| abiogenesis | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: autogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation |
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| aerogenerator | (noun) generator that extracts usable energy from winds | Synonyms: wind generator, windmill |
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| afibrinogenemia | (noun) the absence of fibrinogen in the plasma leading to prolonged bleeding | - |
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| agamogenesis | (noun) reproduction without the fusion of gametes | Synonyms: asexual reproduction |
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| agenesia | (noun) imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part | Synonyms: agenesis |
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| agenesis | (noun) imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part | Synonyms: agenesia |
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| amelogenesis | (noun) the developmental process of forming tooth enamel | - |
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| androgenesis | (noun) male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization | Synonyms: androgeny |
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| angiogenesis | (noun) the formation of new blood vessels | - |
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| anthropogenesis | (noun) the evolution or genesis of the human race | Synonyms: anthropogeny |
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| atherogenesis | (noun) the formation of atheromas on the walls of the arteries as in atherosclerosis | - |
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| autogenesis | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: abiogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation |
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| averageness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: mediocrity |
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| (noun) the state of being that is average; indicates normality but with connotations of mediocrity | - |
| biogenesis | (noun) the production of living organisms from other living organisms | Synonyms: biogeny |
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| (noun) production of a chemical compound by a living organism | Synonyms: biosynthesis |
| blastogenesis | (noun) theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm | - |
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| (noun) asexual reproduction by budding | - |
| cacogenesis | (noun) inability to produce hybrids that are both viable and fertile | - |
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| caenogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis |
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| cainogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis |
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| cenogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis |
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| congener | (noun) a whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another | - |
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| (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congeneric, relative |
| (noun) a minor chemical constituent that gives a wine or liquor its distinctive character | - |
| congeneric | (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congener, relative |
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| cytogenesis | (noun) the origin and development and variation of cells | Synonyms: cytogeny |
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| cytogeneticist | (noun) a geneticist who specializes in the cellular components associated with heredity | - |
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| cytogenetics | (noun) the branch of biology that studies the cellular aspects of heredity (especially the chromosomes) | - |
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| degeneracy | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, depravation, depravity, putrefaction |
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| (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneration |
| degenerate | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: deviant, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
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| degeneration | (noun) passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form | Synonyms: retrogression |
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| (noun) the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality | Synonyms: devolution |
| (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneracy |
| digenesis | (noun) alternation of sexual and asexual generations | Synonyms: metagenesis |
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| dysgenesis | (noun) infertility between hybrids | - |
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| epigenesis | (noun) a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed | - |
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| gametogenesis | (noun) the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis | - |
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| gene | (noun) (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity | Synonyms: cistron, factor |
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| genealogist | (noun) an expert in genealogy | - |
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| genealogy | (noun) the study or investigation of ancestry and family history | - |
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| (noun) successive generations of kin | Synonyms: family tree |
| general | (noun) a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular) | - |
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| (noun) a general officer of the highest rank | Synonyms: full general |
| (noun) the head of a religious order or congregation | Synonyms: superior general |
| generalcy | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalship |
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| generalisation | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generality, generalization |
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| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalization, induction, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalization, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalization |
| generalissimo | (noun) the officer who holds the supreme command | Synonyms: commander-in-chief, commander in chief |
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| generalist | (noun) a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests | Synonyms: Renaissance man |
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| generality | (noun) the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability | - |
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| (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization |
| generalization | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generality |
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| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalisation, induction, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalisation, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalisation |
| generalship | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalcy |
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| (noun) the leadership ability of a military general | - |
| generation | (noun) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production | Synonyms: multiplication, propagation |
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| (noun) the production of heat or electricity | - |
| (noun) a coming into being | Synonyms: genesis |
| (noun) group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent | - |
| (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, contemporaries |
| (noun) the normal time between successive generations | - |
| (noun) a stage of technological development or innovation | - |
| generator | (noun) engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction | - |
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| (noun) an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas | - |
| (noun) an electronic device for producing a signal voltage | - |
| (noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: author, source |
| generic | (noun) any product that can be sold without a brand name | - |
