| encephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use) | Synonyms: cephalitis, phrenitis |
|---|
| encephalocele | (noun) protrusion of brain tissue through a congenital fissure in the skull | - |
|---|
| encephalogram | (noun) an X ray of the brain made by replacing spinal fluid with a gas (usually oxygen) to improve contrast | Synonyms: pneumoencephalogram |
|---|
| (noun) a graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: EEG, electroencephalogram |
| encephalograph | (noun) Any apparatus used to produce an encephalogram by recording electric currents generated by the brain. | - |
|---|
| encephalography | (noun) roentgenography of the brain after spinal fluid has been replaced by a gas (usually oxygen); produces an encephalogram | - |
|---|
| encephalomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
|---|
| encephalomyelitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord | - |
|---|
| encephalon | (noun) that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord | Synonyms: brain |
|---|
| encephalopathy | (noun) any disorder or disease of the brain | Synonyms: brain disease, brain disorder |
|---|
| equivalence | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, comparison |
|---|
| (noun) essential equality and interchangeability | - |
| (noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equality, equation, par |
| essence | (noun) a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor | Synonyms: perfume |
|---|
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, effect, gist |
| (noun) any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted | - |
| esurience | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
|---|
| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity |
| evanescence | (noun) the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight | - |
|---|
| evidence | (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: grounds |
|---|
| (noun) (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved | - |
| (noun) an indication that makes something evident | - |
| excellence | (noun) the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree | - |
|---|
| (noun) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | Synonyms: excellency |
| excrescence | (noun) (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body | - |
|---|
| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| existence | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world |
|---|
| (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, beingness, face of the earth |
| expedience | (noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view | Synonyms: expediency |
|---|
| (noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking |
| experience | (noun) the content of direct observation or participation in an event | - |
|---|
| (noun) the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities | - |
| (noun) an event as apprehended | - |
| faience | (noun) glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors | - |
|---|
| feculence | (noun) something that is feculent | - |
|---|
| fence | (noun) a barrier that serves to enclose an area | Synonyms: fencing |
|---|
| (noun) a dealer in stolen property | - |
| fencer | (noun) someone skilled at fencing | Synonyms: swordsman |
|---|
| fencesitter | (noun) a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) | Synonyms: independent, mugwump |
|---|
| fivepence | (noun) a coin worth five cents | - |
|---|
| flatulence | (noun) pompously embellished language | Synonyms: turgidity, turgidness |
|---|
| (noun) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulency, gas |
| florescence | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, flowering, inflorescence |
|---|
| fluorescence | (noun) light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength | - |
|---|
| fourpence | (noun) a former English silver coin worth four pennies | Synonyms: groat |
|---|
| fraudulence | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: dupery, fraud, hoax, humbug, put-on |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of being fraudulent | Synonyms: deceit |
| (noun) a fraudulent or duplicitous representation | Synonyms: duplicity |
| frequence | (noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period | Synonyms: frequency, oftenness |
|---|
| grandiloquence | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric |
|---|
| hyperintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: superintelligence |
|---|
| immanence | (noun) the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain | Synonyms: immanency |
|---|
| imminence | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency |
|---|
| immunocompetence | (noun) the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
|---|
| immunofluorescence | (noun) (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue | - |
|---|
| impatience | (noun) a dislike of anything that causes delay | - |
|---|
| (noun) a restless desire for change and excitement | - |
| (noun) a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay | Synonyms: restlessness |
| impendence | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendency |
|---|
| impenitence | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitency |
|---|
| impermanence | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanency |
|---|
| impertinence | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, perkiness, pertness, sauciness |
|---|
| (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impudence, insolence |
| (noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: cheek, impudence |
| impotence | (noun) the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble | Synonyms: impotency, powerlessness |
|---|
| (noun) an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate | Synonyms: impotency |
| improvidence | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: shortsightedness |
|---|
| imprudence | (noun) a lack of caution in practical affairs | - |
|---|
| impudence | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, insolence |
|---|
| (noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: cheek, impertinence |
| inadvertence | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertency, unmindfulness |
|---|
| (noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: oversight |
| incalescence | (noun) the property of being warming | Synonyms: calefaction |
|---|
| incandescence | (noun) light from heat | - |
|---|
| (noun) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised | Synonyms: glow |
| incidence | (noun) the striking of a light beam on a surface | - |
|---|
| (noun) the relative frequency of occurrence of something | Synonyms: relative incidence |
| incipience | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipiency |
|---|
| incoherence | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherency, unintelligibility |
|---|
| (noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherency |
| incompetence | (noun) lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications | Synonyms: incompetency |
|---|
| (noun) inability of a part or organ to function properly | - |
| inconsequence | (noun) having no important effects or influence | - |
|---|
| (noun) invalid or incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: illogic, illogicality, illogicalness |
| incontinence | (noun) indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures | Synonyms: dissoluteness, self-gratification |
