| hyperaldosteronism | (noun) a condition caused by overproduction of aldosterone | Synonyms: aldosteronism |
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| hypercholesterolemia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesteremia |
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| hyperon | (noun) any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron | - |
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| hyperope | (noun) a person with hyperopia; a farsighted person | - |
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| hyperopia | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, longsightedness |
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| hyperopic | (adjective) abnormal ability to focus of distant objects | Synonyms: hypermetropic |
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| hysterocatalepsy | (noun) hysteria with cataleptic symptoms | - |
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| hysterosalpingogram | (noun) X ray of the uterus and Fallopian tubes; usually done in diagnosing infertility (to see if there any blockages) | - |
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| hysteroscopy | (noun) visual examination of the uterus and uterine lining using an endoscope inserted through the vagina | - |
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| hysterotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the uterus (as in cesarean section) | - |
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| icterogenic | (adjective) producing jaundice | - |
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| innumerous | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| interferometer | (noun) any measuring instrument that uses interference patterns to make accurate measurements of waves | - |
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| interferon | (noun) an antiviral protein produced by cells that have been invaded by a virus; inhibits replication of the virus | - |
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| interoception | (noun) sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body | - |
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| interoceptive | (adjective) of or relating to interoception | - |
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| interoceptor | (noun) any receptor that responds to stimuli inside the body | Synonyms: enteroceptor |
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| interoperability | (noun) (computer science) the ability to exchange and use information (usually in a large heterogeneous network made up of several local area networks) | - |
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| interoperable | (adjective) able to exchange and use information | - |
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| jeroboam | (noun) a large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon) | Synonyms: double-magnum |
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| kerosene | (noun) a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters | Synonyms: coal oil, kerosine, lamp oil |
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| kerosine | (noun) a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters | Synonyms: coal oil, kerosene, lamp oil |
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| ketosteroid | (noun) a steroid containing a ketone group | - |
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| lecherous | (adjective) given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity | - |
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| lecherousness | (noun) a strong sexual desire | Synonyms: lust, lustfulness |
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| lepidopterologist | (noun) an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths | Synonyms: butterfly collector, lepidopterist |
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| lepidopterology | (noun) the branch of entomology dealing with Lepidoptera | Synonyms: lepidoptery |
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| lepidopteron | (noun) insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales | Synonyms: lepidopteran, lepidopterous insect |
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| lerot | (noun) dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa | - |
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| mecopterous | (adjective) of or relating to mecopterans | - |
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| medroxyprogesterone | (noun) a progestin compound (trade name Provera) used to treat menstrual disorders | Synonyms: Provera |
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| merobenthos | (noun) benthos consisting of organisms in pre-adult stages that later become adult in the plankton. | - |
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| meromelia | (noun) congenital absence of part of an arm or leg | - |
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| meronym | (noun) a word that names a part of a larger whole | Synonyms: part name |
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| meronymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole | Synonyms: part to whole relation |
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| merozoite | (noun) a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle | - |
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| methyltestosterone | (noun) an androgenic compound contained in drugs that are used to treat testosterone deficiency and female breast cancer and to stimulate growth and weight gain | - |
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| moneron | (noun) organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis | Synonyms: moneran |
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| muciferous | (adjective) containing or secreting mucus | - |
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| murderous | (adjective) characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being | Synonyms: homicidal |
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| murderously | (adverb) in a murderous frenzy | Synonyms: amok, amuck |
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| (adverb) as if bent on murder | - |
| murderousness | (noun) cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder | - |
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| (noun) a bloodthirsty hatred arousing murderous impulses | - |
| mycosterol | (noun) a kind of sterol found in fungi. | - |
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| nectariferous | (adjective) possessing nectaries | - |
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| nephroangiosclerosis | (noun) kidney disease that is usually associated with hypertension; sclerosis of the renal arterioles reduces blood flow that can lead to kidney failure and heart failure | Synonyms: nephrosclerosis |
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| nephrosclerosis | (noun) kidney disease that is usually associated with hypertension; sclerosis of the renal arterioles reduces blood flow that can lead to kidney failure and heart failure | Synonyms: nephroangiosclerosis |
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| nerveroot | (noun) once common rose pink woodland orchid of eastern North America | Synonyms: Cypripedium acaule, moccasin flower |
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| neuropteron | (noun) insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins | Synonyms: neuropteran, neuropterous insect |
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| nonsteroid | (noun) an organic compound that does no contain a steroid | Synonyms: nonsteroidal |
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| nonsteroidal | (adjective) not steroidal or not having the effects of steroid hormones | - |
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| (noun) an organic compound that does no contain a steroid | Synonyms: nonsteroid |
| novillero | (noun) a bullfighter who is required to fight bulls less than four years of age | - |
