| gynecocracy | (noun) a political system governed by a woman | Synonyms: gynarchy |
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| haematocrit | (noun) a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood | Synonyms: hematocrit |
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| (noun) the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit | Synonyms: hematocrit, packed cell volume |
| handcraft | (noun) a work produced by hand labor | Synonyms: handicraft, handiwork, handwork |
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| (verb) make something by hand | - |
| handicraft | (noun) a craft that requires skillful hands | - |
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| (noun) a work produced by hand labor | Synonyms: handcraft, handiwork, handwork |
| hardscrabble | (adjective) barely satisfying a lower standard | - |
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| hematocrit | (noun) a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood | Synonyms: haematocrit |
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| (noun) the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit | Synonyms: haematocrit, packed cell volume |
| hemicrania | (noun) a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men | Synonyms: megrim, migraine, sick headache |
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| hierocracy | (noun) a ruling body composed of clergy | - |
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| honeycreeper | (noun) small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar | - |
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| (noun) small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands | Synonyms: Hawaiian honeycreeper |
| housecraft | (noun) skill in domestic management | - |
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| hovercraft | (noun) a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines | Synonyms: ground-effect machine |
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| hydrocracking | (noun) the process whereby hydrocarbon molecules of petroleum are broken down into kerosene and gasolene by the addition of hydrogen under high pressure in the presence of a catalyst | - |
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| hypercritical | (adjective) inclined to judge too severely | Synonyms: overcritical |
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| hypercriticism | (noun) Excessive or unfairly harsh criticism. | - |
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| hypersecretion | (noun) excessive secretion | - |
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| hypocrisy | (noun) insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have | - |
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| (noun) an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction | Synonyms: lip service |
| hypocrite | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| hypocritical | (adjective) professing feelings or virtues one does not have | - |
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| hypocritically | (adverb) in a hypocritical manner | - |
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| icecream | (noun) frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring | Synonyms: ice cream |
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| idiosyncrasy | (noun) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual | Synonyms: foible, mannerism |
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| idiosyncratic | (adjective) peculiar to the individual | - |
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| idocrase | (noun) a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | Synonyms: vesuvian, vesuvianite |
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| increase | (noun) the act of increasing something | Synonyms: step-up |
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| (noun) the amount by which something increases | Synonyms: increment |
| (noun) a change resulting in an increase | - |
| (noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: growth, increment |
| (noun) a quantity that is added | Synonyms: addition, gain |
| (verb) become bigger or greater in amount | - |
| (verb) make bigger or more | - |
| increased | (adjective) made greater in size or amount or degree | - |
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| increasing | (adjective) becoming greater or larger | - |
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| (adjective) (music) increasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
| increasingly | (adverb) advancing in amount or intensity | Synonyms: more and more, progressively |
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| incredibility | (noun) the quality of being incredible | Synonyms: incredibleness |
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| incredible | (adjective) beyond belief or understanding | Synonyms: unbelievable |
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| incredibleness | (noun) the quality of being incredible | Synonyms: incredibility |
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| incredibly | (adverb) not easy to believe | Synonyms: implausibly, improbably, unbelievably |
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| (adverb) exceedingly; extremely | Synonyms: fabulously, fantastically |
| incredulity | (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, mental rejection, scepticism, skepticism |
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| incredulous | (adjective) not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving | - |
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| incredulously | (adverb) in an incredulous manner | Synonyms: disbelievingly, unbelievingly |
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| increment | (noun) the amount by which something increases | Synonyms: increase |
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| (noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: growth, increase |
| incremental | (adjective) increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions | - |
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| incrementation | (noun) the operation of adding one to the operand. | - |
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| incriminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, impeach |
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| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, inculpate |
| incriminating | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminatory |
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| incriminatingly | (adverb) in an incriminating manner | - |
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| incrimination | (noun) an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: blame, inculpation |
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| incriminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminating |
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| incrust | (verb) form a crust or a hard layer | Synonyms: encrust |
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| (verb) cover or coat with a crust | Synonyms: encrust |
| (verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | Synonyms: beset, encrust |
| incrustation | (noun) a decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an inlay or overlay | Synonyms: encrustation |
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| (noun) a hard outer layer that covers something | Synonyms: crust, encrustation |
| (noun) the formation of a crust | Synonyms: encrustation |
| indescribability | (noun) The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. | Synonyms: indescribableness |
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| indescribable | (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, ineffable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable |
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| indescribableness | (noun) The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. | Synonyms: indescribability |
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| indescribably | (adverb) to an inexpressible degree | Synonyms: ineffably, inexpressibly, unspeakably, unutterably |
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| indiscreet | (adjective) lacking discretion; injudicious | - |
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| indiscreetly | (adverb) without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint | - |
