| amanuensis | (noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) | Synonyms: shorthand typist, stenographer |
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| angiotensin | (noun) any of several vasoconstrictor substances (trade name Hypertensin) that cause narrowing of blood vessels | Synonyms: angiotonin, Hypertensin |
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| antihypertensive | (noun) a drug that reduces high blood pressure | Synonyms: antihypertensive drug |
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| apprehension | (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody |
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| (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: discernment, savvy, understanding |
| (noun) painful expectation | Synonyms: misgiving |
| (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehensiveness, dread |
| apprehensiveness | (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, dread |
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| ascension | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascent, rise |
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| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascent, rise, rising |
| (noun) (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon | - |
| coextension | (noun) equality of extension or duration | - |
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| comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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| comprehension | (noun) an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result) | - |
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| (noun) the relation of comprising something | Synonyms: inclusion |
| comprehensive | (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comp, comprehensive examination |
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| comprehensiveness | (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, largeness |
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| (noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: fullness |
| condensing | (noun) the act of increasing the density of something | Synonyms: condensation |
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| condescension | (noun) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | Synonyms: disdainfulness, superciliousness |
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| (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescendingness |
| (noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: disdain, patronage |
| counteroffensive | (noun) a large scale offensive (more than a counterattack) undertaken by a defending force to seize the initiative from an attacking force | - |
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| declension | (noun) a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms | - |
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| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
| (noun) process of changing to an inferior state | Synonyms: decline in quality, deterioration, worsening |
| (noun) the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages | - |
| defensibility | (noun) capability of being defended | - |
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| defensive | (noun) an attitude of defensiveness | Synonyms: defensive attitude |
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| defensiveness | (noun) excessive sensitivity to criticism | - |
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| densification | (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, compression, concretion |
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| densimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densitometer |
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| densitometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining optical or photographic density | - |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densimeter |
| densitometry | (noun) measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light on it and measuring its transmission | - |
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| density | (noun) the amount per unit size | Synonyms: denseness |
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| (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, concentration, denseness, tightness |
| desensitisation | (noun) the process of reducing sensitivity | Synonyms: desensitization |
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| desensitization | (noun) the process of reducing sensitivity | Synonyms: desensitisation |
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| diapensia | (noun) any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia | - |
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| dimension | (noun) the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height) | - |
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| (noun) magnitude or extent | Synonyms: proportion |
| (noun) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished | Synonyms: attribute, property |
| (noun) one of three Cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space | - |
| dimensionality | (noun) the spatial property of having dimensions | - |
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| dissension | (noun) disagreement among those expected to cooperate | Synonyms: discord |
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| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissonance |
| distension | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distention |
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| (noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distention |
| ensign | (noun) colors flown by a ship to show its nationality | - |
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| (noun) an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality | Synonyms: national flag |
| (noun) a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade | - |
| ensilage | (noun) fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo | Synonyms: silage |
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| expensiveness | (noun) the quality of being high-priced | - |
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| extension | (noun) an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students | Synonyms: extension service, university extension |
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| (noun) act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb | - |
| (noun) act of expanding in scope; making more widely available | - |
| (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, annexe, wing |
| (noun) an addition to the length of something | Synonyms: elongation |
| (noun) an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line | Synonyms: extension phone, telephone extension |
| (noun) amount or degree or range to which something extends | Synonyms: lengthiness, prolongation |
| (noun) the ability to raise the working leg high in the air | - |
| (noun) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | Synonyms: denotation, reference |
| (noun) a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename | Synonyms: file name extension, filename extension |
| (noun) the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions | Synonyms: propagation |
| (noun) a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt | - |
| extensiveness | (noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: largeness |
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| forensics | (noun) scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes | - |
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| greensickness | (noun) iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin | Synonyms: chlorosis |
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| hortensia | (noun) deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue | Synonyms: Hydrangea macrophylla hortensis |
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| (noun) very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads | Synonyms: double gold, golden glow, Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia |
| hyperextension | (noun) greater than normal extension | - |
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| hypersensitivity | (noun) extreme sensitivity | - |
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| (noun) pathological sensitivity | - |
| hypertension | (noun) a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater) | Synonyms: high blood pressure |
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| hypertensive | (noun) a person who has abnormally high blood pressure | - |
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| hypotension | (noun) abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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| hypotensive | (noun) a person who has abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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| immensity | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| incomprehensibility | (noun) the quality of being incomprehensible | - |
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| incomprehension | (noun) an inability to understand | - |
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| inexpensiveness | (noun) the quality of being affordable | - |
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| insensibility | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, hardness, unfeelingness |
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| (noun) a lack of sensibility | - |
| insensitiveness | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitivity |
