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  • intramuscular — located or occurring within a muscle.
  • intravascular — within the blood vessels.
  • intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
  • irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
  • isoagglutinin — an agglutinin that can effect isoagglutination.
  • isoamyl group — the univalent group C 5 H 11 .
  • isostructural — (of two substances) having the same crystal structure but not necessarily a similar chemical composition.
  • james douglas — Sir James ("the Black Douglas") 1286–1330, Scottish military leader.
  • january sales — sales held after Christmas to encourage customers back to the shops
  • japanese plum — a small tree, Prunus salicina, native to China, bearing edible yellowish fruit.
  • jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
  • jesus sandals — simple leather sandals of a type often worn by hippies
  • jigsaw puzzle — Also called picture puzzle. a set of irregularly cut pieces of pasteboard, wood, or the like that form a picture or design when fitted together.
  • juan carlos i — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
  • judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
  • judicial sale — a forced sale of property authorized or required by a court of law in order to satisfy a debt etc
  • juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
  • julius caesar — Gaius Julius Caesar.
  • jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
  • kuril islands — a chain of 56 volcanic islands off the NE coast of Asia, extending for 1200 km (750 miles) from the S tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula to NE Hokkaido. Area: 14 990 sq km (6020 sq miles)
  • laboriousness — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
  • labour supply — the total number of hours that workers are willing and able to be paid wages to work for
  • labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
  • labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
  • lace-up shoes — shoes which are fastened with laces
  • lactobacillus — any long, slender, rod-shaped, anaerobic bacterium of the genus Lactobacillus, that produces large amounts of lactic acid in the fermentation of carbohydrates, especially in milk.
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lake superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lake-superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
  • lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
  • language arts — study of reading and writing
  • languishingly — In a languishing manner.
  • lapsus calami — a slip of the pen.
  • laser surgery — the surgical use of lasers.
  • lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
  • last judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • laughableness — The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • least squares — a method of estimating values from a set of observations by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observations and the values to be found.
  • leiomyomatous — a benign tumor composed of nonstriated muscular tissue.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
  • let us assume — You can use let us assume or let's assume when you are considering a possible situation or event, so that you can think about the consequences.
  • leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • linguistician — linguist (def 1).
  • liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • liqueur glass — a small glass intended for drinking liqueur from
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