| hornpout | (noun) catfish common in eastern United States | Synonyms: Ameiurus Melas, horned pout, pout |
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| hornstone | (noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks | Synonyms: hornfels |
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| hornwork | (noun) an element of the trace italienne system of fortification that consists of a pair of demi-bastions. | - |
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| hornwort | (noun) liverworts with slender hornlike capsules | - |
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| (noun) any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams | - |
| hypernatremia | (noun) excessive amounts of sodium in the blood; possibly indicating diabetes insipidus | - |
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| hypernym | (noun) a word that is more generic than a given word | Synonyms: superordinate, superordinate word |
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| hypernymy | (noun) the semantic relation of being superordinate or belonging to a higher rank or class | Synonyms: superordination |
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| improperness | (noun) an improper demeanor | Synonyms: impropriety |
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| incarnation | (noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | Synonyms: personification |
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| (noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: avatar, embodiment |
| (noun) time passed in a particular bodily form | - |
| indiscernibility | (noun) The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed. | - |
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| infernal | (noun) an inhabitant of Hell | - |
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| inferno | (noun) a very intense and uncontrolled fire | Synonyms: conflagration |
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| (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits |
| intern | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: houseman, interne, medical intern |
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| internalisation | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalization |
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| internality | (noun) preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values) | Synonyms: inwardness |
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| internalization | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalisation |
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| internationalisation | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalization |
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| internationalism | (noun) quality of being international in scope | Synonyms: internationality |
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| (noun) the doctrine that nations should cooperate because their common interests are more important than their differences | - |
| internationalist | (noun) an advocate of internationalism | - |
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| (noun) a member of a socialist or communist international | - |
| internationality | (noun) quality of being international in scope | Synonyms: internationalism |
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| internationalization | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalisation |
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| interne | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: houseman, intern, medical intern |
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| internee | (noun) a person who is interned | - |
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| internet | (noun) a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange | Synonyms: cyberspace, net |
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| internist | (noun) a specialist in internal medicine | - |
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| internment | (noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) | Synonyms: imprisonment |
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| (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, impoundment, poundage |
| (noun) confinement during wartime | - |
| internode | (noun) a segment of a stem between two nodes | - |
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| internship | (noun) the position of a medical intern | - |
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| internuncio | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio | - |
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| japorn | (noun) Japanese pornography | - |
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| journal | (noun) the part of the axle contained by a bearing | - |
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| (noun) a record book as a physical object | - |
| (noun) a periodical dedicated to a particular subject | - |
| (noun) a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations | Synonyms: diary |
| (noun) a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | Synonyms: daybook |
| journalese | (noun) the style in which newspapers are written | - |
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| journalism | (noun) the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media | - |
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| (noun) newspapers and magazines collectively | Synonyms: news media |
| journalist | (noun) a writer for newspapers and magazines | - |
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| (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diarist, diary keeper |
| journey | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journeying |
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| journeyer | (noun) a traveler going on a trip | Synonyms: wayfarer |
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| journeying | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journey |
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| journeyman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, craftsman |
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| juggernaut | (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| kern | (noun) the part of a metal type that projects beyond its body | - |
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| kernel | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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| (noun) a single whole grain of a cereal | - |
| (noun) the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone | Synonyms: meat |
| kernicterus | (noun) an abnormal accumulation of bile pigment in the brain and other nerve tissue; causes yellow staining and tissue damage | - |
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| kernite | (noun) a light soft mineral consisting of hydrated sodium borate in crystalline form; an important source of boron | - |
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| klavern | (noun) a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan | - |
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| kosherness | (noun) The property of being fit to eat under Jewish dietary laws. | - |
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| krummhorn | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: cromorne, crumhorn |
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| lantern | (noun) light in a transparent protective case | - |
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| lanternfish | (noun) small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night | - |
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| learnedness | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learning, scholarship |
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| learner | (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, scholar, student |
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| (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, prentice |
| learning | (noun) the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge | Synonyms: acquisition |
