| khalif | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, caliph, kalif, kaliph, khalifah |
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| khalifah | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, caliph, kalif, kaliph, khalif |
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| lateralisation | (noun) localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain | Synonyms: laterality, lateralization |
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| laterality | (noun) superior development of one side of the body | Synonyms: dominance |
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| (noun) the property of using one hand more than the other | Synonyms: handedness |
| (noun) localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain | Synonyms: lateralisation, lateralization |
| lateralization | (noun) localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain | Synonyms: lateralisation, laterality |
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| lavalier | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavaliere, lavalliere |
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| lavaliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavalliere |
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| legalisation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalization, legitimation |
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| legalism | (noun) strict conformity to the letter of the law rather than its spirit | - |
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| legality | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute | - |
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| legalization | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legitimation |
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| lethality | (noun) the quality of being deadly | Synonyms: deadliness |
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| leukoencephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the white matter of the brain | - |
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| lexicalisation | (noun) the process of making a word to express a concept | Synonyms: lexicalization |
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| lexicalization | (noun) the process of making a word to express a concept | Synonyms: lexicalisation |
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| liberalisation | (noun) the act of making less strict | Synonyms: liberalization, relaxation |
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| liberalism | (noun) a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution | - |
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| (noun) an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market | - |
| liberalist | (noun) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | Synonyms: liberal, progressive |
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| liberality | (noun) the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament | Synonyms: liberalness |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom | Synonyms: liberalness |
| liberalization | (noun) the act of making less strict | Synonyms: liberalisation, relaxation |
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| literalism | (noun) the doctrine of realistic (literal) portrayal in art or literature | - |
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| (noun) a disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense | - |
| localisation | (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localization, locating, location |
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| (noun) (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body | Synonyms: localisation of function, localisation principle, localization, localization of function, localization principle |
| localism | (noun) a partiality for some particular place | Synonyms: provincialism, sectionalism |
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| (noun) a phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality | - |
| locality | (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity |
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| localization | (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localisation, locating, location |
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| (noun) (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body | Synonyms: localisation, localisation of function, localisation principle, localization of function, localization principle |
| logicality | (noun) correct and valid reasoning | Synonyms: logicalness |
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| loyalist | (noun) a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt) | Synonyms: stalwart |
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| lyricality | (noun) the property of being suitable for singing | Synonyms: lyricism, songfulness |
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| madrigalist | (noun) a singer of madrigals | - |
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| malice | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolence, malevolency |
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| (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom |
| maliciousness | (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: malice, spite, spitefulness, venom |
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| malignance | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignancy, malignity |
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| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignancy |
| malignancy | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignity |
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| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignance |
| maligner | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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| malignity | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignancy |
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| (noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malevolence |
| malignment | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: smear, vilification |
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| malik | (noun) the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent | - |
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| malingerer | (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: shammer, skulker |
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| malingering | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: skulking |
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| malinois | (noun) fawn-colored short-haired sheepdog | - |
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| mammalian | (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammal |
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| marginalia | (noun) notes written in the margin | - |
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| marginalisation | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalization |
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| marginality | (noun) the property of being marginal or on the fringes | - |
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| marginalization | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalisation |
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| marginocephalian | (noun) includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs | Synonyms: Marginocephalia, suborder Marginocephalia |
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| materialisation | (noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: manifestation, materialization |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialization, offspring |
| (noun) the process of coming into being; becoming reality | Synonyms: materialization |
| materialism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality | Synonyms: physicalism |
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| (noun) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters | Synonyms: philistinism |
| materialist | (noun) someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter | - |
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| (noun) someone with great regard for material possessions | - |
| materiality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporality, corporeality, physicalness |
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| (noun) relevance requiring careful consideration | - |
| materialization | (noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: manifestation, materialisation |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialisation, offspring |
| (noun) the process of coming into being; becoming reality | Synonyms: materialisation |
| maternalism | (noun) motherly care; behavior characteristic of a mother; the practice of acting as a mother does toward her children | - |
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| (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternity, motherliness |
| matrilineality | (noun) a system in which a person's descent is traced through their mother and her maternal ancestors. | - |
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| mealie | (noun) an ear of corn | - |
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| medalist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medallist |
