| familiarly | (adverb) in an intimately familiar manner | - |
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| fascioliasis | (noun) infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot | Synonyms: fasciolosis |
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| filial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring | - |
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| (adjective) designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation | - |
| filiate | (verb) fix the paternity of | - |
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| filiation | (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: ancestry, derivation, lineage |
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| (noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: descent, line of descent, lineage |
| foliaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling the leaf of a plant | - |
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| (adjective) bearing numerous leaves | Synonyms: foliaged, foliose |
| (adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliate, foliated |
| foliage | (noun) (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament | Synonyms: foliation |
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| (noun) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants | Synonyms: leaf, leafage |
| foliaged | (adjective) bearing numerous leaves | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliose |
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| foliate | (adjective) ornamented with foliage or foils | Synonyms: foliated |
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| (adjective) (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves | - |
| (adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliated |
| (verb) grow leaves | - |
| (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: page, paginate |
| (verb) coat or back with metal foil | - |
| (verb) hammer into thin flat foils | - |
| (verb) decorate with leaves | - |
| foliated | (adjective) ornamented with foliage or foils | Synonyms: foliate |
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| (adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliate |
| foliation | (noun) the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves | - |
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| (noun) the work of coating glass with metal foil | - |
| (noun) (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament | Synonyms: foliage |
| (noun) (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock | - |
| (noun) (botany) the process of forming leaves | Synonyms: leafing |
| genitalia | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitals, private parts, privates |
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| glia | (noun) sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system; glial and neural cells together compose the tissue of the central nervous system | Synonyms: neuroglia |
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| glial | (adjective) of or relating to neuroglia | - |
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| glossolalia | (noun) repetitive nonmeaningful speech (especially that associated with a trance state or religious fervor) | - |
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| goliard | (noun) a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs | - |
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| goliath | (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, monster |
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| haemophilia | (noun) congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son | Synonyms: bleeder's disease, hemophilia |
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| haemophiliac | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophile, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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| halliard | (noun) a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag | Synonyms: halyard |
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| hamelia | (noun) any of several flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia | - |
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| harpullia | (noun) any of various tree of the genus Harpullia | - |
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| heliac | (adjective) pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun | Synonyms: heliacal |
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| heliacal | (adjective) pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun | Synonyms: heliac |
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| helianthemum | (noun) any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions | Synonyms: sun rose, sunrose |
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| helianthus | (noun) any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays | Synonyms: sunflower |
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| hemophilia | (noun) congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son | Synonyms: bleeder's disease, haemophilia |
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| hemophiliac | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophile |
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| holocephalian | (noun) fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail | Synonyms: holocephalan |
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| humiliate | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humble, mortify |
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| humiliated | (adjective) made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride | Synonyms: embarrassed, mortified |
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| (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: broken, crushed, humbled, low |
| humiliating | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humbling, mortifying |
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| humiliatingly | (adverb) in a humiliating manner | Synonyms: demeaningly |
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| humiliation | (noun) depriving one of self-esteem | Synonyms: abasement |
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| (noun) an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect | Synonyms: mortification |
| (noun) strong feelings of embarrassment | Synonyms: chagrin, mortification |
| (noun) state of disgrace or loss of self-respect | - |
| iliac | (adjective) of or relating to the ilium | - |
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| kalian | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| kaoliang | (noun) sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching) | - |
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| lacertilian | (adjective) of or relating to lizards | Synonyms: saurian |
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| laelia | (noun) any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors | - |
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| liabilities | (noun) anything that is owed to someone else | - |
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| liability | (noun) the quality of being something that holds you back | - |
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| (noun) an obligation to pay money to another party | Synonyms: financial obligation, indebtedness |
| (noun) the state of being legally obliged and responsible | - |
| liable | (adjective) at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant | Synonyms: apt |
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| (adjective) held legally responsible | - |
| (adjective) (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with | Synonyms: nonimmune, nonresistant, unresistant |
| (adjective) subject to legal action | - |
| liaise | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, mediate |
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| liaison | (noun) a channel for communication between groups | Synonyms: contact, inter-group communication, link |
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| (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, intimacy, involvement |
| liana | (noun) a woody climbing usually tropical plant | - |
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| liar | (noun) a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly | Synonyms: prevaricator |
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| liliaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Liliaceae | - |
