| inhabitancy | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: habitation, inhabitation |
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| inhabitant | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, habitant, indweller |
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| inheritance | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: heritage |
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| (noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: heritage |
| (noun) (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents | Synonyms: hereditary pattern |
| (noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: heritage |
| injectant | (noun) any solution that is injected (as into the skin) | Synonyms: injection |
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| inkstand | (noun) a tray or stand for writing implements and containers for ink | - |
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| (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkwell |
| instance | (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, illustration, representative |
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| (noun) an occurrence of something | Synonyms: case, example |
| instancy | (noun) the quality of being insistent | Synonyms: imperativeness |
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| (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness |
| instant | (noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: minute, moment, second |
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| (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
| instantaneousness | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, immediateness, instancy |
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| instantiation | (noun) a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it | - |
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| insubstantiality | (noun) lacking substance or reality | - |
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| (noun) lack of solid substance and strength | - |
| intangibility | (noun) the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch | Synonyms: impalpability, intangibleness |
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| intangible | (noun) assets that are saleable though not material or physical | Synonyms: intangible asset |
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| intangibleness | (noun) the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch | Synonyms: impalpability, intangibility |
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| irritant | (noun) something that causes irritation and annoyance | Synonyms: thorn |
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| kaftan | (noun) a (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in the Levant | Synonyms: caftan |
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| (noun) a woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East | Synonyms: caftan |
| kentan | (noun) east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals | Synonyms: devil lily, Lilium lancifolium, tiger lily |
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| kickstand | (noun) a swiveling metal rod attached to a bicycle or motorcycle or other two-wheeled vehicle; the rod lies horizontally when not in use but can be kicked into a vertical position as a support to hold the vehicle upright when it is not being ridden | - |
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| lantana | (noun) a genus of about 150 species of flowering shrub, commonly known as shrub verbenas or lantanas | - |
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| latanier | (noun) fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region | Synonyms: latanier palm |
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| litany | (noun) any long and tedious address or recital | - |
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| lutanist | (noun) a musician who plays the lute | Synonyms: lutenist, lutist |
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| manhattan | (noun) a cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth with a dash of bitters | - |
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| metropolitan | (noun) a person who lives in a metropolis | - |
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| (noun) in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity | - |
| militance | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: combativeness, militancy |
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| militancy | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: combativeness, militance |
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| militant | (noun) a militant reformer | Synonyms: activist |
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| misunderstanding | (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: misapprehension, mistake |
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| (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: misinterpretation, mistaking |
| mustang | (noun) small hardy range horse of the western plains descended from horses brought by the Spanish | - |
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| mutant | (noun) an animal that has undergone mutation | - |
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| (noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutation, sport, variation |
| newsstand | (noun) a stall where newspapers and other periodicals are sold | - |
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| nonacceptance | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: turndown |
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| noncombatant | (noun) a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon) | - |
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| nonresistance | (noun) group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence | - |
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| nonstandardness | (noun) The state or condition of not being standard. | - |
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| octane | (noun) any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent | - |
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| octant | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring angles to a celestial body; similar to a sextant but with 45 degree calibration | - |
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| orangutan | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutang, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| orangutang | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| oscitance | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitancy, yawn, yawning |
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| (noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitancy |
| oscitancy | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, yawn, yawning |
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| (noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitance |
| oxtant | (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to half a quadrant | - |
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| palaeobotany | (noun) the study of fossil plants | Synonyms: paleobotany |
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| paleobotany | (noun) the study of fossil plants | Synonyms: palaeobotany |
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| pentangle | (noun) a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon | Synonyms: pentacle, pentagram |
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| pitanga | (noun) Brazilian tree with spicy red fruit; often cultivated in California and Florida | Synonyms: Eugenia uniflora, Surinam cherry |
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| pittance | (noun) an inadequate payment | - |
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| platan | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits | Synonyms: plane tree, sycamore |
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| pollutant | (noun) waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil | - |
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| precipitance | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitancy | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitant | (noun) an agent that causes a precipitate to form | - |
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| protanopia | (noun) dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue | Synonyms: red-blindness |
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| protistan | (noun) free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes | Synonyms: protist |
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| puritan | (noun) someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures | - |
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| (noun) a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum | Synonyms: prude |
| quadrantanopia | (noun) blindness in one fourth of the visual field | - |
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| quartan | (noun) a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day | - |
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| quittance | (noun) payment of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: repayment |
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| (noun) a document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt | - |
| rambotan | (noun) pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines | Synonyms: rambutan |
