| jumble | (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: hodgepodge, patchwork |
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| (noun) small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie | Synonyms: jumbal |
| (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
| (verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: scramble, throw together |
| (verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: confuse, mix up |
| (verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: mingle |
| jumbled | (adjective) in utter disorder | Synonyms: disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, topsy-turvy |
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| jumbo | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, gargantuan, giant |
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| jumbojet | (noun) a very large jet plane | Synonyms: jumbo jet |
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| ketembilla | (noun) maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves | Synonyms: kitambilla, kitembilla |
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| (noun) a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India | Synonyms: Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa, ketembilla tree, kitambilla, kitembilla |
| kimberlite | (noun) a rare type of peridotite that sometimes contains diamonds; found in South Africa and Siberia | - |
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| kitambilla | (noun) maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves | Synonyms: ketembilla, kitembilla |
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| (noun) a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India | Synonyms: Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa, ketembilla, ketembilla tree, kitembilla |
| kitembilla | (noun) maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves | Synonyms: ketembilla, kitambilla |
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| (noun) a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India | Synonyms: Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa, ketembilla, ketembilla tree, kitambilla |
| lamb | (noun) young sheep | - |
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| (noun) the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food | - |
| (noun) a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) | Synonyms: dear |
| (noun) a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters) | - |
| (verb) give birth to a lamb | - |
| lambast | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
| lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
| lambchop | (noun) chop cut from a lamb | Synonyms: lamb-chop, lamb chop |
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| lambda | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull | - |
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| (noun) the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
| lambdacism | (noun) speech defect involving excessive use or unusual pronunciation of the phoneme `l' | - |
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| lambency | (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming, glow |
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| lambent | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: aglow, lucent, luminous |
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| lambert | (noun) a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter | Synonyms: L |
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| lambkill | (noun) North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock | Synonyms: Kalmia angustifolia, pig laurel, sheep laurel |
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| lambkin | (noun) a very young lamb | - |
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| lamblike | (adjective) like a lamb in meekness and gentleness | - |
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| lambrequin | (noun) short and decorative hanging for a shelf edge or top of a window casing | - |
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| (noun) a scarf that covers a knight's helmet | - |
| lambskin | (noun) the skin of a lamb with the wool still on | - |
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| (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: parchment, sheepskin |
| limb | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, branch |
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| (noun) the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles | - |
| (noun) either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip | - |
| (noun) one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm, leg, wing, flipper | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet | - |
| (noun) any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree | Synonyms: tree branch |
| limbed | (adjective) having or as if having limbs, especially limbs of a specified kind (usually used in combination) | - |
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| limber | (adjective) (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely | Synonyms: supple |
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| (adjective) (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable | Synonyms: supple |
| (adjective) (used of artifacts) easily bent | - |
| (noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson | - |
| (verb) cause to become limber | - |
| (verb) attach the limber | Synonyms: limber up |
| limbers | (noun) a channel or gutter on either side of a ship's keelson; carries bilge water into the pump well | - |
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| limbic | (adjective) of or relating to or forming a limbus | - |
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| limbless | (adjective) having no limbs | - |
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| limbo | (noun) (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals) | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary place for lost or neglected things | - |
| (noun) the state of being disregarded or forgotten | Synonyms: oblivion |
| limbus | (noun) a border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished by color or structure | - |
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| liquidambar | (noun) any tree of the genus Liquidambar | - |
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| (noun) aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree | Synonyms: sweet gum |
| lumbago | (noun) backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc | Synonyms: lumbar pain |
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| lumbar | (adjective) of or relating to or near the part of the back between the ribs and the hipbones | - |
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| lumber | (noun) an implement used in baseball by the batter | Synonyms: baseball bat |
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| (noun) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material | Synonyms: timber |
| (verb) cut lumber, as in woods and forests | Synonyms: log |
| (verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: pound |
| lumbering | (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: heavy, ponderous |
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| (noun) the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber | - |
| lumberjack | (noun) a short warm outer jacket | Synonyms: lumber jacket |
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| (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberman |
| lumberman | (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberjack |
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| lumbermill | (noun) a mill for dressing logs and lumber | Synonyms: sawmill |
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| lumberyard | (noun) a workplace where lumber is stocked for sale | - |
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| lumbosacral | (adjective) of or relating to or near the small of the back and the back part of the pelvis between the hips | - |
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| lumbus | (noun) either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds | Synonyms: loin |
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| macamba | (noun) tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts | Synonyms: Acrocomia aculeata, gri-gri, grugru, grugru palm |
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| macumba | (noun) a Brazilian religious cult of African origin; combines voodoo elements with singing and chanting and dancing | - |
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| (noun) popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult | - |
| (noun) (Brazil) followers of a religious cult of African origin | - |
| mamba | (noun) arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal | - |
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| mambo | (noun) a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba | - |
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| (verb) dance a mambo | - |
| marimba | (noun) a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets | Synonyms: xylophone |
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| member | (noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: appendage, extremity |
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| (noun) the male sex organ | Synonyms: penis, phallus |
| (noun) an organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations) | - |
| (noun) one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization) | Synonyms: fellow member |
| (noun) anything that belongs to a set or class | - |
| membered | (adjective) having members; normally used in chemistry in combination with a number | - |
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| memberless | (adjective) of a group or set having no members | - |
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| membership | (noun) the body of members of an organization or group | Synonyms: rank |
