| glossa | (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: clapper, lingua, tongue |
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| glossalgia | (noun) pain in the tongue | Synonyms: glossodynia |
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| glossarist | (noun) a scholiast who writes glosses or glossaries | - |
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| glossary | (noun) an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field | Synonyms: gloss |
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| glucosamine | (noun) an amino derivative of glucose that is a component of many polysaccharides | - |
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| goosander | (noun) common merganser of Europe and North America | Synonyms: Mergus merganser |
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| gossamer | (noun) a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture | - |
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| (noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: cobweb |
| greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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| gripsack | (noun) a small suitcase | - |
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| grisaille | (noun) chiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of relief | - |
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| gunnysack | (noun) a bag made of burlap | Synonyms: burlap bag, gunny sack |
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| hacksaw | (noun) saw used with one hand for cutting metal | Synonyms: hack saw, metal saw |
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| hadrosaur | (noun) any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic | Synonyms: duck-billed dinosaur, hadrosaurus |
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| hadrosaurus | (noun) any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic | Synonyms: duck-billed dinosaur, hadrosaur |
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| handsaw | (noun) a saw used with one hand for cutting wood | Synonyms: carpenter's saw, hand saw |
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| harmonisation | (noun) singing in harmony | Synonyms: harmonization |
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| (noun) a piece of harmonized music | Synonyms: harmonization |
| haversack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, knapsack, packsack, rucksack |
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| headsail | (noun) any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel | - |
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| hearsay | (noun) gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth | Synonyms: rumor, rumour |
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| herrerasaur | (noun) a kind of theropod dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: herrerasaurus |
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| herrerasaurus | (noun) a kind of theropod dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: herrerasaur |
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| hierarchisation | (noun) The act or result of hierarchizing; the establishment of a hierarchy. | Synonyms: hierarchization |
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| homogenisation | (noun) the act of making something homogeneous or uniform in composition | Synonyms: homogenization |
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| hopsack | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsacking |
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| hopsacking | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsack |
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| hosanna | (noun) a cry of praise or adoration (to God) | - |
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| hospitalisation | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalization |
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| huisache | (noun) tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery | Synonyms: Acacia farnesiana, cassie, flame tree, mimosa bush, scented wattle, sweet acacia, sweet wattle |
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| humanisation | (noun) the act of making more human | Synonyms: humanization |
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| hussar | (noun) a member of a European light cavalry unit; renowned for elegant dress | - |
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| hyalinisation | (noun) the state of being hyaline or having become hyaline | Synonyms: hyalinization |
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| hybridisation | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| hydrolysate | (noun) a product of hydrolysis | - |
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| hypoglossal | (noun) supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue muscles | Synonyms: hypoglossal nerve, nervus hypoglosus, twelfth cranial nerve |
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| hypostatisation | (noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing | Synonyms: hypostatization, reification |
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| hysterosalpingogram | (noun) X ray of the uterus and Fallopian tubes; usually done in diagnosing infertility (to see if there any blockages) | - |
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| ichthyosaur | (noun) any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs | - |
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| ichthyosaurus | (noun) ichthyosaurs of the Jurassic | - |
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| icosahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having twenty plane faces | - |
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| ictodosaur | (noun) intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals | - |
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| idealisation | (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: glorification, idealization |
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| (noun) something that exists only as an idea | Synonyms: idealization |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad | Synonyms: idealization |
| idolisation | (noun) the act of worshiping blindly and to excess | Synonyms: idolization |
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| (noun) the act of admiring strongly | Synonyms: adoration, idolization |
| immobilisation | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilization, immobilizing |
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| (noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing | Synonyms: immobilization |
| immunisation | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunization |
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| immunoassay | (noun) identification of a substance (especially a protein) by its action as an antigen | Synonyms: immunochemical assay |
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| immunosuppressant | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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| impresario | (noun) a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments | Synonyms: promoter, showman |
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| improvisation | (noun) an unplanned expedient | Synonyms: temporary expedient |
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| (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, extemporization |
| (noun) a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation) | - |
| impuissance | (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, weakness |
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| inadvisability | (noun) the quality of being ill-advised | - |
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| incessancy | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessantness |
