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Lisdexamfetamine
Lisdexamfetamine, sold as Vyvanse and Elvanse, is a central nervous system stimulant prodrug bonding dextroamphetamine to l-lysine, approved for ADHD and moderate to severe binge eating disorder.
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner (1878–1968) was an Austrian-born physicist who gave the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission with Otto Frisch, though the 1944 Nobel Prize went to Otto Hahn alone.
LISFLOOD
LISFLOOD is an open-source, GIS-based hydrological model, developed by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre since 1997, that simulates the water balance of large river basins.
LISREL
LISREL (linear structural relations) is a statistical software package for structural equation modeling, developed by Karl Jöreskog and Dag Sörbom at Uppsala University in the 1970s.
Lissajous curve
A Lissajous curve, also called a Bowditch curve or Lissajous figure, is the path traced by a point oscillating sinusoidally in two perpendicular directions, named for Jules Lissajous.
List (information)
A list is an ordered set of items, such as names or tasks, arranged so each has a position; in computing it is a fundamental data structure.
List coloring conjecture
The list coloring conjecture is an open graph theory problem, proposed by Vizing around 1975, stating that the list-chromatic index of every multigraph equals its chromatic index.
List decoding
List decoding is a decoding technique that outputs all codewords within a chosen Hamming distance of a received word, correcting up to twice as many errors as unique decoding.
List experiment
A list experiment, or item count technique, is a survey method that estimates sensitive attitudes by having respondents report only how many list items apply to them.
List of Acacia species known to contain psychoactive alkaloids
The list of Acacia species known to contain psychoactive alkaloids covers trees and shrubs in the genus Acacia with verified reports of DMT and related amines, mostly in Australian species.
List of algorithms
The list of algorithms catalogs named computational procedures, organized by the problem they solve or the design technique they use, ranging from Euclid's ancient algorithm to post-quantum cryptography standards.
List of Arabic star names
Arabic star names are the proper names of individual stars in modern Western astronomy derived from Arabic words; at least 210 naked-eye stars, including Vega and Aldebaran, carry them.
List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System
The list of artificial objects leaving the Solar System covers five NASA spacecraft: Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons, launched between 1972 and 2006.
List of asteroid close approaches to Earth
The list of asteroid close approaches to Earth catalogs near-Earth objects passing within 0.05 au of Earth; the closest on record, in 2025, passed about 230 km up.
List of Atlantic hurricane records
The list of Atlantic hurricane records compiles the most intense, longest-lived, deadliest, and costliest storms in the Atlantic basin since 1851, from Hurricane Wilma to Katrina.
List of Australian tornadoes
Australia records about 50 tornadoes per year, most in remote areas, including an F4 at Bucca, Queensland, in 1992 and a deadly 1918 tornado in Melbourne.
List of Brazil tornadoes
Brazil experiences tornadoes mainly in its southern and southeastern states; tornadoes have been recorded since 1807, and the August 1959 outbreak was the deadliest in South America.
List of brightest stars
The list of brightest stars ranks the stars appearing brightest in Earth's night sky by apparent magnitude: Sirius leads, followed by Canopus and Rigil Kentaurus.
List of calendars
The list of calendars, also called list of calendar systems, surveys the world's calendars: solar ones like the Gregorian and Persian, the lunar Islamic, and lunisolar ones like the Hebrew and Chinese.
List of California hurricanes
The list of California hurricanes covers tropical storms affecting California, where no hurricane has made landfall; notable events include storms in 1858, 1939, 1976, and 2023.
List of California wildfires
Wildfires in California are cataloged by CAL FIRE in ranked lists of the largest, most destructive, and deadliest fires; the August Complex of 2020 burned over 471,000 acres.
List of Canadian tornadoes in 2026
The list of Canadian tornadoes in 2026 covers the season's 110 confirmed tornadoes, well above the average of about 65, including an EF3 at Tulliby Lake, Alberta, on July 11.
List of Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes
The list of Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes covers Atlantic storms with sustained winds of 130 to 156 mph on the Saffir-Simpson scale, from records beginning in 1851.
List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes
The list of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes covers the 45 storms reaching winds above 157 mph since 1924, with a record four in 2005 and three in 2025.
List of Catholic saints
A list of Catholic saints covering those formally canonized or beatified by the pope, or by bishops before the 12th century, beginning with St. Ulric in 993.
List of chemical compounds with unusual names
A reference list of real chemical compounds with unusual names, covering arsole, moronic acid, penguinone, and azidoazide azide, and where such trivial names come from.
List of chemical element name etymologies
A list of chemical element name etymologies, showing how element names come from mythology, places, properties, minerals, and scientists, and how IUPAC names new synthetic elements.
List of chemical elements
The list of chemical elements, or table of chemical elements, covers all 118 recognized elements, arranged as the periodic table in 7 periods and 18 groups by atomic number.
List of cities by Köppen climate classification
List of cities by Köppen climate classification: city assignments under the Köppen-Geiger system (A tropical, B arid, C temperate, D cold, E polar), e.g. Phoenix BWh, Atlanta Cfa, Minneapolis Dfa, with 1-km maps and 1991-2020 normals as the data basis.
List of civilian radiation accidents
The list of civilian radiation accidents covers unintended exposures of workers or the public to ionizing radiation outside military and nuclear-power settings, including Goiânia in 1987.