| intercollegiate | (adjective) used of competition between colleges or universities | - |
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| interregnum | (noun) the time between two reigns, governments, etc. | - |
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| irregardless | (adverb) regardless; a combination of irrespective and regardless sometimes used humorously | - |
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| irregular | (adjective) contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice | - |
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| (adjective) (of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement | - |
| (adjective) (used of the military) not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces | - |
| (adjective) deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal | Synonyms: atypical |
| (adjective) failing to meet a standard of manufacture due to an imperfection | - |
| (adjective) lacking continuity or regularity | Synonyms: temporary |
| (adjective) not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals | Synonyms: unpredictable |
| (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: maverick, unorthodox |
| (adjective) (of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical | - |
| (noun) merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name | Synonyms: second |
| (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, guerrilla, insurgent |
| irregularity | (noun) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| (noun) not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals | Synonyms: unregularity |
| (noun) an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern | Synonyms: geometrical irregularity |
| (noun) irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis | Synonyms: constipation |
| irregularly | (adverb) in an inconstant manner, not according to fixed rate or schedule | Synonyms: on an irregular basis |
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| (adverb) at an uneven rate | - |
| (adverb) having an irregular form | - |
| jaeger | (noun) rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey | - |
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| keg | (noun) small cask or barrel | - |
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| (noun) the quantity contained in a keg | Synonyms: kegful |
| kegful | (noun) the quantity contained in a keg | Synonyms: keg |
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| leg | (noun) a section or portion of a journey or course | Synonyms: stage |
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| (noun) (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack | - |
| (noun) a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg | - |
| (noun) one of the supports for a piece of furniture | - |
| (noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: peg, pegleg, wooden leg |
| (noun) a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle | - |
| (noun) a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion | - |
| (noun) the limb of an animal used for food | - |
| (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: branch, ramification |
| legacy | (noun) (law) a gift of personal property by will | Synonyms: bequest |
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| legal | (adjective) established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to jurisprudence | - |
| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the profession of law | - |
| (adjective) allowed by official rules | - |
| (adjective) having legal efficacy or force | Synonyms: effectual, sound |
| legalese | (noun) a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law | - |
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| legalisation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalization, legitimation |
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| legalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legalism | (noun) strict conformity to the letter of the law rather than its spirit | - |
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| legality | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute | - |
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| legalization | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legitimation |
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| legalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legally | (adverb) by law; conforming to the law | Synonyms: de jure, lawfully |
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| (adverb) in a legal manner | - |
| legate | (noun) a member of a legation | Synonyms: official emissary |
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| legatee | (noun) someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed | - |
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| legateship | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legation |
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| legation | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legateship |
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| (noun) a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister | Synonyms: foreign mission |
| legato | (adjective) (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected | Synonyms: smooth |
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| (adverb) connecting the notes; in music | - |
| legend | (noun) brief description accompanying an illustration | Synonyms: caption |
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| (noun) a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events | Synonyms: fable |
| legendary | (adjective) so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend | - |
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| (adjective) celebrated in fable or legend | Synonyms: fabled |
| leger | (noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book, book of account, ledger |
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| legerdemain | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| legerity | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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| legged | (adjective) having legs of a specified kind or number | - |
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| legging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, leging |
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| leggy | (adjective) having long legs | Synonyms: long-legged, long-shanked |
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| (adjective) (of plants) having tall spindly stems | Synonyms: tall-growing |
| leghorn | (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: boater, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat |
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| legibility | (noun) a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read | Synonyms: readability |
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| (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: discernability |
| legible | (adjective) (of handwriting, print, etc.) capable of being read or deciphered | - |
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| legibly | (adverb) in a legible manner | Synonyms: decipherably, readably |
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| leging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, legging |
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| legion | (adjective) amounting to a large indefinite number | Synonyms: numerous |
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| (noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: horde, host |
| (noun) a large military unit | - |
| (noun) association of ex-servicemen | - |
| (noun) archaic terms for army | Synonyms: host |
| legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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| legionella | (noun) the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease | Synonyms: Legionella pneumophilia |
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| legionnaire | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionary |
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| legislate | (verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: pass |
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| legislating | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislation |
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| legislation | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislating |
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| (noun) law enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: statute law |
| legislative | (adjective) of or relating to or created by legislation | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature | - |