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| (noun) the state of being a member | - |
| membrane | (noun) a thin pliable sheet of material | - |
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| (noun) a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants | Synonyms: tissue layer |
| membranophone | (noun) a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end | Synonyms: drum, tympan |
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| membranous | (adjective) relating to or made of or similar to a membrane | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane) | Synonyms: membrane-forming |
| misremember | (verb) remember incorrectly | - |
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| mombin | (noun) purplish tropical fruit | - |
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| (noun) common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit | Synonyms: jocote, mombin tree, Spondias purpurea |
| mumble | (noun) a soft indistinct utterance | - |
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| (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mussitate, mutter |
| (verb) grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty | Synonyms: gum |
| mumbler | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: murmurer, mutterer |
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| mumbling | (noun) ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) | Synonyms: gumming |
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| (noun) indistinct enunciation | - |
| nierembergia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: cupflower |
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| nimble | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, quick, spry |
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| (adjective) mentally quick | Synonyms: agile |
| nimbleness | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightness, lightsomeness |
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| (noun) intelligence as revealed by quickness and alertness of mind | Synonyms: mental dexterity |
| nimblewill | (noun) slender branching American grass of some value for grazing in central United States | Synonyms: Muhlenbergia schreberi, nimble Will |
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| nimbly | (adverb) in a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease | Synonyms: agilely |
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| nimbus | (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aura, aureole, gloriole, glory, halo |
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| (noun) a dark grey cloud bearing rain | Synonyms: nimbus cloud, rain cloud |
| noctambulation | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulism, sleepwalking, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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| noctambulism | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, sleepwalking, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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| noctambulist | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: sleepwalker, somnambulist |
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| nombril | (noun) the center point on a shield | - |
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| noncombatant | (adjective) member of armed forces whose duties do not include fighting as e.g. a chaplain or surgeon | - |
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| (adjective) used of civilians in time of war | - |
| (noun) a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon) | - |
| noncombinative | (adjective) not involving combination | - |
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| noncombining | (adjective) not able to combine | - |
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| noncombustible | (adjective) not capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: incombustible |
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| nonmember | (noun) a person who is not a member | - |
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| nonsymbiotic | (adjective) not parasitic on another organism | Synonyms: free-living, nonparasitic |
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| numb | (adjective) so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified | - |
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| (adjective) lacking sensation | Synonyms: asleep, benumbed |
| (adjective) (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive | Synonyms: dead |
| (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: benumb, blunt, dull |
| numbat | (noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct | Synonyms: anteater, banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus |
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| number | (noun) an item of clothing | - |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: figure |
| (noun) a clothing measurement | - |
| (noun) one of a series published periodically | Synonyms: issue |
| (noun) a symbol used to represent a number | Synonyms: numeral |
| (noun) a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification and may be attached to accounts, memberships, etc. | - |
| (noun) the number is used in calling a particular telephone | Synonyms: phone number, telephone number |
| (noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, routine, turn |
| (noun) the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural) | - |
| (noun) a numbered item in a series | - |
| (noun) a select company of people | - |
| (noun) a concept of quantity involving zero and units | - |
| (verb) place a limit on the number of | Synonyms: keep down |
| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, enumerate, numerate |
| (verb) enumerate | Synonyms: list |
| (verb) give numbers to | - |
| (verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, come, total |
| (verb) put into a group | Synonyms: count |
| numbering | (noun) a numbered list | Synonyms: enumeration |
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| numberless | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| numberplate | (noun) a plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number | Synonyms: license plate |
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| numbers | (noun) an illegal daily lottery | Synonyms: numbers game, numbers pool, numbers racket |
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| numbfish | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: crampfish, electric ray, torpedo |
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| numbing | (adjective) causing numbness or insensitivity | - |
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| numbly | (adverb) in a numb manner; without feeling | Synonyms: insensibly |
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| numbness | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: apathy, indifference, spiritlessness |
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| (noun) partial or total lack of sensation in a part of the body; a symptom of nerve damage or dysfunction | - |
| ombu | (noun) fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves | Synonyms: bella sombra, Phytolacca dioica |
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| ombudsman | (noun) a government appointee who investigates complaints by private persons against the government | - |
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| outnumber | (verb) be larger in number | - |
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| overambitious | (adjective) excessively ambitious | - |
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| penumbra | (noun) a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra | - |
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| penumbral | (adjective) of or pertaining to the region of partial shadow around an umbra | - |
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| perambulate | (verb) walk with no particular goal | Synonyms: walk about, walk around |
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| (verb) make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property) | - |
| perambulating | (adjective) strolling or walking around | - |
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| perambulation | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, promenade, saunter, stroll |
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| (noun) a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries | - |
| perambulator | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, pram, pushchair, pusher, stroller |
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| phlebothrombosis | (noun) thrombosis of a vein without prior inflammation of the vein; associated with sluggish blood flow (as in prolonged bedrest or pregnancy or surgery) or with rapid coagulation of the blood | Synonyms: venous thrombosis |
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| photobomb | (verb) to jump into someone's photo | - |
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| plumb | (adjective) exactly vertical | - |
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| (noun) the metal bob of a plumb line | Synonyms: plumb bob, plummet |
| (adverb) conforming to the direction of a plumb line | - |
| (adverb) exactly | Synonyms: plum |
| (adverb) completely; used as intensifiers | Synonyms: clean, plum |
| (verb) adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical | - |
| (verb) measure the depth of something | - |
| (verb) examine thoroughly and in great depth | - |
| (verb) weight with lead | - |
| plumbable | (adjective) (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth | Synonyms: fathomable, soundable |
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| plumbaginaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Plumbaginaceae | - |
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