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  • l-asparaginase — an enzyme that destroys asparagine, a nonessential amino acid needed as a nutrient by rapidly growing cells: used in treating leukemia
  • lake nipissing — a lake in central Canada, in E Ontario between the Ottawa River and Georgian Bay. Area: 855 sq km (330 sq miles)
  • lance sergeant — a sergeant of the lowest rank.
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • languorousness — The quality of being languorous.
  • lapsus linguae — a slip of the tongue.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
  • legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
  • lemongrass oil — an aromatic oil made from lemon grass and used in aromatherapy, as a pesticide, and as a preservative
  • licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • longcase clock — tall freestanding timepiece
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
  • lose one's rag — If you lose your rag, you suddenly become so angry that you are not in control of yourself.
  • low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
  • lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
  • magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
  • magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
  • manageableness — The state of being manageable; tractableness; docility.
  • manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
  • manual testing — (testing)   That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
  • maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
  • marrons glaces — chestnuts cooked in syrup and glazed
  • masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
  • metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
  • mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
  • mineral spring — a spring of water that contains a significant amount of dissolved minerals.
  • murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
  • nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
  • negri sembilan — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 2580 sq. mi. (6682 sq. km). Capital: Seremban.
  • neil armstrong — (Daniel) Louis ("Satchmo") 1900–71, U.S. jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
  • newfangledness — of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
  • nielsen rating — an estimate of the total number of viewers for a particular television program, expressed as a percentage of the total number of viewers whose television sets are on at the time and based on a monitoring of the sets of a preselected sample of viewers.
  • non-coalescing — to unite so as to form one mass, community, etc.: The various groups coalesced into a crowd.
  • nonlegislative — Not of a legislative character; not involved with or related to legislating.
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