| legislatively | (adverb) by legislation | - |
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| legislator | (noun) someone who makes or enacts laws | - |
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| legislatorship | (noun) the office of legislator | - |
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| legislature | (noun) persons who make or amend or repeal laws | Synonyms: general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body |
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| legitimacy | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law | - |
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| (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: authenticity, genuineness |
| legitimate | (adjective) of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful | - |
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| (adjective) in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles | - |
| (adjective) authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law | Synonyms: lawful, licit |
| (adjective) based on known statements or events or conditions | Synonyms: logical |
| (verb) make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone) | - |
| (verb) show or affirm to be just and legitimate | - |
| (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
| legitimately | (adverb) in a lawfully recognized manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner acceptable to common custom | Synonyms: lawfully, licitly |
| legitimation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legalization |
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| (noun) the act of rendering a person legitimate | - |
| legitimatise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legitimatize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legitimise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimize |
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| legitimize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise |
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| legless | (adjective) not having legs | - |
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| leglike | (adjective) resembling or functioning like a leg | - |
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| legs | (noun) staying power | - |
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| legume | (noun) the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) | - |
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| (noun) an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae | Synonyms: leguminous plant |
| (noun) the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case | - |
| leguminous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of legumes | - |
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| liege | (adjective) owing or owed feudal allegiance and service | - |
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| (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
| (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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| lifeguard | (noun) an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents | Synonyms: lifesaver |
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| longlegs | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, stilt, stilt plover, stiltbird |
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| medicolegal | (adjective) pertaining to legal aspects of the practice of medicine (as malpractice or patient consent for operations or patient information) | - |
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| meg | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros | Synonyms: 1000000, million, one thousand thousand |
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| megabat | (noun) large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit | Synonyms: fruit bat |
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| megabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobits or 10^6 (1,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Mb, Mbit |
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| megabucks | (noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, bundle, pile |
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| megabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes | Synonyms: M, MB, mebibyte, MiB |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes | Synonyms: M, MB |
| megacardia | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the heart | Synonyms: cardiomegaly, enlarged heart, megalocardia |
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| megacephaly | (noun) an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical | Synonyms: macrocephaly, megalocephaly |
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| megacolon | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the colon; can be congenital (as in Hirschsprung's disease) or acquired (as when children refuse to defecate) | - |
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| megacycle | (noun) one million periods per second | Synonyms: Mc, megacycle per second, megahertz, MHz |
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| megadeath | (noun) the death of a million people | - |
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| megadose | (noun) an exceptionally large dose, as of a drug or vitamin. | - |
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| megaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, one megaflops is a million floating point operations per second | Synonyms: MFLOP, million floating point operations per second |
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| megagametophyte | (noun) the female gametophyte produced by the megaspore of a plant that produces both microspore and megaspores | - |
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| megahertz | (noun) one million periods per second | Synonyms: Mc, megacycle, megacycle per second, MHz |
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| megahit | (noun) an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | Synonyms: blockbuster, smash hit |
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| megakaryocyte | (noun) a large bone marrow cell; regarded as the source of blood platelets | - |
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| megakaryocytic | (adjective) of or pertaining to large bone marrow cells | - |
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| megalith | (noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe) | Synonyms: megalithic structure |
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| megalithic | (adjective) of or relating to megaliths or the people who erected megaliths | - |
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| megaloblast | (noun) abnormally large red blood cell present in pernicious anemia and folic acid deficiency | - |
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| megaloblastic | (adjective) of or relating to megaloblasts | - |
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| megalocardia | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the heart | Synonyms: cardiomegaly, enlarged heart, megacardia |
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| megalocephaly | (noun) an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical | Synonyms: macrocephaly, megacephaly |
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| megalocyte | (noun) abnormally large red blood cell (associated with pernicious anemia) | Synonyms: macrocyte |
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| megalohepatia | (noun) abnormal enlargement of the liver | Synonyms: hepatomegaly |
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| megalomania | (noun) a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur | - |
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| megalomaniac | (noun) a pathological egotist | - |
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| megalomaniacal | (adjective) suffering from megalomania | Synonyms: megalomanic |
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| megalomanic | (adjective) suffering from megalomania | Synonyms: megalomaniacal |
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| megalopolis | (noun) a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns) | - |
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| megalosaur | (noun) gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe | Synonyms: megalosaurus |
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| megalosaurus | (noun) gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe | Synonyms: megalosaur |
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