| earmuff | (noun) either of a pair of ear coverings (usually connected by a headband) that are worn to keep the ears warm in cold weather | - |
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| emu | (noun) any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism | Synonyms: electromagnetic unit |
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| (noun) large Australian flightless bird similar to the ostrich but smaller | Synonyms: Dromaius novaehollandiae, Emu novaehollandiae |
| emulate | (verb) compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with | - |
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| (verb) strive to equal or match, especially by imitating | - |
| (verb) imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software | - |
| emulation | (noun) effort to equal or surpass another | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) technique of one machine obtaining the same results as another | - |
| (noun) ambition to equal or excel | - |
| emulator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, imitator |
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| emulous | (adjective) characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation | - |
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| (adjective) eager to surpass others | Synonyms: rivalrous |
| emulously | (adverb) in a competitively imitative manner | - |
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| emulsifier | (noun) a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion | - |
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| emulsify | (verb) form into or become an emulsion | - |
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| (verb) cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion | - |
| emulsion | (noun) a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin | Synonyms: photographic emulsion |
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| (noun) (chemistry) a colloid in which both phases are liquids | - |
| emunctorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: purificator, purificatorium |
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| excommunicate | (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: curse, unchurch |
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| (verb) oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree | - |
| excommunication | (noun) the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society | Synonyms: excision |
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| (noun) the state of being excommunicated | Synonyms: censure, exclusion |
| extramural | (adjective) carried on outside the bounds of an institution or community | - |
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| extremum | (noun) the point located farthest from the middle of something | Synonyms: extreme, extreme point |
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| (noun) the most extreme possible amount or value | Synonyms: peak |
| famulus | (noun) a close attendant (as to a scholar) | - |
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| femur | (noun) the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | Synonyms: femoris, thighbone |
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| formula | (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, normal, pattern, rule |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: expression |
| (noun) a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle | - |
| (noun) directions for making something | Synonyms: recipe |
| (noun) a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements | Synonyms: chemical formula |
| (noun) a liquid food for infants | - |
| formulaic | (adjective) characterized by or in accordance with some formula | - |
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| formularise | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularize |
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| formularize | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularise |
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| formulary | (adjective) of or relating to or of the nature of a formula | - |
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| (noun) (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation | Synonyms: pharmacopeia |
| formulate | (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, give voice, phrase, word |
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| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: develop, explicate |
| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, invent |
| (verb) prepare according to a formula | - |
| formulated | (adjective) devised; developed according to an orderly plan | - |
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| formulation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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| (noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: expression |
| (noun) a substance prepared according to a formula | Synonyms: preparation |
| gamut | (noun) a complete extent or range: | - |
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| (noun) the entire scale of musical notes | - |
| gemmule | (noun) the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity | - |
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| ginglymus | (noun) a freely moving joint in which the bones are so articulated as to allow extensive movement in one plane | Synonyms: ginglymoid joint, hinge joint |
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| gomuti | (noun) Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Arenga pinnata, gomuti palm, sugar palm |
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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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| hippopotamus | (noun) massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa | Synonyms: hippo, Hippopotamus amphibius, river horse |
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| homunculus | (noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: manikin, mannikin |
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| (noun) a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell | - |
| hummus | (noun) a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East | Synonyms: hommos, hoummos, humous, humus |
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| humus | (noun) a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East | Synonyms: hommos, hoummos, hummus, humous |
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| (noun) partially decomposed organic matter; the organic component of soil | - |
| hypothalamus | (noun) a basal part of the diencephalon governing autonomic nervous system | - |
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| ignoramus | (noun) an ignorant person | Synonyms: know nothing, uneducated person |
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| immune | (adjective) relating to the condition of immunity | - |
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| (adjective) secure against | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influence | - |
| (adjective) relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) | Synonyms: resistant |
| (noun) a person who is immune to a particular infection | - |
| immunisation | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunization |
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| immunise | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunize, inoculate, vaccinate |
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| (verb) grant immunity from prosecution | Synonyms: immunize |
| immunised | (adjective) having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease | Synonyms: immunized, vaccinated |
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| immunity | (noun) an act exempting someone | Synonyms: exemption, granting immunity |
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| (noun) the quality of being unaffected by something | - |
| (noun) the state of not being susceptible | Synonyms: unsusceptibility |
| (noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: resistance |
| immunization | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunisation |
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| immunize | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, inoculate, vaccinate |
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| (verb) grant immunity from prosecution | Synonyms: immunise |
| immunized | (adjective) having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease | Synonyms: immunised, vaccinated |
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| immunoassay | (noun) identification of a substance (especially a protein) by its action as an antigen | Synonyms: immunochemical assay |
