| keycard | (noun) a plastic card that has a magnetically coded strip that is scanned in order to operate a mechanism | - |
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| keyfob | (noun) A small object fastened to a key chain or key ring and designed to be comfortably grasped. | Synonyms: key fob |
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| keyhole | (noun) the hole where a key is inserted | - |
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| keynote | (noun) a fundamental or central idea | - |
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| (noun) (music) the first note of a diatonic scale | Synonyms: tonic |
| (noun) the principal theme in a speech or literary work | - |
| keypad | (noun) a keyboard that is a data input device for computers; arrangement of keys is modelled after the typewriter keyboard | Synonyms: computer keyboard |
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| keystone | (noun) the central building block at the top of an arch or vault | Synonyms: headstone, key |
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| (noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: anchor, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin, mainstay |
| keystroke | (noun) the stroke of a key; one depression of a key on a keyboard | Synonyms: key stroke |
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| kicker | (noun) a player who kicks the football | - |
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| kike | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew | Synonyms: hymie, sheeny, yid |
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| kingmaker | (noun) an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence | - |
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| kingsnake | (noun) any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals | Synonyms: king snake |
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| kishke | (noun) (Judaism) roasted fowl intestines with a seasoned filling of matzo meal and suet | Synonyms: stuffed derma |
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| kittiwake | (noun) small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe | - |
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| klondike | (noun) a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time | - |
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| knacker | (noun) someone who buys up old horses for slaughter | - |
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| (noun) someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them | - |
| knickerbockers | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickers |
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| knickers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: bloomers, drawers, pants |
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| (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers |
| knickknackery | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, nicknack, whatnot |
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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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| knobkerry | (noun) a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa | Synonyms: knobkerrie |
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| knocker | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: doorknocker, rapper |
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| (noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, bosom, breast, tit, titty |
| (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, detractor, disparager |
| (noun) a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance) | - |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person | - |
| lackey | (noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunkey, flunky |
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| (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, crawler, sycophant, toady |
| ladylikeness | (noun) behavior befitting a lady | - |
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| lake | (noun) a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments | - |
| (noun) a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal | - |
| lakefront | (noun) land bordering a lake | - |
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| lakeshore | (noun) the shore of a lake | Synonyms: lakeside |
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| lakeside | (noun) the shore of a lake | Synonyms: lakeshore |
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| latchkey | (noun) key for raising or drawing back a latch or opening an outside door | - |
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| latke | (noun) made of grated potato and egg with a little flour | Synonyms: potato pancake |
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| lawbreaker | (noun) someone who violates the law | Synonyms: law offender, violator |
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| lawmaker | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawgiver |
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| leaker | (noun) a surreptitious informant | - |
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| leatherjacket | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherfish |
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| (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjack |
| (noun) tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies | - |
| leukemia | (noun) malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer | Synonyms: cancer of the blood, leucaemia, leukaemia |
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| like | (noun) a kind of person | Synonyms: ilk |
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| (noun) a similar kind | Synonyms: the like, the likes of |
| likelihood | (noun) the probability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: likeliness |
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| likeliness | (noun) the probability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: likelihood |
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| likeness | (noun) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing | Synonyms: semblance |
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| (noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: alikeness, similitude |
| likening | (noun) the act of comparing similarities | - |
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| linebacker | (noun) (American football) the position of a defensive football player who plays close behind the line of scrimmage | Synonyms: line backer |
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| (noun) a defensive football player who takes a position close behind the linemen | Synonyms: line backer |
| locker | (noun) a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock | Synonyms: cabinet, storage locker |
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| (noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: footlocker |
| (noun) a fastener that locks or closes | - |
| locket | (noun) a small ornamental case; usually contains a picture or a lock of hair and is worn on a necklace | - |
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| lockkeeper | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockman, lockmaster |
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| looker | (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
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| (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: spectator, viewer, watcher, witness |
| lorikeet | (noun) any of various small lories | - |
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| loudspeaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| lukewarmness | (noun) a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin | Synonyms: tepidity, tepidness |
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| (noun) lack of passion, force or animation | Synonyms: tepidness |
| lumpsucker | (noun) any of several very small lumpfishes | - |
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| lurker | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurcher, skulker |
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| mackerel | (noun) any of various fishes of the family Scombridae | - |
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| (noun) flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish | - |
| madake | (noun) large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere | Synonyms: giant timber bamboo, ku-chiku, Phyllostachys bambusoides |
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| make | (noun) the act of mixing cards haphazardly | Synonyms: shuffle, shuffling |
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| (noun) a recognizable kind | Synonyms: brand |
| makeover | (noun) an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance | - |
