List of acronyms: L

(Main list of acronyms)

L – Fifty – Label – Lap – Large – Laser – Latin – Left – Litre – Low

LA

l8r, g8r – later, gator
la – Latin language
La – Lanthanum
LA
* Laos
* Louisiana
* Los Angeles
LAAS
* Local Area Augmentation System
* Los Angeles Astronomical Society
LAB – Logistics Assault Base
LabVIEW – Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench
LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LAD – Laser Aiming Device
LADW – Local Air Defence Warning
LAESI – Local Authority & Emergency Service Information
LAK – Laotian kip
LAMP –
LAN – Local Area Network
LANL – Los Alamos National Laboratory
lao – Lao language
LAO – Laos
LAPD – Los Angeles Police Department
LAR
* Light Armoured Reconnaissance
* Logistics Assistance Representative
LARC – Livermore Advanced Research Computer
LARP – Live-Action Role-Playing
LAS – McCarran International Airport
Laser – Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
lat – Latin language
LAT
* Lowest Astronomical Tide
* Licensed Athletic Trainer
LATA – Local Access Transport Area
LATCH – Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children
lav – Latvian language
LAV
* Land Assault Vehicle
* Light Armoured Vehicle
* Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus
LAW] – Light Antitank Weapon
LAX
* Los Angeles International Airport
* The Latin American Xchange

LB

lb
* pound
* Luxembourgish language
LB – Lebanon
LBH
* Light Battlefield Helicopter
* Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands
LBJ
* Lady Bird Johnson
* LeBron James
* Light Bulb Joke
* Little Beagle Johnson
* Lyndon Baines Johnson
LBN – Lebanon
LBNL – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
LBP – Lebanese pound
LBR – Liberia
LBS – Location-based service
lbs – pounds
LBT – Large Binocular Telescope
LBW – Leg Before Wicket
LBY – Libya

LC

LC – Line of Contact – Saint Lucia
LC2IEDM or LC²IEDM – Land C2IEDM
LCA
* Saint Lucia
* Larnaca International Airport
LCC – Land Component Commander
LCCP – Light Contingency Communications Package
LCD – Liquid Crystal Display
LCE – Leaving Certificate Examination – Load Carrying Equipment – London Commodity Exchange
LCM – Least/Lowest Common Multiple
LCol – Lieutenant-Colonel
LCS - League of Legends Championship Series

LD

LD
* Laser Designator
* Limited Deployment
* Line of Departure
LDA – Lateral Drift Apparatus
LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDC – Lesser Developing/Developed Country
LDE - Tarbes–Lourdes–Pyrénées Airport
LDL – Low-Density Lipoprotein
LDMOS – Laterally diffused MOS transistor
LDS
* Latter-day Saint ; also used as an abbreviation by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* Liberal Democracy of Slovenia
LDV – Local Defence Volunteers
LDW – Lane Departure Warning

LE

LE – Lebanon
LEC – Local Exchange Carrier
LED – Light-Emitting Diode
Legs – level emotion gad speed
LEGAD – Legal Advice
LEMOSS – Long-Endurance MObile Submarine Simulator
LEN – Large Extension Node
LEO – Low Earth orbit
LEP – Large Electron-Positron collider
LER – Loss-Exchange Ratio
LEU – Low-Enriched Uranium

LF

LF – Low Frequency
LFG - Let's F***ing Go!
LFO – Low Frequency Oscillation / Oscillator
LFTR – Liquid fluoride thorium reactor

LG

lg – Luganda
LG – Latvia
LGB
* Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
* Laser-guided bomb, self-explanatory
LGBT – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
* LGBTI - Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, Intersex
* LGBTQ - Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, Queer
* LGBTQIA - the A standing for "asexual", "aromantic", or "agender"
LGLO – Love God, Love Others
LGLO's – Latino Greek Lettered Organizations
LGM
* Little Green Men
* Land-based Guided Missile, US military designation for guided missiles launched from ground silos, mostly used to talk about ICBMs like LGM-30 Minuteman
LGS – Landsat Ground Station

LH

LH
* Lithuania
* Luteinising Hormone
* Lufthansa
LHC – Large Hadron Collider
LHD
* litterarum humaniorum doctor
* Left-Hand Drive
* Landing Helicopter Dock
LHS – Left Hand Side

LI

li – Limburgish language
Li – Lithium
LI – Fifty-one – Liberia – Liechtenstein
Libor – London Interbank Offered Rate
LIBS – Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
LIE – Liechtenstein
LIFO – Last In, First Out
LIGO – Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
LIJ – Los Ingobernables de Japón, Japanese professional wrestling stable
lim – Limburgish language
lin – Lingala language
LINEAR – Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
LiP, LIP – Lithium ion polymer battery
LISA – Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
lit – Lithuanian language
LITAS – Low Intensity Two Colour Approach System
LIVE – Liquid Inertial Vibration Eliminator

LJ

LK

LK – Sri Lanka
LKA – Sri Lanka
LKL – Lietuvos krepšinio lyga
LKR – Sri Lanka rupee
LKR4 – Linkwitz-Riley 4th order

LL

l. l. – loco laudato
LL
* Land Line
* Last Log
* Late Latin
* Laws, esp. both Laws
* Left Limit
* Lex Luthor
* Light Line
* Limited Liability
* Lines** Linked List
* Little League
* Low Latin
* Liberland
LLAD – Low Level Air Defence
LLB – Legum Baccalaureus
LLC – Limited Liability Company
LLGC – Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – London Lesbian and Gay Centre
LLLTV – Low-Light Level Television
LLNL – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LLP – Limited Liability Partnership
LLTI – Limiting Long-Term Illness – Long Lead Time Item
LLTR – Low-Level Transit Route

