| imposter | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| inciter | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, instigant, instigator, provoker |
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| inclinometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the angle of magnetic dip (as from an airplane) | Synonyms: dip circle |
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| (noun) an instrument showing the angle that an aircraft makes with the horizon | - |
| (noun) an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation | Synonyms: clinometer |
| inflater | (noun) an air pump operated by hand to inflate something (as a tire) | Synonyms: inflator |
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| interferometer | (noun) any measuring instrument that uses interference patterns to make accurate measurements of waves | - |
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| interpreter | (noun) (computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time | Synonyms: interpretive program |
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| (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: representative, spokesperson, voice |
| (noun) someone who mediates between speakers of different languages | Synonyms: translator |
| (noun) someone who uses art to represent something | - |
| interrupter | (noun) a device for automatically interrupting an electric current | - |
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| inverter | (noun) an electrical converter that converts direct current into alternating current | - |
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| jester | (noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: fool, motley fool |
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| jitter | (noun) small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources | - |
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| (noun) a small irregular movement | - |
| jointer | (noun) a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together | Synonyms: jointer plane, jointing plane, long plane |
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| jokester | (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: joker |
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| jotter | (noun) a small notebook for rough notes | - |
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| katharometer | (noun) measures thermal conductivity | - |
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| keister | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| kelter | (noun) in working order | Synonyms: kilter |
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| kicksorter | (noun) scientific instrument consisting of an electronic circuit that permits only voltage pulses of predetermined height to pass | Synonyms: pulse height analyzer |
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| kiloliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters | Synonyms: cubic meter, cubic metre, kilolitre |
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| kilometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometre, klick, km |
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| kilter | (noun) in working order | Synonyms: kelter |
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| knitter | (noun) someone who makes garments (or fabrics) by intertwining yarn or thread | - |
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| konimeter | (noun) A konimeter is a device for measuring airborne dust concentration in which samples are obtained by sucking the air through a hole and allowing it to pass over a glass plate coated with grease on which the particles collect. | - |
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| lamenter | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, mourner, sorrower |
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| lamplighter | (noun) (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights | - |
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| latter | (noun) the second of two or the second mentioned of two | - |
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| laughter | (noun) the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn | - |
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| (noun) the sound of laughing | Synonyms: laugh |
| leister | (noun) a spear with three or more prongs; used for spearing fish (especially salmon) | - |
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| letter | (noun) a written message addressed to a person or organization | Synonyms: missive |
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| (noun) the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech | Synonyms: alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet |
| (noun) an award earned by participation in a school sport | Synonyms: varsity letter |
| (noun) a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention) | - |
| (noun) owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire | - |
| levanter | (noun) an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area | - |
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| lifter | (noun) an athlete who lifts barbells | Synonyms: weightlifter |
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| (noun) a thief who steals goods that are in a store | Synonyms: booster, shoplifter |
| 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 |
| limewater | (noun) solution of calcium hydroxide in water used as an antacid | - |
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| limiter | (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: clipper |
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| limnimeter | (noun) a tide gage used for measuring lake level variations. | - |
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| lister | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister plough, lister plow, middle buster, middlebreaker |
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| (noun) assessor who makes out the tax lists | - |
| liter | (noun) a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints) | Synonyms: cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre, l, litre |
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| litter | (noun) material used to provide a bed for animals | Synonyms: bedding, bedding material |
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| (noun) conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers | - |
| (noun) the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal | - |
| (noun) rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places) | - |
| lobster | (noun) any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a lobster | - |
| locater | (noun) a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims | Synonyms: locator |
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| lockmaster | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockman |
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| looter | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| luster | (noun) a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain | Synonyms: lustre |
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| (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: brilliancy, lustre, splendor, splendour |
| (noun) the visual property of something that shines with reflected light | Synonyms: lustre, sheen, shininess |
| machmeter | (noun) speedometer for measuring the speed of an aircraft relative to the speed of sound | - |
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| magnetometer | (noun) a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields | Synonyms: gaussmeter |
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| mailsorter | (noun) a sorter for sorting mail according to the address | - |
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| maltreater | (noun) someone who abuses | Synonyms: abuser |
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| maltster | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltman |
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| manometer | (noun) a pressure gauge for comparing pressures of a gas | - |
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| manslaughter | (noun) homicide without malice aforethought | - |
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| manumitter | (noun) someone who frees others from bondage | Synonyms: emancipator |
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| marketer | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: seller, trafficker, vender, vendor |
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| masseter | (noun) a large muscle that raises the lower jaw and is used in chewing | - |
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| master | (noun) an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made | Synonyms: master copy, original |
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| (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master key, passe-partout, passkey |
| (noun) an artist of consummate skill | Synonyms: maestro |
| (noun) a combatant who is able to defeat rivals | Synonyms: superior, victor |
