List of collective nouns by collective term L-Z
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Collective noun
List of collective nouns
List of collective nouns by collective term
| labour | A labour of moles | √ |
| lap | A lap of cod | Uncertain |
| leap | A leap of hares | √ |
| leap | A leap of leopards | √ |
| leash | A leash of deer | √ |
| leash | A leash of foxes | √ |
| lek | A lek of grouse | Uncertain |
| library | A library of books | √ |
| lick | A lick of lesbians | √ |
| litter | A litter of piglets | √ |
| litter | A litter of puppies | √ |
| lodge | A lodge of beavers | √ |
| loft | A loft of pigeons | √ |
| lot | A lot of automobile dealers | Spurious |
| lounge | A lounge of lizards | Spurious |
| lute | A lute of mallards | Uncertain |
| melody | A melody of harpers | √ |
| mews | A mews of capons | √ |
| mine | A mine of toddlers | Spurious |
| mischief | A mischief of mice | √ |
| mission | A mission of monkeys | √ |
| mite | A mite of mites | Uncertain |
| mob | A mob of kangaroos | √ |
| movement | A movement of moles | √ |
| multiply | A multiply of husbands | √ |
| murder | A murder of crows | √ |
| murmuration | A murmuration of starlings | √ |
| muster | A muster of storks | √ |
| muster | A muster of peacocks | √ |
| mutation | A mutation of thrushes | √ |
| mute | A mute of hounds | √ |
| nest | A nest of mice | √ |
| nest | A nest of rabbits | √ |
| nest | A nest of vipers | √ |
| nest | A nest of snakes | √ |
| network | A network of computers | √ |
| neverthriving | A neverthriving of jugglers | √ |
| newton | A newton of figs | Spurious |
| nide | A nide of geese | √ |
| nucleus | A nucleus of physicists | Spurious |
| number | A number of mathematicians | √ |
| nye | A nye of pheasants | √ |
| obesiance | An obesiance of servants | √ |
| obstinacy | An obstinacy of buffalo | √ |
| ostentation | An ostentation of peacocks | √ |
| pace | A pace of asses | √ |
| pack | A pack of hounds | √ |
| pack | A pack of rats | √ |
| pack | A pack of wolves | √ |
| pack | A pack of grouse | √ |
| paddling | A paddling of ducks (on water) | √ |
| pan | A pan of critics | Spurious |
| pandemonium | A pandemonium of parrots | Uncertain |
| pandemonium | A pandemonium of pandas | Spurious |
| panel | A panel of experts | √ |
| pantheon | A pantheon of gods | Uncertain |
| parade | A parade of elephants | √ |
| parcel | A parcel of hogs | √ |
| parcel | A parcel of deer | √ |
| parcel | A parcel of penguins | Uncertain |
| parel | A parel of troops | √ |
| parliament | A parliament of owls | √ |
| parliament | A parliament of rooks | √ |
| party | A party of jays | √ |
| passel | A passel of hogs | √ |
| passel | A passel of possum | Uncertain |
| patch | A patch of flowers | √ |
| peep | A peep of chickens | √ |
| phalanx | A phalanx of storks | Uncertain |
| pit | A pit of snakes | √ |
| piteousness | A piteousness of doves | √ |
| pitying | A pitying of turtledoves | √ |
| pitying | A pitying of doves | √ |
| plague | A plague of locusts | √ |
| platoon | A platoon of soldiers | √ |
| plum | A plum of seals | Uncertain |
| plump | A plump of waterfowl | √ |
| plump | A plump of ducks (flying) | √ |
| pod | A pod of whales | √ |
| pod | A pod of seals | √ |
| pod | A pod of dolphins | √ |
| pomp | A pomp of pekinese | √ |
| ponder | A ponder of philosophers | √ |
| pontifica | A pontifica of prelates | √ |
| portfolio | A portfolio of stockbrokers | Spurious |
| pounce | A pounce of cats | √ |
| poverty | A poverty of pipers | √ |
| prettying | A prettying of doves | √ |
| prickle | A prickle of hedgehogs | √ |
| pride | A pride of peacocks | √ |
| pride | A pride of lions | √ |
| prudence | A prudence of vicaries (vicars) | √ |
| purse | A purse of winnings | √ |
| quarrel | A quarrel of sparrows | √ |
| quiver | A quiver of rebuttals | √ |
| quiver | A quiver of arrows | √ |
| rabble | A rabble of butterflies | Uncertain |
| rabble | A rabble of rats | √ |
| raffle | A raffle of turkeys | √ |
| raft | A raft of coots | √ |
| raft | A raft of auks | Uncertain |
| raft | A raft of ducks | √ |
| raft | A raft of penguins | √ |
| rafter | A rafter of turkeys | √ |
