lucmo
A fruit tree, Lucuma bifera, from the Andean region of Peru, related to, and often confused with, the canistel.
The fruit of this tree.

lufu
A type of fermented bean curd from Yunnan province in Southwest China with a reddish yellow color, soft texture, and savory flavor.

lumbermill
A mill for processing lumber and logs; a sawmill.

lumbermills
plural of lumbermill

lumberroom
A room in which lumber is stored

lumberrooms
plural of lumberroom

lumberwood
A forest from which wood is cut.

lumberwoods
plural of lumberwood

luncheonette
A small diner or restaurant that serves lunch.

luncheonettes
plural of luncheonette

lunchette
A little restaurant that serves lunch.

lunchettes
plural of lunchette

lunchroom
A room designated as a place to eat lunch.
A diner or small restaurant that serves lunch.

lunchrooms
plural of lunchroom

luppie
A high-earning gay woman living in a major urban area.

luppies
plural of luppie

lycea
plural of lyceum

lyceum
A public hall designed for lectures, readings, or concerts.
A school, especially European, at a stage between elementary school and college, a lycée.
An association for literary improvement.

lyceums
plural of lyceum

lychnic
Part of the vespers of the Greek Orthodox Church on the occasion of a vigil.

lychnoscope
A low side window in a church.

lychnoscopes
plural of lychnoscope

lychway
Alternative form of lichway.

lychways
plural of lychway

lynchet
A bank of earth that slowly builds up on the lower slope of a ploughed field; a feature of ancient field systems.

lynchets
plural of lynchet

lytchway
Alternative form of lichway

maar
A broad volcanic crater, usually filled with water to form a lake.

maare
plural of maar

maars
plural of maar

macchia
Any shrubland biota in Mediterranean countries, typically consisting of densely-growing evergreen shrubs.

machicolade
A machicolation.

machicolation
An opening between corbels that support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, of a fortified building from which missiles can be shot or heated items dropped upon assailants attacking the base of the walls.
A projecting parapet with a series of such openings.

machicolations
plural of machicolation

machtesh
Alternative form of makhtesh.

macroaction
An equivalence class of sequences of one or more microactions that all have the same starting state and the same terminal state.

macroactions
plural of macroaction

macrobasin
A relatively large basin (typically, of a large river system)

macrobasins
plural of macrobasin

macrobiome
Macrofauna or macroflora, taken as a whole; that part of the biome composed of larger organisms.

macrobiomes
plural of macrobiome

macrobiota
The macroscopic flora and fauna of a region.

macrobiotas
plural of macrobiota

macrochamber
A relatively large chamber, especially when compared to a microchamber

macrochambers
plural of macrochamber

macrochannel
A relatively large channel

macrochannels
plural of macrochannel

macroflora
plants that can be seen with the naked eye

macroflorae
plural of macroflora

macrofloras
plural of macroflora

macromeander
A large river meander.

macromeanders
plural of macromeander

macroperspective
A macroscale perspective or viewpoint.

macroperspectives
plural of macroperspective

macroplot
A relatively large square or rectangular plot of land

macroplots
plural of macroplot

macrozone
Any of several types of economic or environmental area, zone or territory that are further subdivided

macrozones
plural of macrozone

maddeningness
The quality, state, or condition of being maddening.

madhhab
A school of thought in Islamic jurisprudence.

madhhabs
plural of madhhab

madrasa
Alternative spelling of madrasah.

madrasah
A school for any kind of teaching, at any grade level; usually specifically a school that teaches Islamic theology.

madrasahs
plural of madrasah

madrasas
plural of madrasa, an alternative spelling of madrassah.

madrassa
Alternative spelling of madrasah.

madrassah
Alternative form of madrasah.

madrassahs
plural of madrassah

madrassas
plural of madrassa

maenor
A Welsh manor or feudal estate, a subdivision of a commote

maenorau
plural of maenor

maenors
plural of maenor

magani
Alternative form of bagani.

magazinage
The hire or rental of a magazine or warehouse.
The warehouse itself.

magendo
contraband; the black market

maggotoria
plural of maggotorium

maggotorium
A place where maggots are stored.

maggotoriums
plural of maggotorium

magisteria
plural of magisterium

magisteriology
Theology of the magisterium, i.e. the teaching authority of the church. More precisely the study of how to interpret the teachings of the church.

magisterium
The teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church.
An authoritative statement.
The philosopher's stone.

magisteriums
plural of magisterium

magnanerie
Alternative form of magnanery.

magnaneries
plural of magnanerie

magnanery
A silkworm farm.
Silkworm production.

magnetosphere
The comet-shaped region around Earth or another planet in which charged particles are trapped or deflected. Shaped by the solar wind and the planet's magnetic field.

magnetospheres
plural of magnetosphere

magnetozone
A zone having the same magnetization, especially one between geomagnetic polarity reversals

magnetozones
plural of magnetozone

magnino
An ultralight fermionic species proposed to have condensed into a ferromagnetic state in the early universe

magninos
plural of magnino

mahala
A neighborhood or residential area in Balkan countries.

mahalas
plural of mahala

mahalla
Alternative form of mahallah.

mahallah
A subdivision or neighborhood.
An armed formation of Arabs.

mahallahs
plural of mahallah

mahallas
plural of mahalla

mahalleh
a primarily Jewish (esp. Iranian Jewish) neighborhood or part of a city

mahallya
Alternative form of mahallah.

mahallyas
plural of mahallya

mahant
A head or chief of a monastery.

mahants
plural of mahant

maharajadhiraja
A royal ruler's title in South and Southeast Asia, roughly meaning 'great king of kings', a prestigious indication of the princely state's particularly high rank.

maharajadhirajas
plural of maharajadhiraja

maidam
A tumulus, divided into vaults and chambers, in which the royalty and aristocracy of the medieval Ahom Kingdom (1228–1826) were buried.

maidams
plural of maidam

maidan
A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.

maidans
plural of maidan

maidaun
Alternative spelling of maidan (“an urban open space”).

maidauns
plural of maidaun

maika
A woman's maternal village: the place where she grew up, especially as contrasted with her new home after marriage.

maikas
plural of maika

mailoland
A portion of land granted to a chief or to a church during the colonial period in Uganda.

mailolands
plural of mailoland

maingate
A tunnel admitting fresh air to the working face of a mine.

maingates
plural of maingate

mainland
The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.
The principal island of a group.
Great Britain.

mainlands
plural of mainland

mainspan
The length of suspended roadway between the towers of a bridge.

mainspans
plural of mainspan

mainstem
The principal watercourse of a river that has multiple streams

mainstems
plural of mainstem

mainyard
The yard of the mainmast, from which the mainsail is hung

mainyards
plural of mainyard

maisonette
A small house.
An apartment, often on two floors.

maisonettes
plural of maisonette

maisonnette
Alternative form of maisonette.

maisonnettes
plural of maisonnette

maizefield
A field in which maize is grown.

maizefields
plural of maizefield

majimboism
The political devolution of power to the regions of a country.

majordomo
The head servant or official in a royal Spanish or Italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthy household in a foreign country; a leading servant or butler.
A manager of a hacienda, ranch or estate.
Any overseer, organizer, person in command.