User:Andrew Davidson/Articles
These are articles which I started, rewrote completely or otherwise have a particular interest in. This list is alphabetical and was last updated on 20 September 2020.
- 3 Kings (jazz trio) – Musical ensemble
- 4 Girls 4 Harps – Musical ensemble
- A Study in Pink – 2010 first episode of BBC series Sherlock directed by Paul McGuigan
- A Tragedy of Fashion – Frederick Ashton's first ballet
- Academic achievement – Educational performance
- Academic Spring – Reform movement
- Academic standards – Benchmarks of education
- Accounting irregularity – Improper entry, omission or statement
- Accuracy paradox – Flaw of binary classification
- Acoustic plaster – Sound absorbent coating
- Admiralty, Trafalgar Square – Pub in London, United Kingdom
- Adventures in Stationery – History of office supplies
- Aerial saw – Flying tree trimmer
- Aggretsuko – Japanese animated streaming television series
- Agnata Butler – Classicist
- Air pump – Pump for pushing air
- Aircraft design process – Establishing the configuration and plans for a new aeroplane
- Al Kelly – Double-talk comedian and stooge
- Alan Cockshaw – Civil engineer
- Alan Cook – English physicist
- Alan Gillett (surveyor) – Chartered surveyor
- Alan Rogan – English guitar tech and player (1951–2019)
- Albert Strange – Artist and yacht designer
- Alderman's Barrow – Burial mound on Exmoor
- Aldford House – Park Lane mansion
- Alexander Chaffers – Vexatious litigant
- Alexander Guttenplan – Medical researcher and University Challenge star
- Alfred Bonnardot – French essayist, independent historian, and bibliophile
- Alfred Clark (director) – Pioneer of cinema and gramophone, business executive and collector of ceramics
- Alfred Ezra – Bird collector
- Alison Vincent – Information technologist
- Alison Wolf, Baroness Wolf of Dulwich – British economist (born 1949)
- Althea McNish – Trinidad-born textile designer (1924–2020)
- Aluminium powder – Metal dust
- Ambarnaya – Russian river
- American Newspaper Repository – Archive
- American Optical Company – Manufacturer of spectacles and other optical equipment
- American Yacht Club (New York) – Boating association
- Ammonia pollution – Chemical contamination
- Amur and Timur – Odd couple
- Amy Gentry – Rower and secretary
- Andrea Brunsendorf – Gardener, horticulturalist and landscaper
- Andrew Sparrow – British journalist
- Animal bath – Therapeutic envelopment
- Anita Corbin – British photographer
- Anthony Chase – Academic specialist in human rights
- Anthony Palmer (British Army officer) – Soldier
- Antique aircraft – Vintage aeroplanes
- Antoine de Paris – Polish hairdresser (1884–1976)
- Aqua omnium florum – All-flower water
- Aristotle's Comet – Comet of 371 BC
- Arling Shaeffer – Musician
- Arthur Beale – Rope maker and chandler
- Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert – Soldier and cook
- Arthur Shadwell – Author and physician
- Arthur Vogel (chemist) – Author and educator (1905–1966)
- Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union – Suspension procedure
- As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly – Biblical proverb
- Assessment centre – Candidate evaluation site
- Astronomy Photographer of the Year – Prize competition
- Atalanta (1883) – Steam yacht and gunboat
- Athena (retailer) – British art retailer and retail chain
- Auto-trolling – Self-abuse on the Internet
- Awkward silence – Conversational hiatus
- Azia (town) – Nigerian settlement
- Baby Bottom Butter – Balm
- Backbiting – Secret slander
- Back to nature – Lifestyle or philosophy
- Backyard – Residential garden or other land behind a house
- Bad habit – Repetitive negative behaviour
- Bad Pharma – 2012 book critical of the pharmaceutical industry
- Balloon (game) – Ancient sport
- Balthazar Francolini – Attritionist theologian
- Bank erosion – Marginal wear of a watercourse
- Barbara Hammond – Social historian
- Basheer Mauladad – Civil engineer
- Basil Smallpeice – Accountant and businessman
- Batman Day – Annual event
- Battle-axe (woman) – Archetypal virago
- Beach cleaning – Coastline care
- Beanbag genetics
- Beans in My Ears – Folk song
- Becky Frater – Helicopter pilot and hockey player
- Beer chemistry – Brewery science and beer chemical composition
- Beheading game – Motif of medieval romance
- Beinn-y-Phott – Manx mountain
- Bert Kelly (jazz musician) – Pioneering band-leader
- Bertha Bracey – Quaker aid worker and teacher
- Beryl Corner – Pioneering paediatrician
- Best friends forever – Intense friendship
- Betsy Bang – Biologist, illustrator and translator
- Betty Stogs – Bad mother and beer
- Beware of the dog – Warning
- Beware of the Dog (disambiguation)
- Beyond the Deepening Shadow – Commemorative installation
- Biblical money management – Saving advice
- Bicycle face – Impact of the bicycle on women's lives
- Bicycle jousting – Sport
- Bicycle library – Lending facility
- Big Kahuna Burger – Fictional fast food chain in Quentin Tarantino films
- Bignor Hill – South down
- Bill O'Hagan – Butcher and journalist
- Billy Hagan (burlesque) – Comedian
- Biological economics – Social science
- Bird stamp – Ornithological philately
- Black Destroyer – Van Vogt story
- Black Middens – Tyne reef
- Black Velvet (revue) – London Hippodrome show
- Blossom's Inn – Staging post
- Bloviation – Empty, pompous, political speech
- Blue hair – Unnatural coloration
- Bluestocking – Term for an educated, intellectual woman
- Banjo, mandolin, and guitar – Musical genre
- Bob Payton – Marketing man, restaurateur and hotelier
- Bobby Baker (artist) – Food sculptor and social practitioner
- Body politic – Metaphor comparing a polity to a body
- Bon viveur
- Book restoration – Repair and renovation
- Books and Bookmen – Literary magazine
- Box and Cox
