| fugacity | (noun) the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts) | Synonyms: fugaciousness |
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| (noun) the tendency of a gas to expand or escape | - |
| glacial | (adjective) relating to or derived from a glacier | - |
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| (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, frigid, gelid, icy, polar |
| (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frigid, frosty, frozen, icy, wintry |
| glacially | (adverb) by a glacier | - |
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| glaciate | (verb) become frozen and covered with glaciers | - |
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| (verb) cover with ice or snow or a glacier | - |
| glaciated | (adjective) covered with ice (as by a glacier) or affected by glacial action | - |
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| glaciation | (noun) the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being covered with glaciers or masses of ice; the result of glacial action | - |
| glacier | (noun) a slowly moving mass of ice | - |
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| gracilariid | (noun) small dull or metallic-colored tineoid moths whose larvae mine in plant leaves | Synonyms: gracilariid moth |
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| gracile | (adjective) slender and graceful | Synonyms: willowy |
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| gracility | (noun) elegance and beauty of movement or expression | Synonyms: grace |
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| gracious | (adjective) characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: benignant |
| (adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: courteous, nice |
| (adjective) disposed to bestow favors | - |
| graciously | (adverb) in a gracious or graceful manner | Synonyms: gracefully |
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| graciousness | (noun) excellence of manners or social conduct | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignancy, benignity |
| hacienda | (noun) the main house on a ranch or large estate | - |
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| (noun) a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries | - |
| hyacinth | (noun) any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs | - |
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| (noun) a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone | Synonyms: jacinth |
| hyperacidity | (noun) excessive acidity | - |
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| incapacitate | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, disenable |
| incapacitated | (adjective) lacking in or deprived of strength or power | Synonyms: helpless |
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| incapacitating | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, disabling |
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| incapacity | (noun) lack of physical or natural qualifications | - |
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| (noun) lack of intellectual power | - |
| indomethacin | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Indocin) | Synonyms: Indocin |
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| inefficacious | (adjective) lacking the power to produce a desired effect | - |
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| inefficaciously | (adverb) in an ineffective manner | Synonyms: ineffectively |
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| inefficaciousness | (noun) a lack of efficacy | Synonyms: inefficacy |
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| interfacial | (adjective) relating to or situated at an interface | - |
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| interlacing | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlinking, interlocking, interwoven |
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| interracial | (adjective) involving or composed of different races | Synonyms: mixed |
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| (adjective) between races | - |
| interracially | (adverb) by race | - |
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| jacinth | (noun) a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone | Synonyms: hyacinth |
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| keratomalacia | (noun) softening and drying and ulceration of the cornea resulting from vitamin A deficiency; symptom of cystic fibrosis or sprue | - |
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| ketoacidosis | (noun) acidosis with an accumulation of ketone bodies; occurs primarily in diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: diabetic acidosis |
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| ketoaciduria | (noun) excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation | Synonyms: acetonuria, ketonuria |
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| lacing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment) | Synonyms: lace |
| (noun) a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage | - |
| laciniate | (adjective) having edges irregularly and finely slashed | Synonyms: fringed |
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| lactobacillus | (noun) a Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium that produces lactic acid (especially in milk) | - |
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| lambdacism | (noun) speech defect involving excessive use or unusual pronunciation of the phoneme `l' | - |
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| larvacide | (noun) an insecticide that kills the larvae of insects | - |
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| limacine | (adjective) of or resembling a slug | Synonyms: limacoid |
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| loquacious | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, garrulous, talkative, talky |
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| loquaciously | (adverb) in a chatty loquacious manner | Synonyms: garrulously, talkatively, talkily |
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| loquaciousness | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, garrulousness, loquacity, talkativeness |
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| loquacity | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, talkativeness |
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| macintosh | (noun) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric | Synonyms: mac, mack, mackintosh |
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| (noun) a lightweight waterproof (usually rubberized) fabric | Synonyms: mackintosh |
| malacia | (noun) a state of abnormal softening of tissue | - |
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| mandibulofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the lower jaw and face | - |
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| maxillofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw and face (particularly with reference to specialized surgery of the maxilla) | - |
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| menacing | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| menacingly | (adverb) in a menacing manner | Synonyms: threateningly |
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| mendacious | (adjective) intentionally untrue | - |
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| (adjective) given to lying | - |
| mendaciously | (adverb) in a mendacious and untruthful manner | Synonyms: untruthfully |
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| mendacity | (noun) the tendency to be untruthful | - |
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| minacious | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| mordacious | (adjective) biting or given to biting | - |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent |
| mordaciously | (adverb) in a mordacious manner | - |
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| mordacity | (noun) a disposition to biting | - |
