| heathenism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: pagan religion, paganism |
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| heather | (noun) interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color | Synonyms: heather mixture |
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| (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather |
| heathfowl | (noun) large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail | Synonyms: European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix |
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| heathland | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heath |
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| heathlike | (adjective) resembling heath | - |
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| hemoglobinopathy | (noun) a blood disease characterized by the presence of abnormal hemoglobins in the blood | Synonyms: haemoglobinopathy |
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| homeopath | (noun) a practitioner of homeopathy | Synonyms: homoeopath |
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| homeopathic | (adjective) of or relating to the practice of homeopathy | Synonyms: homoeopathic |
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| homeopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated | Synonyms: homoeopathy |
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| homoeopath | (noun) a practitioner of homeopathy | Synonyms: homeopath |
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| homoeopathic | (adjective) of or relating to the practice of homeopathy | Synonyms: homeopathic |
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| homoeopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated | Synonyms: homeopathy |
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| housefather | (noun) a man in charge of children in an institution | - |
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| hydathode | (noun) a pore that exudes water on the surface or margin of a leaf of higher plants | Synonyms: water pore, water stoma |
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| hydropathic | (adjective) of or relating to hydropathy or its administration | - |
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| hydropathy | (noun) the internal and external use of water in the treatment of disease | Synonyms: hydrotherapy |
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| hyperparathyroidism | (noun) excessive secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; can affect many systems of the body (especially causing bone resorption and osteoporosis) | - |
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| hypognathous | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: prognathic, prognathous |
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| hypoparathyroidism | (noun) inadequate secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally low levels of calcium in the blood | - |
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| idiopathic | (adjective) (of diseases) arising from an unknown cause | - |
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| idiopathy | (noun) any disease arising from internal dysfunctions of unknown cause | Synonyms: idiopathic disease, idiopathic disorder |
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| immunopathology | (noun) the branch of immunology that deals with pathologies of the immune system | - |
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| ingathering | (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, solicitation |
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| katharobe | (noun) an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic matter | - |
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| katharobic | (adjective) of living being in an oxygenated environment lacking organic matter | - |
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| katharometer | (noun) measures thermal conductivity | - |
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| katharsis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: abreaction, catharsis |
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| (noun) purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: catharsis, purgation |
| lath | (noun) a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework | - |
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| lathe | (noun) machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool | - |
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| lathee | (noun) club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India | Synonyms: lathi |
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| lather | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: soapsuds, suds |
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| (noun) the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse) | - |
| (noun) a workman who puts up laths | - |
| (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, stew, sweat, swither |
| (verb) rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning | Synonyms: soap |
| (verb) exude sweat or lather | - |
| (verb) form a lather | - |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| lathery | (adjective) resembling lather or covered with lather | Synonyms: sudsy |
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| lathi | (noun) club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India | Synonyms: lathee |
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| leather | (noun) an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning | - |
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| (verb) whip with a leather strap | - |
| leatherback | (noun) wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle | Synonyms: Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle |
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| leathered | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leatherlike, leathery |
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| leatherette | (noun) fabric made to look like leather | Synonyms: imitation leather |
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| leatherfish | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjack | (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjacket | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherfish |
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| (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjack |
| (noun) tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies | - |
| leatherleaf | (noun) north temperate bog shrub with evergreen leathery leaves and small white cylindrical flowers | Synonyms: Chamaedaphne calyculata |
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| (noun) stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib | Synonyms: coast polypody, leathery polypody, Polypodium scouleri |
| leatherlike | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leathery |
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| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| leatherwood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, moose-wood, moosewood, ropebark, wicopy |
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| (noun) shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage | Synonyms: cyrilla, Cyrilla racemiflora, white titi |
| leatherwork | (noun) work made of leather | - |
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| leathery | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike |
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| leviathan | (noun) the largest or most massive thing of its kind | - |
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| (noun) monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament | - |
| loath | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, averse, indisposed, loth |
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| (adjective) unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom | Synonyms: loth, reluctant |
| loathe | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, abominate, execrate |
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| loather | (noun) one who hates or loathes | Synonyms: abominator |
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| loathing | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, odium |
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| loathly | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| loathsome | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
