Means beloved in Hindi and Punjabi, a warm household name · Hindi
A thick creamy strained yoghurt cheese · Arabic
The lizard constellation · Latin
Norman surname from Lassy in France, now linked to delicate lace · French
Slavic goddess of beauty and spring · Slavic
Long standing name for a well mannered female dog
A pun on Lady Godiva of Coventry legend
A posh lady with a busy nose
The British and Australian name for the small spotted beetle · small dogs
The US name for the small red beetle with black spots · small dogs
Shieldmaiden of Norse legend · Norse
A shallow water enclosed by reef or sand
Spanish for a shallow coastal lagoon · Spanish
The Soviet dog who was the first animal to orbit the earth
Sami and Nordic name meaning night · Sami
From Latvian for luck, the Baltic goddess of fate · Latvian
A spicy coconut noodle soup · Malay
Means tulip in Persian · Persian
Playful and charming · Sanskrit
Hedy Lamarr, the film star whose radio invention paved the way for wifi
A little lamb · small dogs
Means soft to the touch in Arabic · Arabic
Chinese for orchid, or for mountain mist · Chinese
Short form of Alana or Svetlana, light · Russian
Hawaiian, sky or heaven · Hawaiian
Shrub with clustered flowers that change colour as they age
Russian for little paw, a word for darling · Russian · small dogs
The archaeologist adventurer of Tomb Raider
A rare blue stone found only in the Caribbean · Caribbean
A moon of Neptune named after a nymph · Greek
The bird that sings on the wing at dawn · small dogs
Layered baked pasta with sauce and cheese · Italian
Cool blended yoghurt drink from the Punjab · Hindi
Ukrainian for swallow · Ukrainian
Old Norse for leafy island, the mother of Loki · Old Norse
Latin laurus, laurel tree · Latin
The victory wreath of ancient Rome
A Swiss city on the shores of Lake Geneva, home of the Olympic museum · French
Molten rock from a volcano
French for lavender · French
A scented purple flowering herb
Roman name from Virgil's Aeneid · Latin
Means soft or delicate in Arabic · Arabic
Arabic for night, the heroine of the Persian poem Layla and Majnun · Arabic
The second half of lapis lazuli, the deep blue gem, from Persian · Persian
Hebrew for weary or wild cow, the wife of Jacob · Hebrew
The queen of Sparta in Greek myth, mother of Helen · Greek
The red blossom of the ohia tree · Hawaiian
A garland of flowers in Hawaiian, a symbol of love and welcome · Hawaiian
Arabic for night · Arabic
Hawaiian, heavenly flower · Hawaiian
Hawaiian name meaning pearl lei · Hawaiian
The sharp yellow citrus fruit
A gentle lemon scented herb of the mint family
A sugary lemon sweet, and a lemony vodka cocktail · small dogs
An Australian leaf with a strong lemon scent
A strongly lemon scented herb
Finnish for love · Finnish
German short form of Magdalena · German
After Suzanne Lenglen, the French tennis star of the 1920s · French
Short form of Eleanor, the lost love in Poe's poems
The lost love in Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven
Feminine of Leon, lioness · Latin
German feminine form of Leon, meaning lioness · German
Portuguese form of Eleanor, royal and elegant · Portuguese
Italian form of Eleanor, the heroine of Beethoven's opera · Italian
German form of Eleanor, light · German
Means light in Tswana · Tswana
Latin laetus, glad · Latin
Latin laetitia, joy and happiness · Latin
Greek mother of Apollo and Artemis · Greek
The leafy heart of every salad
Pet form of Letitia, Latin for joy · Latin
A pretty Blue Mountains village of gardens and cafes
Pet form of Alexandra, Greek for defender of the people · Greek
Means lilac in Turkish · Turkish
The high capital of Tibet, home of the Lhasa Apso dog breed · Tibetan
Irish name meaning grey lady, a poet of legend · Irish
Chinese for lotus or water lily · Chinese
Pet form of Elizabeth, God is my oath
Latin for liberty, the Roman goddess of freedom · Latin
For the statue in New York harbour
Means my heart in Hebrew · Hebrew
