| felicitous | (adjective) exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style | - |
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| (adjective) marked by good fortune | Synonyms: happy |
| felicitously | (adverb) in a felicitous manner | - |
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| felicitousness | (noun) pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | Synonyms: felicity |
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| felicity | (noun) pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | Synonyms: felicitousness |
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| (noun) state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy | Synonyms: happiness |
| ferocity | (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness |
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| 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 | - |
| hydroelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by water power | - |
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| hydrophobicity | (noun) the property of being water-repellent; tending to repel and not absorb water | - |
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| hydrostaticity | (noun) The condition of relating to fluids, especially to the pressure that they exert or transmit. | - |
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| hypertonicity | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic | Synonyms: hypertonia, hypertonus |
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| (noun) (of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a higher osmotic pressure than some other | - |
| hypervelocity | (noun) excessive velocity | - |
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| hypotonicity | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic | Synonyms: hypotonia, hypotonus |
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| (noun) (of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a lower osmotic pressure than some other | - |
| illicit | (adjective) contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention | - |
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| (adjective) contrary to or forbidden by law | Synonyms: illegitimate, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful |
| illicitly | (adverb) in a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom | Synonyms: illegitimately |
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| (adverb) in an illegal manner | Synonyms: illegally, lawlessly |
| illicitness | (noun) the quality of not conforming strictly to law | - |
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| immunogenicity | (noun) the property of eliciting an immune response | - |
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| implicit | (adjective) implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something | Synonyms: inexplicit |
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| (adjective) being without doubt or reserve | Synonyms: unquestioning |
| implicitly | (adverb) without ever expressing so clearly | - |
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| (adverb) without doubting or questioning | - |
| implicitness | (noun) inexplicitness as a consequence of being implied or indirect | - |
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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 | - |
| incitation | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitement |
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| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitement, provocation |
| incite | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: instigate, set off, stir up |
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| (verb) urge on; cause to act | Synonyms: egg on, prod |
| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, motivate, move, prompt, propel |
| incitement | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitation |
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| (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: exhortation |
| (noun) needed encouragement | Synonyms: provocation |
| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitation, provocation |
| inciter | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, instigant, instigator, provoker |
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| incitive | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| inelasticity | (noun) the lack of elasticity | - |
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| inexplicit | (adjective) implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something | Synonyms: implicit |
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| inexplicitness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of not being explicit | - |
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| infelicitous | (adjective) not appropriate in application; defective | - |
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| (adjective) marked by or producing unhappiness | Synonyms: unhappy |
| infelicitously | (adverb) in an infelicitous manner | - |
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| infelicity | (noun) inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | - |
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| lecithin | (noun) a yellow phospholipid essential for the metabolism of fats; found in egg yolk and in many plant and animal cells; used commercially as an emulsifier | - |
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| leoncita | (noun) small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail | Synonyms: lion marmoset, lion monkey, tamarin |
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| lepidocrocite | (noun) a red to reddish brown mineral consisting of iron oxide hydroxide; often found in iron ores together with goethite | - |
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| licit | (adjective) sanctioned by custom or morality especially sexual morality | - |
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| (adjective) authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law | Synonyms: lawful, legitimate |
| licitly | (adverb) in a manner acceptable to common custom | Synonyms: lawfully, legitimately |
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| licitness | (noun) the quality of strictly conforming to law | - |
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| loquacity | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, talkativeness |
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| lubricity | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, prurience, pruriency |
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| lysogenicity | (noun) the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material | Synonyms: lysogeny |
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| mendacity | (noun) the tendency to be untruthful | - |
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| mendicity | (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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| metallicity | (noun) The state of possessing a similar aural resonance to metal. | - |
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| mordacity | (noun) a disposition to biting | - |
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| multiplicity | (noun) a large number | Synonyms: numerosity, numerousness |
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| (noun) the property of being multiple | - |
| nitrocalcite | (noun) the mineral form of calcium nitrate | - |
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| noncitizen | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, foreigner, outlander |
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| nontoxicity | (noun) The state or condition of not being toxic or poisonous. | - |
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| 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 | - |
| oscitance | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitancy, yawn, yawning |
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| (noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitancy |
| oscitancy | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, yawn, yawning |
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| (noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitance |
| oscitant | (adjective) showing lack of attention or boredom | Synonyms: drowsy, yawning |
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| overexcited | (adjective) unduly excited | - |
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| oversolicitous | (adjective) excessively solicitous | - |
