| acedia | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: laziness, sloth |
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| bioremediation | (noun) the act of treating waste or pollutants by the use of microorganisms (as bacteria) that can break down the undesirable substances | - |
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| (noun) the branch of biotechnology that uses biological process to overcome environmental problems | - |
| comedian | (noun) a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | Synonyms: comic |
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| (noun) an actor in a comedy | - |
| cyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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| cyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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| cypripedia | (noun) a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium | - |
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| encyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia |
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| encyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia |
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| hypermedia | (noun) a multimedia system in which related items of information are connected and can be presented together | Synonyms: hypermedia system, interactive multimedia, interactive multimedia system |
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| hypnopedia | (noun) teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep) | Synonyms: sleep-learning |
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| immediacy | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness |
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| (noun) lack of an intervening or mediating agency | Synonyms: immediateness |
| (noun) immediate intuitive awareness | Synonyms: immediate apprehension |
| immediate | (adjective) having no intervening medium | - |
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| (adjective) very close or connected in space or time | Synonyms: contiguous |
| (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: prompt, quick, straightaway |
| (adjective) of the present time and place | - |
| (adjective) immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect | - |
| immediately | (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway |
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| (adverb) near or close by | - |
| (adverb) bearing an immediate relation | - |
| immediateness | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, instancy, instantaneousness |
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| (noun) lack of an intervening or mediating agency | Synonyms: immediacy |
| intermediary | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intercessor, intermediator, mediator |
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| intermediate | (adjective) lying between two extremes in time or space or state | - |
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| (adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: average, medium |
| (noun) a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained | - |
| (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, liaise, mediate |
| intermediately | (adverb) to an intermediate degree | - |
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| intermediation | (noun) the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement | Synonyms: mediation |
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| intermediator | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intercessor, intermediary, mediator |
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| irremediable | (adjective) impossible to remedy or correct or redress | - |
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| mediacy | (noun) the quality of being mediate | Synonyms: mediateness |
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| mediaeval | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: medieval |
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| (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: gothic, medieval |
| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, knightly, medieval |
| medial | (adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle | Synonyms: median |
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| (adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves | Synonyms: median |
| medially | (adverb) in a medial position | - |
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| median | (adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle | Synonyms: medial |
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| (adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves | Synonyms: medial |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) | Synonyms: average |
| (noun) the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items | Synonyms: median value |
| mediant | (noun) (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant | - |
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| mediastinum | (noun) the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus | - |
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| mediate | (adjective) acting through or dependent on an intervening agency | - |
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| (adjective) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series | Synonyms: in-between, middle |
| (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, liaise |
| (verb) occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others | - |
| mediated | (adjective) acting or brought about through an intervening agency | - |
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| mediateness | (noun) the quality of being mediate | Synonyms: mediacy |
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| mediation | (noun) the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement | Synonyms: intermediation |
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| (noun) a negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party | - |
| mediator | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intercessor, intermediary, intermediator |
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| mediatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a mediator or the duties of a mediator | - |
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| mediatory | (adjective) of or related to or directed toward mediation | - |
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| mediatrix | (noun) a woman who is a mediator | - |
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| misopedia | (noun) hatred of children | - |
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| multimedia | (noun) transmission that combine media of communication (text and graphics and sound etc.) | Synonyms: multimedia system |
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| paediatric | (adjective) of or relating to the medical care of children | Synonyms: pediatric |
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| paediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, pediatrician, pediatrist |
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| paediatrics | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: pediatric medicine, pediatrics, pedology |
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| pediatric | (adjective) of or relating to the medical care of children | Synonyms: paediatric |
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| pediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrist |
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| pediatrics | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: paediatrics, pediatric medicine, pedology |
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| pediatrist | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrician |
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| remediable | (adjective) capable of being remedied or redressed | - |
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| remedial | (adjective) tending or intended to rectify or improve | - |
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| (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, curative, healing, sanative, therapeutic |
| remediate | (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remedy, repair |
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| remediation | (noun) act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil | Synonyms: redress, remedy |
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| submediant | (noun) (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic) | - |
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| tragedian | (noun) an actor who specializes in tragic roles | - |
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| (noun) a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies | - |
| unmediated | (adjective) having no intervening persons, agents, conditions | Synonyms: direct |
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