| beginner | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: initiate, novice, tiro, tyro |
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| (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: father, founder, founding father |
| beginning | (adjective) serving to begin | Synonyms: first |
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| (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: commencement, start |
| (noun) the first part or section of something | - |
| (noun) the event consisting of the start of something | - |
| (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: origin, root, rootage, source |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| binnacle | (noun) a nonmagnetic housing for a ship's compass (usually in front of the helm) | - |
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| bipinnate | (adjective) of a leaf shape; having doubly pinnate leaflets (as ferns) | - |
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| bipinnatifid | (adjective) pinnatifid with the segments also pinnatifid | - |
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| breadwinner | (noun) one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents | - |
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| cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
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| cachinnation | (noun) loud convulsive laughter | - |
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| cinnabar | (adjective) of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | Synonyms: Chinese-red, vermilion, vermillion |
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| (noun) large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort | Synonyms: Callimorpha jacobeae, cinnabar moth |
| (noun) a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury | - |
| cinnamene | (noun) a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene | Synonyms: phenylethylene, styrene, vinylbenzene |
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| cinnamon | (noun) spice from the dried aromatic bark of the Ceylon cinnamon tree; used as rolled strips or ground | - |
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| (noun) tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon | Synonyms: Ceylon cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum |
| (noun) aromatic bark used as a spice | Synonyms: cinnamon bark |
| dinner | (noun) the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday | - |
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| (noun) a party of people assembled to have dinner together | Synonyms: dinner party |
| dinnertime | (noun) the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal | Synonyms: suppertime |
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| dinnerware | (noun) the tableware (plates and platters and serving bowls etc.) used in serving a meal | - |
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| djinn | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinni, djinny, genie, jinnee, jinni |
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| djinni | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinn, djinny, genie, jinnee, jinni |
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| djinny | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinn, djinni, genie, jinnee, jinni |
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| finnan | (noun) haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter | Synonyms: finnan haddie, finnan haddock, smoked haddock |
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| grinner | (noun) a person who grins | - |
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| grinning | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grin, smile, smiling |
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| hinny | (noun) hybrid offspring of a male horse and a female donkey or ass; usually sterile | - |
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| imparipinnate | (adjective) (a leaf shape) pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex | Synonyms: odd-pinnate |
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| inn | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostel, hostelry, lodge |
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| innards | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: entrails, insides, viscera |
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| innate | (adjective) not established by conditioning or learning | Synonyms: unconditioned, unlearned |
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| (adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: born, natural |
| (adjective) present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development | Synonyms: congenital, inborn |
| innately | (adverb) in an innate manner | - |
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| innateness | (noun) the quality of being innate | - |
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| inner | (adjective) located or occurring within or closer to a center | - |
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| (adjective) exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence | - |
| (adjective) inside or closer to the inside of the body | - |
| (adjective) innermost or essential | Synonyms: internal, intimate |
| (adjective) located inward | Synonyms: interior, internal |
| (adjective) confined to an exclusive group | Synonyms: inside, privileged |
| innermost | (adjective) situated or occurring farthest within | Synonyms: inmost |
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| (adjective) being deepest within the self | Synonyms: inmost |
| innersole | (noun) the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests | Synonyms: insole |
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| innervate | (verb) stimulate to action | - |
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| (verb) supply nerves to (some organ or body part) | - |
| innervation | (noun) the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region | - |
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| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, irritation |
| inning | (noun) (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat | Synonyms: frame |
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| innings | (noun) the batting turn of a cricket player or team | - |
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| innkeeper | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, host |
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| innocence | (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, ingenuousness, naturalness |
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| (noun) a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense | - |
| (noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: pureness, purity, sinlessness, whiteness |
| innocency | (noun) an innocent quality or thing or act | - |
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| innocense | (noun) white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California | Synonyms: Collinsia bicolor, Collinsia heterophylla, purple chinese houses |
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| innocent | (adjective) free from evil or guilt | Synonyms: clean-handed, guiltless |
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| (adjective) lacking intent or capacity to injure | Synonyms: innocuous |
| (adjective) lacking in sophistication or worldliness | Synonyms: ingenuous |
| (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, destitute, devoid, free |
| (adjective) (used of things) lacking sense or awareness | - |
| (adjective) not knowledgeable about something specified | Synonyms: unacquainted |
| (adjective) free from sin | Synonyms: impeccant, sinless |
| (noun) a person who lacks knowledge of evil | Synonyms: inexperienced person |
| innocently | (adverb) in a naively innocent manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a not unlawful manner | - |
| innocuous | (adjective) not injurious to physical or mental health | - |
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| (adjective) lacking intent or capacity to injure | Synonyms: innocent |
| (adjective) not causing disapproval | Synonyms: unobjectionable |
| innovate | (verb) bring something new to an environment | Synonyms: introduce |
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| innovation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation | Synonyms: invention |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, excogitation, invention |
| innovational | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: groundbreaking, innovative |
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| innovative | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: groundbreaking, innovational |
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| (adjective) ahead of the times | Synonyms: advanced, forward-looking, modern |
| innovativeness | (noun) originality by virtue of introducing new ideas | - |
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| innovator | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: groundbreaker, pioneer, trailblazer |