|---|
| (noun) involuntary urination or defecation | Synonyms: incontinency |
| inconvenience | (noun) the quality of not being useful or convenient | - |
|---|
| (noun) a difficulty that causes anxiety | Synonyms: troublesomeness, worriment |
| (noun) an inconvenient discomfort | Synonyms: incommodiousness |
| incurrence | (noun) the act of incurring (making yourself subject to something undesirable) | - |
|---|
| independence | (noun) the successful ending of the American Revolution | - |
|---|
| (noun) freedom from control or influence of another or others | Synonyms: independency |
| indifference | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: apathy, numbness, spiritlessness |
|---|
| (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: nonchalance, unconcern |
| (noun) unbiased impartial unconcern | - |
| (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
| indigence | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: need, pauperism, pauperization, penury |
|---|
| indolence | (noun) inactivity resulting from a dislike of work | Synonyms: laziness |
|---|
| indulgence | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, humouring, indulging, pampering |
|---|
| (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, lunacy, tomfoolery |
| (noun) the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution | - |
| (noun) an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires | Synonyms: self-indulgence |
| (noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: lenience, leniency |
| inexpedience | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpediency |
|---|
| inexperience | (noun) lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience | Synonyms: rawness |
|---|
| inference | (noun) the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation | Synonyms: illation |
|---|
| inflorescence | (noun) the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk | - |
|---|
| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering |
| influence | (noun) causing something without any direct or apparent effort | - |
|---|
| (noun) a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc | - |
| (noun) a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do | - |
| (noun) one having power to influence another | - |
| (noun) the effect of one thing (or person) on another | - |
| influencer | (noun) a person who has a large following on one or more social media platform that works to generate interest in contemporary social issues and/or advertise consumer products | - |
|---|
| infructescence | (noun) the fruiting stage of the inflorescence | - |
|---|
| inherence | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherency |
|---|
| innocence | (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, ingenuousness, naturalness |
|---|
| (noun) a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense | - |
| (noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: pureness, purity, sinlessness, whiteness |
| insentience | (noun) lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations | - |
|---|
| insistence | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistency |
|---|
| (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insisting |
| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure |
| insolence | (noun) an offensive disrespectful impudent act | - |
|---|
| (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence |
| insurgence | (noun) an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict | Synonyms: insurgency |
|---|
| intelligence | (noun) the operation of gathering information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence activity, intelligence operation |
|---|
| (noun) the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience | - |
| (noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: news, tidings, word |
| (noun) secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy) | Synonyms: intelligence information |
| (noun) a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence agency, intelligence service |
| interdependence | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependency, mutuality |
|---|
| interference | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance |
|---|
| (noun) (American football) blocking a player's path with your body | - |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, preventative, preventive |
| (noun) a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries | Synonyms: intervention |
| (noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: disturbance, noise |
| intermittence | (noun) the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping | Synonyms: intermittency |
|---|
| intransigence | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigency |
|---|
| intumescence | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescency, swelling |
|---|
| (noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescency |
| iridescence | (noun) the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface | Synonyms: opalescence |
|---|
| irreverence | (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: violation |
|---|
| (noun) an irreverent mental attitude | - |
| jurisprudence | (noun) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | Synonyms: law, legal philosophy |
|---|
| (noun) the collection of rules imposed by authority | Synonyms: law |
| juvenescence | (noun) the process of growing into a youth | - |
|---|
| lenience | (noun) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers | Synonyms: leniency |
|---|
| (noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: leniency, lenity, mildness |
| (noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: indulgence, leniency |
| leukoencephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the white matter of the brain | - |
|---|
| licence | (noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: license, permit |
|---|
| (noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: license |
| (noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: license |
| luminescence | (noun) light from nonthermal sources | Synonyms: glow |
|---|
| (noun) light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures | - |
| macrencephaly | (noun) an abnormally large braincase | - |
|---|
| magnificence | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, splendor, splendour |
|---|
| (noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, impressiveness, richness |
| magniloquence | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, ornateness, rhetoric |
|---|
| maleficence | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, mischief |
|---|
| (noun) doing or causing evil | - |
| malevolence | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolency, malice |
|---|
| (noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malignity |
| meningoencephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis |
|---|
| mesencephalon | (noun) the middle portion of the brain | Synonyms: midbrain |
|---|
| metencephalon | (noun) the part of the hindbrain that develops into the pons and the cerebellum | - |
|---|
| multivalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalency, polyvalence, polyvalency |
|---|
| munificence | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness |
|---|
| myelencephalon | (noun) the posterior part of the hindbrain in developing vertebrates; forms the medulla oblongata in adults | - |
|---|