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- hexadecanoic acid — palmitic acid.
- hit over the head — to strike on the head
- hit the headlines — be prominently featured in the news
- horseradish sauce — a piquant sauce made from horseradish root, vinegar, etc, and traditionally eaten in Britain with roast beef
- hottentot's bread — elephant's-foot.
- in broad daylight — openly, in full public view
- intradepartmental — Within a department.
- invincible armada — Armada.
- job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
- knock on the head — to daze or kill (a person) by striking on the head
- laccadive islands — group of islands in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India: part of Lakshadweep territory
- lackadaisicalness — without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt.
- ladder tournament — a tournament in which the entrants are listed by name and rank, advancement being by means of challenging and defeating an entrant ranked one or two places higher.
- ladder-back chair — a chair with a back of two upright posts connected by horizontal slats
- ladies' auxiliary — an organization usually made up of the wives of members of another organization
- ladies-in-waiting — plural of lady-in-waiting.
- lady of the house — the female head of a household (usually preceded by the).
- lady of the night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
- lady-of-the-night — a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.
- ladybird (beetle) — ladybug
- lan administrator — (job) A person who installs and maintains LAN hardware and software. A LAN administrator troubleshoots network usage and computer peripherals. He installs new users, performs system backups and data recovery, and resolves LAN communications problems.
- lan kanal adapter — (networking) (LKA) A sort of external LAN interface for a BS200 computer.
- lead a dog's life — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- lead acid battery — A lead acid battery is a 12-volt battery for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles consisting of lead-acid cells in series.
- lead to the altar — to marry
- leading indicator — A leading indicator is an economic indicator that changes before a change in the economy, and that can be used to predict future economic or financial activity.
- light in the head — dizzy; giddy
- load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
- locked and loaded — [Military slang for an M-16 rifle with magazine inserted and prepared for firing] Said of a removable disk volume properly prepared for use - that is, locked into the drive and with the heads loaded. Ironically, because their heads are "loaded" whenever the power is up, this description is never used of Winchester drives (which are named after a rifle).
- loggerhead shrike — a common, North American shrike, Lanius ludovicianus, gray above and white below with black wings, tail, and facial mask.
- loggerhead turtle — a sea turtle, Caretta caretta, having a large head: now greatly reduced in number.
- lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
- machado y morales — Gerardo [he-rahr-th aw] /hɛˈrɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1939, president of Cuba 1925–33.
- madiba generation — the generation born around 1994, when Nelson Mandela became the first president of a multiracial South Africa
- madonna and child — a representation of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus.
- make inroads into — to start to use up the supply of something
- maladministration — to administer or manage badly or inefficiently: The mayor was a bungler who maladministered the city budget.
- microfiche reader — a machine that displays on a screen a magnified image of a microfiche
- middle-age spread — an increase in bulk, especially in the waist and buttocks, associated with the onset of middle age and the body's decreasing ability to metabolize calories efficiently.
- midsummer madness — a temporary lapse into foolishness, senseless behavior, folly, etc., especially during the summer: His plan to become a beachcomber is midsummer madness.
- misadministration — the management of any office, business, or organization; direction.
- monkey bread tree — a bombacaceous tree, Adansonia digitata, native to Africa, that has a very thick trunk, large white flowers, and a gourdlike fruit with an edible pulp called monkey bread
- nightshade family — the plant family Solanaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, and vines having alternate, simple or pinnate leaves, conspicuous flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including belladonna, eggplant, nightshade, peppers of the genus Capsicum, petunia, potato, tobacco, and tomato.
- non-biodegradable — capable of decaying through the action of living organisms: biodegradable paper; biodegradable detergent.
- northern sporades — a group of Greek islands in the Aegean, lying northeast of Euboea
- nuclear radiation — Physics. radiation in the form of elementary particles emitted by an atomic nucleus, as alpha rays or gamma rays, produced by decay of radioactive substances or by nuclear fission.
- octadecanoic acid — stearic acid.
- on the barrelhead — upon being presented for sale; at the time of delivery
- orthovanadic acid — an oxyacid of vanadium, known chiefly in the form of its vanadate salts. Formula: H3VO4
- out of one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.