ligament | (noun) any connection or unifying bond | - |
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(noun) a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs | - |
ligan | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagan, lagend |
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ligand | (noun) a substance (an atom or molecule or radical or ion) that forms a complex around a central atom | - |
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ligation | (noun) (surgery) tying a duct or blood vessel with a ligature (as to prevent bleeding during surgery) | - |
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ligature | (noun) the act of tying or binding things together | Synonyms: tying |
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(noun) something used to tie or bind | Synonyms: binder |
(noun) thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood) | - |
(noun) a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone | - |
(noun) (music) a group of notes connected by a slur | - |
(noun) character consisting of two or more letters combined into one | - |
liger | (noun) offspring of a male lion and a female tiger | - |
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light | (noun) any device serving as a source of illumination | Synonyms: light source |
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(noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor, lighter |
(noun) the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures | Synonyms: lightness |
(noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
(noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: spark, sparkle, twinkle |
(noun) mental understanding as an enlightening experience | - |
(noun) a particular perspective or aspect of a situation | - |
(noun) public awareness | - |
(noun) a visual warning signal | - |
(noun) an illuminated area | - |
(noun) a person regarded very fondly | - |
(noun) (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation | Synonyms: visible light, visible radiation |
(noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: lighting |
(noun) a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination | Synonyms: illumination |
lightbulb | (noun) electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity | Synonyms: bulb, electric-light bulb, electric light, incandescent lamp, light bulb |
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lightener | (noun) any type of lightening agent that can be used to brighten the appearance of hair, skin, wood and other surfaces. | - |
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lightening | (noun) changing to a lighter color | Synonyms: whitening |
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(noun) descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped | - |
lighter | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor, light |
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(noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: barge, flatboat, hoy |
(noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor |
lighterage | (noun) the transportation of goods on a lighter | - |
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(noun) the fee charged for carrying goods in lighters | - |
lighterman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, bargeman |
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lightheadedness | (noun) a frivolous lack of prudence | - |
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(noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, vertigo |
lightheartedness | (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightsomeness |
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lighthouse | (noun) a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships | Synonyms: beacon, beacon light, pharos |
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lighting | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, kindling |
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(noun) the craft of providing artificial light | - |
(noun) apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film | - |
(noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: light |
lightlessness | (noun) total absence of light | Synonyms: black, blackness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
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lightness | (noun) the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous | Synonyms: lightsomeness |
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(noun) the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures | Synonyms: light |
(noun) the property of being comparatively small in weight | Synonyms: weightlessness |
(noun) having a light color | - |
(noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
(noun) a feeling of joy and pride | Synonyms: elation, high spirits |
lightning | (noun) the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more | - |
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(noun) abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light | - |
lightship | (noun) a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable | - |
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lightsomeness | (noun) the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous | Synonyms: lightness |
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(noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightness, nimbleness |
(noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness |
lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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lightweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division. | - |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds | - |
(noun) a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds | - |
(noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, whippersnapper |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds | - |
lightwood | (noun) tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber | Synonyms: Acacia melanoxylon |
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ligne | (noun) a linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons | - |
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lignin | (noun) a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants | - |
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lignite | (noun) intermediate between peat and bituminous coal | Synonyms: brown coal, wood coal |
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lignosae | (noun) a category in some early taxonomies | - |
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lignum | (noun) woody tissue | - |
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ligule | (noun) (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap | - |
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limelight | (noun) a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting | Synonyms: calcium light |
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(noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, public eye, spotlight |
litigant | (noun) (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation | Synonyms: litigator |
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litigation | (noun) a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights | Synonyms: judicial proceeding |
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litigator | (noun) (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation | Synonyms: litigant |
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litigiousness | (noun) a quarrelsome disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits | - |
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loligo | (noun) somewhat flattened cylindrical squid | - |
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longsightedness | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia |
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madrigal | (noun) an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form | - |
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madrigalist | (noun) a singer of madrigals | - |
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maiger | (noun) large European marine food fish | Synonyms: maigre, Sciaena aquila |
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maigre | (noun) large European marine food fish | Synonyms: maiger, Sciaena aquila |
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makagigi | (noun) cookies made with poppy seeds and honey; traditional Polish Christmas sweet treats. | - |
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makeweight | (noun) a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight | - |
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(noun) anything added to fill out a whole | Synonyms: filler |
