| impenetrable | (adjective) not admitting of penetration or passage into or through | - |
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| (adjective) impossible to understand | - |
| (adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: dense, heavy |
| impenetrableness | (noun) incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand | Synonyms: impenetrability |
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| internet | (noun) a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange | Synonyms: cyberspace, net |
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| interpenetrate | (verb) penetrate mutually or be interlocked | Synonyms: permeate |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| interpenetration | (noun) mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other | Synonyms: permeation |
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| (noun) the action of penetrating between or among | - |
| interplanetary | (adjective) between or among planets | - |
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| intranet | (noun) a restricted computer network; a private network created using World Wide Web software | - |
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| jaconet | (noun) a lightweight cotton cloth with a smooth and slightly stiff finish; used for clothing and bandages | - |
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| jennet | (noun) female donkey | Synonyms: jenny, jenny ass |
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| karyokinetic | (adjective) of or relating to the division of the nucleus of a cell during mitosis or meiosis | - |
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| kinetic | (adjective) relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith | - |
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| (adjective) supplying motive force | Synonyms: energising, energizing |
| (adjective) characterized by motion | - |
| kinetics | (noun) the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies | Synonyms: dynamics |
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| kinetochore | (noun) a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape | Synonyms: centromere |
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| kinetosis | (noun) the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle | Synonyms: motion sickness |
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| kitchenette | (noun) small kitchen | - |
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| linnet | (noun) small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead | Synonyms: Carduelis cannabina, lintwhite |
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| (noun) small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Carpodacus mexicanus, house finch |
| lionet | (noun) a small or young lion | - |
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| lorgnette | (noun) eyeglasses that are held to the eyes with a long handle | - |
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| lunette | (noun) oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault | Synonyms: fenestella |
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| (noun) temporary fortification like a detached bastion | - |
| magnet | (noun) (physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field | - |
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| (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, attractive feature, attractor |
| magnetic | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetised, magnetized |
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| (adjective) determined by earth's magnetic fields | - |
| (adjective) capable of being magnetized | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or caused by magnetism | - |
| (adjective) possessing an extraordinary ability to attract | Synonyms: charismatic |
| magnetically | (adverb) as if by magnetism | - |
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| (adverb) by the use of magnetism | - |
| magnetics | (noun) the branch of science that studies magnetism | Synonyms: magnetism |
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| magnetisation | (noun) the physical property of being magnetic | Synonyms: magnetization |
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| (noun) the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) | Synonyms: magnetic induction, magnetization |
| (noun) the extent or degree to which something is magnetized | Synonyms: magnetization |
| magnetise | (verb) make magnetic | Synonyms: magnetize |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
| magnetised | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetic, magnetized |
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| magnetism | (noun) the branch of science that studies magnetism | Synonyms: magnetics |
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| (noun) attraction for iron; associated with electric currents as well as magnets; characterized by fields of force | Synonyms: magnetic attraction, magnetic force |
| magnetite | (noun) an oxide of iron that is strongly attracted by magnets | Synonyms: magnetic iron-ore |
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| magnetization | (noun) the physical property of being magnetic | Synonyms: magnetisation |
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| (noun) the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) | Synonyms: magnetic induction, magnetisation |
| (noun) the extent or degree to which something is magnetized | Synonyms: magnetisation |
| magnetize | (verb) make magnetic | Synonyms: magnetise |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
| magnetized | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetic, magnetised |
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| magneto | (noun) a small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine | Synonyms: magnetoelectric machine |
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| magnetograph | (noun) a scientific instrument that registers magnetic variations (especially variations of the earth's magnetic field) | - |
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| magnetohydrodynamics | (noun) the study of the interaction of magnetic fields and electrically conducting fluids (as plasma or molten metal) | - |
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| magnetometer | (noun) a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields | Synonyms: gaussmeter |
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| magneton | (noun) a unit of magnetic moment of a molecular or atomic or subatomic particle | - |
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| magnetosphere | (noun) the magnetic field of a planet; the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planet's magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field | - |
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| magnetron | (noun) a diode vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons from a central cathode to a cylindrical anode is controlled by crossed magnetic and electric fields; used mainly in microwave oscillators | - |
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| maisonette | (noun) a small house | Synonyms: maisonnette |
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| (noun) a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside | Synonyms: maisonnette |
| maisonnette | (noun) a small house | Synonyms: maisonette |
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| (noun) a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside | Synonyms: maisonette |
| marionette | (noun) a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer | Synonyms: puppet |
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| martinet | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: disciplinarian, moralist |
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| midinette | (noun) a Parisian salesgirl | - |
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| mignonette | (noun) Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance | Synonyms: Reseda odorata, sweet reseda |
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| monetarism | (noun) an economic theory holding that variations in unemployment and the rate of inflation are usually caused by changes in the supply of money | - |
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| monetarist | (noun) an advocate of the theory that economic fluctuations are caused by increases or decreases in the supply of money | - |
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| monetary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: pecuniary |
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| monetisation | (noun) establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetization |
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| monetise | (verb) give legal value to or establish as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetize |
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| monetization | (noun) establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetisation |
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| monetize | (verb) give legal value to or establish as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetise |
