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  • linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
  • liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
  • listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • luggage handler — someone whose job is to handle and direct luggage, esp at an airport
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
  • luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
  • magna cum laude — with great praise: used in diplomas to grant the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • magnetic bubble — a tiny mobile magnetized area within a magnetic material, the basis of one type of solid-state storage medium (magnetic bubble memory)
  • magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • markup language — a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
  • measuring glass — a graduated glass container used to measure quantities of liquid
  • metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
  • methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
  • microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
  • minimum tillage — no-tillage.
  • modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.
  • monumentalizing — Present participle of monumentalize.
  • mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • multiple voting — the casting of ballots in more than one constituency in one election, as in England before the election reform of 1918.
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
  • musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
  • national league — the older of the two major professional U.S. baseball leagues, established in 1876. Abbreviation: N.L.
  • native language — first language, mother tongue
  • natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
  • natural wastage — Natural wastage is the process of employees leaving their jobs because they want to retire or move to other jobs, rather than because their employer makes them leave.
  • negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
  • neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
  • neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • neuroembryology — the branch of embryology dealing with the origin and development of the nervous system.
  • neuroimmunology — a branch of immunology concerned with the interactions between immunological and nervous system functions, especially as they apply to various autoimmune diseases.
  • neurolinguistic — pertaining to neurolinguistics
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
  • neurotoxicology — the science that deals with the effects of poisons on the nervous system.
  • nonjudgmentally — not judged or judging on the basis of one's personal standards or opinions: They tried to adopt a nonjudgmental attitude that didn't reflect their own biases. My guidance counselor in high school was sympathetic and nonjudgmental.
  • nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
  • object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
  • oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
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