- Box and Cox Publications – Music agency
- Boyan Slat – Dutch inventor and entrepreneur
- Brad De Losa – Australian fitter
- Braying – Domesticated animal used for transportation
- Brazil–Japan relations – bilateral relation between Brazil and Japan
- Brent Walker – Entertainment and property company
- Brian de Courcy-Ireland – Naval officer
- Brian Lennard – British businessman and gambler (1935–2019)
- Brinton Collection – Collection of early cinematography
- Bristol High Cross – Medieval monument
- Britain's Brightest – Game show
- Britannia Coconut Dancers – Clog dancers
- British studies – Academic subject
- Brush pot – Container for calligraphy brushes
- Brydges Place – Alley in the City of Westminster, London
- Buggins' turn – Disparaging term for undue promotions
- Bulldog forceps – Surgical instrument
- Bulldust – Aeolian mineral powder
- Bully boy – Play by Sandi Toksvig
- Bus Reshaping Plan
- Butt and Oyster – Historic inn by the River Orwell in Suffolk
- Camerons Brewery – Brewery established in County Durham, England
- Camilla Palmer – British solicitor
- Camping in churches – Charity to protect historic churches England
- Carbeth – Hamlet in Stirlingshire, Scotland
- Cardinal Cap Alley – Alley in the London Borough of Southwark
- Carl Heath – leader of the Quaker movement in Britain (1869-1950)
- Caroline Playne – pacifist and historian
- Carolyn Griffiths – Railway engineer
- Caroone House – London office building (1972–2004)
- Castle Folds – Ancient fortified settlement in Cumbria
- Castlebar Hill – Hill in the United Kingdom
- Cat lady – Cultural archetype of a woman who owns many cats
- Cathedral Square, Gibraltar – Square in Gibraltar
- Catherine Marshall (suffragette) – British suffragette, campaigner and social activist (1880–1961)
- Cavalry Sunday – Annual parade
- Cecil Woolf – Publisher and writer
- Chade-Meng Tan – American software engineer
- Champagne (coiffeur) – celebrity coiffeur
- Charcoal in food – Charcoal as a food ingredient
- Charles DeVlieg – American tool designer
- Charles Hern
- Cheese press – Culinary device
- Chelsea Bun House – Bun shop
- Chelsea Fringe – Garden festival in London, England
- Chester Opera House – former theater and movie theater in Chester, Illinois
- Chief programmer team
- Childhood memory – Early life experiences often memorable for life
- Children's party – party, usually related to a child's birthday
- Chinaman (porcelain) – dealer in porcelain and chinaware, especially in 18th-century London,
- Chocolate biscuit – Biscuit flavoured with or covered in chocolate
- Christmas Day in the workhouse – 1877 monologue by George Robert Sims
- Chronica Gentis Scotorum – Scottish history by John of Fordun
- Churnalism – Form of journalism based on press releases and agency stories
- Cigar ash
- Claire Ptak – American baker and food writer
- Clattern Bridge
- Clay Boland – American songwriter
- Clement Semmler – Australian writer and television broadcaster
- Cliff Nazarro – American comedian
- Collaborative bargaining – Negotiation tactic
- Comic song – Musical genre
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Nathaniel Jennison
- Community management – the management of a common resource or issue by a community
- Compagnie della Calza
- Company of Pikemen and Musketeers – military unit
- Computer insurance – Information technology risk insurance
- Condolence book – Funeral custom
- Congregational Memorial Hall
- Constance Wood – British radiotherapist
- Controversia – Exercise in rhetoric
- Coorie – Scots word meaning "to stoop, bend, cringe, crouch for protection" and "to snuggle, nestle"
- Coppernin
- Corbynmania – UK Leader of the Opposition from 2015 to 2020 (born 1949)
- Cotton, Cheshire – former civil parish in Cheshire, UK
- Courtesy – Gentle politeness and courtly manners
- Covent Garden, Cambridge – Street in Cambridge, England
- Crowd scene – Artistic setting
- Cubby-hole – Small play house, or play area, for children
- Cubic fathom – Shipping measure for pit props
- Cuckoo Schools – Educational estate
- Customer review – Review of a product or service by a customer who has uses that product or service
- Cwmhiraeth – Hamlet in Carmarthenshire, Wales
- Cymbeline's Castle – motte-and-bailey castle in Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Cynthia Bergstrom
- D. G. Bridson – Radio producer and author and poet
- Daisy Christodoulou – British educationalist
- Dalchonzie – estate in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
- Dan Daniel (radio personality) – American radio presenter
- Dance and Dancers – Ballet magazine
- Dark Lady (character)
- Datta Phuge – Murdered Indian businessman
- David Baruch Adler – Danish judge (1826-1878)
- David Collins (interior designer) – Irish architect
- David Flockhart – Scottish medical researcher
- David Nott – Welsh consultant surgeon
- David Nutt – English neuropsychopharmacologist
- David Nutt (publisher) – London publisher
- David Pentreath – Officer in the Royal Navy (1933–2019)
- Davies White – Landscape architects
- Dawn Bonfield – Engineer, engineering advocate and educator
- Death of William Gibbs – English 1877 child suicide
- Decline in insect populations – Ecological trend recorded since the late 20th century
- Delphine Parrott – British endocrinologist and immunologist (1928–2016)
- Descartes' daughter – Rene Descartes' daughter
- Diana Henderson – Solicitor, military historian and officer (1946–2019)
- Diane Reay
- Dickens' London – Charles Dickens's works are especially associated with London which is the setting for many of his novels
- Diesel bug – Fuel problem
- Dilyn – Former UK Prime Minister's dog
- Dimethyloctadecyl(3-trimethoxysilylpropyl)ammonium chloride – chemical compound
- Dirt – Unclean matter, especially when in contact with a person's clothes, skin or possessions
