Children's Picture Dictionary | Words that start with L

A ladder is a kind of portable staircase. Some ladders fold up like the one in the picture, others are very long and you lean them against a wall.

A lake is a very large amount of water, usually in a valley in the mountains. Some lakes form in a crater where a meteor has hit. Most lakes are fresh water, some lakes near the sea may be salt water. A very very small lake in a park or a backyard is called a pond.

A lawn is a patch of grass that is usually grown around a house in the front and back yard. Grass grows long leaves and stems from ground level without much branching, so a lot of grass plants together can be cut so that they are all the same height, which makes a lawn.

Leaves grow all over most plants. Leaves are always some shade of green, although they often have yellow or red patterns on them. Plants use sunlight falling on the green in their leaves, called chlorophyll, to convert air and water into food.

Left is a direction. The man in the picture is pointing left. The opposite direction to left is right.