| liberalise | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalize |
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| (verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalize |
| linearise | (verb) make linear or get into a linear form | Synonyms: linearize |
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| lionise | (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: celebrate, lionize |
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| liquidise | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidize, liquify |
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| literalise | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalize |
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| localise | (verb) locate | Synonyms: localize, place, set |
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| (verb) restrict something to a particular area | Synonyms: localize |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localize |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localize, place |
| lyophilise | (verb) to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: lyophilize |
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| macadamise | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamize, tarmac |
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| magnetise | (verb) make magnetic | Synonyms: magnetize |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
| marbleise | (verb) make something look like marble | Synonyms: marbleize |
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| marginalise | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalize |
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| martyrise | (verb) torture and torment like a martyr | Synonyms: martyr, martyrize |
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| masculinise | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinize, virilise, virilize |
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| materialise | (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: happen, materialize |
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| maximise | (verb) make as big or large as possible | Synonyms: maximize |
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| (verb) make the most of | Synonyms: maximize |
| mechanise | (verb) make mechanical | Synonyms: mechanize |
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| (verb) make monotonous; make automatic or routine | Synonyms: mechanize |
| (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanize, motorise, motorize |
| melanise | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, blacken, melanize |
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| (verb) convert into, or infiltrate with melanin | Synonyms: melanize |
| melodise | (verb) supply a melody for | Synonyms: melodize |
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| memorialise | (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialize |
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| (verb) address in a memorial | Synonyms: memorialize |
| memorise | (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, learn, memorize |
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| mercerise | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerize |
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| merchandise | (verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: trade |
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| mesmerise | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, hypnotize, mesmerize |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerize, spellbind |
| metabolise | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolize |
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| metastasise | (verb) spread throughout the body | Synonyms: metastasize |
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| metricise | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricize, metrify |
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| (verb) express in the metric system | Synonyms: metricize |
| militarise | (verb) adopt for military use | Synonyms: militarize |
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| (verb) lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force | Synonyms: militarize |
| miniaturise | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturize |
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| minimise | (verb) make small or insignificant | Synonyms: minimize |
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| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: downplay, minimize, understate |
| misadvise | (verb) give bad advice to | Synonyms: misguide |
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| misestimate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
| mobilise | (verb) cause to move around | Synonyms: mobilize |
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| (verb) make ready for action or use | Synonyms: marshal, mobilize, summon |
| (verb) get ready for war | Synonyms: mobilize |
| (verb) call to arms; of military personnel | Synonyms: call up, mobilize, rally |
| modernise | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernize, overhaul |
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| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: develop, modernize |
| moisturise | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturize |
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| monetise | (verb) give legal value to or establish as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetize |
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| mongrelise | (verb) cause to become a mongrel | Synonyms: mongrelize |
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| monologuise | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuize, soliloquise, soliloquize |
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| monopolise | (verb) have or exploit a monopoly of | Synonyms: monopolize |
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| (verb) have and control fully and exclusively | Synonyms: monopolize |
| monumentalise | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalize |
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| moralise | (verb) improve the morals of | Synonyms: moralize |
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| (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralize, preachify, sermonise, sermonize |
| (verb) interpret the moral meaning of | Synonyms: moralize |
| mortise | (verb) join by a tenon and mortise | Synonyms: mortice |
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| (verb) cut a hole for a tenon in | Synonyms: mortice |
| motorise | (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanise, mechanize, motorize |
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| mythicise | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicize, mythologise, mythologize |
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| (verb) interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology | Synonyms: mythicize |
| mythologise | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicise, mythicize, mythologize |
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| (verb) construct a myth | Synonyms: mythologize |
| narcotise | (verb) administer narcotics to | Synonyms: narcotize |
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| nasalise | (verb) pronounce with a lowered velum | Synonyms: nasalize |
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| (verb) speak nasally or through the nose | Synonyms: nasalize |
| nationalise | (verb) put under state control or ownership | Synonyms: nationalize |
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| (verb) make national in character or scope | Synonyms: nationalize |
| naturalise | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalize |
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| (verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalize |
| (verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalize |
| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalize, tame |
| neutralise | (verb) make chemically neutral | Synonyms: neutralize |
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| (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralize, nullify |
| (verb) make incapable of military action | Synonyms: neutralize |
| (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralize, waste |
| nitrogenise | (verb) treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound | Synonyms: nitrify, nitrogenize |
