| inexpedience | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpediency |
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| inexpediency | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpedience |
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| inexperience | (noun) lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience | Synonyms: rawness |
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| infield | (noun) the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate | Synonyms: baseball diamond, diamond |
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| infielder | (noun) (baseball) a person who plays a position in the infield | - |
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| ingredient | (noun) a component of a mixture or compound | - |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, element, factor |
| (noun) food that is a component of a mixture in cooking | Synonyms: fixings |
| inpatient | (noun) a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated | Synonyms: inmate |
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| inquietude | (noun) feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable | Synonyms: disquietude, edginess, uneasiness |
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| insentience | (noun) lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations | - |
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| insobriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| insufficiency | (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: deficiency, inadequacy |
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| (noun) (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally | - |
| (noun) a lack of competence | Synonyms: inadequacy |
| intensifier | (noun) a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies | Synonyms: intensive |
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| interview | (noun) a conference (usually with someone important) | Synonyms: audience, consultation |
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| (noun) the questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists | - |
| interviewee | (noun) a person who is interviewed | - |
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| interviewer | (noun) a person who conducts an interview | - |
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| isopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting places with equal ground water pressure. | Synonyms: isopiestic line |
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| jalousie | (noun) a shutter made of angled slats | - |
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| (noun) a window with glass louvers | Synonyms: louvered window |
| jammies | (noun) (usually plural) loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers | Synonyms: pajama, pj's, pyjama |
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| jimmies | (noun) bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream | Synonyms: sprinkles |
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| julienne | (noun) a vegetable cut into thin strips | Synonyms: julienne vegetable |
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| (noun) a clear soup garnished with julienne vegetables | - |
| junkie | (noun) a narcotics addict | Synonyms: drug addict, junky |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, freak, junky, nut |
| justifier | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: apologist, vindicator |
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| kelpie | (noun) an Australian sheepdog with pointed ears | - |
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| (noun) (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders | Synonyms: kelpy |
| kerchief | (noun) a square scarf that is folded into a triangle and worn over the head or about the neck | - |
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| kiddie | (noun) informal term for a young child | Synonyms: kiddy |
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| kief | (noun) A form of cannabis from Morocco and Algeria | - |
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| kieselguhr | (noun) a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material | Synonyms: diatomaceous earth, diatomite |
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| kieserite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of hydrous magnesium sulfate often found in salt mines | - |
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| kilocalorie | (noun) a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food | Synonyms: Calorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, nutritionist's calorie |
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| klebsiella | (noun) a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections | - |
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| knobkerrie | (noun) a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa | Synonyms: knobkerry |
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| koppie | (noun) a small hill rising up from the African veld | Synonyms: kopje |
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| kylie | (noun) an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex | Synonyms: kiley |
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| laddie | (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: cub, lad, sonny, sonny boy |
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| lammergeier | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeyer |
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| lassie | (noun) a girl or young woman who is unmarried | Synonyms: jeune fille, lass, young girl |
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| latanier | (noun) fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region | Synonyms: latanier palm |
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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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| lavalliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavaliere |
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| lechatelierite | (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: crystal, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
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| leftfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate) | Synonyms: left field |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left | Synonyms: left, left field |
| lenience | (noun) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers | Synonyms: leniency |
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| (noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: leniency, lenity, mildness |
| (noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: indulgence, leniency |
| leniency | (noun) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers | Synonyms: lenience |
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| (noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: lenience, lenity, mildness |
| (noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: indulgence, lenience |
| liabilities | (noun) anything that is owed to someone else | - |
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| lie | (noun) a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth | Synonyms: prevarication |
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| (noun) position or manner in which something is situated | - |
| liebfraumilch | (noun) a sweetened Rhenish wine (especially one from Hesse in western Germany) | - |
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| lied | (noun) a German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano | - |
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| liege | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
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| (noun) a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service | Synonyms: liege lord |
| liegeman | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege, liege subject, vassal |
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| lien | (noun) the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged | - |
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| (noun) a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses | Synonyms: spleen |
| lieu | (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: place, position, stead |
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| lieutenancy | (noun) the position of a lieutenant | - |
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| lieutenant | (noun) an officer in a police force | Synonyms: police lieutenant |
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| (noun) a commissioned military officer | - |
| (noun) an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent | Synonyms: deputy |
| (noun) an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade | - |
| lingerie | (noun) women's underwear and nightclothes | Synonyms: intimate apparel |
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| loonie | (noun) the basic unit of money in Canada | Synonyms: Canadian dollar |
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| luthier | (noun) a craftsman who makes stringed instruments (as lutes or guitars or violins) | - |
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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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| lymphopoiesis | (noun) the formation of lymphocytes in the bone marrow and lymph nodes and thymus and spleen | - |
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| magnifier | (noun) a scientific instrument that magnifies an image | - |
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| magpie | (noun) long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call | - |
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| (noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others | Synonyms: pack rat, scavenger |
| (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, prater, spouter |
| manglietia | (noun) a genus of flowering tree of the family Magnoliaceae found from Malay to southern China | Synonyms: genus Manglietia |
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| mantelpiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| mantlepiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantelpiece, mantle |
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| marqueterie | (noun) inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture | Synonyms: marquetry |
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| married | (noun) a person who is married | - |
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| mashie | (noun) middle-distance iron | Synonyms: five iron |
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| masterpiece | (noun) an outstanding achievement | - |
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| (noun) the most outstanding work of a creative artist or craftsman | Synonyms: chef-d'oeuvre |
| materiel | (noun) equipment and supplies of a military force | Synonyms: equipage |
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| mealie | (noun) an ear of corn | - |
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| meanie | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meany, unkind person |
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| mediety | (noun) one of two (approximately) equal parts | Synonyms: moiety |
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| medievality | (noun) The quality of being of or relating to the Middle Ages, perhaps circa 500 to circa 1500 CE. | - |
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| menagerie | (noun) the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition | Synonyms: zoo, zoological garden |
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| (noun) a collection of live animals for study or display | - |
| metier | (noun) an occupation for which you are especially well suited | Synonyms: medium |
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| (noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, speciality, specialty, strength, strong point, strong suit |
| micronutrient | (noun) a substance needed only in small amounts for normal body function (e.g., vitamins or minerals) | - |
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| midfield | (noun) (sports) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse) | - |
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| mien | (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, comportment, presence |
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| mierkat | (noun) a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes | Synonyms: meerkat |
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| milieu | (noun) the environmental condition | Synonyms: surroundings |
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| millicurie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie | - |
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| milliequivalent | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: meq |
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| minefield | (noun) a region in which explosives mines have been placed | - |
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| minniebush | (noun) low shrub of the eastern United States with downy twigs | Synonyms: Menziesia pilosa, minnie bush |
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| misbeliever | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: heretic, religious outcast |
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| mischief | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, maleficence |
| mischievousness | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| (noun) an attribute of mischievous children | Synonyms: badness, naughtiness |
| (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: impishness, puckishness, whimsicality |
| modifier | (noun) a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene | Synonyms: modifier gene |
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| (noun) a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb | Synonyms: qualifier |
| (noun) a person who changes something | Synonyms: changer |
| (noun) a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising | - |
| moiety | (noun) one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe | - |
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| (noun) one of two (approximately) equal parts | Synonyms: mediety |
| mollie | (noun) popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: molly |
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| mouthpiece | (noun) the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | Synonyms: embouchure |
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| (noun) the tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth | - |
| (noun) an acoustic device; the part of a telephone into which a person speaks | - |
| (noun) (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth | Synonyms: gumshield |
| (noun) a part that goes over or into the mouth of a person | - |
| (noun) a spokesperson (as a lawyer) | Synonyms: mouth |
| movie | (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show |
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| moviegoer | (noun) someone who goes to see movies | Synonyms: motion-picture fan |
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| moviemaking | (noun) the production of movies | Synonyms: film making, movie making |
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| moxie | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, grit, gumption, guts, sand |
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| muliebrity | (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women | Synonyms: femininity |
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| (noun) the state of being an adult woman | Synonyms: womanhood |
| multiplier | (noun) the number by which a multiplicand is multiplied | Synonyms: multiplier factor |
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| mystifier | (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: puzzle, puzzler, teaser |
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| neckerchief | (noun) a kerchief worn around the neck | - |
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