All articles starting with L

Litoral (magazine)

Litoral is a Spanish avant-garde literary magazine founded in Málaga in 1926 by poets Emilio Prados and Manuel Altolaguirre, a principal organ of the Generation of '27.

Oct 20, 2026

Litoria

Litoria is a genus of frogs in the family Pelodryadidae, the Australasian treefrogs, native to Australia and New Guinea and named by Johann Jakob von Tschudi in 1838.

Litostomatea

Litostomatea is a highly diverse class of ciliates named by Small and Lynn in 1981, with hundreds of species ranging from free-living predators to symbionts living inside animals.

Litotes

Litotes, from Greek litos (simple, meager), is understatement by negating the opposite, e.g. "not bad"; distinct from meiosis, used in academic hedging, irony, and classical rhetoric.

Litre

The liter (L) is a metric unit of volume equal exactly to one cubic decimeter; not an SI unit, it is accepted for use with the SI.

LitRPG (literary role-playing game) is a fiction genre with visible in-world RPG mechanics such as stat screens and levels. Coined by Russia's EKSMO in 2013, it grew in English via Royal Road, Patreon, and Kindle Unlimited; Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl has sold 10 million copies.

LITS

LITS (Nuruomino) is a Nikoli shading logic puzzle: shade one L, I, T, or S tetromino per region, keep all shading connected, avoid 2x2 blocks, and never let same-shaped tetrominoes touch edge to edge.

Litsea

Litsea (Lam., 1792) is a genus of about 400 dioecious Lauraceae trees and shrubs from tropical-subtropical Asia to the Pacific and the Americas; polyphyletic, known for Litsea cubeba citral oil.

Littattafan soyayya

Littattafan soyayya, Hausa for "books of love," is a genre of popular romance fiction in the Hausa language, known in English as Kano market literature.

Oct 15, 2026

Littelfuse

Littelfuse, Inc. is an American industrial technology manufacturer headquartered near Chicago that makes circuit protection, power control, and sensing products for automotive, industrial, and electronics markets.

Litten

The Litten is the medieval burial ground of Newbury's hospital of St Bartholomew in Berkshire, England, used from the 13th to the mid 16th century beside Litten Chapel.

Litter

Litter is waste discarded outside proper disposal systems, on roadsides, parks, beaches, and waterways. Emerging as a US public issue after World War II amid disposable packaging, it is addressed by Keep America Beautiful campaigns, container deposit laws, and legal cleanup duties.

Litter (vehicle)

A litter, also called a sedan chair or palanquin, is a wheelless vehicle carried by people on foot, with the passenger seated in a chair or cabin between poles.

Litter box

A litter box, also called a litter tray or litter pan, is an indoor container filled with absorbent cat litter where a pet cat urinates and defecates.

Litter Size

Litter size is the number of offspring produced at one birth by a viviparous animal, most commonly a mammal; across species it ranges from 1 to 30 offspring.

Littérature

Littérature was a French monthly literary review founded in Paris in March 1919 by Louis Aragon, André Breton, and Philippe Soupault, running until 1924 and hosting Dada before becoming the launching ground of surrealism.

Litteris et Artibus

Litteris et Artibus is a Swedish royal medal instituted in 1853 by Crown Prince Carl, later King Karl XV, for outstanding artistic achievement, chiefly in music and literature.

Little (film)

Little (2019) is an American fantasy body-swap comedy directed by Tina Gordon, starring Regina Hall, Issa Rae, and Marsai Martin, who conceived it at age 10; it grossed about $49 million worldwide for Universal.

Little Albert experiment

The Little Albert experiment, Watson and Rayner's 1920 Johns Hopkins study, conditioned an infant called Albert B. to fear a white rat via loud noise; his identity, Douglas Merritte versus Albert Barger, remains disputed.

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Amélie et la métaphysique des tubes) is a 2025 French animated film by Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han adapting Amélie Nothomb's autobiographical novel about a Belgian girl's childhood in Japan; Oscar-nominated, Annecy Audience Award winner.

Oct 3, 2026

Little America

Little America is an Apple TV+ anthology series created by Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, and Lee Eisenberg, adapting true immigrant stories from Epic Magazine into standalone half-hour episodes; two seasons aired 2020–2022.

Little Anthony

Little Anthony is Jerome Anthony Gourdine (born 1941), Brooklyn-born lead singer of Little Anthony and the Imperials, known for "Tears on My Pillow," "Goin' Out of My Head," and his high falsetto; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (2009), still performing at 85.

Little Anthony and the Imperials

Little Anthony and the Imperials, also billed as Little Anthony & The Original Imperials, are a Brooklyn doo-wop and soul vocal group formed in 1958, known for "Tears on My Pillow," "Goin' Out of My Head," and 2009 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.

Little Arkansas Treaty

Little Arkansas Treaty: three October 1865 peace treaties at the Little Arkansas River, Kansas, with Cheyenne, Arapaho, Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche, promising Sand Creek reparations and ceding southern plains lands; superseded by Medicine Lodge in 1867.