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- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
- luminous flux — the rate of transmission of luminous energy: expressed in lumens.
- macroeconomic — the branch of economics dealing with the broad and general aspects of an economy, as the relationship between the income and investments of a country as a whole.
- magnitudinous — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- magnoliaceous — belonging to the plant family Magnoliaceae.
- maid of honor — an unmarried woman who is the chief attendant of a bride. Compare matron of honor.
- make no bones — If you make no bones about something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.
- manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
- marginal note — aside
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- melanogenesis — the production of melanin
- membranophone — any musical instrument, as a drum, in which the sound is produced by striking, rubbing, or blowing against a membrane stretched over a frame.
- mezzo soprano — a voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
- mezzo-soprano — a voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
- microeconomic — Of, or relating to, a microeconomy.
- minor element — Geology. any chemical element found in small quantities in the rocks of the earth's crust. Compare major element.
- minor penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
- minor premise — Logic. an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which one (major premise) contains the term (major term) that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other (minor premise) contains the term (minor term) that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term (middle term) that is excluded from the conclusion. A typical form is “All A is C; all B is A; therefore all B is C.”.
- minor prophet — any of a group of Old Testament prophets, including Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.
- minor-leaguer — a member of a minor-league team.
- misdemeanours — Plural form of misdemeanour.
- mispronounced — Said wrongly.
- mispronounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mispronounce.
- mixed economy — an economy in which there are elements of both public and private enterprise.
- monoaminergic — (of a neuron or neural pathway) transmitting messages by means of a monoamine
- monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
- monochorionic — Sharing one foetal membrane, or chorion. Typically used of identical twins.
- monochromated — Fitted with a monochromator.
- monochromatic — of or having one color.
- monochromator — a spectroscope with a slit that can be moved across the spectrum for viewing individual spectral bands.
- monoclonality — Biology, Biotechnology. the state or condition of having one specific type of antibody.
- monocotyledon — an angiospermous plant of the class Monocotyledones, characterized by producing seeds with one cotyledon and an endogenous manner of growth.
- monodactylous — having only one digit or claw.
- monofilaments — Plural form of monofilament.
- monogenically — In a monogenic manner.
- monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
- monogrammatic — a design consisting of two or more alphabetic letters combined or interlaced, commonly one's initials, often printed on stationery, embroidered on clothing, etc.
- monogynoecial — (of a fruit) developing from a single pistil.
- monometallism — the use of one metal only, as gold or silver, as a monetary standard.
- monomolecular — noting or pertaining to a thickness of one molecule.
- monomorphemic — containing only one morpheme, as the words wait and gorilla.
- mononucleated — having a single nucleus
- mononucleosis — the presence of an abnormally large number of mononuclear leukocytes, or monocytes, in the blood.
- monophosphate — a salt containing only one phosphate group.
- monophthongal — (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a monophthong.
- monophysitism — (Christianity) A Christian belief which holds that the human nature of Jesus Christ was essentially absorbed by the divine, and thus that he essentially had but one nature, contrary to the orthodox view that Christ has two natures, both fully human and fully divine. A variant is apollonarianism, which has gnostic overtones and used hellenistic ideas alien to orthodox Christianity.
- monopolylogue — a theatrical entertainment in which the same performer plays several parts or characters.
- monopotassium — (chemistry) monatomic potassium.
- monopsonistic — the market condition that exists when there is one buyer.