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| innoxious | (adjective) having no adverse effect | - |
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| innuendo | (noun) an indirect (and usually malicious) implication | Synonyms: insinuation |
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| innumerable | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| innumerableness | (noun) a number beyond counting | Synonyms: countlessness |
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| innumerate | (adjective) lacking knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts and methods | - |
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| innumerous | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| jinnee | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinn, djinni, djinny, genie, jinni |
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| jinni | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinn, djinni, djinny, genie, jinnee |
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| linnet | (noun) small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead | Synonyms: Carduelis cannabina, lintwhite |
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| (noun) small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Carpodacus mexicanus, house finch |
| minniebush | (noun) low shrub of the eastern United States with downy twigs | Synonyms: Menziesia pilosa, minnie bush |
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| minnow | (noun) very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams | Synonyms: Phoxinus phoxinus |
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| ninny | (noun) a stupid foolish person | Synonyms: nincompoop, poop |
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| paripinnate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex | Synonyms: abruptly-pinnate, even-pinnate |
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| picaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: piccaninny, pickaninny |
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| piccaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, pickaninny |
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| pickaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, piccaninny |
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| pinna | (noun) the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear | Synonyms: auricle, ear |
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| (noun) division of a usually pinnately divided leaf | Synonyms: pinnule |
| pinnace | (noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: cutter, ship's boat, tender |
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| pinnacle | (noun) (architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress or tower | - |
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| (noun) a lofty peak | - |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| (verb) raise on or as if on a pinnacle | - |
| (verb) surmount with a pinnacle | - |
| pinnate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis | Synonyms: pinnated |
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| pinnated | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis | Synonyms: pinnate |
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| pinnately | (adverb) having a pinnate shape | - |
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| pinnatifid | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) cleft nearly to the midrib in broad divisions not separated into distinct leaflets | - |
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| pinnatiped | (noun) aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers | Synonyms: pinniped, pinniped mammal |
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| pinnatisect | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) cleft nearly to the midrib in narrow divisions not separated into distinct leaflets | - |
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| pinner | (noun) a woman's cap with two long flaps pinned on | - |
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| pinning | (noun) a mutual promise of a couple not to date anyone else; on college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a fraternity pin | - |
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| pinniped | (noun) aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers | Synonyms: pinnatiped, pinniped mammal |
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| pinnule | (noun) division of a usually pinnately divided leaf | Synonyms: pinna |
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| pinny | (noun) a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing | Synonyms: jumper, pinafore |
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| plainness | (noun) the appearance of being plain and unpretentious | - |
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| (noun) an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful | Synonyms: homeliness |
| (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuity, perspicuousness |
| (noun) the state of being unmixed with other material | - |
| prizewinning | (adjective) holding first place in a contest | Synonyms: champion |
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| shinney | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinny |
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| shinny | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinney |
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| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, skin, sputter, struggle |
| sinner | (noun) a person who sins (without repenting) | Synonyms: evildoer |
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| sinning | (adjective) transgressing a moral or divine law | - |
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| (noun) an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will | Synonyms: sin |
| skinned | (adjective) having skin of a specified kind | - |
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| skinner | (noun) a person who prepares or deals in animal skins | - |
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| (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer |
| skinniness | (noun) the bodily property of lacking flesh | Synonyms: scrawniness |
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| skinny | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling skin | - |
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| (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching |
| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, underweight, weedy |
| (adjective) fitting snugly | Synonyms: tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightfitting, tightly fitting |
| (noun) confidential information about a topic or person | - |
| spinnability | (noun) the quality of being suitable for spinning or the capability of being spun (used of textile fibers) | - |
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| spinnable | (adjective) capable of being spun into fibres | Synonyms: spinnbar |
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| (adjective) capable or susceptible to being influenced by biased information | - |
| spinnaker | (noun) a large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind | - |
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| spinnbar | (adjective) capable of being spun into fibres | Synonyms: spinnable |
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| spinnbarkeit | (noun) the capacity of a viscous liquid (especially the cervical mucus) to be drawn out into a strand or blown up into a bubble | - |
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| spinner | (noun) fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water | - |
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| (noun) board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game | - |
| (noun) someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) | Synonyms: spinster, thread maker |
| spinney | (noun) a copse that shelters game | - |
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| spinning | (noun) creating thread | - |
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| thinned | (adjective) mixed with water | Synonyms: cut, weakened |
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| thinner | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: diluent, dilutant |
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| thinness | (noun) the property of having little body fat | Synonyms: leanness, spareness |
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| (noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: slenderness, tenuity |
| (noun) a consistency of low viscosity | - |
| (noun) the property of being very narrow or thin | Synonyms: fineness |
| (noun) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | Synonyms: spareness, sparseness, sparsity |
| (noun) The property of lacking substance or strength. | - |
| thinning | (noun) the act of diluting something | Synonyms: cutting |
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| tinned | (adjective) sealed in a can or jar | Synonyms: canned |
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