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Ligustrum lucidum
Ligustrum lucidum, known as glossy privet, is an evergreen tree in the olive family native to China; its ripe fruits are used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Ligustrum vulgare
Ligustrum vulgare (European, common, or wild privet), Oleaceae shrub native from NW Africa and Europe to NW Iran, long grown for hedges; invasive in parts of North America, less damaging than Chinese privet.
Lihang Technology
Lihang Technology is a Chinese aviation equipment manufacturer in Chengdu, founded in 2003, making aircraft ground support equipment and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2022.
Lihao Semiconductor (丽豪半导体)
Lihao Semiconductor (丽豪半导体), legally Qinghai Lihao Semiconductor Materials Co., Ltd., is a Chinese polysilicon producer founded in 2021 in Xining, Qinghai, by former Tongwei executive Duan Yong.
Liheng Cai (蔡历恒)
Liheng Cai is a Chinese-born soft materials scientist at the University of Virginia who leads the Soft Biomatter Laboratory and received a 2025 PECASE award.
Lihir Gold Mine
The Lihir Gold Mine is a large open-pit gold mine on Aniolam Island in Papua New Guinea's New Ireland Province, wholly owned by Newmont and producing gold since 1997.
Lihong Wang
Lihong V. Wang is a Chinese-American biomedical optics researcher who developed photoacoustic tomography and compressed ultrafast photography, and has been a Bren Professor at Caltech since 2017.
Lihyan
Lihyan, also known as Dedan-Lihyan, was a kingdom of northwest Arabia centered on the oasis of Dadan, at modern al-ʿUlā, flourishing from the 6th to 1st century BCE.
Liina Vahtras
Liina Vahtras, born 1979 in Kärdla, is an Estonian Reform Party politician who became Minister of Economic Affairs and Industry in 2026 after leading the e-residency program.
Liisa Holm
Liisa Holm, also known as Sirkka-Liisa Holm, is a computational biologist and professor at the University of Helsinki, known for the Dali protein structure comparison method.
Lij Iyasu
Lij Iyasu (Iyasu V) was the uncrowned ruler of Ethiopia, designated heir by Emperor Menelik II, who held power from 1911 until his deposition in 1916.
Lijia system
The Lijia system (里甲) was the Ming dynasty's basic unit of rural registration and labor service, grouping 110 households into one li of ten jia.
Lijian
Lijian (例监) were Ming dynasty students admitted to the National University by donating grain or horses, first enacted during an urgent frontier military crisis and capped at 1,000 men.
Lijian-1
Lijian-1 (力箭一号), also known as Kinetica-1, is a Chinese four-stage solid-propellant orbital launch vehicle developed by CAS Space, a commercial company of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Lijiang
Lijiang is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Yunnan, China, on the Lijiang plain at 2,400 meters elevation, known for its World Heritage Old Town inscribed in 1997.
Lijiaxia hydroelectric plant
Lijiaxia hydroelectric plant (李家峡水电站) is a large dam on the Yellow River in Qinghai, China, with five 400 MW Francis units totaling 2,000 MW; it was the first Chinese hydropower station with a double-row powerhouse arrangement.
Lijo Jose Pellissery (ലിജോ ജോസ് പെല്ലിശ്ശേരി)
Lijo Jose Pellissery (ലിജോ ജോസ് പെല്ലിശ്ശേരി, LJP) is an Indian Malayalam film director born 1979, known for Angamaly Diaries, Jallikattu, long takes, chaotic ensemble films, and two Kerala State Best Director awards.
Lijomol Jose
Lijomol Jose (ലിജോമോൾ) is an Indian actress in Malayalam and Tamil cinema, born in 1992 in Idukki, Kerala, known for playing Sengani in Jai Bhim.
Lijun Liu
Lijun Liu is a structural biologist and protein crystallographer at the University of Kansas, known for studies of ligand binding and water in T4 lysozyme cavities.
Lika
Lika, karst highland region in southwest Croatia between Velebit and Kapela, home to the 465 km² Lika polje, sinking rivers Lika and Gacka, Plitvice Lakes, and Gospić; site of the 2025 hazardous-waste scandal.
Likangkopan fumarate
Likangkopan fumarate (富马酸立康可泮, HRS-5965, brand Hengyouda) is Hengrui's oral complement factor B inhibitor approved in China in August 2026 for complement inhibitor-naive adults with PNH, superior to eculizumab in phase 3.
Likasi
Likasi, formerly Jadotville until 1966, is a city in Haut-Katanga Province in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a Copperbelt mining center for copper, cobalt, and zinc founded in 1917.
Likay
Likay (ลิเก) is a form of Thai folk theater combining singing, dancing, and improvised dialogue with live music, popular at temple fairs and festivals nationwide.
Like a Boss (film)
Like a Boss (film) is an American comedy directed by Miguel Arteta. It stars Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne, who run a cosmetics company facing a buyout offer.
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, also known as Like a Dragon 8, is a 2024 turn-based role-playing game by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and Sega, set in Hawaii.
Like a Dragon: Ishin!
Like a Dragon: Ishin! (Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin! Kiwami) is Sega's 2023 Unreal Engine 4 remake of the 2014 Japan-only Yakuza spin-off, casting Kiryu as Sakamoto Ryoma in Bakumatsu Kyoto with Swordsman, Gunman, Brawler, and Wild Dancer combat styles.
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is a 2025 Sega/RGG Studio action spin-off starring an amnesiac Goro Majima as a pirate captain in Hawaii, returning to real-time brawler combat with ship battles, released February 21, 2025.
Like a Dragon: Yakuza (龍が如く～Beyond the Game～)
Like a Dragon: Yakuza (龍が如く ～Beyond the Game～) is a 2024 six-episode Amazon Original live-action crime drama adapting Sega's Yakuza games with an original screenplay, starring Ryoma Takeuchi as Kazuma Kiryu in Kamurocho across 1995 and 2005 timelines.
Like a G6
Like a G6: 2010 dance-rap single by Far East Movement featuring the Cataracs and Dev; three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100; hook sampled from Dev's "Booty Bounce"; title invented to rhyme with "Three 6".
Like a Keith in the Night
Like a Keith in the Night is a television episode of the Peacemaker series. It explores the reality of Earth-X, a world where Nazis won World War II.