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| indiscreetness | (noun) lacking good judgment | Synonyms: injudiciousness |
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| indiscrete | (adjective) not divided or divisible into parts | - |
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| indiscretion | (noun) a petty misdeed | Synonyms: peccadillo |
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| (noun) the trait of being injudicious | Synonyms: injudiciousness |
| indiscriminate | (adjective) not marked by fine distinctions | - |
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| (adjective) failing to make or recognize distinctions | - |
| indiscriminately | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, every which way, haphazardly, randomly, willy-nilly |
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| (adverb) in an indiscriminate manner | Synonyms: promiscuously |
| indiscriminating | (adjective) not discriminating | Synonyms: undiscriminating |
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| inscribe | (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: autograph |
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| (verb) address, (a work of literature) in a style less formal than a dedication | - |
| (verb) write, engrave, or print as a lasting record | - |
| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, write in code |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, scratch |
| (verb) draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible | - |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, raise, recruit |
| inscribed | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, etched, graven, incised |
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| (adjective) written (by handwriting, printing, engraving, or carving) on or in a surface | - |
| inscription | (noun) the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words | - |
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| (noun) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something | Synonyms: lettering |
| (noun) a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something | Synonyms: dedication |
| inscriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an inscription | - |
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| inscriptively | (adverb) by means of an inscription | - |
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| inscrutability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to investigate | - |
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| inscrutable | (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, deep, mysterious, mystifying |
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| inscrutably | (adverb) in an inscrutable manner | - |
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| intercrossed | (adjective) produced by crossbreeding | Synonyms: hybrid |
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| intracranial | (adjective) within the skull | - |
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| involucrate | (adjective) having an involucre | - |
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| involucre | (noun) a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence | - |
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| isocryme | (noun) a line connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean temperature in the coldest month of the year. | - |
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| jackscrew | (noun) screw-operated jack | Synonyms: screw jack |
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| lacrimal | (adjective) of or relating to tears | Synonyms: lachrymal |
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| (adjective) relating to or located near the organ that produces tears | Synonyms: lachrymal |
| lacrimation | (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lachrymation, tearing, watering |
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| lacrimator | (noun) a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds | Synonyms: lachrymator, tear gas, teargas |
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| lacrimatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lachrymatory |
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| lacrosse | (noun) a game invented by American Indians; now played by two teams who use long-handled rackets to catch and carry and throw the ball toward the opponents' goal | - |
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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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| lucrative | (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: moneymaking, remunerative |
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| lucrativeness | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: gainfulness, profitability, profitableness |
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| lucre | (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| ludicrous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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| (adjective) broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce | Synonyms: farcical, ridiculous |
| ludicrously | (adverb) so as to arouse or deserve laughter | Synonyms: laughably, preposterously, ridiculously |
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| lumbosacral | (adjective) of or relating to or near the small of the back and the back part of the pelvis between the hips | - |
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| macrame | (noun) a relatively coarse lace; made by weaving and knotting cords | - |
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| (verb) make knotted patterns | - |
| macrencephalic | (adjective) having a large brain case | Synonyms: macrencephalous |
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| macrencephalous | (adjective) having a large brain case | Synonyms: macrencephalic |
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| macrencephaly | (noun) an abnormally large braincase | - |
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| macro | (adjective) very large in scale or scope or capability | - |
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| (noun) a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language | Synonyms: macro instruction |
| macrobiotic | (adjective) of or relating to the theory or practice of macrobiotics | - |
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| macrobiotics | (noun) the theory of promoting health and longevity by means of diet (especially whole beans and grains) | - |
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| macrocephalic | (adjective) having an exceptionally large head and brain | Synonyms: macrocephalous |
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| macrocephalous | (adjective) having an exceptionally large head and brain | Synonyms: macrocephalic |
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| macrocephaly | (noun) an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical | Synonyms: megacephaly, megalocephaly |
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| macrocosm | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, universe, world |
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| macrocosmic | (adjective) relating to or constituting a macrocosm | - |
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| macrocyte | (noun) abnormally large red blood cell (associated with pernicious anemia) | Synonyms: megalocyte |
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| macrocytosis | (noun) the presence of macrocytes in the blood | - |
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| macroeconomic | (adjective) of or relating to macroeconomics | - |
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| macroeconomics | (noun) the branch of economics that studies the overall working of a national economy | - |
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| macroeconomist | (noun) an economist who specializes in macroeconomics | Synonyms: macroeconomic expert |
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| macroelement | (noun) a chemical element required in relatively large quantities for the normal physiologic processes of the body. | Synonyms: major mineral |
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