incrementation | (noun) the operation of adding one to the operand. | - |
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indictment | (noun) a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense | Synonyms: bill of indictment |
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(noun) an accusation of wrongdoing | - |
indorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: endorsement |
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(noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, sanction, warrant |
(noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, endorsement |
(noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: endorsement, second, secondment |
(noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: endorsement |
inducement | (noun) act of bringing about a desired result | Synonyms: inducing |
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(noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: incentive, motivator |
indument | (noun) a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect | Synonyms: indumentum |
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indumentum | (noun) a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect | Synonyms: indument |
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infotainment | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary, documentary film |
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infringement | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation |
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(noun) an act that disregards an agreement or a right | Synonyms: violation |
installment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, instalment |
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(noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, instalment |
(noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: instalment |
(noun) a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals | - |
instalment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, installment |
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(noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, installment |
(noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: installment |
instillment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instilment |
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instilment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instillment |
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instrument | (noun) the means whereby some act is accomplished | Synonyms: tool |
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(noun) a device that requires skill for proper use | - |
(noun) any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds | Synonyms: musical instrument |
(noun) (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right | Synonyms: legal document, legal instrument, official document |
(noun) the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process | Synonyms: instrumental role |
(noun) a person used by another to gain an end | Synonyms: cat's-paw, pawn |
(verb) address a legal document to | - |
(verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrumentate |
(verb) equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling | - |
instrumental | (adjective) relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments | - |
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(adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid | Synonyms: implemental, subservient |
instrumentalism | (noun) a system of pragmatic philosophy that considers idea to be instruments that should guide our actions and their value is measured by their success | - |
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instrumentalist | (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: musician, player |
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instrumentality | (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentation, means |
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(noun) the quality of being instrumental for some purpose | - |
(noun) a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose | - |
instrumentate | (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrument |
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instrumentation | (noun) the act of providing or using the instruments needed for some implementation | - |
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(noun) the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments | Synonyms: orchestration |
(noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, means |
(noun) the instruments called for in a musical score or arrangement for a band or orchestra | - |
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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interdepartmental | (adjective) between or among departments | - |
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(adverb) between departments | - |
interment | (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: burial, entombment, inhumation, sepulture |
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internment | (noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) | Synonyms: imprisonment |
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(noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, impoundment, poundage |
(noun) confinement during wartime | - |
intradepartmental | (adjective) within a department | - |
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intrenchment | (noun) an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches | Synonyms: entrenchment |
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investment | (noun) the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | Synonyms: investing |
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(noun) the act of putting on robes or vestments | - |
(noun) the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | Synonyms: investiture |
(noun) outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism | - |
(noun) the commitment of something other than money (time, energy, or effort) to a project with the expectation of some worthwhile result | - |
(noun) money that is invested with an expectation of profit | Synonyms: investment funds |
involvement | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: engagement, involution, participation |
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(noun) a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something | Synonyms: interest |
(noun) a connection of inclusion or containment | - |
(noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, intimacy, liaison |
(noun) the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) | Synonyms: participation |
judgement | (noun) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | Synonyms: judgment, judicial decision |
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(noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: assessment, judgment |
(noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgment, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment |
(noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judging, judgment |
(noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
(noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgment, mind |
(noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgment, legal opinion, opinion |
judgment | (noun) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | Synonyms: judgement, judicial decision |
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(noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: assessment, judgement |
(noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment |
(noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judging |
(noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, sagaciousness, sagacity |
(noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgement, mind |
(noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgement, legal opinion, opinion |
judgmental | (adjective) depending on judgment | - |
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jument | (noun) an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work | Synonyms: beast of burden |
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jumentous | (adjective) smelling strongly like a beast of burden | - |
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lament | (noun) a mournful poem; a lament for the dead | Synonyms: elegy |
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(noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, dirge, requiem, threnody |
(noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lamentation, plaint, wail |
(verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, deplore |
(verb) express grief verbally | Synonyms: keen |
lamentable | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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lamentably | (adverb) in an unfortunate or deplorable manner | Synonyms: deplorably, sadly, woefully |
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lamentation | (noun) the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | Synonyms: mourning |
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(noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lament, plaint, wail |
lamented | (adjective) mourned or grieved for | - |
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lamenter | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, mourner, sorrower |
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lamenting | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: wailful, wailing |
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ligament | (noun) any connection or unifying bond | - |
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(noun) a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs | - |
lineament | (noun) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin | Synonyms: feature |
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(noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | Synonyms: character, quality |
liniment | (noun) a medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain | Synonyms: embrocation |
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lodgement | (noun) the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily | Synonyms: lodging, lodgment |