- Dirty weekend
- Dogs at polling stations – Hashtag
- Don Freshwater – British professor of chemical engineering
- Donald Where's Your Troosers? – song
- Ass-hide glue – Gelatin obtained from the skin of the donkey
- Dorothy Hahn – American organic chemist
- Dorothy Marshall – British chemist (b. 1868)
- Dorothy Spicer – Aviator and aeronautical engineer
- Dorothy Tarrant – British classical scholar
- Dr. Trimball's Verdict – 1913 film
- Dream Factory (film) – 1997 film by Feng Xiaogang
- Drury Lane pantomime
- Duckbill shoe – broad-toed shoe of the early 16th century
- Dumb insolence – Silent disrespect
- Dunagoil – settlement on the Isle of Bute
- Duncan Green
- Duncan Green (British Army officer) – Officer in the Indian army and Gurkha regiment
- Dylan Wiliam – Welsh educationalist
- E. C. Williams – British chemical engineer
- Ealing and Old Brentford Cemetery – Cemetery in Greater London
- Ealing Charity Christmas Card Shop
- Ealing Jazz Festival – Annual jazz festival in London, England
- Ear wiggling – Twitching of the external ear
- Eco-anxiety – Chronic fear of environmental doom
- Edda Tasiemka – German archivist (1922–2019)
- Edgar Tillyer – Optical engineer
- Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia – Medical guide
- Edith Sharpley – English Lecturer
- Edna Gardner Whyte – American aviator
- Edward G. Cox – American linguist
- Edward Plummer – United States Army general
- Edwardian Farm – British historical documentary TV series
- Egoless programming – Computer development technique
- Eight Parlour Views – series of ukiyo-e prints designed by the Japanese artist Suzuki Harunobu
- El Vino – Wine bar in Fleet Street
- Elaine Madden – SOE agent of WWII
- ELife – Open-access scientific journal
- Elisabeth Luard – British food writer and illustrator
- Elizabeth Beecroft – Iron manufacturer and butter seller
- Elizabeth Georgeson – Scottish engineer
- Elizabeth Visser – Dutch historian
- Ella Lola – American actress
- Elmer C. Stoner – African-American comic and commercial artist (1897–1969)
- Email hacking – Unauthorized access to, or manipulation of, an email account or email correspondence
- EMI Archive Trust – British charitable trust set up in 1996 by EMI Group
- Enamel sign – sign made using vitreous enamel
- Enantiosis – Rhetorical device of juxtaposition of opposites for contrast
- Endless runway – Type of Runway
- English understatement – Element of English culture
- Enid Marx – English painter and designer (1902–1998)
- Entomologischer Verein Krefeld – German learned society
- Eric Robinson (conductor) – British conductor (1908–1974)
- Erica Garner – American activist (1990–2017)
- Escalator etiquette – Moving staircase manners
- Ethel Browning
- Eudo Mason – German scholar
- Eugene Higgins – Carpet business heir
- European Criminal Records Information System – The European Criminal Records Information System is an EU-System for Criminal Records.
- Evening Snow on the Heater – series of ukiyo-e prints designed by the Japanese artist Suzuki Harunobu
- Everett Joel Hall
- Everyone's Gone to the Moon – song written and recorded by British record producer Jonathan King
- Everything which is not forbidden is allowed – Constitutional principle
- Exultation
- Eye poke – Striking using the fingertips
- Farish Jenkins – American paleontologist
- Fay Maschler – British journalist (born 1945)
- Fealofani Bruun – traditional Polynesian navigator and qualified yachtmaster
- Fear of missing out – Feeling of worry about lost opportunities
- Fencing academy – Skills of a person versed in the art of the sword
- Festina lente – Classical adage
- Fever hospital – Hospital for infectious diseases
- Financial goal – Budgeting and expenses
- First World War centenary – 2014–2018 series of commemorations
- Fishwife – Woman who sells fish, or is loud and foul-mouthed
- Flip teaching – Instructional strategy and a type of blended learning
- Flypaper effect – Grant municipality increase level of public spending more than income of equivalent size
- Food for Thought (restaurant) – Restaurant in London, United Kingdom
- Forestry literature – publications about forestry
- Forpet – former Scottish unit of dry measure
- Fosse Farmhouse – Farmhouse in England
- Foster's Release – 1971 film by Terence H. Winkless
- Foxwarren Park – house in Borough of Guildford, Surrey
- Frank Umont – American baseball umpire (1917–1991)
- Fred Bang – Medical researcher
- Fred Henry Andrews – British educator and scholar
- Freddie Stockdale – Opera impresario
- Frederick York – English photographer and manufacturer
- Frida Scotta – Danish musician (1871–1948)
- Friedhelm Hillebrand – German engineer
- Fujiwara no Yoshiko
- Full Fact – Fact-checking organisation
- Gaby's Deli – Jewish restaurant
- Games & Puzzles – UK magazine, 1972–1981 and 1994–1996
- Gender-equality paradox – Concept in psychology and sociology
- George Gilbert Ramsay – Scottish Professor of humanities, University of Glasgow & Alpinist (1839–1921)
- George H. Dodd
- George Posford – English composer
- Gerard d'Erlanger – French-British accountant and aviation enthusiast (1906–1962)
- Gertcha – Single by Chas & Dave
- Get-well card – Piece of card with a picture and a message
- Gillian Duffy (editor) – English food writer and editor
- Gilmore Oil Company – Oil company
- Ginger Pig – British butchery chain
- Gioconda coffee bar – former café in Denmark Street, London
- Give a dog a bad name and hang him – proverb
- Glacial erratics of Estonia
- Gladys Mackenzie – Scottish physicist
- Glen Roy, Isle of Man – River on the Isle of Man
- Glencairn's rising – Royalist revolt in Scotland, 1653–1654
- Globitermes sulphureus – Species of Asian termite whose soldiers are known for their potentially suicidal attack.