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| (noun) a complete reconstruction and renovation of something | - |
| maker | (noun) a business engaged in manufacturing some product | Synonyms: manufacturer, manufacturing business |
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| (noun) a person who makes things | Synonyms: shaper |
| makeready | (noun) final preparation and adjustments | - |
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| makeshift | (noun) something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency | Synonyms: make-do, stopgap |
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| makeup | (noun) cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance | Synonyms: make-up, war paint |
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| (noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: composition, constitution, make-up, physical composition |
| (noun) an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event | Synonyms: make-up |
| 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 |
| malarkey | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarky, nothingness, wind |
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| mandrake | (noun) a plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers | Synonyms: devil's apples, Mandragora officinarum |
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| (noun) the root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic | Synonyms: mandrake root |
| marker | (noun) some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something | - |
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| (noun) a writing implement for making a mark | - |
| (noun) a distinguishing symbol | Synonyms: mark, marking |
| market | (noun) the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold | Synonyms: market place, marketplace |
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| (noun) a marketplace where groceries are sold | Synonyms: food market, grocery, grocery store |
| (noun) an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up | Synonyms: market place, marketplace, mart |
| (noun) the customers for a particular product or service | - |
| (noun) the securities markets in the aggregate | Synonyms: securities industry |
| marketer | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: seller, trafficker, vender, vendor |
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| marketing | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: merchandising, selling |
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| (noun) shopping at a market | - |
| (noun) the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service | - |
| marketplace | (noun) the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold | Synonyms: market, market place |
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| (noun) an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up | Synonyms: market, market place, mart |
| marlinespike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlingspike, marlinspike |
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| marlingspike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlinespike, marlinspike |
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| marlinspike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlinespike, marlingspike |
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| masker | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masquer, masquerader |
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| masterstroke | (noun) an achievement demonstrating great skill or mastery | - |
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| matchmaker | (noun) someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others | Synonyms: marriage broker, matcher |
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| merrymaker | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: reveler, reveller |
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| metalworker | (noun) someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable) | Synonyms: smith |
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| middlebreaker | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster |
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| mike | (noun) device for converting sound waves into electrical energy | Synonyms: mic, microphone |
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| milker | (noun) cattle that are reared for their milk | Synonyms: dairy cattle, dairy cow, milch cow, milcher, milk cow |
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| milkshake | (noun) frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream | Synonyms: milk shake, shake |
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| mimicker | (noun) someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) | Synonyms: mimic |
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| mineworker | (noun) laborer who works in a mine | Synonyms: miner |
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| minibike | (noun) small motorcycle with a low frame and small wheels and elevated handlebars | Synonyms: motorbike |
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| mispickel | (noun) a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic | Synonyms: arsenopyrite |
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| mistake | (noun) a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention | Synonyms: error, fault |
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| (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: misapprehension, misunderstanding |
| (noun) part of a statement that is not correct | Synonyms: error |
| mocker | (noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds | Synonyms: Mimus polyglotktos, mockingbird |
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| (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, jeerer, scoffer |
| mockernut | (noun) smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut | Synonyms: big-bud hickory, black hickory, Carya tomentosa, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory |
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| mockery | (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry | Synonyms: parody, takeoff |
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| (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, scoff, scoffing |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| moke | (noun) British informal for donkey | - |
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| moneymaker | (noun) a project that generates a continuous flow of money | Synonyms: cash cow, money-spinner |
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| (noun) someone who is successful in accumulating wealth | - |
| moniker | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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| monkey | (noun) any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) | - |
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| (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
| monkeypod | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, rain tree, saman, zaman, zamang |
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| motherfucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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| motorbike | (noun) small motorcycle with a low frame and small wheels and elevated handlebars | Synonyms: minibike |
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| muckraker | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: mudslinger |
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| muskellunge | (noun) large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America | Synonyms: Esox masquinongy |
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| (noun) flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish | - |
| musket | (noun) a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen | - |
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| musketeer | (noun) a foot soldier armed with a musket | - |
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| musketry | (noun) the technique of using small arms (especially in battle) | - |
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| (noun) musketeers and their muskets collectively | - |
| nakedness | (noun) characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive | Synonyms: openness |
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| (noun) the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind | Synonyms: nudeness, nudity |
| (noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bareness, bleakness, desolation |
| nakedwood | (noun) tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood | Synonyms: Eugenia dicrana |
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| (noun) any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood | - |
| namesake | (noun) a person with the same name as another | - |
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