| 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 |
| intonation | (noun) the act of singing in a monotonous tone | Synonyms: chanting |
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| (noun) singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong | - |
| (noun) the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations | - |
| (noun) rise and fall of the voice pitch | Synonyms: modulation, pitch contour |
| intrapulmonary | (adjective) being or occurring within a lung | - |
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| invitational | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of an invitation | - |
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| ionate | (verb) add ions to | - |
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| irrational | (adjective) not consistent with or using reason | - |
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| (adjective) real but not expressible as the quotient of two integers | - |
| (noun) a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number | Synonyms: irrational number |
| irrationality | (noun) the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding | Synonyms: unreason |
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| irrationally | (adverb) in an irrational manner | - |
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| isochronal | (adjective) equal in duration or interval | Synonyms: isochronous |
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| itraconazole | (noun) an oral antifungal drug (trade name Sporanox) taken for cases of fungal nail disease | Synonyms: Sporanox |
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| jonah | (noun) a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him | Synonyms: jinx |
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| jurisdictional | (adjective) restricted to the geographic area under a particular jurisdiction | - |
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| krona | (noun) the basic unit of money in Iceland | Synonyms: Icelandic krona |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Sweden | Synonyms: Swedish krona |
| legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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| lemonade | (noun) sweetened beverage of diluted lemon juice | - |
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| madrona | (noun) evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning | Synonyms: Arbutus menziesii, madrono, manzanita |
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| maturational | (adjective) relating to or involved in maturation | - |
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| mellisonant | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, sweet |
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| meridional | (adjective) of or relating to a meridian | - |
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| (adjective) located in the south or characteristic of southern people or places | - |
| miconazole | (noun) an antifungal agent usually administered in the form of a nitrate (trade name Monistat) | Synonyms: Monistat |
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| migrational | (adjective) of or related to migration | - |
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| millionaire | (noun) a person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars | - |
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| millionairess | (noun) a woman millionaire | - |
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| missional | (adjective) relating to or connected to a religious mission | Synonyms: missionary |
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| missionary | (adjective) relating to or connected to a religious mission | Synonyms: missional |
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| (noun) someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program | - |
| (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missioner |
| monad | (noun) (biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan) | - |
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| (noun) a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive | Synonyms: monas |
| (noun) (chemistry) an atom having a valence of one | - |
| monal | (noun) brilliantly colored pheasant of southern Asia | Synonyms: monaul |
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| monandrous | (adjective) having only one husband at a time | - |
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| monandry | (noun) the state of having only one husband at a time | - |
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| monarch | (noun) large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed | Synonyms: Danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch butterfly |
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| (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, sovereign |
| monarchal | (adjective) having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch | Synonyms: monarchical |
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| (adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchic, monarchical |
| monarchic | (adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal, monarchical |
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| monarchical | (adjective) having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal |
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| (adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal, monarchic |
| monarchism | (noun) a belief in and advocacy of monarchy as a political system | - |
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| monarchist | (noun) an advocate of the principles of monarchy | Synonyms: royalist |
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| monarchy | (noun) an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority | - |
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| monarda | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda | Synonyms: wild bergamot |
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| monas | (noun) a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive | Synonyms: monad |
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| monastery | (noun) the residence of a religious community | - |
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| monastic | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical |
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| (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monk |
| monastical | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic |
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| monasticism | (noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience | - |
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| monatomic | (adjective) of or relating to an element consisting of a single atom | Synonyms: monoatomic |
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| monaul | (noun) brilliantly colored pheasant of southern Asia | Synonyms: monal |
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| monaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with only one ear | - |
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| monaurally | (adverb) in a monaural manner | Synonyms: in one ear, to one ear |
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| monazite | (noun) a reddish-brown mineral containing rare earth metals; an important source of thorium and cerium | - |
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| monoclonal | (adjective) forming or derived from a single clone | - |
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| (noun) any of a class of antibodies produced in the laboratory by a single clone of cells or a cell line and consisting of identical antibody molecules | Synonyms: monoclonal antibody |
| motional | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by motion | - |
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| motivational | (adjective) of or relating to motivation | - |
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| multidimensional | (adjective) having or involving or marked by several dimensions or aspects | - |
