| humanization | (noun) the act of making more human | Synonyms: humanisation |
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| hutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, chutzpah |
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| hyalinization | (noun) the state of being hyaline or having become hyaline | Synonyms: hyalinisation |
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| hybridization | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| hybridizing | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, interbreeding |
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| hydralazine | (noun) an antihypertensive drug (trade name Apresoline) that dilates blood vessels; used (often with a diuretic) to treat hypertension and congestive heart failure | Synonyms: Apresoline |
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| hydrazide | (noun) any of a class of organic compounds sharing a common functional group characterized by a nitrogen to nitrogen covalent bond with 4 substituents with at least one of them being an acyl group. | - |
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| hydrazine | (noun) a colorless fuming corrosive liquid; a powerful reducing agent; used chiefly in rocket fuels | - |
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| hydrazoite | (noun) a salt of hydrazoic acid | - |
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| hydrochlorothiazide | (noun) a diuretic drug (trade name Microzide, Esidrix, and HydroDIURIL) used in the treatment of hypertension | Synonyms: Esidrix, HydroDIURIL, Microzide |
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| hydroflumethiazide | (noun) diuretic used to treat hypertension and edema | - |
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| hydroisopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of identical pressures in the water bearing stratum. | - |
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| hydroxybenzene | (noun) a toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of benzene; used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic; poisonous if taken internally | Synonyms: carbolic acid, oxybenzene, phenol, phenylic acid |
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| hydroxyzine | (noun) a drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness | Synonyms: Atarax, hydroxyzine hydrochloride, Vistaril |
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| hydrozoan | (noun) colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant | Synonyms: hydroid |
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| hypnotizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, mesmerist, mesmerizer |
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| hypostatization | (noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing | Synonyms: hypostatisation, reification |
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| hypozeugma | (noun) use of a series of subjects with a single predicate | - |
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| hypozeuxis | (noun) use of a series of parallel clauses (as in `I came, I saw, I conquered') | - |
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| idealization | (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: glorification, idealisation |
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| (noun) something that exists only as an idea | Synonyms: idealisation |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad | Synonyms: idealisation |
| ideologization | (noun) the process of giving an ideological character or interpretation to; especially of changing or interpreting in relation to a sociopolitical ideology often seen as biased or limited. | - |
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| idolization | (noun) the act of worshiping blindly and to excess | Synonyms: idolisation |
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| (noun) the act of admiring strongly | Synonyms: adoration, idolisation |
| idolizer | (noun) a person who worships idols | Synonyms: idol worshiper, idolater, idoliser |
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| (noun) a lover blind with admiration and devotion | Synonyms: idoliser |
| imidazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, iminazole |
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| iminazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, imidazole |
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| immobilization | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilisation, immobilizing |
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| (noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing | Synonyms: immobilisation |
| immobilizing | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilisation, immobilization |
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| immunization | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunisation |
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| incognizance | (noun) a lack of knowledge or recognition | - |
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| individualization | (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualisation, individuation |
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| industrialization | (noun) the development of industry on an extensive scale | Synonyms: industrial enterprise, industrialisation |
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| influenza | (noun) an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease | Synonyms: flu, grippe |
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| initialization | (noun) (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position | Synonyms: initialisation, low-level formatting |
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| intellectualization | (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict | Synonyms: intellectualisation |
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| intermezzo | (noun) a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance | Synonyms: entr'acte, interlude |
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| (noun) a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera | - |
| (noun) a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony | - |
| internalization | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalisation |
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| internationalization | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalisation |
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| ionization | (noun) the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas | Synonyms: ionisation |
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| (noun) the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge) | Synonyms: ionisation |
| iproclozide | (noun) an antidepressant drug that acts as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor | - |
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| isocarboxazid | (noun) a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Marplan) that is used to treat clinical depression | Synonyms: Marplan |
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| isochalaz | (noun) a line indicating a constant frequency of hail storms. | - |
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| isomerization | (noun) the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself | Synonyms: isomerisation |
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| isoniazid | (noun) antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis | Synonyms: INH, Nydrazid |
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| isopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting places with equal ground water pressure. | Synonyms: isopiestic line |
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| itemization | (noun) the act of making a list of items | Synonyms: itemisation, listing |
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| itraconazole | (noun) an oral antifungal drug (trade name Sporanox) taken for cases of fungal nail disease | Synonyms: Sporanox |
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| izar | (noun) a voluminous cotton outer garment (usually white) traditionally worn by Muslim women of northern Africa and the Middle East; covers the entire body | - |
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| izzard | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: ezed, Z, z, zed, zee |
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| jazz | (noun) a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles | - |
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| (noun) a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands | - |
| (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, malarkey, malarky, nothingness, wind |
| jazzman | (noun) a musician who plays or composes jazz music | Synonyms: jazz musician |
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| jezebel | (noun) a shameless impudent scheming woman | - |
