 UK criminals’ sl.
– RIBBLE-RABBLE confused meaningless language; rigmarole, gibble-gabble …1601 arch. or Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ROUGH TONGUE rough, harsh, rude, or abrasive language or speech …1577
– SCOOSE discourse, altercation, dispute, bad language …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SILLABUB inconsequential puff; florid, inane language 
– SINGLISH a Singaporean adaptation of the English language; a variety of English used in Sri Lanka …2001 Singapore
– SLANGUAGE slang …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SMUT obscene language …17C
– SOUTHRON † the English tongue or language …1513 Sc.
– SPIG the Spanish language …1913 US sl.
– SPIGGOTY the Spanish language …1910s US sl.
– ST. GILES’S GREEK slang, cant …L18 sl.
– STREAMLINE SPEECH slang …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TALE †* speech, language …c1250
– TALKEE-TALKEE imperfect or broken English used by some native races …1808
– TATHERUM-A-DYAL complicated or unintelligible language …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– THIEVES’ LATIN the secret language or ‘cant’ of thieves …1821
– THREE TONGUES, THE † Hebrew, Greek, and Latin …1560
– TONGUES, THE foreign languages; often the classical or learned languages ….1535
– TIGHT JEFF well-rehearsed patter …1960s US Black sl.
– TRENCH TALK military slang …World War I Amer. sl.
– TUMMUS-AN-MEARY broad Lancashire dialect …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TWO-DOLLAR WORDS. language that the speaker considers to be unnecessarily difficult or intellectual …20C US sl.
– UNPARLIAMENTARY LANGUAGE language unfit for polite discussion; violent or obscene language …Bk1958 sl.
– WOG any language that isn’t English …1988 Aust. sl.
– WOODS FRENCH a limited ability in French …1980 Can.
– YABBER speech, language, talk, chatter; applied to the speech of the Australian aborigines …1874 Aust.
– YANKEE the dialect of New England; loosely, American English generally …1824
– YANKEESE American English …1883 nonce word
– YARDNEY a manner of speech combining West Indian and London accents and vocabularies; ‘Yardie and Cockney’ …1999 UK sl.
language – person
– BIDIALECTALIST one who uses or who is able to use two dialects of a language …1976
– BILINGUAL one who can speak two languages …1949
– BILINGUALIST one who speaks two languages …1927
– BILINGUIS one that speaks two languages …Bk1795
– BILINGUIST one who speaks two languages …1884
– GENERAL LINGUIST orig. a person having knowledge of a variety of languages; later, a student of or expert in general linguistics …1784
– GESTURE THEORIST a proponent of gesture theory (the origin of language) …1930
– GLOSSOLALIST one who speaks with ‘tongues’ …1879
– GLOSSOLOGIST one versed in the science of language …1817
– GLOTTOLOGIST one versed in the science of language …1874
– HISTORICAL LINGUIST a student or practitioner of historical linguistics (the history and development of languages) …1876
– HISTORICIST a historical linguist …1937
– LANGUAGER †* one versed in languages …c1570
– MONOGLOT one who knows only one language …1894
– MONOLINGUAL a person who speaks only one language …1956
– MONOLINGUIST a person who speaks only one language …1928
– MOONSHEE a learned man, professor, or teacher, esp. a Mohammedan teacher of languages; an interpreter; also a secretary …Bk1865 Anglo-Indian
– NEEDLE-SPITTER one who uses sharp language …1805 nonce word
– PANTOGLOT one who speaks many languages …1895
– POLYGLOTTER a person that speaks several languages …1912 colloq.
– SLEEPING DICTIONARY a foreign woman with whom a man has a sexual relationship and from whom he learns the rudiments of her language …1928 sl.
– VARIATIONIST one who studies variations in usage among different speakers of the same language …1975
language – verbs
– CANT 1. to speak the jargon of gypsies, beggars, and other vagrants …1592
† 2. to use the special phraseology or jargon of a particular class or subject …1625
† 3. to say or exclaim in the pet phraseology of the day; to use the phrases currently affected at the time …1648
– GAMMON † to speak criminal slang or cant …1789 UK sl.
– HAPPER-GALLICKS to speak the Gaelic tongue …1787 Sc.
– JABBER to talk a foreign language …M16 sl.
– PARLEYVOO to speak a foreign language, esp. to speak French …M18 sl.
– PARLEY-VOUS to speak a foreign language, esp. to speak French …M18 sl.
– PATTER FLASH to talk in thieves’ lingo …1827 sl.
– RAMP to use violent language ..1827 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RAUNCH OUT to offend by making sexual remarks or using offensive language …1970s US campus sl.
– SCOOSE to discourse; to dispute, to use bad language …1869 Eng. dial.
– SLING THE BAT to speak the ‘lingo’ of a foreign country …1892 orig. military usage
– TALK PROPER to talk Standard English …20C sl.
– TALK SAILOR LIKE AN OLD SALT to use nautical language …1881
– TEAR THE TARTAN to speak Gaelic …1934 Sc.
– VERNACULATE † to use native language …1895 US
– VERNACULIZE † to translate into the native speech of a people; to make vernacular …a1802
language – interjections
– OH, MISS WESTON! expressing disapproval of strong language …c1910 Royal Navy sl.
 
