| homopteran | (noun) insects having membranous forewings and hind wings | Synonyms: homopterous insect |
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| hooligan | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| hooman | (noun) human, mispronounced for comic effect | - |
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| horsebean | (noun) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | Synonyms: Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata |
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| (noun) seed of the broad-bean plant | Synonyms: broad bean, fava bean |
| horseman | (noun) a person who breeds and cares for horses | Synonyms: horse fancier |
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| (noun) a man skilled in equitation | - |
| horsewoman | (noun) a woman horseman | - |
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| hotelman | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelkeeper |
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| houseman | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: intern, interne, medical intern |
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| human | (noun) any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage | Synonyms: homo, human being, man |
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| humanitarian | (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
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| (noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
| huntsman | (noun) someone who hunts game | Synonyms: hunter |
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| husbandman | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: farmer, granger, sodbuster |
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| hydrozoan | (noun) colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant | Synonyms: hydroid |
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| hymenopteran | (noun) insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing | Synonyms: hymenopter, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect |
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| iceman | (noun) someone who cuts and delivers ice | - |
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| (noun) a professional killer | Synonyms: hatchet man |
| infantryman | (noun) fights on foot with small arms | Synonyms: foot soldier, footslogger, marcher |
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| infusorian | (noun) any member of the subclass Infusoria | - |
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| ironman | (noun) a strong man of exceptional physical endurance | Synonyms: iron man |
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| jampan | (noun) a kind of sedan chair used in India | - |
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| japan | (noun) lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient | - |
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| (noun) lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer | - |
| jawan | (noun) (India) a private soldier or male constable | - |
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| jazzman | (noun) a musician who plays or composes jazz music | Synonyms: jazz musician |
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| jean | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, dungaree |
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| journeyman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, craftsman |
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| juryman | (noun) a male who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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| jurywoman | (noun) a female who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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| kaftan | (noun) a (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in the Levant | Synonyms: caftan |
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| (noun) a woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East | Synonyms: caftan |
| kalian | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| kentan | (noun) east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals | Synonyms: devil lily, Lilium lancifolium, tiger lily |
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| khan | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravansary, caravanserai |
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| (noun) a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries | - |
| kinsman | (noun) a male relative | - |
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| kinswoman | (noun) a female relative | - |
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| kirpan | (noun) a ceremonial four-inch curved dagger that Sikh men and women are obliged to wear at all times | - |
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| kneepan | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneecap, patella |
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| koan | (noun) a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning | - |
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| korlan | (noun) the fruit from the korlan tree. | - |
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| kurakkan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, ragee, ragi |
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| lagan | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagend, ligan |
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| landman | (noun) a person who lives and works on land | Synonyms: landlubber, landsman |
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| landsman | (noun) an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage | Synonyms: landlubber, lubber |
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| (noun) a person who lives and works on land | Synonyms: landlubber, landman |
| larvacean | (noun) any member of the class Larvacea | - |
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| latitudinarian | (noun) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) | - |
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| laundryman | (noun) a man who operates an industrial washing machine | Synonyms: washerman |
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| laundrywoman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundress, washerwoman, washwoman |
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| lawman | (noun) an officer of the law | Synonyms: law officer, peace officer |
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| layman | (noun) someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | Synonyms: layperson, secular |
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| lean | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, leaning, list, tilt |
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| ledgeman | (noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: breaker |
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| lensman | (noun) someone who takes photographs professionally | Synonyms: photographer |
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| lepidopteran | (noun) insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales | Synonyms: lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect |
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| lesbian | (noun) a female homosexual | Synonyms: gay woman, tribade |
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| letterman | (noun) an athlete who has earned a letter in a school sport | - |
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| leucocytozoan | (noun) parasitic in birds | Synonyms: leucocytozoon |
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| levallorphan | (noun) drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects | Synonyms: Lorfan |
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| leviathan | (noun) the largest or most massive thing of its kind | - |
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| (noun) monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament | - |
| libertarian | (noun) someone who believes the doctrine of free will | - |
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| (noun) an advocate of libertarianism | - |
| librarian | (noun) a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services | Synonyms: bibliothec |
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| 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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| lifespan | (noun) the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | Synonyms: life-time, life, lifetime |
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| liftman | (noun) a man employed to operate an elevator | Synonyms: elevator boy, elevator man |
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| 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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| lighterman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, bargeman |
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| lilliputian | (noun) a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian) | - |
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| liman | (noun) a long narrow lagoon near the mouth of a river | - |
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| lineman | (noun) (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage | - |
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| (noun) one of the players on the line of scrimmage | - |
| (noun) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | Synonyms: electrician, linesman |
| (noun) the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole | - |
| linesman | (noun) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | Synonyms: electrician, lineman |
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| (noun) official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside) | - |
| linkman | (noun) (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets | Synonyms: linkboy |
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| linksman | (noun) someone who plays the game of golf | Synonyms: golf player, golfer |
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| liveryman | (noun) a worker in a livery stable | - |
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| loan | (noun) a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English | Synonyms: loanword |
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| (noun) the temporary provision of money (usually at interest) | - |
| lobsterman | (noun) a person whose occupation is catching lobsters | - |
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| lockman | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockmaster |
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| logician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logistician |
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| logistician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logician |
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| lohan | (noun) a Buddhist who has attained nirvana | Synonyms: Arhant, Arhat |
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| longan | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longanberry, lungen, Nephelium longana |
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| longbowman | (noun) a medieval English archer who used a longbow | - |
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| longshoreman | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, lumper, stevedore |
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| lowan | (noun) Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds | Synonyms: leipoa, Leipoa ocellata, mallee fowl |
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| lowerclassman | (noun) an undergraduate who is not yet a senior | Synonyms: underclassman |
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| lumberman | (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberjack |
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| madman | (noun) a male insane person | - |
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| madwoman | (noun) a woman lunatic | - |
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| 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 |
| mailman | (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, postman |
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| malacopterygian | (noun) any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii | Synonyms: soft-finned fish |
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| maltman | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltster |
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| mammalian | (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammal |
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| man | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, mankind, world |
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| (noun) any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage | Synonyms: homo, human, human being |
| (noun) game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games | Synonyms: piece |
| (noun) an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) | Synonyms: adult male |
| (noun) someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Synonyms: military man, military personnel, serviceman |
| (noun) the generic use of the word to refer to any human being | - |
| (noun) a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer | Synonyms: gentleman's gentleman, gentleman, valet, valet de chambre |
| (noun) an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent) | - |
| (noun) a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman | - |
| (noun) a male subordinate | - |
| manhattan | (noun) a cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth with a dash of bitters | - |
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| marginocephalian | (noun) includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs | Synonyms: Marginocephalia, suborder Marginocephalia |
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| marksman | (noun) someone skilled in shooting | Synonyms: crack shot, sharpshooter |
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| marzipan | (noun) almond paste and egg whites | Synonyms: marchpane |
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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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| mathematician | (noun) a person skilled in mathematics | - |
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| matman | (noun) combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground | Synonyms: grappler, wrestler |
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| mean | (noun) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n | Synonyms: mean value |
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| meatman | (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: butcher |
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| mecopteran | (noun) any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera | - |
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| median | (noun) the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items | Synonyms: median value |
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