| jacquard | (noun) a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom | - |
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| jiqui | (noun) Cuban timber tree with hard wood very resistant to moisture | Synonyms: Malpighia obovata |
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| jonquil | (noun) widely cultivated ornamental plant native to southern Europe but naturalized elsewhere having fragrant yellow or white clustered flowers | Synonyms: Narcissus jonquilla |
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| (noun) often used colloquially for any yellow daffodil | - |
| kafkaesque | (adjective) characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger | - |
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| kumquat | (noun) small oval citrus fruit with thin sweet rind and very acid pulp | - |
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| (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp | Synonyms: cumquat, kumquat tree |
| lacquer | (noun) a hard glossy coating | - |
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| (noun) a black resinous substance obtained from certain trees and used as a natural varnish | - |
| (verb) coat with lacquer | - |
| lacquerware | (noun) a decorative work made of wood and covered with lacquer and often inlaid with ivory or precious metals | - |
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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 | - |
| liquefaction | (noun) the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid | - |
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| liquefiable | (adjective) capable of being liquefied | Synonyms: liquifiable |
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| liquefied | (adjective) reduced to a liquid state | Synonyms: liquified |
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| (adjective) reduced to liquid form by heating | Synonyms: liquified, molten |
| liquefy | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquify |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquidise, liquidize, liquify |
| (verb) become liquid | - |
| liquescent | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: melting |
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| liqueur | (noun) strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal | Synonyms: cordial |
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| liquid | (adjective) existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow | - |
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| (adjective) changed from a solid to a liquid state | Synonyms: liquified, melted |
| (adjective) clear and bright | Synonyms: limpid |
| (adjective) in cash or easily convertible to cash | Synonyms: fluid |
| (adjective) smooth and unconstrained in movement | Synonyms: fluent, fluid, smooth |
| (adjective) smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness | - |
| (adjective) filled or brimming with tears | Synonyms: swimming |
| (noun) a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r') | - |
| (noun) the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility | Synonyms: liquid state, liquidity, liquidness |
| (noun) fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume | - |
| (noun) a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure | - |
| liquidambar | (noun) any tree of the genus Liquidambar | - |
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| (noun) aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree | Synonyms: sweet gum |
| liquidate | (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, neutralise, neutralize, waste |
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| (verb) eliminate by paying off (debts) | Synonyms: pay off |
| (verb) convert into cash | - |
| (verb) settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off | - |
| liquidation | (noun) termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities | Synonyms: settlement |
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| (noun) the act of exterminating | Synonyms: extermination |
| (noun) the murder of a competitor | Synonyms: elimination |
| liquidator | (noun) (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties | Synonyms: receiver |
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| (noun) a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | Synonyms: manslayer, murderer |
| liquidise | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidize, liquify |
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| liquidiser | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: blender, liquidizer |
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| liquidity | (noun) the property of flowing easily | Synonyms: fluidity, fluidness, liquidness, runniness |
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| (noun) being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability | - |
| (noun) the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility | Synonyms: liquid, liquid state, liquidness |
| liquidize | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquify |
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| (verb) sell or get rid of all one's merchandise | Synonyms: sell out, sell up |
| liquidizer | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: blender, liquidiser |
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| liquidness | (noun) the property of flowing easily | Synonyms: fluidity, fluidness, liquidity, runniness |
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| (noun) the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility | Synonyms: liquid, liquid state, liquidity |
| liquifiable | (adjective) capable of being liquefied | Synonyms: liquefiable |
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| liquified | (adjective) changed from a solid to a liquid state | Synonyms: liquid, melted |
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| (adjective) reduced to a liquid state | Synonyms: liquefied |
| (adjective) reduced to liquid form by heating | Synonyms: liquefied, molten |
| liquify | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquefy |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquidize |
| liquor | (noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented | Synonyms: booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, spirits, strong drink |
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| (noun) the liquid in which vegetables or meat have been cooked | Synonyms: pot likker, pot liquor |
| (noun) a liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process | - |
| liquorice | (noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant | Synonyms: licorice |
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| (noun) deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots | Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, licorice |
| loquacious | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, garrulous, talkative, talky |
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| loquaciously | (adverb) in a chatty loquacious manner | Synonyms: garrulously, talkatively, talkily |
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| loquaciousness | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, garrulousness, loquacity, talkativeness |
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| loquacity | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, talkativeness |
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| loquat | (noun) yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies | Synonyms: Japanese plum |
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| (noun) evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan | Synonyms: Eriobotrya japonica, Japanese medlar, Japanese plum, loquat tree |
| macaque | (noun) short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa | - |
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| magniloquence | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, ornateness, rhetoric |
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| magniloquent | (adjective) lofty in style | Synonyms: grandiloquent, tall |
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| magniloquently | (adverb) in a rhetorically grandiloquent manner | Synonyms: grandiloquently |
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| mannequin | (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manakin, manikin, mannikin |
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| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannikin, model |
| manque | (adjective) unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition | Synonyms: would-be |
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| mapquest | (verb) search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program | - |
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| maquiladora | (noun) an assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border); parts are shipped into Mexico and the finished product is shipped back across the border | - |
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| marque | (noun) a name given to a product or service | Synonyms: brand, brand name, trade name |
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| marquee | (noun) permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc. | Synonyms: marquise |
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| (noun) large and often sumptuous tent | Synonyms: pavilion |