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| kameez | (noun) a long tunic worn by many people from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars) | - |
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| kamikaze | (noun) a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II | - |
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| (noun) a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash | - |
| kanzu | (noun) (Swahili) a long garment (usually white) with long sleeves; worn by men in East Africa | - |
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| katzenjammer | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, hubbub, uproar |
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| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: hangover |
| kazoo | (noun) a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece | - |
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| keratinization | (noun) organic process by which keratin is deposited in cells and the cells become horny (as in nails and hair) | Synonyms: keratinisation |
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| kibbutz | (noun) a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively | - |
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| kibbutznik | (noun) a member of a kibbutz | - |
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| kibitzer | (noun) (Yiddish) a meddler who offers unwanted advice to others | - |
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| kilohertz | (noun) one thousand periods per second | Synonyms: kc, kHz, kilocycle, kilocycle per second |
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| klutz | (noun) (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt | - |
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| kolkhoz | (noun) a collective farm owned by the communist state | - |
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| kolkhoznik | (noun) a member of a kolkhoz | - |
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| kudzu | (noun) fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States | Synonyms: kudzu vine, Pueraria lobata |
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| kunzite | (noun) a pinkish lilac crystal form of the mineral spodumene that is used as a gemstone | - |
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| kuvasz | (noun) long-established Hungarian breed of tall light-footed but sturdy white dog; used also as a hunting dog | - |
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| kwanza | (noun) the basic unit of money in Angola | - |
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| lansoprazole | (noun) antacid (trade name Prevacid) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach | Synonyms: Prevacid |
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| lateralization | (noun) localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain | Synonyms: lateralisation, laterality |
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| lazar | (noun) a person afflicted with leprosy | Synonyms: leper |
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| lazaret | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazarette, lazaretto, pesthouse |
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| lazarette | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazaretto, pesthouse |
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| lazaretto | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, pesthouse |
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| (noun) a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship | Synonyms: glory hole |
| laziness | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: acedia, sloth |
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| (noun) relaxed and easy activity | - |
| (noun) inactivity resulting from a dislike of work | Synonyms: indolence |
| lazuli | (noun) an azure blue semiprecious stone | Synonyms: lapis lazuli |
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| lazuline | (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, cerulean, sapphire, sky-blue |
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| lazybones | (noun) a lazy person | - |
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| legalization | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legitimation |
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| lespedeza | (noun) shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States | Synonyms: bush clover |
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| leucocytozoan | (noun) parasitic in birds | Synonyms: leucocytozoon |
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| leucocytozoon | (noun) parasitic in birds | Synonyms: leucocytozoan |
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| lexicalization | (noun) the process of making a word to express a concept | Synonyms: lexicalisation |
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| liberalization | (noun) the act of making less strict | Synonyms: liberalisation, relaxation |
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| liquidizer | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: blender, liquidiser |
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| liza | (noun) similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region | Synonyms: Mugil liza |
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| lizard | (noun) relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail | - |
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| (noun) a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him | Synonyms: lounge lizard |
| lizardfish | (noun) tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | Synonyms: snake-fish, snakefish |
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| localization | (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localisation, locating, location |
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| (noun) (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body | Synonyms: localisation, localisation of function, localisation principle, localization of function, localization principle |
| lorazepam | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia | Synonyms: Ativan |
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| lozenge | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: pill, tab, tablet |
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| (noun) a small aromatic or medicated candy | - |
| lulz | (noun) An objective that is worth achieving only for its own enjoyment | - |
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| lyophilization | (noun) a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes | Synonyms: freeze-drying, lyophilisation |
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| lysogenization | (noun) the process by which a bacterium acquires a phage that becomes integrated into its genome | Synonyms: lysogenisation |
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| lysozyme | (noun) an enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria | Synonyms: muramidase |
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| macrozamia | (noun) any treelike cycad of the genus Macrozamia having erect trunks and pinnate leaves and large cones with sometimes edible nuts; Australia | - |
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| magazine | (noun) a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored | Synonyms: powder magazine, powder store |
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| (noun) product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object | - |
| (noun) a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun | Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, clip |
| (noun) a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required | Synonyms: cartridge |
| (noun) a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it | Synonyms: mag |
| (noun) a business firm that publishes magazines | Synonyms: magazine publisher |
| magnetization | (noun) the physical property of being magnetic | Synonyms: magnetisation |
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| (noun) the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) | Synonyms: magnetic induction, magnetisation |
| (noun) the extent or degree to which something is magnetized | Synonyms: magnetisation |
| maize | (noun) a strong yellow color | Synonyms: gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow |
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| (noun) tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times | Synonyms: corn, Indian corn, Zea mays |
| manzanita | (noun) chiefly evergreen shrubs of warm dry areas of western North America | - |
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| (noun) evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning | Synonyms: Arbutus menziesii, madrona, madrono |