| disconcertment | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion |
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| dissertate | (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: discourse, hold forth |
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| dissertation | (noun) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree | Synonyms: thesis |
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| divert | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: deviate |
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| (verb) send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one | - |
| (verb) withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions | Synonyms: hive off |
| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, disport |
| diverted | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: amused, entertained |
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| diverticulitis | (noun) inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation | - |
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| diverticulosis | (noun) presence of multiple diverticula in the walls of the colon | - |
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| diverticulum | (noun) a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon) | - |
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| divertimento | (noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: serenade |
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| diverting | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, amusive |
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| divertingly | (adverb) in an entertaining and amusing manner | Synonyms: amusingly |
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| entertain | (verb) take into consideration, have in view | Synonyms: flirt with, think about, think of, toy with |
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| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, harbor, harbour, hold, nurse |
| (verb) provide entertainment for | - |
| entertained | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: amused, diverted |
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| entertainer | (noun) a person who tries to please or amuse | - |
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| entertaining | (adjective) agreeably diverting | - |
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| entertainingly | (adverb) in an entertaining manner | - |
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| entertainment | (noun) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention | Synonyms: amusement |
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| evert | (verb) turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward | - |
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| everting | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, inversion |
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| exert | (verb) put to use | Synonyms: exercise |
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| (verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: maintain, wield |
| (verb) make a great effort at a mental or physical task | - |
| exertion | (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: effort, elbow grease, sweat, travail |
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| expert | (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, good, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood | Synonyms: technical |
| (noun) a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully | - |
| expertise | (noun) skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge | Synonyms: expertness |
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| expertly | (adverb) in an expert manner | Synonyms: like an expert |
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| expertness | (noun) skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge | Synonyms: expertise |
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| exsert | (verb) thrust or extend out | Synonyms: extend, hold out, put out, stretch forth, stretch out |
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| extravert | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extrovert |
| extraverted | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| extravertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| extrovert | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extravert |
| extroverted | (adjective) not introspective; examining what is outside yourself | Synonyms: extrospective |
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| (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extrovertive |
| (adjective) at ease in talking to others | Synonyms: forthcoming, outgoing |
| extrovertish | (adjective) being somewhat extroverted | - |
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| extrovertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted |
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| feathertop | (noun) northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles | Synonyms: feathertop grass, Pennistum villosum |
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| (noun) a variety of reed grass | Synonyms: Calamagrostis acutiflora, feather reed grass |
| fertile | (adjective) capable of reproducing | - |
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| (adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fat, productive, rich |
| (adjective) bearing in abundance especially offspring | Synonyms: prolific |
| (adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fecund, prolific |
| fertilisation | (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, fertilization, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fecundation, fertilization |
| fertilise | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize, inseminate |
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| (verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilize |
| (verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize |
| fertiliser | (noun) any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile | Synonyms: fertilizer, plant food |
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| fertility | (noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: prolificacy, rankness, richness |
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| (noun) the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring | Synonyms: fecundity |
| (noun) the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year | Synonyms: birth rate, birthrate, fertility rate, natality |
| fertilizable | (adjective) capable of being fertilized | - |
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| fertilization | (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, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fecundation, fertilisation |
| fertilize | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, inseminate |
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| (verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilise |
| (verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise |
| fertilizer | (noun) any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile | Synonyms: fertiliser, plant food |
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| filbert | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, cobnut, hazelnut |
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| (noun) small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe | Synonyms: cobnut, Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis |
| fingertip | (noun) the end (tip) of a finger | - |
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| flibbertigibbet | (noun) a female fool | Synonyms: foolish woman |
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| flickertail | (noun) of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada | Synonyms: Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel |
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| gigahertz | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle, gigacycle per second |
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| gilbert | (noun) a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns | Synonyms: Gb, Gi |
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| hammertoe | (noun) a deformed toe which is bent in a clawlike arch | - |
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| hertz | (noun) the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz) | Synonyms: cps, cycle, cycle per second, cycles/second, Hz |
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| hitherto | (adverb) used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time | Synonyms: as yet, heretofore, so far, thus far, til now, until now, up to now, yet |
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| hypertension | (noun) a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater) | Synonyms: high blood pressure |