​LANGUID – adjectives
– DAVERED languid, torpid …1790 Eng. dial.
– FAINTIVE * inclined to faint, faintish, languid …1790 rare exc. Sc.
– FAINTY † faint, sickly, languid; later, inclined to swoon …1530 obs. exc. poetic usage
– LANGUESCENT * growing faint or languid …1837
– OORIE-LIKE having a languid, exhausted appearance, having the appearance of being much fatigued …1808 Sc.
– STRETCHY sleepy, languid; inclined to stretch and yawn …1872 colloq.
languid – nouns 
– LANGUISHNESS †* languor, languid condition …1540
languid – person 
– DROOP an ineffectual, incompetent, or languid person; a fool …1932 US sl.
languid – verbs 
– HAINGLE to go about in a feeble, languid way; to hang about, to loiter, to wander about aimlessly …1804 Sc.
– HINGLE to go about in a feeble, languid fashion, as during convalescence; to hang about, to loiter aimlessly …1804 Sc.
– JADE to become tired or worn out; to grow dull or languid; to flag …1620
– LANGUEFY 1. †* to make faint or languid …1607
2. †* to become weak or languid …a1734
 
LANGUIDLY – adverbs
– DAIVERTLIKE listlessly, languidly …1887 Sc.
– DAIVERTLY listlessly, languidly …1887 Sc.
 
LANGUISH – verbs
– DWINE to waste or pine away; to decline in vigour; to languish, to fade, to wither …c1000 arch.
– LANGERN †* to languish, to lie sick …c1440
– LANGUOR † to languish …c1350
– LANGURE † to languish …a1375
– PIMP to droop, to languish …1884 Amer. dial.
– PINDLE to waste away, to dwindle, to languish …1893 Amer. dial.
– QUAIL to languish; to fall ill; to faint; to have a sinking sensation in the stomach …1790 Eng. dial.
– QUEAL † to languish; to fail in any way; to fall ill; to faint; to have a sinking sensation in the stomach …1515 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TAPIS † to languish, to pine away; to be mortally sick or diseased …c1375 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TAPISH † to languish, to pine away; to be mortally sick or diseased …c1375 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TORFLE to founder, to go lame; to decline in health, to pine away, to languish; to lose interest in or draw back from an undertaking …1575-6 Eng. dial.
 
LANGUISHING – adjectives
– DIMMY-SIMMY languishing, affected …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FADE † faded, feeble, languishing, withered …1303
– LACKADAISICAL feebly sentimental, affectedly languishing …M18
– LANGUISHANT †* languishing, suffering from languor …1674
languishing – nouns (includes LANGUISHMENT)
– LANGERIN languishing, the state of feeling bored …1958 Sc.
– LANGUORMENT † a state of languishing, languishment …1593
– LANGWIDGE languor, languishing …1887 Sc.
 
LANGUOR – nouns
– LANGUISHNESS †* languor, languid condition …1540
– LANGWIDGE languor, languishing …1887 Sc.
 
