(countable) A public eating-place in South Asia, now especially a communal kitchen run by a Sikh community and serving free food. / (uncountable) The free food served at such a place.

(botany) (Picris echioides), bristly oxtongue, a type of daisy.

(linguistics) A language which is reconstructed by examining similarities in existing languages to try to deduce what a common ancestor language, no longer known, would have been like.

(mineralogy) An evaporite, consisting of a mixed potassium and magnesium sulphate, with the chemical formula K₂Mg₂(SO₄)₃.

Words that represent concepts rather than physical things

Language considered inappropriate for use during a parliamentary session; especially profanity or suggestions of dishonesty.

An association founded in 1924 to study the establishment of an international auxiliary language. In 1951, IALA presented Interlingua to the public by publishing the Interlingua-English Dictionary and Interlingua Grammar. Abbreviated IALA.

Language in any of a number of different modalities such as speech, sign or writing.

(computing) Any programming language that consists (mostly) of a series of commands, typically assigning values to objects; a procedural language.

(slang) Text written in an incomprehensible script, especially Japanese, Chinese, Arabic or Hindi.