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| hypertensive | (adjective) having abnormally high blood pressure | - |
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| (noun) a person who has abnormally high blood pressure | - |
| hypertext | (noun) machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected | - |
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| hyperthermal | (adjective) of or relating to or affected by hyperthermia | - |
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| hyperthermia | (noun) abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer) | Synonyms: hyperthermy |
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| hyperthermy | (noun) abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer) | Synonyms: hyperthermia |
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| hyperthyroidism | (noun) an overactive thyroid gland; pathologically excessive production of thyroid hormones or the condition resulting from excessive production of thyroid hormones | Synonyms: thyrotoxicosis |
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| hypertonia | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic | Synonyms: hypertonicity, hypertonus |
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| hypertonic | (adjective) (of a solution) having a higher osmotic pressure than a comparison solution | - |
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| (adjective) (of living tissue) in a state of abnormally high tension | - |
| hypertonicity | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic | Synonyms: hypertonia, hypertonus |
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| (noun) (of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a higher osmotic pressure than some other | - |
| hypertonus | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic | Synonyms: hypertonia, hypertonicity |
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| hypertrophied | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells | Synonyms: enlarged |
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| hypertrophy | (noun) abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ | - |
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| (verb) undergo hypertrophy | - |
| impertinence | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, perkiness, pertness, sauciness |
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| (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impudence, insolence |
| (noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: cheek, impudence |
| impertinent | (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise |
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| (adjective) not pertinent to the matter under consideration | Synonyms: extraneous, immaterial, orthogonal |
| (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: irreverent, pert, saucy |
| impertinently | (adverb) in an impudent or impertinent manner | Synonyms: freshly, impudently, pertly, saucily |
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| imperturbability | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbableness |
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| imperturbable | (adjective) not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure | Synonyms: unflappable |
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| imperturbableness | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbability |
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| inadvertence | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertency, unmindfulness |
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| (noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: oversight |
| inadvertency | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertence, unmindfulness |
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| inadvertent | (adjective) happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally | Synonyms: accidental |
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| inadvertently | (adverb) without knowledge or intention | Synonyms: unknowingly, unwittingly |
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| incertain | (adjective) lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance | Synonyms: uncertain, unsure |
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| incertitude | (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, uncertainty |
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| incontrovertibility | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibleness, positiveness, positivity |
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| incontrovertible | (adjective) necessarily or demonstrably true | Synonyms: demonstrable |
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| (adjective) impossible to deny or disprove | Synonyms: irrefutable, positive |
| incontrovertibleness | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, positiveness, positivity |
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| incontrovertibly | (adverb) in an obvious and provable manner | Synonyms: demonstrably, provably |
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| inconvertibility | (noun) the quality of not being exchangeable | - |
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| inconvertible | (adjective) used especially of currencies; incapable of being exchanged for or replaced by another currency of equal value | Synonyms: unconvertible, unexchangeable |
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| (adjective) not capable of being changed into something else | Synonyms: untransmutable |
| inert | (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: sluggish, soggy, torpid |
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| (adjective) unable to move or resist motion | - |
| (adjective) having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive | Synonyms: indifferent, neutral |
| inertia | (noun) a disposition to remain inactive or inert | Synonyms: inactiveness, inactivity |
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| (noun) (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force | - |
| inertial | (adjective) of or relating to inertia | - |
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| inertness | (noun) immobility by virtue of being inert | - |
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| inexpert | (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateur, amateurish, unskilled |
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| inexpertly | (adverb) in a crude and unskilled manner | Synonyms: artlessly, crudely |
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| infertile | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | Synonyms: sterile, unfertile |
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| infertility | (noun) the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate | Synonyms: sterility |
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| insert | (noun) (film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film | Synonyms: cut-in |
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| (noun) (broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program | Synonyms: cut-in |
| (noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: inset |
| (noun) a folded section placed between the leaves of another publication | - |
| (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, inclose, introduce, put in, stick in |
| (verb) insert casually | Synonyms: slip in, sneak in, stick in |
| (verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: enter, infix, introduce |
| (verb) fit snugly into | Synonyms: tuck |
| insertion | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: introduction, intromission |
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| (noun) a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted | Synonyms: interpolation |
| intertidal | (adjective) of or relating to the littoral area above the low-tide mark | - |
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| intertribal | (adjective) between or among tribes | - |
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| intertrigo | (noun) chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs) | - |
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| intertwine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, lace, twine |
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| (verb) make a loop in | Synonyms: loop |
| (verb) make lacework by knotting or looping | Synonyms: tat |
| intervertebral | (adjective) pertaining to the space between two vertebrae | - |
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| introvert | (noun) (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts | - |
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| (verb) turn inside | - |
| (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: invaginate |
| introverted | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introspective, self-examining |
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