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  • intrapersonal — existing or occurring within the self or within one's mind: People with high intrapersonal intelligence are aware of their strengths and weaknesses. Intrapersonal conflict can lead to emotional stress.
  • intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
  • inviolateness — The state of being inviolate.
  • ipsilaterally — (anatomy, medicine) On the same side of the body.
  • irrationalise — Alt form irrationalize.
  • irritableness — Quality of being irritable.
  • islamic state — an Islamist terrorist organization, formed in the early 21st century, whose aim is to create a caliphate in the Middle East and N Africa
  • ismaticalness — the quality of following isms or fashionable doctrines
  • isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
  • isometrically — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
  • italian aster — a composite plant, Aster amellus, of Eurasia, having clustered, purple flower heads.
  • jail sentence — a term of imprisonment imposed by a court
  • java servelet — Java servlet
  • joseph stalin — Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
  • judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
  • kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
  • kiss-and-tell — revealing sth private for money
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
  • lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • lady's mantle — any of various rosaceous plants of the N temperate genus Alchemilla, having small green flowers
  • lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
  • lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
  • laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
  • land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
  • landfill site — also landfill
  • landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
  • landing stage — a floating platform used as a wharf.
  • language arts — study of reading and writing
  • lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
  • laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
  • laser pointer — a portable laser that emits monochromatic light over a long and narrow distance, used especially as a pointing device.
  • laser printer — Computers. a high-speed printer that uses a laser to form dot-matrix patterns and an electrostatic process to fuse metallic particles to paper a page at a time: capable of producing a variety of character fonts, graphics, and other symbols.
  • last judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
  • lavatory seat — the part on a toilet or lavatory which can be moved up or down and which is used for sitting on
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • lead arsenate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, highly poisonous powder, PbHAsO 4 , used as an insecticide.
  • leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
  • least bittern — any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) of North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe.
  • 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.
  • leather goods — products made of animal skin
  • legacy system — (jargon)   A computer system or application program which continues to be used because of the cost of replacing or redesigning it and often despite its poor competitiveness and compatibility with modern equivalents. The implication is that the system is large, monolithic and difficult to modify. If legacy software only runs on antiquated hardware the cost of maintaining this may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.
  • legislatively — By legislation, by the method of enacting laws.
  • legislatorial — of or relating to a legislator, legislature, or legislation; legislative.
  • leiomyomatous — a benign tumor composed of nonstriated muscular tissue.
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