| alternate | (adjective) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternative, substitute |
| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternating |
| (adjective) every second one of a series | - |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: replacement, surrogate |
| (verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
| (verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
| (verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
| alternately | (adverb) in an alternating sequence or position | - |
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| alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
| alternation | (noun) successive change from one thing or state to another and back again | - |
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| alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
| (adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
| (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
| alternatively | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: instead, or else |
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| alternator | (noun) an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles) | - |
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| asternal | (adjective) not connected to the sternum or breastbone | - |
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| cisterna | (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cistern |
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| consternate | (verb) fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion | - |
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| consternation | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: alarm, dismay |
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| cybernate | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, computerize |
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| cybernation | (noun) the control of processes by computer | Synonyms: computerization |
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| cybernaut | (noun) a computer user who uses the internet; someone who explores cyberspace | - |
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| discernability | (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: legibility |
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| discernable | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernible |
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| eternal | (adjective) tiresomely long; seemingly without end | Synonyms: endless, interminable |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| eternalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternally | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: everlastingly, evermore, forever |
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| external | (adjective) happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface | - |
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| (adjective) coming from the outside | Synonyms: extraneous, outside |
| (adjective) from or between other countries | Synonyms: international, outside |
| (adjective) purely outward or superficial | - |
| (noun) outward features | - |
| externalisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalization |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalization |
| externalise | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalize, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalize, project |
| externality | (noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior | Synonyms: outwardness |
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| externalization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalisation |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalisation |
| externalize | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, project |
| externally | (adverb) with respect to the outside | Synonyms: outwardly |
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| (adverb) on or from the outside | - |
| fingernail | (noun) the nail at the end of a finger | - |
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| fraternal | (adjective) (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova | Synonyms: biovular |
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| (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, brotherly |
| (adjective) of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men | - |
| fraternally | (adverb) in a brotherly manner | - |
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| governable | (adjective) capable of being controlled | Synonyms: controllable |
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| governance | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governing, government, government activity |
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| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governing body, organisation, organization |
| gubernatorial | (adjective) relating to a governor | - |
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| hibernal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: brumal, hiemal |
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| hibernate | (verb) sleep during winter | Synonyms: hole up |
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| (verb) be in an inactive or dormant state | - |
| hibernating | (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: dormant, torpid |
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| hibernation | (noun) the act of retiring into inactivity | - |
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| (noun) the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter | - |
| (noun) cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals | - |
| hypernatremia | (noun) excessive amounts of sodium in the blood; possibly indicating diabetes insipidus | - |
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| infernal | (adjective) being of the underworld | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or resembling Hell | - |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire | - |
| (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned |
| (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, satanic, unholy |
| (noun) an inhabitant of Hell | - |
| infernally | (adverb) diabolically | Synonyms: hellishly |
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| internal | (adjective) happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface | - |
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| (adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: home, interior, national |
| (adjective) occurring within an institution or community | Synonyms: intragroup |
| (adjective) innermost or essential | Synonyms: inner, intimate |
| (adjective) located inward | Synonyms: inner, interior |
| internalisation | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalization |
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| internalise | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalize |
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| internality | (noun) preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values) | Synonyms: inwardness |
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| internalization | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalisation |
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| internalize | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalise |
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| internally | (adverb) on or from the inside | - |
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| international | (adjective) concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations | - |
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| (adjective) from or between other countries | Synonyms: external, outside |
| internationalisation | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalization |
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| internationalise | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalize |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalize |
| internationalism | (noun) quality of being international in scope | Synonyms: internationality |
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| (noun) the doctrine that nations should cooperate because their common interests are more important than their differences | - |
| internationalist | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalistic |
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| (noun) an advocate of internationalism | - |
| (noun) a member of a socialist or communist international | - |
| internationalistic | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalist |
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| internationality | (noun) quality of being international in scope | Synonyms: internationalism |
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| internationalization | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalisation |
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| internationalize | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalise |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalise |
| internationally | (adverb) worldwide | Synonyms: globally |
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| juggernaut | (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| maternal | (adjective) characteristic of a mother | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent | Synonyms: parental, paternal |
| (adjective) relating to or derived from one's mother | - |
| (adjective) related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, enatic |
| maternalism | (noun) motherly care; behavior characteristic of a mother; the practice of acting as a mother does toward her children | - |
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| (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternity, motherliness |
| maternalistic | (adjective) showing maternal instincts | - |
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| maternally | (adverb) in a maternal manner; as a mother | Synonyms: motherly |
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| paraphernalia | (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: appurtenance, gear |
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| paternal | (adjective) characteristic of a father | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent | Synonyms: maternal, parental |
| (adjective) belonging to or inherited from one's father | - |
| (adjective) related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, agnatic |
| paternalism | (noun) the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good | - |
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| paternalistic | (adjective) benevolent but sometimes intrusive | - |
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| paternally | (adverb) in a paternal manner | - |
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| preternatural | (adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal | Synonyms: uncanny |
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| (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, transcendental |
| preternaturally | (adverb) in a supernatural manner | Synonyms: supernaturally |
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| quaternary | (adjective) consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four | Synonyms: quaternate |
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| (adjective) coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude | Synonyms: 4th, fourth |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
| quaternate | (adjective) consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four | Synonyms: quaternary |
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| secernate | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| sempiternal | (adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: dateless, endless |
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| sternal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the sternum | - |
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| supernal | (adjective) being or coming from on high | - |
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| (adjective) of heaven or the spirit | Synonyms: celestial, ethereal |
| supernatant | (adjective) of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate | - |
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| (noun) the clear liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate | - |
| supernatural | (adjective) not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material | - |
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| (noun) supernatural forces and events and beings collectively | Synonyms: occult |
| supernaturalism | (noun) the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces | Synonyms: supernaturalness |
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| (noun) a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding | - |
| supernaturalist | (adjective) of or relating to supernaturalism | Synonyms: supernaturalistic |
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| supernaturalistic | (adjective) of or relating to supernaturalism | Synonyms: supernaturalist |
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| supernaturally | (adverb) in a supernatural manner | Synonyms: preternaturally |
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| supernaturalness | (noun) the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces | Synonyms: supernaturalism |
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| tabernacle | (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: synagogue, temple |
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| ternary | (adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: treble, triple, triplex |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| ternate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) consisting of three leaflets or sections | - |
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| ungovernable | (adjective) incapable of being controlled | Synonyms: indocile, uncontrollable, unruly |
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| vernacular | (adjective) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language | Synonyms: common, vulgar |
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| (noun) the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) | - |
| (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang |
| vernal | (adjective) of or characteristic of or occurring in spring | - |
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| (adjective) suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh | Synonyms: young, youthful |
| vernation | (noun) (botany) the arrangement of young leaves in a leaf bud before it opens | - |
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