| inculcate | (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: infuse, instill |
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| inculcation | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: ingraining, instilling |
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| indelicate | (adjective) lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct | Synonyms: indecorous |
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| (adjective) verging on the indecent | - |
| (adjective) in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent | Synonyms: off-color, off-colour |
| indemnification | (noun) an act of compensation for actual loss or damage or for trouble and annoyance | - |
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| (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnity, redress, restitution |
| indicate | (verb) to state or express briefly | - |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, point, signal |
| (verb) give evidence of | Synonyms: argue |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, point, show |
| (verb) suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine | - |
| indication | (noun) a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument | Synonyms: meter reading, reading |
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| (noun) something that serves to indicate or suggest | Synonyms: indicant |
| (noun) the act of indicating or pointing out by name | Synonyms: denotation |
| (noun) (medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure | - |
| (noun) something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary | - |
| indicative | (adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: declarative |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestive |
| (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative mood |
| indicator | (noun) a device for showing the operating condition of some system | - |
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| (noun) a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time | Synonyms: index, index number, indicant |
| (noun) a signal for attracting attention | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance that changes color to indicate the presence of some ion or substance; can be used to indicate the completion of a chemical reaction or (in medicine) to test for a particular reaction | - |
| indicatory | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, revelatory, significative, suggestive |
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| infuscate | (verb) darken with a brownish tinge, as of insect wings | - |
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| intensification | (noun) action that makes something stronger or more extreme | - |
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| (noun) the act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film) | - |
| intercommunicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: communicate |
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| (verb) be interconnected, afford passage | - |
| intercommunication | (noun) mutual communication; communication with each other | - |
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| intoxicate | (verb) have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug | - |
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| (verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: inebriate, soak |
| (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: elate, lift up, pick up, uplift |
| intoxicated | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: drunk, gone, inebriated, ripped |
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| (adjective) as if under the influence of alcohol | Synonyms: drunk |
| intoxicating | (adjective) causing intoxication | Synonyms: intoxicant |
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| (adjective) extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic | Synonyms: heady |
| intoxication | (noun) excitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety | - |
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| (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, tipsiness |
| (noun) the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance | Synonyms: poisoning, toxic condition |
| intricate | (adjective) having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate | - |
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| intricately | (adverb) with elaboration | Synonyms: elaborately, in an elaborate way |
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| invocation | (noun) the act of appealing for help | - |
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| (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring, conjury |
| (noun) a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service | Synonyms: supplication |
| (noun) an incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil | - |
| jollification | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, merrymaking |
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| judicatory | (noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicature, judicial system, judiciary |
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| judicature | (noun) the act of meting out justice according to the law | Synonyms: administration |
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| (noun) the position of judge | Synonyms: judgeship |
| (noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicatory, judicial system, judiciary |
| (noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: court, tribunal |
| justification | (noun) the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning | - |
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| (noun) something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary | - |
| (noun) a statement in explanation of some action or belief | - |
| justificative | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificatory |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificatory, vindicatory |
| justificatory | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificative |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, vindicatory |
| lemniscate | (noun) any of several plane algebraic curves in the shape of a figure eight | - |
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| locate | (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: settle |
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| (verb) discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining | Synonyms: turn up |
| (verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: place, site |
| (verb) determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey | Synonyms: situate |
| located | (adjective) situated in a particular spot or position | Synonyms: placed, set, situated |
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| locater | (noun) a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims | Synonyms: locator |
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| locating | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, location, placement, position, positioning |
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| (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localisation, localization, location |
| location | (noun) a point or extent in space; a point or extent in space | - |
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| (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localisation, localization, locating |
| (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, placement, position, positioning |
| (noun) a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made | - |
| locative | (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: locative role |
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| (noun) A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein. | Synonyms: locative case |
| locator | (noun) a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims | Synonyms: locater |
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| lubricate | (verb) make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant | - |
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| (verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lube |
| (verb) have lubricating properties | - |
| lubricated | (adjective) smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction | Synonyms: greased |
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| lubrication | (noun) an application of a lubricant to something | - |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made smooth or slippery by the application of a lubricant | - |
| lubricator | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricant, lubricating substance |
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| magnification | (noun) the act of expanding something in apparent size | - |
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| (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, enlargement |
| (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, overstatement |
| (noun) the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object | - |
| manducate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, masticate |
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| masticate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, manducate |
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| (verb) grind and knead | - |
| mastication | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, chewing, manduction |
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| medicate | (verb) treat medicinally, treat with medicine | Synonyms: medicine |
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| (verb) impregnate with a medicinal substance | - |
| medication | (noun) the act of treating with medicines or remedies | - |
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| (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medicament, medicinal drug, medicine |
| medicative | (adjective) having the properties of medicine | Synonyms: medicinal |
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| metricate | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricise, metricize, metrify |
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| metrication | (noun) the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds | Synonyms: metrification |
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| metrification | (noun) the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds | Synonyms: metrication |
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| (noun) writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition) | - |
