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  • intramolecularly — In an intramolecular manner; within a molecule.
  • intraocular lens — a plastic lens implanted surgically to replace the eye's natural crystalline lens, usually because the natural lens has developed a cataract.
  • italian vermouth — sweet vermouth
  • jailhouse lawyer — a prisoner who has taught himself or herself law while serving time, is knowledgeable about technical legal matters, and gives legal advice, especially to fellow prisoners.
  • journalistically — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
  • jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
  • kangaroo closure — a form of closure in which the chair or speaker selects certain amendments for discussion and excludes others
  • kekule's formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
  • la rochefoucauld — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
  • labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
  • labour relations — Labour relations refers to the relationship between employers and employees in industry, and the political decisions and laws that affect it.
  • labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
  • labrador current — a cold ocean current flowing southwards off the coast of Labrador and meeting the warm Gulf Stream, causing dense fogs off the coast of Newfoundland
  • lady of pleasure — a prostitute.
  • latissimus dorsi — a broad, flat muscle on each side of the midback, the action of which draws the arm backward and downward and rotates the front of the arm toward the body.
  • lenticular cloud — a very smooth, round or oval, lens-shaped cloud that is often seen, singly or stacked in groups, near a mountain ridge.
  • letter of marque — license or commission granted by a state to a private citizen to capture and confiscate the merchant ships of another nation.
  • leveraged buyout — the purchase of a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral, and often discharging the debt and realizing a profit by liquidating the company. Abbreviation: LBO.
  • liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
  • lissajous figure — the series of plane curves traced by an object executing two mutually perpendicular harmonic motions.
  • loire-atlantique — a department in NW France. 2695 sq. mi. (6980 sq. km). Capital: Nantes.
  • louisiana french — French as spoken in Louisiana; Cajun. Abbreviation: LaF.
  • lourenco marques — former name of Maputo.
  • luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
  • macro-linguistic — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • macrolinguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • mail-order house — a retail firm that conducts its business by receiving orders and shipping its merchandise through the mail and that supplies its customers with catalogs, circulars, etc.
  • malchus-porphyry — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
  • mallowpuff māori — a Māori who is considered to behave like a white person
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • marsupialization — (surgery) The surgical technique of cutting a slit into a cyst and suturing its edges to form a continuous surface from the exterior to the interior of the cyst, allowing it to drain freely.
  • menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
  • metallofullerene — (chemistry) A fullerene containing an enclosed metal atom.
  • microcirculation — the movement of blood through the arterioles, capillaries, and venules.
  • microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
  • micromanipulator — A device, used for micromanipulation, consisting of microscopic needles and instruments viewed through a microscope.
  • microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
  • migratory locust — any of several locusts that migrate in great swarms, especially Locusta migratoria, of Africa and Asia.
  • military honours — ceremonies performed by troops in honour of royalty, at the burial of an officer, etc
  • miniature poodle — a breed of poodle, bred to be much smaller than standard poodles
  • miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
  • modern languages — languages currently spoken
  • modular language — (language)   (Modula) Wirth's 1977 predecessor of Modula-2. The original Modula was, more oriented toward concurrent programming, but otherwise quite similar.
  • molecular volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a substance
  • molecular weight — the average weight of a molecule of an element or compound measured in units once based on the weight of one hydrogen atom taken as the standard or on 1/16 (0.0625) the weight of an oxygen atom, but after 1961 based on 1/12 (0.083) the weight of the carbon-12 atom; the sum of the atomic weights of all the atoms in a molecule. Abbreviation: mol. wt.
  • money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
  • mortgagee clause — a clause attached to a fire-insurance policy for protecting a mortgagee against loss or damage.
  • mount carmel man — an early human of Neanderthaloid type, known from skeletal remains from the late Pleistocene Epoch, c50,000–40,000 b.c., found in Palestine.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • mulberry harbour — either of two prefabricated floating harbours towed across the English Channel to the French coast for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944
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