| groundwork | (noun) preliminary preparation as a basis or foundation | - |
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| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament |
| grunge | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, soil, stain |
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| grunt | (noun) medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught | - |
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| (noun) the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs | Synonyms: oink |
| (noun) an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker | - |
| grunter | (noun) domestic swine | Synonyms: hog, pig, squealer, Sus scrofa |
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| (noun) a person who grunts | - |
| gun | (noun) the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies | - |
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| (noun) a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) | - |
| (noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: artillery, heavy weapon, ordnance |
| (noun) a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine | Synonyms: grease gun |
| (noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, throttle |
| (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
| (noun) a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) | Synonyms: gunman |
| gunboat | (noun) a small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns; used by costal patrols | - |
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| guncotton | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, nitrocellulose, nitrocotton |
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| gunfight | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunplay, shootout |
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| gunfire | (noun) the act of shooting a gun | Synonyms: gunshot |
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| gunflint | (noun) the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon | - |
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| gunite | (noun) a mixture of cement and sand and water that is sprayed on a surface under pneumatic pressure | - |
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| gunk | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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| gunlock | (noun) the action that ignites the charge in a firearm | Synonyms: firing mechanism |
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| gunman | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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| (noun) a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) | Synonyms: gun |
| gunmetal | (noun) a type of bronze used for parts subject to wear or corrosion (especially corrosion by sea water) | - |
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| gunnel | (noun) small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic | Synonyms: bracketed blenny |
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| (noun) wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel | Synonyms: gun rest, gunwale |
| gunner | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, cannoneer, machine gunner |
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| gunnery | (noun) guns collectively | - |
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| gunny | (noun) coarse jute fabric | Synonyms: burlap |
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| gunnysack | (noun) a bag made of burlap | Synonyms: burlap bag, gunny sack |
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| gunplay | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, shootout |
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| gunpoint | (noun) the gun muzzle's direction | Synonyms: point |
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| gunpowder | (noun) a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks | Synonyms: powder |
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| gunrunner | (noun) a smuggler of guns | Synonyms: arms-runner |
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| gunrunning | (noun) the smuggling of guns and ammunition into a country secretly and illegally | - |
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| gunshot | (noun) the act of shooting a gun | Synonyms: gunfire |
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| gunsight | (noun) a sight used for aiming a gun | Synonyms: gun-sight |
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| gunslinger | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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| gunsmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs guns | - |
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| gunstock | (noun) the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun | Synonyms: stock |
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| gunwale | (noun) wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel | Synonyms: gun rest, gunnel |
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| handgun | (noun) a firearm that is held and fired with one hand | Synonyms: pistol, shooting iron, side arm |
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| haunch | (noun) the loin and leg of a quadruped | - |
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| (noun) the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings | - |
| hauncher | (noun) a machine for making shaped cuts in the end or along the edge of a board. | Synonyms: haunching machine |
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| haunt | (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: hangout, repair, resort, stamping ground |
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| headcount | (noun) number of people in a particular group | Synonyms: head count |
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| headcounter | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: canvasser, poll taker, pollster |
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| headhunter | (noun) a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies | Synonyms: head-shrinker |
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| (noun) a recruiter of personnel (especially for corporations) | - |
| hedgefund | (noun) a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging | Synonyms: hedge fund |
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| hellhound | (noun) a very evil man | - |
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| (noun) (Greek mythology) the three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades; son of Typhon | Synonyms: Cerberus |
| homebound | (noun) people who are confined to their homes | - |
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| homespun | (noun) a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home | - |
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| homunculus | (noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: manikin, mannikin |
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| (noun) a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell | - |
| horehound | (noun) a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant | - |
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| (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Marrubium | - |
| hound | (noun) any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears | Synonyms: hound dog |
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| (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, cad, dog, heel |
| hunch | (noun) the act of bending yourself into a humped position | - |
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| (noun) an impression that something might be the case | Synonyms: intuition, suspicion |
| hunchback | (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: crookback, humpback |
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| (noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: humpback, kyphosis |
| hundred | (noun) ten 10s | Synonyms: 100, C, century, one C |
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| hundredth | (noun) one part in a hundred equal parts | Synonyms: one-hundredth, one percent |
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| (noun) position 100 in a countable series of things | - |
| hundredweight | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds | Synonyms: cwt, long hundredweight |
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| (noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, cwt, quintal, short hundredweight |
| (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, doppelzentner, metric hundredweight |