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| noise | (verb) emit a noise | Synonyms: make noise, resound |
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| normalise | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalize, renormalise, renormalize |
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| (verb) become normal or return to its normal state | Synonyms: normalize |
| notarise | (verb) authenticate as a notary | Synonyms: notarize |
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| novelise | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize, novelize |
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| occidentalise | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalize, westernise, westernize |
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| odourise | (verb) cause to smell or be smelly | Synonyms: odorize, scent |
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| officialise | (verb) make official | Synonyms: officialize |
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| opalise | (verb) replace or convert into opal | Synonyms: opalize |
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| (verb) make opalescent | Synonyms: opalize |
| optimise | (verb) act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world | Synonyms: optimize |
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| (verb) make optimal; get the most out of; use best | Synonyms: optimize |
| (verb) modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost | Synonyms: optimize |
| organise | (verb) bring order and organization to | Synonyms: coordinate, organize |
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| (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organize |
| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, machinate, organize, prepare |
| (verb) cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea | Synonyms: organize |
| (verb) create (as an entity) | Synonyms: form, organize |
| (verb) form or join a union | Synonyms: organize, unionise, unionize |
| orientalise | (verb) make oriental in character | Synonyms: orientalize |
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| ostracise | (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with | Synonyms: ostracize |
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| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracize, shun |
| overcapitalise | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| overdramatise | (verb) present in an overly dramatic manner | Synonyms: overdramatize |
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| overemphasise | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasize, overstress |
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| overgeneralise | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralize |
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| overpraise | (verb) praise excessively | - |
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| overspecialise | (verb) become overly specialized | Synonyms: overspecialize |
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| oxidise | (verb) add oxygen to or combine with oxygen | Synonyms: oxidate, oxidize |
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| (verb) enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide | Synonyms: oxidate, oxidize |
| oxygenise | (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: aerate, oxygenate, oxygenize |
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| (verb) dehydrogenate with oxygen | Synonyms: oxygenize |
| (verb) change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part; or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule) | Synonyms: oxygenize |
| ozonise | (verb) convert (oxygen) into ozone | Synonyms: ozonize |
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| paganise | (verb) make pagan in character | Synonyms: paganize |
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| palatalise | (verb) pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate | Synonyms: palatalize |
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| particularise | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularize, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| pasteurise | (verb) heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms | Synonyms: pasteurize |
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| patinise | (verb) coat with a patina | Synonyms: patinate, patinize |
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| patronise | (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronage, patronize, support |
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| (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: condescend, patronize |
| (verb) assume sponsorship of | Synonyms: patronize, sponsor |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronize, shop, shop at, sponsor |
| pauperise | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: beggar, pauperize |
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| penalise | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalize, punish |
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| peptise | (verb) disperse in a medium into a colloidal state | Synonyms: peptize |
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| personalise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalize |
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| philosophise | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophize |
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| phlebotomise | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomize |
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| photosensitise | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitize |
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| plagiarise | (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: lift, plagiarize |
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| plasticise | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticize |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticize |
| pluralise | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralize |
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| poetise | (verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetize, verse, versify |
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| poise | (verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: balance |
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| (verb) cause to be balanced or suspended | - |
| (verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: brace |
| (verb) be motionless, in suspension | - |
| polarise | (verb) become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | Synonyms: polarize |
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| (verb) cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions | Synonyms: polarize |
| (verb) cause to vibrate in a definite pattern | Synonyms: polarize |
| polemicise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicize, polemise, polemize |
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| polemise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemize |
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| politicise | (verb) give a political character to | Synonyms: politicize |
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| polychromise | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromize |
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| polymerise | (verb) undergo polymerization | Synonyms: polymerize |
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| (verb) cause (a compound) to polymerize | Synonyms: polymerize |
| popularise | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularize |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| powderise | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderize, pulverise, pulverize |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderize, pulverise, pulverize |
| practise | (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice |
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| (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practice, rehearse |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, exercise, practice |
| praise | (verb) express approval of | - |
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| premise | (verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premiss |
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| (verb) set forth beforehand, often as an explanation | - |
| (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, precede, preface |