| egocentrism | (noun) concern for your own interests and welfare | Synonyms: egoism, self-centeredness, self-concern, self-interest |
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| egoism | (noun) concern for your own interests and welfare | Synonyms: egocentrism, self-centeredness, self-concern, self-interest |
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| (noun) (ethics) the theory that the pursuit of your own welfare is the basis of morality | - |
| egoist | (noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egocentric |
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| (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egotist, swellhead |
| egoistic | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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| egoistical | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistic, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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| egomania | (noun) an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs | - |
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| egomaniac | (noun) an abnormally egotistical person | - |
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| egotism | (noun) an exaggerated opinion of your own importance | Synonyms: self-importance, swelled head |
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| (noun) an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others | Synonyms: ego, self-importance |
| egotist | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, swellhead |
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| egotistic | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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| (adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistical, narcissistic, self-loving |
| egotistical | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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| (adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistic, narcissistic, self-loving |
| egotistically | (adverb) in an egotistical manner | Synonyms: selfishly |
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| egotrip | (verb) act in a way that attracts attention | - |
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| egregious | (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank |
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| egress | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egression, emergence |
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| (noun) (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse | Synonyms: emersion |
| (noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: emergence, issue |
| (verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, emerge, go forth, issue |
| egression | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egress, emergence |
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| egret | (noun) any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | - |
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| eisegesis | (noun) personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas | - |
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| electronegative | (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: negative, negatively charged |
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| electronegativity | (noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: negativity |
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| elegance | (noun) a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste | - |
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| (noun) a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics) | - |
| elegant | (adjective) refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style | - |
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| (adjective) displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution | - |
| (adjective) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth | Synonyms: graceful, refined |
| elegantly | (adverb) with elegance; in a tastefully elegant manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a gracefully elegant manner | - |
| elegiac | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy | - |
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| (adjective) expressing sorrow often for something past | - |
| elegise | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegize |
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| elegist | (noun) the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead | - |
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| elegize | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegise |
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| elegy | (noun) a mournful poem; a lament for the dead | Synonyms: lament |
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| exegesis | (noun) an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible) | - |
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| exegete | (noun) a person skilled in exegesis (especially of religious texts) | - |
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| exegetic | (adjective) relating to exegesis | Synonyms: exegetical |
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| exegetical | (adjective) relating to exegesis | Synonyms: exegetic |
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| extralegal | (adjective) not regulated or sanctioned by law | Synonyms: nonlegal |
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| eyeglass | (noun) lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles | Synonyms: monocle |
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| eyeglasses | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: glasses, specs, spectacles |
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| fibreglass | (noun) a covering material made of glass fibers in resins | Synonyms: fiberglass |
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| fireguard | (noun) a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks) | Synonyms: fire screen |
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| (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: firebreak |
| florilegium | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: garland, miscellany |
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| fluegelhorn | (noun) a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore | Synonyms: flugelhorn |
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| foregather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, forgather, gather, meet |
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| forego | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, foreswear, forgo, relinquish, waive |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forgo, precede, predate |
| foregoing | (adjective) especially of writing or speech; going before | - |
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| foregone | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, departed, gone |
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| foreground | (noun) (computer science) a window for an active application | - |
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| (noun) the part of a scene that is near the viewer | - |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: highlight, play up, spotlight |
| foregrounding | (noun) the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system | Synonyms: foreground processing |
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| foreleg | (noun) the forelimb of a quadruped | - |
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| gegenschein | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: counterglow |
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| geostrategic | (adjective) of or relating to geostrategy | - |
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| geostrategy | (noun) the branch of geopolitics dealing with strategy | - |
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| greegree | (noun) an African amulet | Synonyms: gres-gris, grigri |
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| gregarine | (noun) vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates | - |
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| gregarious | (adjective) (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) growing in groups that are close together | - |
| (adjective) instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others | - |
| gregariously | (adverb) in a gregarious manner | Synonyms: sociably |
