| lingual | (noun) a consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs | - |
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| linguica | (noun) a highly seasoned Portuguese pork sausage flavored with garlic and onions | - |
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| linguine | (noun) pasta in long slender flat strips | Synonyms: linguini |
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| linguini | (noun) pasta in long slender flat strips | Synonyms: linguine |
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| linguist | (noun) a person who speaks more than one language | Synonyms: polyglot |
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| (noun) a specialist in linguistics | Synonyms: linguistic scientist |
| linguistics | (noun) the scientific study of language | - |
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| (noun) the humanistic study of language and literature | Synonyms: philology |
| longueur | (noun) a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) | - |
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| lugubriousness | (noun) the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness | Synonyms: gloominess, sadness |
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| maguey | (noun) Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine | Synonyms: Agave cantala, cantala |
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| (noun) Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal | Synonyms: Agave atrovirens |
| magus | (noun) a magician or sorcerer of ancient times | - |
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| (noun) a member of the Zoroastrian priesthood of the ancient Persians | - |
| mahagua | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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| (noun) erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks | Synonyms: blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahoe, majagua |
| majagua | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, purau |
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| (noun) erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks | Synonyms: blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahagua, mahoe |
| mapinguari | (noun) supposed human-sized sloth-like creature reportedly sighted by Indians in the Amazon rain forest | - |
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| marguerite | (noun) tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, Leucanthemum vulgare, moon daisy, ox-eyed daisy, oxeye daisy, white daisy |
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| (noun) perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Argyranthemum frutescens, Chrysanthemum frutescens, marguerite daisy, Paris daisy |
| meringue | (noun) sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar | - |
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| metalanguage | (noun) a language that can be used to describe languages | - |
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| mikagura | (noun) a type of formal ritual Shinto kagura dance. | - |
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| mogul | (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, power, top executive, tycoon |
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| (noun) a bump on a ski slope | - |
| monolingual | (noun) a person who knows only one language | - |
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| monologue | (noun) speech you make to yourself | Synonyms: soliloquy |
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| (noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor | - |
| (noun) a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation) | - |
| morgue | (noun) a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation | Synonyms: dead room, mortuary |
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| mudguard | (noun) a curved piece above the wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle to protect the rider from water or mud thrown up by the wheels | Synonyms: splash-guard, splash guard |
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| negus | (noun) wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg | - |
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| neurolinguist | (noun) someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception | - |
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| neurolinguistics | (noun) the branch of linguistics that studies the relation between language and the structure and function of the nervous system | - |
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| ngultrum | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bhutan | - |
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| oesophagus | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gorge, gullet |
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| oliguria | (noun) production of an abnormally small amount of urine | - |
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| (noun) abnormally small production of urine; can be a symptom of kidney disease or obstruction of the urinary tract or edema or an imbalance of fluids and electrolytes in the body | - |
| orangutan | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutang, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| orangutang | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| ouguiya | (noun) the basic unit of money in Mauritania | - |
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| oxtongue | (noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, bugloss, Picris echioides |
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| paralanguage | (noun) the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings | Synonyms: paralinguistic communication |
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| pedagogue | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagog |
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| pemphigus | (noun) a skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane | - |
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| penguin | (noun) short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers | - |
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| philologue | (noun) a humanist specializing in classical scholarship | Synonyms: philologist |
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| photocoagulation | (noun) surgical procedure that uses an intense laser beam to destroy diseased retinal tissue or to make a scar that will hold the retina in cases of detached retina | - |
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| photocoagulator | (noun) surgical instrument containing a laser for use in photocoagulation | - |
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| pinchgut | (noun) a niggardly person who starves himself (and others) | - |
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| pinguecula | (noun) a slightly elevated elastic tissue deposit in the conjunctiva that may extend to the cornea but does not cover it | - |
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| pirogue | (noun) a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log | Synonyms: dugout, dugout canoe |
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| plague | (noun) an annoyance | - |
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| (noun) any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) | - |
| (noun) a swarm of insects that attack plants | Synonyms: infestation |
| (noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestilence, pestis |
| (noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, pestilence |
| popgun | (noun) plaything consisting of a toy gun that makes a popping sound | - |
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| prefiguration | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, foreshadowing |
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| (noun) an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come | - |
| prologue | (noun) an introduction to a play | - |
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| psycholinguist | (noun) a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language | - |
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| psycholinguistics | (noun) the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance | - |
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| rearguard | (noun) a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body | - |
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| rectangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: oblongness |
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| regular | (noun) a garment size for persons of average height and weight | - |
