| ambidexterity | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidextrousness |
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| aperitif | (noun) alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer | - |
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| arteritis | (noun) inflammation of an artery | - |
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| asperity | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) harshness of manner | Synonyms: sharpness |
| austerity | (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: asceticism, nonindulgence |
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| cassiterite | (noun) a hard heavy dark mineral that is the chief source of tin | - |
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| celerity | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness |
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| cordierite | (noun) a blue mineral of magnesium and iron and aluminum and silicon and oxygen; often used as a gemstone | - |
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| demerit | (noun) the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection | Synonyms: fault |
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| (noun) a mark against a person for misconduct or failure; usually given in school or armed forces | - |
| dexterity | (noun) adroitness in using the hands | Synonyms: manual dexterity, sleight |
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| disinherit | (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disown |
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| disinheritance | (noun) the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit | - |
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| disinherited | (adjective) deprived of your rightful heritage | - |
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| emeritus | (adjective) honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus' | - |
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| (noun) a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties | - |
| endarteritis | (noun) inflammation of the inner lining of an artery | - |
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| enteritis | (noun) inflammation of the intestine (especially the small intestine); usually characterized by diarrhea | - |
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| episcleritis | (noun) inflammation of the sclera of the eye | - |
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| federita | (noun) a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains | Synonyms: feterita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum |
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| feterita | (noun) a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains | Synonyms: federita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum |
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| garnierite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate; a source of nickel | - |
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| gastroenteritis | (noun) inflammation of the stomach and intestines; can be caused by Salmonella enteritidis | Synonyms: intestinal flu, stomach flu |
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| glycerite | (noun) a medicine made by mixing a substance in glycerin | Synonyms: glycerole |
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| heritable | (adjective) capable of being inherited | Synonyms: inheritable |
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| heritage | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: inheritance |
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| (noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: inheritance |
| (noun) practices that are handed down from the past by tradition | - |
| (noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: inheritance |
| heritor | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heir, inheritor |
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| inherit | (verb) obtain from someone after their death | - |
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| (verb) receive by genetic transmission | - |
| (verb) receive from a predecessor | - |
| inheritable | (adjective) capable of being inherited | Synonyms: heritable |
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| inheritance | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: heritage |
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| (noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: heritage |
| (noun) (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents | Synonyms: hereditary pattern |
| (noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: heritage |
| inherited | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, hereditary, transmissible, transmitted |
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| inheriting | (adjective) having the legal right to inherit | - |
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| inheritor | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heir, heritor |
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| inheritress | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: heiress, inheritrix |
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| inheritrix | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: heiress, inheritress |
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| insincerity | (noun) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical | Synonyms: falseness, hollowness |
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| keratoscleritis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea and sclera of the eye | - |
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| kerite | (noun) a compound in which tar or asphalt combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber. | - |
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| kieserite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of hydrous magnesium sulfate often found in salt mines | - |
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| krennerite | (noun) an orthorhombic gold telluride mineral which can contain a relatively small amount of silver in the structure. | - |
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| laterite | (noun) a red soil produced by rock decay; contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides | - |
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| lechatelierite | (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: crystal, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
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| legerity | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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| marguerite | (noun) tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, Leucanthemum vulgare, moon daisy, ox-eyed daisy, oxeye daisy, white daisy |
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| (noun) perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Argyranthemum frutescens, Chrysanthemum frutescens, marguerite daisy, Paris daisy |
| merit | (noun) any admirable quality or attribute | Synonyms: virtue |
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| (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, meritoriousness |
| (verb) be worthy or deserving | Synonyms: deserve |
| meritable | (adjective) deserving reward or praise | Synonyms: meritorious |
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| merited | (adjective) properly deserved | Synonyms: deserved |
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| meritless | (adjective) without merit; of little or no value or use | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry |
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| meritocracy | (noun) the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth | - |
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| (noun) a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects | - |
| meritocratic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy | - |
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| meritorious | (adjective) deserving reward or praise | Synonyms: meritable |
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| meritoriously | (adverb) in a meritorious manner | - |
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| meritoriousness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, merit |
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| millerite | (noun) a yellow mineral consisting of nickel sulfide; a minor source of nickel | - |
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| nerita | (noun) a neritid gastropod having a short smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum | - |
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| neritic | (adjective) of or relating to the region of the sea over the continental shelf which is less than 200 meters deep | - |
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| (adjective) relating to the region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast | - |
| neritid | (noun) operculate seasnail of coastal waters with a short spiral shell | Synonyms: neritid gastropod |
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| neritina | (noun) ornately marked and brightly colored snails of brackish waters | - |
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| nonheritable | (adjective) not inheritable | Synonyms: noninheritable |
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| noninheritable | (adjective) not inheritable | Synonyms: nonheritable |
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| ozocerite | (noun) a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum; some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles | Synonyms: ader wax, earth wax, mineral wax, ozokerite |
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| ozokerite | (noun) a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum; some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles | Synonyms: ader wax, earth wax, mineral wax, ozocerite |
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| periarteritis | (noun) inflammation of the outer coat of an artery | - |
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| perithecium | (noun) flask-shaped ascocarp | - |
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| perithelial | (adjective) of or relating to the tissue layer around small blood vessels | - |
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| perithelium | (noun) tissue layer around small blood vessels | - |
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| peritoneal | (adjective) of or relating to or affecting the peritoneum | - |
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| peritoneum | (noun) a transparent membrane that lines the abdominal cavity in mammals and covers most of the viscera | - |
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| peritonitis | (noun) inflammation of the peritoneum | Synonyms: peritoneal inflammation |
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| peritrichous | (adjective) covered all over with uniformly distributed flagella | - |
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| polyarteritis | (noun) inflammation of several arteries | - |
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| posterity | (noun) all future generations | - |
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| (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: descendants |
| preterit | (noun) a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense | Synonyms: preterite |
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| preterite | (noun) a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense | Synonyms: preterit |
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| preterition | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralepsis, paralipsis |
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| prosperity | (noun) the condition of prospering; having good fortune | Synonyms: successfulness |
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| (noun) an economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment | - |
| rensselaerite | (noun) a kind of soft talc; sometimes used as wood filler | - |
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| sclerite | (noun) hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods | - |
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| scleritis | (noun) inflammation of the sclera | - |
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| severity | (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, stiffness |
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| (noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | Synonyms: badness, severeness |
| (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness |
| (noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: austereness, severeness |
| siderite | (noun) a meteorite consisting principally of nickel and iron | - |
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| (noun) iron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate | Synonyms: chalybite |
| sincerity | (noun) the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being serious | Synonyms: earnestness, serious-mindedness, seriousness |
| (noun) a quality of naturalness and simplicity | Synonyms: unassumingness |
| (noun) an earnest and sincere feeling | Synonyms: earnestness, seriousness |
| sphalerite | (noun) an ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form | Synonyms: blende, zinc blende |
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| temerity | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audaciousness, audacity |
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| unmerited | (adjective) not merited or deserved | - |
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| (adjective) not merited | - |
| unmeritorious | (adjective) without merit | - |
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| ureteritis | (noun) inflammation of the ureter | - |
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| veritable | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: authentic, bona fide, unquestionable |
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| (adjective) often used as intensifiers | Synonyms: regular |
| verity | (noun) an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth | - |
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| (noun) conformity to reality or actuality | Synonyms: the true, trueness, truth |