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| multiracial | (adjective) made up of or involving or acting on behalf of various races | - |
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| mutafacient | (adjective) capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of intracellular agents) | - |
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| niacin | (noun) a B vitamin essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract | Synonyms: nicotinic acid |
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| nonracial | (adjective) not racial; having nothing to do with race or races | - |
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| nonracist | (adjective) unprejudiced about race | Synonyms: color-blind, colour-blind |
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| opacification | (noun) the process of becoming cloudy or opaque | - |
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| opacify | (verb) become opaque | - |
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| (verb) make opaque | - |
| opacity | (noun) the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light | Synonyms: opaqueness |
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| (noun) incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning | Synonyms: opaqueness |
| (noun) the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation | - |
| osteomalacia | (noun) abnormal softening of bones caused by deficiencies of phosphorus or calcium or vitamin D | - |
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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 |
| ostracism | (noun) the act of excluding someone from society by general consent | - |
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| (noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) | Synonyms: banishment, Coventry |
| ostracize | (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with | Synonyms: ostracise |
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| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, shun |
| oxacillin | (noun) a form of penicillin resistant to penicillinase and effective against penicillin-resistant staphylococci | - |
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| oxyacid | (noun) any acid that contains oxygen | Synonyms: oxygen acid |
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| pacific | (adjective) promoting peace | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature | Synonyms: peaceable |
| pacifically | (adverb) in a peaceable manner | Synonyms: peaceably |
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| pacification | (noun) the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined | Synonyms: mollification |
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| (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: counterinsurgency |
| (noun) a treaty to cease hostilities | Synonyms: peace, peace treaty |
| pacificism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacifism, passivism |
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| (noun) the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration | Synonyms: pacifism |
| pacificist | (noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: disarmer, pacifist |
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| pacifier | (noun) device used for an infant to suck or bite on | Synonyms: baby's dummy, comforter, teething ring |
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| (noun) anything that serves to pacify | - |
| (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, peacemaker, reconciler |
| pacifism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacificism, passivism |
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| (noun) the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration | Synonyms: pacificism |
| pacifist | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: dovish, pacifistic |
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| (noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: disarmer, pacificist |
| pacifistic | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: dovish, pacifist |
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| pacifistically | (adverb) in a pacifistic manner | - |
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| pacify | (verb) fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location) | - |
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| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, placate |
| pacing | (noun) walking with slow regular strides | - |
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| (noun) (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played | Synonyms: tempo |
| perspicacious | (adjective) mentally acute or penetratingly discerning | Synonyms: clear-eyed, clear-sighted |
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| (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: sagacious, sapient |
| perspicaciousness | (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicacity, shrewdness |
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| perspicacity | (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sound judgement, sound judgment |
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| (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicaciousness, shrewdness |
| pertinacious | (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding |
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| pertinaciously | (adverb) in a dogged and pertinacious manner | - |
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| pertinacity | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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| pharmacist | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: apothecary, chemist, druggist, pill pusher, pill roller |
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| piperacillin | (noun) a synthetic type of penicillin antibiotic (trade name Pipracil) used for moderate to severe infections | Synonyms: Pipracil |
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| placid | (adjective) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | Synonyms: quiet, smooth, still, tranquil, unruffled |
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| (adjective) not easily irritated | Synonyms: equable, even-tempered, good-tempered |
| placidity | (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: quiet, repose, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity |
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| (noun) a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling | Synonyms: placidness |
| placidly | (adverb) in a placid and good-natured manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a quiet and tranquil manner | - |
| placidness | (noun) a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling | Synonyms: placidity |
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| postglacial | (adjective) relating to or occurring during the time following a glacial period | - |
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| predacious | (adjective) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | Synonyms: predaceous, predatory |
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| (adjective) hunting and killing other animals for food | Synonyms: predaceous |
| predaciousness | (noun) (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey. | Synonyms: predaceousness, rapaciousness, rapacity |
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| propylthiouracil | (noun) a crystalline compound used as an antithyroid drug in the treatment of goiter | - |
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| pugnacious | (adjective) ready and able to resort to force or violence | Synonyms: rough |
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| (adjective) tough and callous by virtue of experience | Synonyms: hard-bitten, hard-boiled |
| pugnaciously | (adverb) in a pugnacious manner | - |
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| pugnacity | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, belligerence |
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