| abiogenesis | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: autogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation |
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| abiogenetic | (adjective) originating by abiogenesis | - |
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| aerogenerator | (noun) generator that extracts usable energy from winds | Synonyms: wind generator, windmill |
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| afibrinogenemia | (noun) the absence of fibrinogen in the plasma leading to prolonged bleeding | - |
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| agamogenesis | (noun) reproduction without the fusion of gametes | Synonyms: asexual reproduction |
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| agamogenetic | (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamous, apomictic, parthenogenetic |
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| agenesia | (noun) imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part | Synonyms: agenesis |
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| agenesis | (noun) imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part | Synonyms: agenesia |
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| allogeneic | (adjective) denoting or relating to cells or tissues from individuals belonging to the same species but genetically dissimilar (and hence immunologically incompatible) | - |
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| amelogenesis | (noun) the developmental process of forming tooth enamel | - |
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| androgenesis | (noun) male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization | Synonyms: androgeny |
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| androgenetic | (adjective) of or related to androgenesis | Synonyms: androgenous |
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| angiogenesis | (noun) the formation of new blood vessels | - |
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| anthropogenesis | (noun) the evolution or genesis of the human race | Synonyms: anthropogeny |
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| anthropogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings | Synonyms: anthropogenic |
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| atherogenesis | (noun) the formation of atheromas on the walls of the arteries as in atherosclerosis | - |
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| autogenesis | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: abiogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation |
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| autogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to autogenesis | - |
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| averageness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: mediocrity |
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| (noun) the state of being that is average; indicates normality but with connotations of mediocrity | - |
| bigeneric | (adjective) resulting from a cross between species of different genera | - |
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| biogenesis | (noun) the production of living organisms from other living organisms | Synonyms: biogeny |
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| (noun) production of a chemical compound by a living organism | Synonyms: biosynthesis |
| biogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the production of living organisms from other living organisms | - |
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| blastogenesis | (noun) theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm | - |
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| (noun) asexual reproduction by budding | - |
| blastogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to blastogenesis | - |
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| cacogenesis | (noun) inability to produce hybrids that are both viable and fertile | - |
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| caenogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis |
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| cainogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis |
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| cenogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis |
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| cenogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to cenogenesis | - |
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| congener | (noun) a whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another | - |
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| (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congeneric, relative |
| (noun) a minor chemical constituent that gives a wine or liquor its distinctive character | - |
| congeneric | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congenerical, congenerous |
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| (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congener, relative |
| congenerical | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerous |
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| congenerous | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerical |
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| cyanogenetic | (adjective) capable of producing cyanide | Synonyms: cyanogenic |
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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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| 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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| digenesis | (noun) alternation of sexual and asexual generations | Synonyms: metagenesis |
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| dysgenesis | (noun) infertility between hybrids | - |
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| endogenetic | (adjective) of rocks formed or occurring beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: endogenic |
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| epigenesis | (noun) a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed | - |
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| gametogenesis | (noun) the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis | - |
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| 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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| generally | (adverb) without regard to specific details or exceptions | Synonyms: broadly, broadly speaking, loosely |
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| (adverb) without distinction of one from others | Synonyms: in general, in the main |
| (adverb) usually; as a rule | Synonyms: by and large, more often than not, mostly |
| generalship | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalcy |
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| (noun) the leadership ability of a military general | - |
| generate | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, get, mother, sire |
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| (verb) produce, create | Synonyms: bring forth |
| (verb) produce (energy) | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: give, render, return, yield |
| generation | (noun) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production | Synonyms: multiplication, propagation |
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| (noun) the production of heat or electricity | - |
| (noun) a coming into being | Synonyms: genesis |
| (noun) group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent | - |
| (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, contemporaries |
| (noun) the normal time between successive generations | - |
| (noun) a stage of technological development or innovation | - |
| generational | (adjective) of or relating to a generation | - |
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| generative | (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: productive |
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| (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: procreative, reproductive |
| generator | (noun) engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction | - |
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| (noun) an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas | - |
| (noun) an electronic device for producing a signal voltage | - |
| (noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: author, source |
| generic | (adjective) relating to or common to or descriptive of all members of a genus | - |
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| (adjective) applicable to an entire class or group | - |
| (adjective) (of drugs) not protected by trademark | - |
| (noun) any product that can be sold without a brand name | - |
| (noun) wine that does not meet the minimum qualifications and standards for use of a designation by appellation of origin (where the grapes are grown) or by varietal content; may only be labeled by proprietary (made-up) name, by general color (such as `vin rouge', `vino rosso', `rotwein', `red wine', etc.), or by general class (as `vin ordinaire', `vin de table', `vino da tavola', `tafelwein', `table wine', etc.) | Synonyms: generic wine |
| generically | (adverb) as sharing a common genus | - |
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| (adverb) without a trademark or brand name | - |
| generosity | (noun) acting generously | Synonyms: unselfishness |
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| (noun) the trait of being willing to give your money or time | Synonyms: generousness |
| generous | (adjective) willing to give and share unstintingly | - |
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| (adjective) not petty in character and mind | - |
| (adjective) more than is usual or necessary | - |
| generously | (adverb) in a generous manner | Synonyms: liberally, munificently |
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| generousness | (noun) the trait of being willing to give your money or time | Synonyms: generosity |
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| genesis | (noun) a coming into being | Synonyms: generation |
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| genet | (noun) agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long ringed tail | Synonyms: Genetta genetta |
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| genetic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of genetics | Synonyms: genetical |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or referring to origin | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or produced by or being a gene | Synonyms: genetical, genic |
| (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, hereditary, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
| genetical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of genetics | Synonyms: genetic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or produced by or being a gene | Synonyms: genetic, genic |
| genetically | (adverb) by genetic mechanisms | - |
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| geneticism | (noun) the belief that all human characteristics are determined genetically | - |
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| geneticist | (noun) a biologist who specializes in genetics | - |
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| genetics | (noun) the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms | Synonyms: genetic science |
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| geneva | (noun) gin made in the Netherlands | Synonyms: Holland gin, Hollands |
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| glycogenesis | (noun) the conversion of glucose to glycogen when the glucose in the blood exceeds the demand | - |
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| (noun) the formation in animals of glycogen from glucose | - |
| gynogenesis | (noun) female parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only maternal chromosomes due to the failure of the sperm to fuse with the egg nucleus | - |
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| haematogenesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| haemogenesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| hematogenesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| hemogenesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| heterogeneity | (noun) the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind | Synonyms: heterogeneousness |
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| heterogeneous | (adjective) consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature | Synonyms: heterogenous |
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| (adjective) originating outside the body | Synonyms: heterogenous |
| heterogeneousness | (noun) the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind | Synonyms: heterogeneity |
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| heterogenesis | (noun) the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal | Synonyms: alternation of generations, xenogenesis |
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| homogeneity | (noun) the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature | Synonyms: homogeneousness |
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| (noun) the quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure | - |
| homogeneous | (adjective) all of the same or similar kind or nature | Synonyms: homogenous |
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| homogeneously | (adverb) all similarly | - |
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