| levorotary | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotatory |
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| levorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotary |
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| library | (noun) a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study | Synonyms: depository library |
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| (noun) a room where books are kept | - |
| (noun) a building that houses a collection of books and other materials | - |
| (noun) a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing | - |
| (noun) (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use | Synonyms: program library, subroutine library |
| lingberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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| lingenberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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| lingonberry | (noun) tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller | Synonyms: cowberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry |
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| (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
| literary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of literature | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable about literature | - |
| livery | (adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: bilious, liverish |
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| (noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: delivery, legal transfer |
| (noun) the care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay | - |
| (noun) uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs | - |
| loganberry | (noun) large red variety of the dewberry | - |
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| (noun) red-fruited bramble native from Oregon to Baja California | Synonyms: Rubus loganobaccus, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus |
| longanberry | (noun) Asian fruit similar to litchi | Synonyms: dragon's eye |
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| (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, longan, lungen, Nephelium longana |
| lordolatry | (noun) the worship of a lord because of his rank or title | - |
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| lorry | (noun) a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides | Synonyms: camion |
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| (noun) a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides | - |
| lory | (noun) small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits | - |
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| lottery | (noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: drawing |
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| (noun) something that is regarded as a chance event | - |
| luminary | (noun) a celebrity who is an inspiration to others | Synonyms: guiding light, leading light, notability, notable |
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| luxury | (noun) something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity | - |
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| (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: lavishness, sumptuosity, sumptuousness |
| (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | Synonyms: luxuriousness, opulence, sumptuousness |
| machinery | (noun) machines or machine systems collectively | - |
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| (noun) a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions | - |
| maleberry | (noun) deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers | Synonyms: he-huckleberry, Lyonia ligustrina, male berry, privet andromeda |
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| mammary | (adjective) of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female | - |
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| mandatary | (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatory |
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| mandatory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: compulsory, required |
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| (noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandate |
| (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatary |
| manufactory | (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: factory, manufacturing plant, mill |
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| marlberry | (noun) tropical American shrub or small tree with brown wood and dark berries | Synonyms: Ardisia escallonoides, Ardisia paniculata |
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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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| marry | (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, wed |
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| (verb) perform a marriage ceremony | Synonyms: splice, tie, wed |
| masonry | (noun) the craft of a mason | - |
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| (noun) structure built of stone or brick by a mason | - |
| mastery | (noun) the act of mastering or subordinating someone | Synonyms: subordination |
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| (noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: command, control |
| (noun) power to dominate or defeat | Synonyms: domination, supremacy |
| maxillary | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw | - |
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| (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium | Synonyms: maxilla, upper jaw, upper jawbone |
| mealberry | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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| mediatory | (adjective) of or related to or directed toward mediation | - |
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| medullary | (adjective) of or relating to the medulla of any body part | - |
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| (adjective) containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the medulla oblongata | - |
| memory | (noun) an electronic memory device | Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory board, storage, store |
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| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: retention, retentiveness, retentivity |
| (noun) the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered | Synonyms: remembering |
| (noun) something that is remembered | - |
| (noun) the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes | - |
| mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
| (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
| mercury | (noun) temperature measured by a mercury thermometer | - |
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| (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, quicksilver |
| merry | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
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| (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, festive, gay |
| (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, mirthful |
| mesentery | (noun) a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines | - |
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| microbrewery | (noun) a small brewery; consumption of the product is mainly elsewhere | - |
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| micrometry | (noun) measuring with a micrometer | - |
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| microsurgery | (noun) surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures | - |
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| midwifery | (noun) assisting women at childbirth | - |
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| (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother | Synonyms: OB, obstetrics, tocology |
| migratory | (adjective) used of animals that move seasonally | - |
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| (adjective) habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work | Synonyms: migrant |
| military | (adjective) associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare | - |
| (noun) the military forces of a nation | Synonyms: armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
| millenary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of 1000 | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium | - |
| (noun) a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years) | - |
| (noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millennium |
| (noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millennium |