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| net | (adjective) remaining after all deductions | Synonyms: nett |
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| (adjective) conclusive in a process or progression | Synonyms: final, last |
| (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, meshwork, network |
| (noun) a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange | Synonyms: cyberspace, internet |
| (noun) a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects | - |
| (noun) game equipment consisting of a strip of netting dividing the playing area in tennis or badminton | - |
| (noun) a goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey) | - |
| (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
| (verb) catch with a net | Synonyms: nett |
| (verb) construct or form a web, as if by weaving | Synonyms: web |
| (verb) make as a net profit | Synonyms: clear, sack, sack up |
| (verb) yield as a net profit | Synonyms: clear |
| netball | (noun) a team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post | - |
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| nether | (adjective) lower | - |
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| (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonian, chthonic |
| (adjective) located below or beneath something else | Synonyms: under |
| nethermost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: bottommost, lowermost |
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| netherworld | (noun) (religion) the world of the dead | Synonyms: Hades, Hell, infernal region, Scheol, underworld |
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| netiquette | (noun) Etiquette practiced or advocated in electronic communication over a computer network. | - |
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| netkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, netminder |
| netlike | (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netted, webbed, webby, weblike |
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| netmail | (verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, email |
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| netminder | (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper |
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| nett | (adjective) remaining after all deductions | Synonyms: net |
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| (verb) catch with a net | Synonyms: net |
| netted | (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netlike, webbed, webby, weblike |
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| netting | (noun) creating nets | - |
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| (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: gauze, veiling |
| nettle | (noun) any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae) | - |
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| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, rag, rile, vex |
| (verb) sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation | Synonyms: urticate |
| nettled | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| nettlesome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| network | (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, meshwork, net |
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| (noun) (broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs | - |
| (noun) (electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits | Synonyms: electronic network |
| (noun) a system of intersecting lines or channels | - |
| (noun) an interconnected system of things or people | Synonyms: web |
| (verb) communicate with and within a group | - |
| networklike | (adjective) having a network of veins or ribs | - |
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| nineteen | (adjective) being one more than eighteen | Synonyms: 19, xix |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one | Synonyms: 19, XIX |
| nineteenth | (adjective) coming next after the eighteenth in position | Synonyms: 19th |
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| (noun) position 19 in a countable series of things | - |
| nineties | (noun) the time of life between 90 and 100 | Synonyms: mid-nineties |
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| (noun) the decade from 1990 to 1999 | Synonyms: 1990s |
| (noun) the decade from 1890 to 1899 | Synonyms: 1890s |
| ninetieth | (adjective) the ordinal number of ninety in counting order | Synonyms: 90th |
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| (noun) position 90 in a countable series of things | - |
| ninety | (adjective) being ten more than eighty | Synonyms: 90, xc |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine | Synonyms: 90, XC |
| nonetheless | (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, notwithstanding, still, withal, yet |
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| nonmagnetic | (adjective) not capable of being magnetized | - |
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| onetime | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: erstwhile, former, old, one-time, quondam, sometime |
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| ontogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the origin and development of individual organisms | - |
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| palingenetic | (adjective) of or relating to palingenesis | - |
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| panetela | (noun) a long slender cigar | Synonyms: panatela, panetella |
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| panetella | (noun) a long slender cigar | Synonyms: panatela, panetela |
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| paramagnet | (noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it | - |
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| paramagnetic | (adjective) of or relating to a paramagnet | - |
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| paramagnetism | (noun) materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed | - |
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| parthenogenetic | (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamogenetic, agamous, apomictic |
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| penetrability | (noun) the quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) | Synonyms: perviousness |
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| penetrable | (adjective) admitting of penetration or passage into or through | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being penetrated | - |
| penetralium | (noun) the innermost parts | - |
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| penetrate | (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, fathom |
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| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, sink in |
| (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) insert the penis into the vagina or anus of | - |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) make one's way deeper into or through | - |
| (verb) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | Synonyms: infiltrate |
| penetrating | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrative |
| penetratingly | (adverb) with ability to see into deeply | Synonyms: penetratively |
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| penetration | (noun) an attack that penetrates into enemy territory | Synonyms: incursion |
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| (noun) the act of entering into or through something | - |
| (noun) the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman | - |
| (noun) the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target) | - |
| (noun) the ability to make way into or through something | - |
| (noun) clear or deep perception of a situation | Synonyms: insight |
| penetrative | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrating |
| penetratively | (adverb) with ability to see into deeply | Synonyms: penetratingly |
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| penetrator | (noun) an intruder who passes into or through (often by overcoming resistance) | - |
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| pentamethylenetetrazol | (noun) a drug used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant; larger doses cause convulsions in shock therapy; Metrazol is a trademark | Synonyms: Metrazol, pentylenetetrazol |
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| pentylenetetrazol | (noun) a drug used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant; larger doses cause convulsions in shock therapy; Metrazol is a trademark | Synonyms: Metrazol, pentamethylenetetrazol |
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| pharmacogenetics | (noun) the branch of genetics that studies the genetically determined variations in responses to drugs in humans or laboratory organisms | - |
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| pharmacokinetics | (noun) the study of the action of drugs in the body: method and rate of excretion, duration of effect, etc. | - |
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| phonetic | (adjective) of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to speech sounds | Synonyms: phonic |