- Glossary of American politics – List of political jargon and technical terms used in the United States
- Goat groundskeeping – Domesticated mammal (Capra hircus)
- Godfrey's Cordial – Opium-based sedative in Victorian Britain
- Gone Fishin' (song) – song performed by Bing Crosby
- Good German – Term for being passive in the face of atrocity
- Good-bye-ee! – popular song written and composed by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee
- Graff Diamonds – Multinational jewelry company
- Graves Gladney – American illustrator
- Great Asby Scar – Limestone pavement in Cumbria
- Great Ealing School – Phrontistery
- Great Rationality Debate – Question of whether humans are rational or not
- Great Turnstile – alley between High Holborn and Lincoln's Inn Fields in London
- Great Western Quicksilver Mine – mine in United States of America
- Greater Cairo Planning Commission
- Greene Man – London tavern
- Greenhouse gas monitoring – Measurement of greenhouse gas emissions and levels
- Greeper laces – Type of shoelace
- Gun rack – Rack used for storing firearms
- Gustav Walter (impresario) – German Impresario
- Gypsy Breynton – Fictional tomboy
- Gypsy Corner – Junction of the A40 road with Horn Lane in Acton, West London
- HadCRUT – Global Temperature Record
- Haig (whisky) – Scottish brand of whisky
- Hair oil – Oil applied to the hair.
- Hanging Sword Alley – Alley in the City of London
- Hansom Books – Publisher
- Hanwell Band
- Hard cases make bad law – Adage
- Harland Dixon – Canadian tap dancer (1885–1969)
- Harold George Jerrard – Physicist, sailor and councillor
- Harriet Law – British freethinker
- Harry the Hermit – Irishman who became famous for living on Hampstead Heath
- Harry Watrous – American artist
- Hawksmoor (restaurant) – British steakhouse and cocktail bar chain
- Health security – public health via the actions of sovereign states
- Hector the Collector – Poetry collection by Shel Silverstein
- Helen Szamuely – Eurosceptic historian
- Hell's Glen – valley in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Hellfire Corner – World War I site
- Henrik Lindberg – Danish eyewear maker and businessman
- Henry Beaufoy – British politician
- Henry Dagg – British musician
- Henry de Bruno Austin
- Herbert Hartley – English industrial chemist
- Hermione Hobhouse – British architectural historian (1934–2014)
- Hetty Reckless – Runaway slave
- Lights of North Shields – lighthouse
- High Lickbarrow
- Hilary Lloyd – English artist
- Hilde Lion
- Hill Street – Street in Mayfair, London, England
- Hillier Nurseries – Horticultural business in the UK
- Histoire des Ouvrages des Savans
- Hob Holes – Caves in Scarborough, England
- House-building – Process of constructing a home
- How Stean Gorge – Limestone gorge in North Yorkshire, England
- Hoxton knot – Method for tying a scarf for wear
- Hruni – Farming village in Iceland
- Hull Yacht Club – Yacht club in Massachusetts
- Human Brain Project – Scientific research project
- Hyning Scout Wood
- I Taut I Taw a Puddy-Tat – 1950 popular song
- I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman – 1967 single by Jack Smith
- Ian McDonald (civil servant) – British civil servant and government spokesman (1936–2019)
- Ian Smith (impresario) – Businessman, impresario, and journalist (1939–2019)
- Illuminated procession
- In a Monastery Garden – song composed by Albert Ketèlbey
- Inflatable banana – Supporters of Manchester City F.C.
- Ingrid Pedersen – Swedish-American aviator
- Invermark
- Invermark Lodge – hunting lodge in Angus, Scotland, UK
- Iron railing – Fence made of iron
- Isolation pod – Individual quarantine container
- Itanda Falls – Waterfall in Uganda
- Ivor Goodson – Educationalist and teacher
- J-phenomenon – English physicist
- Jack Lorimer – (1883-1920)
- Jacques Leslie – Author and journalist
- James Casey (poet-priest) – Irish priest and poet
- James Dunlop Smith – British official in the Indian army
- James Smith & Sons – Traditional umbrella shop in London
- James William Middleton – British entrepreneur (born 1987)
- Jann Parry – British ballet critic and writer
- Jason Wynyard – New Zealand woodchopper (1973–2023)
- Jayne Hepsibah – British milliner
- Jeanette Janvrin, Lady Brandon of Oakbrook – English secretary
- Jennie Litvack – Canadian economist and horn player (1963–2019)
- Jerusalem bagel – Israeli bread
- Jesse Sailes – Jazz drummer and session musician (1919–2007)
- Jews' Temporary Shelter – UK Jewish homeless charity
- Jo-Anne Baird – English professor
- Joan Benesh – British ballet dancer (1920–2014)
- Joan Mott – English physiologist; Foundation Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford
- Job title inflation – Phenomenon of increasingly grandiose job titles in organisations
- John Buckingham (rope-maker) – Rope maker and chandler
- John Dalby (painter) – English painter (1810–1865)
- John Hart (RAF officer) – RAF pilot (1916–2019)
- John Kotz (politician) – British politician
- John Lomas (RAF officer) – Decoder and civil servant
- John Marshall Clemens – American lawyer
- John Massey (poet)
- John Massey (prisoner) – Britain's longest-serving prisoner
- John of Thebes – Saint
- John Swan (engineer) – Nautical engineer and inventor
- John Two Guns White Calf – Piegan Blackfeet chief (1872–1934)
- John Wainwright (Royal Navy officer) – Royal Navy officer
- Johnson Hall (Salem, New Jersey) – historic building in Salem, New Jersey
- Joseph J. Sullivan (vaudeville) – Blackface performer