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| (noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medallist |
| medievality | (noun) The quality of being of or relating to the Middle Ages, perhaps circa 500 to circa 1500 CE. | - |
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| megalith | (noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe) | Synonyms: megalithic structure |
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| memorialisation | (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: commemoration, memorialization |
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| memorialization | (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: commemoration, memorialisation |
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| meningoencephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis |
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| mentalism | (noun) (philosophy) a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness | - |
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| mentality | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, wit |
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| (noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: mind-set, mindset, outlook |
| mescaline | (noun) the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons | Synonyms: peyote |
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| minimalism | (noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | Synonyms: minimal art, reductivism |
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| minimalist | (noun) a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism | - |
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| (noun) a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics | - |
| minimality | (noun) The state of being the smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree. | - |
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| misalignment | (noun) the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned | - |
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| modality | (noun) a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment | - |
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| (noun) a particular sense | Synonyms: sense modality, sensory system |
| (noun) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility | Synonyms: mode |
| (noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker | Synonyms: mode, mood |
| molality | (noun) concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent | Synonyms: molal concentration |
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| moralisation | (noun) the act of making moral (or more moral) | Synonyms: moralization |
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| (noun) indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code | Synonyms: moralization, moralizing |
| moralism | (noun) judgments about another person's morality | - |
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| (noun) a moral maxim | - |
| moralist | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems | - |
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| (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: disciplinarian, martinet |
| morality | (noun) concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct | - |
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| (noun) motivation based on ideas of right and wrong | Synonyms: ethical motive, ethics, morals |
| moralization | (noun) the act of making moral (or more moral) | Synonyms: moralisation |
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| (noun) indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code | Synonyms: moralisation, moralizing |
| moralizing | (noun) indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code | Synonyms: moralisation, moralization |
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| mortality | (noun) the quality or state of being mortal | - |
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| (noun) the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year | Synonyms: death rate, deathrate, fatality rate, mortality rate |
| multiculturalism | (noun) the doctrine that several different cultures (rather than one national culture) can coexist peacefully and equitably in a single country | - |
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| multidimensionality | (noun) The property of having many aspects or facets. | - |
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| multifunctionality | (noun) The condition of having multiple functions. | - |
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| municipality | (noun) people living in a town or city having local self-government | - |
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| (noun) an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government | - |
| muralist | (noun) a painter of murals | - |
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| musicality | (noun) the property of sounding like music | Synonyms: musicalness |
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| mutualism | (noun) the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other | Synonyms: symbiosis |
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| mutuality | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependence, interdependency |
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| (noun) a reciprocality of sentiments | Synonyms: mutualness |
| nasalisation | (noun) the act of nasalizing; the utterance of sounds modulated by the nasal resonators | Synonyms: nasalization |
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| nasality | (noun) a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators | - |
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| nasalization | (noun) the act of nasalizing; the utterance of sounds modulated by the nasal resonators | Synonyms: nasalisation |
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| natality | (noun) the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year | Synonyms: birth rate, birthrate, fertility, fertility rate |
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| nationalisation | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalization |
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| (noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalization |
| (noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalization |
| nationalism | (noun) love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | Synonyms: patriotism |
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| (noun) the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals | - |
| (noun) the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination | - |
| nationalist | (noun) one who loves and defends his or her country | Synonyms: patriot |
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| (noun) an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government | - |
| nationality | (noun) people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation | - |
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| (noun) the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization | - |
| nationalization | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalisation |
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| (noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalisation |
| (noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalisation |
| naturalisation | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalization |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalization |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalization |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalization |
| naturalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations | - |
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| (noun) an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description | Synonyms: realism |
| naturalist | (noun) a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) | Synonyms: natural scientist |
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| (noun) an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms | - |
| naturalization | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalisation |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| neocolonialism | (noun) control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures | - |
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| neoliberalism | (noun) a political orientation originating in the 1960s; blends liberal political views with an emphasis on economic growth | - |
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| neutralisation | (noun) action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action | Synonyms: counteraction, neutralization |
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| (noun) action intended to keep a country politically neutral or exclude it from a possible war | Synonyms: neutralization |
| (noun) (euphemism) the removal of a threat by killing or destroying it (especially in a covert operation or military operation) | Synonyms: neutralization |
| (noun) a chemical reaction in which an acid and a base interact with the formation of a salt; with strong acids and bases the essential reaction is the combination of hydrogen ions with hydroxyl ions to form water | Synonyms: neutralisation reaction, neutralization, neutralization reaction |