| granulator | (noun) a machine that forms material (such as plastics, bottles, organics, etc.) into granules. | Synonyms: granulator machine |
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| gula | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gluttony, overeating |
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| gulag | (noun) a Russian prison camp for political prisoners | - |
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| haulage | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: draw, haul |
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| heulandite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous aluminum silicate of sodium and calcium | - |
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| hula | (noun) a Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman | Synonyms: Hawaiian dancing, hula-hula |
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| hypercellularity | (noun) the state of having abnormally many cells | - |
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| hypocellularity | (noun) the state of having abnormally few cells | - |
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| immaculacy | (noun) The characteristic of having no stain or blemish; of being spotless, undefiled, clear, pure. | - |
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| immaculateness | (noun) the state of being spotlessly clean | Synonyms: spotlessness |
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| inoculant | (noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease | Synonyms: inoculum |
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| inoculating | (noun) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | Synonyms: vaccinating |
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| inoculation | (noun) taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease | Synonyms: vaccination |
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| inoculator | (noun) a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases | Synonyms: vaccinator |
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| inosculation | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: anastomosis |
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| insulant | (noun) insulating material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity | Synonyms: insulation |
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| insularism | (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: detachment, insularity, insulation |
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| insularity | (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: detachment, insularism, insulation |
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| insulation | (noun) the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity | - |
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| (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: detachment, insularism, insularity |
| (noun) insulating material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity | Synonyms: insulant |
| insulator | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: dielectric, nonconductor |
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| inula | (noun) any plant of the genus Inula | - |
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| irregular | (noun) merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name | Synonyms: second |
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| (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, guerrilla, insurgent |
| irregularity | (noun) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| (noun) not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals | Synonyms: unregularity |
| (noun) an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern | Synonyms: geometrical irregularity |
| (noun) irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis | Synonyms: constipation |
| jocularity | (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jest, joke |
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| (noun) fun characterized by humor | Synonyms: jocosity |
| (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocundity |
| jugular | (noun) a vital part that is vulnerable to attack | - |
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| (noun) veins in the neck that return blood from the head | Synonyms: jugular vein, vena jugularis |
| lobularity | (noun) the property of having lobules | - |
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| lunula | (noun) a crescent-shaped metal ornament of the Bronze Age | - |
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| (noun) the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail | Synonyms: half-moon, lunule |
| macula | (noun) a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision | Synonyms: macula lutea, macular area, yellow spot |
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| (noun) a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases | Synonyms: macule |
| (noun) a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field | Synonyms: sunspot |
| maculation | (noun) the act of spotting or staining something | Synonyms: spotting, staining |
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| (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, patch, speckle, spot |
| mandibula | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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| manipulability | (noun) the quality of being controllable by skilled movements of the hands | - |
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| manipulation | (noun) exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage | Synonyms: use |
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| (noun) the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means | Synonyms: handling |
| manipulativeness | (noun) The quality of using manipulation purposefully, of tending to manipulate others. | - |
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| manipulator | (noun) an agent that operates some apparatus or machine | Synonyms: operator |
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| (noun) a person who handles things manually | - |
| matriculate | (noun) someone who has been admitted to a college or university | - |
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| matriculation | (noun) admission to a group (especially a college or university) | Synonyms: matric |
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| minicalculator | (noun) (old-fashioned) a very small handheld calculator. | - |
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| miscalculation | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: misestimation, misreckoning |
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| modulation | (noun) the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect) | - |
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| (noun) (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase | - |
| (noun) a musical passage moving from one key to another | Synonyms: transition |
| (noun) rise and fall of the voice pitch | Synonyms: intonation, pitch contour |
| (noun) a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified | Synonyms: inflection |
| morula | (noun) a solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits; develops into the blastula | - |
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| mulatto | (noun) an offspring of a black and a white parent | - |
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| muscularity | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, sinew |
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| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour, vim |
| (noun) the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle | - |
| musculature | (noun) the muscular system of an organism | Synonyms: muscle system, muscular structure |
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| navicular | (noun) the largest wrist bone on the thumb side | Synonyms: os scaphoideum, scaphoid bone |
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| nebula | (noun) (pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea | - |
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| (noun) an immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space | - |
| (noun) cloudiness of the urine | - |
| (noun) a medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer | - |
| noctambulation | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulism, sleepwalking, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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| ocular | (noun) combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments | Synonyms: eyepiece |
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| osculation | (noun) the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: buss, kiss |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent | - |
| osculator | (noun) someone who kisses | Synonyms: kisser |
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| overpopulation | (noun) too much population | - |
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| ovulation | (noun) the expulsion of an ovum from the ovary (usually midway in the menstrual cycle) | - |
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| pandiculation | (noun) yawning and stretching (as when first waking up) | - |
