| aconite | (noun) any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers | - |
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| acrylonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: propenonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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| adenitis | (noun) inflammation of a gland or lymph node | - |
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| admonition | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonishment, monition |
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| (noun) cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness) | Synonyms: monition, warning, word of advice |
| admonitory | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, reproachful, reproving |
| affinity | (noun) inherent resemblance between persons or things | - |
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| (noun) a natural attraction or feeling of kinship | - |
| (noun) the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule | Synonyms: chemical attraction |
| (noun) (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody | - |
| (noun) (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship | - |
| (noun) (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts | Synonyms: phylogenetic relation |
| (noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: kinship |
| alkalinity | (noun) pH values above 7 | - |
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| amblygonite | (noun) a white or grey mineral consisting of lithium aluminum phosphate; a source of lithium | - |
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| amenities | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: comforts, conveniences, creature comforts |
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| amenity | (noun) pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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| ammonite | (noun) one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks | Synonyms: ammonoid |
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| ammonitic | (adjective) of or related to an order of fossil cephalopods | - |
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| ammunition | (noun) projectiles to be fired from a gun | Synonyms: ammo |
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| (noun) information that can be used to attack or defend a claim or argument or viewpoint | - |
| (noun) any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction | - |
| aphanite | (noun) fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye | - |
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| aphanitic | (adjective) of or relating to aphanite | - |
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| aragonite | (noun) a mineral form of crystalline calcium carbonate; dimorphic with calcite | - |
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| asininity | (noun) the quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with stubbornness | - |
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| austenite | (noun) a solid solution of ferric carbide or carbon in iron; cools to form pearlite or martensite | - |
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| austenitic | (adjective) composed of austenite | - |
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| autoimmunity | (noun) production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body; produces autoimmune disease or hypersensitivity reactions | - |
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| balanitis | (noun) inflammation of the head of the penis | - |
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| belemnite | (noun) a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae | - |
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| belemnitic | (adjective) of or relating to belemnites | - |
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| benignity | (noun) a kind act | Synonyms: kindness |
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| (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignancy, graciousness |
| bentonite | (noun) an absorbent aluminum silicate clay formed from volcanic ash | - |
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| bentonitic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing bentonite | - |
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| bonito | (noun) any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas | - |
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| (noun) fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna | Synonyms: Katsuwonus pelamis, oceanic bonito |
| (noun) flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna | - |
| bornite | (noun) a mineral consisting of sulfides of copper and iron that is found in copper deposits | Synonyms: peacock ore |
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| ceylonite | (noun) a dark-colored spinel containing iron | Synonyms: pleonaste |
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| chlorinity | (noun) a measure of the quantity of chlorine or other halides in water (especially seawater) | - |
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| chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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| chorioretinitis | (noun) inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina | - |
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| cognition | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: knowledge, noesis |
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| cognitive | (adjective) of or being or relating to or involving cognition | - |
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| cognitively | (adverb) with regard to cognition | - |
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| community | (noun) a group of people living in a particular local area | - |
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| (noun) (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other | Synonyms: biotic community |
| (noun) a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common | - |
| (noun) a group of nations having common interests | - |
| (noun) a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences | Synonyms: residential area, residential district |
| (noun) common ownership | - |
| (noun) agreement as to goals | Synonyms: community of interests |
| congenital | (adjective) present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development | Synonyms: inborn, innate |
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| consanguinity | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, cognation |
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| cosmopolitanity | (noun) a state or quality of being cosmopolitan | - |
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| crystallinity | (noun) (chemistry) The degree of structural order in a solid. | - |
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| cyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: kyanite |
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| definite | (adjective) precise; explicit and clearly defined | - |
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| (adjective) known for certain | - |
| definitely | (adverb) without question and beyond doubt | Synonyms: by all odds, decidedly, emphatically, in spades, unquestionably |
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| definiteness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: determinateness |
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| definition | (noun) clarity of outline | - |
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| (noun) a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol | - |
| definitive | (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: determinate |
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| (adjective) clearly defined or formulated | Synonyms: unequivocal |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: authoritative |
| definitors | (noun) council in a religious order who provide counsel and assistance to the superiors general and provincial superior of their order. | - |
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| denitrator | (noun) Any device used to remove nitrates or other nitrogen compounds, especially from water. | - |
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| denitrify | (verb) remove nitrogen from | - |
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| dignitary | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP |
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| dignity | (noun) the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect | Synonyms: self-regard, self-respect, self-worth |
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| (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: gravitas, lordliness |
