| festinate | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: hasten, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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| fortunate | (adjective) having unexpected good fortune | - |
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| (adjective) presaging good fortune | Synonyms: rosy |
| (adjective) supremely favored | Synonyms: golden |
| fortunately | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortuitously, luckily |
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| fractionate | (verb) obtain by a fractional process | - |
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| (verb) separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents | - |
| fulminate | (noun) a salt or ester of fulminic acid | - |
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| (verb) cause to explode violently and with loud noise | - |
| (verb) come on suddenly and intensely | - |
| (verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: rail |
| geminate | (noun) a doubled or long consonant | - |
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| (verb) arrange or combine in pairs | - |
| (verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: reduplicate |
| germinate | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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| (verb) cause to grow or sprout | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| haemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: hemagglutinate |
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| hallucinate | (verb) perceive what is not there; have illusions | - |
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| hemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: haemagglutinate |
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| hibernate | (verb) sleep during winter | Synonyms: hole up |
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| (verb) be in an inactive or dormant state | - |
| homogenate | (noun) material that has been homogenized (especially tissue that has been ground and mixed) | - |
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| hydrogenate | (verb) combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen; add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound) | - |
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| hyphenate | (verb) divide or connect with a hyphen | Synonyms: hyphen |
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| illuminate | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illumine, light, light up |
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| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| (verb) add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) | - |
| illuminated | (adjective) provided with artificial light | Synonyms: lighted, lit, well-lighted |
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| imparipinnate | (adjective) (a leaf shape) pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex | Synonyms: odd-pinnate |
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| impersonate | (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: personate, pose |
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| (verb) represent another person with comic intentions | - |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: portray |
| importunate | (adjective) persistent to the point of annoying | - |
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| (adjective) expressing persistant and earnest entreaty | - |
| importunately | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, entreatingly, imploringly, pleadingly |
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| importunateness | (noun) Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. | Synonyms: importunity |
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| impregnate | (verb) make pregnant | Synonyms: bang up, knock up, prang up |
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| (verb) fertilize and cause to grow | - |
| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: saturate |
| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: infuse, instill, tincture |
| incarnate | (adjective) invested with a bodily form especially of a human body | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied |
| (verb) make concrete and real | - |
| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, substantiate |
| incriminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, impeach |
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| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, inculpate |
| indeterminate | (adjective) not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance | Synonyms: undetermined |
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| (adjective) having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex | - |
| (adjective) of uncertain or ambiguous nature | - |
| (adjective) not leading to a definite ending or result | - |
| (adjective) (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved | - |
| indeterminateness | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminacy, indetermination |
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| indiscriminate | (adjective) not marked by fine distinctions | - |
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| (adjective) failing to make or recognize distinctions | - |
| indiscriminately | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, every which way, haphazardly, randomly, willy-nilly |
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| (adverb) in an indiscriminate manner | Synonyms: promiscuously |
| indoctrinate | (verb) teach doctrines to; teach uncritically | - |
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| ingeminate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell |
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| innate | (adjective) not established by conditioning or learning | Synonyms: unconditioned, unlearned |
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| (adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: born, natural |
| (adjective) present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development | Synonyms: congenital, inborn |
| innately | (adverb) in an innate manner | - |
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| innateness | (noun) the quality of being innate | - |
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| inordinate | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: excessive, undue, unreasonable |
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| inordinately | (adverb) to a surprising degree | Synonyms: extraordinarily |
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| inordinateness | (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excess, excessiveness |
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| inseminate | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, fertilize |
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| (verb) place seeds in or on (the ground) | Synonyms: sow, sow in |
| insubordinate | (adjective) not submissive to authority | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: resistant, resistive |
| intonate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, chant, intone |
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| (verb) speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone | Synonyms: intone |
| invaginate | (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: introvert |
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| (verb) sheathe | - |
| iodinate | (verb) cause to combine with iodine | - |
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| iodinated | (adjective) treated with iodine | Synonyms: iodised, iodized |
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| ionate | (verb) add ions to | - |
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| isocyanate | (noun) a salt or ester of isocyanic acid | - |
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| isothiocyanate | (noun) a family of compounds derived from horseradish and radishes and onions and mustards; source of the hotness of those plants and preparations | - |
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| khanate | (noun) the position of a khan | - |
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| (noun) the realm of a khan | - |
| laminate | (noun) a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers | - |
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| (verb) cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material | - |
