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  • kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
  • kinetoplasts — Plural form of kinetoplast.
  • kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
  • kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
  • lactoprotein — any protein existing in milk.
  • lake nipigon — a lake in central Canada, in NW Ontario, draining into Lake Superior via the Nipigon River. Area: 4843 sq km (1870 sq miles)
  • lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • leontopodium — any plant of the Eurasian alpine genus Leontopodium, esp L. alpinum
  • lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
  • lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
  • lepidopteron — any lepidopterous insect.
  • lepidosirens — Plural form of lepidosiren.
  • ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
  • line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
  • linespersons — Plural form of linesperson.
  • liopleurodon — Any of the genus Liopleurodon of large carnivorous marine plesiosaurs, apex predators of the Middle to Late Jurassic seas that covered Europe.
  • lipoproteina — a plasma lipoprotein containing protein and cholesterol, high levels of which are associated with atherosclerosis.
  • lipoproteins — Plural form of lipoprotein.
  • lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
  • lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
  • 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.
  • liverpolitan — a native or inhabitant of Liverpool
  • london pride — a saxifragaceous plant, a hybrid between Saxifraga spathularis and S. umbrosa, having a basal rosette of leaves and pinkish-white flowers
  • longipennate — (of birds) having long slender wings or feathers
  • lopsidedness — heavier, larger, or more developed on one side than on the other; unevenly balanced; unsymmetrical.
  • machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
  • magnetooptic — pertaining to the effect of magnetism upon the propagation of light.
  • 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.
  • marine corps — a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces trained for land, sea, and air combat, typically for land combat in conjunction with an amphibious or airborne landing, and whose commandant is responsible to the secretary of the navy.
  • master point — a point awarded to a bridge player who has won or placed in an officially recognized tournament.
  • media person — a person who works in the mass media
  • median point — centroid (def 2).
  • meeting post — a timber with a chamfer at the outer edge of a lock gate that fits against the meeting post of another lock gate.
  • melanotropin — MSH.
  • mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
  • mesopotamian — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
  • metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
  • micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
  • microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
  • microprinted — printed in microprint
  • mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
  • minicomputer — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
  • minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
  • misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
  • misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
  • mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
  • mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
  • mole mapping — the procedure of using a digital camera to record the positions and appearances of moles on a person's body so that regular checks will detect any changes that might lead to skin cancer
  • money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
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