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| (noun) wine that does not meet the minimum qualifications and standards for use of a designation by appellation of origin (where the grapes are grown) or by varietal content; may only be labeled by proprietary (made-up) name, by general color (such as `vin rouge', `vino rosso', `rotwein', `red wine', etc.), or by general class (as `vin ordinaire', `vin de table', `vino da tavola', `tafelwein', `table wine', etc.) | Synonyms: generic wine |
| generosity | (noun) acting generously | Synonyms: unselfishness |
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| (noun) the trait of being willing to give your money or time | Synonyms: generousness |
| generousness | (noun) the trait of being willing to give your money or time | Synonyms: generosity |
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| genesis | (noun) a coming into being | Synonyms: generation |
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| genet | (noun) agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long ringed tail | Synonyms: Genetta genetta |
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| geneticism | (noun) the belief that all human characteristics are determined genetically | - |
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| geneticist | (noun) a biologist who specializes in genetics | - |
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| genetics | (noun) the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms | Synonyms: genetic science |
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| geneva | (noun) gin made in the Netherlands | Synonyms: Holland gin, Hollands |
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| glycogenesis | (noun) the conversion of glucose to glycogen when the glucose in the blood exceeds the demand | - |
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| (noun) the formation in animals of glycogen from glucose | - |
| gynogenesis | (noun) female parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only maternal chromosomes due to the failure of the sperm to fuse with the egg nucleus | - |
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| haematogenesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| haemogenesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| hematogenesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| hemogenesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| heterogeneity | (noun) the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind | Synonyms: heterogeneousness |
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| heterogeneousness | (noun) the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind | Synonyms: heterogeneity |
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| heterogenesis | (noun) the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal | Synonyms: alternation of generations, xenogenesis |
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| homogeneity | (noun) the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature | Synonyms: homogeneousness |
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| (noun) the quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure | - |
| homogeneousness | (noun) the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature | Synonyms: homogeneity |
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| hypnogenesis | (noun) the induction of sleep or hypnosis | - |
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| indigene | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, native |
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| inhomogeneity | (noun) the quality of being inhomogeneous | - |
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| kainogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kenogenesis |
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| kenogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis |
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| largeness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: bigness |
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| (noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: extensiveness |
| (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: pretension, pretentiousness |
| (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, comprehensiveness |
| meshuggeneh | (noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggener |
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| meshuggener | (noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggeneh |
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| metagenesis | (noun) alternation of sexual and asexual generations | Synonyms: digenesis |
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| monogenesis | (noun) asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores | Synonyms: sporulation |
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| morphogenesis | (noun) differentiation and growth of the structure of an organism (or a part of an organism) | - |
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| mutagenesis | (noun) an event capable of causing a mutation | - |
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| neurogenesis | (noun) the development of nerve tissues | - |
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| oncogene | (noun) a gene that disposes normal cells to change into cancerous tumor cells | Synonyms: transforming gene |
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| ontogenesis | (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogeny |
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| oogenesis | (noun) development of ova | - |
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| orangeness | (noun) orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow | Synonyms: orange |
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| palingenesis | (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: recapitulation |
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| parthenogenesis | (noun) process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods | Synonyms: parthenogeny |
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| (noun) human conception without fertilization by a man | Synonyms: parthenogeny, virgin birth |
| pathogenesis | (noun) the origination and development of a disease | - |
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| pharmacogenetics | (noun) the branch of genetics that studies the genetically determined variations in responses to drugs in humans or laboratory organisms | - |
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| phosgene | (noun) a colorless poisonous gas that smells like new-mown hay; used in chemical warfare | - |
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| phylogenesis | (noun) (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms | Synonyms: evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny |
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| polygene | (noun) a gene that by itself has little effect on the phenotype but which can act together with others to produce observable variations | - |
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| psychogenesis | (noun) a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind | - |
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| (noun) the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors | - |
| regeneration | (noun) the activity of spiritual or physical renewal | - |
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| (noun) forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting | Synonyms: re-formation |
| (noun) (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs | - |
| (noun) feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input | Synonyms: positive feedback |
| savageness | (noun) the property of being untamed and ferocious | Synonyms: savagery |
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| spermatogenesis | (noun) development of spermatozoa | - |
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| strangeness | (noun) unusualness as a consequence of not being well known | Synonyms: unfamiliarity |
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| (noun) the quality of being alien or not native | Synonyms: curiousness, foreignness |
| (noun) (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third lightest of all quarks | - |
| teratogenesis | (noun) the development of defects in an embryo | - |
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| transgene | (noun) an exogenous gene introduced into the genome of another organism | - |
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| turbogenerator | (noun) generator consisting of a steam turbine coupled to an electric generator for the production of electric power | - |
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| xenogenesis | (noun) the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal | Synonyms: alternation of generations, heterogenesis |
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