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lodgment | (noun) the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily | Synonyms: lodgement, lodging |
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loment | (noun) seedpods that are constricted between the seeds and that break apart when mature into single-seeded segments | - |
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macroelement | (noun) a chemical element required in relatively large quantities for the normal physiologic processes of the body. | Synonyms: major mineral |
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maladjustment | (noun) the condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability | - |
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malignment | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: smear, vilification |
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malnourishment | (noun) not having enough food to develop or function normally | Synonyms: undernourishment |
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maltreatment | (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage |
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management | (noun) the act of managing something | Synonyms: direction |
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(noun) those in charge of running a business | - |
maturement | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, ripening |
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measurement | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measuring, mensuration |
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medicament | (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medication, medicinal drug, medicine |
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memento | (noun) a reminder of past events | Synonyms: souvenir |
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mental | (adjective) involving the mind or an intellectual process | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the mind | - |
(adjective) of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks | - |
(adjective) of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: genial |
(adjective) affected by a disorder of the mind | - |
mentalism | (noun) (philosophy) a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness | - |
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mentality | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, wit |
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(noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: mind-set, mindset, outlook |
mentally | (adverb) in your mind | - |
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mentation | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, thinking, thought, thought process |
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mentee | (noun) one who is being mentored | Synonyms: mentoree |
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menthol | (noun) a lotion containing menthol which gives it the smell of mint | - |
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(noun) a crystalline compound that has the cool and minty taste and odor that occurs naturally in peppermint oil; used as a flavoring and in medicine to relieve itching, pain, and nasal congestion | - |
mentholated | (adjective) containing, or impregnated with, menthol | - |
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mention | (noun) an official recognition of merit | Synonyms: honorable mention |
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(noun) a remark that calls attention to something or someone | Synonyms: reference |
(noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, quotation, reference |
(verb) make mention of | Synonyms: note, observe, remark |
(verb) commend | Synonyms: cite |
(verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, name, refer |
mentioner | (noun) a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally | - |
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mentor | (noun) a wise and trusted guide and advisor | Synonyms: wise man |
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(verb) serve as a teacher or trusted counselor | - |
mentoree | (noun) one who is being mentored | Synonyms: mentee |
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mentum | (noun) a projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin | - |
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(noun) the protruding part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: chin |
(noun) a projection like a chin formed by the sepals and base of the column in some orchids | - |
merriment | (noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing | Synonyms: fun, playfulness |
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(noun) a gay feeling | Synonyms: gaiety |
militainment | (noun) entertainment with military themes in which the Department of Defense is celebrated | - |
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misalignment | (noun) the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned | - |
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misgovernment | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misrule |
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mismanagement | (noun) management that is careless or inefficient | Synonyms: misdirection |
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misplacement | (noun) faulty position | Synonyms: malposition |
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misstatement | (noun) a statement that contains a mistake | - |
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mistreatment | (noun) the practice of treating (someone or something) badly | - |
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moment | (noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: consequence, import |
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(noun) the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value | - |
(noun) a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force) | - |
(noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: instant, minute, second |
(noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: bit, minute, mo, second |
(noun) at this time | Synonyms: here and now, present moment |
momentaneous | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, fugitive, momentary |
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momentarily | (adverb) at any moment | Synonyms: momently |
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(adverb) for an instant or moment | Synonyms: momently |
momentary | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous |
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momently | (adverb) at any moment | Synonyms: momentarily |
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(adverb) for an instant or moment | Synonyms: momentarily |
momentous | (adjective) of very great significance | - |
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momentously | (adverb) in a momentous way | - |
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momentousness | (noun) utmost importance | - |
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momentum | (noun) an impelling force or strength | Synonyms: impulse |
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(noun) the product of a body's mass and its velocity | - |
monument | (noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events | Synonyms: memorial |
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(noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | Synonyms: repository |
(noun) an important site that is marked and preserved as public property | - |
monumental | (adjective) relating or belonging to or serving as a monument | - |
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(adjective) imposing in size or bulk or solidity | Synonyms: massive, monolithic |
(adjective) of outstanding significance | - |
monumentalise | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalize |
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monumentalize | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalise |
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movement | (noun) a change of position that does not entail a change of location | Synonyms: motility, motion, move |
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(noun) the act of changing the location of something | - |
(noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort |
(noun) the act of changing location from one place to another | Synonyms: motion, move |
(noun) the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock) | - |
(noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: drift, trend |
(noun) a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata | - |
(noun) a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something | Synonyms: motion |
(noun) a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals | Synonyms: front, social movement |
(noun) an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object | Synonyms: apparent motion, apparent movement, motion |
(noun) a euphemism for defecation | Synonyms: bm, bowel movement |
muniments | (noun) deeds and other documentary evidence of title to land | - |
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nonaccomplishment | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonachievement |
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nonachievement | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonaccomplishment |
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nonalignment | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalinement |
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nonalinement | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalignment |
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nondevelopment | (noun) failure of normal development to occur | - |
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nonjudgmental | (adjective) refraining from making judgments especially ones based on personal opinions or standards | - |
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nonpayment | (noun) the deliberate act of failing to pay money | Synonyms: evasion |
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(noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: default, nonremittal |
(noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: default, nonremittal |