| labyrinthian | (adjective) resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | Synonyms: labyrinthine, mazy |
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| lacertilian | (adjective) of or relating to lizards | Synonyms: saurian |
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| lagan | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagend, ligan |
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| landman | (noun) a person who lives and works on land | Synonyms: landlubber, landsman |
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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 |
| lapidarian | (adjective) inscribed on stone | - |
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| larvacean | (noun) any member of the class Larvacea | - |
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| latitudinarian | (adjective) unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) | Synonyms: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical |
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| (noun) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) | - |
| 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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| 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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| lean | (adjective) lacking in mineral content or combustible material | - |
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| (adjective) lacking excess flesh | Synonyms: thin |
| (adjective) not profitable or prosperous | - |
| (adjective) containing little excess | Synonyms: skimpy |
| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, leaning, list, tilt |
| (verb) rely on for support | - |
| (verb) cause to lean or incline | - |
| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, slant, tilt, tip |
| (verb) cause to lean to the side | Synonyms: list |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, run, tend |
| ledgeman | (noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: breaker |
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| lensman | (noun) someone who takes photographs professionally | Synonyms: photographer |
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| lepidopteran | (noun) insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales | Synonyms: lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect |
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| leptorrhinian | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinic |
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| lesbian | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations between woman | Synonyms: sapphic |
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| (noun) a female homosexual | Synonyms: gay woman, tribade |
| letterman | (noun) an athlete who has earned a letter in a school sport | - |
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| leucocytozoan | (noun) parasitic in birds | Synonyms: leucocytozoon |
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| levallorphan | (noun) drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects | Synonyms: Lorfan |
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| leviathan | (noun) the largest or most massive thing of its kind | - |
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| (noun) monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament | - |
| libertarian | (noun) someone who believes the doctrine of free will | - |
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| (noun) an advocate of libertarianism | - |
| librarian | (noun) a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services | Synonyms: bibliothec |
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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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| lifespan | (noun) the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | Synonyms: life-time, life, lifetime |
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| liftman | (noun) a man employed to operate an elevator | Synonyms: elevator boy, elevator man |
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| ligan | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagan, lagend |
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| lighterman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, bargeman |
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| lilliputian | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, midget, petite, tiny |
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| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
| (noun) a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian) | - |
| 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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| liveryman | (noun) a worker in a livery stable | - |
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| loan | (noun) a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English | Synonyms: loanword |
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| (noun) the temporary provision of money (usually at interest) | - |
| (verb) give temporarily; let have for a limited time | Synonyms: lend |
| 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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| logician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logistician |
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| logistician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logician |
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| lohan | (noun) a Buddhist who has attained nirvana | Synonyms: Arhant, Arhat |
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| longan | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longanberry, lungen, Nephelium longana |
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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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| lowan | (noun) Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds | Synonyms: leipoa, Leipoa ocellata, mallee fowl |
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| lowerclassman | (noun) an undergraduate who is not yet a senior | Synonyms: underclassman |
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| lucullan | (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lavish, plush, plushy |
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| lumberman | (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberjack |
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| madman | (noun) a male insane person | - |
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| madwoman | (noun) a woman lunatic | - |
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| magician | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, prestidigitator |
| mailman | (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, postman |
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| malacopterygian | (noun) any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii | Synonyms: soft-finned fish |
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| maltman | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltster |
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| mammalian | (adjective) of or relating to the class Mammalia | - |
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| (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammal |
| man | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, mankind, world |
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| (noun) any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage | Synonyms: homo, human, human being |
| (noun) game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games | Synonyms: piece |
| (noun) an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) | Synonyms: adult male |
| (noun) someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Synonyms: military man, military personnel, serviceman |
| (noun) the generic use of the word to refer to any human being | - |
| (noun) a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer | Synonyms: gentleman's gentleman, gentleman, valet, valet de chambre |
| (noun) an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent) | - |
| (noun) a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman | - |
| (noun) a male subordinate | - |
| (verb) provide with workers | - |