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| insensitivity | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitiveness |
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| intensification | (noun) action that makes something stronger or more extreme | - |
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| (noun) the act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film) | - |
| intensifier | (noun) a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies | Synonyms: intensive |
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| intension | (noun) what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression | Synonyms: connotation |
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| intensity | (noun) high level or degree; the property of being intense | Synonyms: intensiveness |
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| (noun) chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue | Synonyms: chroma, saturation, vividness |
| (noun) the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) | Synonyms: loudness, volume |
| (noun) the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation) | Synonyms: intensity level, strength |
| intensive | (noun) a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies | Synonyms: intensifier |
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| intensiveness | (noun) high level or degree; the property of being intense | Synonyms: intensity |
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| martensite | (noun) a solid solution of carbon in alpha-iron that is formed when steel is cooled so rapidly that the change from austenite to pearlite is suppressed; responsible for the hardness of quenched steel | - |
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| misapprehension | (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: mistake, misunderstanding |
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| multidimensionality | (noun) The property of having many aspects or facets. | - |
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| nonsensicality | (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense |
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| offensive | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offense |
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| offensiveness | (noun) the quality of being offensive | Synonyms: distastefulness, odiousness |
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| ostensibility | (noun) The quality of being professed, supposed rather than demonstrably true or real. | - |
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| oversensitiveness | (noun) sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset | - |
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| pension | (noun) a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working | - |
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| pensionary | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: hireling |
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| (noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensioner |
| pensioner | (noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensionary |
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| pensiveness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: contemplativeness, meditativeness |
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| (noun) persistent morbid meditation on a problem | Synonyms: brooding |
| photosensitivity | (noun) sensitivity to the action of radiant energy | Synonyms: radiosensitivity |
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| prehension | (noun) the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) | Synonyms: grasping, seizing, taking hold |
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| pretension | (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretense |
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| (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: largeness, pretentiousness |
| (noun) the advancing of a claim | - |
| propensity | (noun) a disposition to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: aptness |
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| (noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: leaning, proclivity |
| (noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: leaning, tendency |
| radiosensitivity | (noun) sensitivity to the action of radiant energy | Synonyms: photosensitivity |
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| reprehensibility | (noun) being reprehensible; worthy of and deserving reprehension or reproof | - |
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| reprehension | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprimand, reproof, reproval |
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| resuspension | (noun) a renewed suspension of insoluble particles after they have been precipitated | - |
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| sensibility | (noun) mental responsiveness and awareness | Synonyms: aesthesia, esthesia |
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| (noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensitiveness, sensitivity |
| (noun) refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions | - |
| sensibleness | (noun) the quality of showing good sense or practical judgment | - |
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| sensing | (noun) becoming aware of something via the senses | Synonyms: perception |
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| (noun) the perception that something has occurred or some state exists | Synonyms: detection |
| sensitisation | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitising, sensitization, sensitizing |
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| (noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) | Synonyms: sensitization |
| (noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen) | Synonyms: sensitization |
| sensitiser | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitizer |
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| sensitising | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitization, sensitizing |
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| sensitive | (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, spiritualist |
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| sensitiveness | (noun) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | Synonyms: sensitivity |
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| (noun) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| (noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensibility, sensitivity |
| (noun) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| sensitivity | (noun) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
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| (noun) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
| (noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensibility, sensitiveness |
| (noun) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
| (noun) susceptibility to a pathogen | Synonyms: predisposition |
| sensitization | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitizing |
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| (noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) | Synonyms: sensitisation |
| (noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen) | Synonyms: sensitisation |
| sensitizer | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitiser |
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| sensitizing | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitization |
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| sensitometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the light sensitivity of film over a range of exposures | - |
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| subdimension | (noun) a partial dimension that constitutes the entire dimension of a given object. | - |
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| suspension | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: dangling, hanging |
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| (noun) a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc) | Synonyms: temporary removal |
| (noun) a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: suspension system |
| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, reprieve, respite |
| (noun) temporary cessation or suspension | Synonyms: abeyance |
| (noun) a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy | - |
| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, intermission, interruption, pause |
| tensimeter | (noun) a manometer for measuring vapor pressure | - |
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| tensiometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the surface tension of a liquid | - |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the tension in a wire or fiber or beam | - |
| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the moisture content of soil | - |
| tension | (noun) the action of stretching something tight | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body | - |
| (noun) feelings of hostility that are not manifest | Synonyms: latent hostility |
| (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tenseness, tensity |
| (noun) a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature) | - |
| (noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: stress, tenseness |
| tensity | (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tenseness, tension |
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| utensil | (noun) an implement for practical use (especially in a household) | - |
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