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| paucity | (noun) an insufficient quantity or number | Synonyms: dearth |
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| periodicity | (noun) the quality of recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: cyclicity |
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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 |
| pertinacity | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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| photoelectricity | (noun) electricity generated by light or affected by light | - |
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| piezoelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt); alternatively, electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear dimensions of the crystal | Synonyms: piezo effect, piezoelectric effect |
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| plasticity | (noun) the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking | Synonyms: malleability |
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| plebiscite | (noun) a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance | - |
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| pollucite | (noun) a rare mineral that is an important source of cesium | - |
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| precocity | (noun) intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules | Synonyms: precociousness |
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| publicity | (noun) the quality of being open to public view | - |
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| (noun) a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | Synonyms: packaging, promo, promotion, promotional material |
| pugnacity | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, belligerence |
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| pyroelectricity | (noun) generation of an electric charge on certain crystals (such as tourmaline) as a result of a change in temperature | - |
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| quercitron | (noun) medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad five-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped | Synonyms: black oak, quercitron oak, Quercus velutina, yellow oak |
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| (noun) a yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree | - |
| radiopacity | (noun) opacity to X-rays or other radiation | Synonyms: radio-opacity |
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| rapacity | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, avaritia, covetousness, greed |
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| (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, voraciousness, voracity |
| (noun) (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey. | Synonyms: predaceousness, predaciousness, rapaciousness |
| recalcitrance | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrancy, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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| recalcitrancy | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrance, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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| recalcitrant | (adjective) marked by stubborn resistance to authority | - |
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| (adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control | Synonyms: fractious, refractory |
| recalcitrate | (verb) show strong objection or repugnance; manifest vigorous opposition or resistance; be obstinately disobedient | - |
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| reciprocity | (noun) mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges | - |
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| (noun) a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence | Synonyms: reciprocality |
| recital | (noun) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | Synonyms: narration, yarn |
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| (noun) a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance | Synonyms: reading, recitation |
| (noun) performance of music or dance especially by soloists | - |
| (noun) a detailed account or description of something | - |
| recitalist | (noun) a musician who gives recitals | - |
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| recitation | (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice, practice session |
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| (noun) a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study | Synonyms: class period, course session |
| (noun) a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance | Synonyms: reading, recital |
| (noun) written matter that is recited from memory | - |
| recitative | (noun) a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech | - |
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| recite | (verb) repeat aloud from memory | - |
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| (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: narrate, recount, tell |
| (verb) recite in elocution | Synonyms: declaim |
| (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: enumerate, itemise, itemize |
| (verb) render verbally | Synonyms: retell |
| reciter | (noun) someone who recites from memory | - |
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| resuscitate | (verb) cause to regain consciousness | Synonyms: revive |
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| (verb) return to consciousness | Synonyms: come to, revive |
| resuscitated | (adjective) restored to life or consciousness | - |
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| resuscitation | (noun) the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness | - |
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| resuscitator | (noun) a breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration | - |
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| rhythmicity | (noun) the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music | - |
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| rusticity | (noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: gaucherie |
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| sagacity | (noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating | Synonyms: judiciousness, sagaciousness |
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| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, judgment, sagaciousness |
| salacity | (noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: bawdiness, lewdness, obscenity, salaciousness |
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| scarcity | (noun) a small and inadequate amount | Synonyms: scarceness |
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| simplicity | (noun) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort | Synonyms: ease, easiness, simpleness |
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| (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, restraint, simpleness |
| (noun) the quality of being simple or uncompounded | Synonyms: simpleness |
| (noun) absence of affectation or pretense | Synonyms: simmpleness |
| (noun) a lack of penetration or subtlety | Synonyms: simple mindedness, simpleness |
| solicit | (verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | Synonyms: beg, tap |
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| (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: accost, hook |
| (verb) incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination | - |
| (verb) make a solicitation or petition for something desired | - |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, romance, woo |
| solicitation | (noun) the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) | Synonyms: allurement |
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| (noun) an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status | - |
| (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, ingathering |
| solicitor | (noun) a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents | - |
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| (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: canvasser |
| solicitorship | (noun) the position of solicitor | - |
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| solicitous | (adjective) showing hovering attentiveness | - |
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| (adjective) full of anxiety and concern | - |
| solicitously | (adverb) in a concerned and solicitous manner | - |
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