| weight gaining | bodybuilding that increases muscle mass and body weight |
| leaf-nosed snake | any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America |
leafnose bat
leaf-nosed bat | bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose, especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae |
leaf beetle
chrysomelid | brightly colored beetle that feeds on plant leaves, larvae infest roots and stems |
leaf miner
leaf-miner | any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue especially of the family Gracilariidae |
birch leaf miner
Fenusa pusilla | small black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States, larvae mine the leaves of birches causing serious defoliation |
walking leaf
leaf insect | tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body, common in southern Asia and the East Indies |
leaf bug
plant bug | small brightolored insect that feeds on plant juices |
four-lined plant bug
four-lined leaf bug
Poecilocapsus lineatus | yellow or orange leaf bug with four black stripes down the back, widespread in central and eastern North America |
leaf-footed bug
leaf-foot bug | large sap-sucking bug with leaflike expansions on the legs |
pine leaf aphid
Pineus pinifoliae | a variety of adelgid |
leaf roller
leafoller | moth whose larvae form nests by rolling and tying leaves with spun silk |
| drop-leaf | a hinged leaf on a table that can be raised and supported by a bracket |
| drop-leaf table | a table that has a drop-leaf to enlarge its surface |
| fig leaf | a covering consisting of anything intended to conceal something regarded as shameful |
| gold leaf | a very thin form of gold foil |
| leaf | hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door) |
| leaf spring | long narrow spring consisting of several layers of metal springs bracketed together |
| sash weight | a counterweight for a sliding sash |
| weight | an artifact that is heavy |
weight free weight
exercising weight | sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting, it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms |
atomic mass
atomic weight
relative atomic mass | (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units |
molecular weight
relative molecular mass | (chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule |
equivalent
equivalent weight
combining weight
eq | the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element, the standard is for oxygen |
| weight | the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity |
| body weight | the weight of a person's body |
| reporting weight | a person's body weight (as an athlete's) at the beginning of the season (when first reporting for practice) |
| dead weight | a heavy motionless weight |
| throw-weight | the weight of the payload of a missile (not including the weight of the rocket) |
| weight weightiness | the relative importance granted to something, his opinion carries great weight, the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed |
| dead weight | an oppressive encumbrance |
leaf
folio | a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book) |
codex
leaf-book | an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll) |
| Oak Leaf Cluster | a United States military decoration consisting of bronze or silver oak leaves and acorns awarded to anyone who has won a given medal before |
| maple-leaf | the emblem of Canada |
| weight | an oppressive feeling of heavy force, bowed down by the weight of responsibility |
| clover-leaf roll | yeastaised dinner roll made by baking three small balls of dough in each cup of a muffin pan |
mustard mustard greens
leaf mustard
Indian mustard | leaves eaten as cooked greens |
chard
Swiss chard
spinach beet
leaf beet | long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves |
leaf lettuce
loose-leaf lettuce | lettuce with loosely curled leaves that do not form a compact head |
| bay leaf | dried leaf of the bay laurel |
| tea tea leaf | dried leaves of the tea shrub, used to make tea, the store shelves held many different kinds of tea, they threw the tea into Boston harbor |
| gainer weight gainer | a person who gains weight |
low-birth-weight baby
low-birth-weight infant | an infant born weighing less than . pounds ( grams) regardless of gestational age, a low-birth-weight infant is at risk for developing lack of oxygen during labor |
single-leaf
single-leaf pine
single-leaf pinyon
Pinus monophylla | pinon of southwestern United States having solitary needles and often many stems, important as a nut pine |
California single-leaf pinyon
Pinus californiarum | very small tree similar to Rocky mountain pinon but having a single needle per fascicle, similar to Parry's pinyon in range |
shortleaf pine
short-leaf pine
shortleaf yellow pine
Pinus echinata | large pine of southern United States having short needles in bunches of - and red-brown bark when mature |
Torrey pine
Torrey's pine
soledad pine
grey-leaf pine
sabine pine
Pinus torreyana | medium-sized five-needled pine of southwestern California having long cylindrical cones |
yellow-leaf sickle pine
Falcatifolium taxoides | a rain forest tree or shrub of New Caledonia having a conic crown and pale green sickle-shaped leaves, host species for the rare parasite yew |
cotyledon
seed leaf | embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants |