| incredibility | (noun) the quality of being incredible | Synonyms: incredibleness |
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| incredibleness | (noun) the quality of being incredible | Synonyms: incredibility |
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| incredulity | (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, mental rejection, scepticism, skepticism |
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| indebtedness | (noun) a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor | Synonyms: obligation |
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| (noun) an obligation to pay money to another party | Synonyms: financial obligation, liability |
| inexpedience | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpediency |
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| inexpediency | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpedience |
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| infrared | (noun) the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum; electromagnetic wave frequencies below the visible range | Synonyms: infrared frequency |
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| (noun) electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than visible light but shorter than radio waves | Synonyms: infrared emission, infrared light, infrared radiation |
| ingredient | (noun) a component of a mixture or compound | - |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, element, factor |
| (noun) food that is a component of a mixture in cooking | Synonyms: fixings |
| insured | (noun) a person whose interests are protected by an insurance policy; a person who contracts for an insurance policy that indemnifies him against loss of property or life or health etc. | Synonyms: insured person |
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| interbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing |
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| (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: crossbreeding, miscegenation |
| interconnectedness | (noun) a state of being connected reciprocally | Synonyms: interconnection |
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| interestedness | (noun) the state of being interested | - |
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| intermediary | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intercessor, intermediator, mediator |
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| intermediate | (noun) a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained | - |
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| intermediation | (noun) the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement | Synonyms: mediation |
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| intermediator | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intercessor, intermediary, mediator |
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| interrelatedness | (noun) mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness | Synonyms: interrelation, interrelationship |
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| ipsedixitism | (noun) an unsupported dogmatic assertion | Synonyms: ipse dixit |
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| ironweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue | Synonyms: vernonia |
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| irredenta | (noun) a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another | Synonyms: irridenta |
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| irredentism | (noun) the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related | Synonyms: irridentism |
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| irredentist | (noun) an advocate of irredentism | Synonyms: irridentist |
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| jaggedness | (noun) something irregular like a bump or crack in a smooth surface | - |
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| jewelweed | (noun) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil | Synonyms: celandine, Impatiens capensis, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not |
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| jimsonweed | (noun) intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits | Synonyms: apple of Peru, common thorn apple, Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, jimson weed |
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| kedgeree | (noun) a dish of rice and hard-boiled eggs and cooked flaked fish | - |
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| kettledrum | (noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettle, timpani, tympani, tympanum |
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| kindheartedness | (noun) sympathy arising from a kind heart | Synonyms: kind-heartedness |
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| kindred | (noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: clan, kin, kin group, kinship group, tribe |
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| knapweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Centaurea having purple thistlelike flowers | - |
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| knowledge | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: cognition, noesis |
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| knowledgeability | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeableness |
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| knowledgeableness | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeability |
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| lamedh | (noun) the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| learnedness | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learning, scholarship |
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| lede | (noun) the introductory section of a story | Synonyms: lead-in, lead |
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| lederhosen | (noun) leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria | - |
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| ledge | (noun) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water | Synonyms: shelf |
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| ledgeman | (noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: breaker |
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| ledger | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: daybook |
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| (noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book, book of account, leger |
| lespedeza | (noun) shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States | Synonyms: bush clover |
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| levelheadedness | (noun) the property of having or showing sound judgment. | - |
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| lied | (noun) a German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano | - |
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| lightheadedness | (noun) a frivolous lack of prudence | - |
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| (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, vertigo |
| lightheartedness | (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightsomeness |
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| limited | (noun) public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops | Synonyms: express |
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| limitedness | (noun) The state or characteristic of having certain (often specified) limits placed upon it. | - |
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| linseed | (noun) the seed of flax used as a source of oil | Synonyms: flaxseed |
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| livedo | (noun) skin disorder characterized by patchy bluish discolorations on the skin | - |
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| locoweed | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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| (noun) any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | Synonyms: crazy weed, crazyweed |
| longsightedness | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia |
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| lopsidedness | (noun) an oblique or slanting asymmetry | Synonyms: skewness |
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| lymphedema | (noun) swelling (usually in the legs) caused by lymph accumulating in the tissues in the affected areas | - |
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| macedoine | (noun) mixed diced fruits or vegetables; hot or cold | - |
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| maimed | (noun) people who are wounded | Synonyms: wounded |
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| malediction | (noun) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) | Synonyms: imprecation |