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| gregariousness | (noun) the quality of being gregarious--having a dislike of being alone | - |
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| gynostegium | (noun) the crown of the stamen in plants of the genus Asclepias | - |
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| hegari | (noun) Sudanese sorghums having white seeds; one variety grown in southwestern United States | - |
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| hegemon | (noun) a leading or paramount power | - |
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| hegemony | (noun) the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others | - |
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| hegira | (noun) a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment | Synonyms: exodus, hejira |
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| hemiplegia | (noun) paralysis of one side of the body | Synonyms: unilateral paralysis |
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| hemiplegic | (noun) a person who has hemiplegia (is paralyzed on one side of the body) | - |
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| hepatomegaly | (noun) abnormal enlargement of the liver | Synonyms: megalohepatia |
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| homegirl | (noun) a fellow female member of a youth gang | - |
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| homegrown | (adjective) grown or originating in a particular place | - |
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| hoosegow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosgow |
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| houseguest | (noun) a guest entertained in your house | Synonyms: house guest |
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| ichthyostega | (noun) early tetrapod amphibian found in Greenland | - |
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| illegal | (adjective) prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules | - |
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| illegalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalize, outlaw |
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| illegality | (noun) unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute | - |
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| illegalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, outlaw |
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| illegally | (adverb) in an illegal manner | Synonyms: illicitly, lawlessly |
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| illegibility | (noun) the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered | - |
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| illegible | (adjective) (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible | - |
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| illegibly | (adverb) in an illegible manner | Synonyms: undecipherably, unreadably |
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| illegitimacy | (noun) unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law | - |
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| (noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, bastardy |
| illegitimate | (adjective) of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful | - |
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| (adjective) contrary to or forbidden by law | Synonyms: illicit, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful |
| (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: bastard, by-blow, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
| illegitimately | (adverb) of biological parents not married to each other | Synonyms: out of wedlock |
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| (adverb) in a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom | Synonyms: illicitly |
| impregnability | (noun) having the strength to withstand attack | Synonyms: invulnerability |
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| impregnable | (adjective) capable of conceiving | Synonyms: conceptive |
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| (adjective) immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | Synonyms: inviolable, secure, strong, unassailable, unattackable |
| (adjective) incapable of being overcome, challenged or refuted | Synonyms: inexpugnable |
| impregnably | (adverb) in an impregnable manner | - |
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| impregnate | (verb) make pregnant | Synonyms: bang up, knock up, prang up |
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| (verb) fertilize and cause to grow | - |
| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: saturate |
| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: infuse, instill, tincture |
| impregnation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization |
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| (noun) the process of totally saturating something with a substance | Synonyms: saturation |
| (noun) material with which something is impregnated | - |
| inelegance | (noun) the quality of lacking refinement and good taste | - |
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| inelegant | (adjective) lacking in refinement or grace or good taste | - |
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| inelegantly | (adverb) without elegance | - |
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| integer | (noun) any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero | Synonyms: whole number |
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| integral | (adjective) of or denoted by an integer | - |
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| (adjective) existing as an essential constituent or characteristic | Synonyms: built-in, constitutional, inbuilt, inherent |
| (adjective) constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged | Synonyms: entire, intact |
| (noun) the result of a mathematical integration; F(x) is the integral of f(x) if dF/dx = f(x) | - |
| integrality | (noun) the state of being total and complete | Synonyms: entireness, entirety, totality |
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| integrally | (adverb) in an integral manner | - |
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| integrate | (verb) make into a whole or make part of a whole | Synonyms: incorporate |
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| (verb) become one; become integrated | - |
| (verb) calculate the integral of; calculate by integration | - |
| (verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: desegregate, mix |
| integrated | (adjective) not segregated; designated as available to all races or groups | - |
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| (adjective) formed into a whole or introduced into another entity | - |
| (adjective) resembling a living organism in organization or development | Synonyms: structured |
| (adjective) formed or united into a whole | Synonyms: incorporate, incorporated, merged, unified |
| integrating | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: desegregation, integration |
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| integration | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: desegregation, integrating |
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| (noun) the act of combining into an integral whole | Synonyms: consolidation |
| (noun) an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined | - |
| integrative | (adjective) combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole | - |
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| (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: consolidative |
| integrator | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the area of an irregular plane figure | Synonyms: planimeter |
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| integrity | (noun) moral soundness | - |
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| (noun) an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting | Synonyms: unity, wholeness |
| integument | (noun) an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell | - |
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| integumental | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumentary |
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| integumentary | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumental |
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