| kagura | (noun) a stately dance of the Shinto religion that now forms a part of Japanese village festivals. | - |
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| kieselguhr | (noun) a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material | Synonyms: diatomaceous earth, diatomite |
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| laguna | (noun) a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | Synonyms: lagoon, lagune |
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| lagune | (noun) a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | Synonyms: lagoon, laguna |
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| language | (noun) the mental faculty or power of vocal communication | Synonyms: speech |
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| (noun) the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication | Synonyms: linguistic process |
| (noun) a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols | Synonyms: linguistic communication |
| (noun) (language) communication by word of mouth | Synonyms: oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication |
| (noun) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | Synonyms: lyric, words |
| (noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | Synonyms: nomenclature, terminology |
| languid | (adjective) lacking spirit or liveliness | Synonyms: dreamy, lackadaisical, languorous |
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| languidly | (adverb) in a languid and lethargic manner | - |
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| languish | (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: fade |
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| (verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: pine away, waste |
| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, pine, yearn, yen |
| languisher | (noun) a person who languishes | - |
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| languor | (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, lethargy, phlegm, sluggishness |
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| (noun) a relaxed comfortable feeling | Synonyms: dreaminess |
| (noun) a feeling of lack of interest or energy | Synonyms: lassitude, listlessness |
| (noun) oppressively still air | - |
| languorous | (adjective) lacking spirit or liveliness | Synonyms: dreamy, lackadaisical, languid |
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| languorously | (adverb) in a languorous manner | - |
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| langur | (noun) slender long-tailed monkey of Asia | - |
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| league | (noun) an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action | - |
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| (noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: conference |
| (noun) an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles) | - |
| (verb) unite to form a league | - |
| 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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| lifeguard | (noun) an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents | Synonyms: lifesaver |
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| ligule | (noun) (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap | - |
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| lingua | (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: clapper, glossa, tongue |
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| lingual | (adjective) consisting of or related to language | Synonyms: linguistic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue | - |
| (noun) a consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs | - |
| lingually | (adverb) with respect to language | Synonyms: linguistically |
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| linguica | (noun) a highly seasoned Portuguese pork sausage flavored with garlic and onions | - |
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| linguine | (noun) pasta in long slender flat strips | Synonyms: linguini |
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| linguini | (noun) pasta in long slender flat strips | Synonyms: linguine |
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| linguist | (noun) a person who speaks more than one language | Synonyms: polyglot |
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| (noun) a specialist in linguistics | Synonyms: linguistic scientist |
| linguistic | (adjective) consisting of or related to language | Synonyms: lingual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the scientific study of language | - |
| linguistically | (adverb) with respect to language | Synonyms: lingually |
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| (adverb) with respect to the science of linguistics | - |
| linguistics | (noun) the scientific study of language | - |
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| (noun) the humanistic study of language and literature | Synonyms: philology |
| lingulate | (adjective) shaped like a tongue | Synonyms: tongue-shaped |
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| longueur | (noun) a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) | - |
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| lugubrious | (adjective) excessively mournful | - |
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| lugubriously | (adverb) in a sorrowful lugubrious manner | - |
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| lugubriousness | (noun) the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness | Synonyms: gloominess, sadness |
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| maguey | (noun) Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine | Synonyms: Agave cantala, cantala |
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| (noun) Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal | Synonyms: Agave atrovirens |
| magus | (noun) a magician or sorcerer of ancient times | - |
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| (noun) a member of the Zoroastrian priesthood of the ancient Persians | - |
| mahagua | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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| (noun) erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks | Synonyms: blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahoe, majagua |
| majagua | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, purau |
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| (noun) erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks | Synonyms: blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahagua, mahoe |
| mapinguari | (noun) supposed human-sized sloth-like creature reportedly sighted by Indians in the Amazon rain forest | - |
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| marguerite | (noun) tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, Leucanthemum vulgare, moon daisy, ox-eyed daisy, oxeye daisy, white daisy |
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| (noun) perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Argyranthemum frutescens, Chrysanthemum frutescens, marguerite daisy, Paris daisy |
| meringue | (noun) sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar | - |
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| metalanguage | (noun) a language that can be used to describe languages | - |
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| mikagura | (noun) a type of formal ritual Shinto kagura dance. | - |
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| misguide | (verb) give bad advice to | Synonyms: misadvise |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misdirect, mislead |
| misguided | (adjective) poorly conceived or thought out | Synonyms: ill-conceived |
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| (adjective) wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment | Synonyms: mistaken |
| mogul | (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, power, top executive, tycoon |
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| (noun) a bump on a ski slope | - |
| monolingual | (adjective) using or knowing only one language | - |
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| (noun) a person who knows only one language | - |
| monolingually | (adverb) in a monolingual manner | - |
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| monologue | (noun) speech you make to yourself | Synonyms: soliloquy |
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| (noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor | - |
| (noun) a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation) | - |
| monologuise | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuize, soliloquise, soliloquize |
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| monologuize | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, soliloquise, soliloquize |
