| impressment | (noun) the act of coercing someone into government service | Synonyms: impress |
|---|
| imprisonment | (noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) | Synonyms: internment |
|---|
| (noun) putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment | - |
| (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, immurement, incarceration |
| improvement | (noun) the act of improving something | - |
|---|
| (noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: advance, betterment |
| (noun) a condition superior to an earlier condition | Synonyms: melioration |
| incasement | (noun) the act of enclosing something in a case | Synonyms: encasement |
|---|
| incitement | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitation |
|---|
| (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: exhortation |
| (noun) needed encouragement | Synonyms: provocation |
| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitation, provocation |
| inclemency | (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
|---|
| (noun) weather unsuitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: bad weather, inclementness |
| inclementness | (noun) weather unsuitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: bad weather, inclemency |
|---|
| increment | (noun) the amount by which something increases | Synonyms: increase |
|---|
| (noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: growth, increase |
| incrementation | (noun) the operation of adding one to the operand. | - |
|---|
| indictment | (noun) a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense | Synonyms: bill of indictment |
|---|
| (noun) an accusation of wrongdoing | - |
| indorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: endorsement |
|---|
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, sanction, warrant |
| (noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, endorsement |
| (noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: endorsement, second, secondment |
| (noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: endorsement |
| inducement | (noun) act of bringing about a desired result | Synonyms: inducing |
|---|
| (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: incentive, motivator |
| indument | (noun) a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect | Synonyms: indumentum |
|---|
| indumentum | (noun) a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect | Synonyms: indument |
|---|
| infotainment | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary, documentary film |
|---|
| infringement | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation |
|---|
| (noun) an act that disregards an agreement or a right | Synonyms: violation |
| installment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, instalment |
|---|
| (noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, instalment |
| (noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: instalment |
| (noun) a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals | - |
| instalment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, installment |
|---|
| (noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, installment |
| (noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: installment |
| instillment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instilment |
|---|
| instilment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instillment |
|---|
| instrument | (noun) the means whereby some act is accomplished | Synonyms: tool |
|---|
| (noun) a device that requires skill for proper use | - |
| (noun) any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds | Synonyms: musical instrument |
| (noun) (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right | Synonyms: legal document, legal instrument, official document |
| (noun) the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process | Synonyms: instrumental role |
| (noun) a person used by another to gain an end | Synonyms: cat's-paw, pawn |
| instrumentalism | (noun) a system of pragmatic philosophy that considers idea to be instruments that should guide our actions and their value is measured by their success | - |
|---|
| instrumentalist | (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: musician, player |
|---|
| instrumentality | (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentation, means |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of being instrumental for some purpose | - |
| (noun) a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose | - |
| instrumentation | (noun) the act of providing or using the instruments needed for some implementation | - |
|---|
| (noun) the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments | Synonyms: orchestration |
| (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, means |
| (noun) the instruments called for in a musical score or arrangement for a band or orchestra | - |
| integument | (noun) an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell | - |
|---|
| interment | (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: burial, entombment, inhumation, sepulture |
|---|
| internment | (noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) | Synonyms: imprisonment |
|---|
| (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, impoundment, poundage |
| (noun) confinement during wartime | - |
| intrenchment | (noun) an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches | Synonyms: entrenchment |
|---|
| investment | (noun) the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | Synonyms: investing |
|---|
| (noun) the act of putting on robes or vestments | - |
| (noun) the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | Synonyms: investiture |
| (noun) outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism | - |
| (noun) the commitment of something other than money (time, energy, or effort) to a project with the expectation of some worthwhile result | - |
| (noun) money that is invested with an expectation of profit | Synonyms: investment funds |
| involvement | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: engagement, involution, participation |
|---|
| (noun) a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something | Synonyms: interest |
| (noun) a connection of inclusion or containment | - |
| (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, intimacy, liaison |
| (noun) the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) | Synonyms: participation |
| judgement | (noun) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | Synonyms: judgment, judicial decision |
|---|
| (noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: assessment, judgment |
| (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgment, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment |
| (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judging, judgment |
| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgment, mind |
| (noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgment, legal opinion, opinion |
| judgment | (noun) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | Synonyms: judgement, judicial decision |
|---|
| (noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: assessment, judgement |
| (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment |
| (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judging |
| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgement, mind |
| (noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgement, legal opinion, opinion |
| jument | (noun) an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work | Synonyms: beast of burden |
|---|
| lameness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, gimpiness, limping |
|---|
| (noun) an imperfection or defectiveness | - |
| lament | (noun) a mournful poem; a lament for the dead | Synonyms: elegy |
|---|
| (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, dirge, requiem, threnody |