The scales constellation of the zodiac · Latin
German for sweetheart · German
German pet form of Elisabeth · German
German name joining Liese and Lotte · German
German pet form of Elisabeth · German
Dutch for dear or beloved · Dutch
Means joy or happiness in Tagalog · Tagalog
Short for little, or for Lillian · small dogs
Sanskrit for play, or a form of Leila, night · Sanskrit
Means lilac in Hebrew · Hebrew
French for lilac · French
Hawaiian for passion fruit · Hawaiian
The goddess of fine mist · Hawaiian
The last queen of Hawaii and a gifted songwriter · Hawaiian
Swedish for little · Swedish · small dogs
Italian for lilac · Italian
Flower name popular a century ago · English
A pink native Australian berry · small dogs
Hawaiian, generous · Hawaiian · small dogs
French pet form of Lilian or Louise · French
A small green sour citrus fruit
A frozen lemon and mint drink · Arabic
A sweet lemon liqueur from the Amalfi coast · Italian
Italian for lemon · Italian
Short form of names ending in lina, also Arabic for palm tree · Arabic
Germanic for soft or tender, Spanish for pretty · Spanish
Holy Island off Northumberland, reached by a tidal causeway
The pale cream of linen cloth
Chinese for bell, or for spirit · Chinese
A tart red berry of Nordic forests · small dogs
Flat ribbon pasta, the name means little tongues · Italian
Swedish flower named after Carl Linnaeus · Swedish
A small brown finch of open country · small dogs
Ukrainian and Slavic for linden tree · Ukrainian
Short form of Elizabeth, God is my oath
French pet form of Elisabeth · French · small dogs
Russian for little fox, a Soviet space dog of 1960 · Russian · small dogs
Means my dew in Hebrew · Hebrew
Means willow in Mandarin, graceful and slender · Chinese
Italian name from a Roman family, meaning blue grey · Italian
Means white in Hebrew · Hebrew
Means dawn in Tagalog · Tagalog
Pet form of Elizabeth, God is my oath
Swedish for heather · Swedish
Spanish for rain · Spanish
A trailing flower of bright blue · small dogs
A red hybrid berry first grown in California
Greek, perhaps more desirable, the grandmother of Timothy · Greek
Heavenly rose, the flower of Maui · Hawaiian
Small fried dough balls in syrup · Turkish · small dogs
Spanish short form of Dolores
A hard sweet on a stick · small dogs
British and Australian for a sweet or ice lolly
Siren of the Rhine in German legend · German
Spanish form of Lauren, from Laurentum · Spanish
A name of the American south
Beach town on the Great Ocean Road
French region, named for the kingdom of Lothar · French
German short form of Charlotte · German
German pet form of Charlotte · German
Pet form of Charlotte, the French feminine of Charles meaning free man · French
The water flower of Asian art and faith
The fierce witch queen of Pohjola in the Kalevala · Finnish
Old fashioned form of the name Louise · French
French feminine of Louis, famous warrior · French
A southern US state of bayous, jazz and Creole cooking · French
A French nickname, and an old name for a fluffy Pomeranian · French · small dogs
Deep affection, all a dog wants to give
Delightful, beautiful and dear
Swedish form of Louisa · Swedish
Cornish for joy · Cornish
Welsh form of Laura · Welsh
Content and at ease · Hawaiian
A US Marine Corps search dog who won the Dickin Medal
Italian for light · Italian
Swiss city on a lake beneath the Alps
Spanish for the bright morning star · Spanish
Italian name from Latin lux, light · Italian
French name meaning light · French
Elaboration of Lucia, light, coined by Cervantes · Spanish
Bouvier des Flandres who lived in the Reagan White House · big dogs
Roman family name Lucretius, a heroine of early Rome · Latin
Italian form of Lucretia · Italian
Italian and Spanish form of Louise, famous warrior · Italian
Means silver in Arabic · Arabic
Pet form of Louise or Lucy
Means pearl in Amharic · Amharic
A gentle song to send someone to sleep · English
A playful pet form of Louise · small dogs
Finnish word for snow · Finnish
