| handbell | (noun) a bell that is held in the hand | - |
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| harebell | (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia |
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| (noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: bluebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
| hell | (noun) noisy and unrestrained mischief | Synonyms: blaze |
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| (noun) a cause of difficulty and suffering | Synonyms: blaze |
| (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell on earth, hellhole, inferno, snake pit, the pits |
| hellbender | (noun) large salamander of North American rivers and streams | Synonyms: Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, mud puppy |
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| hellcat | (noun) a malicious woman with a fierce temper | Synonyms: harpy, vixen |
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| hellebore | (noun) any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus | - |
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| (noun) perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes | Synonyms: false hellebore |
| helleborine | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cephalanthera | - |
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| (noun) any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis | - |
| (noun) any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme | Synonyms: rattlesnake plantain |
| heller | (noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: devil, hellion |
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| (noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna in Czech Republic | Synonyms: haler |
| (noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna Slovakia | Synonyms: haler |
| helleri | (noun) freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: swordtail, topminnow, Xyphophorus helleri |
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| hellfire | (noun) a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned | Synonyms: red region |
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| hellgrammiate | (noun) large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait | Synonyms: dobson |
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| hellhole | (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell, hell on earth, inferno, snake pit, the pits |
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| hellhound | (noun) a very evil man | - |
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| (noun) (Greek mythology) the three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades; son of Typhon | Synonyms: Cerberus |
| hellion | (noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: devil, heller |
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| hellish | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: beastly, god-awful |
| hellishly | (adverb) diabolically | Synonyms: infernally |
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| hellishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: nightmarishness |
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| hello | (noun) an expression of greeting | Synonyms: hi, how-do-you-do, howdy, hullo |
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| helvella | (noun) any fungus of the genus Helvella having the ascocarps stalked or pleated or often in folds | - |
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| honeybells | (noun) African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs | Synonyms: Hermannia verticillata, honey bell, Mahernia verticillata |
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| hosteller | (noun) a traveler who lodges in hostels | - |
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| (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hotel manager, hotelier, hotelkeeper, hotelman |
| hypercellularity | (noun) the state of having abnormally many cells | - |
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| hyperintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: superintelligence |
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| hypocellularity | (noun) the state of having abnormally few cells | - |
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| immortelle | (noun) mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere | Synonyms: Xeranthemum annuum |
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| impelled | (adjective) urged or forced to action through moral pressure | Synonyms: driven |
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| impellent | (adjective) forcing forward or onward; impelling | - |
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| impeller | (noun) the blade of a rotor (as in the compressor of a jet engine) | - |
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| impelling | (adjective) markedly effective as if by emotional pressure | - |
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| indwell | (verb) to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle | - |
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| indweller | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant |
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| (noun) activation by an inner spirit or force or principle | - |
| indwelling | (adjective) existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or force or principle | - |
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| inkwell | (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkstand |
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| intellect | (noun) the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination | Synonyms: reason, understanding |
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| (noun) knowledge and intellectual ability | Synonyms: mind |
| (noun) a person who uses the mind creatively | Synonyms: intellectual |
| intellection | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process |
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| intellectual | (adjective) appealing to or using the intellect | - |
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| (adjective) involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct | Synonyms: cerebral |
| (adjective) of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind | Synonyms: noetic, rational |
| (noun) a person who uses the mind creatively | Synonyms: intellect |
| intellectualisation | (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict | Synonyms: intellectualization |
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| intellectualization | (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict | Synonyms: intellectualisation |
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| intellectually | (adverb) of or relating to the intellect | - |
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| intelligence | (noun) the operation of gathering information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence activity, intelligence operation |
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| (noun) the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience | - |
| (noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: news, tidings, word |
| (noun) secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy) | Synonyms: intelligence information |
| (noun) a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence agency, intelligence service |
| intelligent | (adjective) having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree | - |
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| (adjective) endowed with the capacity to reason | Synonyms: reasoning, thinking |
| (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: healthy, level-headed, levelheaded, sound |
| (adjective) possessing sound knowledge | Synonyms: well-informed |
| intelligently | (adverb) in an intelligent manner | - |
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| intelligentsia | (noun) an educated and intellectual elite | Synonyms: clerisy |
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| intelligibility | (noun) the quality of language that is comprehensible | - |
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| intelligible | (adjective) well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: apprehensible, graspable, perceivable, understandable |
| intelligibly | (adverb) in an intelligible manner | Synonyms: clearly, understandably |
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| intercellular | (adjective) located between cells | - |
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| interpellate | (verb) question formally about policy or government business | - |
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| interpellation | (noun) the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts | Synonyms: interjection, interpolation, interposition |
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| (noun) (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy | - |
| interstellar | (adjective) between or among stars | - |
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| intracellular | (adjective) located or occurring within a cell or cells | - |