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| immunochemical | (adjective) of or relating to immunochemistry | - |
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| immunochemistry | (noun) the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies) | Synonyms: chemoimmunology |
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| immunocompetence | (noun) the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| immunocompetent | (adjective) capable of developing an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| immunocompromised | (adjective) unable to develop a normal immune response usually because of malnutrition or immunodeficiency or immunosuppressive therapy | - |
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| immunodeficiency | (noun) immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced | - |
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| immunodeficient | (adjective) incapable of developing an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| immunoelectrophoresis | (noun) electrophoresis to separate antigens and antibodies | - |
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| immunofluorescence | (noun) (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue | - |
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| immunogen | (noun) any substance or organism that provokes an immune response (produces immunity) when introduced into the body | Synonyms: immunizing agent |
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| immunogenic | (adjective) possessing the ability to elicit an immune response | - |
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| immunogenicity | (noun) the property of eliciting an immune response | - |
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| immunoglobulin | (noun) a class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response | Synonyms: Ig, immune gamma globulin, immune globulin, immune serum globulin |
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| immunohistochemistry | (noun) an assay that shows specific antigens in tissues by the use of markers that are either fluorescent dyes or enzymes (such as horseradish peroxidase) | - |
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| immunologic | (adjective) of or relating to immunology | Synonyms: immunological |
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| immunological | (adjective) of or relating to immunology | Synonyms: immunologic |
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| immunologically | (adverb) from the point of view of immunology | - |
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| immunologist | (noun) a medical scientist who specializes in immunology | - |
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| immunology | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies the body's immune system | - |
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| immunopathology | (noun) the branch of immunology that deals with pathologies of the immune system | - |
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| immunosuppressant | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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| immunosuppressed | (adjective) of persons whose immune response is inadequate | - |
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| immunosuppression | (noun) lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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| immunosuppressive | (adjective) of or relating to a substance that lowers the body's normal immune response and induces immunosuppression | - |
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| (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
| immunosuppressor | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug |
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| immunotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to immunotherapy | - |
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| immunotherapy | (noun) therapy designed to produce immunity to a disease or to enhance resistance by the immune system | - |
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| immure | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| immurement | (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration |
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| immutability | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutableness |
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| immutable | (adjective) not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: changeless |
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| (adjective) constant and unchanging | - |
| immutableness | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutability |
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| immutably | (adverb) in an unalterable and unchangeable manner | Synonyms: unalterably, unassailably, unchangeably |
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| incommunicado | (adjective) without the means or right to communicate | - |
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| incommunicative | (adjective) not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions | Synonyms: uncommunicative |
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| incommutability | (noun) the quality of being not interchangeable | - |
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| incommutable | (adjective) not subject to alteration or change | - |
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| (adjective) not interchangeable or able to substitute one for another | - |
| insomuch | (adverb) to such an extent or degree; so | - |
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| intercommunicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: communicate |
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| (verb) be interconnected, afford passage | - |
| intercommunication | (noun) mutual communication; communication with each other | - |
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| intercommunion | (noun) participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one church (eg Catholic and Orthodox) | - |
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| intermural | (adjective) between two or more institutions etc | - |
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| intramural | (adjective) carried on within the bounds of an institution or community | - |
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| intramuscular | (adjective) within a muscle | - |
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| intramuscularly | (adverb) in an intramuscular way | - |
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| isthmus | (noun) a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure | Synonyms: band |
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| (noun) a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas | - |
| laryngismus | (noun) laryngeal spasm caused by the sudden contraction of laryngeal muscles | - |
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| lemur | (noun) large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails | - |
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| litmus | (noun) a coloring material (obtained from lichens) that turns red in acid solutions and blue in alkaline solutions; used as a very rough acid-base indicator | Synonyms: litmus test |
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| lomustine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug often used to treat brain tumors or Hodgkin's disease | - |
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| malamute | (noun) breed of sled dog developed in Alaska | Synonyms: Alaskan malamute, malemute |
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| malemute | (noun) breed of sled dog developed in Alaska | Synonyms: Alaskan malamute, malamute |
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| mandamus | (noun) an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail | Synonyms: writ of mandamus |
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| marasmus | (noun) extreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food or from malabsorption or metabolic disorders | - |
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| maximum | (adjective) the greatest or most complete or best possible | Synonyms: maximal |
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| (noun) the greatest possible degree | Synonyms: level best, utmost, uttermost |
| (noun) the point on a curve where the tangent changes from positive on the left to negative on the right | - |
| (noun) the largest possible quantity | Synonyms: upper limit |