| jiggermast | (noun) any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl | Synonyms: jigger |
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| jingoist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, patrioteer |
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| joist | (noun) beam used to support floors or roofs | - |
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| journalist | (noun) a writer for newspapers and magazines | - |
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| (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diarist, diary keeper |
| joust | (noun) a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances | Synonyms: tilt |
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| (verb) joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback | - |
| jurist | (noun) a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations | Synonyms: legal expert |
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| (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: judge, justice |
| just | (adjective) used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting | - |
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| (adjective) fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience | Synonyms: equitable |
| (adjective) free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules | Synonyms: fair |
| (adjective) of moral excellence | Synonyms: good, upright |
| (adverb) and nothing more | Synonyms: but, merely, only, simply |
| (adverb) only a moment ago | Synonyms: just now |
| (adverb) (used for emphasis) absolutely | Synonyms: simply |
| (adverb) only a very short time before | Synonyms: barely, hardly, scarce, scarcely |
| (adverb) indicating exactness or preciseness | Synonyms: exactly, precisely, properly |
| (adverb) exactly at this moment or the moment described | - |
| (adverb) possibly (indicating a slight chance of something being true) | - |
| (adverb) by a little | Synonyms: barely |
| kabbalist | (noun) an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters | Synonyms: cabalist |
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| keyboardist | (noun) a musician who plays a keyboard instrument | - |
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| knackwurst | (noun) short thick highly seasoned sausage | Synonyms: knockwurst |
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| knockwurst | (noun) short thick highly seasoned sausage | Synonyms: knackwurst |
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| lambast | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
| lamppost | (noun) a metal post supporting an outdoor lamp (such as a streetlight) | - |
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| landscapist | (noun) someone who paints landscapes | - |
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| (noun) someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively | Synonyms: landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper |
| lapidarist | (noun) an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them | Synonyms: lapidary |
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| lapidist | (noun) a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | Synonyms: lapidary |
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| larcenist | (noun) a person who commits larceny | Synonyms: larcener |
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| last | (adjective) coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining | - |
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| (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: concluding, final, terminal |
| (adjective) occurring at the time of death | - |
| (adjective) highest in extent or degree | - |
| (adjective) immediately past | - |
| (adjective) conclusive in a process or progression | Synonyms: final, net |
| (adjective) not to be altered or undone | Synonyms: final |
| (adjective) most unlikely or unsuitable | - |
| (adjective) lowest in rank or importance | Synonyms: last-place, lowest |
| (noun) a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do | - |
| (noun) holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes | Synonyms: cobbler's last, shoemaker's last |
| (noun) the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence | Synonyms: end |
| (noun) a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels | - |
| (noun) a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds | - |
| (noun) the last or lowest in an ordering or series | - |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, finish, stopping point |
| (noun) the time at which life ends; continuing until dead | Synonyms: death |
| (adverb) most recently | - |
| (adverb) the item at the end | Synonyms: finally, in conclusion, lastly |
| (verb) persist for a specified period of time | Synonyms: endure |
| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, live, live on, survive |
| latest | (adjective) up to the immediate present; most recent or most up-to-date | Synonyms: up-to-the-minute |
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| (adjective) in the current fashion or style | Synonyms: a la mode, in style, in vogue, modish |
| (noun) the most recent news or development | - |
| least | (adjective) the superlative of `little' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree | - |
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| (noun) something that is of no importance | - |
| (adverb) used to form the superlative, smallest in size or degree | Synonyms: to the lowest degree |
| leftist | (adjective) believing in or supporting tenets of the political left | Synonyms: left-of-center, left-wing |
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| (noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: collectivist, left-winger |
| leftmost | (adjective) farthest to the left | - |
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| lepidopterist | (noun) an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths | Synonyms: butterfly collector, lepidopterologist |
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| lepidopterologist | (noun) an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths | Synonyms: butterfly collector, lepidopterist |
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| lexicologist | (noun) a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language | Synonyms: lexicographer |
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| liberalist | (noun) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | Synonyms: liberal, progressive |
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| librettist | (noun) author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta | - |
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| limnologist | (noun) a specialist in the study of freshwater ponds and lakes | - |
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| linguist | (noun) a person who speaks more than one language | Synonyms: polyglot |
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| (noun) a specialist in linguistics | Synonyms: linguistic scientist |
| list | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, leaning, tilt |
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| (noun) a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) | Synonyms: listing |
| (verb) give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of | Synonyms: name |
| (verb) enumerate | Synonyms: number |
| (verb) tilt to one side | Synonyms: heel |
| (verb) cause to lean to the side | Synonyms: lean |
| (verb) include in a list | - |
| liturgist | (noun) an authority on liturgies | - |
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| liverwurst | (noun) sausage containing ground liver | Synonyms: liver pudding, liver sausage |
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| lobbyist | (noun) someone who is employed to persuade legislators to vote for legislation that favors the lobbyist's employer | - |
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| locust | (noun) migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae | - |
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| (noun) any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae | Synonyms: locust tree |
| (noun) hardwood from any of various locust trees | - |
| logomachist | (noun) someone given to disputes over words | Synonyms: logomach |
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| longest | (adverb) for the most time | - |
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| lost | (adjective) no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered | - |
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| (adjective) spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed | - |
| (adjective) not gained or won | - |
| (adjective) unable to function; without help | Synonyms: helpless |
| (adjective) not caught with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: missed |
| (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up |
| (adjective) deeply absorbed in thought | Synonyms: bemused, preoccupied |
| (adjective) having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity | Synonyms: confused, disoriented |
| (adjective) cannot be recovered or regained | - |
| (noun) people who are destined to die soon | Synonyms: doomed |
| lowermost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: bottommost, nethermost |
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| lowest | (adjective) lowest in rank or importance | Synonyms: last-place, last |
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| (adverb) in the lowest position; nearest the ground | - |
| loyalist | (noun) a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt) | Synonyms: stalwart |
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| lust | (noun) self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: luxuria |
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| (noun) a strong sexual desire | Synonyms: lecherousness, lustfulness |
| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, starve, thirst |
| lutanist | (noun) a musician who plays the lute | Synonyms: lutenist, lutist |
