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  • liberty ship — a slow cargo ship built in large numbers for the U.S. merchant marine during World War II and having a capacity of about 11,000 deadweight tons.
  • linear graph — graph (def 2b).
  • linear-graph — a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc.
  • lisp machine — 1.   (architecture)   Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2.   (hardware, operating system)   A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
  • listenership — the people or number of people who listen to a radio station, record, type of music, etc.: The station has a listenership of 200,000.
  • lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
  • lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
  • lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
  • lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
  • lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
  • lithotripter — a device used for fragmenting kidney stones with ultrasound waves.
  • live in hope — If you live in hope that something will happen, you continue to hope that it will happen, although it seems unlikely, and you realize that you are being foolish.
  • lophophorate — Of or relating to small aquatic invertebrates belonging to a group of phyla characterized by the possession of lophophores. They include bryozoans, brachiopods, and phoronids.
  • lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
  • luteal phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, lasting about two weeks, from ovulation to the beginning of the next menstrual flow.
  • luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
  • lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
  • lymph system — Anatomy, Zoology. the system by which lymph is returned from the cells to the blood and by which white blood cells are produced in response to inflammation or presence of antigens; in mammals, the system includes the lymph glands, vessels and sinuses through which lymph is carried, and lymphoid tissues, as bone marrow and the thymus.
  • lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
  • lyophilizate — A lyophilizate is a freeze-dried product.
  • machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
  • macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
  • magnetograph — a recording magnetometer, used especially for recording variations in the earth's magnetic field.
  • magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
  • make whoopee — make whoopee, to engage in uproarious merrymaking.
  • mapplethorpe — Robert, 1946–89, U.S. photographer.
  • marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
  • massotherapy — treatment by massage.
  • mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
  • mediatorship — the position of a mediator
  • meet up with — see socially
  • megacephalic — macrocephalic.
  • meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
  • melanophores — Plural form of melanophore.
  • melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
  • memphremagog — Lake, a lake on the boundary between the U.S. and Canada, between N Vermont and S Quebec. 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • mephibosheth — a son of Jonathan, and the grandson of Saul. II Sam 4:4.
  • mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
  • mesomorphous — mesomorphic
  • metal polish — cleaning fluid designed to clean, polish or add shine to metal
  • metallograph — a microscope for observing the microstructure of metals.
  • metallophone — any musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of metal bars that may either be struck by hammers operated manually or played with a keyboard.
  • metamorphism — Geology. a change in the structure or constitution of a rock due to natural agencies, as pressure and heat, especially when the rock becomes harder and more completely crystalline.
  • metamorphist — a member of a group of 16th century Christians who believed that the humanly body of Jesus Christ metamorphosed into God during the Ascension
  • metamorphize — (transitive) To transform or change; metamorphose.
  • metamorphose — to change the form or nature of; transform.
  • metamorphous — metamorphic.
  • metaphorical — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
  • metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
  • metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
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