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| multidimensionality | (noun) The property of having many aspects or facets. | - |
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| multifunctionality | (noun) The condition of having multiple functions. | - |
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| multinational | (adjective) involving or operating in several nations or nationalities | Synonyms: transnational |
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| mutational | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting from mutation | - |
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| national | (adjective) limited to or in the interests of a particular nation | - |
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| (adjective) concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to nationality | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation | - |
| (adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: home, interior, internal |
| (adjective) owned or maintained for the public by the national government | - |
| (noun) a person who owes allegiance to that nation | Synonyms: subject |
| nationalisation | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalization |
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| (noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalization |
| (noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalization |
| nationalise | (verb) put under state control or ownership | Synonyms: nationalize |
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| (verb) make national in character or scope | Synonyms: nationalize |
| nationalism | (noun) love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | Synonyms: patriotism |
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| (noun) the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals | - |
| (noun) the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination | - |
| nationalist | (adjective) devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others | Synonyms: nationalistic |
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| (noun) one who loves and defends his or her country | Synonyms: patriot |
| (noun) an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government | - |
| nationalistic | (adjective) devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others | Synonyms: nationalist |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, jingoistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| nationality | (noun) people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation | - |
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| (noun) the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization | - |
| nationalization | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalisation |
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| (noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalisation |
| (noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalisation |
| nationalize | (verb) put under state control or ownership | Synonyms: nationalise |
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| (verb) make national in character or scope | Synonyms: nationalise |
| nationally | (adverb) extending throughout an entire nation | Synonyms: across the country, across the nation, nationwide |
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| (adverb) with regard to a nation taken as a whole | - |
| navigational | (adjective) of or relating to navigation | - |
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| neonatal | (adjective) relating to or affecting the infant during the first month after birth | - |
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| neonate | (noun) a baby from birth to four weeks | Synonyms: newborn |
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| neonatology | (noun) that branch of pediatric medicine concerned with the newborn; the diagnosis and treatment of neonates | - |
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| neuronal | (adjective) of or relating to neurons | Synonyms: neural, neuronic |
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| nonabsorbency | (noun) the property of not being absorbent | - |
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| nonabsorbent | (adjective) not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids) | Synonyms: nonabsorptive |
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| nonabsorptive | (adjective) not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids) | Synonyms: nonabsorbent |
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| nonacceptance | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: turndown |
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| nonaccomplishment | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonachievement |
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| nonachievement | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonaccomplishment |
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| nonachiever | (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: underachiever, underperformer |
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| nonadaptive | (adjective) (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose | Synonyms: dysfunctional |
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| nonaddictive | (adjective) not causing or characterized by addiction | - |
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| nonadhesive | (adjective) not tending to adhere | - |
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| nonadjacent | (adjective) not adjacent; not next | - |
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| nonadsorbent | (adjective) lacking a capacity to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: nonadsorptive |
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| nonadsorptive | (adjective) lacking a capacity to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: nonadsorbent |
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| nonage | (noun) any age prior to the legal age | Synonyms: minority |
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| nonaged | (adjective) not of legal age | Synonyms: minor, underage |
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| nonagenarian | (adjective) being from 90 to 99 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone whose age is in the nineties | - |
| nonaggression | (noun) a policy of not initiating hostilities | - |
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| nonaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: unaggressive |
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| nonagon | (noun) a nine-sided polygon | - |
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| nonalcoholic | (adjective) characterized by the absence of alcohol | - |
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| nonaligned | (adjective) not affiliated with any faction, party, or cause | - |
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| nonalignment | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalinement |
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| nonalinement | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalignment |
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| nonallele | (noun) genes that are not competitors at the same locus | - |
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| nonappearance | (noun) failure to appear (especially as at court) | - |
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| nonappointive | (adjective) filled by popular election rather than by appointment | - |
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| nonarbitrable | (adjective) not appropriate for or subject to arbitration | - |
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| nonarbitrary | (adjective) not subject to individual determination | Synonyms: unarbitrary |
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| nonarboreal | (adjective) not inhabiting or frequenting trees | - |
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| nonassertive | (adjective) not aggressively self-assured, though not necessarily lacking in confidence | - |
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