Is there a word meaning 'L-shaped' ?

[steffee]

I am looking, really, for a dictionary which maybe lets you put in the meaning of a word, to find the actual word, rather than the usual way of putting in a word to get the definition.

In particular, I am looking for a word to mean L-shaped, as in an L-shaped room...

If anyone has any suggestions?

 

[Occlith]

Try a reverse dictionary.

 

[Shade]

Lynne Reid Banks, author of "The L-Shaped Room," would probably tell you there is no such word. Or if there is it's so obscure nobody would understand it so you may as well just say 'L-shaped.'

 

[Stewart]

I wonder, perhaps, if you could use bracket to imply.

 

[Sitaram]

I could not find anything in google

The first thought that came to mind is to coin the word Lamdoid, except the Greek letter Lambda is more like an upside down V than an L.

Since the essence of the L shape is orthogonal, or right-angled, I thought of orthogonal. The word angular or angle might be useful somehow. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

 

[steffee]

Thank you everyone: Occlith, that's exactly what I had hoped to find, unconsciously, I never knew such a thing as a reverse dictionary existed!! Shade, yes, of course. No doubt, she will have at least tried to find a word for it, even if she had not intended using one. Stewart, thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't considered 'bracket' before, but it is a bit more interesting than 'L-shaped room' (no offence to Ms Banks). And Sitaram, how interesting. I have spent a good half an hour today looking at the dictionary definitions of 'lambdoid' and 'orthogonal', and several other resources. 'Angular' is very useful.

So thank you, everyone. And I have a feeling this bracket-shaped, orthogonal room may be the best described concept in the story!

 

[Sitaram]

The bent knee- on bended knee

Perhaps in the story you could have some mention of someone kneeling, genuflecting, with bent knee, the bend of the knee resembling the L and the room, with some notion of supplication, or surrender.

 

[novella]

If you're only referring to a room, in architectural parlance an ell is a right-angled extension of a room or building.

 

[ZombieSheep]

You could always use a simile instead of searching for obscure words that not very many people would know of. Take whatever you're describing as L-shaped, and say it's "shaped like the path a chess knight has to be moved in," or something along those lines.

 

[sirmyk]

"shaped like the path a chess knight has to be moved in,"

Please never use that... just say L-shaped.

 

[StillILearn]

Well, I'll be durned, steffee. Look at all the folks you caused to come out of the shadows -- orthogonal, L-shaped, genuflecting, lamboid or otherwise.

Good work!

 

[mehdirza]

The L-Shaped Room word is not the type of words to be found in dictionary. I wanna remind that acid rain has waited for 42 years till 1921 to be added into dictionary. It's true that The L-Shaped Room is something important but not as acid rain. If even it's, there hasn't been a claim for it.