- Josephine Balmer – British poet and translator
- Journal of Automated Reasoning
- Juliet Sargeant – British garden designer (born 1965)
- Kang Hang – Korean scholar (1567–1618)
- Karen of the Andamans – Karenic ethic group
- Karla Black – Scottish sculptor
- Katherine Hankey – English evangelist, poet and hymnwriter
- Katy Cropper – Welsh shepherd and dog trainer
- Kazuyuki Ishihara – Japanese garden designer
- Keith Brymer Jones – British potter and ceramic designer (born 1965)
- Ken Lee (RAF officer) – RAF pilot
- Kensington New Town
- Kerbisher & Malt – chain of fish and chip shops
- Khunying Yai Damrongthammasan – Thai writer
- Kilchattan Bay – village on Bute, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Kim Barrett – Research physiologist
- Kimuraya – Bakery in Japan
- Kiro Honjo – Japanese aircraft designer
- Kismet (yacht) – Luxury yacht built by the Lürssen shipyard in 2014
- Kleinschwarzenbach – Bavarian village
- Knowledge Graph – Knowledge base used by Google to enhance its search engine's results
- Koshe – Large landfill in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Kuphar – Basket-shaped boat
- La Caramba – Flamenco singer and dancer
- La Coupole (Paris) – Art deco brasserie in Montparnasse
- La Porxada – building in Barcelona Province, Spain
- Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club – Mountaineering association
- Lady's navel – Type of pastry
- Lambeth workhouse – former workhouse in Lambeth
- Landport (Gibraltar) – Tunnel in Gibraltar
- Larry Wos – American mathematician (1930–2020)
- Late Night Woman's Hour – UK radio program
- Le Dernier Verre – book by Olivier Ameisen
- Le Paysan de Paris – book by Louis Aragon
- Lee's Diner – Stainless steel diner west of York, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Legros de Rumigny – French hairdresser
- Leigh Sisters
- Lens regeneration – the regeneration of the lens of the eye
- Leonard G. Montefiore – Jewish philanthropist
- Leonard Montefiore
- Lepanto (poem) – poem by G. K. Chesterton
- Leroy Coggins
- Lerret – Traditional fishing boat
- Leslie Brubaker – Byzantinist
- Lester Andrews – American chemist
- Let us with a gladsome mind
- Let's Turkey Trot – song performed by Little Eva
- Level-coil
- Leverett & Frye
- Licence to use – type of intellectual property licence
- List of bakers
- List of barbers
- List of baseball deaths
- List of bizarre buildings
- List of cancer hospitals
- List of churches in England
- List of dance critics
- List of fictional Scots – Scottish characters in literature and other imaginative works
- List of guitars
- List of Italian inventions
- List of London workhouses
- List of longest-running radio programmes – Regular broadcasts made for decades
- List of medical mnemonics
- List of model railways
- List of redheads – People with red hair
- List of session musicians
- List of songs about bicycles
- List of storytelling games
- List of strange laws – Laws seen as useless, humorous or obsolete
- List of aviatrices
- List of women classicists
- Lists of music by theme
- Lix Toll
- Localism Act 2011 – Legislation concerning English local government
- Logistics in World War I – organization and delivery of supplies to armed forces during World War I
- Lola Yberri – Early 20th-century Mexican dancer
- London Concertante – UK based musical group
- London Noses – Art installation in London
- Long Legged Woman Dressed in Black – 1974 single by Mungo Jerry
- Longitude (book) – 1995 popular science book
- Los Albaricoques – human settlement in Almería Province, Andalusia, Spain
- Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Arts – American private art school
- Love Thy Neighbor (1940 film) – 1940 film directed by Mark Sandrich
- Lovell Bros.
- Loving You Has Made Me Bananas – song
- Lucie Blanquies – French scientist
- Lucy Finch – Malawian nurse and hospice founder
- Lucy's Law – English law regulating the sale of pets
- Lynette Willoughby – Electronic engineer
- Ma Belle Marguerite – 1947 song
- Madame Martin - coiffeur
- Magdala Tavern – English pub
- Mahmood Monshipouri – Iranian-born American educator, author and scholar
- Mahogany (drink) – type of cocktail
- Male unemployment – People without work and actively seeking work
- Malla Nunn – Swaziland-born Australian screenwriter and author
- Malt tax
- Many a true word is spoken in jest
- Mare Street - expanded from redirect
- Margaret Greig – English mathematician
- Margaret Owen (plantswoman) – English farmer and gardener (1930–2014)
- Margarete Blank – German doctor executed for defeatism during WW2
- Marion Kettlewell – British military personnel and officer (1914-2016)
- Mark Baumer – American writer, adventurer, and environmental activist
- Marlia Mango – Byzantine archaeologist and historian
- Martha Richler – Artist and radio presenter
- Martyrs' Cottages
- Mary Ann Ashford – English cook and memorist
- Mathäser – Historic beer hall and cinema
- Mathematics mastery
- Matty Todd – Royal Navy submariner (1924–2020)
- Maurice Mounsdon – British RAF pilot (1918–2019)
- Medicine chest – Place to store medicine, especially aboard a ship
- Medicus curat, natura sanat – Medical aphorism
- Meidam – Pig breed
- Melanesian mythology – Folklore, myths, and religion of Melanesia
- Melodies for You – Radio music programme
- Merikins – African-American settlers in Trinidad
- Meritas
- Meritas (cloth) – 19th-century brand of textiles
- Metal powder – Metal broken down to powder form
- Metals Disintegrating Company