| hunger | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hungriness, thirst, thirstiness |
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| (noun) a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation | Synonyms: hungriness |
| hungriness | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hunger, thirst, thirstiness |
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| (noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: longing, yearning |
| (noun) a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation | Synonyms: hunger |
| hunk | (noun) a large piece of something without definite shape | Synonyms: lump |
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| (noun) a well-built sexually attractive man | - |
| hunt | (noun) the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts | Synonyms: hunting |
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| (noun) the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | Synonyms: hunting |
| (noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | Synonyms: hunting, search |
| (noun) an instance of searching for something | - |
| (noun) an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport | Synonyms: hunt club |
| hunter | (noun) a watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal | Synonyms: hunting watch |
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| (noun) someone who hunts game | Synonyms: huntsman |
| (noun) a person who searches for something | - |
| hunting | (noun) the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts | Synonyms: hunt |
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| (noun) the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | Synonyms: hunt |
| (noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | Synonyms: hunt, search |
| huntress | (noun) a woman hunter | - |
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| huntsman | (noun) someone who hunts game | Synonyms: hunter |
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| immune | (noun) a person who is immune to a particular infection | - |
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| immunisation | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunization |
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| immunity | (noun) an act exempting someone | Synonyms: exemption, granting immunity |
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| (noun) the quality of being unaffected by something | - |
| (noun) the state of not being susceptible | Synonyms: unsusceptibility |
| (noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: resistance |
| immunization | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunisation |
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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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| immunochemistry | (noun) the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies) | Synonyms: chemoimmunology |
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| immunocompetence | (noun) the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| immunodeficiency | (noun) immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced | - |
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| immunoelectrophoresis | (noun) electrophoresis to separate antigens and antibodies | - |
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| immunofluorescence | (noun) (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue | - |
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| immunogen | (noun) any substance or organism that provokes an immune response (produces immunity) when introduced into the body | Synonyms: immunizing agent |
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| immunogenicity | (noun) the property of eliciting an immune response | - |
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| immunoglobulin | (noun) a class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response | Synonyms: Ig, immune gamma globulin, immune globulin, immune serum globulin |
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| immunohistochemistry | (noun) an assay that shows specific antigens in tissues by the use of markers that are either fluorescent dyes or enzymes (such as horseradish peroxidase) | - |
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| immunologist | (noun) a medical scientist who specializes in immunology | - |
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| immunology | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies the body's immune system | - |
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| immunopathology | (noun) the branch of immunology that deals with pathologies of the immune system | - |
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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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| immunosuppression | (noun) lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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| immunosuppressive | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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| immunosuppressor | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug |
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| immunotherapy | (noun) therapy designed to produce immunity to a disease or to enhance resistance by the immune system | - |
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| impecuniousness | (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: pennilessness, penuriousness |
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| importunateness | (noun) Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. | Synonyms: importunity |
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| importunity | (noun) Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. | Synonyms: importunateness |
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| (noun) insistent solicitation and entreaty | Synonyms: urgency, urging |
| impounding | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impoundment, internment, poundage |
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| impoundment | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, internment, poundage |
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| impunity | (noun) exemption from punishment or loss | - |
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| infundibulum | (noun) any of various funnel-shaped parts of the body (but especially the hypophyseal stalk) | - |
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| injunction | (noun) a formal command or admonition | - |
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| (noun) (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity | Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoining, enjoinment |
| inopportuneness | (noun) the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time | Synonyms: untimeliness |
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| intercommunication | (noun) mutual communication; communication with each other | - |
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| intercommunion | (noun) participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one church (eg Catholic and Orthodox) | - |
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| internuncio | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio | - |
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| inunction | (noun) anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual | Synonyms: unction |
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| inundation | (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, flood |
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| (noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, flood, torrent |
| involuntariness | (noun) the trait of being unwilling | Synonyms: unwillingness |
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| iodocompound | (noun) a compound containing the covalent iodine radical | - |
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| jaguarundi | (noun) long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat | Synonyms: eyra, Felis yagouaroundi, jaguarondi, jaguarundi cat |
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| jaundice | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, tartness, thorniness |
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| (noun) yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia | Synonyms: icterus |
| jaunt | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| jauntiness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, nattiness, rakishness |
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| (noun) a breezy liveliness | Synonyms: breeziness |