| marquess | (noun) a British peer ranking below a duke and above an earl | - |
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| (noun) nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count | Synonyms: marquis |
| marqueterie | (noun) inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture | Synonyms: marquetry |
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| marquetry | (noun) inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture | Synonyms: marqueterie |
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| marquis | (noun) nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count | Synonyms: marquess |
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| marquise | (noun) permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc. | Synonyms: marquee |
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| (noun) a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess | Synonyms: marchioness |
| masque | (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: mask, masquerade, masquerade party |
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| masquer | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masker, masquerader |
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| masquerade | (noun) making a false outward show | Synonyms: charade |
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| (noun) a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party | Synonyms: fancy dress, masquerade costume |
| (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: mask, masque, masquerade party |
| (verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not | - |
| (verb) take part in a masquerade | - |
| masquerader | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masker, masquer |
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| mefloquine | (noun) an antimalarial drug (trade name Lariam and Mephaquine) that is effective in cases that do not respond to chloroquine; said to produce harmful neuropsychiatric effects on some people | Synonyms: Lariam, mefloquine hydrochloride, Mephaquine |
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| meq | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: milliequivalent |
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| mesquit | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquite |
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| mesquite | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquit |
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| metasequoia | (noun) large fast-growing Chinese monoecious tree having flat bright-green deciduous leaves and small globular cones; commonly cultivated in United States as an ornamental; known as a fossil before being discovered in China | Synonyms: dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostrodoides |
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| methaqualone | (noun) sedative-hypnotic drug (trade name Quaalude) that is a drug of abuse | Synonyms: Quaalude |
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| milliequivalent | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: meq |
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| misquotation | (noun) an incorrect quotation | Synonyms: misquote |
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| misquote | (noun) an incorrect quotation | Synonyms: misquotation |
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| (verb) quote incorrectly | - |
| moquette | (noun) a thick velvety synthetic fabric used for carpets and soft upholstery | - |
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| mosque | (noun) (Islam) a Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret | - |
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| mosquito | (noun) two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals | - |
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| mosquitofish | (noun) silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control | Synonyms: Gambusia affinis |
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| musquash | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: muskrat, Ondatra zibethica |
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| mystique | (noun) an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing | - |
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| naphthoquinone | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that helps in the clotting of blood | Synonyms: antihemorrhagic factor, vitamin K |
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| neobaroque | (noun) art or architecture based on study of 17th century baroque. | Synonyms: neo-baroque |
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| netiquette | (noun) Etiquette practiced or advocated in electronic communication over a computer network. | - |
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| niqaabi | (noun) an observant Muslim woman who covers her face and hands when in public or in the presence of any man outside her immediate family | - |
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| niqab | (noun) a face veil covering the lower part of the face (up to the eyes) worn by observant Muslim women | - |
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| nonequivalence | (noun) not interchangeable | - |
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| nonequivalent | (adjective) not equal or interchangeable in value, quantity, or significance | - |
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| oblique | (adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled | - |
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| (adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: devious |
| (noun) a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso | Synonyms: abdominal external oblique muscle, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis |
| (noun) any grammatical case other than the nominative | Synonyms: oblique case |
| obliquely | (adverb) at an oblique angle | Synonyms: aslant, athwart |
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| (adverb) to, toward or at one side | Synonyms: sidelong, sideways |
| obliqueness | (noun) the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: deviousness |
| obliquity | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: deceptiveness |
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| (noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: asynclitism |
| obloquy | (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, calumny, defamation, hatchet job, traducement |
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| (noun) state of disgrace resulting from public abuse | Synonyms: opprobrium |
| obsequious | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner | - |
| obsequiously | (adverb) in an obsequious manner | Synonyms: servilely, subserviently |
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| obsequiousness | (noun) abject or cringing submissiveness | Synonyms: servility, subservience |
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| obsequy | (noun) a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated | Synonyms: funeral |
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| odalisque | (noun) a woman slave in a harem | - |
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| opaque | (adjective) not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight | - |
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| (adjective) hard or impossible to understand | Synonyms: unintelligible |
| opaquely | (adverb) in an opaque manner | - |
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| opaqueness | (noun) the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light | Synonyms: opacity |
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| (noun) incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning | Synonyms: opacity |
| palanquin | (noun) a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers | Synonyms: palankeen |
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| paraquat | (noun) a poisonous yellow solid used in solution as a herbicide | - |
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| paraquet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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| paroquet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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| parquet | (noun) seating on the main floor between the orchestra and the parquet circle | - |
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| (noun) a floor made of parquetry | Synonyms: parquet floor |
| parqueterie | (noun) a patterned wood inlay used to cover a floor | Synonyms: parquetry |
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| parquetry | (noun) a patterned wood inlay used to cover a floor | Synonyms: parqueterie |
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| parroquet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket |
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| pasqueflower | (noun) any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone | Synonyms: pasque flower |
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| pasquinade | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| perquisite | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, prerogative, privilege |
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| (noun) an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right) | Synonyms: fringe benefit, perk |