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| jell | (verb) become gelatinous | Synonyms: congeal, set |
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| jellaba | (noun) a loose cloak with a hood; worn in the Middle East and northern Africa | - |
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| jelled | (adjective) congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling | Synonyms: congealed, jellied |
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| jellied | (adjective) congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling | Synonyms: congealed, jelled |
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| jellify | (verb) become jelly | - |
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| (verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jelly |
| jello | (noun) fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder | Synonyms: Jell-O |
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| jelly | (noun) a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit | - |
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| (noun) an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods | Synonyms: gelatin |
| (noun) any substance having the consistency of jelly or gelatin | - |
| (verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jellify |
| jellyfish | (noun) any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans | - |
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| (noun) large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles | Synonyms: man-of-war, Portuguese man-of-war |
| jellyleaf | (noun) herb widely distributed in tropics and subtropics used for forage and medicinally as a demulcent and having a fine soft bast stronger than jute; sometimes an aggressive weed | Synonyms: Queensland hemp, Sida rhombifolia |
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| jellylike | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinlike, gelatinous |
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| jellyroll | (noun) thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake | Synonyms: Swiss roll |
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| jewelled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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| jeweller | (noun) someone in the business of selling jewelry | Synonyms: jeweler |
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| (noun) someone who makes jewelry | Synonyms: jeweler, jewelry maker |
| jewellery | (noun) an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems) | Synonyms: jewelry |
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| klebsiella | (noun) a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections | - |
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| knell | (noun) the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something | - |
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| (verb) ring as in announcing death | - |
| (verb) make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification | Synonyms: ring |
| labelled | (adjective) bearing or marked with a label or tag | Synonyms: labeled, tagged |
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| lamella | (noun) thin plate | - |
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| (noun) a thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form bones | - |
| (noun) any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus | Synonyms: gill |
| lamellibranch | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: pelecypod, pelecypodous |
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| (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, pelecypod |
| lampshell | (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: brachiopod, lamp shell |
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| laurelled | (adjective) crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory | Synonyms: crowned, laureled |
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| legionella | (noun) the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease | Synonyms: Legionella pneumophilia |
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| leveller | (noun) a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions | Synonyms: leveler |
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| libellous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libelous, slanderous |
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| mademoiselle | (noun) small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico | Synonyms: Bairdiella chrysoura, silver perch |
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| marveller | (noun) someone filled with admiration and awe; someone who wonders at something | Synonyms: wonderer |
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| marvellous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) too improbable to admit of belief | Synonyms: improbable, marvelous, tall |
| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvelous, miraculous |
| marvellously | (adverb) (used as an intensifier) excellently | Synonyms: marvelously, superbly, terrifically, toppingly, wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously |
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| maxwell | (noun) a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss | Synonyms: Mx |
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| mellifluous | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellisonant, sweet |
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| mellisonant | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, sweet |
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| mellitate | (noun) a salt of mellitic acid. | - |
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| mellow | (adjective) slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) | Synonyms: high |
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| (adjective) unhurried and relaxed | Synonyms: laid-back |
| (adjective) having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging | Synonyms: mellowed |
| (adjective) softened through age or experience | Synonyms: mellowed |
| (adverb) in a mellow manner | Synonyms: mellowly |
| (verb) make or grow (more) mellow | - |
| (verb) soften, make mellow | - |
| (verb) become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial | Synonyms: mellow out, melt |
| mellowed | (adjective) having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging | Synonyms: mellow |
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| (adjective) softened through age or experience | Synonyms: mellow |
| mellowing | (noun) the process of becoming mellow | - |
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| mellowingly | (adverb) so as to mellow | - |
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| mellowly | (adverb) in a mellow manner | Synonyms: mellow |
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| mellowness | (noun) the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing | Synonyms: fullness, richness |
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| (noun) a soft shade of a color | - |
| (noun) geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana | - |
| (noun) a taste (especially of fruit) that is ripe and of full flavor | - |
| (noun) a feeling of good humor and sympathy through maturity or intoxication or a relaxed state | - |
| micelle | (noun) an electrically charged particle built up from polymeric molecules or ions and occurring in certain colloidal electrolytic solutions like soaps and detergents | - |
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| miscellanea | (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
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| miscellaneous | (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, mixed, motley, sundry |
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| (adjective) having many aspects or qualities | Synonyms: many-sided, multifaceted, multifarious |
| miscellany | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, garland |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| misspell | (verb) spell incorrectly | - |
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| misspelling | (noun) a spelling that is incorrect | - |
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| modelled | (adjective) resembling sculpture | Synonyms: modeled, sculptural, sculptured, sculpturesque |
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| modeller | (noun) a person who creates models | Synonyms: modeler |
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| modelling | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model, modeling |
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| (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modeling, molding, moulding |
| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, mold, molding, mould, moulding |
| moonshell | (noun) marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires | Synonyms: moon shell |
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| morello | (noun) cultivated sour cherry with dark-colored skin and juice | - |
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| (noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus austera |