installing | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installment, instalment |
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instilling | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, ingraining |
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insulin | (noun) hormone secreted by the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas; regulates storage of glycogen in the liver and accelerates oxidation of sugar in cells | - |
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inulin | (noun) used to manufacture fructose and in assessing kidney function | - |
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isoclinal | (noun) an isogram connecting points of equal magnetic inclination | Synonyms: isoclinic line |
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javelin | (noun) a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events | - |
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(noun) an athletic competition in which a javelin is thrown as far as possible | - |
javelina | (noun) dark grey peccary with an indistinct white collar; of semi desert areas of Mexico and southwestern United States | Synonyms: collared peccary, Peccari angulatus, Tayassu angulatus, Tayassu tajacu |
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jetliner | (noun) a large jet plane that carries passengers | - |
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jolliness | (noun) feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor | Synonyms: jollity, joviality |
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jostling | (noun) the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) | Synonyms: jostle |
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juggling | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggle |
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(noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggle |
kaolin | (noun) a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper) | Synonyms: china clay, china stone, kaoline, porcelain clay, terra alba |
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kaoline | (noun) a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper) | Synonyms: china clay, china stone, kaolin, porcelain clay, terra alba |
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kaolinite | (noun) a mineral consisting of aluminum silicate; main source of kaolin | - |
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keratohyalin | (noun) hyaline in the large granules of the stratum granulosum | - |
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killing | (noun) the act of terminating a life | Synonyms: kill, putting to death |
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(noun) an event that causes someone to die | Synonyms: violent death |
(noun) a very large profit | Synonyms: cleanup |
kindliness | (noun) friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition | Synonyms: helpfulness |
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kindling | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, lighting |
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(noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: punk, spunk, tinder, touchwood |
kneeling | (noun) supporting yourself on your knees | Synonyms: kneel |
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knightliness | (noun) the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct | Synonyms: chivalry |
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kremlin | (noun) citadel of a Russian town | - |
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lactoglobulin | (noun) a globular protein found in milk. | - |
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landline | (noun) a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits | Synonyms: land line |
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lanolin | (noun) an emollient containing wool fat (a fatty substance obtained from the wool of sheep) | - |
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(noun) a yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool; a mixture of fatty acids and esters; used in some ointments and cosmetics | Synonyms: wool fat, wool grease |
lazuline | (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, cerulean, sapphire, sky-blue |
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leisureliness | (noun) slowness by virtue of being leisurely | - |
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leveling | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, equalization |
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(noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: demolishing, razing, tearing down |
(noun) changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface | Synonyms: grading |
lifeline | (noun) line thrown from a vessel that people can cling to in order to save themselves from drowning | - |
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(noun) line that raises or lowers a deep-sea diver | - |
(noun) support that enables people to survive or to continue doing something (often by providing an essential connection) | - |
(noun) a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live | Synonyms: life line, line of life |
likeliness | (noun) the probability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: likelihood |
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linac | (noun) ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path | Synonyms: linear accelerator |
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linage | (noun) a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted | Synonyms: lineage |
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(noun) the number of lines in a piece of printed material | Synonyms: lineage |
linalool | (noun) a colorless fragrant liquid found in many essential oils | - |
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linchpin | (noun) pin inserted through an axletree to hold a wheel on | Synonyms: lynchpin |
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(noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: anchor, backbone, keystone, lynchpin, mainstay |
lincomycin | (noun) antibiotic (trade name Lincocin) obtained from a streptomyces bacterium and used in the treatment of certain penicillin-resistant infections | Synonyms: Lincocin |
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lindane | (noun) a white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide | - |
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linden | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: basswood, lime, lime tree, linden tree |
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(noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: basswood |
lindy | (noun) an energetic American dance that was popular in the 1930s (probably named for the aviator Charles Lindbergh) | Synonyms: lindy hop |
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line | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: business, job, line of work, occupation |
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(noun) acting in conformity | - |
(noun) something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible | - |
(noun) a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power | Synonyms: cable, transmission line |
(noun) the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed | Synonyms: rail line, railway line |
