| gunpoint | (noun) the gun muzzle's direction | Synonyms: point |
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| helminth | (noun) worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes | Synonyms: parasitic worm |
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| helminthiasis | (noun) infestation of the body with parasitic worms | - |
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| helminthic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, anthelmintic, parasiticidal |
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| (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, anthelmintic, vermifuge |
| hint | (noun) an indirect suggestion | Synonyms: breath, intimation |
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| (noun) a slight indication | Synonyms: clue |
| (noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, lead, steer, tip, wind |
| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
| (noun) a just detectable amount | Synonyms: suggestion, tint, trace |
| (verb) drop a hint; intimate by a hint | Synonyms: suggest |
| hinterland | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, boondocks |
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| hoofprint | (noun) a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal | Synonyms: hoof-mark, hoof mark |
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| horsemint | (noun) a coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States | Synonyms: Mentha longifolia |
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| (noun) tall erect perennial or annual having lanceolate leaves and heads of purple-spotted creamy flowers; many subspecies grown from eastern to southwestern United States and in Mexico | Synonyms: Monarda punctata |
| (noun) an annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico | Synonyms: lemon mint, Monarda citriodora |
| housepaint | (noun) paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house | Synonyms: house paint |
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| hyacinth | (noun) any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs | - |
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| (noun) a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone | Synonyms: jacinth |
| hyperintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: superintelligence |
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| imprint | (noun) a device produced by pressure on a surface | - |
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| (noun) a distinctive influence | - |
| (noun) an impression produced by pressure or printing | Synonyms: embossment |
| (noun) an identification of a publisher; a publisher's name along with the date and address and edition that is printed at the bottom of the title page | - |
| (noun) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing | Synonyms: depression, impression |
| (verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | Synonyms: impress |
| (verb) establish or impress firmly in the mind | Synonyms: form |
| imprinting | (noun) a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established | - |
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| intact | (adjective) (used of domestic animals) sexually competent | Synonyms: entire |
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| (adjective) undamaged in any way | - |
| (adjective) (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken | Synonyms: inviolate |
| (adjective) constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged | Synonyms: entire, integral |
| intactness | (noun) the state of being unimpaired | - |
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| intaglio | (noun) glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo) | Synonyms: diaglyph |
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| (noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: gravure, intaglio printing |
| intake | (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: consumption, ingestion, uptake |
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| (noun) the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing | Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, inspiration |
| (noun) an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container | Synonyms: inlet |
| intangibility | (noun) the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch | Synonyms: impalpability, intangibleness |
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| intangible | (adjective) incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch | Synonyms: impalpable |
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| (adjective) (of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value | - |
| (adjective) lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen | Synonyms: nonphysical |
| (adjective) hard to pin down or identify | - |
| (noun) assets that are saleable though not material or physical | Synonyms: intangible asset |
| intangibleness | (noun) the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch | Synonyms: impalpability, intangibility |
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| integer | (noun) any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero | Synonyms: whole number |
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| integral | (adjective) of or denoted by an integer | - |
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| (adjective) existing as an essential constituent or characteristic | Synonyms: built-in, constitutional, inbuilt, inherent |
| (adjective) constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged | Synonyms: entire, intact |
| (noun) the result of a mathematical integration; F(x) is the integral of f(x) if dF/dx = f(x) | - |
| integrality | (noun) the state of being total and complete | Synonyms: entireness, entirety, totality |
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| integrally | (adverb) in an integral manner | - |
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| integrate | (verb) make into a whole or make part of a whole | Synonyms: incorporate |
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| (verb) become one; become integrated | - |
| (verb) calculate the integral of; calculate by integration | - |
| (verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: desegregate, mix |
| integrated | (adjective) not segregated; designated as available to all races or groups | - |
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| (adjective) formed into a whole or introduced into another entity | - |
| (adjective) resembling a living organism in organization or development | Synonyms: structured |
| (adjective) formed or united into a whole | Synonyms: incorporate, incorporated, merged, unified |
| integrating | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: desegregation, integration |
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| integration | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: desegregation, integrating |
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| (noun) the act of combining into an integral whole | Synonyms: consolidation |
| (noun) an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined | - |
| integrative | (adjective) combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole | - |
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| (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: consolidative |
| integrator | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the area of an irregular plane figure | Synonyms: planimeter |
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| integrity | (noun) moral soundness | - |
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| (noun) an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting | Synonyms: unity, wholeness |
| integument | (noun) an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell | - |
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| integumental | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumentary |
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| integumentary | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumental |
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| intellect | (noun) the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination | Synonyms: reason, understanding |
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| (noun) knowledge and intellectual ability | Synonyms: mind |
| (noun) a person who uses the mind creatively | Synonyms: intellectual |
| intellection | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process |
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| intellectual | (adjective) appealing to or using the intellect | - |
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| (adjective) involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct | Synonyms: cerebral |
| (adjective) of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind | Synonyms: noetic, rational |
| (noun) a person who uses the mind creatively | Synonyms: intellect |
| intellectualisation | (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict | Synonyms: intellectualization |
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| intellectualization | (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict | Synonyms: intellectualisation |
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| intellectually | (adverb) of or relating to the intellect | - |
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| intelligence | (noun) the operation of gathering information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence activity, intelligence operation |
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| (noun) the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience | - |
| (noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: news, tidings, word |
| (noun) secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy) | Synonyms: intelligence information |
| (noun) a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence agency, intelligence service |
| intelligent | (adjective) having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree | - |
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| (adjective) endowed with the capacity to reason | Synonyms: reasoning, thinking |
| (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: healthy, level-headed, levelheaded, sound |
| (adjective) possessing sound knowledge | Synonyms: well-informed |
| intelligently | (adverb) in an intelligent manner | - |
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| intelligentsia | (noun) an educated and intellectual elite | Synonyms: clerisy |
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| intelligibility | (noun) the quality of language that is comprehensible | - |
