LES or Les may refer to:

People

Les (given name) Les is a given name, usually short for Lester or Leslie. Also, a Romanization of Ukrainian, romanization of Ukrainian name :uk:Лесь, Лесь Help:IPA/Ukrainian, �lɛsʲ Les may refer to: People: * Les Aspin (1938–1995), American politi ...

Les (surname) Les is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jim Les (born 1963), American basketball coach and former player * John Les (born 1951 or 1952), Canadian politician * Laura Les (born 1994), member of experimental-pop duo 100 gecs ...

L.E.S. (producer) Leshan Lewis (born December 7, 1966), professionally known by his pseudonym L.E.S., is an American Disc jockey, DJ and record producer commonly associated with New York rapper Nas, with whom he grew up in the Queensbridge Houses, Queensbridge hous ...

, hip hop producer

Space flight

Launch Entry Suit The Launch Entry Suit (LES), known as the "pumpkin suit", is a partial-pressure suit that was worn by all Space Shuttle crews for the ascent and entry portions of flight from STS-26 (1988) to STS-65 (1994). It was completely phased out by STS-8 ...

, worn by Space Shuttle crews *

Launch escape system A launch escape system (LES) or launch abort system (LAS) is a crew-safety system connected to a space capsule. It is used in the event of a critical emergency to quickly separate the capsule from its launch vehicle in case of an emergency requiri ...

, for spacecraft emergencies *

Lincoln Experimental Satellite The Lincoln Experimental Satellite series was designed and built by Lincoln Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1965 and 1976, under USAF sponsorship, for testing devices and techniques for satellite communication. Develo ...

series, 1960s and 1970s

Biology and medicine

* Lazy eye syndrome, or

amblyopia Amblyopia, also called lazy eye, is a disorder of sight in which the brain fails to fully process input from one eye and over time favors the other eye. It results in decreased vision in an eye that typically appears normal in other aspects. Amb ...

, a disorder in the human optic nerve * The Liverpool epidemic strain of ''

Pseudomonas aeruginosa ''Pseudomonas aeruginosa'' is a common Bacterial capsule, encapsulated, Gram-negative bacteria, Gram-negative, Aerobic organism, aerobic–facultative anaerobe, facultatively anaerobic, Bacillus (shape), rod-shaped bacteria, bacterium that can c ...

'' *

Lower esophageal sphincter The esophagus (American English), oesophagus (British English), or œsophagus ( archaic spelling) ( see spelling difference) all ; : ((o)e)(œ)sophagi or ((o)e)(œ)sophaguses), colloquially known also as the food pipe, food tube, or gullet, ...

* Lupus erythematosus systemicus

Places

* The

Lower East Side The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City. It is located roughly between the Bowery and the East River from Canal to Houston streets. Historically, it w ...

neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City *

Les, Catalonia Les () is a municipality in the northwest of Aran, Catalonia. It has a population of . The mayor is Andreu Cortés Labrid ( UA). It is located in the terçon The terçons (Aranese dialect, Aranese Occitan language, Occitan: ''terçon''; Catalan ...

, a municipality in Spain * Leş, a village in

Nojorid Nojorid () is a large Communes of Romania, commune located in Bihor County, Crișana, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Apateu (''Oláhapáti''), Chișirid (''Kisürögd''), Leș (''Váradles''), Livada de Bihor (''Mácsapuszta''), Nojorid ...

Commune, Bihor County, Romania * ''Les'', the Hungarian name for

Leșu Leșu () is a commune in Bistrița-Năsăud County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Leșu and Lunca Leșului. The commune is situated in the foothills of the Bârgău Mountains, at an altitude of , on the banks of the river ...

Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania * Les, a village in Tejakula district, Buleleng regency, Bali, Indonesia *

Lesotho Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho and formerly known as Basutoland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Entirely surrounded by South Africa, it is the largest of only three sovereign enclave and exclave, enclaves in the world, t ...

, IOC and UNDP country code *

Lès The word ''lès'' (, and with liaison) is an archaic French preposition meaning "near", "next to". Today it occurs only in place names to distinguish places with the same name. The word ''lès'' has two variants: ''lez'' and ''les''. The lat ...

, a word featuring in many French placenames

Transport

Leigh-on-Sea railway station Leigh-on-Sea railway station is on the London, Tilbury and Southend line, serving the town of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. It is down the main line from Fenchurch Street railway station, London Fenchurch Street via and it is situated between to the ...

, National Rail station code *

Leytonstone tube station Leytonstone () is a London Underground station in Leytonstone, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, east London, England. It is a stop on the Central line, between Leyton and Snaresbrook (on the direct route towards Epping) or Wanstead (o ...

, London Underground station code

Other uses

* "L.E.S.", a song by Childish Gambino from ''Camp'' (album) *

Lake-effect snow Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when a cold air mass moves across long expanses of warmer lake water. The lower layer of air, heated by the lake water, picks up water vapor from the lake and rises through colde ...

Large eddy simulation Large eddy simulation (LES) is a mathematical model for turbulence used in computational fluid dynamics. It was initially proposed in 1963 by Joseph Smagorinsky to simulate atmospheric air currents, and first explored by Deardorff (1970). LES is ...

in fluid dynamics *

Law Enforcement Sensitive The United States government classification system is established under s:Executive Order 13526, Executive Order 13526, the latest in a long series of Executive order (United States), executive orders on the topic of classified information begin ...

, a US security classification *

Leave and Earnings Statement A Leave and Earnings Statement, generally referred to as an LES, is a document given on a monthly basis to members of the United States military which documents their pay and leave status on a monthly basis. Employees in the Civil service in the ...

, of US military *

Les (Vietnam) ''Les'' is a derogatory local Vietnamese term of identification for more globally common labels like lesbian, queer woman, or female homosexual. It is derived mainly from scholarship by Vietnamese-American ethnographer Natalie Newton, who is, ...

, a Vietnamese term for lesbians * ''

Les+ Magazine ''Les+ Magazine'' is a Beijing-based community magazine. It was started in 2005 by a group of young Chinese lesbian A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual ...

'', a Chinese LGBT magazine *

Licensing Executives Society International The Licensing Executives Society International, or LES International (LESI, or formally "LES International, Inc."), is a not for profit, non-political, umbrella organization having 33 national and regional member societies, interested in technol ...

, a US intellectual property organization *

Life Extension Society The Life Extension Society (LES) with its network of coordinators was the first cryonics organization in the world. It was founded by Evan Cooper in 1964 to promote cryonic suspension of people, and became the seed tree for cryonics societies thro ...

, a cryonics organization *

Lifetime Entertainment Services Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC (LES) is an American media company and a subsidiary of A&E Networks, a joint venture of the Walt Disney Company and Hearst Communications, founded in 1984 with media properties focused on women. Backgrou ...

, a US company * Lilliput

Edison screw Edison screw (ES) is a standard lightbulb socket for electric light bulbs. It was developed by Thomas Edison (1847–1931), patented in 1881, and was licensed in 1909 under General Electric's Mazda (light bulb), Mazda trademark. The bulbs have S ...

, a 5mm light bulb socket * Louisiana Energy Services, which operates the National Enrichment Facility {{disambiguation, geo