| kibbutznik | (noun) a member of a kibbutz | - |
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| kibitz | (verb) make unwanted and intrusive comments | Synonyms: kibbitz |
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| kibitzer | (noun) (Yiddish) a meddler who offers unwanted advice to others | - |
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| kilohertz | (noun) one thousand periods per second | Synonyms: kc, kHz, kilocycle, kilocycle per second |
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| klutz | (noun) (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt | - |
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| kolkhoz | (noun) a collective farm owned by the communist state | - |
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| kolkhoznik | (noun) a member of a kolkhoz | - |
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| kudzu | (noun) fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States | Synonyms: kudzu vine, Pueraria lobata |
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| kunzite | (noun) a pinkish lilac crystal form of the mineral spodumene that is used as a gemstone | - |
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| kuvasz | (noun) long-established Hungarian breed of tall light-footed but sturdy white dog; used also as a hunting dog | - |
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| kwanza | (noun) the basic unit of money in Angola | - |
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| labialize | (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialise, round |
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| laicize | (verb) reduce to lay status | Synonyms: laicise |
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| lansoprazole | (noun) antacid (trade name Prevacid) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach | Synonyms: Prevacid |
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| lateralization | (noun) localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain | Synonyms: lateralisation, laterality |
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| lateralize | (verb) move or displace to one side so as to make lateral | - |
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| latinize | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicise, catholicize, latinise |
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| lazar | (noun) a person afflicted with leprosy | Synonyms: leper |
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| lazaret | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazarette, lazaretto, pesthouse |
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| lazarette | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazaretto, pesthouse |
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| lazaretto | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, pesthouse |
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| (noun) a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship | Synonyms: glory hole |
| laze | (verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation | Synonyms: idle, slug, stagnate |
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| lazily | (adverb) in a slow and lazy manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an idle manner | Synonyms: idly |
| laziness | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: acedia, sloth |
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| (noun) relaxed and easy activity | - |
| (noun) inactivity resulting from a dislike of work | Synonyms: indolence |
| lazuli | (noun) an azure blue semiprecious stone | Synonyms: lapis lazuli |
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| lazuline | (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, cerulean, sapphire, sky-blue |
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| lazy | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: faineant, indolent, otiose, slothful, work-shy |
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| (adjective) moving slowly and gently | - |
| lazybones | (noun) a lazy person | - |
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| legalization | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legitimation |
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| legalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legitimatize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legitimize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise |
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| lespedeza | (noun) shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States | Synonyms: bush clover |
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| leucocytozoan | (noun) parasitic in birds | Synonyms: leucocytozoon |
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| leucocytozoon | (noun) parasitic in birds | Synonyms: leucocytozoan |
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| lexicalization | (noun) the process of making a word to express a concept | Synonyms: lexicalisation |
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| lexicalize | (verb) make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language | Synonyms: lexicalise |
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| lexicalized | (adjective) expressed by a word | Synonyms: lexicalised |
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| liberalization | (noun) the act of making less strict | Synonyms: liberalisation, relaxation |
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| liberalize | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalise |
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| (verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalise |
| lifesize | (adjective) being of the same size as an original | Synonyms: full-size, life-size, life-sized |
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| linearize | (verb) make linear or get into a linear form | Synonyms: linearise |
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| lionize | (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: celebrate, lionise |
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| 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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| literalize | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalise |
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| liza | (noun) similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region | Synonyms: Mugil liza |
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| lizard | (noun) relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail | - |
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| (noun) a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him | Synonyms: lounge lizard |
| lizardfish | (noun) tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | Synonyms: snake-fish, snakefish |
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| localization | (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localisation, locating, location |
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| (noun) (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body | Synonyms: localisation, localisation of function, localisation principle, localization of function, localization principle |
| localize | (verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, place, set |
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| (verb) restrict something to a particular area | Synonyms: localise |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localise |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, place |
| localized | (adjective) made local or oriented locally | Synonyms: localised |
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| (adjective) confined or restricted to a particular location | Synonyms: localised |
| lorazepam | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia | Synonyms: Ativan |
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| lozenge | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: pill, tab, tablet |
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| (noun) a small aromatic or medicated candy | - |
| lulz | (noun) An objective that is worth achieving only for its own enjoyment | - |
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| lyophilization | (noun) a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes | Synonyms: freeze-drying, lyophilisation |