French for light · French
Spanish pet form of Guadalupe · Spanish
A Swedish saffron bun for St Lucia's Day · Swedish
A pear shaped stringed instrument of old · Arabic
Ukrainian for little doll · Ukrainian · small dogs
Small tropical fruit with a rough red shell · Chinese · small dogs
Youngest Bennet sister in Pride and Prejudice · Greek
Danish word for happiness · Danish
Form of Lila or Leila, night or play
The sharp tongued lady who asks Gareth for help · Old French
Norwegian for heather · Norwegian
Middle English for lioness, a lady rescued by Gareth · Middle English
The small harp constellation
The ancient stringed instrument of Greek poets · Greek
The words of a song, from the Greek lyrikos, of the lyre
The meteor shower of April
Russian pet form of Lyubov, meaning love · Russian
Hebrew for white · Hebrew
The Labrador Sea between Canada and Greenland, also a famous breed
Scottish Gaelic name meaning from the land of lochs · Scottish
The Rough Collie of Albert Payson Terhune, star of Lad, A Dog
Airedale terrier of President Warren Harding
The Airedale Terrier of President Warren Harding, a White House favourite
French general of the American Revolution · French
Spanish for lake · Spanish
The busy port city of Nigeria, and a sunny Algarve town in Portugal
A classic Chinese dog name meaning good fortune arrives · Chinese
A Scottish landowner, the lord of an estate · Scottish
French de la mare, of the pool · French
A winged bull with a human head that guarded Assyrian gates · Akkadian · big dogs
Portuguese for a big licker, for a dog who washes every face · Portuguese
Germanic land and bright, a Flemish saint
A wild fermented Belgian beer · Dutch
Greek name meaning bright and brilliant · Greek
A sparkling red wine from Emilia · Italian
Someone who lit the gas street lamps at dusk
Italian for raspberry · Italian
Hawaiian for victory · Hawaiian
The royal house of the red rose
Germanic Lanzo, land, later linked to the knight's lance
The bravest knight of the Round Table · Old French
A cavalry soldier armed with a lance
Short form of Orlando or Rolando, famous land · Italian
French, from Germanic land and ruler · French
Edwin Landseer, the Victorian painter of dogs, who gave his name to a Newfoundland coat · big dogs
English place name, long stone, after poet Langston Hughes
Short for lapis lazuli, the deep blue stone
A smoky black tea dried over pine fires · Chinese
A Wyoming frontier town on the high plains
Border city on the Rio Grande in Texas · Spanish
Musical direction meaning broad and slow · Italian
An Aussie word for a cheeky, fun loving rascal
Pet form of Lawrence, man from Laurentum, a town of laurels
Scandinavian form of Laurence · Norse
Hungarian form of Ladislav, rules with glory · Hungarian
English surname for an interpreter, a speaker of Latin · English
The comic servant who owns the dog Crab in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
French form of Laurence, crowned with laurel · French
Means sea in Indonesian and Malay · Indonesian
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, the painter of Paris nightlife · French · small dogs
Means lion in Hebrew · Hebrew · big dogs
Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry · French
Latin Laurentius, man from Laurentum, laurelled · Latin
Henry Lawson, the Australian writer of bush stories and verse
Means lion in Arabic · Arabic · big dogs
Serbian form of Lazarus · Serbian
Bummer's partner, a famous stray of 1860s San Francisco
The Italian Greyhound of President John Tyler · French
The American folk and blues singer
Greek, lion man, who swam the Hellespont for love · Greek
French form of Leander, meaning lion man · French
Portuguese for lion · Portuguese
Edward Lear, the poet of The Owl and the Pussy cat and much nonsense
German gingerbread · German
The legendary founder of the Poles · Polish
A mild long onion, the emblem of Wales
Means lion in Afrikaans · Afrikaans · big dogs
Greek name meaning freedom · Greek