| (verb) take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place | - |
| manhattan | (noun) a cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth with a dash of bitters | - |
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| marginocephalian | (noun) includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs | Synonyms: Marginocephalia, suborder Marginocephalia |
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| marksman | (noun) someone skilled in shooting | Synonyms: crack shot, sharpshooter |
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| marmorean | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of marble | Synonyms: marmoreal |
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| marzipan | (noun) almond paste and egg whites | Synonyms: marchpane |
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| mastigophoran | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophore |
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| mathematician | (noun) a person skilled in mathematics | - |
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| matman | (noun) combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground | Synonyms: grappler, wrestler |
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| mean | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: bastardly |
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| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, meanspirited |
| (adjective) characterized by malice | Synonyms: hateful |
| (adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: average |
| (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: beggarly |
| (adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: beggarly |
| (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mingy, miserly, tight |
| (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, ripping, splendid |
| (noun) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n | Synonyms: mean value |
| (verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: intend, think |
| (verb) intend to refer to | Synonyms: have in mind, think of |
| (verb) destine or designate for a certain purpose | - |
| (verb) mean or intend to express or convey | Synonyms: intend |
| (verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: intend, signify, stand for |
| (verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: entail, imply |
| (verb) have a specified degree of importance | - |
| meatman | (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: butcher |
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| mecopteran | (noun) any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera | - |
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| median | (adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle | Synonyms: medial |
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| (adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves | Synonyms: medial |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) | Synonyms: average |
| (noun) the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items | Synonyms: median value |
| medusan | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusa, medusoid |
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| megatherian | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian mammal, megatheriid |
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| melphalan | (noun) antineoplastic drug (trade name Alkeran) used to treat multiple myeloma and some other malignancies | Synonyms: Alkeran |
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| mephistophelean | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian |
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| mephistophelian | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean |
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| merchantman | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, freighter, merchant ship |
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| meridian | (adjective) of or happening at noon | - |
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| (adjective) being at the best stage of development | Synonyms: prime |
| (noun) an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator | Synonyms: line of longitude |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| merman | (noun) half man and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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| metatherian | (noun) primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas | - |
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| metazoan | (noun) any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges | - |
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| metropolitan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a metropolis | - |
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| (noun) a person who lives in a metropolis | - |
| (noun) in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity | - |
| microradian | (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to one thousandth of a milliradian | - |
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| microsporidian | (noun) parasite of arthropods and fishes that invade and destroy host cells | - |
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| middleman | (noun) a person who is in a position to give you special assistance | Synonyms: contact |
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| (noun) someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers | Synonyms: jobber, wholesaler |
| (noun) the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk | Synonyms: interlocutor |
| midshipman | (noun) a temporary rank held by young naval officers in training | - |
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| militiaman | (noun) a member of the militia; serves only during emergencies | - |
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| milkman | (noun) someone who delivers milk | - |
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| millenarian | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: chiliastic |
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| (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarist |
| millennian | (adjective) relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years | Synonyms: millennial |
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| milliradian | (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to one thousandth of a radian | - |
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| minivan | (noun) a small box-shaped passenger van; usually has removable seats; used as a family car | - |
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| minyan | (noun) the quorum required by Jewish law to be present for public worship (at least ten males over thirteen years of age) | - |
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| misdemean | (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misconduct |
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| mithan | (noun) ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur | Synonyms: Bibos frontalis, gayal |
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| moan | (noun) an utterance expressing pain or disapproval | Synonyms: groan |
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| (verb) indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure | Synonyms: groan |
| moneran | (adjective) of or relating to the Monera | - |
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| (noun) organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis | Synonyms: moneron |
| moneyman | (noun) a person skilled in large scale financial transactions | Synonyms: financier |
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| mortician | (noun) one whose business is the management of funerals | Synonyms: funeral director, funeral undertaker, undertaker |
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| motorman | (noun) the operator of streetcar | - |
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| mulligan | (noun) Irish version of burgoo | Synonyms: Irish burgoo, mulligan stew |
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| muscleman | (noun) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard | Synonyms: muscle |
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| (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder |