| info | (noun) a message received and understood | Synonyms: information |
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| infolding | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: introversion, intussusception, invagination |
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| infomercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: informercial |
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| informality | (noun) a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously | - |
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| (noun) freedom from constraint or embarrassment | Synonyms: ease |
| informant | (noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: source |
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| (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: witness, witnesser |
| informatics | (noun) the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information | Synonyms: information processing, information science, IP |
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| information | (noun) (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome | Synonyms: entropy, selective information |
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| (noun) knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction | - |
| (noun) a message received and understood | Synonyms: info |
| (noun) formal accusation of a crime | - |
| (noun) a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn | Synonyms: data |
| informer | (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, blabber, rat, squealer |
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| informercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: infomercial |
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| informing | (noun) a speech act that conveys information | Synonyms: making known |
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| (noun) to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) | Synonyms: ratting |
| infotainment | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary, documentary film |
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| iodoform | (noun) a yellowish crystalline solid with a penetrating odor; sometimes used as an antiseptic dressing | Synonyms: triiodomethane |
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| (noun) sweet smelling yellow solid haloform CHI3 | Synonyms: tri-iodomethane |
| keyfob | (noun) A small object fastened to a key chain or key ring and designed to be comfortably grasped. | Synonyms: key fob |
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| kinfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
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| kinsfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, phratry, sept |
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| malformation | (noun) something abnormal or anomalous | Synonyms: miscreation |
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| (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: deformity, misshapenness |
| manifold | (noun) a pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes | - |
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| (noun) a set of points such as those of a closed surface or an analogue in three or more dimensions | - |
| (noun) a lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies | Synonyms: manifold paper |
| metformin | (noun) an antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucophage) prescribed to treat type II diabetes | Synonyms: Glucophage |
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| microfossil | (noun) a fossil that must be studied microscopically | - |
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| milfoil | (noun) ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets; widely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: Achillea millefolium, yarrow |
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| misfortune | (noun) unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event | Synonyms: bad luck |
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| (noun) an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes | Synonyms: bad luck, ill luck, tough luck |
| misinformation | (noun) information that is incorrect | - |
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| moorfowl | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorgame, red grouse |
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| nitrochloroform | (noun) a heavy colorless insoluble liquid compound that causes tears and vomiting; used as a pesticide and as tear gas | Synonyms: chloropicrin |
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| nonconformance | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformity |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformism, nonconformity |
| nonconformism | (noun) the practice of nonconformity | - |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformity |
| nonconformist | (noun) someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct | Synonyms: recusant |
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| nonconformity | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformance |
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| (noun) unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values | - |
| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformism |
| (noun) lack of harmony or correspondence | - |
| nonperformance | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence |
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| nonuniformity | (noun) the quality of being diverse and interesting | - |
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| oxford | (noun) a low shoe laced over the instep | - |
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| parafovea | (noun) area of the retina immediately surrounding the fovea | - |
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| peafowl | (noun) very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird | Synonyms: bird of Juno |
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| perforation | (noun) the act of punching a hole (especially a row of holes as for ease of separation) | - |
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| (noun) a line of small holes for tearing at a particular place | - |
| (noun) a hole made in something | - |
| performance | (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, execution |
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| (noun) the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment | - |
| (noun) any recognized accomplishment | - |
| (noun) a dramatic or musical entertainment | Synonyms: public presentation |
| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, operation |
| performer | (noun) an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience | Synonyms: performing artist |
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| performing | (noun) the performance of a part or role in a drama | Synonyms: acting, playacting, playing |
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| petfood | (noun) food prepared for animal pets | Synonyms: pet-food, pet food |
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| pettifogger | (noun) a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods | Synonyms: shyster |
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| (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, caviller, quibbler |
| pettifoggery | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| pianoforte | (noun) a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds | Synonyms: forte-piano, piano |
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| pinafore | (noun) a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing | Synonyms: jumper, pinny |
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| pinfold | (noun) a pen where stray animals are confined | - |
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| pisiform | (noun) a small wrist bone that articulates only with the triquetral | Synonyms: os pisiforme, pisiform bone |
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| pitchfork | (noun) a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay | - |
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| platform | (noun) a raised horizontal surface | - |
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| (noun) any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons | Synonyms: weapons platform |
| (noun) a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole | Synonyms: chopine |
| (noun) the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system | - |
| (noun) a long, flat raised structure of a railway station, where people get on and off of trains | - |
| (noun) a document stating the aims and principles of a political party | Synonyms: political platform, political program, program |
| polyfoam | (noun) a foam made by adding water to polyurethane plastics | Synonyms: polyurethane foam |
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| portfolio | (noun) the role of the head of a government department | - |
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| (noun) a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather | - |
| (noun) a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution | - |
| (noun) a set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers | - |
| preformation | (noun) a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell | Synonyms: theory of preformation |
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| profoundness | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: deepness, profundity |
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| (noun) intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" | Synonyms: profundity |
| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profundity |
| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness |
| (noun) extremeness of degree | - |
| rainforest | (noun) a forest with heavy annual rainfall | Synonyms: rain forest |
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| reenforcement | (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reinforcement, support |
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| (noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reinforcement |
| refocusing | (noun) focusing again | - |
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| reforestation | (noun) the restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting | Synonyms: re-afforestation |
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| reform | (noun) a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses | - |
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| (noun) a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices | - |
| (noun) self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice | - |
| reformation | (noun) rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course | Synonyms: reclamation |
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| (noun) improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs | - |
| reformatory | (noun) correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders | Synonyms: reform school, training school |
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| reformer | (noun) an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel | - |
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| (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: crusader, meliorist, reformist, social reformer |
| reformism | (noun) a doctrine of reform | - |
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| reformist | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: crusader, meliorist, reformer, social reformer |
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| reinforcement | (noun) an act performed to strengthen approved behavior | Synonyms: reward |
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| (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, support |
| (noun) a device designed to provide additional strength | Synonyms: strengthener |
| (noun) (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it | Synonyms: reinforcer, reinforcing stimulus |
| (noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reenforcement |
| reinforcer | (noun) (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it | Synonyms: reinforcement, reinforcing stimulus |
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| rockfoil | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: breakstone, saxifrage |
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| rutherford | (noun) a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second | - |
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| rutherfordium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized | Synonyms: atomic number 104, element 104, Rf, unnilquadium, Unq |
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| sainfoin | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods; naturalized in Britain and North America grasslands on calcareous soils; important forage crop and source of honey in Britain | Synonyms: esparcet, holy clover, Onobrychis viciaefolia, Onobrychis viciifolia, sanfoin |
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| sanfoin | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods; naturalized in Britain and North America grasslands on calcareous soils; important forage crop and source of honey in Britain | Synonyms: esparcet, holy clover, Onobrychis viciaefolia, Onobrychis viciifolia, sainfoin |
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| scaffold | (noun) a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers | - |
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| (noun) a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) | - |
| scaffolding | (noun) a system of scaffolds | Synonyms: staging |
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| seafood | (noun) edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc | - |
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| seafowl | (noun) a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls, pelicans, gannets, cormorants, albatrosses, petrels, etc. | Synonyms: sea bird, seabird |
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| sforzando | (noun) (music) a notation written above a note and indicating that it is to be played with a strong initial attack | - |
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| (noun) an accented chord | - |
| sheepfold | (noun) a pen for sheep | Synonyms: fold, sheep pen, sheepcote |
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| spadefoot | (noun) a burrowing toad of the Northern Hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot | Synonyms: spadefoot toad |
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| splayfoot | (noun) a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out | Synonyms: flatfoot, pes planus |
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| straightforwardness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: downrightness |
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| (noun) without hypocrisy | Synonyms: singleness |
| suffocation | (noun) killing by depriving of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiation |
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| (noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped) | Synonyms: asphyxiation |
| sulfonamide | (noun) antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA | Synonyms: sulfa, sulfa drug, sulpha |
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| sulfonate | (noun) a salt of sulphonic acid | - |
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| sulfonylurea | (noun) antidiabetic consisting of any of several drugs that reduce the level of glucose in the blood; used to treat diabetes mellitus | - |
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| superfood | (noun) a food with health benefits | - |
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| tablefork | (noun) a fork for eating at a dining table | - |
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| tenderfoot | (noun) an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living) | - |
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| tinfoil | (noun) foil made of tin or an alloy of tin and lead | Synonyms: tin foil |
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| tomfool | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, muggins, sap, saphead |
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| tomfoolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy |
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| townsfolk | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townspeople |
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| transformation | (noun) the act of changing in form or shape or appearance | Synonyms: translation |
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| (noun) (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA | - |
| (noun) a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure | - |
| (noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: shift, transmutation |
| (noun) (mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system | - |
| transformer | (noun) an electrical device by which alternating current of one voltage is changed to another voltage | - |
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| trefoil | (noun) an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle | - |
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| (noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: clover |
| (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, medick |
| trifoliata | (noun) small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges | Synonyms: Poncirus trifoliata, trifoliate orange, wild orange |
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| uncomfortableness | (noun) embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you | Synonyms: self-consciousness, uneasiness |
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| (noun) the state of being tense and feeling pain | Synonyms: discomfort |
| underperformer | (noun) a business that is less successful than expected | - |
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| (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: nonachiever, underachiever |
| unfolding | (noun) a developmental process | Synonyms: flowering |
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| unforgivingness | (noun) The quality of having no allowance for weakness. | - |
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| unfortunate | (noun) a person who suffers misfortune | Synonyms: unfortunate person |
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| uniform | (noun) clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification | - |
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| uniformity | (noun) the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) | Synonyms: uniformness |
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| (noun) a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying | - |
| uniformness | (noun) the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) | Synonyms: uniformity |
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| waterfowl | (noun) freshwater aquatic bird | Synonyms: water bird, waterbird |
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