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| (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, scholarship |
| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| lectern | (noun) desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer | Synonyms: reading desk |
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| leghorn | (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: boater, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat |
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| lipfern | (noun) any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions | Synonyms: lip fern |
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| longhorn | (noun) long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern United States | Synonyms: Texas longhorn |
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| longicorn | (noun) long-bodied beetle having very long antennae | Synonyms: long-horned beetle, longicorn beetle |
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| lucerne | (noun) important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop | Synonyms: alfalfa, Medicago sativa |
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| maternalism | (noun) motherly care; behavior characteristic of a mother; the practice of acting as a mother does toward her children | - |
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| (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternity, motherliness |
| maternity | (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternalism, motherliness |
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| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | Synonyms: motherhood |
| (noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: gestation, pregnancy |
| meagerness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| midafternoon | (noun) the middle part of the afternoon | - |
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| misgovernment | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misrule |
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| mockernut | (noun) smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut | Synonyms: big-bud hickory, black hickory, Carya tomentosa, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory |
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| modern | (noun) a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes | Synonyms: Bodoni, Bodoni font, modern font |
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| (noun) a contemporary person | - |
| modernisation | (noun) making modern in appearance or behavior | Synonyms: modernization |
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| modernism | (noun) practices typical of contemporary life or thought | - |
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| (noun) genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres | - |
| (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness |
| modernist | (noun) an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles | - |
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| modernity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernness |
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| modernization | (noun) making modern in appearance or behavior | Synonyms: modernisation |
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| (noun) a modernized version (as of a play) | - |
| modernness | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity |
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| morn | (noun) the time period between dawn and noon | Synonyms: forenoon, morning, morning time |
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| mornight | (noun) both morning and night, used when greeting someone | - |
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| morning | (noun) a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good morning | Synonyms: good morning |
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| (noun) the earliest period | Synonyms: dawn |
| (noun) the time period between dawn and noon | Synonyms: forenoon, morn, morning time |
| (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, sunrise, sunup |
| mourner | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, sorrower |
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| mournfulness | (noun) a state of gloomy sorrow | Synonyms: ruthfulness, sorrowfulness |
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| mourning | (noun) the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | Synonyms: lamentation |
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| (noun) state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one | Synonyms: bereavement |
| nearness | (noun) the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance | Synonyms: closeness |
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| newborn | (noun) a baby from birth to four weeks | Synonyms: neonate |
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| nocturne | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: notturno |
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| northernness | (noun) the property of being to the north | - |
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| notornis | (noun) flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules | Synonyms: Notornis mantelli, takahe |
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| notturno | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: nocturne |
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| ornament | (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornamentation |
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| ornamental | (noun) any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value | - |
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| ornamentalism | (noun) the practice of ornamental display | - |
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| ornamentalist | (noun) someone who decorates | Synonyms: decorator |
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| ornamentation | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: embellishment |
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| (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornament |
| (noun) the state of being ornamented | - |
| ornateness | (noun) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated | Synonyms: elaborateness |
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| (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, rhetoric |
| orneriness | (noun) meanspirited disagreeable contrariness | Synonyms: cussedness |
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| ornithine | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is important in the formation of urea | - |
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| ornithischian | (noun) herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird | Synonyms: ornithischian dinosaur |
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| ornithologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies birds | Synonyms: bird watcher |
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| ornithology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies birds | - |
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| ornithomimid | (noun) lightly built medium-sized dinosaur having extremely long limbs and necks with small heads and big brains and large eyes | - |
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| ornithopod | (noun) bipedal herbivorous dinosaur | Synonyms: ornithopod dinosaur |
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| ornithopter | (noun) heavier-than-air craft that is propelled by the flapping of wings | Synonyms: orthopter |
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| ornithosis | (noun) an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds | Synonyms: parrot fever, psittacosis |
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| otherness | (noun) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | Synonyms: distinctness, separateness |
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| outturn | (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, turnout |
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