| defoliator | (noun) an insect that strips the leaves from plants | - |
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| deglycerolise | (verb) remove from glycerol | Synonyms: deglycerolize |
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| deglycerolize | (verb) remove from glycerol | Synonyms: deglycerolise |
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| demolish | (verb) defeat soundly and humiliatingly | Synonyms: destroy |
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| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, devour, down, go through |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: pulverise, pulverize |
| (verb) ruin or destroy | - |
| demolished | (adjective) torn down and broken up | Synonyms: dismantled, razed |
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| demolishing | (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: leveling, razing, tearing down |
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| demolition | (noun) the act of demolishing | - |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: destruction, wipeout |
| despoliation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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| diabolic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
| diabolical | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
| diabolically | (adverb) as a devil; in an evil manner | Synonyms: devilishly, fiendishly |
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| diabolise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolize |
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| diabolism | (noun) a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan) | Synonyms: demonism, Satanism |
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| diabolist | (noun) an adherent of Satan or Satanism | Synonyms: Satanist |
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| diabolize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolise |
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| diastolic | (adjective) of or relating to a diastole or happening during a diastole | - |
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| dolichocephalic | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocranial, dolichocranic |
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| (noun) an adult with a long narrow head | - |
| dolichocephalism | (noun) the quality of being dolichocephalic | Synonyms: dolichocephaly |
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| dolichocephaly | (noun) the quality of being dolichocephalic | Synonyms: dolichocephalism |
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| dolichocranial | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranic |
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| dolichocranic | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranial |
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| doliolum | (noun) free-swimming oceanic tunicate with a barrel-shaped transparent body | - |
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| echolike | (adjective) like or characteristic of an echo | Synonyms: echoic |
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| embolic | (adjective) of or relating to an embolism or embolus | - |
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| embolism | (noun) occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus (a loose clot or air bubble or other particle) | - |
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| (noun) an insertion into a calendar | Synonyms: intercalation |
| enolic | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of enol | - |
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| enterolith | (noun) a calculus occurring in the intestines | - |
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| enterolithiasis | (noun) the presence of calculi in the intestines | - |
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| eolith | (noun) a crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint); possibly the earliest tools | - |
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| eolithic | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age (characterized by the use of eoliths) | - |
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| exaltolide | (noun) the macrocyclic lactone having fifteen carbon atoms; it has a musky scent, similar to exaltone. | - |
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| exfoliate | (verb) grow by producing or unfolding leaves | - |
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| (verb) cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters | - |
| (verb) remove the surface, in scales or laminae | - |
| (verb) spread by opening the leaves of | - |
| (verb) come off in a very thin piece | - |
| exfoliation | (noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: scale, scurf |
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| (noun) the peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin | - |
| extrasystolic | (adjective) of or relating to or happening during an extrasystole | - |
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| fascioliasis | (noun) infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot | Synonyms: fasciolosis |
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| foliaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling the leaf of a plant | - |
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| (adjective) bearing numerous leaves | Synonyms: foliaged, foliose |
| (adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliate, foliated |
| foliage | (noun) (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament | Synonyms: foliation |
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| (noun) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants | Synonyms: leaf, leafage |
| foliaged | (adjective) bearing numerous leaves | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliose |
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| foliate | (adjective) ornamented with foliage or foils | Synonyms: foliated |
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| (adjective) (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves | - |
| (adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliated |
| (verb) grow leaves | - |
| (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: page, paginate |
| (verb) coat or back with metal foil | - |
| (verb) hammer into thin flat foils | - |
| (verb) decorate with leaves | - |
| foliated | (adjective) ornamented with foliage or foils | Synonyms: foliate |
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| (adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliate |
| foliation | (noun) the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves | - |
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| (noun) the work of coating glass with metal foil | - |
| (noun) (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament | Synonyms: foliage |
| (noun) (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock | - |
| (noun) (botany) the process of forming leaves | Synonyms: leafing |
| folie | (noun) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | Synonyms: disturbance, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
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| folio | (noun) a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages | - |
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| (noun) a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book) | Synonyms: leaf |
| (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: page number, pagination, paging |
| foliolate | (adjective) (often used as a combining form) having leaflets (compound leaves) or a specified kind or number of leaflets | - |
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| foliose | (adjective) bearing numerous leaves | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliaged |
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| folium | (noun) a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock | - |
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| fooling | (adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: casual |
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| foolish | (adjective) devoid of good sense or judgment | - |