LM

LMAO – Laughing My Ass Off
LMFAO – Laughing My F**king Ass Off
LMB – Lick My Balls
LMN – Lifetime Movie Network
LMS – London Mathematical Society – London, Midland and Scottish
LMS – Like My Status
LMV - Light Motor Vehicle

LN

ln
* Lingala language
* Natural logarithm
LNB
* Liga Nacional de Básquet
* Ligue Nationale de Basketball
* Low-Noise Block
LNER
* London and North Eastern Railway railway operator from 1923 until 1947 in the United Kingdom
* London North Eastern Railway railway operator established in 2018 in the United Kingdom
LNG – Liquefied Natural Gas
LNO – Liaison Officer
LNR – ''Ligue Nationale de Rugby''

LO

lo – Lao language
LO – Slovakia
LOA – Limit Of Advance
LOC
* Level of Operational Capability
* Limited Operational Capability
* Lines Of Code
* Lines Of Communication
* see entry
LOD
* Legion of Doom, referring to any of the following:
** A group of DC Comics supervillains
** A hacker group
** A group of Philadelphia Flyers ice hockey players in the 1990s
** The Road Warriors, a professional wrestling tag team that used the name "Legion of Doom" when performing in the WWF/WWE
* Limit of Detection – see Detection limit
LoD – Lines of Development
LOFAR – Low Frequency Analyzer and Recorder / Low Frequency Analysis and Recording in sonar systems
LOGPAC – Logistics Package
LOL – Laughing Out Loud
LOMEZ – Low Altitude Missile Engagement Zone
LONEOS – Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search
LOOGY – Lefty One-Out Gu'Y', a sometimes pejorative nickname for the left-handed specialist in baseball
loq – loquitur
LORTID – LOng Range Target IDentification
LOS – Line Of Sight
LOSAT – Line-Of-Sight Anti-Tank
LOTA – Licentiate of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
LOTIS – Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System
LOTR or LotR – Lord of the Rings
LOTS – Logistics Over-The-Shore

LP

LQ

LQ – Palmyra Atoll

LR

Lr – Lawrencium
LR – Liberia
LRAD – Long Range Acoustic Device
LRAS3 or LRAS³ – Long Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System
LR-ATGW – Long-Range Anti-Tank Guided Weapon
LRC – Logistics Readiness Center
LRD – Liberian dollar
LRF – Laser rangefinder – Low Readiness Forces
LRGW – Long-Range Guided Weapon
LRICBM – Limited Range ICBM
LRIP – Low Rate Initial Production
LRP – Logistics Release Point
LRPE – Long-Range Planning Element
LRS – Long Range Surveillance
LRU – Line-Replaceable Unit

LS

L.S. – Lectori Salutem
LS
* Landing Support
* Lesotho
* Liechtenstein
* locus sigilli
LSAT – Law School Admission Test
LSD
* Landing Ship, Dock
* librae, solidii, denarii
* lyserg-saüre-dietylamid
LSE
* Least Squares Estimate/Error
* London School of Economics
* London Stock Exchange
LSI – Large-Scale Integration
LSIF – Labour Sponsored Investment Fund
LSL – Lesotho loti
LSND – Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector
LSO – Lesotho
LSST – Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
LST – Landing Ship, Tank
LSVW – Light Support Vehicle, Wheeled

LT

lt – Lithuanian language
Lt – Lieutenant
LtC – Lieutenant-Colonel
LT – Lesotho – Lithuania
LTC – Long-Term Costing
Ltd – Limited
LTDP – Long-Term Defence Plan
LTG – Lieutenant General – Lightning
LTI – Linear Time-Invariant
LTL – Lithuanian litas
LTM – Acronym for Laughing To Myself
LTO - Long Term Occasional
LTP – Long-Term Potentiation
LTU – Lithuania
ltz – Luxembourgish language

LU

lu – Tshiluba language
Lu – Lutetium
LU
* Lefèvre Utile, a French brand of biscuits/cookies
* Loonatics Unleashed
* Love You
lub – Tshiluba language
LUCA – Last Universal Common Ancestor
lug – Luganda
LUG – Linux User Group
LULU – Locally Unwanted Land Use
LUT – Limited User Test – Local User Terminal
LUVW – Light Utility Vehicle, Wheeled
LUX – Luxembourg

LV

lv – Latvian language
LV
* Las Vegas
* Latvia
* Launch Vehicle
* Leading Vehicle
* Leave
* Left Ventricle
* Level Valve
* Linking Verb
* Liverpool Victoria
LVA – Latvia
LVAD
* Left Ventricular Assist Device
* Low-Velocity Airdrop
LVEF – Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
LVL – Latvian lats

LW

Lw – Lawrencium
LW
* Land Warrior
* Low Water
LWO - Latino World Order Laser warning receiver
* Light-water reactor
LWRC – Land Warfare Resources Corporation
LWS – Land Warrior System

LX

LX – Luxembourg – Swiss International Air Lines
LX – Electrics

LY

LY – Libya – Lithuania
LYAO – Laugh Your Ass Off
LYD – Libyan dinar
LYLAS – Love You Like A Sister

LZ

LZ – Bulgaria – Landing Zone