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| lutenist | (noun) a musician who plays the lute | Synonyms: lutanist, lutist |
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| lutist | (noun) a musician who plays the lute | Synonyms: lutanist, lutenist |
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| lymphoblast | (noun) an immature lymphocyte | - |
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| lyricist | (noun) a person who writes the words for songs | Synonyms: lyrist |
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| lyrist | (noun) a person who writes the words for songs | Synonyms: lyricist |
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| machinist | (noun) a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools | Synonyms: mechanic, shop mechanic |
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| macroeconomist | (noun) an economist who specializes in macroeconomics | Synonyms: macroeconomic expert |
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| madrigalist | (noun) a singer of madrigals | - |
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| mainmast | (noun) the chief mast of a sailing vessel with two or more masts | - |
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| malacologist | (noun) a zoologist specializing in the study of mollusks | - |
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| mammalogist | (noun) one skilled in the study of mammals | - |
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| manicurist | (noun) a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails | - |
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| manifest | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, evident, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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| (noun) a customs document listing the contents put on a ship or plane | - |
| (verb) reveal its presence or make an appearance | - |
| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, evidence |
| (verb) record in a ship's manifest | - |
| mapquest | (verb) search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program | - |
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| masochist | (noun) someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment | - |
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| mast | (noun) a vertical spar for supporting sails | - |
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| (noun) any sturdy upright pole | - |
| (noun) nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine | - |
| (noun) nuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground | - |
| materialist | (noun) someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter | - |
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| (noun) someone with great regard for material possessions | - |
| mechanist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to the doctrine of mechanism | - |
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| medalist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medallist |
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| (noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medallist |
| medallist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medalist |
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| (noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medalist |
| megaloblast | (noun) abnormally large red blood cell present in pernicious anemia and folic acid deficiency | - |
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| melanoblast | (noun) an epidermal cell that is a precursor of a melanocyte | - |
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| meliorist | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: crusader, reformer, reformist, social reformer |
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| mesmerist | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerizer |
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| mesoblast | (noun) the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue | Synonyms: mesoderm |
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| metallurgist | (noun) an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals | Synonyms: metallurgical engineer |
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| meteorologist | (noun) a specialist who studies processes in the earth's atmosphere that cause weather conditions | - |
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| microbiologist | (noun) a specialist in microbiology | - |
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| microeconomist | (noun) an economist who specializes in microeconomics | Synonyms: microeconomic expert |
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| microscopist | (noun) a scientist who specializes in research with the use of microscopes | - |
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| middlemost | (adjective) being in the exact middle | Synonyms: midmost |
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| midmost | (adjective) being in the exact middle | Synonyms: middlemost |
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| (adverb) the middle or central part or point | Synonyms: in the midst |
| midst | (noun) the location of something surrounded by other things | Synonyms: thick |
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| milepost | (noun) stone post at side of a road to show distances | Synonyms: milestone |
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| militarist | (noun) a person who advocates war or warlike policies | Synonyms: warmonger |
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| millenarist | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarian |
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| mineralogist | (noun) a scientist trained in mineralogy | - |
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| miniaturist | (noun) someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail | - |
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| minimalist | (adjective) of or relating to artistic minimalism | - |
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| (adjective) advocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics) | - |
| (noun) a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism | - |
| (noun) a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics | - |
| misanthropist | (noun) someone who dislikes people in general | Synonyms: misanthrope |
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| miscast | (verb) cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role | - |
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| misogamist | (noun) a person who hates marriage | - |
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| misogynist | (noun) a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular | Synonyms: woman hater |
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| mist | (noun) a thin fog with condensation near the ground | - |
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| (verb) become covered with mist | Synonyms: mist over |
| (verb) spray finely or cover with mist | - |
| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, obnubilate, obscure |
| mistrust | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrust, distrustfulness |
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| (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: distrust, misgiving, suspicion |
| (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: distrust, suspect |
| mixologist | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, bartender |
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| mizenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizzen, mizzenmast |
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| mizzenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizenmast, mizzen |
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| mnemonist | (noun) an expert in the use of mnemonics; someone able to perform unusual feats of memory | - |
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| moderationist | (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: centrist, middle of the roader, moderate |
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| (noun) a moderate drinker (as opposed to a total abstainer) | - |
| modernist | (noun) an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles | - |
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| modest | (adjective) not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance | - |
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| (adjective) marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself | - |
| (adjective) humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness | Synonyms: meek, mild |
| (adjective) low or inferior in station or quality | Synonyms: humble, low, lowly, small |
| (adjective) relatively moderate, limited, or small | Synonyms: minor, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small-scale, small |
| (adjective) not large but sufficient in size or amount | Synonyms: small |
| (adjective) free from pomp or affectation | - |
| moist | (adjective) slightly wet | Synonyms: damp, dampish |
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| molest | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, plague, provoke |
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| (verb) harass or assault sexually; make indecent advances to | - |
| monarchist | (noun) an advocate of the principles of monarchy | Synonyms: royalist |
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| monetarist | (noun) an advocate of the theory that economic fluctuations are caused by increases or decreases in the supply of money | - |
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| monoblast | (noun) a large immature monocyte normally found in bone marrow | - |
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| monogamist | (noun) someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time) | Synonyms: monogynist |
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