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| (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
| foolishly | (adverb) without good sense or judgment | Synonyms: unwisely |
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| foolishness | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, folly, imbecility, stupidity |
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| (noun) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly | Synonyms: folly, unwiseness |
| (noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: craziness, folly, madness |
| frijolillo | (noun) shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | Synonyms: coral bean, frijolito, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora |
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| frijolito | (noun) shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | Synonyms: coral bean, frijolillo, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora |
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| frivolity | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, fluff, frippery |
| (noun) the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible | Synonyms: frivolousness |
| frolic | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: caper, gambol, play, romp |
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| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
| frolicky | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicsome, rollicking, sportive |
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| frolicsome | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, rollicking, sportive |
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| frolicsomeness | (noun) lively high-spirited playfulness | Synonyms: friskiness, sportiveness |
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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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| gadolinium | (noun) a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group | Synonyms: atomic number 64, Gd |
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| gasoline | (noun) a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines | Synonyms: gas, gasolene, petrol |
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| geopolitical | (adjective) of or relating to geopolitics | - |
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| geopolitics | (noun) the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state | - |
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| glycerolise | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolize |
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| glycerolize | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolise |
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| goliard | (noun) a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs | - |
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| goliath | (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, monster |
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| gondolier | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondoliere |
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| gondoliere | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondolier |
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| hectoliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters | Synonyms: hectolitre, hl |
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| hectolitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters | Synonyms: hectoliter, hl |
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| hemimetabolic | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous |
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| hemimetabolism | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetaboly, hemimetamorphosis |
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| heterometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolous |
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| heterometabolism | (noun) development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity | Synonyms: heterometaboly |
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| holibut | (noun) marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes | Synonyms: halibut |
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| holiday | (noun) leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure | Synonyms: vacation |
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| (noun) a day on which work is suspended by law or custom | - |
| (verb) spend or take a vacation | Synonyms: vacation |
| holidaymaker | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: tourer, tourist |
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| holiness | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: sanctitude, sanctity |
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| holism | (noun) the theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole | Synonyms: holistic theory |
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| holistic | (adjective) emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole | - |
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| holometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolous |
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| holometabolism | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometaboly |
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| hooligan | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| hooliganism | (noun) willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others | Synonyms: malicious mischief, vandalism |
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| hydrolise | (verb) make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis | Synonyms: hydrolize |
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| hydrolith | (noun) a saltlike binary compound (CaH2) used as a reducing agent and source of hydrogen | Synonyms: calcium hydride |
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| hydrolize | (verb) make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis | Synonyms: hydrolise |
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| hydroxyproline | (noun) a crystalline amino acid obtained from gelatin or collagen | - |
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| hyperbolic | (adjective) of or relating to a hyperbola | - |
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| (adjective) enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness | Synonyms: inflated |
| hyperbolically | (adverb) in an exaggerated manner | Synonyms: exaggeratedly |
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| hyperbolise | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| hyperbolism | (noun) the use of hyperbole. | - |
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| hyperbolize | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| hypolipoproteinemia | (noun) any of various disorders of lipoprotein and cholesterol metabolism that result in low levels of lipoprotein and cholesterol in the circulating blood | - |
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| idolisation | (noun) the act of worshiping blindly and to excess | Synonyms: idolization |
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| (noun) the act of admiring strongly | Synonyms: adoration, idolization |
| idolise | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolize, revere, worship |
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| idolised | (adjective) regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god) | Synonyms: adored, idolized, worshipped |
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| idoliser | (noun) a person who worships idols | Synonyms: idol worshiper, idolater, idolizer |
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| (noun) a lover blind with admiration and devotion | Synonyms: idolizer |
| idolization | (noun) the act of worshiping blindly and to excess | Synonyms: idolisation |
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| (noun) the act of admiring strongly | Synonyms: adoration, idolisation |
| idolize | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, revere, worship |
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