| hypoglossal | (noun) supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue muscles | Synonyms: hypoglossal nerve, nervus hypoglosus, twelfth cranial nerve |
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| implosion | (noun) the initial occluded phase of a stop consonant | - |
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| (noun) a sudden inward collapse | - |
| inclose | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
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| (verb) surround completely | Synonyms: close in, enclose, shut in |
| inclosure | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, envelopment |
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| (noun) something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter | Synonyms: enclosure |
| isogloss | (noun) the locative boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature. | Synonyms: heterogloss |
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| laevulose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fructose, fruit sugar, levulose |
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| levulose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fructose, fruit sugar, laevulose |
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| lose | (verb) be set at a disadvantage | Synonyms: suffer |
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| (verb) withdraw, as from reality | - |
| (verb) fail to win | - |
| (verb) suffer the loss of a person through death or removal | - |
| (verb) allow to go out of sight or mind | - |
| (verb) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) fail to get or obtain | - |
| (verb) miss from one's possessions; lose sight of | - |
| (verb) fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense | - |
| (verb) fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit | Synonyms: turn a loss |
| loser | (noun) a gambler who loses a bet | - |
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| (noun) a contestant who loses the contest | Synonyms: also-ran |
| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: failure, nonstarter, unsuccessful person |
| losings | (noun) something lost (especially money lost at gambling) | Synonyms: losses |
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| loss | (noun) the act of losing someone or something | - |
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| (noun) the disadvantage that results from losing something | Synonyms: deprivation |
| (noun) military personnel lost by death or capture | Synonyms: personnel casualty |
| (noun) the experience of losing a loved one | - |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, passing, release |
| (noun) the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue | Synonyms: red, red ink |
| (noun) something that is lost | - |
| (noun) gradual decline in amount or activity | - |
| losses | (noun) something lost (especially money lost at gambling) | Synonyms: losings |
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| lossless | (adjective) characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy | - |
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| lossy | (adjective) characterized by or causing dissipation of energy | - |
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| lost | (adjective) no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered | - |
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| (adjective) spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed | - |
| (adjective) not gained or won | - |
| (adjective) unable to function; without help | Synonyms: helpless |
| (adjective) not caught with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: missed |
| (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up |
| (adjective) deeply absorbed in thought | Synonyms: bemused, preoccupied |
| (adjective) having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity | Synonyms: confused, disoriented |
| (adjective) cannot be recovered or regained | - |
| (noun) people who are destined to die soon | Synonyms: doomed |
| macroglossia | (noun) a congenital disorder characterized by an abnormally large tongue; often seen in cases of Down's syndrome | - |
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| megalosaur | (noun) gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe | Synonyms: megalosaurus |
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| megalosaurus | (noun) gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe | Synonyms: megalosaur |
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| melosa | (noun) South American herb with sticky glandular foliage; source of madia oil | Synonyms: Chile tarweed, madia oil plant, Madia sativa |
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| meticulosity | (noun) strict attention to minute details | Synonyms: meticulousness, punctiliousness, scrupulousness |
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| musculoskeletal | (adjective) relating to muscles and skeleton | - |
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| nebulose | (adjective) lacking definite form or limits | Synonyms: cloudy, nebulous |
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| nitrocellulose | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, guncotton, nitrocotton |
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| nodulose | (adjective) having minute nodules | - |
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| nonexplosive | (adjective) not explosive | - |
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| odontoglossum | (noun) any of numerous and diverse orchids of the genus Odontoglossum having racemes of few to many showy usually large flowers in many colors | - |
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| omphalos | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, bellybutton, navel, omphalus, umbilicus |
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| omphaloskepsis | (noun) literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption | Synonyms: navel-gazing |
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| oscilloscope | (noun) electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities | Synonyms: cathode-ray oscilloscope, CRO, scope |
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| pachycephalosaur | (noun) bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head; largest boneheaded dinosaur ever found | Synonyms: pachycephalosaurus |
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| pachycephalosaurus | (noun) bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head; largest boneheaded dinosaur ever found | Synonyms: pachycephalosaur |
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| palatoglossal | (adjective) relating to the palate and tongue | - |
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| papillose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillary |
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| pasteurellosis | (noun) an acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection | Synonyms: hemorrhagic septicemia |
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| pediculosis | (noun) infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching | Synonyms: lousiness |
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| peplos | (noun) a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist | Synonyms: peplum, peplus |
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| philosopher | (noun) a specialist in philosophy | - |
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| (noun) a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity | - |
| philosophic | (adjective) of or relating to philosophy or philosophers | Synonyms: philosophical |
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| (adjective) characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment | Synonyms: philosophical |
| philosophical | (adjective) of or relating to philosophy or philosophers | Synonyms: philosophic |
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| (adjective) characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment | Synonyms: philosophic |
| philosophically | (adverb) in a philosophic manner | - |
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| (adverb) with respect to philosophy | - |
| philosophicalness | (noun) The state or quality of having the attitude of a philosopher; specifically, of being calm or unflinching in the face of trouble, defeat, or loss. | - |
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| philosophise | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophize |
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| philosophiser | (noun) someone who considers situations from a philosophical point of view | Synonyms: philosophizer |
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| philosophize | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophise |
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| philosophizer | (noun) someone who considers situations from a philosophical point of view | Synonyms: philosophiser |
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| philosophizing | (noun) the exposition (often superficially) of a particular philosophy | - |
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| philosophy | (noun) the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics | - |
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| (noun) a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school | Synonyms: doctrine, ism, philosophical system, school of thought |
| (noun) any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation | - |
| pilose | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilary, pilous |
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| pilosebaceous | (adjective) of or relating to a hair follicle and its sebaceous gland | - |
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| pilosity | (noun) the quality of having hair | Synonyms: hairiness |
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| plosion | (noun) the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant | Synonyms: explosion |
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| plosive | (noun) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | Synonyms: occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop, stop consonant |
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| psilosis | (noun) falling out of hair | - |
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| (noun) a chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and non-tropical forms and in both children and adults; nutrients are not absorbed; symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation | Synonyms: sprue, tropical sprue |
| pyrocellulose | (noun) nitrocellulose containing less nitrogen than guncotton; used in making smokeless powder | - |
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| salmonellosis | (noun) a kind of food poisoning caused by eating foods contaminated with Salmonella typhimurium | - |
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| salpiglossis | (noun) any plant of the genus Salpiglossis | - |
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| semigloss | (noun) a paint that dries with a finish between glossy and flat | - |
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| shigellosis | (noun) an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains | Synonyms: bacillary dysentery |
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| slosh | (verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily | Synonyms: slosh around, slush, slush around |
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| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, splash, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slush, splash, splosh |
| sloshed | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| splosh | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splatter, swash |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, sprinkle |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splash, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, slush, splash |
| squamulose | (adjective) covered with tiny scales | - |
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| stylostixis | (noun) treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin | Synonyms: acupuncture |
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| torulose | (adjective) of a cylindrical or ellipsoid body; swollen and constricted at intervals | - |
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| tuberculosis | (noun) infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages) | Synonyms: T.B., TB |
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| undisclosed | (adjective) not made known | Synonyms: unrevealed |
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| unenclosed | (adjective) not closed in or surrounded or included | - |
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| xylose | (noun) a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics | Synonyms: wood sugar |
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| xylosma | (noun) shrub or small tree grown as an ornamental in mild climates for its neat evergreen foliage and fragrant late flowers; native of China | Synonyms: Xylosma congestum |
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