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| numerological | (adjective) of or relating to numerology | - |
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| numerologist | (noun) a believer in numerology | - |
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| numerology | (noun) the study of the supposed occult influence of numbers on human affairs | - |
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| numerosity | (noun) a large number | Synonyms: multiplicity, numerousness |
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| numerous | (adjective) amounting to a large indefinite number | Synonyms: legion |
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| numerousness | (noun) a large number | Synonyms: multiplicity, numerosity |
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| obstreperous | (adjective) boisterously and noisily aggressive | - |
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| (adjective) noisily and stubbornly defiant | - |
| obstreperously | (adverb) in manner that attracts attention | Synonyms: clamorously, loudly |
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| obstreperousness | (noun) noisy defiance | - |
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| odoriferous | (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, sweet |
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| (adjective) emitting an odor | Synonyms: odorous |
| offeror | (noun) someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offerer |
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| onerous | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: burdensome, taxing |
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| onerously | (adverb) in an onerous manner | - |
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| onerousness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, heaviness, oppressiveness |
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| operon | (noun) a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene | - |
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| operose | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome |
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| operoseness | (noun) the quality of requiring extended effort | Synonyms: laboriousness, toilsomeness |
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| orthopteron | (noun) any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts | Synonyms: orthopteran, orthopterous insect |
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| ossiferous | (adjective) containing bones (especially fossil bones) | - |
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| osteosclerosis | (noun) abnormal hardening or eburnation of bone | - |
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| otosclerosis | (noun) hereditary disorder in which ossification of the labyrinth of the inner ear causes tinnitus and eventual deafness | - |
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| overgenerous | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, munificent, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| papooseroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, squaw root, squawroot |
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| pentamerous | (adjective) divided into five parts; specifically, having each floral whorl consist of five (or a multiple of five) members | - |
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| peperomia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Peperomia; grown primarily for their often succulent foliage | - |
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| pepperoni | (noun) a pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage) | - |
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| peroneal | (adjective) of or relating to the fibula or the outer part of the leg below the knee | - |
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| peroneus | (noun) muscle of the lower leg that is involved in moving the foot | - |
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| perorate | (verb) deliver an oration in grandiloquent style | - |
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| (verb) conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation | - |
| peroration | (noun) (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration | - |
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| (noun) a flowery and highly rhetorical oration | - |
| peroxidase | (noun) any of a group of enzymes (occurring especially in plant cells) that catalyze the oxidation of a compound by a peroxide | - |
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| peroxide | (noun) a viscous liquid with strong oxidizing properties; a powerful bleaching agent; also used (in aqueous solutions) as a mild disinfectant and (in strong concentrations) as an oxidant in rocket fuels | Synonyms: hydrogen peroxide |
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| (noun) an inorganic compound containing the divalent ion -O-O- | - |
| (verb) bleach with peroxide | - |
| pestiferous | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestilent, pestilential, plaguey |
| (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, perversive |
| (adjective) contaminated with infecting organisms | Synonyms: dirty |
| phanerogam | (noun) plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores | Synonyms: seed plant, spermatophyte |
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| phaneromania | (noun) an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) | - |
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| pheromone | (noun) a chemical substance secreted externally by some animals (especially insects) that influences the physiology or behavior of other animals of the same species | - |
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| piperocaine | (noun) a compound used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local or spinal anesthetic | Synonyms: Metycaine, piperocaine hydrochloride |
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| ponderosa | (noun) common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature | Synonyms: bull pine, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine |
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| ponderosity | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness |
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| ponderous | (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: heavy, lumbering |
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| (adjective) having great mass and weight and unwieldiness | - |
| (adjective) labored and dull | - |
| ponderously | (adverb) in a heavy ponderous manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an uninterestingly ponderous manner | - |
| ponderousness | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity |
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| (noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | Synonyms: heaviness |
| poriferous | (adjective) full of pores or vessels or holes | Synonyms: porous |
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| precancerous | (adjective) of or relating to a growth that is not malignant but is likely to become so if not treated | - |
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| preposterous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, ridiculous |
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| preposterously | (adverb) so as to arouse or deserve laughter | Synonyms: laughably, ludicrously, ridiculously |
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| prerogative | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, privilege |
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| profiterole | (noun) a small hollow pastry that is typically filled with cream and covered with chocolate | - |
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| progesterone | (noun) a steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy | Synonyms: Lipo-Lutin |
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