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| (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: fixture, habitue |
| (noun) a dependable follower (especially in party politics) | - |
| (noun) a soldier in the regular army | - |
| regularisation | (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularization, regulation |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) | Synonyms: regularization |
| regularity | (noun) the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate | - |
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| (noun) a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles | Synonyms: geometrical regularity |
| regularization | (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularisation, regulation |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) | Synonyms: regularisation |
| regulating | (noun) the act of controlling or directing according to rule | Synonyms: regulation |
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| regulation | (noun) the act of controlling or directing according to rule | Synonyms: regulating |
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| (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularisation, regularization |
| (noun) a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: ordinance |
| (noun) (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered | - |
| (noun) the state of being controlled or governed | - |
| regulator | (noun) any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc. | - |
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| (noun) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | Synonyms: governor |
| (noun) an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest | - |
| regur | (noun) a rich black loam of India | Synonyms: regur soil |
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| regurgitation | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, puking, vomit, vomiting |
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| (noun) recall after rote memorization | - |
| (noun) backflow of blood through a defective heart valve | - |
| rogue | (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
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| roguery | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| roguishness | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, shenanigan |
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| (noun) the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks | Synonyms: prankishness, rascality |
| rotgut | (noun) any alcoholic beverage of inferior quality | - |
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| rugulah | (noun) pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves) | Synonyms: rugelach, ruggelach |
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| safeguard | (noun) a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. | Synonyms: guard, precaution |
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| (noun) a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war | Synonyms: safe-conduct |
| saguaro | (noun) extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit | Synonyms: Carnegiea gigantea, sahuaro |
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| salmagundi | (noun) cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing | - |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, smorgasbord, variety |
| sanguification | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis |
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| sanguine | (noun) chalk of a reddish-brown colour that resembles dried blood | Synonyms: red chalk |
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| (noun) a blood-red color | - |
| sanguineness | (noun) feeling sanguine; optimistically cheerful and confident | Synonyms: sanguinity |
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| sanguinity | (noun) feeling sanguine; optimistically cheerful and confident | Synonyms: sanguineness |
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| sarcophagus | (noun) a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions) | - |
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| scattergun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: shotgun |
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| seagull | (noun) mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs | Synonyms: gull, sea gull |
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| segue | (noun) the act of changing smoothly from one state or situation to another | - |
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| shogun | (noun) a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68 | - |
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| shogunate | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| shotgun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: scattergun |
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| singular | (noun) the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton | Synonyms: singular form |
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| singularity | (noun) the quality of being one of a kind | Synonyms: uniqueness |
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| (noun) strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual | - |
| singultus | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccough, hiccup |
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| slanguage | (noun) language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant | - |
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| slumgullion | (noun) a thin stew of meat and vegetables | - |
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| sociolinguist | (noun) a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication | - |
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| sociolinguistics | (noun) the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context | - |
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| staplegun | (noun) a hand-held machine for driving staples home | Synonyms: staple gun, tacker |
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| strangulation | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangling, throttling |
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| (noun) (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid | - |
| (noun) the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage | - |
| subfigure | (noun) a figure that is a part of another figure | - |
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| synagogue | (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: tabernacle, temple |
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| taguan | (noun) East Indian flying squirrel | Synonyms: flying cat, flying marmot, Petaurista petaurista |
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| tegument | (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: cutis, skin |
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| thermocoagulation | (noun) congealing tissue by heat (as by electric current) | - |
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| thermoregulator | (noun) a regulator for automatically regulating temperature by starting or stopping the supply of heat | Synonyms: thermostat |
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| thingumabob | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingumajig | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thingummy | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| thioguanine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug used to treat acute leukemias | - |
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| tongue | (noun) the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot | - |
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| (noun) metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side | Synonyms: clapper |
| (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: clapper, glossa, lingua |
| (noun) a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language | Synonyms: natural language |
| (noun) a manner of speaking | - |
| (noun) the tongue of certain animals used as meat | - |
| (noun) a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea | Synonyms: spit |
| (noun) any long thin projection that is transient | Synonyms: knife |
| tonguefish | (noun) left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value | Synonyms: tongue-fish |
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| tongueflower | (noun) orchid having blue to purple flowers with tongue-shaped or strap-shaped protuberances (calli) at the lip base | Synonyms: tongue-flower |
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