- Methodist Girls' School, Ipoh – all-girls primary and secondary schools school in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
- Miles Mason – British businessman
- Millen Prison – Confederate POW camp
- Misconception
- Molly Rose – aircraft pilot (1920-2016)
- Monsieur Léonard – coiffeur, theatre entrepreneur
- Mordaunt Cohen – Jewish soldier and solicitor (1916-2019)
- Morelli's – British ice cream retailer and franchise
- Morpeth Arms – Pub in Pimlico, London
- Mosaisk Vestre Begravelsesplads – Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen
- Mother (advertising agency) – Creative advertising agency
- Mourning warehouse – Funeral related merchant
- Mr. Dick – Dickens character
- Mrs. Cannon – Midwife and collector
- Multiplayer game – Structured form of play
- Museum of Northern British Columbia – museum in Prince Rupert, British Columbia
- Museum of Soho – virtual museum covering Soho, London
- My Old Man (sitcom) – British TV sitcom (1974–1975)
- Myra Curtis – English civil servant and college head (1886-1971)
- Myrtle Avenue, Hounslow – Street in the London Borough of Hounslow
- N. D. G. James – author and historian of forestry
- Nando's Coffee House – Former coffee house in London, England
- Narcissus (music)
- Natalia Berloff – Russian mathematician
- National Association of Mathematicians – American professional association
- Natural Cycles – Fertility tracking software
- Neither Wolf Nor Dog – 2016 film directed by Steven Lewis Simpson
- Nellie Wallace – British music hall performer
- Nelson Tyler
- NHS COVID-19 – UK contact tracing app for COVID-19
- Night-cellar
- Nkalagu – In Ebonyi State, Nigeria
- No pitch – Type of pitch in baseball
- Non-iron shirt – Fabric that resists creases
- North Gaulton Castle – Sea stack in Scotland
- Northfield Allotments
- Nusfjord – village in Flakstad, Norway
- NYLON
- Office for Budget Responsibility – Advisory non-departmental public body in the UK
- Old Came Rectory – thatched cottage in Winterborne Came, West Dorset, Dorset, UK
- Old Slaughter's Coffee House – Bygone coffee house
- Ole Holger Petersen – Danish-born professor
- Olive Banks – British sociologist and academic
- Olive quick decline syndrome – Disease of olive trees
- Olivier Ameisen – French-American cardiologist
- On the Scent (installation)
- One-armed versus one-legged cricket
- Open-air treatment – Therapeutic fresh air and sunshine
- OpenSAFELY – Medical statistics platform
- Oscar Johnson (tennis) – American tennis player (died 2019)
- Osebury Rock
- Osymetric
- Other Worlds
- Otomae – Japanese singer (1085–1169)
- Otto Weinreich – German philologist
- Exhibition
- Overspending – Spending more money than one can afford.
- P-Chlorocresol – Disinfectant and antiseptic
- Paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome – Disease of children; pediatric comorbidity from COVID-19
- Pakuba Lodge – Abandoned safari lodge
- Palinacousis – medical condition
- Palliasse
- Papa's – company
- Paper generator – Software to create fake academic articles
- Papert Koenig Lois – American advertising agency from 1960 to 1969
- Park Road Allotments
- Parliament in the Making
- Pass the Bomb – 1994 board game
- Patrick Rabbitt – British psychologist
- Patty McCord – American human resources (HR) consultant and executive, and author
- Paul Cummins – English artist (born 1977)
- Paul Hollywood – English baker and chef (born 1966)
- Paul St George – British artist
- Paul Winner – Jewish artist, Liberal, magistrate and PR pioneer
- Pedagogical agent – concept borrowed from computer science and artificial intelligence and applied to education
- Pedal bin – Container with a lid operated by a foot pedal
- Percy Kelly (artist) – British artist and footballer (1918–1993)
- Perfect is the enemy of good – Aphorism commonly attributed to Voltaire
- Personal fulfillment
- Peter Williams (dance critic) – British ballet critic and writer
- Petersham Hole – historic site in road, Petersham
- Philip Dosse – Publisher
- Picnic game – Leisure activity at a picnic event
- Pizzaland – Former chain of pizza restaurants
- Plane wave tube – Test facility used in acoustics
- Plaza cinema, Port Talbot – cinema in Port Talbot, Wales
- Plogging – Picking up litter while jogging
- Plumage Section – Learned society
- Polish Social and Cultural Association – United Kingdom Polish cultural organisation
- Political Achievements of the Earl of Dalkeith – Political pamphlet containing blank pages
- Pop-up hotel – hotel which is temporary
- Praise to the Lord, the Almighty – 1680 Christian hymn
- Presentment – An act of presenting to an authority a formal statement of a matter to be dealt with
- Printer's mark – symbol used as a trademark by printers
- Priyanka Joshi – Biochemist
- Programming team
- Project diary – Written record of a project
- Proning – Nursing technique
- PS Monarch
- Pulse!
- Queen Elizabeth's corgis – Corgi dogs belonging to Queen Elizabeth II
- Queen Victoria's journals - DYK
- Queen Victoria's pets – Domestic creatures kept by the British monarch
- Rafael Acevedo
- Ramon Guiteras – American surgeon and urologist
- Raven Row – Art exhibition center in Spitalfields, England
- Rebecca Salter – English artist
- Record to report – Finance and accounting management process
- Rectal dilator – Medical device
- Redneck joke – Joke series about rural, working-class Americans
- Reduviasporonites – these are palynomorphs — microfossils which appear to be fungal or algal cells or spores.
