| exterminate | (verb) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many | Synonyms: kill off |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, extirpate, root out, uproot |
| exterminated | (adjective) destroyed completely | Synonyms: annihilated, wiped out |
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| extermination | (noun) the act of exterminating | Synonyms: liquidation |
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| (noun) complete annihilation | Synonyms: extinction |
| exterminator | (noun) someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) | Synonyms: eradicator, terminator |
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| extraordinaire | (adjective) extraordinary in a particular capacity | - |
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| extraordinarily | (adverb) to a surprising degree | Synonyms: inordinately |
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| extraordinariness | (noun) the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered | - |
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| extraordinary | (adjective) beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; special | - |
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| (adjective) far more than usual or expected | Synonyms: over-the-top, sinful |
| (adjective) (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials | - |
| farina | (noun) fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings | - |
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| farinaceous | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy |
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| (adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, starchlike |
| fascinate | (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: grip, spellbind, transfix |
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| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, trance |
| (verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: intrigue |
| fascinated | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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| fascinating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing |
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| (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, gripping, riveting |
| fascinatingly | (adverb) in a fascinating manner | - |
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| fascination | (noun) the capacity to attract intense interest | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, enthrallment |
| (noun) the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror) | Synonyms: captivation |
| festinate | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: hasten, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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| festination | (noun) involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g., Parkinson's disease) | - |
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| fibrinase | (noun) in the clotting of blood thrombin catalyzes factor XIII into its active form (fibrinase) which causes fibrin to form a stable clot | Synonyms: factor XIII |
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| finable | (adjective) liable to a fine | Synonyms: fineable |
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| finagle | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: manage, wangle |
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| finagler | (noun) a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods | Synonyms: wangler |
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| final | (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: concluding, last, terminal |
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| (adjective) conclusive in a process or progression | Synonyms: last, net |
| (adjective) not to be altered or undone | Synonyms: last |
| (noun) an examination administered at the end of an academic term | Synonyms: final exam, final examination |
| (noun) the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament | - |
| finale | (noun) the concluding part of any performance | Synonyms: close, closing curtain, finis |
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| (noun) the closing section of a musical composition | Synonyms: coda |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finis, finish, last, stopping point |
| finalisation | (noun) the act of finalizing | Synonyms: finalization |
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| finalise | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalize, nail down, settle |
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| finalist | (noun) a contestant who reaches the final stages of a competition | - |
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| finality | (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: conclusiveness, decisiveness |
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| finalization | (noun) the act of finalizing | Synonyms: finalisation |
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| finalize | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, nail down, settle |
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| finally | (adverb) as the end result of a succession or process | Synonyms: at last, at long last, in the end, ultimately |
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| (adverb) after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay | Synonyms: eventually |
| (adverb) the item at the end | Synonyms: in conclusion, last, lastly |
| finance | (noun) the commercial activity of providing funds and capital | - |
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| (noun) the management of money and credit and banking and investments | - |
| (noun) the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets | - |
| (verb) obtain or provide money for | - |
| (verb) sell or provide on credit | - |
| finances | (noun) assets in the form of money | Synonyms: cash in hand, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource |
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| financial | (adjective) involving financial matters | Synonyms: fiscal |
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| financially | (adverb) from a financial point of view | - |
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| financier | (noun) a person skilled in large scale financial transactions | Synonyms: moneyman |
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| (verb) conduct financial operations | - |
| financing | (noun) the act of financing | Synonyms: funding |
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| foreordination | (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: predestination, predetermination, preordination |
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| fulminant | (adjective) sudden and severe | - |
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| fulminate | (noun) a salt or ester of fulminic acid | - |
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| (verb) cause to explode violently and with loud noise | - |
| (verb) come on suddenly and intensely | - |
| (verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: rail |
| fulmination | (noun) the act of exploding with noise and violence | - |
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| (noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: diatribe |
| gallina | (noun) small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl | Synonyms: jungle fowl |
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| gallinacean | (noun) heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds | Synonyms: gallinaceous bird |
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| gallinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a gallinacean | - |
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| gastrointestinal | (adjective) of or relating to the stomach and intestines | Synonyms: GI |
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| geminate | (noun) a doubled or long consonant | - |
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| (verb) arrange or combine in pairs | - |
| (verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: reduplicate |
| gemination | (noun) the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something | Synonyms: duplication |
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| (noun) the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect) | - |
| genitourinary | (adjective) of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions | Synonyms: GU |
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| germinal | (adjective) containing seeds of later development | Synonyms: originative, seminal |
