the Middle West

= the Midwest (mid-).

the latter, the Left, the Liberal Democrats, The Listener, the Little Bear, the little people, the little folk, the living, the Lord, the lord of the manor, the Lord's Day, the Lord's Prayer, the lower deck, the manipulated, the many, the mass of, the metric system, the Metropolitan Police (also the Met), the Middle Ages, the middle distance, the Middle East, the Midlands, the midnight sun, the Midwest, the military, the Milky Way, the missing, the moment (that), the moment that, the money supply, the morning star, the National Debt, the near distance, the Near East, the negative, the Netherlands, the New Testament, the New World, the next, the North Country, the North Pole,