(noun) a commercial organization serving as a common carrier | - |
(noun) a pipe used to transport liquids or gases | Synonyms: pipeline |
(noun) a telephone connection | Synonyms: phone line, subscriber line, telephone circuit, telephone line |
(noun) a particular kind of product or merchandise | Synonyms: business line, line of business, line of merchandise, line of products, product line |
(noun) mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it | Synonyms: assembly line, production line |
(noun) a conceptual separation or distinction | Synonyms: contrast, demarcation, dividing line |
(noun) a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning | Synonyms: argument, argumentation, line of reasoning, logical argument |
(noun) a mark that is long relative to its width | - |
(noun) text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen | - |
(noun) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence | Synonyms: air, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, tune |
(noun) a short personal letter | Synonyms: billet, note, short letter |
(noun) (often plural) a means of communication or access | Synonyms: channel, communication channel |
(noun) persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress | - |
(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
(noun) a formation of people or things one behind another | - |
(noun) a connected series of events or actions or developments | Synonyms: course |
(noun) a formation of people or things one beside another | - |
(noun) a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent | - |
(noun) in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area | - |
(noun) a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops) | - |
(noun) a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum | - |
(noun) the maximum credit that a customer is allowed | Synonyms: bank line, credit line, line of credit, personal credit line, personal line of credit |
(noun) space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising | Synonyms: agate line |
(noun) a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point | - |
(noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, furrow, seam, wrinkle |
lineage | (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: ancestry, derivation, filiation |
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(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
(noun) a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted | Synonyms: linage |
(noun) the number of lines in a piece of printed material | Synonyms: linage |
(noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: descent, filiation, line of descent |
lineament | (noun) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin | Synonyms: feature |
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(noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | Synonyms: character, quality |
linearity | (noun) the property of having one dimension | Synonyms: one-dimensionality |
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lineation | (noun) the act of marking or outlining with lines | - |
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(noun) the line that appears to bound an object | Synonyms: outline |
linebacker | (noun) (American football) the position of a defensive football player who plays close behind the line of scrimmage | Synonyms: line backer |
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(noun) a defensive football player who takes a position close behind the linemen | Synonyms: line backer |
linecut | (noun) engraving consisting of a block that has been etched or engraved | Synonyms: line block, line engraving |
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(noun) a print obtained from a line drawing | Synonyms: line engraving |
lineman | (noun) (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage | - |
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(noun) one of the players on the line of scrimmage | - |
(noun) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | Synonyms: electrician, linesman |
(noun) the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole | - |
linemen | (noun) the football players who line up on the line of scrimmage | - |
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linen | (noun) white goods or clothing made with linen cloth | - |
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(noun) a fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant | - |
(noun) a high-quality paper made of linen fibers or with a linen finish | Synonyms: linen paper |
linendraper | (noun) a retail dealer in yard goods | - |
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liner | (noun) (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter | Synonyms: line drive |
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(noun) a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule) | Synonyms: ocean liner |
(noun) a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment | Synonyms: lining |
(noun) a protective covering that protects an inside surface | Synonyms: lining |
linesman | (noun) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | Synonyms: electrician, lineman |
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(noun) official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside) | - |
lineup | (noun) (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat | Synonyms: batting order, card |
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(noun) the schedule of programs for a particular period | - |
(noun) a line of persons arranged by police for inspection or identification | Synonyms: identity parade, police lineup |
ling | (noun) elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried | Synonyms: Molva molva |
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(noun) American hakes | - |
(noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, eelpout, Lota lota |
(noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, heather, Scots heather |
(noun) water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs | Synonyms: ling ko, Trapa bicornis |
lingam | (noun) the Hindu phallic symbol of Siva | - |
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lingberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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lingcod | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings | Synonyms: Ophiodon elongatus |
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(noun) the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States | - |
lingenberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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lingerer | (noun) someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place | Synonyms: loiterer |
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lingerie | (noun) women's underwear and nightclothes | Synonyms: intimate apparel |
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lingering | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: tarriance |
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lingo | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, patois, slang, vernacular |
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lingonberry | (noun) tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller | Synonyms: cowberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry |
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(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
