- leister
- leit
- leith
- lembus
- leming-star
- lemon-rob
- lend a hand
- lend a fist or a hand
- lend us your pound here!
- lengthening
- lengthening-piece
- lens
- lent
- lentriæ
- lenunculi
- leo
- leppo
- lerrick
- lesser circle
- let draw!
- let drive, to
- let fall!
- let fly, to
- afore haul!
- let go and haul!
- let go under foot
- let in, to
- shake out, a reef, to
- let out, a reef, to
- let-pass
- let go by the run
- let run
- letter-board
- letter-book
- letter men
- letters
- letters of marque
- letters of mart or marque
- letters of reprisal
- lettuce-laver
- levant
- levanter
- levants
- levee
- level-error
- leveling
- levelled out
- level-lines
- levels
- lever
- leverage
- leves
- levet
- levin
- levy
- lewer
- lewis-holes
- lewth
- lex
- l.g.
- libera piscaria
- liberty
- liberty-day
- liberty-liquor
- liberty-men
- liberty-ticket
- libra
- libration of the moon
- liburna
- license
- lick
- licorn
- lido
- lie a hull
- lie along, to
- lie athwart, to
- lie by, to
- lie in!
- lien
- lie off!
- lie out!
- lie over
- liester
- lie the course, to
- lie-to, to
- lie under arms, to
- lieutenant, in the royal navy
- lieutenant-at-arms
- lieutenant-colonel
- lieutenant-general
- lieutenant's store-room
- life-belt
- life-boat
- life-buoys
- life-guards
- life-kite
- life-lines
- life-preserver
- lift
- lift an anchor, to