| alligator | (noun) either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts | Synonyms: gator |
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| (noun) leather made from alligator's hide | - |
| (verb) crack and acquire the appearance of alligator hide, as from weathering or improper application; of paint and varnishes | - |
| alligatored | (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: cracked |
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| alligatorfish | (noun) small very elongate sea poachers | Synonyms: Aspidophoroides monopterygius |
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| astronavigation | (noun) navigating according to the positions of the stars | Synonyms: celestial navigation |
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| bigamist | (noun) someone who marries one person while already legally married to another | - |
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| bigamous | (adjective) of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first | - |
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| bigamy | (noun) the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred | - |
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| (noun) the state of having two spouses at the same time | - |
| bigarade | (noun) any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock | Synonyms: bitter orange, bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, marmalade orange, Seville orange, sour orange |
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| brigade | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, typically consisting of a small number of battalions | - |
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| (verb) form or unite into a brigade | - |
| brigadier | (noun) a general officer ranking below a major general | Synonyms: brigadier general |
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| brigand | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: bandit |
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| brigandine | (noun) a medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth | - |
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| brigantine | (noun) two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast | Synonyms: hermaphrodite brig |
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| budgerigar | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| cardigan | (noun) knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper | - |
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| castigate | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate |
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| (verb) inflict severe punishment on | - |
| castigation | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: chastisement |
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| (noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over, upbraiding |
| cigar | (noun) a roll of tobacco for smoking | - |
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| cigaret | (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: butt, cigarette, coffin nail, fag |
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| cigarette | (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: butt, cigaret, coffin nail, fag |
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| cigarfish | (noun) small fusiform fish of western Atlantic | Synonyms: Decapterus punctatus, quiaquia, round scad |
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| cigarillo | (noun) small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper | - |
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| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| circumnavigation | (noun) traveling around something (by ship or plane) | - |
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| colligate | (verb) consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle | Synonyms: subsume |
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| (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
| colligation | (noun) the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis | - |
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| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: conjugation, conjunction, junction |
| epigastric | (adjective) lying on or over the stomach | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen | - |
| epigastrium | (noun) the region lying on or over the stomach (just below the sternum) | - |
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| fatigability | (noun) susceptibility to fatigue; a tendency to get tired or lose strength | - |
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| frigate | (noun) a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser | - |
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| (noun) a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries | - |
| fumigant | (noun) a chemical substance used in fumigation | - |
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| fumigate | (verb) treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests | Synonyms: fume |
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| fumigation | (noun) the application of a gas or smoke to something for the purpose of disinfecting it | - |
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| fumigator | (noun) a device that generates a gas for the purpose of disinfecting or eradicating pests | - |
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| (noun) someone whose job is to fumigate | - |
| fustigate | (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: cudgel |
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| gigabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Gb, Gbit |
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| gigabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB, GiB, gibibyte |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB |
| gigacycle | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle per second, gigahertz |
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| gigaflop | (noun) a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating point operations per second. | Synonyms: billion floating point operations per second, GFLOPS |
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| gigahertz | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle, gigacycle per second |
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| gigantic | (adjective) so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth | Synonyms: mammoth |
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| gigantism | (noun) excessive largeness of stature | Synonyms: giantism |
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| (noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: giantism, overgrowth |
| gigatonne | (noun) a unit of weight equivalent to 1 billion tonnes. | Synonyms: Gt |
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| hooligan | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| hooliganism | (noun) willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others | Synonyms: malicious mischief, vandalism |
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| indefatigability | (noun) tireless determination | Synonyms: indefatigableness, tirelessness |
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| indefatigable | (adjective) showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality | Synonyms: tireless, unflagging, unwearying |
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| indefatigableness | (noun) tireless determination | Synonyms: indefatigability, tirelessness |
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| indefatigably | (adverb) with indefatigable energy | Synonyms: inexhaustibly, tirelessly |
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| instigant | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigator, provoker |
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| instigate | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: incite, set off, stir up |
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| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, prompt |
| instigation | (noun) deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord) | Synonyms: fomentation |
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| (noun) the verbal act of urging on | Synonyms: abetment, abettal |
| instigative | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| instigator | (noun) a person who initiates a course of action | Synonyms: initiator |
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| (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigant, provoker |