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| incessantness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessancy |
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| indispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensableness, vitalness |
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| indispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensability, vitalness |
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| individualisation | (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualization, individuation |
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| industrialisation | (noun) the development of industry on an extensive scale | Synonyms: industrial enterprise, industrialization |
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| initialisation | (noun) (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position | Synonyms: initialization, low-level formatting |
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| insalubriousness | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubrity |
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| insalubrity | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubriousness |
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| insaneness | (noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity | Synonyms: lunacy, madness |
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| insanity | (noun) relatively permanent disorder of the mind | - |
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| inspissation | (noun) the act of thickening | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) the process of thickening by dehydration | - |
| intellectualisation | (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict | Synonyms: intellectualization |
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| internalisation | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalization |
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| internationalisation | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalization |
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| interspersal | (noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things | Synonyms: interspersion |
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| intravasation | (noun) entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel | - |
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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 |
| isanemone | (noun) an isogram connecting points having equal wind speed. | - |
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| isarithm | (noun) a line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable | Synonyms: isogram, isopleth |
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| isaw | (noun) a street food from the Philippines, made from barbecued pig or chicken intestines | - |
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| isomerisation | (noun) the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself | Synonyms: isomerization |
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| itemisation | (noun) the act of making a list of items | Synonyms: itemization, listing |
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| jambosa | (noun) tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit | Synonyms: Eugenia jambos, rose-apple tree, rose apple |
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| janissary | (noun) a loyal supporter | - |
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| jessamine | (noun) a climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea | Synonyms: common jasmine, Jasminum officinale, true jasmine |
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| jetsam | (noun) the floating wreckage of a ship | Synonyms: flotsam |
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| (noun) the part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm | - |
| jigsaw | (noun) fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines | Synonyms: fretsaw, scroll saw |
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| (noun) a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut | Synonyms: reciprocating saw, saber saw |
| keepsake | (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: relic, souvenir, token |
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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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| khesari | (noun) European annual grown for forage; seeds used for food in India and for stock elsewhere | Synonyms: grass pea, Indian pea, Lathyrus sativus |
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| knapsack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, haversack, packsack, rucksack |
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| langsat | (noun) a small fruit with fleshy pulp; tastes like a combination of grape and grapefruit. | - |
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| (noun) East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry | Synonyms: langset, lanseh tree, Lansium domesticum |
| lansa | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansat, lanseh, lanset |
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| lansat | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lanseh, lanset |
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| lasagna | (noun) very wide flat strips of pasta | Synonyms: lasagne |
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| (noun) baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables | Synonyms: lasagne |
| lasagne | (noun) very wide flat strips of pasta | Synonyms: lasagna |
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| (noun) baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables | Synonyms: lasagna |
| lateralisation | (noun) localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain | Synonyms: laterality, lateralization |
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| legalisation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalization, legitimation |
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| leiomyosarcoma | (noun) sarcoma of smooth muscle; occurs most often digestive tract or uterus or bladder or prostate | - |
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| lexicalisation | (noun) the process of making a word to express a concept | Synonyms: lexicalization |
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| liberalisation | (noun) the act of making less strict | Synonyms: liberalization, relaxation |
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| lifesaver | (noun) a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material | Synonyms: life belt, life buoy, life ring |
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| (noun) an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents | Synonyms: lifeguard |
| lifesaving | (noun) saving the lives of drowning persons | - |
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| lignosae | (noun) a category in some early taxonomies | - |
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| liposarcoma | (noun) sarcoma of fat cells | - |
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| loasa | (noun) any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers | - |
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| localisation | (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localization, locating, location |
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| (noun) (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body | Synonyms: localisation of function, localisation principle, localization, localization of function, localization principle |
| lugsail | (noun) a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast | Synonyms: lug |
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| lyophilisation | (noun) a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes | Synonyms: freeze-drying, lyophilization |
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