| 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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| lepidopterologist | (noun) an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths | Synonyms: butterfly collector, lepidopterist |
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| lexicologist | (noun) a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language | Synonyms: lexicographer |
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| limnologist | (noun) a specialist in the study of freshwater ponds and lakes | - |
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| liturgist | (noun) an authority on liturgies | - |
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| logistic | (adjective) of or relating to logistics | Synonyms: logistical |
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| logistical | (adjective) of or relating to logistics | Synonyms: logistic |
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| logistician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logician |
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| logistics | (noun) handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed | - |
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| longish | (adjective) somewhat long | - |
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| magisterial | (adjective) of or relating to a magistrate | - |
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| (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, grand, imposing |
| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, peremptory |
| magisterially | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: authoritatively |
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| (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: autocratically, dictatorially |
| magistracy | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistrature |
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| magistrate | (noun) a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses) | - |
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| magistrature | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistracy |
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| malacologist | (noun) a zoologist specializing in the study of mollusks | - |
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| mammalogist | (noun) one skilled in the study of mammals | - |
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| meningism | (noun) symptoms that mimic those of meningitis but without inflammation of the meninges | - |
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| metallurgist | (noun) an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals | Synonyms: metallurgical engineer |
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| meteorologist | (noun) a specialist who studies processes in the earth's atmosphere that cause weather conditions | - |
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| microbiologist | (noun) a specialist in microbiology | - |
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| mineralogist | (noun) a scientist trained in mineralogy | - |
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| mixologist | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, bartender |
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| monologist | (noun) an entertainer who performs alone | - |
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| musicologist | (noun) a student of musicology | - |
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| mycologist | (noun) a botanist who specializes in the study of fungi | - |
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| mycophagist | (noun) a person or animal who eats fungi (especially mushrooms) | Synonyms: mycophage |
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| mythologisation | (noun) the restatement of a message as a myth | Synonyms: mythologization |
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| mythologise | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicise, mythicize, mythologize |
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| (verb) construct a myth | Synonyms: mythologize |
| mythologist | (noun) an expert on mythology | - |
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| neologism | (noun) the act of inventing a word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neology |
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| (noun) a newly invented word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neology |
| neologist | (noun) a lexicographer of new words and expressions | - |
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| neurobiologist | (noun) a specialist in neurobiology | - |
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| neurologist | (noun) a medical specialist in the nervous system and the disorders affecting it | Synonyms: brain doctor |
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| numerologist | (noun) a believer in numerology | - |
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| numismatologist | (noun) a collector and student of money (and coins in particular) | Synonyms: coin collector, numismatist |
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| oenologist | (noun) a specialist in wine making | Synonyms: enologist, fermentologist |
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| oncologist | (noun) a specialist in oncology | - |
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| ophthalmologist | (noun) a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye | Synonyms: eye doctor, oculist |
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| orangish | (adjective) of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange | Synonyms: orange |
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| ornithologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies birds | Synonyms: bird watcher |
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| osteologist | (noun) an anatomist who is skilled in osteology | Synonyms: osteologer |
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| otolaryngologist | (noun) a specialist in the disorders of the ear or nose or throat | Synonyms: ear-nose-and-throat doctor, ENT man, otorhinolaryngologist, rhinolaryngologist |
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| otologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in the ear and its diseases | Synonyms: ear doctor, ear specialist |
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| otorhinolaryngologist | (noun) a specialist in the disorders of the ear or nose or throat | Synonyms: ear-nose-and-throat doctor, ENT man, otolaryngologist, rhinolaryngologist |
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| palaeontologist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: fossilist, paleontologist |
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| paleontologist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: fossilist, palaeontologist |
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| paralogism | (noun) an unintentionally invalid argument | - |
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| parapsychologist | (noun) someone who studies the evidence for such psychological phenomena as psychokinesis and telepathy and clairvoyance | - |
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| pathologist | (noun) a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis | Synonyms: diagnostician |
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| penologist | (noun) a person who studies the theory and practice of prison management | - |
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| perinatologist | (noun) an obstetrician specializing in perinatology | - |
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| phalangist | (noun) a Spanish member of General Franco's political party | Synonyms: falangist |
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| pharmacologist | (noun) someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects) | Synonyms: pharmaceutical chemist |
