| diflunisal | (noun) nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Dolobid) used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions | Synonyms: Dolobid |
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| disorganisation | (noun) the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion | Synonyms: disorganization |
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| (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disarrangement, disorganization |
| distortionist | (noun) a painter who introduces distortions | - |
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| diversionist | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker |
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| ecumenism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenicism |
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| (noun) a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches) | Synonyms: oecumenism |
| educationist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationalist |
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| egalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: equalitarianism |
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| elocutionist | (noun) a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery | - |
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| emancipationist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: abolitionist |
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| endaemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: eudemonism |
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| enthronisation | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronization, investiture |
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| epicureanism | (noun) a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers | - |
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| equalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: egalitarianism |
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| establishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentism |
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| eudemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: endaemonism |
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| evolutionism | (noun) (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals | Synonyms: theory of evolution, theory of organic evolution |
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| evolutionist | (noun) a person who believes in organic evolution | - |
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| excursionist | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: rubberneck, sightseer, tripper |
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| exhibitionism | (noun) the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals | Synonyms: immodesty |
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| (noun) extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself | - |
| exhibitionist | (noun) someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention | Synonyms: show-off |
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| (noun) someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals | Synonyms: flasher |
| expansionism | (noun) the doctrine of expanding the territory or the economic influence of a country | - |
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| expressionism | (noun) an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality | - |
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| expressionist | (noun) an artist who is an adherent of expressionism | - |
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| extortionist | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: blackmailer, extortioner |
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| feminisation | (noun) the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration | Synonyms: feminization |
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| feminism | (noun) the movement aimed at equal rights for women | Synonyms: feminist movement, women's lib, women's liberation movement |
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| (noun) a doctrine that advocates equal rights for women | - |
| feminist | (noun) a supporter of feminism | Synonyms: libber, women's liberationist, women's rightist |
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| finis | (noun) the concluding part of any performance | Synonyms: close, closing curtain, finale |
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| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finish, last, stopping point |
| finish | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finishing |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finishing |
| (noun) (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed) | - |
| (noun) designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race) | - |
| (noun) the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict) | - |
| (noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: conclusion, ending |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: destination, goal |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, culture, polish, refinement |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, last, stopping point |
| finisher | (noun) an animal that wins in a contest of speed | - |
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| (noun) a race car that finishes a race | - |
| (noun) a worker who performs the last step in a manufacturing process | - |
| (noun) a painter who applies a finishing coat | - |
| (noun) (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game | Synonyms: closer |
| (noun) a racing driver who finishes a race | - |
| finishing | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finish |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finish |
| flexitarianism | (noun) The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons. | Synonyms: semi-vegetarianism |
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| fraternisation | (noun) associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternization |
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| furnishing | (noun) the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc. | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: trappings |
| galvanisation | (noun) either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting | Synonyms: galvanization |
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| (noun) stimulation that arouses a person to lively action | Synonyms: galvanization |
| (noun) stimulation with a galvanic current | Synonyms: galvanization |
| galvaniser | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvanizer, inspirer |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc | Synonyms: galvanizer |
| galvanism | (noun) the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis) | Synonyms: electric healing, electrical healing, electrotherapy |
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| (noun) electricity produced by chemical action | - |
| garnish | (noun) any decoration added as a trimming or adornment | - |
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| (noun) something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration | - |
| garnishee | (noun) a wage earner who is served with a garnishment | - |
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| garnishment | (noun) a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee | - |
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| greenishness | (noun) the property of being somewhat green | - |
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| harmonisation | (noun) singing in harmony | Synonyms: harmonization |
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| (noun) a piece of harmonized music | Synonyms: harmonization |
| harmoniser | (noun) a mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another | Synonyms: harmonizer |
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| (noun) a musician who sings or plays in harmony | Synonyms: harmonizer |
| heathenism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: pagan religion, paganism |
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| hedonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good | - |
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| (noun) the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle | - |
| hedonist | (noun) someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: pagan, pleasure seeker |
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| hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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| homogenisation | (noun) the act of making something homogeneous or uniform in composition | Synonyms: homogenization |
