| geneticism | (noun) the belief that all human characteristics are determined genetically | - |
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| geneticist | (noun) a biologist who specializes in genetics | - |
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| genetics | (noun) the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms | Synonyms: genetic science |
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| geopolitics | (noun) the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state | - |
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| gesticulation | (noun) a deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion | - |
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| glucocorticoid | (noun) a steroid hormone that is produced by the adrenal cortex of animals; affects functioning of gonads and has anti-inflammatory activity | - |
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| glyptics | (noun) the art of engraving on precious stones | Synonyms: lithoglyptics |
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| graticule | (noun) a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument | Synonyms: reticle, reticule |
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| gymnastics | (noun) a sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility | Synonyms: gymnastic exercise |
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| hepatic | (noun) any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses | Synonyms: liverwort |
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| hepatica | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions | Synonyms: liverleaf |
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| (noun) a common liverwort | Synonyms: Marchantia polymorpha |
| heretic | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: misbeliever, religious outcast |
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| (noun) a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion) | - |
| hermeneutics | (noun) the branch of theology that deals with principles of exegesis | - |
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| heuristic | (noun) a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem | Synonyms: heuristic program, heuristic rule |
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| hieratic | (noun) a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests | Synonyms: hieratic script |
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| homiletics | (noun) the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies | - |
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| (noun) the art of preaching | - |
| homoeroticism | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gayness, homosexualism, homosexuality, queerness |
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| horticulture | (noun) the cultivation of plants | Synonyms: gardening |
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| horticulturist | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: plantsman |
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| hydrokinetics | (noun) study of fluids in motion | Synonyms: hydrodynamics |
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| hydrostaticity | (noun) The condition of relating to fluids, especially to the pressure that they exert or transmit. | - |
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| hydrostatics | (noun) study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion | - |
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| hyperadrenocorticism | (noun) a glandular disorder caused by excessive cortisol | Synonyms: Cushing's syndrome |
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| hypercatalectic | (noun) (prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot | - |
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| hypercriticism | (noun) Excessive or unfairly harsh criticism. | - |
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| hypnotic | (noun) a drug that induces sleep | Synonyms: soporific |
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| hypoadrenocorticism | (noun) a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin | Synonyms: Addison's disease, Addison's syndrome, hypoadrenalism |
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| hypothetical | (noun) a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc. | - |
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| identicalness | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identity, indistinguishability |
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| impracticability | (noun) the quality of not being usable | Synonyms: impracticableness |
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| impracticableness | (noun) the quality of not being usable | Synonyms: impracticability |
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| impracticality | (noun) concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use | - |
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| inelasticity | (noun) the lack of elasticity | - |
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| infanticide | (noun) murdering an infant | - |
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| (noun) a person who murders an infant | - |
| informatics | (noun) the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information | Synonyms: information processing, information science, IP |
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| injustice | (noun) an unjust act | Synonyms: iniquity, shabbiness, unfairness |
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| (noun) the practice of being unjust or unfair | Synonyms: unjustness |
| insecticide | (noun) a chemical used to kill insects | Synonyms: insect powder |
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| interstice | (noun) small opening between things | - |
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| (noun) a small structural space between tissues or parts of an organ | - |
| jaboticaba | (noun) tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil | - |
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| (noun) small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches | Synonyms: jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria cauliflora |
| joystick | (noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, stick |
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| (noun) a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers | - |
| justice | (noun) judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being just or fair | Synonyms: justness |
| (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: judge, jurist |
| justiciar | (noun) formerly a high judicial officer | Synonyms: justiciary |
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| justiciary | (noun) the jurisdiction of a justiciar | - |
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| (noun) formerly a high judicial officer | Synonyms: justiciar |
| kinematics | (noun) the branch of mechanics concerned with motion without reference to force or mass | - |
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| kinesthetics | (noun) the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body | Synonyms: kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinesthesis, muscle sense, sense of movement |
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| kinetics | (noun) the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies | Synonyms: dynamics |
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| laticifer | (noun) a plant duct containing latex | - |
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| lattice | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, latticework |
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| (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: grille, wicket |
| (noun) an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions | - |
| latticework | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, lattice |
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| lenticel | (noun) one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue | - |
