| insensibility | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, hardness, unfeelingness |
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| (noun) a lack of sensibility | - |
| insensible | (adjective) incapable of physical sensation | - |
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| (adjective) barely able to be perceived | Synonyms: indiscernible, undetectable |
| (adjective) unresponsive to stimulation | Synonyms: out of it, senseless |
| (adjective) unaware of or indifferent to | Synonyms: unaffected |
| insensibly | (adverb) in a numb manner; without feeling | Synonyms: numbly |
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| insensitive | (adjective) not responsive to physical stimuli | - |
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| (adjective) deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive | - |
| insensitively | (adverb) in an insensitive manner | - |
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| insensitiveness | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitivity |
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| insensitivity | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitiveness |
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| insentience | (noun) lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations | - |
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| insentient | (adjective) devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation | Synonyms: insensate |
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| inseparable | (adjective) not capable of being separated | - |
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| inseparably | (adverb) without possibility of separation | - |
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| insert | (noun) (film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film | Synonyms: cut-in |
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| (noun) (broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program | Synonyms: cut-in |
| (noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: inset |
| (noun) a folded section placed between the leaves of another publication | - |
| (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, inclose, introduce, put in, stick in |
| (verb) insert casually | Synonyms: slip in, sneak in, stick in |
| (verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: enter, infix, introduce |
| (verb) fit snugly into | Synonyms: tuck |
| insertion | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: introduction, intromission |
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| (noun) a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted | Synonyms: interpolation |
| inset | (noun) a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment | Synonyms: gusset |
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| (noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: insert |
| (noun) a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one | - |
| (verb) set or place in | - |
| intense | (adjective) possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree | - |
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| (adjective) (of color) having the highest saturation | Synonyms: vivid |
| (adjective) extremely sharp or severe | Synonyms: acute |
| intensely | (adverb) to a high degree; extremely; in high concentration or density | - |
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| (adverb) to a great depth psychologically or emotionally | Synonyms: deeply, profoundly |
| lanseh | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lansat, lanset |
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| lanset | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lansat, lanseh |
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| lense | (noun) a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images | Synonyms: lens, lens system |
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| license | (noun) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Synonyms: permission, permit |
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| (noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: licence, permit |
| (noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: licence |
| (noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: licence |
| (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, licence |
| licensed | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licenced |
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| licensee | (noun) someone to whom a license is granted | - |
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| licenser | (noun) an official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications) | - |
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| linseed | (noun) the seed of flax used as a source of oil | Synonyms: flaxseed |
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| manse | (noun) the residence of a clergyman (especially a Presbyterian clergyman) | - |
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| (noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: hall, mansion, mansion house, residence |
| manservant | (noun) a man servant | - |
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| menses | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menstruation, menstruum, period |
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| merganser | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, sawbill, sheldrake |
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| moonseed | (noun) plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds | - |
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| neoconservatism | (noun) an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view (in contrast to more liberal or radical schools of thought of the 1960s) | - |
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| neoconservative | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neocon |
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| nonsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: unsectarian |
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| nonsegmental | (adjective) having a body that is not divided into segments | Synonyms: unsegmented |
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| nonsegregated | (adjective) rid of segregation; having had segregation ended | Synonyms: desegrated, unsegregated |
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| nonsense | (adjective) having no intelligible meaning | Synonyms: nonsensical |
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| (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, trumpery |
| (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsensicality |
| nonsensical | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, ridiculous |
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| (adjective) having no intelligible meaning | Synonyms: nonsense |
| nonsensicality | (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense |
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| nonsensitive | (adjective) never having had security classification | Synonyms: unrestricted |
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| nonsexual | (adjective) not having or involving sex | Synonyms: asexual |
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| offense | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offensive |
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| (noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offence |
| (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offence, offensive activity |
| (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offence, umbrage |
| (noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offence |
| offenseless | (adjective) incapable of offending or attacking | Synonyms: offenceless |
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| onset | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onrush, onslaught |
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| (noun) the beginning or early stages | Synonyms: oncoming |
| pansexual | (noun) a person who participates in (or is open to) sexual activities of many kinds | - |
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| poinsettia | (noun) tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Christmas flower, Christmas star, Euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf |
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| pretense | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation |
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| (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretension |
| (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretence, pretext |
| (noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretence |
| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretence |
| pumpkinseed | (noun) small brilliantly colored North American sunfish | Synonyms: Lepomis gibbosus |
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| recompense | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: compensation |
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| (noun) payment or reward (as for service rendered) | - |
| (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: compensate, remunerate |
| (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, repair |
| reconsecrate | (verb) consecrate anew, as after a desecration | - |
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| response | (noun) a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent | Synonyms: reaction |
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| (noun) the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals | - |
| (noun) the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Synonyms: reply |
| (noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: answer, reply |
| (noun) the manner in which something is greeted | Synonyms: reception |
| (noun) a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister | - |
| (noun) a result | - |
| rinse | (noun) washing lightly without soap | - |
