| inefficaciously | (adverb) in an ineffective manner | Synonyms: ineffectively |
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| inefficaciousness | (noun) a lack of efficacy | Synonyms: inefficacy |
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| inefficacy | (noun) a lack of efficacy | Synonyms: inefficaciousness |
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| inefficiency | (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency | - |
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| inefficient | (adjective) not producing desired results; wasteful | - |
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| (adjective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate | Synonyms: ineffective |
| inefficiently | (adverb) in an inefficient manner | - |
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| insignificance | (noun) the quality of having little or no significance | - |
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| insignificant | (adjective) devoid of importance, meaning, or force | Synonyms: unimportant |
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| (adjective) signifying nothing | - |
| (adjective) of little importance or influence or power; of minor status | Synonyms: peanut |
| (adjective) small and unimpressive | Synonyms: dinky |
| insignificantly | (adverb) not to a significant degree or amount | - |
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| (adverb) in an insignificant manner | - |
| insufficiency | (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: deficiency, inadequacy |
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| (noun) (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally | - |
| (noun) a lack of competence | Synonyms: inadequacy |
| insufficient | (adjective) of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement | Synonyms: deficient |
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| insufficiently | (adverb) to an insufficient degree | - |
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| intensification | (noun) action that makes something stronger or more extreme | - |
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| (noun) the act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film) | - |
| interspecific | (adjective) arising or occurring between species | Synonyms: interspecies |
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| intraspecific | (adjective) arising or occurring within a species; involving the members of one species | Synonyms: intraspecies |
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| jollification | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, merrymaking |
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| justification | (noun) the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning | - |
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| (noun) something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary | - |
| (noun) a statement in explanation of some action or belief | - |
| justificative | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificatory |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificatory, vindicatory |
| justificatory | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificative |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, vindicatory |
| magnification | (noun) the act of expanding something in apparent size | - |
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| (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, enlargement |
| (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, overstatement |
| (noun) the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object | - |
| magnificence | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, splendor, splendour |
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| (noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, impressiveness, richness |
| magnificent | (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, glorious, splendid |
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| magnificently | (adverb) wonderfully | Synonyms: excellently, famously, splendidly |
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| (adverb) in an impressively beautiful manner | Synonyms: gorgeously, resplendently, splendidly |
| magnifico | (noun) a person of distinguished rank or appearance | - |
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| malefic | (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malevolent, malign |
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| maleficence | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, mischief |
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| (noun) doing or causing evil | - |
| maleficent | (adjective) harmful or evil in intent or effect | - |
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| metrification | (noun) the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds | Synonyms: metrication |
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| (noun) writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition) | - |
| microfiche | (noun) small sheet of microfilm on which many pages of material have been photographed; a magnification system is used to read the material | - |
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| modification | (noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) | Synonyms: adjustment, alteration |
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| (noun) slightly modified copy; not an exact copy | - |
| (noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | Synonyms: alteration, change |
| (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: limiting, qualifying |
| mollification | (noun) the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined | Synonyms: pacification |
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| (noun) a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered | - |
| morbific | (adjective) able to cause disease | Synonyms: infective, pathogenic |
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| mortification | (noun) (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself) | - |
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| (noun) an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect | Synonyms: humiliation |
| (noun) strong feelings of embarrassment | Synonyms: chagrin, humiliation |
| (noun) the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) | Synonyms: gangrene, necrosis, sphacelus |
| mummification | (noun) embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy | - |
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| (noun) a condition resembling that of a mummy | - |
| (noun) (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color | Synonyms: cold gangrene, dry gangrene, mumification necrosis |
| munificence | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness |
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| munificent | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| munificently | (adverb) in a generous manner | Synonyms: generously, liberally |
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| mystification | (noun) the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered | Synonyms: obfuscation |
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| (noun) something designed to mystify or bewilder | - |
| (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement |
| narcotraffic | (noun) traffic in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug traffic, drug trafficking |
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| nitrification | (noun) the oxidation of ammonium compounds in dead organic material into nitrates and nitrites by soil bacteria (making nitrogen available to plants) | - |
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| (noun) the chemical process in which a nitro group is added to an organic compound (or substituted for another group in an organic compound) | - |
| nonfiction | (noun) prose writing that is not fictional | Synonyms: nonfictional prose |
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| nonfictional | (adjective) not fictional | - |
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| nonsignificant | (adjective) attributable to chance | - |
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| nonspecific | (adjective) not caused by a specific agent; used also of staining in making microscope slides | - |
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| nonspecifically | (adverb) without specificity | - |
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| notification | (noun) an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative | Synonyms: presentment |
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| (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: apprisal, telling |
| (noun) a request for payment | Synonyms: notice |
| nullification | (noun) the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something | Synonyms: override |
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| (noun) the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress | - |
| objectification | (noun) the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing | - |
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| (noun) a concrete representation of an abstract idea or principle | - |
| office | (noun) a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities | - |
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| (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: function, part, role |
| (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, place, position, post, situation |
| (noun) place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed | Synonyms: business office |
| (noun) professional or clerical workers in an office | Synonyms: office staff |
| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency |
| (noun) (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power | Synonyms: power |
| officeholder | (noun) the official who holds an office | Synonyms: incumbent |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officer |
| officer | (noun) a member of a police force | Synonyms: police officer |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officeholder |
| (noun) any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command | Synonyms: military officer |
