| left | a turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east, take a left at the corner |
| two-handed backhand | a backhand shot made holding the racquet in both hands |
left field
leftfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate) |
checkroom
left-luggage office | a room where baggage or parcels are checked |
left field
leftfield
left | the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left, the batter flied out to left |
two-handed saw
whipsaw
two-man saw
lumberman's saw | a saw with handles at both ends, intended for use by two people |
left-handedness
sinistrality | preference for using the left hand |
| left coronary artery | arises from the left aortic sinus, supplies the left side of the heart |
left gastric artery
arteria gastrica sinistra | a branch of the celiac artery that supplies the lesser curvature of the stomach and the abdominal part of the esophagus |
left gastric vein
vena gastrica sinistra | arises from a union of veins from the gastric cardia, runs in the lesser omentum, empties into the portal vein |
oblique vein of the left atrium
vena obliqua atrii sinistri | a tributary of the coronary sinus, on the posterior wall of the left atrium |
posterior vein of the left ventricle
vena posterior ventriculi sinistri | arises near the apex of the heart and empties into the coronary sinus |
| left ventricle | the chamber on the left side of the heart that receives arterial blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta |
left atrium
left atrium of the heart
atrium sinistrum | the left upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the pulmonary veins |
mitral valve
bicuspid valve
left atrioventricular valve | valve with two cusps, situated between the left atrium and the left ventricle |
left hemisphere
left brain | the cerebral hemisphere to the left of the corpus callosum that controls the right half of the body |
left
left hand | the hand that is on the left side of the body, jab with your left |
left
left wing | those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare |
| left | location near or direction toward the left side, i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east, she stood on the left |
stage left
left stage | the part of the stage on the actor's left as the actor faces the audience |
Left Bank
Latin Quarter | the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine, a center of artistic and student life |
| clumsy person | a person with poor motor coordination |
left-handed pitcher
left-hander left hander
lefthander
lefty southpaw | a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand |
left-hander
lefty
southpaw | a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right, their pitcher was a southpaw |
right-handed pitcher
right-hander | (baseball) a pitcher who throws with the right hand |
| left fielder | the person who plays left field |
collectivist
leftist
left-winger | a person who belongs to the political left |
| left-handedness | the status of being born of a morganatic marriage |
short-handed
short-staffed
undermanned
understaffed | inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc., they're rather short-handed at the moment, overcrowded and understaffed hospitals |
bumbling
bungling
butterfingered
ham-fisted
ham-handed
handless
heavy-handed
left-handed | lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands, a bumbling mechanic, a bungling performance, ham-handed governmental interference, could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature- Mary H. Vorse |
| left-handed | ironically ambiguous, a left-handed compliment |
dextrorotary
dextrorotatory
right-handed | rotating to the right |
levorotary
levorotatory
left-handed | rotating to the left |
handed-down
tralatitious | having been passed along from generation to generation, among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor |
| light-handed | having a metaphorically delicate touch, the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive- New Yorker |
| single-handed | without help from others, a single-handed accomplishment |
cavalier
high-handed | given to haughty disregard of others |
heavy-handed
roughshod | unjustly domineering, incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies, a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition |
leftover
left over(p)
left(p)
odd
remaining
unexpended | not used up, leftover meatloaf, she had a little money left over so she went to a movie, some odd dollars left, saved the remaining sandwiches for supper, unexpended provisions |
| left-eyed | having only the left eye |
awkward
clumsy
cumbersome
inapt
inept
ill-chosen | not elegant or graceful in expression, an awkward prose style, a clumsy apology, his cumbersome writing style, if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now? |
| empty-handed | carrying nothing in the hands |
gawky
clumsy
clunky
ungainly
unwieldy | lacking grace in movement or posture, a gawky lad with long ungainly legs, clumsy fingers, what an ungainly creature a giraffe is, heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair |
innocent
guiltless
clean-handed | free from evil or guilt, an innocent child, the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty |
| red-handed | in the act of committing a crime or other reprehensible act, caught red-handed |
morganatic
left-handed | (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank, valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior |
| left-handed | (of marriages) illicit or informal, in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent |
| handed | having or involving the use of hands, a handed, tree-living animal, a four-handed card game |
| one-handed | having or using a single hand, one-handed golfers, a one-handed backetball shot |
two-handed
bimanual | requiring two hands or designed for two people, a two-handed sledgehammer, a two-handed crosscut saw, a machine designed for bimanual operation |