| jurywoman | (noun) a female who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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| karma | (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | - |
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| keratoacanthoma | (noun) skin tumor that grows rapidly (especially in older people) and resembles a carcinoma but does not spread; it usually disappears spontaneously, often leaving a scar | - |
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| keratoderma | (noun) any skin disorder consisting of a growth that appears horny | Synonyms: keratodermia |
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| keratomalacia | (noun) softening and drying and ulceration of the cornea resulting from vitamin A deficiency; symptom of cystic fibrosis or sprue | - |
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| kerugma | (noun) preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church | Synonyms: kerygma |
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| kerygma | (noun) preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church | Synonyms: kerugma |
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| khimar | (noun) a headscarf worn by observant Muslim women that hangs down to just above the waist | - |
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| kinematics | (noun) the branch of mechanics concerned with motion without reference to force or mass | - |
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| kingmaker | (noun) an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence | - |
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| kinsman | (noun) a male relative | - |
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| kinswoman | (noun) a female relative | - |
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| kismat | (noun) (Islam) the will of Allah | Synonyms: kismet |
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| kleptomania | (noun) an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive | - |
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| kleptomaniac | (noun) someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive | - |
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| lachrymal | (adjective) of or relating to tears | Synonyms: lacrimal |
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| (adjective) relating to or located near the organ that produces tears | Synonyms: lacrimal |
| lachrymation | (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lacrimation, tearing, watering |
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| lachrymator | (noun) a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds | Synonyms: lacrimator, tear gas, teargas |
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| lachrymatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lacrimatory |
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| lacrimal | (adjective) of or relating to tears | Synonyms: lachrymal |
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| (adjective) relating to or located near the organ that produces tears | Synonyms: lachrymal |
| lacrimation | (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lachrymation, tearing, watering |
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| lacrimator | (noun) a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds | Synonyms: lachrymator, tear gas, teargas |
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| lacrimatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lachrymatory |
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| lama | (noun) a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism | - |
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| lamasery | (noun) a monastery for lamas | - |
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| landman | (noun) a person who lives and works on land | Synonyms: landlubber, landsman |
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| landmark | (noun) an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken | - |
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| (noun) a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land | - |
| (noun) an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend | Synonyms: turning point, watershed |
| (noun) the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape | - |
| landmass | (noun) a large continuous extent of land | Synonyms: land mass |
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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 |
| 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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| lawmaker | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawgiver |
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| lawmaking | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: legislating, legislation |
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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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| ledgeman | (noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: breaker |
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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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| 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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| leiomyoma | (noun) benign tumor of smooth muscle (usually in the uterus or digestive tract) | - |
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| leiomyosarcoma | (noun) sarcoma of smooth muscle; occurs most often digestive tract or uterus or bladder or prostate | - |
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| leishmaniasis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniosis |
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| leishmaniosis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniasis |
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| lemanderin | (noun) hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel | Synonyms: Citrus limonia, rangpur, rangpur lime |
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| lemma | (noun) a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition | - |
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| (noun) the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry | - |
| (noun) the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae | Synonyms: flowering glume |
| lensman | (noun) someone who takes photographs professionally | Synonyms: photographer |
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| letterman | (noun) an athlete who has earned a letter in a school sport | - |
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| leucoma | (noun) eye disease consisting of an opaque white spot on the cornea | Synonyms: leukoma |
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| leukoderma | (noun) a congenital skin condition characterized by spots or bands of unpigmented skin | - |
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| leukoma | (noun) eye disease consisting of an opaque white spot on the cornea | Synonyms: leucoma |
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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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| liftman | (noun) a man employed to operate an elevator | Synonyms: elevator boy, elevator man |
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| lighterman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, bargeman |
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| limacine | (adjective) of or resembling a slug | Synonyms: limacoid |
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| limacoid | (adjective) of or resembling a slug | Synonyms: limacine |
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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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| lipoma | (noun) a tumor consisting of fatty tissue | Synonyms: adipose tumor |
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| lipomatosis | (noun) pathology in which fat accumulates in lipomas in the body | - |
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| liposarcoma | (noun) sarcoma of fat cells | - |
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| lithomancer | (noun) one who practices lithomancy | - |
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| lithomancy | (noun) divination by means of stones or stone talismans | - |
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| lithomantic | (adjective) of or relating to lithomancy | - |
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| liveryman | (noun) a worker in a livery stable | - |
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| llama | (noun) wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump | - |
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| 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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| lockmaster | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockman |
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| logogrammatic | (adjective) of or relating to logograms or logographs | Synonyms: logographic |
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| logogrammatically | (adverb) by means of logograms | - |
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| logomach | (noun) someone given to disputes over words | Synonyms: logomachist |
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| logomachist | (noun) someone given to disputes over words | Synonyms: logomach |
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| logomachy | (noun) argument about words or the meaning of words | - |
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| logomania | (noun) pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking | Synonyms: logorrhea |
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| lomatia | (noun) any of various ornamental evergreens of the genus Lomatia having attractive fragrant flowers | - |
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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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| lovemaking | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love, love life, making love, sexual love |
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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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| lumma | (noun) 100 lumma equal 1 dram in Armenia | - |
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| lymantriid | (noun) dull-colored moth whose larvae have tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of many deciduous trees | Synonyms: tussock moth |
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| lymphadenoma | (noun) an abnormally enlarged lymph node | - |
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| lymphangioma | (noun) benign angioma consisting of a mass of lymphatic vessels | - |
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| lymphedema | (noun) swelling (usually in the legs) caused by lymph accumulating in the tissues in the affected areas | - |
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| lymphogranuloma | (noun) swelling of a lymph node | - |
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| lymphoma | (noun) a neoplasm of lymph tissue that is usually malignant; one of the four major types of cancer | - |
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| ma | (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: mama, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mumma, mummy |
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| maar | (noun) a flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion; often filled with water | - |
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| mac | (noun) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric | Synonyms: macintosh, mack, mackintosh |
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| macabre | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, sick |
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| macadam | (noun) a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar | Synonyms: tarmac, tarmacadam |
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| (noun) broken stone used in macadamized roadways | - |
| (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadamise, macadamize, tarmac |
| macadamia | (noun) any tree of the genus Macadamia | Synonyms: macadamia tree |
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