| (noun) high office or rank or station | - |
| disunite | (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: divide, part, separate |
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| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, divorce |
| disunited | (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disconnected, fragmented, split |
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| disunity | (noun) lack of unity (usually resulting from dissension) | - |
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| divinity | (noun) the quality of being divine | - |
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| (noun) the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth | Synonyms: theology |
| (noun) white creamy fudge made with egg whites | Synonyms: divinity fudge |
| (noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, god, immortal |
| ebonite | (noun) a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber | Synonyms: hard rubber, vulcanite |
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| essonite | (noun) a garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown | Synonyms: cinnamon stone, hessonite |
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| eternity | (noun) a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife | Synonyms: timeless existence, timelessness |
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| (noun) time without end | Synonyms: infinity |
| (noun) a seemingly endless time interval (waiting) | - |
| euronithopod | (noun) widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon) | Synonyms: Euronithopoda, Ornithopoda, suborder Euronithopoda, suborder Ornithopoda |
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| femininity | (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women | Synonyms: muliebrity |
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| fergusonite | (noun) a dark mineral consisting of oxides of yttrium and erbium and tantalum and other minerals | - |
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| finite | (adjective) bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent | - |
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| (adjective) (of verbs) relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person | - |
| finitely | (adverb) with a finite limit | - |
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| finiteness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: boundedness, finitude |
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| finitude | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: boundedness, finiteness |
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| flunitrazepam | (noun) a depressant and tranquilizer (trade name Rohypnol) often used in the commission of sexual assault; legally available in Europe and Mexico and Colombia | Synonyms: Rohypnol |
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| fraternity | (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: brotherhood, sodality |
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| (noun) a social club for male undergraduates | Synonyms: frat |
| furniture | (noun) furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy | Synonyms: article of furniture, piece of furniture |
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| gadolinite | (noun) a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium | Synonyms: ytterbite |
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| gelignite | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelly |
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| genital | (adjective) of or relating to the external sex organs | Synonyms: venereal |
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| genitalia | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitals, private parts, privates |
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| genitals | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitalia, private parts, privates |
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| genitive | (adjective) serving to express or indicate possession | Synonyms: possessive |
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| (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive case, possessive, possessive case |
| genitor | (noun) a natural father or mother | - |
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| genitourinary | (adjective) of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions | Synonyms: GU |
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| germanite | (noun) a rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide | - |
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| glauconite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated silicate of potassium or iron or magnesium or aluminum; found in greensand | - |
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| granite | (noun) something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness) | - |
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| (noun) plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz | - |
| granitelike | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitic, rocklike, stony |
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| graniteware | (noun) a kind of stone-grey enamelware | - |
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| granitic | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitelike, rocklike, stony |
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| (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, obdurate, stony |
| gunite | (noun) a mixture of cement and sand and water that is sprayed on a surface under pneumatic pressure | - |
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| hausmannite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese tetroxide; a source of manganese | - |
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| hessonite | (noun) a garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown | Synonyms: cinnamon stone, essonite |
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| hiddenite | (noun) a green transparent form of the mineral spodumene used as a gemstone | - |
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| humanitarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism | - |
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| (adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanistic |
| (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
| (noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
| humanitarianism | (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanism |
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| humanities | (noun) studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) | Synonyms: arts, humanistic discipline, liberal arts |
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| humanity | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world |
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| (noun) the quality of being humane | - |
| (noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanness, manhood |
| ignitable | (adjective) capable of burning | Synonyms: burnable, ignitible |
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| ignite | (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: fire, light |
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| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, inflame, stir up, wake |
| (verb) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat | Synonyms: light |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, erupt, take fire |
| ignited | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: enkindled, kindled |
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| igniter | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: ignitor, light, lighter |
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| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: ignitor, lighter |
| ignitible | (adjective) capable of burning | Synonyms: burnable, ignitable |
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| ignition | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, inflammation, kindling, lighting |
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| (noun) the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: ignition system |
| (noun) the process of initiating combustion or catching fire | - |
| ignitor | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, light, lighter |
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| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: igniter, lighter |
| ilmenite | (noun) a weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titanium | - |
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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 |
| impenitence | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitency |
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