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In heraldry, a label is a barrulet, or sometimes a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a cadency mark to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living. When the father died, the eldest son removed the label mark from his arms and became head of the family.
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In heraldry, the term langued describes an animal as having its tongue visible.
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In heraldry, a lattice is a border formed of perpendicular and horizontal bars, either interlaced or not.
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In heraldry, any lion not depicted rampant is known as a lion leoparde.
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In heraldry, lionced describes a cross adorned with lions' heads, having arms terminating in lions' heads.
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In heraldry, a lioncel is a small lion, especially one of several borne in the same coat of arms.
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A liver is a mythical bird found on the arms of the city of Liverpool, and traditionally ascribed as being the origin of the city's name, though in fact the liver was an invention after the city received its name, and it is most likely that the bird on Liverpool's arms is a young Cormorant - a stuffed immature Cormorant being kept in Liverpool's city hall since time immemorial.
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In heraldry the term lodged means lying down and is used to describe beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.
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In heraldry, a long cross or passion cross, is a plain cross with the horizontal bar positioned one third of the way down from the top.
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In heraldry, a lozenge is a diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. The term also describes a form of the escutcheon used by women (with the exception in English heraldry of the Sovereign) instead of the shield which is used by men. The use of the lozenge in place of the shield for bearing the arms of a lady was introduced into English heraldry in the beginning of the 14th century.
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In heraldry, lozengy describes a field divided into lozenge-shaped compartments.
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