| (noun) a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel | Synonyms: ship's officer |
| (verb) direct or command as an officer | - |
| official | (adjective) having official authority or sanction | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an office | - |
| (adjective) verified officially | - |
| (adjective) (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution | - |
| (adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline | Synonyms: prescribed |
| (noun) someone who administers the rules of a game or sport | - |
| (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: functionary |
| officialdom | (noun) people elected or appointed to administer a government | Synonyms: government officials |
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| officialese | (noun) the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure | - |
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| officialise | (verb) make official | Synonyms: officialize |
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| officialize | (verb) make official | Synonyms: officialise |
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| officially | (adverb) in an official role | - |
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| (adverb) with official authorization | Synonyms: formally |
| officiant | (noun) a clergyman who officiates at a religious ceremony or service | - |
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| officiate | (verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: function |
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| (verb) act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding | - |
| officiating | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiation, refereeing, umpirage |
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| officiation | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, refereeing, umpirage |
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| (noun) the performance of a religious or ceremonial or public duty | - |
| officious | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling |
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| officiously | (adverb) in an officious manner | - |
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| officiousness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, meddlesomeness |
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| opacification | (noun) the process of becoming cloudy or opaque | - |
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| organification | (noun) the process of organ formation | - |
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| orifice | (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: opening, porta |
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| ossification | (noun) hardened conventionality | Synonyms: conformity |
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| (noun) the developmental process of bone formation | - |
| (noun) the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior | - |
| (noun) the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material | - |
| oversimplification | (noun) an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is | Synonyms: simplism |
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| (noun) an explanation that simplifies too far to the point of misrepresentation | Synonyms: simplism |
| pacific | (adjective) promoting peace | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature | Synonyms: peaceable |
| pacifically | (adverb) in a peaceable manner | Synonyms: peaceably |
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| pacification | (noun) the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined | Synonyms: mollification |
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| (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: counterinsurgency |
| (noun) a treaty to cease hostilities | Synonyms: peace, peace treaty |
| pacificism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacifism, passivism |
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| (noun) the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration | Synonyms: pacifism |
| pacificist | (noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: disarmer, pacifist |
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| personification | (noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | Synonyms: incarnation |
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| (noun) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | Synonyms: prosopopoeia |
| (noun) a person who represents an abstract quality | - |
| petrification | (noun) the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape | Synonyms: petrifaction |
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| phacoemulsification | (noun) extracapsular surgery for cataracts in which ultrasonic sound breaks the cortex and nucleus of the lens into small fragments that are then vacuumed away through a small tube | - |
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| pontifical | (adjective) denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops | Synonyms: episcopal |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, apostolical, papal |
| (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, portentous |
| (noun) the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop) | - |
| pontificate | (noun) the government of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papacy |
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| (verb) talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner | - |
| (verb) administer a pontifical office | - |
| preachification | (noun) moralization delivered tediously in a preachy manner | - |
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| proficiency | (noun) the quality of having great facility and competence | - |
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| (noun) skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity | Synonyms: technique |
| proficient | (adjective) of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill | Synonyms: technical |
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| (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, skilful, skillful |
| proficiently | (adverb) in a proficient manner | - |
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| prolific | (adjective) bearing in abundance especially offspring | Synonyms: fertile |
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| (adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fecund, fertile |
| prolificacy | (noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, rankness, richness |
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| pseudoscientific | (adjective) based on theories and methods erroneously regarded as scientific | - |
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| purification | (noun) the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities | - |
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| (noun) the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing | - |
| (noun) a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites | Synonyms: purgation |
| (noun) the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) | Synonyms: refinement, refining |
| purificator | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: emunctorium, purificatorium |
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| purificatorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: emunctorium, purificator |
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| qualification | (noun) the act of modifying or changing the strength of some idea | - |
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| (noun) an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something | Synonyms: making |
| (noun) a statement that limits or restricts some claim | Synonyms: reservation |
| quantification | (noun) the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something | - |
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| (noun) a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no') | - |
| ramification | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: branching, fork, forking |
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| (noun) an arrangement of branching parts | - |
| (noun) a development that complicates a situation | Synonyms: complication |
| (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: branch, leg |
| ratification | (noun) making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it | Synonyms: confirmation |
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| reclassification | (noun) classifying something again (usually in a new category) | - |
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| rectification | (noun) the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right | Synonyms: correction |
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| (noun) determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve | - |
| (noun) the conversion of alternating current to direct current | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation | - |
| reification | (noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing | Synonyms: hypostatisation, hypostatization |
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| (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalisation, depersonalization |
| reunification | (noun) the act of coming together again | Synonyms: reunion |
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| revivification | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revival |
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| rigidification | (noun) the process of becoming stiff or rigid | Synonyms: rigidifying, stiffening |
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| sacrifice | (noun) the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity | Synonyms: ritual killing |
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| (noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeit, forfeiture |
| (noun) (baseball) an out that advances the base runners | - |
| (noun) personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective) | - |
| (noun) a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value | - |
| (verb) kill or destroy | - |
| (verb) endure the loss of | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals | - |
| (verb) sell at a loss | - |