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| lobelia | (noun) any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia | - |
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| lobeliaceous | (adjective) belonging to the family Lobeliaceae | - |
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| macroglia | (noun) tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells | Synonyms: astroglia |
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| magnolia | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms | - |
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| (noun) dried bark of various magnolias; used in folk medicine | - |
| mammalian | (adjective) of or relating to the class Mammalia | - |
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| (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammal |
| marginalia | (noun) notes written in the margin | - |
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| marginocephalian | (noun) includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs | Synonyms: Marginocephalia, suborder Marginocephalia |
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| masdevallia | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Masdevallia; tufted evergreen often diminutive plants whose flowers in a remarkable range of colors usually resemble a tricorn with sepals fused at the base to form a tube | - |
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| materfamilias | (noun) a female head of a family or tribe | Synonyms: matriarch |
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| melancholia | (noun) extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears | - |
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| melancholiac | (noun) someone subject to melancholia | Synonyms: melancholic |
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| memorabilia | (noun) a record of things worth remembering | - |
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| mephistophelian | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean |
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| meromelia | (noun) congenital absence of part of an arm or leg | - |
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| mesalliance | (noun) a marriage with a person of inferior social status | - |
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| microglia | (noun) neuroglial tissue of mesodermal origin that can become phagocytic | - |
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| microgliacyte | (noun) a cell of the microglia that may become phagocytic and collect waste products of nerve tissue | - |
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| miliaria | (noun) obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity | Synonyms: heat rash, prickly heat |
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| milliammeter | (noun) a sensitive ammeter graduated in milliamperes | - |
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| milliampere | (noun) one thousandth of an ampere | Synonyms: mA |
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| milliard | (noun) a billion | - |
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| misalliance | (noun) an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) | - |
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| mongolianism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolism, trisomy 21 |
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| monilia | (noun) any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Monilia | - |
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| moniliasis | (noun) an infection caused by fungi of the genus Monilia or Candida (especially Candida albicans) | Synonyms: candidiasis, monilia disease |
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| myelatelia | (noun) any developmental defect of the spinal cord | - |
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| mysophilia | (noun) abnormal attraction to filth | - |
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| necrophilia | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilism |
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| neuroglia | (noun) sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system; glial and neural cells together compose the tissue of the central nervous system | Synonyms: glia |
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| neurogliacyte | (noun) a cell of the neuroglia | Synonyms: glial cell, neuroglial cell |
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| neuroglial | (adjective) relating to or consisting of neuroglia | - |
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| noncompliance | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: disobedience |
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| noncompliant | (adjective) boldly resisting authority or an opposing force | Synonyms: defiant |
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| (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: balker, baulker |
| oligodendroglia | (noun) tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers | Synonyms: oligodendria |
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| overfamiliar | (adjective) taking undue liberties | - |
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| overfamiliarity | (noun) The state of being common or repeated to the point of being unnoticed or annoying. | - |
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| overvaliant | (adjective) having or showing undue valor or boldness | - |
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| pachycheilia | (noun) an abnormal thickness of the lips | - |
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| paedophilia | (noun) a sexual attraction to children | Synonyms: pedophilia |
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| palilalia | (noun) a pathological condition in which a word is rapidly and involuntarily repeated | - |
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| palliasse | (noun) mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust | Synonyms: paillasse |
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| palliate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, relieve |
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| (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, mitigate |
| palliation | (noun) easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause | - |
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| (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: extenuation, mitigation |
| palliative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory |
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| (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, alleviator |
| paraphernalia | (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: appurtenance, gear |
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| paraphilia | (noun) abnormal sexual activity | - |
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| parheliacal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a parhelion | Synonyms: parhelic |
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| parliament | (noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: fantan, sevens |
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| (noun) a legislative assembly in certain countries | - |
| parliamentarian | (noun) an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures | - |
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| parliamentary | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a parliament | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament | - |
| (adjective) in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly | - |
| paterfamilias | (noun) the male head of family or tribe | Synonyms: patriarch |
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| peculiar | (adjective) characteristic of one only; distinctive or special | - |
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| (adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category | Synonyms: particular, special |
| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, queer, rum, rummy, singular |
| (adjective) markedly different from the usual; special | - |
| peculiarity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, rarity |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, speciality, specialness, specialty |
| (noun) an odd or unusual characteristic | Synonyms: distinctive feature, distinguishing characteristic |