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| malted | (noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malt, malted milk |
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| markweed | (noun) climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact | Synonyms: poison ivy, poison mercury, poison oak, Rhus radicans, Toxicodendron radicans |
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| married | (noun) a person who is married | - |
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| matchweed | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches | Synonyms: matchbush |
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| maxilliped | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: gnathopod |
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| mayweed | (noun) widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs | Synonyms: Anthemis cotula, dog fennel, stinking chamomile, stinking mayweed |
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| medal | (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medallion, palm, ribbon |
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| medalist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medallist |
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| (noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medallist |
| medallion | (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, palm, ribbon |
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| (noun) an emblem indicating that a taxicab is registered | - |
| (noun) a circular helping of food (especially a boneless cut of meat) | - |
| (noun) a circular helping of food (especially a boneless cut of meat) "medallions of veal" | - |
| (noun) any of various large ancient Greek coins | - |
| medallist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medalist |
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| (noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medalist |
| meddler | (noun) an officious annoying person who interferes with others | - |
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| meddlesomeness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, officiousness |
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| meddling | (noun) the act of altering something secretly or improperly | Synonyms: tampering |
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| medevac | (noun) the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care | Synonyms: medical evacuation, medivac |
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| medfly | (noun) small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit | Synonyms: Ceratitis capitata, Mediterranean fruit fly |
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| mediacy | (noun) the quality of being mediate | Synonyms: mediateness |
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| median | (noun) the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items | Synonyms: median value |
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| mediant | (noun) (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant | - |
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| mediastinum | (noun) the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus | - |
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| mediateness | (noun) the quality of being mediate | Synonyms: mediacy |
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| mediation | (noun) the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement | Synonyms: intermediation |
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| (noun) a negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party | - |
| mediator | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intercessor, intermediary, intermediator |
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| mediatrix | (noun) a woman who is a mediator | - |
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| medic | (noun) a medical practitioner in the armed forces | Synonyms: medical officer |
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| (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medick, trefoil |
| medical | (noun) a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person | Synonyms: checkup, health check, medical checkup, medical exam, medical examination |
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| medicament | (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medication, medicinal drug, medicine |
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| medication | (noun) the act of treating with medicines or remedies | - |
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| (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medicament, medicinal drug, medicine |
| medicine | (noun) the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries | Synonyms: practice of medicine |
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| (noun) punishment for one's actions | Synonyms: music |
| (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medicament, medication, medicinal drug |
| (noun) the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques | Synonyms: medical specialty |
| medick | (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, trefoil |
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| medico | (noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doc, doctor, Dr., MD, physician |
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| (noun) a student in medical school | Synonyms: medical student |
| mediety | (noun) one of two (approximately) equal parts | Synonyms: moiety |
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| medievality | (noun) The quality of being of or relating to the Middle Ages, perhaps circa 500 to circa 1500 CE. | - |
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| medina | (noun) the ancient quarter of many cities in northern Africa | - |
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| mediocrity | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: averageness |
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| (noun) a person of second-rate ability or value | Synonyms: second-rater |
| meditation | (noun) continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature | Synonyms: speculation |
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| (noun) (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects) | - |
| meditativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: contemplativeness, pensiveness |
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| medium | (noun) an occupation for which you are especially well suited | Synonyms: metier |
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| (noun) an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication | - |
| (noun) a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public | Synonyms: mass medium |
| (noun) the surrounding environment | - |
| (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: sensitive, spiritualist |
| (noun) a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position | - |
| (noun) (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms | Synonyms: culture medium |
| (noun) (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed | - |
| (noun) a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter | - |
| (noun) an intervening substance through which something is achieved | - |
| medivac | (noun) the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care | Synonyms: medevac, medical evacuation |
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| medlar | (noun) crabapple-like fruit used for preserves | - |
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| (noun) a South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste | - |
| (noun) small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples | Synonyms: medlar tree, Mespilus germanica |
| (noun) small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit | Synonyms: Vangueria infausta, wild medlar, wild medlar tree |
| medley | (noun) a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources | Synonyms: pastiche, potpourri |
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| medroxyprogesterone | (noun) a progestin compound (trade name Provera) used to treat menstrual disorders | Synonyms: Provera |
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| medulla | (noun) the inner part of an organ or structure in plant or animal | - |
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| (noun) lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata) | Synonyms: bulb, medulla oblongata |
| (noun) a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers | Synonyms: myelin, myeline |
| medusa | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusan, medusoid |
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| medusan | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusa, medusoid |
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