| convergence | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergency, converging |
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| (noun) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit | Synonyms: convergency |
| (noun) a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena | Synonyms: intersection, overlap |
| (noun) the occurrence of two or more things coming together | - |
| convergency | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergence, converging |
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| (noun) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit | Synonyms: convergence |
| convergent | (adjective) tending to come together from different directions | - |
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| corrigenda | (noun) a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections | - |
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| corrigendum | (noun) a printer's error; to be corrected | - |
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| cosmogenic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmogeny | (noun) the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogony, cosmology |
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| cotangent | (noun) ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cotan |
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| counterinsurgency | (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: pacification |
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| counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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| counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
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| cryogen | (noun) a liquid that boils at below -160 C and is used as a refrigerant | - |
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| cryogenic | (adjective) of or relating to very low temperatures | - |
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| cryogenics | (noun) the branch of physics that studies the phenomena that occur at very low temperatures | Synonyms: cryogeny |
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| cryogeny | (noun) the branch of physics that studies the phenomena that occur at very low temperatures | Synonyms: cryogenics |
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| crystallogen | (noun) any chemical element that belongs to the carbon group. | Synonyms: carbon group element, Group 14 element, tetragen, tetrel |
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| cyanogen | (noun) a colorless toxic gas with a pungent almond odor; has been used in chemical warfare | - |
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| cyanogenetic | (adjective) capable of producing cyanide | Synonyms: cyanogenic |
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| cyanogenic | (adjective) capable of producing cyanide | Synonyms: cyanogenetic |
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| cyclooxygenase | (noun) either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin | Synonyms: Cox |
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| cytogenesis | (noun) the origin and development and variation of cells | Synonyms: cytogeny |
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| cytogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to cytogenetics | Synonyms: cytogenetical |
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| cytogenetical | (adjective) of or relating to cytogenetics | Synonyms: cytogenetic |
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| cytogeneticist | (noun) a geneticist who specializes in the cellular components associated with heredity | - |
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| cytogenetics | (noun) the branch of biology that studies the cellular aspects of heredity (especially the chromosomes) | - |
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| cytogeny | (noun) the origin and development and variation of cells | Synonyms: cytogenesis |
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| cytopathogenic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing pathological changes in cells | - |
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| degeneracy | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, depravation, depravity, putrefaction |
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| (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneration |
| degenerate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: deviant, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
| (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: deteriorate, devolve, drop |
| degeneration | (noun) passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form | Synonyms: retrogression |
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| (noun) the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality | Synonyms: devolution |
| (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneracy |
| degenerative | (adjective) (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function | - |
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| dehydrogenate | (verb) remove hydrogen from | - |
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| deoxygenate | (verb) remove oxygen from (water) | - |
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| detergence | (noun) detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergency |
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| detergency | (noun) detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergence |
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| detergent | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detersive |
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| (noun) a cleansing agent that differs from soap but can also emulsify oils and hold dirt in suspension | - |
| (noun) a surface-active chemical widely used in industry and laundering | - |
| digenesis | (noun) alternation of sexual and asexual generations | Synonyms: metagenesis |
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| diligence | (noun) a diligent effort | Synonyms: application |
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| (noun) persevering determination to perform a task | Synonyms: industriousness, industry |
| (noun) conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation | - |
| diligent | (adjective) characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks | - |
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| (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: persevering |
| diligently | (adverb) with diligence; in a diligent manner | - |
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| disingenuous | (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: artful |
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| disingenuously | (adverb) in a disingenuous manner | Synonyms: artfully |
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| disingenuousness | (noun) the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor | - |
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| divergence | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergency |
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| (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, variance |
| (noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergency |
| (noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, difference |
| divergency | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergence |
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| (noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergence |
| divergent | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: diverging |
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| (adjective) diverging from another or from a standard | - |
| divulgence | (noun) the act of disclosing something that was secret or private | Synonyms: divulgement |
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| dysgenesis | (noun) infertility between hybrids | - |
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| dysgenic | (adjective) pertaining to or causing degeneration in the offspring produced | Synonyms: cacogenic |
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| dysgenics | (noun) the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced | Synonyms: cacogenics |
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| effulgence | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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| effulgent | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, radiant, refulgent |
