| female | (adjective) being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop | - |
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| (adjective) for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman | Synonyms: distaff |
| (noun) an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) | - |
| (noun) a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies | Synonyms: female person |
| femaleness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the female sex | Synonyms: feminineness |
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| finale | (noun) the concluding part of any performance | Synonyms: close, closing curtain, finis |
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| (noun) the closing section of a musical composition | Synonyms: coda |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finis, finish, last, stopping point |
| folktale | (noun) a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk | Synonyms: folk tale |
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| gale | (noun) a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale | - |
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| galea | (noun) an organ shaped like a helmet; usually a vaulted and enlarged petal as in Aconitum | - |
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| galena | (noun) soft blue-grey mineral; lead sulfide; a major source of lead | - |
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| galere | (noun) a coterie of undesirable people | Synonyms: rogue's gallery |
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| galingale | (noun) European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Cyperus longus, galangal |
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| gimbaled | (adjective) supported on gimbals and remaining steady or level when the base tips | - |
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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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| hale | (adjective) exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health | Synonyms: whole |
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| (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: cart, drag, haul |
| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, pressure, squeeze |
| haleness | (noun) a state of robust good health | Synonyms: wholeness |
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| haler | (noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna in Czech Republic | Synonyms: heller |
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| (noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna Slovakia | Synonyms: heller |
| healed | (adjective) freed from illness or injury | Synonyms: cured, recovered |
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| healer | (noun) a person skilled in a particular type of therapy | Synonyms: therapist |
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| hypercatalectic | (adjective) (verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot | - |
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| (noun) (prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot | - |
| hyperkalemia | (noun) higher than normal levels of potassium in the circulating blood; associated with kidney failure or sometimes with the use of diuretic drugs | - |
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| hypokalemia | (noun) abnormally low level of potassium in the circulating blood leading to weakness and heart abnormalities; associated with adrenal tumors or starvation or taking diuretics | - |
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| hysterocatalepsy | (noun) hysteria with cataleptic symptoms | - |
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| impale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: empale, spike, transfix |
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| (verb) kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole | Synonyms: stake |
| impalement | (noun) the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture | - |
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| incalescence | (noun) the property of being warming | Synonyms: calefaction |
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| inhale | (verb) draw in (air) | Synonyms: breathe in, inspire |
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| (verb) draw deep into the lungs in by breathing | - |
| inhaler | (noun) a dispenser that produces a chemical vapor to be inhaled in order to relieve nasal congestion | Synonyms: inhalator |
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| journalese | (noun) the style in which newspapers are written | - |
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| jugale | (noun) the craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone | Synonyms: jugal point |
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| kale | (noun) coarse curly-leafed cabbage | Synonyms: cole, kail |
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| (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kail |
| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| kaleidoscope | (noun) an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors | - |
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| (noun) a complex pattern of constantly changing colors and shapes | - |
| kaleidoscopic | (adjective) continually shifting or rapidly changing | Synonyms: kaleidoscopical |
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| kaleidoscopical | (adjective) continually shifting or rapidly changing | Synonyms: kaleidoscopic |
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| kalemia | (noun) the presence of excess potassium in the circulating blood | - |
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| legalese | (noun) a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law | - |
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| locale | (noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) | Synonyms: locus, venue |
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| magdalen | (noun) a reformed prostitute | - |
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| male | (adjective) being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation | - |
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| (adjective) for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of a man | Synonyms: manful, manlike, manly, virile |
| (noun) an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova) | - |
| (noun) a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies | Synonyms: male person |
| maleate | (noun) a salt or ester of maleic acid; used as a nontricyclic antidepressant drug for psychomotor activation | - |
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| maleberry | (noun) deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers | Synonyms: he-huckleberry, Lyonia ligustrina, male berry, privet andromeda |
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| maledict | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accursed, accurst |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate |
| malediction | (noun) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) | Synonyms: imprecation |
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| malefactor | (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, crook, felon, outlaw |
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| malefic | (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malevolent, malign |
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| maleficence | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, mischief |
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| (noun) doing or causing evil | - |
| maleficent | (adjective) harmful or evil in intent or effect | - |
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| malemute | (noun) breed of sled dog developed in Alaska | Synonyms: Alaskan malamute, malamute |
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| maleness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the male sex | Synonyms: masculinity |
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| maleo | (noun) Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches | Synonyms: Macrocephalon maleo |
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| malevolence | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolency, malice |
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| (noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malignity |
| malevolency | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolence, malice |
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| malevolent | (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malefic, malign |
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| (adjective) wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred | - |
| malevolently | (adverb) in a malevolent manner | - |
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| martingale | (noun) a harness strap that connects the nose piece to the girth; prevents the horse from throwing back its head | - |
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| (noun) spar under the bowsprit of a sailboat | Synonyms: dolphin striker |
| mastoidale | (noun) the craniometric point at the lowest point of the mastoid process | - |
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| metalepsis | (noun) substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another | - |
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| micropaleontology | (noun) the paleontology of microfossils | - |
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| milliequivalent | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: meq |
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| monovalent | (adjective) having a valence of 1 | Synonyms: univalent |
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| (adjective) containing only one kind of antibody | - |
| morale | (noun) the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed | Synonyms: esprit de corps, team spirit |
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| (noun) a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose | - |
| multivalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalency, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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| multivalency | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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| multivalent | (adjective) used of the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis | - |
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| (adjective) having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher | Synonyms: polyvalent |
| (adjective) having many values, meanings, or appeals | Synonyms: multi-valued |
| naphthalene | (noun) a white crystalline strong-smelling hydrocarbon made from coal tar or petroleum and used in organic synthesis and as a fumigant in mothballs | - |
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| narwhale | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhal |
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| nasale | (verb) speak in a nasal voice | - |
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| newsdealer | (noun) someone who sells newspapers | Synonyms: newsagent, newsstand operator, newsvendor |
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| nightingale | (noun) European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song | Synonyms: Luscinia megarhynchos |
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| nonequivalence | (noun) not interchangeable | - |
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| nonequivalent | (adjective) not equal or interchangeable in value, quantity, or significance | - |
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| officialese | (noun) the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure | - |
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| opalesce | (verb) exhibit a play of colors like that of an opal | - |
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| (verb) reflect light or colors like an opal | - |
| opalescence | (noun) the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface | Synonyms: iridescence |
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| opalescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opaline, pearlescent |
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| orbitale | (noun) the craniometric point at the lowest point on the lower edge of the orbit | Synonyms: orbital point |
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| pale | (adjective) abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress | Synonyms: pallid, wan |
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| (adjective) lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness | Synonyms: pallid |
| (adjective) very light colored; highly diluted with white | - |
| (adjective) not full or rich | - |
| (adjective) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble | Synonyms: pallid, sick, wan |
| (noun) a wooden strip forming part of a fence | Synonyms: picket |
| (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blanch, blench |
| paleencephalon | (noun) the more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically; most structures other than the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: palaeencephalon, paleoencephalon |
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| paleface | (noun) (slang) a derogatory term for a white person (supposedly used by North American Indians) | - |
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| palely | (adverb) in a pale manner; without physical or emotional color | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner lacking interest or vitality | Synonyms: dimly, pallidly |
| paleness | (noun) being deficient in color | Synonyms: pallidity |
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| (noun) the property of having a naturally light complexion | Synonyms: blondness, fairness |
| (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, pallidness, pallor, wanness |
| paleoanthropological | (adjective) of or concerned with the scientific study of human fossils | - |
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| paleoanthropology | (noun) the scientific study of human fossils | Synonyms: human palaeontology, human paleontology, palaeoanthropology |
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| paleobiology | (noun) a branch of paleontology that deals with the origin and growth and structure of fossil animals and plants as living organisms | Synonyms: palaeobiology |
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| paleobotany | (noun) the study of fossil plants | Synonyms: palaeobotany |
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| paleocerebellum | (noun) the anterior lobe of the cerebellum which was one of the earliest parts of the hindbrain to develop in mammals | - |
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| paleoclimatology | (noun) the study of the climate of past ages | Synonyms: palaeoclimatology |
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| paleocortex | (noun) the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum | Synonyms: archipallium |
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| paleocortical | (adjective) of or relating to the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum | - |
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| paleodendrology | (noun) the branch of paleobotany that studies fossil trees | Synonyms: palaeodendrology |
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| paleoecology | (noun) the branch of ecology that studies ancient ecology | Synonyms: palaeoecology |
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| paleoencephalon | (noun) the more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically; most structures other than the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: palaeencephalon, paleencephalon |
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| paleoethnography | (noun) the ethnography of paleolithic humans | Synonyms: palaeoethnography |
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| paleogeography | (noun) the study of the geography of ancient times or ancient epochs | Synonyms: palaeogeography |
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| paleogeology | (noun) the study of geologic features once at the surface of the earth but now buried beneath rocks | Synonyms: palaeogeology |
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| paleographer | (noun) an archeologist skilled in paleography | Synonyms: paleographist |
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| paleographist | (noun) an archeologist skilled in paleography | Synonyms: paleographer |
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| paleography | (noun) the study of ancient forms of writing (and the deciphering of them) | - |
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| paleolith | (noun) a stone tool from the Paleolithic age | - |
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| paleolithic | (adjective) of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic) | Synonyms: palaeolithic |
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| paleology | (noun) the study of (especially prehistoric) antiquities | Synonyms: palaeology |
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| paleomammalogy | (noun) the paleobiology of ancient mammals | - |
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| paleontological | (adjective) of or relating to paleontology | Synonyms: palaeontological |
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