| millihenry | (noun) a unit of inductance equal to one thousandth of a henry | - |
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| millinery | (noun) hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner | Synonyms: woman's hat |
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| (noun) shop selling women's hats | Synonyms: hat shop |
| mimicry | (noun) the act of mimicking; imitative behavior | Synonyms: apery |
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| (noun) the resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects; provides concealment and protection from predators | - |
| minatory | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| ministry | (noun) the work of a minister of religion | - |
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| (noun) building where the business of a government ministry is transacted | - |
| (noun) a government department under the direction of a minister of state | - |
| (noun) religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian) | - |
| miry | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| miscarry | (verb) suffer a miscarriage | - |
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| (verb) be unsuccessful | Synonyms: fail, go wrong |
| misery | (noun) a feeling of intense unhappiness | - |
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| (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: miserableness, wretchedness |
| mismarry | (verb) marry an unsuitable partner | - |
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| missionary | (adjective) relating to or connected to a religious mission | Synonyms: missional |
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| (noun) someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program | - |
| (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missioner |
| mitigatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, palliative |
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| mockery | (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry | Synonyms: parody, takeoff |
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| (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, scoff, scoffing |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| momentary | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous |
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| monandry | (noun) the state of having only one husband at a time | - |
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| monastery | (noun) the residence of a religious community | - |
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| monetary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: pecuniary |
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| monitory | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, warning |
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| monolatry | (noun) the worship of a single god but without claiming that it is the only god | - |
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| monthsary | (noun) the one month anniversary of something | - |
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| mortuary | (adjective) of or relating to a funeral | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of death | - |
| (noun) a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation | Synonyms: dead room, morgue |
| mulberry | (noun) sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus | - |
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| (noun) any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry | Synonyms: mulberry tree |
| multistory | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistorey, multistoried |
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| mummery | (noun) meaningless ceremonies and flattery | Synonyms: flummery |
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| musketry | (noun) the technique of using small arms (especially in battle) | - |
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| (noun) musketeers and their muskets collectively | - |
| mysoandry | (noun) hatred for men or boys | - |
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| mystery | (noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, enigma, secret |
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| (noun) a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie | Synonyms: mystery story, whodunit |
| napery | (noun) linens for the dining table | Synonyms: table linen |
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| nary | (adjective) (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a' | - |
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| necessary | (adjective) absolutely essential | - |
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| (adjective) unavoidably determined by prior circumstances | - |
| (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessity, requirement, requisite |
| necrolatry | (noun) superstitious worship or veneration of the dead. | - |
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| nectary | (noun) a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar | Synonyms: honey gland |
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| neuropsychiatry | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system | - |
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| neurosurgery | (noun) any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves) | - |
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| nonarbitrary | (adjective) not subject to individual determination | Synonyms: unarbitrary |
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| nonexploratory | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexplorative, unexplorative, unexploratory |
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| nonhairy | (adjective) without hair | - |
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| nonhereditary | (adjective) not acquirable by inheritance | Synonyms: nontransmissible |
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| noninflammatory | (adjective) not inflammatory | - |
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| nonliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: unliterary |
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| nonmandatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonobligatory |
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| nonmigratory | (adjective) used of animals that do not migrate | Synonyms: resident |
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| nonmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: unmilitary |
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| nonobligatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonmandatory |
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| nonoscillatory | (adjective) not having periodic vibrations | - |
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| nonproprietary | (adjective) not protected by trademark or patent or copyright | - |
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| nonslippery | (adjective) not slippery; not likely to slip or skid | - |
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| nonvoluntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: involuntary, unvoluntary |
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| notary | (noun) someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions | Synonyms: notary public |
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| nugatory | (adjective) of no real value | - |
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| nunnery | (noun) the convent of a community of nuns | - |
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| nursery | (noun) a child's room for a baby | Synonyms: baby's room |
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| nutritionary | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritional |
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| obituary | (noun) a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography | Synonyms: necrology, obit |
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| obligatory | (adjective) morally or legally constraining or binding | - |
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| (adjective) required by obligation or compulsion or convention | - |
| observatory | (noun) a building designed and equipped to observe astronomical phenomena | - |
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| (noun) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings | Synonyms: lookout, lookout station, observation tower |
| octonary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, ogdoad, VIII |
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| offertory | (noun) the offerings of the congregation at a religious service | - |
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