| dopamine | (noun) a monoamine neurotransmitter found in the brain and essential for the normal functioning of the central nervous system; as a drug (trade names Dopastat and Intropin) it is used to treat shock and hypotension | Synonyms: Dopastat, Intropin |
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| dreamily | (adverb) in a dreamy manner | Synonyms: dreamfully, moonily |
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| dreaminess | (noun) a relaxed comfortable feeling | Synonyms: languor |
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| dreaming | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dream |
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| (noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dream |
| dynamic | (adjective) characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality | Synonyms: dynamical |
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| (adjective) (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being | Synonyms: active |
| (adjective) of or relating to dynamics | - |
| (noun) an efficient incentive | Synonyms: moral force |
| dynamical | (adjective) characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality | Synonyms: dynamic |
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| dynamically | (adverb) in a forceful dynamic manner | - |
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| dynamics | (noun) the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies | Synonyms: kinetics |
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| dynamise | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamize |
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| (verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamize |
| dynamism | (noun) the activeness of an energetic personality | Synonyms: oomph, pizzaz, pizzazz, zing |
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| (noun) active strength of body or mind | Synonyms: heartiness, vigor, vigour |
| (noun) any of the various theories or doctrines or philosophical systems that attempt to explain the phenomena of the universe in terms of some immanent force or energy | - |
| dynamite | (noun) an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp | - |
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| (verb) blow up with dynamite | - |
| dynamiter | (noun) a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause | Synonyms: dynamitist |
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| dynamitist | (noun) a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause | Synonyms: dynamiter |
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| dynamize | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamise |
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| (verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamise |
| enamine | (noun) an amine containing the double bond linkage -C=C-N- | - |
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| endogamic | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: endogamous |
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| (adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by pollen from another flower of the same kind | Synonyms: endogamous |
| epithalamium | (noun) an ode honoring a bride and bridegroom | - |
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| ergotamine | (noun) an alkaloid derived from ergot that is less toxic than ergot; causes constriction of blood vessels and is used to treat migraine | - |
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| estaminet | (noun) a small (and usually shabby) cafe selling wine and beer and coffee | - |
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| etamin | (noun) a soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh; used for curtains or clothing etc. | Synonyms: etamine |
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| etamine | (noun) a soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh; used for curtains or clothing etc. | Synonyms: etamin |
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| ethanamide | (noun) a colorless solid amide of acetic acid used as a solvent and in the synthesis of organic compounds | Synonyms: acetamide |
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| examination | (noun) the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) | Synonyms: scrutiny |
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| (noun) the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned | Synonyms: testing |
| (noun) a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits) | Synonyms: examen |
| (noun) a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge | Synonyms: exam, test |
| (noun) formal systematic questioning | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogatory |
| examine | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, canvass, study |
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| (verb) question closely | - |
| (verb) question or examine thoroughly and closely | Synonyms: probe |
| (verb) observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect | Synonyms: see |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, prove, test, try, try out |
| examinee | (noun) someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination) | Synonyms: testee |
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| examiner | (noun) an investigator who observes carefully | Synonyms: inspector |
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| (noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: quizzer, tester |
| exogamic | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only outside the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: exogamous |
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| (adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by a flower that is not closely related | Synonyms: exogamous |
| familial | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of a family | - |
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| (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
| familiar | (adjective) well known or easily recognized | - |
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| (adjective) within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange | - |
| (adjective) having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship | Synonyms: intimate |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: conversant |
| (noun) a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard | Synonyms: familiar spirit |
| (noun) a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support | - |
| (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, companion, comrade, fellow |
| familiarisation | (noun) the experience of becoming familiar with something | Synonyms: familiarization |
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| familiarise | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarize |
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| familiarised | (adjective) having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment | Synonyms: adjusted, familiarized |
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| familiarising | (adjective) serving to make familiar | Synonyms: familiarizing |
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| familiarity | (noun) an act of undue intimacy | Synonyms: impropriety, indecorum, liberty |
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| (noun) usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known | - |
| (noun) close or warm friendship | Synonyms: closeness, intimacy |
| (noun) a casual manner | Synonyms: casualness |
| (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, conversancy |
| familiarization | (noun) the experience of becoming familiar with something | Synonyms: familiarisation |
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| familiarize | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarise |
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| familiarized | (adjective) having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment | Synonyms: adjusted, familiarised |
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| familiarizing | (adjective) serving to make familiar | Synonyms: familiarising |
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| familiarly | (adverb) in an intimately familiar manner | - |
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| family | (noun) primary social group; parents and children | Synonyms: family unit |
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| (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
| (noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: home, house, household, menage |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera | - |
| (noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: category, class |
| (noun) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities | Synonyms: fellowship |
| (noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, mob, syndicate |
| (noun) a person having kinship with another or others | Synonyms: kin, kinsperson |
| famine | (noun) a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death | - |
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| (noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: dearth, shortage |
| famish | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: hunger, starve |
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| (verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: starve |
| (verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: starve |
| famished | (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: esurient, ravenous, sharp-set, starved |