- Reflective learning – form of education in which the student reflects upon their learning experiences
- Renovation of the nuclear weapon arsenal of the United States – Military program
- Retribution (poem) – Aphorism
- Revolutionary generation
- Rhiannon Ash – British classical scholar
- Rhubarb tart – food
- Richard Bertinet
- Richard Dudgeon – British engineer
- Ring of Silvianus – Gold ring discovered in Hampshire, England, in 1785
- Risk-based auditing – type of auditing which focuses upon the analysis and management of risks with the greatest potential impact
- River Ambulance Service – Transport for smallpox patients in London
- Rob Chilson - author
- Robert Friend (pilot) – Tuskegee airman and leader of Project Blue Book (1920–2019)
- Colonel Johnson – American lawyer
- Robert Thom (engineer) – Scottish civil engineer
- Rock on Top of Another Rock – Sculpture by Peter Fischli and David Weiss
- Rod and Rachel Saunders – Botanists
- Roger & Gallet – French perfume company
- Root ball – mass of roots at the base of a plant
- Rowenna Davis – British politician and journalist (born 1985)
- Royal Rock Beagles
- Rubber mask – Facial disguise
- Ruislip Woods – Woodland in Ruislip, London
- Rupert Shrive – English artist
- Rural Pie Scheme
- Russet
- Ruth Churchill – British cryptanalyst
- Safety behaviour
- Saint Lazarus cemetery – Cemetery in Chișinău, Moldova
- Sally Hardcastle – British journalist and radio presenter
- Sally Heathcote: Suffragette – 2014 graphic novel
- Saloop – Flour made from orchid tubers
- Sam Cowell – Music hall entertainer
- Samuel Smith (clergyman)
- Sanguinaccio dolce – Italian dessert made from pig blood
- Sarah Crosby – English Methodist preacher (1729–1804)
- Saville and Martin – British architectural firm
- Scarborough School of Art – further education college in North Yorkshire, England
- School for the Indigent Blind – charitable school founded 1799
- Science in popular culture – Occurrence of scientific topics in popular media
- Sea air – Air at or by the sea
- Seashell of Lisson Grove – Fish and chips restaurant in London, England
- Secondment – Temporary assignment of a member to another organization
- Sediment-dwelling organism – Set of animal species in any particular region and time
- Selborne Society – Learned society
- Self-clasping handshake – Gesture of victory
- SelgasCano – Spanish architect office
- Seven Arts Group – Publisher
- Shade house
- Shakespeare: Staging the World – 2012 exhibition at the British Museum
- Shanghai Mila Brewery
- Sharawadgi – Style of landscape gardening or architecture
- Sharon Cather – American art historian (1947–2019)
- Sheffield Clarion Ramblers – Walking club
- Shocking Duel – game
- Shottle Bop – Short story by Theodore Sturgeon
- Shrub (drink) – Fruit liqueur or vinegared syrup cordial
- Sidney Bloom
- Sidney Brazier – British army officer (1919-2016)
- Sidney Percy Roberson – British bodybuilder, personal trainer, actor, director, photographer and executive
- Silvermere – Country estate and lake in Surrey, England
- Simon Community – Charity for homeless people
- Simon Edy – London beggar (1709–1783)
- Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, 8th Baronet – Landowner and thwarted urban developer
- Skill set – Ability to carry out a task
- Skindles – Notorious hotel
- Slant board
- Slater's Ales – Brewery
- Slaughterbots – 2017 film
- Smart thermometer – Online temperature sensor
- Smartphone zombie
- Smelly socks – Clothing
- Smithfield General Market – market hall in London, England
- Smoking Bishop – Type of mulled wine, punch or wassail
- Snub – Refusal to recognise an acquaintance by ignoring or avoiding them
- Soho Pam – British begger
- Soho Society – Community association
- Something old – First line of a traditional rhyme
- Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp – song
- Song and supper room – 19th-century English dining club
- Songs of World War I
- Sophistication – Word derived from sophistry
- Sounding board – Acoustic amplifier
- South Molton Street – pedestrianised street in Mayfair, London
- Spaghetti Western Orchestra – band
- Spectra (installation) – Series of art installations by Ryoji Ikeda
- Spierings Kranen – Dutch crane manufacturer
- Sports engineering – sports equipment design
- SS Stanley
- St James' Hospital, Balham – hospital in England
- St Mary's Perivale – church in London Borough of Ealing, UK
- St Mungo's (charity) – Homelessness charity
- St Stephen's Church, Ealing – Christian congregation and community centre
- St Trinnean's School – Progressive girls' school
- Stanhope lens
- Starch mill – Glucose polymer used as energy store in plants
- Stealing thunder
- Steve Etches – English plumber and fossil collector (born 1949)
- Stoatley Rough School – school in Germany
- Stri Dharma
- Suasoria – Exercise in rhetoric
- Sue Miles – Anglo-American activist
- Sue Son – South Korean classical and crossover violinist
- Suffer fools gladly – Biblical phrase
- Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof – Aphorism from Gospel of Matthew
- Sunbiggin Tarn – Glacial lake in Cumbria
- Supposititious children – offspring or claimed offspring that does not have inheritence rights, such as a pretender, a bastard child or a child fathered by a man other than a womans husband then claimed to be the husbands child
- Surfers Paradise Meter Maids – Parking philanthropists
- Surgical shock
- Surgical team – Medical procedures that involve incisive or invasive instruments into body cavities
- Susan Beschta – American punk rocker, lawyer and judge
- Sweatworking – Bonding workout
- Sybil Flory
- Sydney Guilaroff – American hairdresser (1907–1997)
- Systemic evil
- Table beer – Beer variety, with low alcohol content
- Tammie Jo Shults – Pioneer female US Naval Aviator
- Tavistock Street – Street in the Covent Garden area of London
- Tell me the old, old story – 1883 poem and hymn composed by William Howard Doane with lyrics by Katherine Hankey
- The Albannach
- The Anthologist (novel) – book by Nicholson Baker
- The Big Painting Challenge – UK television program