| (noun) an authority qualified to teach apprentices | Synonyms: professional |
| (noun) directs the work of others | - |
| (noun) a person who has general authority over others | Synonyms: lord, overlord |
| (noun) someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution | - |
| (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, schoolmaster |
| (noun) an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship | Synonyms: captain, sea captain, skipper |
| mater | (noun) an informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously | - |
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| matter | (noun) that which has mass and occupies space | - |
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| (noun) (used with negation) having consequence | - |
| (noun) some situation or event that is thought about | Synonyms: issue, subject, topic |
| (noun) a vaguely specified concern | Synonyms: affair, thing |
| (noun) a problem | - |
| (noun) written works (especially in books or magazines) | - |
| meeter | (noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendant, attendee, attender |
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| melter | (noun) a worker who melts substances (metal or wax etc.) | - |
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| meltwater | (noun) melted snow or ice | - |
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| metacenter | (noun) (shipbuilding) the point of intersection between two vertical lines, one line through the center of buoyancy of the hull of a ship in equilibrium and the other line through the center of buoyancy of the hull when the ship is inclined to one side; the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the stability of the ship | Synonyms: metacentre |
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| meter | (noun) any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity | - |
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| (noun) rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration | Synonyms: metre, time |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: beat, cadence, measure, metre |
| (noun) the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards) | Synonyms: m, metre |
| microcomputer | (noun) a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time | Synonyms: PC, personal computer |
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| micrometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter | Synonyms: micrometre, micron |
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| (noun) caliper for measuring small distances | Synonyms: micrometer caliper, micrometer gauge |
| micromillimeter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromillimetre, millimicron, nanometer, nanometre, nm |
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| microphotometer | (noun) special kind of densitometer that measures density variations over a very small area | - |
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| midwinter | (noun) the middle of winter | - |
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| mileometer | (noun) a meter that shows mileage traversed | Synonyms: hodometer, milometer, odometer |
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| milliammeter | (noun) a sensitive ammeter graduated in milliamperes | - |
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| milliliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter | Synonyms: cc, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, mil, millilitre, ml |
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| millimeter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter | Synonyms: millimetre, mm |
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| millivoltmeter | (noun) sensitive voltmeter that can measure voltage in millivolts | - |
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| milometer | (noun) a meter that shows mileage traversed | Synonyms: hodometer, mileometer, odometer |
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| minicomputer | (noun) a digital computer of medium size | - |
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| minister | (noun) the job of a head of a government department | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
| (noun) a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador | Synonyms: diplomatic minister |
| (noun) a person appointed to a high office in the government | Synonyms: government minister |
| minster | (noun) any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery | - |
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| minter | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: coiner, moneyer |
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| miter | (noun) a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions | Synonyms: mitre |
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| (noun) the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made | Synonyms: mitre |
| (noun) joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner | Synonyms: miter joint, mitre, mitre joint |
| mnemometer | (noun) An outdated mechanical device used for presenting a series of stimuli to be memorized. | Synonyms: memory apparatus |
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| mobster | (noun) a criminal who is a member of gang | Synonyms: gangster |
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| molester | (noun) someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities | - |
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| molter | (noun) an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair) | Synonyms: moulter |
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| monster | (noun) (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus | Synonyms: teras |
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| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, devil, fiend, ogre |
| (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monstrosity |
| (noun) an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts | - |
| (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, goliath |
| moonlighter | (noun) a person who holds a second job (usually after hours) | - |
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| moulter | (noun) an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair) | Synonyms: molter |
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| mounter | (noun) someone who ascends on foot | Synonyms: climber |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who mounts pictures or jewels etc. | - |
| muster | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: conscription, draft, selective service |
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| (noun) a gathering of military personnel for duty | - |
| mutter | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, muttering |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, muttering |
| myriameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters | Synonyms: mym, myriametre |
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| myxobacter | (noun) bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste | Synonyms: gliding bacteria, myxobacteria, myxobacterium, slime bacteria |
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| nanometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromillimeter, micromillimetre, millimicron, nanometre, nm |
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| neglecter | (noun) a person who is neglectful and gives little attention or respect to people or responsibilities | - |
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| nester | (noun) a bird that has built (or is building) a nest | - |
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| (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: homesteader, squatter |
| neurotransmitter | (noun) a neurochemical that transmits nerve impulses across a synapse | - |
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| neuter | (noun) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine) | - |
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| newscaster | (noun) someone who broadcasts the news | - |
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| newsletter | (noun) report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group | Synonyms: newssheet |
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| newswriter | (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: correspondent |
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| niter | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpeter, saltpetre |
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| nonstarter | (noun) a horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered | - |
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| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: failure, loser, unsuccessful person |
| noreaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: northeaster |
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| northeaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: noreaster |
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