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| particular | (noun) a fact about some part (as opposed to general) | Synonyms: specific |
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| (noun) (logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class | Synonyms: particular proposition |
| (noun) a small part that can be considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: detail, item |
| particularisation | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: detailing, particularization |
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| particularism | (noun) a focus on something particular | - |
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| particularity | (noun) the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance | Synonyms: specialness |
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| particularization | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: detailing, particularisation |
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| particulate | (noun) a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) | Synonyms: particulate matter |
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| peculation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation |
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| peculator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, embezzler |
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| peninsula | (noun) a large mass of land projecting into a body of water | - |
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| perambulation | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, promenade, saunter, stroll |
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| (noun) a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries | - |
| perambulator | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, pram, pushchair, pusher, stroller |
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| perpendicular | (noun) an extremely steep face | - |
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| (noun) a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point | Synonyms: plumb line |
| (noun) a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting | Synonyms: English-Gothic, English-Gothic architecture, perpendicular style |
| (noun) a straight line at right angles to another line | - |
| perpendicularity | (noun) the quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon) | - |
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| (noun) the relation of opposition between things at right angles | Synonyms: orthogonal opposition, orthogonality |
| petulance | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness |
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| photocoagulation | (noun) surgical procedure that uses an intense laser beam to destroy diseased retinal tissue or to make a scar that will hold the retina in cases of detached retina | - |
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| photocoagulator | (noun) surgical instrument containing a laser for use in photocoagulation | - |
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| pinguecula | (noun) a slightly elevated elastic tissue deposit in the conjunctiva that may extend to the cornea but does not cover it | - |
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| planula | (noun) the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates | - |
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| populace | (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: public, world |
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| popularisation | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularization, vulgarisation, vulgarization |
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| (noun) an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable | Synonyms: popularization |
| populariser | (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularizer, vulgariser, vulgarizer |
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| popularism | (noun) music adapted to the understanding and taste of the majority | - |
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| popularity | (noun) the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after | - |
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| popularization | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularisation, vulgarisation, vulgarization |
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| (noun) an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable | Synonyms: popularisation |
| popularizer | (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, vulgariser, vulgarizer |
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| population | (noun) the act of populating (causing to live in a place) | - |
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| (noun) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | Synonyms: universe |
| (noun) the people who inhabit a territory or state | - |
| (noun) a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area | - |
| (noun) the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.) | - |
| portulaca | (noun) a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers | - |
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| postulant | (noun) one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order | - |
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| postulate | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: posit |
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| postulation | (noun) (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument | Synonyms: predication |
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| (noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: petition, request |
| postulator | (noun) someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument | - |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) someone who proposes or pleads for a candidate for beatification or canonization | - |
| primula | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primrose |
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| proconsulate | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulship |
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| pula | (noun) the basic unit of money in Botswana | - |
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| pulasan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulassan |
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| (noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan tree, pulassan |
| pulassan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulasan |
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| (noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan, pulasan tree |
| pullulation | (noun) a rapid and abundant increase | - |
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| (noun) asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual | Synonyms: gemmation |
| ranula | (noun) a cyst on the underside of the tongue | - |
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| recalculation | (noun) the act of calculating again (usually to eliminate errors or to include additional data) | - |
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| recapitulation | (noun) (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) | - |
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| (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, review |
| (noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated | - |
| (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: palingenesis |
| recirculation | (noun) circulation again | - |
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| rectangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: oblongness |
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| regular | (noun) a garment size for persons of average height and weight | - |
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| (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: fixture, habitue |
| (noun) a dependable follower (especially in party politics) | - |
| (noun) a soldier in the regular army | - |
| regularisation | (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularization, regulation |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) | Synonyms: regularization |
| regularity | (noun) the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate | - |
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| (noun) a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles | Synonyms: geometrical regularity |
| regularization | (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularisation, regulation |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) | Synonyms: regularisation |
| regulating | (noun) the act of controlling or directing according to rule | Synonyms: regulation |
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| regulation | (noun) the act of controlling or directing according to rule | Synonyms: regulating |
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| (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularisation, regularization |
| (noun) a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: ordinance |
| (noun) (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered | - |
| (noun) the state of being controlled or governed | - |