| loathsomeness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: lousiness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, wickedness |
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| lymphadenopathy | (noun) chronic abnormal enlargement of the lymph nodes (usually associated with disease) | - |
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| malathion | (noun) a yellow insecticide used as a dust or spray to control garden pests and house flies and mites | - |
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| marathon | (noun) any long and arduous undertaking | Synonyms: endurance contest |
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| (noun) a footrace of 26 miles 385 yards | - |
| marathoner | (noun) someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) | Synonyms: long-distance runner, marathon runner, road runner |
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| mastopathy | (noun) any pathology of the breast | Synonyms: mazopathy |
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| math | (noun) a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement | Synonyms: mathematics, maths |
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| mathematical | (adjective) relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers | Synonyms: numerical |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or of the nature of mathematics | - |
| (adjective) characterized by the exactness or precision of mathematics | - |
| (adjective) statistically possible though highly improbable | - |
| (adjective) beyond question | - |
| mathematically | (adverb) with respect to mathematics | - |
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| mathematician | (noun) a person skilled in mathematics | - |
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| mathematics | (noun) a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement | Synonyms: math, maths |
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| maths | (noun) a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement | Synonyms: math, mathematics |
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| mazopathy | (noun) any pathology of the breast | Synonyms: mastopathy |
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| megadeath | (noun) the death of a million people | - |
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| megathere | (noun) gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America | Synonyms: ground sloth |
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| megatherian | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian mammal, megatheriid |
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| megatheriid | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian, megatherian mammal |
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| metamathematics | (noun) the logical analysis of mathematical reasoning | - |
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| metatherian | (noun) primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas | - |
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| metathesis | (noun) a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB) | Synonyms: double decomposition, double decomposition reaction |
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| (noun) a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence | - |
| mononeuropathy | (noun) any neuropathy of a single nerve trunk | - |
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| myocardiopathy | (noun) a disorder (usually of unknown origin) of the heart muscle (myocardium) | Synonyms: cardiomyopathy |
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| myopathic | (adjective) of or relating to any disease of the muscles that is not caused by nerve dysfunction | - |
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| myopathy | (noun) any pathology of the muscles that is not attributable to nerve dysfunction | - |
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| naprapath | (noun) a therapist who practices naprapathy | - |
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| naprapathy | (noun) a drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues | - |
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| naturopath | (noun) a therapist who practices naturopathy | - |
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| naturopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease using food and exercise and heat to assist the natural healing process | - |
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| naupathia | (noun) motion sickness experienced while traveling on water | Synonyms: mal de mer, seasickness |
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| nephropathy | (noun) a disease affecting the kidneys | Synonyms: kidney disease, nephrosis, renal disorder |
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| neuropathy | (noun) any pathology of the peripheral nerves | - |
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| oath | (noun) a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury | Synonyms: swearing |
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| (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, swearing, swearword |
| (noun) a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior | - |
| opisthognathous | (adjective) having receding jaws | - |
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| osteopath | (noun) a therapist who manipulates the skeleton and muscles | Synonyms: osteopathist |
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| osteopathist | (noun) a therapist who manipulates the skeleton and muscles | Synonyms: osteopath |
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| osteopathy | (noun) therapy based on the assumption that restoring health is best accomplished by manipulating the skeleton and muscles | - |
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| palaeopathology | (noun) the study of disease of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence) | Synonyms: paleopathology |
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| paleopathology | (noun) the study of disease of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence) | Synonyms: palaeopathology |
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| parasympathetic | (adjective) of or relating to the parasympathetic nervous system | - |
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| (noun) originates in the brain stem and lower part of the spinal cord; opposes physiological effects of the sympathetic nervous system: stimulates digestive secretions; slows the heart; constricts the pupils; dilates blood vessels | Synonyms: parasympathetic nervous system |
| parasympathomimetic | (adjective) having an effect similar to that resulting from stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system | - |
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| parathion | (noun) a colorless and odorless toxic oil used as an insecticide | - |
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| parathormone | (noun) hormone synthesized and released into the blood stream by the parathyroid glands; regulates phosphorus and calcium in the body and functions in neuromuscular excitation and blood clotting | Synonyms: parathyroid hormone |
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| parathyroid | (noun) any one of four endocrine glands situated above or within the thyroid gland | Synonyms: parathyroid gland |
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| path | (noun) a course of conduct | Synonyms: way, way of life |
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| (noun) a way especially designed for a particular use | - |
| (noun) an established line of travel or access | Synonyms: itinerary, route |
| (noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves | Synonyms: course, track |
| pathetic | (adjective) inspiring mixed contempt and pity | Synonyms: pitiable, pitiful |
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| (adjective) inspiring scornful pity | Synonyms: ridiculous, silly |
| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
| pathetically | (adverb) arousing scornful pity | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner arousing sympathy and compassion | Synonyms: pitiably |
| pathfinder | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, scout |
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