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| (noun) Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit | Synonyms: Nephelium lappaceum, rambutan, rambutan tree |
| rambutan | (noun) pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines | Synonyms: rambotan |
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| (noun) Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit | Synonyms: Nephelium lappaceum, rambotan, rambutan tree |
| ratan | (noun) a switch made from the stems of the rattan palms | Synonyms: rattan |
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| rattan | (noun) a switch made from the stems of the rattan palms | Synonyms: ratan |
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| (noun) climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes | Synonyms: Calamus rotang, rattan palm |
| (noun) the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes | Synonyms: rattan cane |
| reactance | (noun) opposition to the flow of electric current resulting from inductance and capacitance (rather than resistance) | - |
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| reactant | (noun) a chemical substance that is present at the start of a chemical reaction | - |
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| rectangle | (noun) a parallelogram with four right angles | - |
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| rectangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: oblongness |
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| reductant | (noun) a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver | Synonyms: reducer, reducing agent |
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| reflectance | (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface | Synonyms: coefficient of reflection, reflection factor, reflectivity |
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| reluctance | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition |
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| (noun) (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance) | - |
| remittance | (noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remission, remitment, remittal |
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| repentance | (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penance, penitence |
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| resistance | (noun) group action in opposition to those in power | - |
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| (noun) the military action of resisting the enemy's advance | - |
| (noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with | Synonyms: opposition |
| (noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current | Synonyms: resistor |
| (noun) the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness | - |
| (noun) a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force | Synonyms: underground |
| (noun) any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion | - |
| (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistivity |
| (noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: immunity |
| (noun) the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents | - |
| resultant | (noun) a vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors | Synonyms: vector sum |
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| (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, outcome, result, termination |
| (noun) the final point in a process | Synonyms: end point |
| retreatant | (noun) a participant in a religious retreat | - |
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| sacristan | (noun) an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects | Synonyms: sexton |
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| satang | (noun) 100 satangs equal 1 baht in Thailand | - |
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| satanophobia | (noun) an abnormal fear of Satan | - |
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| sextant | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects; resembles an octant | - |
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| (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to 60 degrees | - |
| shaitan | (noun) (Islam) a rebellious jinni who leads men astray | Synonyms: shaytan |
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| shaytan | (noun) (Islam) a rebellious jinni who leads men astray | Synonyms: shaitan |
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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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| soutane | (noun) a long cassock with buttons down the front; worn by Roman Catholic priests | - |
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| spontaneity | (noun) the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint | Synonyms: spontaneousness |
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| spontaneousness | (noun) the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint | Synonyms: spontaneity |
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| stance | (noun) standing posture | - |
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| (noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: position, posture |
| stanchion | (noun) any vertical post or rod used as a support | - |
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| stand | (noun) a defensive effort | - |
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| (noun) a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance | - |
| (noun) a support or foundation | Synonyms: base, pedestal |
| (noun) tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade) | - |
| (noun) a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air | Synonyms: bandstand, outdoor stage |
| (noun) a support for displaying ot holding various articles | Synonyms: rack |
| (noun) a small table for holding articles of various kinds | - |
| (noun) a booth where articles are displayed for sale | Synonyms: sales booth, stall |
| (noun) a mental position from which things are viewed | Synonyms: point of view, standpoint, viewpoint |
| (noun) an interruption of normal activity | Synonyms: standstill, tie-up |
| (noun) a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area | - |
| (noun) the position where a thing or person stands | - |
| standard | (noun) any distinctive flag | Synonyms: banner |
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| (noun) an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support) | - |
| (noun) the ideal in terms of which something can be judged | Synonyms: criterion |
| (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: criterion, measure, touchstone |
| (noun) the value behind the money in a monetary system | Synonyms: monetary standard |
| (noun) a board measure = 1980 board feet | - |
| standardisation | (noun) the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument | Synonyms: calibration, standardization |
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| (noun) the imposition of standards or regulations | Synonyms: normalisation, normalization, standardization |
| (noun) the condition in which a standard has been successfully established | Synonyms: standardization |
| standardiser | (noun) a person who sets a standard for things to conform to | Synonyms: standardizer |
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| standardization | (noun) the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument | Synonyms: calibration, standardisation |
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| (noun) the imposition of standards or regulations | Synonyms: normalisation, normalization, standardisation |
| (noun) the condition in which a standard has been successfully established | Synonyms: standardisation |
| standardizer | (noun) a person who sets a standard for things to conform to | Synonyms: standardiser |
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| standby | (noun) something that can be relied on when needed | - |
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| (noun) an actor able to replace a regular performer when required | Synonyms: understudy |
| standdown | (noun) (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action | Synonyms: stand-down |
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| (noun) a suspension and relaxation from an alert state or a state of readiness | Synonyms: stand-down |
| standee | (noun) a lifesize cardboard cutout (usually of a celebrity) | - |
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| (noun) someone who stands in a place where one might otherwise sit (as a spectator who uses standing room in a theater or a passenger on a crowded bus or train) | - |
| stander | (noun) an organism (person or animal) that stands | - |
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| standing | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position | - |
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| (noun) an ordered listing of scores or results showing the relative positions of competitors (individuals or teams) in a sporting event | - |
| (noun) social or financial or professional status or reputation | - |
| standoff | (noun) the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand | Synonyms: repulsion |
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| (noun) the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided | Synonyms: draw, tie |
| standoffishness | (noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner | Synonyms: aloofness, remoteness, withdrawnness |
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