| dictatorship | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| diction | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, phraseology, phrasing, verbiage, wording |
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| (noun) the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience | Synonyms: enunciation |
| dictionary | (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: lexicon |
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| dictostylium | (noun) any slime mold of the genus Dictostylium | - |
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| dictum | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: pronouncement, say-so |
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| (noun) an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding | Synonyms: obiter dictum |
| dictyopteran | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the order Dictyoptera | - |
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| dictyosome | (noun) a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) | Synonyms: Golgi apparatus, Golgi body, Golgi complex |
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| dicumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicoumarol |
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| dicynodont | (noun) a kind of therapsid | - |
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| dyadic | (adjective) of or relating to a dyad or based on two | - |
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| edict | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, fiat, order, rescript |
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| (noun) a formal or authoritative proclamation | - |
| encyclopaedic | (adjective) comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia) | Synonyms: encyclopedic |
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| encyclopedic | (adjective) comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia) | Synonyms: encyclopaedic |
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| episodic | (adjective) of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes | - |
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| (adjective) limited in duration to a single episode | - |
| (adjective) occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals | Synonyms: occasional |
| episodically | (adverb) in an episodic manner | - |
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| episodicity | (noun) The quality of being sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly. | - |
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| eradicable | (adjective) able to be eradicated or rooted out | - |
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| eradicate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: exterminate, extirpate, root out, uproot |
| eradication | (noun) the complete destruction of every trace of something | Synonyms: obliteration |
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| eradicator | (noun) someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) | Synonyms: exterminator, terminator |
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| ergodic | (adjective) positive recurrent aperiodic state of stochastic systems; tending in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions | - |
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| ergodicity | (noun) an attribute of stochastic systems; generally, a system that tends in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions | - |
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| extrajudicial | (adjective) beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted | - |
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| fradicin | (noun) an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used (as a sulphate under the trade name Neobiotic) as an intestinal antiseptic in surgery | Synonyms: Neobiotic, neomycin |
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| handicap | (noun) advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning | - |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, disablement, impairment |
| (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, incapacitate, invalid |
| (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, hinder |
| (verb) attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant | - |
| handicapped | (adjective) the total or partial absence of a person's bodily or mental functions, including the absence of a part of a person's body | Synonyms: disabled |
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| (noun) people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped | Synonyms: disabled |
| handicapper | (noun) someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race) | Synonyms: odds-maker |
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| handicraft | (noun) a craft that requires skillful hands | - |
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| (noun) a work produced by hand labor | Synonyms: handcraft, handiwork, handwork |
| haploidic | (adjective) of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes | Synonyms: haploid, monoploid |
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| heraldic | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry | Synonyms: heraldist |
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| (adjective) indicative of or announcing something to come | - |
| indicant | (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, indicator |
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| (noun) something that serves to indicate or suggest | Synonyms: indication |
| 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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| indict | (verb) accuse formally of a crime | - |
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| indictability | (noun) the state of being liable to impeachment | Synonyms: impeachability |
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| indictable | (adjective) liable to be accused, or cause for such liability | Synonyms: chargeable |
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| indiction | (noun) a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms | - |
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| indictment | (noun) a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense | Synonyms: bill of indictment |
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| (noun) an accusation of wrongdoing | - |
| ineradicable | (adjective) not able to be destroyed or rooted out | - |
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| injudicious | (adjective) lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise | - |
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| injudiciously | (adverb) in an injudicious manner | - |
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| injudiciousness | (noun) the trait of being injudicious | Synonyms: indiscretion |
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| (noun) lacking good judgment | Synonyms: indiscreetness |
| interdict | (noun) an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district | - |
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| (noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdiction |
| (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
| (verb) destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication | - |
| interdiction | (noun) authoritative prohibition | - |
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| (noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdict |
| iridic | (adjective) of or relating to the iris of the eye | - |
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| (adjective) of or containing iridium | - |
| jaundice | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, tartness, thorniness |
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| (noun) yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia | Synonyms: icterus |
| (verb) affect with, or as if with, jaundice | - |
| (verb) distort adversely | - |