lingua | (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: clapper, glossa, tongue |
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lingual | (noun) a consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs | - |
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linguica | (noun) a highly seasoned Portuguese pork sausage flavored with garlic and onions | - |
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linguine | (noun) pasta in long slender flat strips | Synonyms: linguini |
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linguini | (noun) pasta in long slender flat strips | Synonyms: linguine |
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linguist | (noun) a person who speaks more than one language | Synonyms: polyglot |
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(noun) a specialist in linguistics | Synonyms: linguistic scientist |
linguistics | (noun) the scientific study of language | - |
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(noun) the humanistic study of language and literature | Synonyms: philology |
liniment | (noun) a medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain | Synonyms: embrocation |
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linin | (noun) an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended | - |
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lining | (noun) the act of attaching an inside lining (to a garment or curtain etc.) | - |
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(noun) providing something with a surface of a different material | Synonyms: facing |
(noun) a protective covering that protects an inside surface | Synonyms: liner |
(noun) a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment | Synonyms: liner |
link | (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: linkup, tie-in, tie |
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(noun) a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network | Synonyms: radio link |
(noun) an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data | Synonyms: data link |
(noun) a channel for communication between groups | Synonyms: contact, inter-group communication, liaison |
(noun) (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list | - |
(noun) a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain | - |
(noun) the means of connection between things linked in series | Synonyms: nexus |
(noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
(noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connectedness, connection |
linkage | (noun) the act of linking things together | - |
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(noun) a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion | - |
(noun) (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go) | Synonyms: gene linkage |
(noun) an associative relation | - |
linkboy | (noun) (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets | Synonyms: linkman |
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linkman | (noun) (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets | Synonyms: linkboy |
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links | (noun) a golf course that is built on sandy ground near a shore | Synonyms: golf links |
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linksman | (noun) someone who plays the game of golf | Synonyms: golf player, golfer |
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linkup | (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: link, tie-in, tie |
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linnet | (noun) small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead | Synonyms: Carduelis cannabina, lintwhite |
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(noun) small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Carpodacus mexicanus, house finch |
lino | (noun) a floor covering | Synonyms: linoleum |
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linocut | (noun) a design carved in relief into a block of linoleum | - |
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(noun) a print that is made from a design carved in relief into a block of linoleum | - |
linoleum | (noun) a floor covering | Synonyms: lino |
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linseed | (noun) the seed of flax used as a source of oil | Synonyms: flaxseed |
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linstock | (noun) a stick about a meter long with a point on one end (to stick in the ground) and a forked head on the other end (to hold a lighted match); formerly used to fire cannons | - |
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lint | (noun) cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds | - |
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(noun) fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers | - |
lintel | (noun) horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window | Synonyms: header |
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lintwhite | (noun) small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead | Synonyms: Carduelis cannabina, linnet |
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linuron | (noun) a herbicide that kills weeds without harming vegetables | - |
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liveliness | (noun) general activity and motion | Synonyms: animation |
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(noun) animation and energy in action or expression | Synonyms: life, spirit, sprightliness |
logrolling | (noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) | Synonyms: birling |
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(noun) act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects | - |
loneliness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, lonesomeness, solitariness |
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(noun) sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned | Synonyms: desolation, forlornness |
(noun) the state of being alone in solitary isolation | Synonyms: solitariness |
lordliness | (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: dignity, gravitas |
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(noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness |
loveliness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: beauteousness, comeliness, fairness |
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lowliness | (noun) a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation | Synonyms: low status, lowness |
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(noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, obscureness, unimportance |
lupulin | (noun) Lupulin is a powder separated from the strobiles of common hop. | - |
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maidenliness | (noun) behavior befitting a young maiden | - |
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mailing | (noun) the transmission of a letter | Synonyms: posting |
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(noun) mail sent by a sender at one time | - |
malingerer | (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: shammer, skulker |
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malingering | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: skulking |
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malinois | (noun) fawn-colored short-haired sheepdog | - |
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