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| famishment | (noun) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period | Synonyms: starvation |
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| flaming | (adjective) passionate or quick-tempered | Synonyms: fiery |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, fucking |
| (noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | Synonyms: fire, flame |
| flamingo | (noun) large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes | - |
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| foaminess | (noun) the property of being foamy | - |
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| foaming | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease | Synonyms: foamy, frothing |
| foraminifer | (noun) marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude | Synonyms: foram |
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| framing | (noun) formulation of the plans and important details | - |
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| (noun) a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror | Synonyms: frame |
| gallamine | (noun) neuromuscular blocking agent (trade name Flaxedil) used as a muscle relaxant in the administration of anesthesia | Synonyms: Flaxedil |
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| gamification | (noun) Making something more engaging by incorporating ideas and mechanics from games | - |
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| gamin | (noun) (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets | Synonyms: street arab, throwaway |
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| gamine | (noun) a girl of impish appeal | - |
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| (noun) a homeless girl who roams the streets | - |
| gaminess | (noun) behavior or language bordering on indelicacy | Synonyms: raciness, ribaldry, spiciness |
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| gaming | (noun) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize) | Synonyms: gambling, play |
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| gentamicin | (noun) an antibiotic (trade name Garamycin) that is derived from an actinomycete; used in treating infections of the urinary tract | Synonyms: Garamycin |
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| gleaming | (adjective) bright with a steady but subdued shining | Synonyms: agleam, nitid |
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| (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, glow, lambency |
| (noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleam, glimmer |
| gloaming | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, nightfall, twilight |
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| glucosamine | (noun) an amino derivative of glucose that is a component of many polysaccharides | - |
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| glutamine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins; important in protein metabolism | - |
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| gramicidin | (noun) an antibiotic produced by a soil bacterium; used chiefly as an antiseptic in treating local infections produced by Gram-positive bacteria | - |
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| hemodynamic | (adjective) or of relating to or involved in hemodynamics | - |
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| hemodynamics | (noun) the branch of physiology that studies the circulation of the blood and the forces involved | - |
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| histaminase | (noun) enzyme that acts as a catalyst in converting histidine to histamine | - |
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| histamine | (noun) amine formed from histidine that stimulates gastric secretions and dilates blood vessels; released by the human immune system during allergic reactions | - |
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| hydrodynamic | (adjective) of or relating to hydrodynamics | - |
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| hydrodynamics | (noun) study of fluids in motion | Synonyms: hydrokinetics |
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| hyoscyamine | (noun) a poisonous crystalline alkaloid (isometric with atropine but more potent); used to treat excess motility of the gastrointestinal tract | - |
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| hypervitaminosis | (noun) an abnormal condition resulting from taking vitamins excessively; can be serious for vitamins A or D or K | - |
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| hypothalamic | (adjective) of or relating to the hypothalamus | - |
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| hypothalamically | (adverb) with respect to the hypothalamus | - |
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| hypovitaminosis | (noun) any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins | Synonyms: avitaminosis |
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| imipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression | Synonyms: Imavate, impramine hydrochloride, Tofranil |
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| indapamide | (noun) diuretic (trade name Lozal) used in the treatment of hypertension | Synonyms: Lozal |
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| inflaming | (noun) arousal to violent emotion | Synonyms: inflammation |
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| jessamine | (noun) a climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea | Synonyms: common jasmine, Jasminum officinale, true jasmine |
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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 | - |
| kamilavka | (noun) A headdress worn among Orthodox Christian monastics and clergy. | - |
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| ketamine | (noun) a general anesthetic and tranquilizer (not a barbiturate) that is administered intravenously or intramuscularly; used mainly by veterinarians or for minor surgery with geriatric or pediatric patients; taken in large doses it causes hallucinations similar to those associated with the use of PCP | Synonyms: Ketalar, ketamine hydrochloride |
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| lamia | (noun) (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living | Synonyms: vampire |
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| lamina | (noun) a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral) | - |
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| laminal | (adjective) arranged in or consisting of laminae | Synonyms: laminar |
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| laminar | (adjective) arranged in or consisting of laminae | Synonyms: laminal |
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| laminate | (noun) a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers | - |
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| (verb) cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material | - |
| (verb) press or beat (metals) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) split (wood) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material | - |
| lamination | (noun) bonding thin sheets together | - |
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| (noun) a layered structure | - |
| laminator | (noun) Any of a range of machines used for lamination. | Synonyms: laminating machine |
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| (noun) a person who makes laminates (especially plastic laminates) | - |
| laminectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the bony arches on one or more vertebrae | - |
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| laminitis | (noun) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse | Synonyms: founder |
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| lamivudine | (noun) a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor that is very effective in combination with zidovudine in treating AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: 3TC |
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| macadamia | (noun) any tree of the genus Macadamia | Synonyms: macadamia tree |
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| macadamise | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamize, tarmac |
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| macadamize | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamise, tarmac |
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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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| magnetohydrodynamics | (noun) the study of the interaction of magnetic fields and electrically conducting fluids (as plasma or molten metal) | - |
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| mamilla | (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mammilla, nipple, pap, teat, tit |
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| materfamilias | (noun) a female head of a family or tribe | Synonyms: matriarch |
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| melamine | (noun) a white crystalline organic base; used mainly in making melamine resins | Synonyms: cyanuramide |
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| methamphetamine | (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
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| methenamine | (noun) antibacterial agent (trade names Mandelamine and Urex) that is contained in many products that are used to treat urinary infections | Synonyms: Mandelamine, Urex |
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