| impala | (noun) African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps | Synonyms: Aepyceros melampus |
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| inula | (noun) any plant of the genus Inula | - |
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| kabala | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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| kabbala | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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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 |
| 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 |
| klebsiella | (noun) a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections | - |
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| koala | (noun) sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat; feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark | Synonyms: kangaroo bear, koala bear, native bear, Phascolarctos cinereus |
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| kola | (noun) tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract | Synonyms: Cola acuminata, goora nut, kola nut, kola nut tree |
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| kwela | (noun) a kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans; includes a whistle among its instruments | - |
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| la | (noun) the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization | Synonyms: lah |
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| lamella | (noun) thin plate | - |
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| (noun) a thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form bones | - |
| (noun) any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus | Synonyms: gill |
| lauhala | (noun) Polynesian screw pine | Synonyms: Pandanus tectorius, textile screw pine |
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| legionella | (noun) the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease | Synonyms: Legionella pneumophilia |
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| lunula | (noun) a crescent-shaped metal ornament of the Bronze Age | - |
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| (noun) the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail | Synonyms: half-moon, lunule |
| macula | (noun) a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision | Synonyms: macula lutea, macular area, yellow spot |
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| (noun) a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases | Synonyms: macule |
| (noun) a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field | Synonyms: sunspot |
| macushla | (noun) (an Irish term of address expressing affection) darling | - |
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| mamilla | (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mammilla, nipple, pap, teat, tit |
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| mammilla | (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mamilla, nipple, pap, teat, tit |
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| mandala | (noun) any of various geometric designs (usually circular) symbolizing the universe; used chiefly in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation | - |
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| mandibula | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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| mandola | (noun) an early type of mandolin | - |
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| manila | (noun) a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp | Synonyms: manila paper, manilla, manilla paper |
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| manilla | (noun) a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp | Synonyms: manila, manila paper, manilla paper |
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| mantilla | (noun) a woman's silk or lace scarf | - |
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| (noun) short cape worn by women | Synonyms: mantelet |
| maravilla | (noun) leafy wildflower having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; southwestern United States and northern Mexico | Synonyms: Mirabilis longiflora, sweet four o'clock |
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| (noun) wildflower having vibrant deep pink tubular evening-blooming flowers; found in sandy and desert areas from southern California to southern Colorado and into Mexico | Synonyms: Colorado four o'clock, desert four o'clock, Mirabilis multiflora |
| maxilla | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium | Synonyms: maxillary, upper jaw, upper jawbone |
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| medulla | (noun) the inner part of an organ or structure in plant or animal | - |
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| (noun) lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata) | Synonyms: bulb, medulla oblongata |
| (noun) a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers | Synonyms: myelin, myeline |
| metabola | (noun) insects that undergo complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabola |
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| mola | (noun) among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: headfish, ocean sunfish, sunfish |
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| morula | (noun) a solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits; develops into the blastula | - |
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| mozzarella | (noun) mild white Italian cheese | - |
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| myofibrilla | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibril, sarcostyle |
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| naranjilla | (noun) small perennial shrub cultivated in uplands of South America for its edible bright orange fruits resembling tomatoes or oranges | Synonyms: Solanum quitoense |
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| nebula | (noun) (pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea | - |
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| (noun) an immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space | - |
| (noun) cloudiness of the urine | - |
| (noun) a medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer | - |
| nemophila | (noun) any plant of the genus Nemophila | - |
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| nigella | (noun) any plant of the genus Nigella | - |
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| novella | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novelette |
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| nyala | (noun) spiral-horned South African antelope with a fringe of white hairs along back and neck | Synonyms: Tragelaphus angasi |
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| ola | (noun) leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper | Synonyms: olla |
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| olla | (noun) leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper | Synonyms: ola |
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| paella | (noun) saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken | - |
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| panatela | (noun) a long slender cigar | Synonyms: panetela, panetella |
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| panetela | (noun) a long slender cigar | Synonyms: panatela, panetella |
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| panetella | (noun) a long slender cigar | Synonyms: panatela, panetela |
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| papilla | (noun) a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather | - |
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| (noun) a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell | - |
| (noun) (botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf | - |
| parabola | (noun) a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve | - |
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| patella | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneecap, kneepan |
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| payola | (noun) a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record | - |