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| (noun) the act of giving a light tint to the hair | - |
| (noun) the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing | Synonyms: rinsing |
| (noun) a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint | - |
| (verb) rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash | Synonyms: gargle |
| (verb) wash off soap or remaining dirt | Synonyms: rinse off |
| (verb) clean with some chemical process | Synonyms: wash |
| sansevieria | (noun) grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber | Synonyms: bowstring hemp |
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| sense | (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sensation, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
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| (noun) sound practical judgment | Synonyms: common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit |
| (noun) a general conscious awareness | - |
| (noun) a natural appreciation or ability | - |
| (noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted | Synonyms: signified |
| (verb) discern | - |
| (verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | Synonyms: smell, smell out |
| (verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles | Synonyms: feel |
| (verb) detect some circumstance or entity automatically | - |
| sensed | (adjective) detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues | Synonyms: perceived |
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| senseless | (adjective) (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment | Synonyms: nitwitted, soft-witted, witless |
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| (adjective) unresponsive to stimulation | Synonyms: insensible, out of it |
| (adjective) not marked by the use of reason | Synonyms: mindless, reasonless |
| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, pointless, purposeless, superfluous, wasted |
| senselessly | (adverb) in an unreasonably senseless manner | Synonyms: mindlessly |
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| (adverb) in a meaningless and purposeless manner | - |
| senselessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, pointlessness, vacuity |
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| somatosense | (noun) any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain | - |
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| sunset | (adjective) providing for termination | - |
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| (adjective) of a declining industry or technology | - |
| (noun) the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon | - |
| (noun) atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun | - |
| (noun) the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon | Synonyms: sundown |
| suspense | (noun) an uncertain cognitive state | - |
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| (noun) excited anticipation of an approaching climax | - |
| (noun) apprehension about what is going to happen | - |
| suspenseful | (adjective) (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense | Synonyms: cliff-hanging, nail-biting, suspensive |
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| synsemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful only when it occurs in the company of other words | - |
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| synset | (noun) a set of one or more synonyms | - |
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| tense | (adjective) taut or rigid; stretched tight | - |
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| (adjective) pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') | - |
| (adjective) in or of a state of physical or nervous tension | - |
| (noun) a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time | - |
| (verb) cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | Synonyms: strain, tense up |
| (verb) become tense, nervous, or uneasy | Synonyms: tense up |
| (verb) increase the tension on | - |
| (verb) become stretched or tense or taut | Synonyms: strain |
| tensed | (adjective) having inflections to indicate tense | - |
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| tensely | (adverb) in a tense manner | - |
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| tenseness | (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tension, tensity |
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| (noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: stress, tension |
| tinsel | (noun) a thread with glittering metal foil attached | - |
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| (noun) a showy decoration that is basically valueless | - |
| (verb) interweave with tinsel | - |
| (verb) adorn with tinsel | - |
| (verb) impart a cheap brightness to | - |
| tinseled | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: clinquant, tinselly |
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| tinselly | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: clinquant, tinseled |
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| transect | (verb) cut across or divide transversely | - |
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| transept | (noun) structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church; crosses the nave at right angles | - |
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| transeunt | (adjective) of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind | Synonyms: transient |
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| transexual | (noun) a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex | Synonyms: transsexual |
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| (noun) a person who has undergone a sex change operation | Synonyms: transgendered, transsexual |
| ultraconservative | (adjective) extremely conservative | - |
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| (noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism | Synonyms: extreme right-winger, reactionary |
| unconsecrated | (adjective) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled | Synonyms: profane, unsanctified |
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| unlicensed | (adjective) lacking official approval | Synonyms: unaccredited, unlicenced |
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| unseal | (verb) break the seal of | - |
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| unsealed | (adjective) not closed or secured with or as if with a seal | - |
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| (adjective) not established or confirmed | Synonyms: uncertain |
| unseamanlike | (adjective) not seamanlike | - |
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| unseamed | (adjective) having no seams | - |
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| (adjective) smooth, especially of skin | Synonyms: seamless, unlined |
| unseasonable | (adjective) not in keeping with (and usually undesirable for) the season | - |
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| (adjective) badly timed | Synonyms: ill-timed, untimely, wrong |
| unseasonableness | (noun) being at an inappropriate time | Synonyms: untimeliness |
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| unseasonably | (adverb) not in accordance with the season | - |
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| unseasoned | (adjective) not aged or processed | - |
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| (adjective) not tried or tested by experience | Synonyms: untested, untried, young |
| (adjective) without salt or seasoning | Synonyms: unsalted |
| unseat | (verb) dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse | - |
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| (verb) remove from political office | - |
| unseaworthy | (adjective) unfit for a voyage | - |
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| unsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: nonsectarian |
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| unsecured | (adjective) without financial security | Synonyms: unguaranteed |
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| (adjective) not firmly fastened or secured | Synonyms: unbarred, unbolted, unlatched, unlocked |
| unseductive | (adjective) not seductive | - |
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| unsee | (verb) to forget an image | - |
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| unseeable | (adjective) impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye | Synonyms: invisible |
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| unseeded | (adjective) not seeded; used of players of lesser skill | - |
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| (adjective) (of a piece of ground) not have a crop sown on it | Synonyms: unsown |
| unseeing | (adjective) lacking sight | Synonyms: eyeless, sightless |
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| (adjective) not consciously observing | Synonyms: unobservant |
| unseemliness | (noun) a lack of consideration for others | - |
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| unseemly | (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, untoward |
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| unseen | (adjective) not seen or perceived | - |
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| (adjective) not anticipated | Synonyms: out of the blue, unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for |
| (adjective) unnoticed | Synonyms: unobserved |
| (noun) a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit | Synonyms: spiritual domain, spiritual world |
| unsegmented | (adjective) having a body that is not divided into segments | Synonyms: nonsegmental |
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| unsegregated | (adjective) rid of segregation; having had segregation ended | Synonyms: desegrated, nonsegregated |
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| unselected | (adjective) not selected | - |
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| unselective | (adjective) not selective or discriminating | - |
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