A nickname for a left handed cowboy
A story handed down, or someone unforgettable
Hebrew for devoted to God, Gulliver's first name · Hebrew
Scottish name meaning elm grove · Scottish
Pet form of Leonard, Germanic for brave lion
Scottish place name Lennox, place of elm trees · Scottish
French name meaning lion · French · big dogs
Spanish for tawny, lion coloured · Spanish
Germanic, brave as a lion
Italian form of Leonard, brave lion, after the Renaissance artist · Italian
Spanish for little lion, a famous mastiff of the early sixteenth century · Spanish
Italian for lion · Italian
The meteor shower of November
Spartan king who held the pass at Thermopylae · Greek · big dogs
The spotted big cat of Africa and Asia · big dogs
Giacomo Leopardi, the Italian poet · Italian
German name meaning bold people · German
Latin for charming and pleasant · Latin
The hare constellation that sits at Orion's feet · Latin
French derived name meaning the king · French
Guardian spirit of the forest in Slavic folklore · Slavic · big dogs
English surname from the city of Leicester
A French special forces dog awarded the Dickin Medal · French
Russian for lion · Russian
Spanish for the east wind · Spanish
An easterly wind that blows through the Strait of Gibraltar · Spanish
Hebrew name meaning joined or attached · Hebrew
A vast sea monster in the Hebrew Bible, now anything huge · Hebrew · big dogs
Thoughtful landowner in Anna Karenina · Russian
Ukrainian pet form of Lev, meaning lion · Ukrainian
Armenian form of Leon, lion · Armenian
English form of Louis, famous warrior
Marine bomb dog adopted by his fallen handler's family
A Himalayan giant standing beside Everest · big dogs
Irish short form of William · Irish
A free roaming defender in football or volleyball · Italian
Italian pet form of names like Pasquale, tiny and sweet · Italian · small dogs
Spanish for lemon · Spanish
English place name meaning lake colony · English
A broad lime tree of European avenues · big dogs
Spanish for cute or lovely · Spanish
A tough defensive player in American football · big dogs
A connecting ring in a chain, a short form of Lincoln
Carl Linnaeus, who gave every living thing a two part Latin name · Swedish
The refined family of Thrushcross Grange in Wuthering Heights
Greek Linos, a musician of myth, the flax coloured one · Greek
English place name, lime tree wood
The big cat known as the king of beasts · big dogs
Old French name meaning little lion · French
The sea god of Irish myth and father of the swan children · Irish
Joseph Lister, the pioneer of clean surgery
Franz Liszt, the dazzling Hungarian pianist · Hungarian
A Zambian town near Victoria Falls, named after the explorer David Livingstone
A Welsh Victorian seaside resort with a pier
A Texas Hill Country river; Spanish for plain · Spanish
The nearly invincible son of Arianrhod in the Mabinogi · Welsh
Welsh word for lion · Welsh · big dogs
Welsh Llywelyn, a name of Welsh princes, perhaps leader · Welsh
Welsh name meaning grey · Welsh
Welsh for the sea, father of Bran and Branwen · Welsh
Llywelyn the Great, a prince of Wales, linked to the legend of the hound Gelert · Welsh
A vast Hawaiian shield volcano · Hawaiian · big dogs
Rich dark soil that everything grows in
Spanish, wolf · Spanish · big dogs
A big clawed shellfish of rocky coasts
A sunny Swiss lakeside town with palm trees · Italian
Someone who makes and opens locks
A hunting lodge, and a beaver's home
The swan knight, son of Parzival in German legend · German
After Vince Lombardi, the legendary American football coach · Italian
An Indonesian island east of Bali, with a tall volcano and quiet beaches · Indonesian
The nickname of Texas, after the single star on its flag
Chinese for dragon · Chinese · big dogs
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the American poet, for a dog with long legs · big dogs
The long horned cattle of the Texas trail drives · big dogs
Dragon Well, a famous pan roasted Chinese green tea · Chinese