| rag | A rag of colts | √ |
| rainbow | A rainbow of butterflies | √ |
| rake | A rake of colts | √ |
| Rake | A Rake of mules | √ |
| range | A range of mountains | √ |
| rascal | A rascal of boys | √ |
| riches | A riches of matrons | √ |
| richness | A richness of martens | √ |
| ring | A ring of keys | √ |
| roll | A roll of coins | √ |
| rookery | A rookery of penguins | Spurious |
| rouleau | A rouleau of coins | √ |
| rout | A rout of wolves | √ |
| rout | A rout of snails | √ |
| rout | A rout of wolves | √ |
| rout | A rout of knights | √ |
| run | A run of salmon | √ |
| run | A run of poultry | √ |
| sault | A sault of lions | √ |
| scale | A scale of fish | √ |
| school | A school of whales | √ |
| school | A school of fish | √ |
| scold | A scold of jays | Uncertain |
| scourge | A scourge of mosquitoes | √ |
| screech | A screech of gulls | √ |
| scull | A scull of friars | √ |
| sedge | A sedge of bitterns | √ |
| sedge | A sedge of cranes | √ |
| set | A set of mathematicians | √ |
| shoal | A shoal of fish | √ |
| shower | A shower of meteorologists | Spurious |
| shrewdness | A shrewdness of apes | √ |
| shuffle | A shuffle of bureaucrats | √ |
| siege | A siege of bitterns | √ |
| siege | A siege of herons | √ |
| singular | A singular of boars | √ |
| skein | A skein of geese | √ |
| skulk | A skulk of foxes | √ |
| slew | A slew of homework | √ |
| slither | A slither of snakes | √ |
| sloth | A sloth of bears | √ |
| smack | A smack of jellyfish | √ |
| sneak | A sneak of weasels | √ |
| sord | A sord of mallards | √ |
| sounder | A sounder of pigs | √ |
| sounder | A sounder of swine | √ |
| sounder | A sounder of boars | √ |
| sowse | A sowse of lions | √ |
| span | A span of oxen | √ |
| spring | A spring of seals | √ |
| spring | A spring of teal | √ |
| squad | A squad of soldiers | √ |
| stable | A stable of horses | √ |
| staff | A staff of employees | √ |
| stand | A stand of flamingoes | √ |
| stand | A stand of trees | √ |
| stare | A stare of owls | √ |
| state | A state of princes | √ |
| storytelling | A storytelling of crows | √ |
| streak | A streak of tigers | √ |
| string | A string of ponies | √ |
| stud | A stud of mares | √ |
| superfluity | A superfluity of nuns | √ |
| swarm | A swarm of ants | √ |
| swarm | A swarm of bees | √ |
| swarm | A swarm of flies | √ |
| swarm | A swarm of rats | √ |
| swarm | A swarm of eels | √ |
| team | A team of horses | √ |
| team | A team of athletes | √ |
| team | A team of oxen | √ |
| team | A team of ducks | √ |
| thicket | A thicket of trees | √ |
| thicket | A thicket of idiots | Spurious |
| thought | A thought of barons | √ |
| threatening | A threatening of courtiers | √ |
| tiding(s) | A tiding(s) of magpies | √ |
| tower | A tower of giraffes | Uncertain |
| trace | A trace of hares | √ |
| trembing | A trembing of finches | √ |
| tribe | A tribe of monkeys | √ |
| tribe | A tribe of goats | √ |
| tribe | A tribe of natives | √ |
| trimming | A trimming of finches | √ |
| trip | A trip of sheep | √ |
| trip | A trip of dotterel | √ |
| trip | A trip of hares | √ |
| trip | A trip of goats | √ |
| troop | A troop of kangaroos | √ |
| troubling | A troubling of goldfinches | √ |
| troupe | A troupe of performers | √ |
| tumult | A tumult of tubas (players) | Spurious |
| turmoil | A turmoil of porpoises | Uncertain |
| turn | A turn of turtles | √ |
| ubiquity | A ubiquity of sparrows | √ |
| ugly | An ugly of walruses | √ |
| unkindness | An unkindness of ravens | √ |
| vagary | A vagary of impediments | √ |
| volery | A volery of birds | √ |
| wad | A wad of money | √ |
| waddle | A waddle of penguins | √ |
| wake | A wake of buzzards | √ |
| walk | A walk of snipe | √ |
| watch | A watch of nightingales | √ |
| wealth | A wealth of information | √ |
| wedge | A wedge of geese (flying) | √ |
| wedge | A wedge of swans (flying) | √ |
| whiteness | A whiteness of swans | √ |
| wing | A wing of aircraft | √ |
| wisdom | A wisdom of grandparents | √ |
| wisp | A wisp of snipe | √ |
| woop | A woop of gorillas | √ |
| wrack | A wrack of kittens (rabbits) | √ |
| yoke | A yoke of oxen | √ |
| zeal | A zeal of zebra | √ |