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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mantiger | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticora, manticore |
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marigold | (noun) any of various tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange flowers | - |
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mastigophoran | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophore |
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mastigophore | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran |
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middleweight | (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds | - |
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(noun) a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds | - |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds | - |
midnight | (noun) 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night | - |
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might | (noun) physical strength | Synonyms: mightiness, power |
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mightiness | (noun) physical strength | Synonyms: might, power |
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mignonette | (noun) Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance | Synonyms: Reseda odorata, sweet reseda |
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migraine | (noun) a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men | Synonyms: hemicrania, megrim, sick headache |
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migrant | (noun) traveler who moves from one region or country to another | Synonyms: migrator |
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migration | (noun) the movement of persons from one country or locality to another | - |
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(noun) the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding | - |
(noun) (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule | - |
(noun) a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period) | - |
migrator | (noun) an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the year | - |
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(noun) traveler who moves from one region or country to another | Synonyms: migrant |
milligram | (noun) one thousandth (1/1,000) gram | Synonyms: mg |
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millwright | (noun) a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery | - |
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misalignment | (noun) the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned | - |
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mitigation | (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: extenuation, palliation |
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(noun) the action of lessening in severity or intensity | Synonyms: moderation |
(noun) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances | Synonyms: extenuation |
moonlight | (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonshine |
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moonlighter | (noun) a person who holds a second job (usually after hours) | - |
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mornight | (noun) both morning and night, used when greeting someone | - |
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mulligan | (noun) Irish version of burgoo | Synonyms: Irish burgoo, mulligan stew |
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mulligatawny | (noun) a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base | - |
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navigability | (noun) the quality of being suitable for the passage of a ship or aircraft | - |
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navigation | (noun) the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place | Synonyms: pilotage, piloting |
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(noun) the work of a sailor | Synonyms: sailing, seafaring |
(noun) ship traffic | - |
navigator | (noun) in earlier times, a person who explored by ship | - |
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(noun) the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course | - |
(noun) the ship's officer in charge of navigation | Synonyms: sailing master |
nearsightedness | (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, shortsightedness |
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neglige | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, negligee, peignoir, wrapper |
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negligee | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, peignoir, wrapper |
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negligence | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, nonperformance |
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(noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, neglectfulness |
neigh | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
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neighbor | (noun) a nearby object of the same kind | Synonyms: neighbour |
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(noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another | Synonyms: neighbour |
neighborhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighbourhood |
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(noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighbourhood, vicinity |
(noun) an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community) | - |
(noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | Synonyms: region |
neighborliness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors | Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighbourliness |
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neighbour | (noun) a nearby object of the same kind | Synonyms: neighbor |
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(noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another | Synonyms: neighbor |
neighbourhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighborhood |
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(noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, vicinity |
neighbourliness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors | Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighborliness |
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neostigmine | (noun) a cholinergic drug (trade name Prostigmin) used to treat some ophthalmic conditions and to treat myasthenia gravis | Synonyms: Prostigmin |
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nigella | (noun) any plant of the genus Nigella | - |
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nigga | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: jigaboo, nigger, nigra |
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niggard | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, scrooge, skinflint |
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niggardliness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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niggardness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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nigger | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: jigaboo, nigga, nigra |
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niggler | (noun) someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way | Synonyms: carper |
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night | (noun) darkness | - |
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(noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, nighttime |
(noun) a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom | - |
(noun) the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit | - |
(noun) the time between sunset and midnight | - |
(noun) the period spent sleeping | - |
(noun) a shortening of nightfall | - |
nightbird | (noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nighthawk |
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nightcap | (noun) the final game of a double header | - |
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(noun) a cloth cap worn in bed | - |
(noun) an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic | - |
nightclothes | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightwear, sleepwear |
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nightclub | (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, club, night club, nightspot |
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nightcrawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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nightdress | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightgown, nightie |
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