LANK, LANKY – adjectives
– BEANPOLISH tall or long and slender; lanky …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BROOMSTICKY tall or long and slender; lanky …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GANGLING of straggling growth; loosely built, awkwardly long in stature, tall and slender, lanky …1808
– GANGLY tall or long and slender; lanky …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GANTERING awkward, lanky, straggling, weedy …Bk1900 Eng. dial.  
– GANTY-GUTTED gaunt, lean, and lanky …Bk1900 Eng. dial.  
– HERRING-GUTTED having a narrow, thin body like a herring; lanky, thin, lean, bony …1726
– LANGREL † tall, lanky …1608 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– LANKIN lanky …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LANKISH † somewhat lank …1689
– LANKITY long and slender, lanky …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LANKREL over-tall and thin; lanky …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LANNIKY lanky …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LONG-GEARED lanky …1891 US sl.
– LONG-SPARRED tall, lanky …1925 Amer. nautical sl.
– MACILENT * thin, lean, lank, emaciated; shrivelled; having little flesh …1535
– PULLED THROUGH A KNOT-HOLE tall or long and slender; lanky …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– REELY lanky …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– RAMMELY of a boy: fast-growing, tall, lanky …1887 Sc.
– REIBIE tall and thin; lank, slender, spare …Bk1904 Sc.
– RENKY tall and too thin; lanky …1790 Eng. dial.
– RIBIE tall and thin; lank, slender, spare …Bk1904 Sc.
– RIBISH tall and thin; lank, slender, spare …Bk1904 N. Ireland
– SCRANK lank, lean, ill-formed, slender …1846 Sc.
– SCRANKY lean, lank, thin, scraggy; withered, wrinkled …1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCRAWING awkwardly tall, lanky; straggling; long and thin …1897 Eng. dial.
– SCRAWMY irregular, unshapely; lanky, large, straggling, spreading …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCREELY long, lanky; pinched, miserable-looking …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SKRANK lank, lean, ill-formed, slender …1846 Sc.
– SKRANKY lean, lank, thin, scraggy; withered, wrinkled …1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SLABSIDED tall or long and slender; lanky …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SLAPSIDED tall or long and slender; lanky …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SLINKY tall or long and slender; lanky …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SPINDLY tall or long and slender; lanky, thin …1827 Amer. sl.
– TANGLE-LIKE lanky, gangling…c1850 Sc.
– THIRDLE of persons and animals: gaunt, lank, thin, hungry-looking …1746 Eng. dial.
– THIRL of persons and animals: gaunt, lank, thin, hungry-looking …1746 Eng. dial.
– THURDLE of persons and animals: gaunt, lank, thin, hungry-looking …1746 Eng. dial.
– WEEDY used to denote unhealthy thinness and weakness;  tall or long and slender; lanky…1852 sl.
lank, lanky – person
– BALD-RIB a lean, lanky person …1621
– BEAN-POLE a lanky fellow …1837
– BEANSTICK a lanky fellow …1823
– BEANSTOCK a tall, lanky person …Bk1945 criminals’ sl.
– DADDY-LONG-LEGS a tall, lanky person with long legs …Bk1896 sl.
– DUKE OF LIMBS a tall, lanky person; one with ungainly limbs …1888 sl.
– FENCE RAIL a very thin, lanky person …c1960 Amer. dial.
– GAD a tall, slender, or lanky person …1867 Eng. dial.
– GANGERELL a tall, lanky, loose-jointed person …1585 arch. & Eng. dial.
– GANGREL * a lanky, loose-jointed, ungainly person; a gaunt, lean, long-limbed person …1582 rare exc. N. Eng. dial.
– GANGRIL(L) a tall, lanky, ungainly person; a gaunt, lean, long-limbed person …1585 arch. & Eng. dial.
– GANT a very tall and thin or lanky person; generally applied to a woman …1825 Sc.
– GAS-PIPE a tall or lanky person …Bk1896 sl.
– GAWKIN a hobbledehoy; a lanky, ungainly fellow …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GENT a very tall and thin or lanky person; generally applied to a woman …1825 Sc.
– GIBLETS an ironical name for a thin, lanky, bony person …Bk1882 Eng. dial.
– GILLIEGAPUS * a foolish or silly person; a simpleton; a person who is lanky, awkward, or stares stupidly …1719 Sc.
– GILLIEGAUKIE, GILLIE-GAWKIE, GILLY-GAUKIE, GILLY-GAWKIE * a foolish or silly person; a simpleton; a person who is lanky, awkward, or stares stupidly …1719 Sc.
– GILLIGACUS, GILLY-GACUS * a foolish or silly person; a simpleton; a person who is lanky, awkward, or stares stupidly …1719 Sc.
– GILLY-GAPUS * a foolish or silly person; a simpleton; a person who is lanky, awkward, or stares stupidly …1719 Sc.
– GILLY-GAUPIE, GILLY-GAWPIE, GILLY-GAWPY * a foolish or silly person; a simpleton; a person who is lanky, awkward, or stares stupidly …1719 Sc.
– GILLY-GAUPUS, GILLY-GAWPUS * a foolish, silly, or half-witted person; a simpleton; a person who is lanky, awkward, or stares stupidly …1719 Sc.
– GILLY-GAWKER * a foolish or silly person; a simpleton; a person who is lanky, awkward, or stares stupidly …1719 Sc.
– GILLY-GAWPOCK * a foolish or silly person; a simpleton; a person who is lanky, awkward, or stares stupidly …1719 Sc.
– HANNIEL a long lanky person …1805 Eng. dial.
– HAY-CROOK a long, lanky, hungry-looking man …1808 Eng. dial.
– HERRING-RIBS a lanky, bony person …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– HIGHPOCKETS a tall, lanky person; also used as a nickname for such a person …1912 Amer. dial.
– LANGLE a long, lanky person; anything long and loose in movement …1931 Ireland & Sc.
– LANK a lanky or lean person …1881
– LONGSHANKS a tall, lanky, or long-legged person …1889 Amer. dial. 
– MACKAREL-BACK, MACKEREL-BACK † a very tall, lank person …a1700 cant
– MOON-FIXER a very tall, usually lanky, person …c1950 Amer. dial.
– RACAN a lanky, raw-boned person …1997 Irish sl.
– SAWNEY, SAWNY an indolent person; a lanky person …1950 Amer. dial.
– SCRIBE a thin, lank person or animal; a poor, puling creature; a shabby or oddly-dressed person; a guy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SKELPER a tall, lanky person …1854 Eng. dial.
– SLANGRELL †* a lanky person …1592
– SPAIG a person with long, ill-shaped legs; a tall, lanky person …1825 Sc.
– SPAIGIN a tall, lank person …1825 Sc.
– TANGLE † a tall, lank person …1768 Sc.
– WHANG a thin, lanky person …20C Irish sl.
– WILLOW-WAND a thin, lanky person …1825 Sc.
– WINDLESTRAW one who is thin or lanky, weak in health or character, or of little strength or importance …1818 Sc.
lank, lanky – verbs
– LANKEN † to grow lean and lanky …Bk1874
 