| (verb) press or beat (metals) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) split (wood) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material | - |
| lanate | (adjective) covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments | Synonyms: woolly |
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| lancinate | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
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| latinate | (adjective) derived from or imitative of Latin | - |
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| lunate | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, crescent, semilunar |
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| machinate | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, conspire |
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| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, organise, organize, prepare |
| magnate | (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon |
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| manatee | (noun) sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded | Synonyms: Trichechus manatus |
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| manganate | (noun) a salt of manganic acid containing manganese as its anion | - |
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| marinate | (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinade |
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| miscegenate | (verb) marry or cohabit with a person of another race | - |
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| misfortunate | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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| myelinated | (adjective) (of neurons) covered with a layer of myelin | Synonyms: medullated |
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| nates | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| neonate | (noun) a baby from birth to four weeks | Synonyms: newborn |
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| nominate | (verb) propose as a candidate for some honor | Synonyms: put forward, put up |
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| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, constitute, name |
| (verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: make, name |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: propose |
| nominated | (adjective) appointed by nomination | Synonyms: nominative |
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| noncarbonated | (adjective) not having carbonation | Synonyms: uncarbonated |
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| obstinate | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: stubborn, unregenerate |
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| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, perverse, wayward |
| (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obdurate, unrepentant |
| (verb) persist stubbornly | - |
| obstinately | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: cussedly, mulishly, obdurately, pig-headedly, stubbornly |
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| odonate | (noun) large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings | - |
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| opinionated | (adjective) obstinate in your opinions | Synonyms: opinionative, self-opinionated |
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| ordinate | (noun) the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis | - |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, coordinate |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, order |
| originate | (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: initiate, start |
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| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, rise, spring up, uprise |
| (verb) begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc. | - |
| ornate | (adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: flowery |
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| ornately | (adverb) in an ornate manner | - |
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| ornateness | (noun) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated | Synonyms: elaborateness |
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| (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, rhetoric |
| oxygenate | (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: aerate, oxygenise, oxygenize |
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| paginate | (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: foliate, page |
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| palatinate | (noun) a territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine | - |
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| panatela | (noun) a long slender cigar | Synonyms: panetela, panetella |
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| paripinnate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex | Synonyms: abruptly-pinnate, even-pinnate |
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| passionate | (adjective) having or expressing strong emotions | - |
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| passionately | (adverb) with passion | - |
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| (adverb) in a stormy or violent manner | Synonyms: stormily, turbulently |
| passionateness | (noun) a strong feeling or emotion | Synonyms: passion |
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| patinate | (verb) coat with a patina | Synonyms: patinise, patinize |
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| pectinate | (adjective) like a comb | - |
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| pennate | (adjective) having feathered wings | - |
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| peregrinate | (verb) travel around, through, or over, especially on foot | - |
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| perennate | (verb) survive from season to season, of plants | - |
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| permanganate | (noun) a dark purple salt of permanganic acid; in water solution it is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic | - |
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| personate | (verb) attribute human qualities to something | Synonyms: personify |
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| (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: impersonate, pose |
| phonate | (verb) utter speech sounds | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize |
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| pinnate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis | Synonyms: pinnated |
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| pinnated | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis | Synonyms: pinnate |
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| pinnately | (adverb) having a pinnate shape | - |
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| planate | (adjective) having been flattened | Synonyms: flattened |
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| plastinate | (verb) preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes | - |
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| pollenate | (verb) fertilize by transferring pollen | Synonyms: cross-pollinate, pollinate |
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| pollinate | (verb) fertilize by transferring pollen | Synonyms: cross-pollinate, pollenate |
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| pomegranate | (noun) large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind | - |
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| (noun) shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit | Synonyms: pomegranate tree, Punica granatum |
| predestinate | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: foreordained, predestined |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
| predominate | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, preponderant, preponderating |
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| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, prevail, reign, rule |
| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, loom, tower |
| procrastinate | (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, stall |
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| (verb) postpone or delay needlessly | - |