| assimilability | (noun) Capability of being taken in and utilized as nourishment. | - |
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| assimilation | (noun) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance | - |
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| (noun) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | Synonyms: acculturation |
| (noun) a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound | - |
| (noun) the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion | Synonyms: absorption |
| (noun) the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another | Synonyms: absorption |
| (noun) the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family | - |
| assimilator | (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: learner, scholar, student |
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| centesimo | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of several countries: Panama and Italy and Uruguay and Chile | - |
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| densimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densitometer |
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| dissimilarity | (noun) the quality of being dissimilar | Synonyms: unsimilarity |
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| dissimilation | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: catabolism, destructive metabolism, katabolism |
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| (noun) a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other | - |
| dissimilitude | (noun) dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness | Synonyms: unlikeness |
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| dissimulation | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissembling |
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| dissimulator | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| dosimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring doses of ionizing radiation (X-rays or radioactivity) | Synonyms: dosemeter |
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| dosimetry | (noun) measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive source | - |
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| facsimile | (noun) duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio | Synonyms: facsimile machine, fax |
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| (noun) an exact copy or reproduction | Synonyms: autotype |
| fortissimo | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed very loudly | - |
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| generalissimo | (noun) the officer who holds the supreme command | Synonyms: commander-in-chief, commander in chief |
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| infinitesimal | (noun) (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit | - |
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| mumpsimus | (noun) a traditional notion that is obstinately held although it is unreasonable | - |
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| oversimplification | (noun) an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is | Synonyms: simplism |
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| (noun) an explanation that simplifies too far to the point of misrepresentation | Synonyms: simplism |
| parsimoniousness | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimony, penny-pinching, thrift |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
| parsimony | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, thrift |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, tightness |
| persimmon | (noun) orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe | - |
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| (noun) any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros | Synonyms: persimmon tree |
| pessimism | (noun) a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things | - |
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| (noun) the feeling that things will turn out badly | - |
| pessimist | (noun) a person who expects the worst | - |
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| pianissimo | (noun) (music) low loudness | Synonyms: piano |
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| planetesimal | (noun) one of many small solid celestial bodies thought to have existed at an early stage in the development of the solar system | - |
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| plessimeter | (noun) a small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations | Synonyms: pleximeter |
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| prosimian | (noun) primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits | - |
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| sima | (noun) rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and magnesium | - |
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| simal | (noun) East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok | Synonyms: Bombax ceiba, Bombax malabarica, red silk-cotton tree |
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| simarre | (noun) a fur-lined coat decorated with braid, worn in the sixteenth century. | Synonyms: chamarre, chimer |
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| simazine | (noun) a herbicide used to control weeds (especially among crops) | - |
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| simian | (noun) an ape or monkey | - |
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| similarity | (noun) the quality of being similar | - |
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| (noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit | Synonyms: law of similarity |
| simile | (noun) a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') | - |
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| similitude | (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: counterpart, twin |
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| (noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: alikeness, likeness |
| simmer | (noun) temperature just below the boiling point | - |
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| simmering | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: boiling, stewing |
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| simmpleness | (noun) absence of affectation or pretense | Synonyms: simplicity |
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| simnel | (noun) a crisp bread of fine white flour | - |
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| (noun) a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas | - |
| simoleons | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, sugar, wampum |
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| simony | (noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: barratry |
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| simoom | (noun) a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa | Synonyms: samiel, simoon |
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| simoon | (noun) a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa | Synonyms: samiel, simoom |
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| simper | (noun) a silly self-conscious smile | - |
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| simperer | (noun) a smiler whose smile is silly and self-conscious and sometimes coy | - |
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| simple | (noun) a person lacking intelligence or common sense | Synonyms: simpleton |
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| (noun) any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties | - |
| simpleness | (noun) the quality of being simple or uncompounded | Synonyms: simplicity |
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| (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, restraint, simplicity |
| (noun) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort | Synonyms: ease, easiness, simplicity |
| (noun) a lack of penetration or subtlety | Synonyms: simple mindedness, simplicity |
| simpleton | (noun) a person lacking intelligence or common sense | Synonyms: simple |
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| simplicity | (noun) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort | Synonyms: ease, easiness, simpleness |
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| (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, restraint, simpleness |
| (noun) the quality of being simple or uncompounded | Synonyms: simpleness |
| (noun) absence of affectation or pretense | Synonyms: simmpleness |
| (noun) a lack of penetration or subtlety | Synonyms: simple mindedness, simpleness |
| simplification | (noun) elimination of superfluous details | - |
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| (noun) the act of reducing complexity | Synonyms: reduction |
| (noun) an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity | - |
| simplism | (noun) an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is | Synonyms: oversimplification |
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| (noun) an explanation that simplifies too far to the point of misrepresentation | Synonyms: oversimplification |
| simulacrum | (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: effigy, image |
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| (noun) an insubstantial or vague semblance | - |
| simulation | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense |
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| (noun) the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training) | - |
| (noun) representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model |
| (noun) (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program | Synonyms: computer simulation |
| simulator | (noun) a machine that simulates an environment for the purpose of training or research | - |
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| simulcast | (noun) a broadcast that is carried simultaneously by radio and television (or by FM and AM radio) | - |
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| simultaneity | (noun) happening or existing or done at the same time | Synonyms: simultaneousness |
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| simultaneousness | (noun) happening or existing or done at the same time | Synonyms: simultaneity |
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| simvastatin | (noun) an oral lipid-lowering medicine (trade name Zocor) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after heart attacks | Synonyms: Zocor |
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| sumpsimus | (noun) a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression | - |
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| tensimeter | (noun) a manometer for measuring vapor pressure | - |
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| unsimilarity | (noun) the quality of being dissimilar | Synonyms: dissimilarity |
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| verisimilitude | (noun) the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true | - |
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| viscosimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring viscosity | Synonyms: viscometer |
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| viscosimetry | (noun) the measurement of viscosity | Synonyms: viscometry |
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