Pet form of Alonzo or Lawrence
Surname of the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca · Spanish
Irish name meaning little fierce one · Irish
A noble title, for a dog who acts like the house is theirs
A lord of all things smelly
A grand title for a dog whose whole back end wags
Form of Lorenzo, from Laurentum
Italian form of Laurence, crowned with laurel · Italian
Variant of Louis, famous warrior
French, famous warrior · French
French word for wolf · French · big dogs
Portuguese form of Laurence · Portuguese
Norman French nickname, little wolf · French
Flemish pet form of Lodewijk · Flemish
L. S. Lowry, the English painter of matchstick figures in northern towns
Portuguese for moonlight · Portuguese
Robert Burns's dog, named in his poem The Twa Dogs · Scottish
Italian, from Lucania · Italian
Latin name linked to light · Latin
Latin Lucianus, from lux, light · Latin
Italian male form of Lucia, meaning light · Italian
French name meaning light · French
Roman praenomen from Latin lux, light · Latin
A tiny Texas Hill Country town famous for its country song · German
Short form of Ludovic, famous warrior, also Latin for I play · Latin
German, famous warrior · German
A lakeside Swiss town with an Italian accent, ringed by mountains · Italian
Irish god of light, skill and craft · Irish
Greek Loukas, meaning man from Lucania · Greek
Jean Baptiste Lully, the court composer of Louis XIV · French
Tree feller of the northern forests · big dogs
A Dachshund who lived with Picasso for a time and appears in his paintings · German · small dogs
Icelandic for puffin · Icelandic
A colourful fishing town in Nova Scotia, home port of the Bluenose
A long espresso pulled with more water · Italian
An angler's word for a really big fish · big dogs
Italian for wolf · Italian
The wolf constellation of the southern sky
German surname meaning army of the people · German
French for an elf or mischievous sprite · French · small dogs
Dutch form of Luke · Dutch
Egyptian city built among ancient temples · Arabic
Greek word for wolf · Greek
Norman French de l'isle, from the island · French
A young lover in A Midsummer Night's Dream
A grey stone that flashes blue and gold · Canadian
A glossy hard varnish, an ancient art in China and Japan
A stick and ball game first played by Indigenous peoples of North America
A round Indian sweet · Hindi · small dogs
Round Indian sweet made for festivals · Hindi · small dogs
The golden hound of Greek myth who never failed to catch what he chased · Greek
A pale beer, from the German Lagerbier, stored beer
Swedish for just the right amount, not too much and not too little · Swedish
A young sheep, gentle and woolly · small dogs
The eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet, used for wavelength · Greek
Softly glowing or flickering, an old poetic word
Australian sponge squares dipped in chocolate and rolled in coconut · Australian · small dogs
Dutch for little lamb · Dutch
A car free island town off Kenya, where donkeys carry everything · Swahili
A small Hawaiian island once covered in pineapple fields · Hawaiian · small dogs
A strange native New Zealand tree with long stiff juvenile leaves
Old English name meaning narrow road · English
A small sweet fruit in grape like bunches · Malay · small dogs
As in jack o' lantern, the carved pumpkin lit with a candle
Means blue sky in Mandarin, open-hearted · Chinese
French word for rabbit · French · small dogs
The snowy far north of Finland and Sweden, land of reindeer · Finnish
A crested plover with a wheeling flight, also called peewit
Conifer that turns gold and drops its needles in autumn
A rope for catching stock, from the Spanish la reata, the rope · Spanish
Tall blue cottage garden flower with a spurred petal
A beam of focused light, for a dog who never loses focus
A rope with a running noose, from the Spanish lazo · Spanish
A gin and herbal liqueur cocktail from Detroit
Crisp fried potato pancake · Yiddish