| misapplication | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misappropriation, peculation |
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| (noun) wrong use or application | - |
| modification | (noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) | Synonyms: adjustment, alteration |
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| (noun) slightly modified copy; not an exact copy | - |
| (noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | Synonyms: alteration, change |
| (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: limiting, qualifying |
| mollification | (noun) the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined | Synonyms: pacification |
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| (noun) a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered | - |
| mortification | (noun) (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself) | - |
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| (noun) an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect | Synonyms: humiliation |
| (noun) strong feelings of embarrassment | Synonyms: chagrin, humiliation |
| (noun) the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) | Synonyms: gangrene, necrosis, sphacelus |
| mudcat | (noun) large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw | Synonyms: flathead catfish, goujon, Pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish |
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| (noun) flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed | Synonyms: catfish |
| multiplication | (noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed | Synonyms: times |
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| (noun) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production | Synonyms: generation, propagation |
| (noun) a multiplicative increase | - |
| multiplicative | (adjective) tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree | - |
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| multiplicatively | (adverb) in a multiplicative manner | - |
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| mummification | (noun) embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy | - |
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| (noun) a condition resembling that of a mummy | - |
| (noun) (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color | Synonyms: cold gangrene, dry gangrene, mumification necrosis |
| muscat | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat grape, muscatel |
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| (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscatel |
| (noun) any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes | Synonyms: muskat |
| muscatel | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat, muscat grape |
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| (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscat |
| mystification | (noun) the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered | Synonyms: obfuscation |
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| (noun) something designed to mystify or bewilder | - |
| (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement |
| nitrification | (noun) the oxidation of ammonium compounds in dead organic material into nitrates and nitrites by soil bacteria (making nitrogen available to plants) | - |
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| (noun) the chemical process in which a nitro group is added to an organic compound (or substituted for another group in an organic compound) | - |
| nonprognosticative | (adjective) not offering prognostications | - |
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| nonreciprocating | (adjective) not moving alternately forward and backward | - |
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| notification | (noun) an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative | Synonyms: presentment |
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| (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: apprisal, telling |
| (noun) a request for payment | Synonyms: notice |
| nullification | (noun) the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something | Synonyms: override |
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| (noun) the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress | - |
| obfuscate | (verb) make obscure or unclear | - |
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| obfuscation | (noun) the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered | Synonyms: mystification |
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| (noun) darkening or obscuring the sight of something | - |
| (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, puzzlement |
| objectification | (noun) the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing | - |
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| (noun) a concrete representation of an abstract idea or principle | - |
| opacification | (noun) the process of becoming cloudy or opaque | - |
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| organification | (noun) the process of organ formation | - |
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| ossification | (noun) hardened conventionality | Synonyms: conformity |
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| (noun) the developmental process of bone formation | - |
| (noun) the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior | - |
| (noun) the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material | - |
| overdelicate | (adjective) extremely delicate | - |
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| oversimplification | (noun) an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is | Synonyms: simplism |
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| (noun) an explanation that simplifies too far to the point of misrepresentation | Synonyms: simplism |
| oystercatcher | (noun) black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc. | Synonyms: oyster catcher |
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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 |
| personification | (noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | Synonyms: incarnation |
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| (noun) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | Synonyms: prosopopoeia |
| (noun) a person who represents an abstract quality | - |
| petrification | (noun) the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape | Synonyms: petrifaction |
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| phacoemulsification | (noun) extracapsular surgery for cataracts in which ultrasonic sound breaks the cortex and nucleus of the lens into small fragments that are then vacuumed away through a small tube | - |
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| photocathode | (noun) a cathode that emits electrons when illuminated | - |
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| piscatorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatory |
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| piscatory | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatorial |
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| pizzicato | (adjective) (of instruments in the violin family) to be plucked with the finger | - |
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| (noun) a note or passage that is played pizzicato | - |
| (adverb) with a light plucking staccato sound | - |
| placate | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify |
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| placating | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placative, placatory |
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| placatingly | (adverb) in a placating manner | - |
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| placation | (noun) the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | Synonyms: conciliation, propitiation |
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| placative | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placating, placatory |
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| placatory | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placating, placative |
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| plicate | (verb) fold into pleats | Synonyms: pleat |
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| plication | (noun) the act of folding in parallel folds | Synonyms: pleating |
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| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, crimp, flexure, fold |
| polecat | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: fitch, foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius |
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| (noun) American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae | Synonyms: skunk, wood pussy |
| pontificate | (noun) the government of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papacy |
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| (verb) talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner | - |
| (verb) administer a pontifical office | - |
| preachification | (noun) moralization delivered tediously in a preachy manner | - |
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| precative | (adjective) expressing entreaty or supplication | Synonyms: precatory |
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| precatory | (adjective) expressing entreaty or supplication | Synonyms: precative |
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| predicate | (noun) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements | Synonyms: verb phrase |
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| (noun) (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula | - |
| (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: proclaim |
| (verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | Synonyms: connote |
| (verb) make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition | - |
| predication | (noun) (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument | Synonyms: postulation |
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| predicative | (adjective) of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence | - |
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| predicatively | (adverb) occurring within the predicate phrase | - |
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| predicator | (noun) an expression that predicates | - |
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