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| philologist | (noun) a humanist specializing in classical scholarship | Synonyms: philologue |
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| phlogiston | (noun) a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning | - |
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| phonologist | (noun) a specialist in phonology | - |
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| phrenologist | (noun) someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull | Synonyms: craniologist |
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| physiologist | (noun) a biologist specializing in physiology | - |
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| phytologist | (noun) a biologist specializing in the study of plants | Synonyms: botanist, plant scientist |
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| piggish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggy, porcine, swinish |
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| piggishly | (adverb) in a piggish manner | - |
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| piggishness | (noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: greediness, hoggishness |
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| pomologist | (noun) someone versed in pomology or someone who cultivates fruit trees | - |
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| priggish | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| priggishly | (adverb) in a priggish manner | - |
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| priggishness | (noun) exaggerated and arrogant properness | Synonyms: primness |
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| proctologist | (noun) a doctor specializing in diseases of the rectum and anus | - |
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| prologise | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologize, prologuize |
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| protozoologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies protozoans | - |
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| psephologist | (noun) a sociologist who studies election trends | - |
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| psychologist | (noun) a scientist trained in psychology | - |
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| pteridologist | (noun) an expert in the study of ferns | - |
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| quislingism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, collaborationism |
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| radiobiologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the effects of radiation on living organisms | - |
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| radiologist | (noun) a medical specialist who uses radioactive substances and X-rays in the treatment of disease | Synonyms: radiotherapist |
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| register | (noun) a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device | - |
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| (noun) an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room | - |
| (noun) a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill | Synonyms: cash register |
| (noun) (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind | - |
| (noun) (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments | - |
| (noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: registry |
| (noun) a book in which names and transactions are listed | - |
| (verb) enter into someone's consciousness | - |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, show |
| (verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: file |
| (verb) send by registered mail | - |
| (verb) manipulate the registers of an organ | - |
| (verb) be aware of | Synonyms: record |
| (verb) show in one's face | - |
| (verb) record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions | - |
| (verb) enroll to vote | - |
| (verb) have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties | Synonyms: cross-file |
| registered | (adjective) listed or recorded officially | - |
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| (adjective) (of animals) officially recorded with or certified by a recognized breed association; especially in a stud book | - |
| (adjective) (of a boat or vessel) furnished with necessary official documents specifying ownership etc | - |
| registrant | (noun) a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby) | - |
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| registrar | (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, recorder |
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| (noun) the administrator responsible for student records | - |
| (noun) a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company | - |
| registration | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrollment, enrolment |
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| (noun) the act of adjusting something to match a standard | Synonyms: adjustment, readjustment |
| (noun) (music) the sound property resulting from a combination of organ stops used to perform a particular piece of music; the technique of selecting and adjusting organ stops | - |
| (noun) a document certifying an act of registering | - |
| (noun) the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time | Synonyms: enrollment |
| registry | (noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: register |
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| rheumatologist | (noun) a physician specializing in rheumatic diseases | - |
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| rhinolaryngologist | (noun) a specialist in the disorders of the ear or nose or throat | Synonyms: ear-nose-and-throat doctor, ENT man, otolaryngologist, otorhinolaryngologist |
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| seismologist | (noun) a geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth | - |
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| serologist | (noun) a medical scientist who specializes in serology | - |
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| sluggish | (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: inert, soggy, torpid |
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| (adjective) (of business) not active or brisk | Synonyms: dull, slow |
| (adjective) slow or slothful | Synonyms: sulky |
| sluggishly | (adverb) in a sluggish manner | - |
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| sluggishness | (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, languor, lethargy, phlegm |
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| (noun) the pace of things that move relatively slowly | - |
| (noun) a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) | Synonyms: lassitude, lethargy |
| sociobiologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior | - |
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| sociologist | (noun) a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society | - |
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| spelaeologist | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: potholer, speleologist, spelunker |
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| speleologist | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: potholer, spelaeologist, spelunker |
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| strategist | (noun) an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) | Synonyms: strategian |
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| suffragism | (noun) the belief that the right to vote should be extended (as to women) | - |
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| suffragist | (noun) an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women) | - |
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