| jaundiced | (adjective) showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste | - |
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| (adjective) affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc | Synonyms: icteric, yellow |
| judicable | (adjective) capable of being judged or decided | - |
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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 |
| judicial | (adjective) relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge | Synonyms: juridic, juridical |
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| (adjective) belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge | - |
| (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: discriminative |
| (adjective) decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice | - |
| judicially | (adverb) in a judicial manner | - |
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| (adverb) as ordered by a court | - |
| judiciary | (noun) persons who administer justice | Synonyms: bench |
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| (noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicatory, judicature, judicial system |
| judicious | (adjective) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters | Synonyms: heady, wise |
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| judiciously | (adverb) in a judicious manner | - |
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| judiciousness | (noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating | Synonyms: sagaciousness, sagacity |
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| (noun) good judgment | - |
| juridic | (adjective) relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge | Synonyms: judicial, juridical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the law or jurisprudence | Synonyms: juridical |
| juridical | (adjective) relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge | Synonyms: judicial, juridic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the law or jurisprudence | Synonyms: juridic |
| jurisdiction | (noun) (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law | Synonyms: legal power |
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| (noun) in law; the territory within which power can be exercised | - |
| jurisdictional | (adjective) restricted to the geographic area under a particular jurisdiction | - |
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| ludic | (adjective) relating to play or playfulness | - |
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| 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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| maledict | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accursed, accurst |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate |
| malediction | (noun) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) | Synonyms: imprecation |
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| medic | (noun) a medical practitioner in the armed forces | Synonyms: medical officer |
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| (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medick, trefoil |
| medical | (adjective) requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery | - |
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| (adjective) relating to the study or practice of medicine | - |
| (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: aesculapian |
| (noun) a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person | Synonyms: checkup, health check, medical checkup, medical exam, medical examination |
| medically | (adverb) involving medical practice | - |
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| medicament | (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medication, medicinal drug, medicine |
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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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| medicinal | (adjective) having the properties of medicine | Synonyms: medicative |
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| medicinally | (adverb) in a medicinal manner | - |
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| medicine | (noun) the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries | Synonyms: practice of medicine |
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| (noun) punishment for one's actions | Synonyms: music |
| (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medicament, medication, medicinal drug |
| (noun) the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques | Synonyms: medical specialty |
| (verb) treat medicinally, treat with medicine | Synonyms: medicate |
| medick | (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, trefoil |
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| medico | (noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doc, doctor, Dr., MD, physician |
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| (noun) a student in medical school | Synonyms: medical student |
| medicolegal | (adjective) pertaining to legal aspects of the practice of medicine (as malpractice or patient consent for operations or patient information) | - |
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| melodic | (adjective) containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody | Synonyms: melodious, musical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to melody | - |
| melodically | (adverb) with respect to melody | - |
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| mendicancy | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, begging |
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| (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicity |
| mendicant | (adjective) practicing beggary | - |
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| (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: beggar |
| (noun) a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms | Synonyms: friar |
| mendicity | (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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| methodical | (adjective) characterized by method and orderliness | - |
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| methodically | (adverb) in a methodical manner | - |
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| methodicalness | (noun) the quality of appreciating method and system | Synonyms: orderliness |
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| modicum | (noun) a small or moderate or token amount | - |
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| monodic | (adjective) having a single vocal part | Synonyms: monodical |
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| monodical | (adjective) having a single vocal part | Synonyms: monodic |
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| nidicolous | (adjective) (of birds) remaining in the nest for a time after hatching | - |
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| nomadic | (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, peregrine, roving, wandering |
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| nonaddictive | (adjective) not causing or characterized by addiction | - |
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| nonmedicinal | (adjective) not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed | Synonyms: unmedical, unmedicative, unmedicinal |
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| nonnomadic | (adjective) not nomadic or wandering | - |
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| nonperiodic | (adjective) not recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: aperiodic |
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| nordic | (adjective) resembling peoples of Scandinavia | - |
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| orthopaedic | (adjective) of or relating to orthopedics | Synonyms: orthopedic, orthopedical |
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