Theodore Laurence, the charming boy next door in Little Women
An easy, close in basketball shot
For a dog that would rather nap
The green blade a plant catches light with · small dogs
Full of leaves, for a dog who loves a forest walk
Roasted chickpeas, a classic Turkish snack · Turkish · small dogs
Notes played smoothly and joined together · Italian
Cricket slang for a leg spin bowler
A white Italian chicken breed that lays lots of eggs · Italian
Means small in Thai, a common nickname for little ones · Thai · small dogs
Means joy joy in Mandarin · Chinese
Sweet drink pressed from lemons
Citrus scented stalk used across South East Asia
A big eyed primate of Madagascar · Latin
Latin for gentle and mild · Latin
Tiny disc shaped pulse cooked in soups and dals · small dogs
Italian for slow, for a calm, unhurried dog · Italian
An Antarctic seal with a spotted grey coat · big dogs
Scottish Gaelic name meaning holly garden · Scottish
Means joy or happiness in Sotho and Tswana · Sotho
Crusty growth on old rocks and trees
Black sweet flavoured with liquorice root
German for darling or favourite · German
Dutch for darling · Dutch
Someone who keeps swimmers safe, for a water loving dog
A tower with a light that guides ships, for a loyal guiding dog · big dogs
The bright flash at the heart of a storm · big dogs
The sea off the Italian Riviera · Latin
A leaf bud, new growth · Hawaiian · small dogs
Coastal capital of Peru · Spanish
Sharp cordial made from limes and sugar
City on the Shannon in Ireland, also a comic verse · Irish
A cone shelled sea snail that clings tight to rocks, for a clingy dog · small dogs
A great grey green river in southern Africa, made famous by Kipling
Means seaweed in Hawaiian · Hawaiian
Chinese for forest · Chinese
The rugby throw in where players are lifted to catch the ball
Means spirit fox, a name from Chinese legend · Chinese
A striped reef fish with long spiny fins
Means my light in Hebrew · Hebrew
A chewy black sweet made from a root
Means my song or my joy in Hebrew · Hebrew
The lightest metal, from the Greek for stone
The paper that turns red or blue to test acids
A tiny amount, for a tiny dog · small dogs
The rich brown coat colour of many spaniels and pointers
A woolly South American pack animal · Quechua
Sticky rice wrapped in a lotus leaf, a dim sum dish · Cantonese
The Scottish Gaelic word for a lake or a sea inlet · Scottish Gaelic
A naturally magnetic stone, for a dog everyone is drawn to
Scottish Gaelic name meaning little hollow · Scottish
Longest river in France · French
Turkish delight, soft cubes dusted with sugar · Turkish · small dogs
To dawdle and waste time, a pro on walks
A doubled pet name used for Lorenzo or Dolores
Loch Lomond, the largest loch in Scotland by area · Scottish
A small fruit called dragon eye in Chinese · Chinese · small dogs
A diving bird of northern lakes with a haunting call
The Canadian one dollar coin, with a loon on it
Goods taken as spoils, from the Hindi lut
A small golden fruit from China with a sweet tang · small dogs
A small rainbow coloured parrot · small dogs
A slow moving big eyed primate of Asia · Dutch · small dogs
Short form of Louis or Louise, Germanic for famous warrior
Little Greek honey doughnuts · Greek · small dogs
Greek for Turkish delight, soft and sweet · Greek
Tall old English herb that tastes of celery
A pet name for an affectionate little one · small dogs
A Hawaiian party or feast, for a dog who loves a celebration · Hawaiian
A small sled raced feet first, lying on your back · small dogs
Tiny Thai sweets of mung bean paste shaped like fruit · Thai · small dogs
The unit of light, Latin for light · Latin
A crisp Filipino spring roll · Filipino
Of the Moon, from Latin luna · Latin
Cone shaped spike of pea flowers in border gardens
Means ocean in Zulu and Xhosa · Zulu
Faint constellation named after the wild cat
French city known for its food · French
An Australian bird with a lyre shaped tail and a gift for mimicry