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| germinate | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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| (verb) cause to grow or sprout | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| germination | (noun) the origin of some development | - |
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| (noun) the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow | Synonyms: sprouting |
| globigerina | (noun) marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes | - |
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| glossina | (noun) bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. | Synonyms: tsetse, tsetse fly, tzetze, tzetze fly |
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| haemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: hemagglutinate |
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| haemagglutination | (noun) agglutination of red blood cells | Synonyms: hemagglutination |
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| hallucinate | (verb) perceive what is not there; have illusions | - |
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| hallucinating | (adjective) experiencing delirium | Synonyms: delirious |
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| hallucination | (noun) a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea | Synonyms: delusion |
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| (noun) an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode | - |
| (noun) illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder | - |
| hallucinatory | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of hallucination | - |
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| harlequinade | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, japery, prank |
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| hemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: haemagglutinate |
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| hemagglutination | (noun) agglutination of red blood cells | Synonyms: haemagglutination |
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| hereinafter | (adverb) in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc. | Synonyms: hereafter, hereunder |
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| histaminase | (noun) enzyme that acts as a catalyst in converting histidine to histamine | - |
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| hominal | (adjective) of humankind as a species | - |
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| illuminance | (noun) the luminous flux incident on a unit area | Synonyms: illumination |
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| illuminant | (noun) something that can serve as a source of light | - |
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| illuminate | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illumine, light, light up |
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| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| (verb) add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) | - |
| illuminated | (adjective) provided with artificial light | Synonyms: lighted, lit, well-lighted |
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| illuminating | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, informative |
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| illumination | (noun) painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) | Synonyms: miniature |
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| (noun) the luminous flux incident on a unit area | Synonyms: illuminance |
| (noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: clarification, elucidation |
| (noun) the degree of visibility of your environment | - |
| (noun) a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination | Synonyms: light |
| imaginable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: conceivable |
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| imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 | Synonyms: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number |
| imagination | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imaginativeness, vision |
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| (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imaging, mental imagery |
| (noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: resource, resourcefulness |
| imaginative | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: inventive |
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| imaginatively | (adverb) with imagination | - |
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| imaginativeness | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, vision |
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| iminazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, imidazole |
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| inability | (noun) lacking the power to perform | Synonyms: unfitness |
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| (noun) lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something | - |
| inaccessibility | (noun) the quality of not being accessible | - |
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| inaccessible | (adjective) capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all | Synonyms: unaccessible |
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| (adjective) not capable of being obtained | Synonyms: unobtainable, unprocurable, untouchable |
| inaccessibly | (adverb) in an inaccessible manner | - |
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| inaccuracy | (noun) the quality of being inaccurate and having errors | - |
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| inaccurate | (adjective) erroneous | - |
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| inaccurately | (adverb) in an inaccurate manner | - |
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| inaction | (noun) the state of being inactive | Synonyms: inactiveness, inactivity |
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| inactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: deactivate |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
| inactivation | (noun) breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | Synonyms: deactivation |
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| (noun) the process of rendering inactive | - |
| inactive | (adjective) (military) not involved in military operations | Synonyms: nonoperational |
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| (adjective) not active physically or mentally | - |
| (adjective) (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly | - |
| (adjective) lacking activity; lying idle or unused | - |
| (adjective) lacking in energy or will | Synonyms: passive |
| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct | Synonyms: dormant |
| (adjective) not exerting influence or change | - |
| (adjective) not engaged in full-time work | - |
| (adjective) not in physical motion | Synonyms: motionless, static, still |
| (adjective) (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert | - |
| inactiveness | (noun) a disposition to remain inactive or inert | Synonyms: inactivity, inertia |
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| (noun) the state of being inactive | Synonyms: inaction, inactivity |
| inactivity | (noun) being inactive; being less active | - |
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| (noun) a disposition to remain inactive or inert | Synonyms: inactiveness, inertia |
| (noun) the state of being inactive | Synonyms: inaction, inactiveness |
| inadequacy | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate | Synonyms: inadequateness |
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| (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: deficiency, insufficiency |
| (noun) a lack of competence | Synonyms: insufficiency |
| inadequate | (adjective) lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task | Synonyms: unequal |
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| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: jejune, poor, short |
| inadequately | (adverb) in an inadequate manner or to an inadequate degree | - |
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| inadequateness | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate | Synonyms: inadequacy |
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| inadmissibility | (noun) unacceptability as a consequence of not being admissible | - |
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| inadmissible | (adjective) not deserving to be admitted | - |
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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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