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| eigenvalue | (noun) (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant | Synonyms: characteristic root of a square matrix, eigenvalue of a matrix, eigenvalue of a square matrix |
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| emergence | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egress, egression |
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| (noun) the act of emerging | Synonyms: emersion |
| (noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: egress, issue |
| (noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: growth, outgrowth |
| emergency | (noun) a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage | Synonyms: emergency brake, hand brake, parking brake |
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| (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: exigency, pinch |
| (noun) a state in which martial law applies | - |
| emergent | (adjective) coming into existence | Synonyms: emerging |
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| (adjective) occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action | - |
| endogen | (noun) a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside | Synonyms: liliopsid, monocot, monocotyledon |
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| endogenetic | (adjective) of rocks formed or occurring beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: endogenic |
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| endogenic | (adjective) derived or originating internally | Synonyms: endogenous |
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| (adjective) of rocks formed or occurring beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: endogenetic |
| endogenous | (adjective) derived or originating internally | Synonyms: endogenic |
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| (adjective) of or resembling an endogen | - |
| endogenously | (adverb) in an endogenous manner | - |
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| endogeny | (noun) a geological phenomenon below the surface of the earth | - |
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| engender | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: breed, spawn |
| epigenesis | (noun) a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed | - |
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| erogenous | (adjective) sensitive to sexual stimulation | - |
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| estrogen | (noun) a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics | Synonyms: oestrogen |
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| estrogenic | (adjective) relating to or caused by estrogen | - |
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| eugenic | (adjective) pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced | - |
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| eugenics | (noun) the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating) | - |
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| exigency | (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: emergency, pinch |
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| (noun) a pressing or urgent situation | - |
| (noun) that which is required in a particular situation —usually used in plural. | - |
| exigent | (adjective) requiring precise accuracy | Synonyms: exacting |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, insistent, instant |
| exogen | (noun) flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside | Synonyms: dicot, dicotyledon, magnoliopsid |
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| exogenic | (adjective) derived or originating externally | Synonyms: exogenous |
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| exogenous | (adjective) derived or originating externally | Synonyms: exogenic |
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| fibrinogen | (noun) a protein present in blood plasma; converts to fibrin when blood clots | Synonyms: factor I |
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| fulgent | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, glaring, glary |
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| gametogenesis | (noun) the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis | - |
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| gegenschein | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: counterglow |
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| gen | (noun) informal term for information | - |
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| gendarme | (noun) a French policeman | - |
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| gendarmerie | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmery |
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| gendarmery | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmerie |
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| gender | (noun) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | Synonyms: sex, sexuality |
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| (noun) a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness | Synonyms: grammatical gender |
| gene | (noun) (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity | Synonyms: cistron, factor |
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| genealogic | (adjective) of or relating to genealogy | Synonyms: genealogical |
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| genealogical | (adjective) of or relating to genealogy | Synonyms: genealogic |
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| genealogically | (adverb) in a genealogical manner | - |
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| genealogist | (noun) an expert in genealogy | - |
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| genealogy | (noun) the study or investigation of ancestry and family history | - |
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| (noun) successive generations of kin | Synonyms: family tree |
| general | (adjective) applying to all or most members of a category or group | - |
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| (adjective) affecting the entire body | - |
| (adjective) prevailing among and common to the general public | - |
| (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
| (adjective) somewhat indefinite | - |
| (adjective) not specialized or limited to one class of things | - |
| (noun) a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular) | - |
| (noun) a general officer of the highest rank | Synonyms: full general |
| (noun) the head of a religious order or congregation | Synonyms: superior general |
| (verb) command as a general | - |
| generalcy | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalship |
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| generalisation | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generality, generalization |
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| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalization, induction, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalization, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalization |
| generalise | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalize |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalize |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalize, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| generalised | (adjective) not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment | Synonyms: generalized |
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| generalissimo | (noun) the officer who holds the supreme command | Synonyms: commander-in-chief, commander in chief |
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| generalist | (noun) a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests | Synonyms: Renaissance man |
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| generality | (noun) the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability | - |
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| (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization |
| generalization | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generality |
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| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalisation, induction, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalisation, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalisation |
| generalize | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalise |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalise |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| generalized | (adjective) not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment | Synonyms: generalised |
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