| lexicostatistics | (noun) a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language | - |
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| liberalistic | (adjective) having or demonstrating belief in the essential goodness of man and the autonomy of the individual; favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority | - |
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| lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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| 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 |
| lipstick | (noun) makeup that is used to color the lips | Synonyms: lip rouge |
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| (verb) apply lipstick to | - |
| (verb) form by tracing with lipstick | - |
| 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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| mahlstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: maulstick |
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| majestic | (adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: gallant, lofty, proud |
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| (adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: imperial, purple, regal, royal |
| (adjective) majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters | Synonyms: olympian |
| majestically | (adverb) in a majestic manner | - |
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| masochistic | (adjective) deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from being abused or dominated | - |
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| masochistically | (adverb) in a masochistic manner | - |
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| mastic | (noun) an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin | Synonyms: lentisk, mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus |
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| (noun) an aromatic exudate from the mastic tree; used chiefly in varnishes | - |
| (noun) a pasty cement used as an adhesive or filler | - |
| masticate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, manducate |
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| (verb) grind and knead | - |
| mastication | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, chewing, manduction |
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| matchstick | (noun) a short thin stick of wood used in making matches | - |
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| materialistic | (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, conservative |
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| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: mercenary, worldly-minded |
| materialistically | (adverb) in a materialistic manner | - |
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| maternalistic | (adjective) showing maternal instincts | - |
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| maulstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: mahlstick |
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| mechanistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical theory of mechanism | - |
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| (adjective) explained in terms of physical forces | - |
| mechanistically | (adverb) in a mechanistic manner | - |
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| megaloblastic | (adjective) of or relating to megaloblasts | - |
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| mesoblastic | (adjective) relating to or derived from the mesoderm | Synonyms: mesodermal |
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| meterstick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: metrestick |
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| metrestick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: meterstick |
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| militaristic | (adjective) imbued with militarism | - |
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| misogynistic | (adjective) hating women in particular | Synonyms: misogynous |
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| mithraistic | (adjective) of or relating to Mithraism or its god | Synonyms: mithraic |
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| modernistic | (adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style | Synonyms: mod, modern |
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| monastic | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical |
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| (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monk |
| monastical | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic |
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| monasticism | (noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience | - |
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| monistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of monism | - |
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| monopolistic | (adjective) having exclusive control over a commercial activity by possession or legal grant | - |
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| monotheistic | (adjective) believing that there is only one god | - |
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| moralistic | (adjective) narrowly and conventionally moral | - |
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| mystic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of mysticism | Synonyms: mystical |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling mysticism | Synonyms: mystical |
| (adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mysterious, mystical, occult, orphic, secret |
| (noun) someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension | Synonyms: religious mystic |
| mystical | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of mysticism | Synonyms: mystic |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling mysticism | Synonyms: mystic |
| (adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, occult, orphic, secret |
| mystically | (adverb) in a mystical manner | - |
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| mysticism | (noun) a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality | Synonyms: religious mysticism |
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| (noun) obscure or irrational thought | - |
| narcissistic | (adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-loving |
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| nationalistic | (adjective) devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others | Synonyms: nationalist |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, jingoistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| nativistic | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating nativism | Synonyms: nativist |
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| (adjective) advocating the perpetuation of native societies | Synonyms: nativist |
| naturalistic | (adjective) representing what is real; not abstract or ideal | Synonyms: realistic |
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| naturistic | (adjective) in accord with naturism | - |
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| neoclassicistic | (adjective) relating to or advocating neoclassicism | Synonyms: neoclassicist |
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| neoplastic | (adjective) of or related to or having the properties of a neoplasm | - |
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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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| nightstick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, truncheon |
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| nihilistic | (adjective) of or relating to nihilism | - |
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| nominalistic | (adjective) of or relating to nominalism | - |
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| nonlinguistic | (adjective) not consisting of or related to language | - |
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| nonmechanistic | (adjective) not mechanistic | - |
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| nonprognosticative | (adjective) not offering prognostications | - |
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| nonstick | (adjective) (of surfaces especially of cooking utensils) permitting easy removal of adherent food particles | - |
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| onomastic | (adjective) of or related to onomastics | - |
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| onomasticon | (noun) a list of proper nouns naming persons or places | - |
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| onomastics | (noun) the branch of lexicology that studies the forms and origins of proper names | - |
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| opportunistic | (adjective) taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit | Synonyms: opportunist, timeserving |
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| optimistic | (adjective) expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds | - |
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| (adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: affirmative |
| optimistically | (adverb) with optimism; in an optimistic manner | - |
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| organicistic | (adjective) relating to or tending toward organicism | - |
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| orgiastic | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing |
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| (adjective) used of frenzied sexual activity | - |
| overenthusiastic | (adjective) unduly enthusiastic | - |
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| pacifistic | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: dovish, pacifist |
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| pacifistically | (adverb) in a pacifistic manner | - |
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| paederastic | (adjective) of homosexuality between a man and a boy | Synonyms: pederastic |
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| pantheistic | (adjective) of or relating to pantheism | Synonyms: pantheist |
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| papistic | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistical, popish, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish |
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| papistical | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistic, popish, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish |
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| paraphrastic | (adjective) altered by paraphrasing | - |
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| particularistic | (adjective) relating to particularism (exclusive interest in one group or class or sect etc.) | - |
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| pastiche | (noun) a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work | - |
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| (noun) a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources | Synonyms: medley, potpourri |
| paternalistic | (adjective) benevolent but sometimes intrusive | - |
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| patristic | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristical |
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| patristical | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristic |
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| patristics | (noun) the study of the lives, writings, and doctrines of the Church Fathers | Synonyms: patrology |
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| (noun) the writings of the early Church Fathers | Synonyms: patrology |
| pederastic | (adjective) of homosexuality between a man and a boy | Synonyms: paederastic |
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| periphrastic | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory |
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| pessimistic | (adjective) expecting the worst possible outcome | - |
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| pessimistically | (adverb) with pessimism; in a pessimistic manner | - |
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| pesticide | (noun) a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects) | - |
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| pianistic | (adjective) skilled at or adapted for the piano | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the piano | - |
| pietistic | (adjective) of or relating to Pietism | Synonyms: pietistical |
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| (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistical, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
| pietistical | (adjective) of or relating to Pietism | Synonyms: pietistic |
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| (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
| pigsticking | (noun) the sport of hunting wild boar with spears | - |
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| plagiaristic | (adjective) copied and passed off as your own | Synonyms: plagiarised, plagiarized |
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| plagioclastic | (adjective) of or relating to plagioclase | - |
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| plastic | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: formative, shaping |
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| (adjective) capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material) | Synonyms: fictile, moldable |
| (adjective) capable of being influenced or formed | Synonyms: pliant |
| (noun) a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has sufficient means of payment and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered | Synonyms: charge card, charge plate |
| (noun) generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives | - |
| plastically | (adverb) in a plastic manner | - |
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| plasticise | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticize |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticize |
| plasticiser | (noun) a substance added to plastics or other materials to make them more pliable | Synonyms: plasticizer |
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| plasticity | (noun) the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking | Synonyms: malleability |
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| plasticize | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticise |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticise |
| plasticizer | (noun) a substance added to plastics or other materials to make them more pliable | Synonyms: plasticiser |
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