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  • immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
  • immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
  • imperial bushel — a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel) and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel) Abbreviation: bu., bush.
  • implausibleness — The quality of being implausible.
  • impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
  • instrumentalism — the variety of pragmatism developed by John Dewey, maintaining that the truth of an idea is determined by its success in the active solution of a problem and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience.
  • instrumentalist — a person who plays a musical instrument.
  • instrumentality — the quality or state of being instrumental.
  • insurance claim — request for insurance to be paid
  • intellectualism — devotion to intellectual pursuits.
  • interim results — A company's interim results are the set of figures, published outside the regular times, that show whether it has achieved a profit or a loss.
  • jerusalem bible — a Roman Catholic version of the Bible published in 1966, translated from the French La Bible de Jérusalem, produced by Dominican scholars in Jerusalem (1956)
  • jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
  • kamensk-uralski — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
  • liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
  • little bluestem — a North American forage grass, Schizachyrium scoparium, having wide often bluish blades.
  • little missouri — a river in the NW United States, rising in NE Wyoming and flowing NE into the Missouri through N Dakota. 560 miles (900 km) long.
  • lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • malay peninsula — a peninsula in SE Asia, consisting of W (mainland) Malaysia and the S part of Thailand.
  • male chauvinism — the beliefs, attitudes, or behavior of male chauvinists (men who patronize, disparage, or otherwise denigrate females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit).
  • male chauvinist — a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
  • male prostitute — man who has sex for money
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • marcus aurelius — Marcus, Marcus Aurelius.
  • marsupial mouse — any of various mouse-sized to rat-sized marsupials of the family Dasyuridae, occurring in Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania: some species are rare or endangered.
  • masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • measuring glass — a graduated glass container used to measure quantities of liquid
  • medical student — trainee doctor
  • medical studies — a course of study leading to qualification as a doctor of medicine
  • medical tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • mellifluousness — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
  • metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
  • metallic luster — luster1 (def 8).
  • mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • miles gloriosus — a braggart soldier, esp as a stock figure in comedy
  • miner's lettuce — winter purslane.
  • miscellaneously — In a miscellaneous manner.
  • miscue analysis — analysis of the errors a pupil makes while reading
  • mistrustfulness — Quality of being mistrustful.
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