| efferent | (noun) a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands | Synonyms: efferent nerve, motor nerve |
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| embroiderer | (noun) someone who ornaments with needlework | - |
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| embroideress | (noun) a woman embroiderer | - |
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| endarterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the inner lining of an artery that is clogged with atherosclerosis | - |
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| epauliere | (noun) armor plate that protects the shoulder | - |
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| erecting | (noun) the act of building or putting up | Synonyms: erection |
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| erection | (noun) the act of building or putting up | Synonyms: erecting |
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| (noun) a structure that has been erected | - |
| (noun) an erect penis | Synonyms: hard-on |
| erectness | (noun) the property of being upright in posture | Synonyms: uprightness |
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| (noun) position at right angles to the horizon | Synonyms: uprightness, verticality, verticalness |
| eremite | (noun) a Christian recluse | - |
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| eremitism | (noun) monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience | - |
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| erethism | (noun) an abnormally high degree of irritability or sensitivity to stimulation of an organ or body part | - |
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| etagere | (noun) a piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments | - |
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| exosphere | (noun) the outermost atmospheric layer | - |
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| farmerette | (noun) a woman working on a farm | - |
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| featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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| filibusterer | (noun) a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes | Synonyms: filibuster |
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| flatterer | (noun) a person who uses flattery | Synonyms: adulator |
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| floweret | (noun) a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower) | Synonyms: floret |
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| fruiterer | (noun) a person who sells fruit | - |
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| fullerene | (noun) a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms | - |
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| galere | (noun) a coterie of undesirable people | Synonyms: rogue's gallery |
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| gatherer | (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, collector |
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| (noun) a person who gathers | - |
| geosphere | (noun) the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle | Synonyms: lithosphere |
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| gerenuk | (noun) slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns | Synonyms: Litocranius walleri |
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| gibberellin | (noun) a plant hormone isolated from a fungus; used in promoting plant growth | - |
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| gomphothere | (noun) extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene | - |
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| gondoliere | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondolier |
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| guereza | (noun) a colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body | Synonyms: Colobus guereza |
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| haltere | (noun) either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight | Synonyms: balancer, halter |
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| heliosphere | (noun) the region inside the heliopause containing the sun and solar system | - |
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| hemisphere | (noun) either half of the cerebrum | Synonyms: cerebral hemisphere |
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| (noun) half of the terrestrial globe | - |
| (noun) half of a sphere | - |
| here | (noun) the present location; this place; location, proximal pronoun; demonstrative pronoun, location; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, singular, proximal | - |
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| hereafter | (noun) the time yet to come | Synonyms: future, futurity, time to come |
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| (noun) life after death | Synonyms: afterlife |
| hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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| hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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| heredity | (noun) the total of inherited attributes | Synonyms: genetic endowment |
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| (noun) the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next | - |
| hereness | (noun) the state of being here in this place | - |
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| heresy | (noun) a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion | Synonyms: unorthodoxy |
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| (noun) any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position | Synonyms: heterodoxy, unorthodoxy |
| heretic | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: misbeliever, religious outcast |
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| (noun) a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion) | - |
| houhere | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, lacebark, ribbonwood |
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| hydrosphere | (noun) the watery layer of the earth's surface; includes water vapor | - |
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| hypercholesteremia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesterolemia |
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| hyperemesis | (noun) severe and excessive vomiting | - |
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| hyperemia | (noun) increased blood in an organ or other body part | Synonyms: hyperaemia |
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| hyperextension | (noun) greater than normal extension | - |
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| hysterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the uterus | - |
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| hysteresis | (noun) the lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field | - |
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| incoherence | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherency, unintelligibility |
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| (noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherency |
| incoherency | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, unintelligibility |
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| (noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherence |
| indifference | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: apathy, numbness, spiritlessness |
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| (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 |
| 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 |
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| inherence | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherency |
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| inherency | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherence |
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| interest | (noun) a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly) | Synonyms: pastime, pursuit |
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| (noun) a reason for wanting something done | Synonyms: sake |
| (noun) the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.) | Synonyms: interestingness |
| (noun) a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something | Synonyms: involvement |
| (noun) (usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims | Synonyms: interest group |
| (noun) a fixed charge for borrowing money; usually a percentage of the amount borrowed | - |
| (noun) (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something | Synonyms: stake |
| interestedness | (noun) the state of being interested | - |
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| interestingness | (noun) the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.) | Synonyms: interest |
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| interference | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance |
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| (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 |
| ionosphere | (noun) the outer region of the Earth's atmosphere; contains a high concentration of free electrons | - |
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| irreverence | (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: violation |
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| (noun) an irreverent mental attitude | - |
| isoproterenol | (noun) drug (trade name Isuprel) used to treat bronchial asthma and to stimulate the heart | Synonyms: Isuprel |
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| isothere | (noun) a line on a map linking places with the same mean summer temperature. | - |
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| jabberer | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: driveller |
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| jeerer | (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, mocker, scoffer |
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| jeremiad | (noun) a long and mournful complaint | - |
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| kedgeree | (noun) a dish of rice and hard-boiled eggs and cooked flaked fish | - |
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| launderette | (noun) a self-service laundry (service mark Laundromat) where coin-operated washing machines are available to individual customers | Synonyms: Laundromat |
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| lavaliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavalliere |
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| lavalliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavaliere |
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| leatherette | (noun) fabric made to look like leather | Synonyms: imitation leather |
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| leresis | (noun) rambling talkativeness (especially in the aged) | - |
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| letterer | (noun) a painter of letters | - |
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| leveret | (noun) a young hare especially one in its first year | - |
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| lingerer | (noun) someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place | Synonyms: loiterer |
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| lithosphere | (noun) the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle | Synonyms: geosphere |
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| litterer | (noun) a person who litters public places with refuse | Synonyms: litter lout, litterbug |
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| loiterer | (noun) someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place | Synonyms: lingerer |
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| mackerel | (noun) any of various fishes of the family Scombridae | - |
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| (noun) flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish | - |
| magnetosphere | (noun) the magnetic field of a planet; the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planet's magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field | - |
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| makeready | (noun) final preparation and adjustments | - |
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| malingerer | (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: shammer, skulker |
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| manageress | (noun) a woman manager | - |
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| maneuverer | (noun) a person skilled in maneuvering | Synonyms: manoeuvrer |
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| meerestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, merestone |
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| megathere | (noun) gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America | Synonyms: ground sloth |
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| mere | (noun) a small pond of standing water | - |
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| merestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, meerestone |
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| meretriciousness | (noun) an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility | Synonyms: speciousness |
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| (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, tawdriness |
| mesosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the stratosphere and the thermosphere | - |
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| metamere | (noun) one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally | Synonyms: somite |
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| metaproterenol | (noun) a bronchodilator (trade name Alupent) used to treat asthma and emphysema and other lung conditions; available in oral or inhalant forms; side effects include tachycardia and shakiness | Synonyms: Alupent |
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| mezereon | (noun) small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs | Synonyms: Daphne mezereum, February daphne |
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| mezereum | (noun) the dried bark of the shrub mezereon | - |
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| milliampere | (noun) one thousandth of an ampere | Synonyms: mA |
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| motherese | (noun) an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk, babytalk |
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| murderee | (noun) a victim who is murdered | - |
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| murderer | (noun) a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | Synonyms: liquidator, manslayer |
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| murderess | (noun) a woman murderer | - |
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| mutterer | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: mumbler, murmurer |
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| nierembergia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: cupflower |
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| noninterference | (noun) a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes | Synonyms: nonintervention |
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