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| hooliganism | (noun) willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others | Synonyms: malicious mischief, vandalism |
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| hornist | (noun) a musician who plays a horn (especially a French horn) | - |
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| hoydenism | (noun) masculinity in women (especially in girls and young women) | Synonyms: tomboyishness |
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| humanisation | (noun) the act of making more human | Synonyms: humanization |
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| humanism | (noun) the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural | Synonyms: secular humanism |
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| (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanitarianism |
| (noun) the cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies | - |
| humanist | (noun) a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts | - |
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| (noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanitarian |
| humanitarianism | (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanism |
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| hyalinisation | (noun) the state of being hyaline or having become hyaline | Synonyms: hyalinization |
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| hygienist | (noun) a medical specialist in hygiene | - |
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| hyperaldosteronism | (noun) a condition caused by overproduction of aldosterone | Synonyms: aldosteronism |
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| hypersplenism | (noun) enlarged spleen and a decrease in one or more types of blood cells; associated with many disorders | - |
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| illusionist | (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: seer, visionary |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, magician, prestidigitator |
| immunisation | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunization |
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| impressionist | (noun) an artist who follows the theories of Impressionism | - |
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| inductionism | (noun) the scientific philosophy where laws are "induced" from sets of data. | - |
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| insurrectionism | (noun) the principle of revolt against constituted authority | - |
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| insurrectionist | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurgent, rebel |
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| internist | (noun) a specialist in internal medicine | - |
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| introspectionism | (noun) a doctrine that psychology must be based essentially on data derived from introspection. | - |
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| intuitionism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition | - |
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| ionisation | (noun) the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas | Synonyms: ionization |
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| (noun) the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge) | Synonyms: ionization |
| ironist | (noun) a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | Synonyms: ridiculer, satirist |
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| irreligionist | (noun) someone who is indifferent or hostile to religion | - |
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| isochronism | (noun) the property of occuring regularly at equal time intervals, of maintaining a constant period or interval, despite variations in other measurable factors in the same system. | - |
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| isolationism | (noun) a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations | - |
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| isolationist | (noun) an advocate of isolationism in international affairs | - |
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| janissary | (noun) a loyal supporter | - |
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| keratinisation | (noun) organic process by which keratin is deposited in cells and the cells become horny (as in nails and hair) | Synonyms: keratinization |
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| knish | (noun) (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack | - |
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| laconism | (noun) terseness of expression | Synonyms: laconicism |
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| larcenist | (noun) a person who commits larceny | Synonyms: larcener |
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| lemniscate | (noun) any of several plane algebraic curves in the shape of a figure eight | - |
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| lemniscus | (noun) a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus | Synonyms: fillet |
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| lesbianism | (noun) female homosexuality | Synonyms: sapphism |
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| libertarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action | - |
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| libertinism | (noun) A lifestyle or pattern of behavior characterized by self-indulgence and lack of restraint, especially one involving sexual promiscuity and rejection of religious or other moral authority. | - |
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| luminism | (noun) an artistic movement in the United States that was derived from the Hudson River school; active from 1850 to 1870; painted realistic landscapes in a style that pictured atmospheric light and the use of aerial perspective | - |
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| lutanist | (noun) a musician who plays the lute | Synonyms: lutenist, lutist |
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| lutenist | (noun) a musician who plays the lute | Synonyms: lutanist, lutist |
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| lychnis | (noun) mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone | Synonyms: catchfly |
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| lysogenisation | (noun) the process by which a bacterium acquires a phage that becomes integrated into its genome | Synonyms: lysogenization |
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| machinist | (noun) a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools | Synonyms: mechanic, shop mechanic |
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| masculinisation | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinization, virilisation, virilization |
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| mechanisation | (noun) the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware | Synonyms: automation, mechanization |
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| (noun) the condition of having a highly technical implementation | Synonyms: mechanization |
| mechanism | (noun) the technical aspects of doing something | Synonyms: mechanics |
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| (noun) device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function | - |
| (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes | - |
| (noun) a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function | - |
| (noun) the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction | Synonyms: chemical mechanism |
| mechanist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to the doctrine of mechanism | - |
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| melanism | (noun) a condition characterized by abnormal deposits of melanin (especially in the skin) | Synonyms: melanosis |
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| meniscectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the meniscus of the knee | - |
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| meniscus | (noun) (physics) the curved upper surface of a nonturbulent liquid in a vertical tube | - |
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| (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 |
| microorganism | (noun) any organism of microscopic size | Synonyms: micro-organism |
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| micropenis | (noun) an abnormally small penis | Synonyms: microphallus |
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| millenarianism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarism, millenniumism |
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