| irreligionist | (noun) someone who is indifferent or hostile to religion | - |
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| irreligiousness | (noun) the quality of not being devout | Synonyms: irreligion |
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| jogging | (noun) running at a jog trot as a form of cardiopulmonary exercise | - |
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| judging | (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
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| keratalgia | (noun) pain in the cornea | - |
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| krigia | (noun) any small branched yellow-flowered North American herb of the genus Krigia | - |
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| lagging | (noun) insulation used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat | - |
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| laryngismus | (noun) laryngeal spasm caused by the sudden contraction of laryngeal muscles | - |
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| laryngitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx; characterized by hoarseness or loss of voice and coughing | - |
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| laryngopharyngitis | (noun) inflammation of the larynx and pharynx | - |
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| lawgiver | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawmaker |
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| legging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, leging |
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| legibility | (noun) a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read | Synonyms: readability |
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| (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: discernability |
| leging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, legging |
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| legion | (noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: horde, host |
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| (noun) a large military unit | - |
| (noun) association of ex-servicemen | - |
| (noun) archaic terms for army | Synonyms: host |
| legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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| legionella | (noun) the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease | Synonyms: Legionella pneumophilia |
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| legionnaire | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionary |
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| legislating | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislation |
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| legislation | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislating |
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| (noun) law enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: statute law |
| legislator | (noun) someone who makes or enacts laws | - |
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| legislatorship | (noun) the office of legislator | - |
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| legislature | (noun) persons who make or amend or repeal laws | Synonyms: general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body |
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| legitimacy | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law | - |
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| (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: authenticity, genuineness |
| legitimation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legalization |
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| (noun) the act of rendering a person legitimate | - |
| lepidopterologist | (noun) an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths | Synonyms: butterfly collector, lepidopterist |
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| leptomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the leptomeninges | - |
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| leptosporangium | (noun) a sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell; characteristic of the Filicales or of almost all modern ferns | - |
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| leveraging | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leverage |
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| lexicologist | (noun) a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language | Synonyms: lexicographer |
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| limnologist | (noun) a specialist in the study of freshwater ponds and lakes | - |
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| litigiousness | (noun) a quarrelsome disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits | - |
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| liturgics | (noun) the study of liturgies | Synonyms: liturgiology |
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| liturgiology | (noun) the study of liturgies | Synonyms: liturgics |
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| liturgist | (noun) an authority on liturgies | - |
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| lodging | (noun) the act of lodging | - |
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| (noun) structures collectively in which people are housed | Synonyms: housing, living accommodations |
| (noun) the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily | Synonyms: lodgement, lodgment |
| lodgings | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: diggings, digs, domiciliation, pad |
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| loggia | (noun) a roofed arcade or gallery with open sides stretching along the front or side of a building; often at an upper level | - |
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| logginess | (noun) a dull and listless state resulting from weariness | Synonyms: loginess |
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| logging | (noun) the work of cutting down trees for timber | - |
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| logic | (noun) the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference | - |
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| (noun) a system of reasoning | Synonyms: logical system, system of logic |
| (noun) reasoned and reasonable judgment | - |
| (noun) the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation | - |
| (noun) the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations | - |
| logicality | (noun) correct and valid reasoning | Synonyms: logicalness |
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| logicalness | (noun) correct and valid reasoning | Synonyms: logicality |
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| logician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logistician |
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| logicism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic | - |
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| loginess | (noun) a dull and listless state resulting from weariness | Synonyms: logginess |
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| logion | (noun) a saying of Jesus that is regarded as authentic although it is not recorded in the Gospels | - |
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| logistician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logician |
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| logistics | (noun) handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed | - |
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| longicorn | (noun) long-bodied beetle having very long antennae | Synonyms: long-horned beetle, longicorn beetle |
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| longing | (noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: hungriness, yearning |
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| longitude | (noun) the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich | - |
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| luging | (noun) riding a light one-man toboggan | - |
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| lungi | (noun) a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma | Synonyms: longyi, lungyi |
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| lymphangiectasia | (noun) dilatation of a lymph vessel | Synonyms: lymphangiectasis |
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| lymphangiectasis | (noun) dilatation of a lymph vessel | Synonyms: lymphangiectasia |
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| lymphangiogram | (noun) an angiogram of the lymph nodes and lymph vessels made after the injection of a radiopaque substance | - |
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| lymphangiography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of lymph nodes and lymph vessels after injection of a radiopaque contrast medium; produces a lymphangiogram | Synonyms: lymphography |
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| lymphangioma | (noun) benign angioma consisting of a mass of lymphatic vessels | - |
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| lymphangitis | (noun) inflammation of a lymph vessel | - |
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| macrosporangium | (noun) a plant structure that produces megaspores | Synonyms: megasporangium |
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| magic | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| (noun) any art that invokes supernatural powers | Synonyms: thaumaturgy |
| magician | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, prestidigitator |
| magilp | (noun) a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine | Synonyms: megilp |
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| magistracy | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistrature |
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| magistrate | (noun) a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses) | - |
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| magistrature | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistracy |
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| makagigi | (noun) cookies made with poppy seeds and honey; traditional Polish Christmas sweet treats. | - |
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| malacologist | (noun) a zoologist specializing in the study of mollusks | - |
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| malacopterygian | (noun) any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii | Synonyms: soft-finned fish |
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| mammalogist | (noun) one skilled in the study of mammals | - |
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| manginess | (noun) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing | Synonyms: seediness, shabbiness, sleaziness |
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| margin | (noun) an amount beyond the minimum necessary | - |
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| (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: allowance, leeway, tolerance |
| (noun) the blank space that surrounds the text on a page | - |
| (noun) the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities | Synonyms: security deposit |
| (noun) (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold | Synonyms: gross profit, gross profit margin |
| (noun) the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary | Synonyms: border, perimeter |
| 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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| mastalgia | (noun) pain in the breast | - |
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| megasporangium | (noun) a plant structure that produces megaspores | Synonyms: macrosporangium |
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| megillah | (noun) (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account | - |
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| megilp | (noun) a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine | Synonyms: magilp |
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| meningioma | (noun) a tumor arising in the meninges which surround the brain and spinal cord; usually slow growing and sometimes malignant | - |
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| meningism | (noun) symptoms that mimic those of meningitis but without inflammation of the meninges | - |
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| meningitis | (noun) infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea | - |
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| menorrhagia | (noun) abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged | Synonyms: hypermenorrhea |
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| meralgia | (noun) pain in the thigh | - |
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| merging | (noun) a flowing together | Synonyms: confluence, conflux |
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| (noun) the act of joining together as one | Synonyms: coming together, meeting |
| messaging | (noun) the sending and processing of e-mail by computer | Synonyms: electronic messaging |
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| metallurgist | (noun) an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals | Synonyms: metallurgical engineer |
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| meteorologist | (noun) a specialist who studies processes in the earth's atmosphere that cause weather conditions | - |
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| metralgia | (noun) pain in the uterus | - |
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| metrorrhagia | (noun) bleeding from the uterus that is not due to menstruation; usually indicative of disease (as cervical cancer) | - |
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| microbiologist | (noun) a specialist in microbiology | - |
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| microsporangium | (noun) a plant structure that produces microspores | - |
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| mineralogist | (noun) a scientist trained in mineralogy | - |
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| minginess | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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| misgiving | (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust, suspicion |
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| (noun) painful expectation | Synonyms: apprehension |
| (noun) uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety) | Synonyms: qualm, scruple |
| mixologist | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, bartender |
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| monologist | (noun) an entertainer who performs alone | - |
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