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| lyophilize | (verb) to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: lyophilise |
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| lyophilized | (adjective) used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances; dried by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: freeze-dried, lyophilised |
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| lysogenization | (noun) the process by which a bacterium acquires a phage that becomes integrated into its genome | Synonyms: lysogenisation |
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| lysogenize | (verb) become integrated into the genome of (a bacterium) | - |
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| lysozyme | (noun) an enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria | Synonyms: muramidase |
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| macadamize | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamise, tarmac |
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| macrozamia | (noun) any treelike cycad of the genus Macrozamia having erect trunks and pinnate leaves and large cones with sometimes edible nuts; Australia | - |
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| magazine | (noun) a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored | Synonyms: powder magazine, powder store |
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| (noun) product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object | - |
| (noun) a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun | Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, clip |
| (noun) a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required | Synonyms: cartridge |
| (noun) a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it | Synonyms: mag |
| (noun) a business firm that publishes magazines | Synonyms: magazine publisher |
| magnetization | (noun) the physical property of being magnetic | Synonyms: magnetisation |
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| (noun) the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) | Synonyms: magnetic induction, magnetisation |
| (noun) the extent or degree to which something is magnetized | Synonyms: magnetisation |
| magnetize | (verb) make magnetic | Synonyms: magnetise |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
| magnetized | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetic, magnetised |
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| maize | (noun) a strong yellow color | Synonyms: gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow |
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| (noun) tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times | Synonyms: corn, Indian corn, Zea mays |
| manzanita | (noun) chiefly evergreen shrubs of warm dry areas of western North America | - |
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| (noun) evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning | Synonyms: Arbutus menziesii, madrona, madrono |
| marbleization | (noun) a texture like that of marble | Synonyms: marbleisation, marbleising, marbleizing |
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| marbleize | (verb) make something look like marble | Synonyms: marbleise |
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| marbleized | (adjective) patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble | Synonyms: marbled, marbleised |
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| marbleizing | (noun) a texture like that of marble | Synonyms: marbleisation, marbleising, marbleization |
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| marginalization | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalisation |
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| marginalize | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalise |
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| martyrize | (verb) torture and torment like a martyr | Synonyms: martyr, martyrise |
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| marzipan | (noun) almond paste and egg whites | Synonyms: marchpane |
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| masculinization | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinisation, virilisation, virilization |
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| masculinize | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, virilise, virilize |
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| (verb) give a masculine appearance or character to | - |
| materialization | (noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: manifestation, materialisation |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialisation, offspring |
| (noun) the process of coming into being; becoming reality | Synonyms: materialisation |
| materialize | (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: happen, materialise |
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| matzah | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzo, matzoh, unleavened bread |
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| matzo | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzah, matzoh, unleavened bread |
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| matzoh | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzah, matzo, unleavened bread |
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| maximization | (noun) the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position | Synonyms: maximation, maximisation |
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| (noun) the mathematical process of finding the maximum value of a function | - |
| maximize | (verb) make as big or large as possible | Synonyms: maximise |
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| (verb) make the most of | Synonyms: maximise |
| maximizing | (adjective) making as great as possible | Synonyms: maximising |
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| maze | (noun) complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost | Synonyms: labyrinth |
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| (noun) something jumbled or confused | Synonyms: snarl, tangle |
| mazed | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mixed-up |
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| mazer | (noun) a large hardwood drinking bowl | - |
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| mazopathy | (noun) any pathology of the breast | Synonyms: mastopathy |
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| mazurka | (noun) a Polish national dance in triple time | - |
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| (noun) music composed for dancing the mazurka | - |
| mazy | (adjective) resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | Synonyms: labyrinthian, labyrinthine |
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| mazzard | (noun) wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting | Synonyms: gean, mazzard cherry |
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| mebendazole | (noun) an anthelmintic used to treat hookworm and pinworm and roundworm infestations | - |
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| mechanization | (noun) the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware | Synonyms: automation, mechanisation |
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| (noun) the condition of having a highly technical implementation | Synonyms: mechanisation |
| mechanize | (verb) make mechanical | Synonyms: mechanise |
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| (verb) make monotonous; make automatic or routine | Synonyms: mechanise |
| (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanise, motorise, motorize |
| mechanized | (adjective) equipped with machinery | Synonyms: mechanised |
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| (adjective) using vehicles | Synonyms: mechanised, motorized |
| meclizine | (noun) an antihistamine (trade name Antivert) used to treat or prevent motion sickness | Synonyms: Antivert, meclizine hydrochloride |
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| megahertz | (noun) one million periods per second | Synonyms: Mc, megacycle, megacycle per second, MHz |
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