- The Black Swan, Oldstead – Restaurant in North Yorkshire, England
- The Blacksmith Blues – song written and composed by Jack Holmes, performed by Ella Mae Morse; lyrical adaptation of "Happy Pay-Off Day"
- The Boys in the Back Room
- The Chicago Pizza Pie Factory – restaurant in United Kingdom
- The Combine Harvester – 1975 novelty song
- The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!) – Song in the 1953 film Calamity Jane
- The Doll House – former restaurant in Pasadena, California
- The Donkey Sanctuary of Canada – Canadian animal welfare charity
- The Epicure's Almanack
- The Foundery – first London foundry for casting brass cannon for the British Board of Ordnance
- The Fryer's Delight – Fish and chip shop in London
- The Gardener's Labyrinth – 1577 book by Thomas Hill
- The Gardener's Magazine – First periodical devoted to horticulture
- The Glad – public house in Lant Street in the Southwark district of London
- The Gold Wedding – Musical composition
- The Great British Bake Off – British television baking competition
- The Great Cat Massacre – Book by Robert Darnton
- The Great Gildersleeves – Punk rock venue in Bowery, New York City
- The Great Pottery Throw Down – British TV series or programme
- The Grenadier – Pub in Belgravia, London
- The Heretic
- The Infinity of Lists – 2009 book by Umberto Eco
- The ITM Fishing Show – New Zealand television series
- The Kenny Everett Television Show – BBC comedy sketch show 1981–1988
- The London General Mourning Warehouse – Merchant of funeral related products
- The long march through the institutions – Strategy of building skills and counterinstutions
- The March of the 45
- The Mote and the Beam – Parable taught by Jesus of Nazareth according to Christian gospels
- The Ocean (magazine) – US magazine
- The Olde Wine Shades – Pub in the City of London
- The Only Running Footman – Pub in London
- The profitable arte of gardening – book by Thomas Hill
- The road to hell is paved with good intentions – Proverb
- The Shed at Dulwich – Hoax by journalist Oobah Butler
- The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo – one of Kipling's "Just So Stories"
- The Spaniard That Blighted My Life – 1911 composition by Billy Merson
- The Thing-Ummy Bob – 1942 song
- The True Briton (magazine)
- The Victorian Kitchen Garden – television series
- The Watermill – 1958 Ronald Binge composition
- The Witchery by the Castle – Restaurant, bed and breakfast
- The Year of the Angry Rabbit – 1964 novel by Russell Braddon
- Theobald's Road – Road in Holborn, Central London
- Theyre Lee-Elliott – English artist (1903–1998)
- This Flight Tonight – 1971 song by Joni Mitchell
- Thomas Appelquist - physicist
- Thomas Oliver (engineer) – English engineer and inventor
- Thomas Sheridan (divine) – Anglican divine, essayist, playwright, poet, schoolmaster and translator
- Three Wheels on My Wagon – Comic song
- Three Wolf Moon – T-shirt with three wolves howling at the Moon
- Tirril Brewery
- To market, to market – Nursery rhyme
- Tom Maxwell (officer) – Royal Air Force officer (1924–2019)
- Tomato seed oil – Oil from the seeds of Solanum lycopersicum L.
- Tomnadashan – Former mine in Scotland
- Tower Town – Historic district in Illinois, United States
- Tragana – village in Greece
- Transferable skill – Expertise deemed valid in a range of jobs
- Traverse (climbing) – Lateral move or route when climbing
- Trilbyana – Fashion for things based on the story Trilby
- Tripp of Dordrecht – Dutch Merchant family
- Truss (unit) – tight bundle of hay or straw. It would usually be cuboid, for storage or shipping, and would either be harvested into such bundles or cut from a large rick
- Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa – 1963 single by Gene Pitney
- Tyson (dog) – Dog famous for skateboarding
- Upper Flask – 18th-century tavern in Hampstead
- Uxatindar – Icelandic mountain ridge
- Vahdah Olcott-Bickford – American guitarist
- Valerie Charlton – Maker of models and props
- Valerie Collison – English organist and composer
- Vanishing Point (Markson novel) – book by David Markson
- Vera Violetta – Operetta
- Verbal overshadowing
- Video lesson
- Vigilant Association of Philadelphia – Anti-slavery organization
- Vpered!
- W. H. J. Grout – Bicycle inventor and manufacturer
- Wally Bird
- Water roux – Technique of making yeast dough
- Webbs Mills, New York – District of Chemung County in the state of New York
- Wee Binnian – Mountain in Northern Ireland
- Where Did You Get That Hat? – song composed by Joseph J. Sullivan performed by Joseph J. Sullivan
- Whittington Stone – 1964 statue of a cat in London, England
- Who, whom? – Communist slogan
- William Foden – American composer and mandolinist (1860-1947)
- William Hobbayne
- William Joseph Chamberlain – English pacifist
- William Kenney – American business executive
- William Slack (surgeon) – Surgeon to Queen Elizabeth II (1925–2019)
- Williston School – middle school in Wilmington, North Carolina
- Wilmington, Somerset – hamlet in Somerset, UK
- Windy Corner, Cuinchy – British cemetery in Pas-de-Calais, France
- Wine humour
- Winston Churchill as painter
- Winston Churchill's pets
- Withdrawal of Greenland from the European Communities – Greenland leaving the EC, precursor to the EU
- Women in aviation – Role of women aviators in history
- Women's advertising club – Professional organization for marketers
- Women's rowing
- Woodhouselee – estate in Midlothian in the parish of Glencorse
- Wörishofer
- World Shakespeare Festival – Cultural festival
- Worm shoe
- Worzel Gummidge (2019 miniseries) – Television series about a fictional scarecrow
- Wrap reel – A device for measuring yarn and making it into hanks of a standard size
- Xerxes Willard – American dairyman, lawyer, and newspaper editor
- Yopie Prins – Professor of English
- Your Feet's Too Big – original song written and composed by Fred Fisher (music) and Ada Benson (words)
- Your Hundred Best Tunes – Radio programme
- Z-Man Games – Board game company
- Zombie fire – Type of wildfire, peat fire that burns from year to year