| (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lamentation, plaint, wail |
| lamentation | (noun) the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | Synonyms: mourning |
|---|
| (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lament, plaint, wail |
| lamenter | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, mourner, sorrower |
|---|
| leptomeninges | (noun) the two innermost layers of the meninges; cerebrospinal fluid circulates between these innermost layers | - |
|---|
| leptomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the leptomeninges | - |
|---|
| ligament | (noun) any connection or unifying bond | - |
|---|
| (noun) a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs | - |
| lightsomeness | (noun) the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous | Synonyms: lightness |
|---|
| (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightness, nimbleness |
| (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness |
| limen | (noun) the smallest detectable sensation | Synonyms: threshold |
|---|
| lineament | (noun) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin | Synonyms: feature |
|---|
| (noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | Synonyms: character, quality |
| linemen | (noun) the football players who line up on the line of scrimmage | - |
|---|
| liniment | (noun) a medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain | Synonyms: embrocation |
|---|
| lissomeness | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple | Synonyms: litheness, suppleness |
|---|
| loathsomeness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: lousiness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, wickedness |
|---|
| lodgement | (noun) the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily | Synonyms: lodging, lodgment |
|---|
| lodgment | (noun) the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily | Synonyms: lodgement, lodging |
|---|
| loment | (noun) seedpods that are constricted between the seeds and that break apart when mature into single-seeded segments | - |
|---|
| lonesomeness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, loneliness, solitariness |
|---|
| lumen | (noun) a cavity or passage in a tubular organ | - |
|---|
| (noun) a unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions | Synonyms: lm |
| macroelement | (noun) a chemical element required in relatively large quantities for the normal physiologic processes of the body. | Synonyms: major mineral |
|---|
| maladjustment | (noun) the condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability | - |
|---|
| malignment | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: smear, vilification |
|---|
| malnourishment | (noun) not having enough food to develop or function normally | Synonyms: undernourishment |
|---|
| maltreatment | (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage |
|---|
| management | (noun) the act of managing something | Synonyms: direction |
|---|
| (noun) those in charge of running a business | - |
| maturement | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, ripening |
|---|
| measurement | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measuring, mensuration |
|---|
| meddlesomeness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, officiousness |
|---|
| medicament | (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medication, medicinal drug, medicine |
|---|
| memento | (noun) a reminder of past events | Synonyms: souvenir |
|---|
| men | (noun) the force of workers available | Synonyms: hands, manpower, work force, workforce |
|---|
| menace | (noun) a threat or the act of threatening | - |
|---|
| (noun) something that is a source of danger | Synonyms: threat |
| menadione | (noun) a synthetic chemical compound that is a form of vitamin K, it is an analog of 1,4-naphthoquinone with a methyl group in the 2-position | Synonyms: vitamin K3 |
|---|
| menage | (noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: family, home, house, household |
|---|
| menagerie | (noun) the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition | Synonyms: zoo, zoological garden |
|---|
| (noun) a collection of live animals for study or display | - |
| menarche | (noun) the first occurrence of menstruation in a woman | - |
|---|
| mend | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mending, repair, reparation |
|---|
| (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: darn, patch |
| mendacity | (noun) the tendency to be untruthful | - |
|---|
| mendelevium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol) | Synonyms: atomic number 101, Md, Mv |
|---|
| mender | (noun) a skilled worker who mends or repairs things | Synonyms: fixer, repairer |
|---|
| mendicancy | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, begging |
|---|
| (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicity |
| mendicant | (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: beggar |
|---|
| (noun) a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms | Synonyms: friar |
| mendicity | (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
|---|
| mending | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, repair, reparation |
|---|
| (noun) garments that must be repaired | - |
| menhaden | (noun) shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer | Synonyms: Brevoortia tyrannis |
|---|
| menhir | (noun) a tall upright megalith; found primarily in England and northern France | Synonyms: standing stone |
|---|
| menial | (noun) a domestic servant | - |
|---|
| meninges | (noun) a membrane (one of 3) that envelops the brain and spinal cord | Synonyms: meninx |
|---|
| meningioma | (noun) a tumor arising in the meninges which surround the brain and spinal cord; usually slow growing and sometimes malignant | - |
|---|
| meningism | (noun) symptoms that mimic those of meningitis but without inflammation of the meninges | - |
|---|
| meningitis | (noun) infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea | - |
|---|
| meningocele | (noun) a congenital anomaly of the central nervous system in which a sac protruding from the brain or the spinal meninges contains cerebrospinal fluid (but no nerve tissue) | - |
|---|
| meningoencephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis |
|---|
| meninx | (noun) a membrane (one of 3) that envelops the brain and spinal cord | Synonyms: meninges |
|---|
| meniscectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the meniscus of the knee | - |
|---|
| meniscus | (noun) (physics) the curved upper surface of a nonturbulent liquid in a vertical tube | - |
|---|
| (noun) (optics) a lens that is concave on one side and convex on the other | - |
| (noun) (anatomy) a disk of cartilage that serves as a cushion between the ends of bones that meet at a joint | Synonyms: semilunar cartilage |
| menopause | (noun) the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends | Synonyms: change of life, climacteric |
|---|
| menorah | (noun) (Judaism) a candelabrum with nine branches; used during the Hanukkah festival | - |
|---|
| menorrhagia | (noun) abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged | Synonyms: hypermenorrhea |
|---|
| menorrhea | (noun) flow of blood from the uterus; occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years | Synonyms: menstrual blood, menstrual flow |
|---|
| mensch | (noun) a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics | Synonyms: mensh |
|---|
| menses | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menstruation, menstruum, period |
|---|
| mensh | (noun) a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics | Synonyms: mensch |
|---|
| menstruation | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruum, period |
|---|
| menstruum | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, period |
|---|
| (noun) (archaic) a solvent | - |
| mensuration | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measurement, measuring |
|---|