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| intelligible | (adjective) well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: apprehensible, graspable, perceivable, understandable |
| intelligibly | (adverb) in an intelligible manner | Synonyms: clearly, understandably |
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| intemperance | (noun) excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence | Synonyms: intemperateness, self-indulgence |
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| (noun) consumption of alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: intemperateness |
| (noun) the quality of being intemperate | - |
| intemperate | (adjective) excessive in behavior | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes | - |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: hard, heavy |
| intemperately | (adverb) indulging excessively | Synonyms: hard, heavily |
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| intemperateness | (noun) excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence | Synonyms: intemperance, self-indulgence |
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| (noun) consumption of alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: intemperance |
| intend | (verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: mean, think |
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| (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, destine, specify |
| (verb) mean or intend to express or convey | Synonyms: mean |
| (verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: mean, signify, stand for |
| intended | (adjective) resulting from one's intentions | - |
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| (adjective) future; betrothed | - |
| intense | (adjective) possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree | - |
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| (adjective) (of color) having the highest saturation | Synonyms: vivid |
| (adjective) extremely sharp or severe | Synonyms: acute |
| intensely | (adverb) to a high degree; extremely; in high concentration or density | - |
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| (adverb) to a great depth psychologically or emotionally | Synonyms: deeply, profoundly |
| intensification | (noun) action that makes something stronger or more extreme | - |
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| (noun) the act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film) | - |
| intensified | (adjective) made more intense | - |
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| intensifier | (noun) a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies | Synonyms: intensive |
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| intensify | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: deepen |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, deepen, heighten |
| (verb) increase in extent or intensity | Synonyms: escalate, step up |
| (verb) make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark | - |
| intensifying | (adjective) increasing in strength or intensity | - |
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| intension | (noun) what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression | Synonyms: connotation |
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| intensional | (adjective) used of the set of attributes that distinguish the referents of a given word | - |
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| intensity | (noun) high level or degree; the property of being intense | Synonyms: intensiveness |
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| (noun) chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue | Synonyms: chroma, saturation, vividness |
| (noun) the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) | Synonyms: loudness, volume |
| (noun) the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation) | Synonyms: intensity level, strength |
| intensive | (adjective) of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor | - |
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| (adjective) tending to give force or emphasis | - |
| (adjective) characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form | - |
| (noun) a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies | Synonyms: intensifier |
| intensively | (adverb) in an intensive manner | - |
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| intensiveness | (noun) high level or degree; the property of being intense | Synonyms: intensity |
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| intent | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, engrossed, enwrapped, rapt, wrapped |
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| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, design, intention, purpose |
| (noun) the intended meaning of a communication | Synonyms: purport, spirit |
| intention | (noun) an act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out | - |
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| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, design, intent, purpose |
| (noun) (usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal | - |
| intentional | (adjective) done or made or performed with purpose and intent | Synonyms: designed, unintentional |
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| (adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: deliberate, knowing |
| intentionality | (noun) expressive of intentions | - |
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| intentionally | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, on purpose, purposely |
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| intently | (adverb) with strained or eager attention | - |
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| intentness | (noun) the quality of being intent and concentrated | Synonyms: engrossment |
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| inter | (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: bury, entomb, inhume, lay to rest |
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| interact | (verb) act together or towards others or with others | - |
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| interaction | (noun) a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting | - |
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| (noun) (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons | Synonyms: fundamental interaction |
| interactional | (adjective) capable of acting on or influencing each other | Synonyms: interactive |
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| interactive | (adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more) | Synonyms: synergistic |
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| (adjective) capable of acting on or influencing each other | Synonyms: interactional |
| interbrain | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: betweenbrain, diencephalon, thalmencephalon |
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| interbred | (adjective) bred of closely related parents | - |
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| interbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize |
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| interbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing |
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| (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: crossbreeding, miscegenation |
| intercalary | (adjective) having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year: | - |
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| intercalate | (verb) insert (days) in a calendar | - |
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| intercalation | (noun) an insertion into a calendar | Synonyms: embolism |
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| intercede | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| intercellular | (adjective) located between cells | - |
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| intercept | (noun) the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis | - |
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| (verb) seize on its way | Synonyms: stop |
| (verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: bug, tap, wiretap |
| interception | (noun) the act of intercepting; preventing something from proceeding or arriving | - |
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| (noun) (American football) the act of catching a football by a player on the opposing team | - |
| interceptor | (noun) a fast maneuverable fighter plane designed to intercept enemy aircraft | - |
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| intercessio | (noun) the right of veto possessed by Roman magistrates. | - |
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| intercession | (noun) the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) | Synonyms: intervention |
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| (noun) a prayer to God on behalf of another person | - |
| intercessor | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intermediary, intermediator, mediator |
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| interchange | (noun) the act of changing one thing for another thing | Synonyms: exchange |
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| (noun) mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) | Synonyms: give-and-take, reciprocation |
| (noun) reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries) | Synonyms: exchange |
| (noun) a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams | - |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, switch, tack |
| (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: counterchange, transpose |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: change, exchange |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, replace, substitute |
| interchangeability | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, fungibility, interchangeableness |
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| interchangeable | (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, similar, standardised, standardized |
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| (adjective) (mathematics, logic) such that the arguments or roles can be interchanged | - |
| interchangeableness | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, fungibility, interchangeability |
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| interchangeably | (adverb) in an interchangeable manner | - |
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| interchurch | (adjective) occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations | Synonyms: interdenominational |
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| intercollegiate | (adjective) used of competition between colleges or universities | - |
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