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| morgue | (noun) a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation | Synonyms: dead room, mortuary |
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| mudguard | (noun) a curved piece above the wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle to protect the rider from water or mud thrown up by the wheels | Synonyms: splash-guard, splash guard |
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| multilingual | (adjective) using or knowing more than one language | - |
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| negus | (noun) wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg | - |
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| neurolinguist | (noun) someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception | - |
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| neurolinguistics | (noun) the branch of linguistics that studies the relation between language and the structure and function of the nervous system | - |
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| ngultrum | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bhutan | - |
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| nonfigurative | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonobjective |
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| nonlinguistic | (adjective) not consisting of or related to language | - |
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| octangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like an octagon | Synonyms: octagonal |
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| oesophagus | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gorge, gullet |
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| oliguria | (noun) production of an abnormally small amount of urine | - |
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| (noun) abnormally small production of urine; can be a symptom of kidney disease or obstruction of the urinary tract or edema or an imbalance of fluids and electrolytes in the body | - |
| orangutan | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutang, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| orangutang | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| ouguiya | (noun) the basic unit of money in Mauritania | - |
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| outguess | (verb) attempt to anticipate or predict | Synonyms: second-guess |
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| overfatigue | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overtire, overweary |
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| oxtongue | (noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, bugloss, Picris echioides |
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| paralanguage | (noun) the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings | Synonyms: paralinguistic communication |
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| pedagogue | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagog |
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| pemphigus | (noun) a skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane | - |
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| penguin | (noun) short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers | - |
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| pentangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon | Synonyms: pentagonal |
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| philologue | (noun) a humanist specializing in classical scholarship | Synonyms: philologist |
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| photocoagulation | (noun) surgical procedure that uses an intense laser beam to destroy diseased retinal tissue or to make a scar that will hold the retina in cases of detached retina | - |
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| photocoagulator | (noun) surgical instrument containing a laser for use in photocoagulation | - |
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| pinchgut | (noun) a niggardly person who starves himself (and others) | - |
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| pinguecula | (noun) a slightly elevated elastic tissue deposit in the conjunctiva that may extend to the cornea but does not cover it | - |
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| pirogue | (noun) a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log | Synonyms: dugout, dugout canoe |
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| plague | (noun) an annoyance | - |
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| (noun) any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) | - |
| (noun) a swarm of insects that attack plants | Synonyms: infestation |
| (noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestilence, pestis |
| (noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, pestilence |
| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, provoke |
| (verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: blight |
| plaguey | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential |
| (adverb) in a pernicious or annoying manner | Synonyms: plaguily, plaguy |
| plaguily | (adverb) in a pernicious or annoying manner | Synonyms: plaguey, plaguy |
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| plaguy | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adverb) in a pernicious or annoying manner | Synonyms: plaguey, plaguily |
| popgun | (noun) plaything consisting of a toy gun that makes a popping sound | - |
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| prefiguration | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, foreshadowing |
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| (noun) an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come | - |
| prefigurative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, foreshadowing |
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| prefigure | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) imagine or consider beforehand | - |
| prologue | (noun) an introduction to a play | - |
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| prologuize | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologise, prologize |
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| prorogue | (verb) adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body | - |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
| psycholinguist | (noun) a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language | - |
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| psycholinguistic | (adjective) of or relating to the psychology of language | - |
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| psycholinguistics | (noun) the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance | - |
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| quadrangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a quadrangle | - |
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| rearguard | (noun) a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body | - |
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| rectangular | (adjective) having four right angles | - |
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| (adjective) having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles | Synonyms: orthogonal |
| rectangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: oblongness |
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| regular | (adjective) in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle | - |
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| (adjective) (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula | - |
| (adjective) (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces | - |
| (adjective) not constipated | Synonyms: unconstipated |
| (adjective) relating to a person who does something regularly | Synonyms: steady |
| (adjective) officially full-time | - |
| (adjective) not deviating from what is normal | - |
| (adjective) regularly scheduled for fixed times | - |
| (adjective) conforming to a standard or pattern | - |
| (adjective) occurring at fixed intervals | Synonyms: even |
| (adjective) symmetrically arranged | Synonyms: even |
| (adjective) often used as intensifiers | Synonyms: veritable |
| (adjective) in accord with regular practice or procedure | - |
| (noun) a garment size for persons of average height and weight | - |
| (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: fixture, habitue |
| (noun) a dependable follower (especially in party politics) | - |
| (noun) a soldier in the regular army | - |
| regularisation | (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularization, regulation |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) | Synonyms: regularization |
| regularise | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularize |
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| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularize, regulate |