| investigate | (verb) investigate scientifically | Synonyms: look into |
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| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
| investigating | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigation |
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| investigation | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigating |
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| (noun) an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities | Synonyms: probe |
| investigative | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigatory |
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| investigator | (noun) someone who investigates | - |
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| (noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: research worker, researcher |
| (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: detective, police detective, tec |
| investigatory | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigative |
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| irrigate | (verb) supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting | - |
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| (verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams | Synonyms: water |
| irrigation | (noun) supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc | - |
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| (noun) (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution | - |
| jigaboo | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: nigga, nigger, nigra |
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| ligament | (noun) any connection or unifying bond | - |
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| (noun) a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs | - |
| ligan | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagan, lagend |
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| ligand | (noun) a substance (an atom or molecule or radical or ion) that forms a complex around a central atom | - |
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| ligate | (verb) bind with a bandage or ligature | - |
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| (verb) bind chemically | - |
| (verb) join letters in a ligature when writing | - |
| ligation | (noun) (surgery) tying a duct or blood vessel with a ligature (as to prevent bleeding during surgery) | - |
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| ligature | (noun) the act of tying or binding things together | Synonyms: tying |
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| (noun) something used to tie or bind | Synonyms: binder |
| (noun) thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood) | - |
| (noun) a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone | - |
| (noun) (music) a group of notes connected by a slur | - |
| (noun) character consisting of two or more letters combined into one | - |
| litigant | (noun) (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation | Synonyms: litigator |
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| litigate | (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, process, sue |
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| (verb) engage in legal proceedings | - |
| litigation | (noun) a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights | Synonyms: judicial proceeding |
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| litigator | (noun) (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation | Synonyms: litigant |
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| madrigal | (noun) an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form | - |
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| (verb) sing madrigals | - |
| madrigalist | (noun) a singer of madrigals | - |
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| mitigable | (adjective) capable of being alleviated | - |
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| mitigate | (verb) to temper | - |
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| (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, palliate |
| mitigated | (adjective) made less severe or intense | - |
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| mitigation | (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: extenuation, palliation |
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| (noun) the action of lessening in severity or intensity | Synonyms: moderation |
| (noun) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances | Synonyms: extenuation |
| mitigative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigatory, palliative |
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| mitigatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, palliative |
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| mulligan | (noun) Irish version of burgoo | Synonyms: Irish burgoo, mulligan stew |
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| mulligatawny | (noun) a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base | - |
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| navigability | (noun) the quality of being suitable for the passage of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| navigable | (adjective) able to be sailed on or through safely | - |
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| navigate | (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: pilot |
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| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: sail, voyage |
| (verb) direct carefully and safely | - |
| navigation | (noun) the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place | Synonyms: pilotage, piloting |
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| (noun) the work of a sailor | Synonyms: sailing, seafaring |
| (noun) ship traffic | - |
| navigational | (adjective) of or relating to navigation | - |
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| navigator | (noun) in earlier times, a person who explored by ship | - |
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| (noun) the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course | - |
| (noun) the ship's officer in charge of navigation | Synonyms: sailing master |
| nonobligatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonmandatory |
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| obbligato | (noun) a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission | Synonyms: obligato |
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| (noun) a persistent but subordinate motif | Synonyms: obligato |
| obligate | (adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life | - |
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| (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, oblige |
| (verb) commit in order to fulfill an obligation | - |
| (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, oblige |
| obligated | (adjective) caused by law or conscience to follow a certain course | - |
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| obligation | (noun) the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force | Synonyms: duty, responsibility |
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| (noun) a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply | - |
| (noun) a written promise to repay a debt | Synonyms: certificate of indebtedness, debt instrument |
| (noun) a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor | Synonyms: indebtedness |
| (noun) the state of being obligated to do or pay something | - |
| obligational | (adjective) relating or constituting or qualified to create a legal or financial obligation | - |
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| obligato | (noun) a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission | Synonyms: obbligato |
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| (noun) a persistent but subordinate motif | Synonyms: obbligato |
| obligatorily | (adverb) in a manner that cannot be evaded | Synonyms: compulsorily, mandatorily |
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| (adverb) in an obligatory manner | - |
| obligatory | (adjective) morally or legally constraining or binding | - |
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| (adjective) required by obligation or compulsion or convention | - |
| oligarch | (noun) one of the rulers in an oligarchy | - |
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| oligarchic | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting or characteristic of an oligarchy | Synonyms: oligarchical |
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