lightcones
plural of lightcone

lilo
An inflatable air mattress.

lilos
plural of lilo

lino
Clipping of linoleum.

linos
plural of lino

liripipe
Obsolete form of liripoop.

liripipes
plural of liripipe

liripipia
plural of liripipium

liripipium
Synonym of liripoop (“a tippet or scarf”).

liripoop
A pendent part of the old clerical tippet.
A tippet; a scarf; worn also by doctors, learned men, etc.
acuteness; smartness; knowledge.
One's proper business or prescribed role.
A silly person.

liripoops
plural of liripoop

listserv
A type of electronic mailing list, allowing for distribution of email to many subscribers.

listserve
An electronic mailing list using the medium of e-mail.

listserves
plural of listserve

listservs
plural of listserv

literals
plural of literal

loafs
plural of loaf

lookbook
A comprehensive directory of fashion-related companies and people, such as fashion designers, industry figures, brands and retail stores.
A contiguous showcase of still images of a fashion designer or fashion brand’s collection.
A showcase of photographs etc. describing how a film should look.

lookbooks
plural of lookbook

loserinos
plural of loserino

loveseat
Alternative spelling of love seat.

loveseats
plural of loveseat

lovespell
A ritual meant to attract or distract someone sexually or romantically usually performed either by decorating poppet likeness with flowers or by inscribing their name and attaching their picture on a candle.

lovespells
plural of lovespell

lumber
Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.
Useless or cumbrous material.
A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
A baseball bat.
An erect penis.

lumbers
plural of timber

lyngbyatoxin
A blistering agent produced by Moorea producens (formerly Lyngbya majuscula) and possibly other cyanobacteria.

lyngbyatoxins
plural of lyngbyatoxin

macrocopies
plural of macrocopy

macrogenesis
In sociocultural psychology, macrogenesis as a term can act in opposition to microgenesis as an umbrella term for other, specific processes. These macrogenetic processes would be described as: ontogenesis (the development of a person through their lifecourse), sociogenesis (the development of a culture or society over time), and phylogenesis (the evolution of humans and non-human animals over generations).

mahboob
Alternative form of mahbub.

mahboobs
plural of mahboob

mahbub
A gold coin used in the Ottoman Empire.

mahbubs
plural of mahbub

mailbase
Synonym of listserv (“electronic mailing list”).

mailbases
plural of mailbase

makefile
Alternative spelling of make file.

makefiles
plural of makefile

manghir
A type of coin from the Ottoman Empire.

manghirs
plural of manghir

manticore
A beast with the body of a lion (usually red), the tail of a scorpion, and the head/face of a man with a mouth filled with multiple rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), said to be able to shoot spikes from its tail or mane to paralyse prey. It may be horned, winged, or both; its voice is described as a mixture of pipes and trumpets.

manticores
plural of manticore

marchings
plural of marching

marshaless
female marshal

martini
A cocktail made with gin or vodka and vermouth.
Any cocktail served in a cocktail glass, often sweet or fruity and aimed at women.

martinis
plural of martini

martinus
Alternative form of martini.

matchmark
A mark inscribed on a component to aid alignment with the rest of an assembly.

matchmarks
plural of matchmark

matress
Archaic form of mattress.

matresses
plural of matress

mattrass
Archaic form of mattress.

mattrasses
plural of mattrass

mebles
Obsolete form of moveables (“furniture”).

mechanostat
A model describing bone growth and bone loss, based on a refinement of Wolff's law, and according to which these processes are stimulated by the local mechanical elastic deformation of bone.

mechanostats
plural of mechanostat

med
Clipping of medical.
Clipping of median

medias
plural of media

medjidie
A coin of the Ottoman Empire, worth twenty piasters.

medjidieh
Alternative form of medjidie.

medjidiehs
plural of medjidieh

medjidies
plural of medjidie

medmal
Alternative spelling of med mal.

medoid
A mathematically representative object in a set of objects; it has the smallest average dissimilarity to all other objects in the set.

medoids
plural of medoid

meds
plural of med

megalopsychoi
plural of megalopsychos

megalopsychos
Aristotle’s “great-souled man”: an aristocratic paragon who embodies the virtues to an exceptional degree (a figure described chiefly in Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics).

melonhead
One of a group of legendary beings, known in parts of Michigan, Ohio, and Connecticut, and generally described as small humanoids with bulbous heads who occasionally emerge from hiding-places to attack people.
A fool or idiot.

melonheads
plural of melonhead

memoir
An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author.
A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject.
Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer.

memoirs
plural of memoir
An autobiography.

menk
An animal described by the Mansi as a "forest giant", with anatomical features similar to a yeti, said to live in the area of Khantia-Mansia, Russia.

menologions
plural of menologion

menologiums
plural of menologium

mentalities
plural of mentality

mentality
A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs.
The characteristics of a mind described as a system of distinctive structures and processes based in biology, language, or culture, etc.; a mental system.

mesira
Alternative form of mesirah.

mesirah
The act by which one Jew reports the conduct of another Jew to a non-rabbinic authority in a manner prescribed by Rabbinic Law.

mesofaunae
plural of mesofauna

mesofaunas
plural of mesofauna

metacontent
Content that describes or deals with other content.

metadatum
One piece of metadata; a piece of information describing a piece of data.

metaframework
A framework that describes other frameworks.

metaframeworks
plural of metaframework

metaphier
The literal, familiar subject described in a metaphor by word or phrase, which then by analogic similitude implies the metaphrand to which the metaphor alludes.

metapolicies
plural of metapolicy

metapolicy
Policy regarding other policies or policy development.
A policy regarding other policies or policy development.

metapragmatics
Language that characterizes or describes the pragmatic function of some speech.

metastructure
A structure that describes another structure.
A structure that has one or several properties similar to those of metamaterials

metastructures
plural of metastructure

metatext
Text that describes or discusses text.

metatexts
plural of metatext

metatype
A topotype of a species which is confirmed as belonging to that species by the author who originally described it
The type of a type.

metatypes
plural of metatype

mezuza
Alternative spelling of mezuzah.

mezuzah
A piece of parchment inscribed with specific Hebrew verses from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and 11:13–21) and attached in a case to the doorpost of a house.
An object of similar function in the Samaritan tradition.

mezuzahs
plural of mezuzah

mezuzas
plural of mezuza

mezuze
Alternative form of mezuzah.

mezuzot
plural of mezuzah

mezuzoth
plural of mezuzah

mezuzza
Alternative form of mezuzah.

mezzuza
Alternative form of mezuzah.

mezzuzah
Alternative form of mezuzah.

mezzuzahs
plural of mezzuzah

mezzuzot
plural of mezzuzah

mezzuzoth
plural of mezzuzah

microhemisphere
A very small hemisphere (in any of several contexts, but especially describing a design of microelectrode)

microhemispheres
plural of microhemisphere