Louvre Accord (en)

an agreement, signed on February 22, 1987 in Paris, that aimed to stabilize the international currency markets and halt the continued decline of the US Dollar caused by the Plaza Accord; signed by France, West Germany, Japan, Canada, the US and the UK

lowing (en)

(verb) moo

lubricious (en)

(adjective) marked by wantonness; lecherous / (adjective) salacious / (adjective) having a smooth or slippery quality

lucent (en)

(adjective) glowing with light; luminous / (adjective) marked by clarity or translucence; clear

lucubratory (en)

Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking / a piece of writing, typically a pedantic or overelaborate one

ludic (en)

(adjective) of, relating to, or characterized by play; playful

lugubrious (en)

(adjective) mournful / (adjective) exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful / (adjective) dismal

lustration (en)

(verb) to purify ceremonially

luxated (en)

dislocated

Länder (de)

word for land/countries, plural

Maastricht Stability and Growth Pact (en)

an agreement, among the 28 Member states of the European Union, to facilitate and maintain the stability of the Economic and Monetary Union; its two regulations went into force in 98-99

Maastricht Treaty (en)

treay for creating the EU; signed on 7 February 1992 by the members of the European Community in Maastricht, Netherlands

MacGuffin (en)

an object or device in a movie or a book that serves merely as a trigger for the plot; popularised as a term by Alfred Hitchcock

machicolation (en)

(noun) an opening between the corbels of a projecting parapet or in the floor of a gallery or roof of a portal for discharging missiles upon assailants below / (noun) a gallery or parapet containing such openings / (noun) construction imitating medieval machicolation

macramé (en)

the art of knotting cord or string in patterns to make decorative articles

macula (en)

(noun) an oval-shaped pigmented area near the center of the retina of the human eye and some other animalian eyes; provides the best detailed vision

madrigal (en)

(noun) a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form / (noun) a complex polyphonic unaccompanied vocal piece on a secular text developed especially in the 16th and 17th centuries / (noun) part-song / (noun) glee

maieutics (en)

relating to or resembling the Socratic method of eliciting new ideas from another

malediction (en)

(noun) curse execration

malefic (en)

(adjective) having malignant influence; baleful / (adjective) malicious

Mammon (en)

(noun) material wealth or possessions especially as having a debasing influence (from the New Testament)

mandarin (en)

(noun) historically, a high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire OR a pedantic or elitist bureaucrat OR senior person of influence in academia or literary circles / (adj) deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist

mandatary (en)

(noun) a person or state receiving a mandate

mandorla (en)

a pointed oval figure used as an architectural feature and as an aureole enclosing figures such as Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary in medieval art

Manichaeism (en)

an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"