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This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter L. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars
listicle, from list and article [5] machinima, from machine and cinema [44] Pokémon, from pocket and monster [5] textonym, from text and synonym [2] vortal, from vertical and portal [2] Microsoft, from microcomputer and software [45]
For example, the word dermatology comes from the root dermato plus logy. [3] Sometimes, an excrescence, the addition of a consonant, must be added to avoid poor construction of words. There are additional uses for the suffix such as to describe a subject rather than the study of it (e.g. technology).
A female singer with a range usually extending from the A below middle C to the F an eleventh above middle C. Mezzo-sopranos generally have a darker vocal tone than sopranos, and their vocal range is between that of a soprano and that of a contralto. MG See main gauche minore Minor key misterioso Mysterious mit Dämpfer (Ger.) With a mute M.M.
eager or intent on, example: he is keen to get to work on time. desirable or just right, example: "peachy keen" – "That's a pretty keen outfit you're wearing." (slang going out of common usage) keeper a curator or a goalkeeper: one that keeps (as a gamekeeper or a warden) a type of play in American football ("Quarterback keeper")
See also M John Macadam, Scottish-Australian chemist – Macadamia. Ernst Mach, Czech-Austrian physicist – Mach number. Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech novelist and poet – Lake Mácha, in the Czech Republic Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian politician and writer – Machiavellianism. John Macdonald, New Zealand psychologist – Macdonald triad. Charles Macintosh, Scottish inventor – mackintosh ...
Sandro Tonali made a sensational Newcastle United debut in the 5-1 win over Aston Villa and Magpies striker Callum Wilson believes a player of his ability "needs to showcase" his talent in the ...
HPC—High-Performance Computing; HPFS—High Performance File System; HSDPA—High-Speed Downlink Packet Access; HTC—High-Throughput Computing; HSM—Hierarchical Storage Management; HT—Hyper Threading; HTM—Hierarchical Temporal Memory; HTML—Hypertext Markup Language; HTTP—Hypertext Transfer Protocol; HTTPd—Hypertext Transport ...