LANTERN – nouns
– ABSCONCE a dark lantern used in monasteries and at lauds and matins in the Roman Catholic church …Bk1888
– BOWET. a hand-lantern …Bk1911 Sc.
– BUG a low-intensity lamp used as a lantern or flashlight …1918 Amer. dial.
– BUG-LAMP a low-intensity lamp used as a lantern or flashlight …c1849 Amer. dial.
– BUG-LANTERN a low-intensity lamp used as a lantern or flashlight …1924 Amer. dial.
– BUG–LIGHT a low-intensity lamp used as a lantern or flashlight …1947 Amer. dial.
– BUG–TORCH a low-intensity lamp used as a lantern or flashlight …1932 Amer. dial.
– DARKEE, DARKEY, DARKY a ‘dark’ lantern, i.e. a shuttered lantern …19C sl.
– DARKMANS a covered ‘dark’ lantern …E19 UK criminals’ sl.
– FANAL † a ship’s lantern …1632 obs. exc. arch.
– GLAZE a lantern …E19 sl.
– GUY a dark lantern …E19 sl.
– HAYBURNER a kerosene lantern …1930 Amer. railroad sl.
– LANTRUN a lantern …Bk1913 Amer. dial.
– PALOUSE a makeshift lantern made by attaching a bale, horizontally, to an empty can and by inserting a candle through a hole in the side …1923 Amer. dial.
– PALOUSER a makeshift lantern made by attaching a bale, horizontally, to an empty can and by inserting a candle through a hole in the side …1918 Amer. dial.
lantern – verbs
– STOW THE GUY to cover or douse the lantern …E19 sl.
 
LAP – nouns
– BARM † a bosom, a lap …c950 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
lap – person 
– LAPLING † one who loves to lie on a (lady’s) lap …1627-77
 
LAPP – adjectives
– LAPPISH pert. to the Lapps or their language …1875
– LAPPONIAN pert. to the Lapps or their language …1854
– LAPPONIC pert. to the Lapps or their language …1890
Lapp – person 
– LAPPIAN † a Lapp or Laplander …1599
– LAPPONIAN a Lapp …1607
 
LAPSE – nouns
– ELAPSE † expiration, lapse, passing away of time …1793
lapse – verbs 
– ELAPSE † to lapse, to sink insensibly into; to slip away from memory …1742