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| lexicostatistics | (noun) a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language | - |
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| lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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| linguistics | (noun) the scientific study of language | - |
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| (noun) the humanistic study of language and literature | Synonyms: philology |
| lipstick | (noun) makeup that is used to color the lips | Synonyms: lip rouge |
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| lithoglyptics | (noun) the art of engraving on precious stones | Synonyms: glyptics |
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| logistician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logician |
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| logistics | (noun) handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed | - |
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| lunatic | (noun) an insane person | Synonyms: maniac |
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| (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, madcap, swashbuckler |
| macrobiotics | (noun) the theory of promoting health and longevity by means of diet (especially whole beans and grains) | - |
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| magnetics | (noun) the branch of science that studies magnetism | Synonyms: magnetism |
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| mahlstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: maulstick |
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| malpractice | (noun) a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct | - |
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| (noun) professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage | - |
| mantichora | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: manticora, manticore, mantiger |
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| manticora | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticore, mantiger |
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| manticore | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticora, mantiger |
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| mariticide | (noun) the murder of a husband by his wife | - |
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| mastic | (noun) an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin | Synonyms: lentisk, mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus |
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| (noun) an aromatic exudate from the mastic tree; used chiefly in varnishes | - |
| (noun) a pasty cement used as an adhesive or filler | - |
| mastication | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, chewing, manduction |
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| matchstick | (noun) a short thin stick of wood used in making matches | - |
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| mathematician | (noun) a person skilled in mathematics | - |
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| mathematics | (noun) a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement | Synonyms: math, maths |
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| maulstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: mahlstick |
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| memetics | (noun) a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution. | - |
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| metamathematics | (noun) the logical analysis of mathematical reasoning | - |
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| meterstick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: metrestick |
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| metic | (noun) an alien who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek city | - |
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| metical | (noun) the basic unit of money in Mozambique; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| meticulosity | (noun) strict attention to minute details | Synonyms: meticulousness, punctiliousness, scrupulousness |
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| meticulousness | (noun) strict attention to minute details | Synonyms: meticulosity, punctiliousness, scrupulousness |
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| metrestick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: meterstick |
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| mineralocorticoid | (noun) hormone that is one of the steroids of the adrenal cortex that influences the metabolism of sodium and potassium | - |
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| miotic | (noun) a drug that causes miosis (constriction of the pupil of the eye) | Synonyms: miotic drug, myotic, myotic drug |
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| monastic | (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monk |
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| monasticism | (noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience | - |
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| mortice | (noun) a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint | Synonyms: mortise |
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| mortician | (noun) one whose business is the management of funerals | Synonyms: funeral director, funeral undertaker, undertaker |
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| multicollinearity | (noun) a case of multiple regression in which the predictor variables are themselves highly correlated | - |
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| multiculturalism | (noun) the doctrine that several different cultures (rather than one national culture) can coexist peacefully and equitably in a single country | - |
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| mydriatic | (noun) a drug that causes the pupil of the eye to dilate; used to aid eye examinations | Synonyms: mydriatic drug |
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| myotic | (noun) a drug that causes miosis (constriction of the pupil of the eye) | Synonyms: miotic, miotic drug, myotic drug |
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| mystic | (noun) someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension | Synonyms: religious mystic |
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| mysticism | (noun) a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality | Synonyms: religious mysticism |
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| (noun) obscure or irrational thought | - |
| narcoleptic | (noun) a soporific drug that produces an uncontrollable desire to sleep | - |
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| (noun) a person who has narcolepsy | - |
| narcotic | (noun) a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction | - |
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| neocriticism | (noun) a form of neo-Kantianism developed principally by C. B. Renouvier and his followers rejecting the noumena of Kant and restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories. | - |
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| neoromanticism | (noun) an art movement based on a revival of Romanticism in art and literature | - |
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| neuroleptic | (noun) tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired | Synonyms: antipsychotic, antipsychotic agent, antipsychotic drug, major tranquilizer, major tranquilliser, major tranquillizer, neuroleptic agent, neuroleptic drug |
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| neurolinguistics | (noun) the branch of linguistics that studies the relation between language and the structure and function of the nervous system | - |
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| neurotic | (noun) a person suffering from neurosis | Synonyms: mental case, psychoneurotic |
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| neuroticism | (noun) a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction | Synonyms: neurosis, psychoneurosis |
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