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| peninsula | (noun) a large mass of land projecting into a body of water | - |
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| pergola | (noun) a framework that supports climbing plants | Synonyms: arbor, arbour, bower |
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| pinguecula | (noun) a slightly elevated elastic tissue deposit in the conjunctiva that may extend to the cornea but does not cover it | - |
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| planula | (noun) the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates | - |
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| primula | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primrose |
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| pseudorubella | (noun) a viral disease of infants and young children; characterized by abrupt high fever and mild sore throat; a few days later there is a faint pinkish rash that lasts for a few hours to a few days | Synonyms: exanthema subitum, roseola infantilis, roseola infantum |
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| pseudovariola | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: alastrim, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudosmallpox, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
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| psylla | (noun) small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices | Synonyms: jumping plant louse, psyllid |
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| pula | (noun) the basic unit of money in Botswana | - |
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| pyrola | (noun) any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola | Synonyms: wintergreen |
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| qabala | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabalah |
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| qibla | (noun) the direction of the Kaaba toward which Muslims turn for their daily prayers | - |
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| quesadilla | (noun) a tortilla that is filled with cheese and heated | - |
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| ranula | (noun) a cyst on the underside of the tongue | - |
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| ravenala | (noun) giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap; reputedly an emergency source of water for travelers | Synonyms: Ravenala madagascariensis, traveler's tree, traveller's tree |
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| roccella | (noun) a source of the dye archil and of litmus | Synonyms: Roccella tinctoria |
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| roridula | (noun) either of 2 species of the genus Roridula; South African viscid perennial low-growing woody shrubs | - |
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| roseola | (noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: efflorescence, rash, skin rash |
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| rosilla | (noun) a sneezeweed of southwestern United States especially southern California | Synonyms: Helenium puberulum |
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| rubella | (noun) a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester | Synonyms: epidemic roseola, German measles, three-day measles |
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| rubeola | (noun) an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children | Synonyms: measles, morbilli |
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| salmonella | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| salsilla | (noun) tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; West Indies to northern South America | Synonyms: Bomarea edulis |
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| (noun) tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; Colombia | Synonyms: Bomarea salsilla |
| sapodilla | (noun) tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp | Synonyms: sapodilla plum, sapota |
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| (noun) large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras | Synonyms: Achras zapota, Manilkara zapota, sapodilla tree |
| sarsaparilla | (noun) carbonated drink flavored with an extract from sarsaparilla root or with birch oil and sassafras | - |
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| (noun) any of various prickly climbing plants of the tropical American genus Smilax having aromatic roots and heart-shaped leaves | - |
| scapula | (noun) either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings | Synonyms: shoulder blade, shoulder bone |
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| scilla | (noun) an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers | Synonyms: squill |
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| scintilla | (noun) a sparkling glittering particle | - |
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| (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
| scrofula | (noun) a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands | Synonyms: king's evil, struma |
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| sequela | (noun) any abnormality following or resulting from a disease or injury or treatment | - |
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| sequella | (noun) a secondary consequence | - |
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| shigella | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| spatula | (noun) a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances | - |
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| (noun) a turner with a narrow flexible blade | - |
| spirilla | (noun) any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form | Synonyms: spirillum |
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| spirula | (noun) a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral | Synonyms: Spirula peronii |
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| squilla | (noun) a kind of mantis shrimp | Synonyms: mantis prawn |
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| stela | (noun) an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings | Synonyms: stele |
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| submaxilla | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone |
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| sulla | (noun) perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop | Synonyms: French honeysuckle, Hedysarum coronarium |
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| tala | (noun) the basic unit of money in Western Samoa | - |
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| tambala | (noun) 100 tambala equal 1 kwacha in Malawi | - |
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| tarantella | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantelle |
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| (noun) music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella | - |
| tarantula | (noun) large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites | - |
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| (noun) large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement) | Synonyms: European wolf spider, Lycosa tarentula |
| tequila | (noun) Mexican liquor made from fermented juices of an agave plant | - |
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| tesla | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter | - |
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| tessella | (noun) a small tessera | - |
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| tetanilla | (noun) clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis | Synonyms: apyretic tetanus, intermittent cramp, intermittent tetanus, tetany |
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| tombola | (noun) a lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum | - |
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| tonsilla | (noun) either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx | Synonyms: faucial tonsil, palatine tonsil, tonsil |
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| tortilla | (noun) thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour | - |
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