| homeopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated | Synonyms: homoeopathy |
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| homepage | (noun) the opening page of a web site; also, the first page opened when a web browser is launched (default or start-up page) | Synonyms: home page |
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| homoeopath | (noun) a practitioner of homeopathy | Synonyms: homeopath |
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| homoeopathic | (adjective) of or relating to the practice of homeopathy | Synonyms: homeopathic |
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| homoeopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated | Synonyms: homeopathy |
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| housepaint | (noun) paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house | Synonyms: house paint |
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| hutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, chutzpah |
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| hydropathic | (adjective) of or relating to hydropathy or its administration | - |
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| hydropathy | (noun) the internal and external use of water in the treatment of disease | Synonyms: hydrotherapy |
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| hypaethral | (adjective) partly or entirely open to the sky | Synonyms: hypethral |
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| hypallage | (noun) reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face') | - |
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| hypanthium | (noun) the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae) | Synonyms: calyx tube, floral cup |
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| hyperlipaemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipemia, hyperlipidaemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidaemia, hyperlipoidemia, lipaemia, lipemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidaemia, lipoidemia |
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| hyperparathyroidism | (noun) excessive secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; can affect many systems of the body (especially causing bone resorption and osteoporosis) | - |
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| hypoparathyroidism | (noun) inadequate secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally low levels of calcium in the blood | - |
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| hypospadias | (noun) an abnormal condition in males in which the urethra opens on the under surface of the penis | - |
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| idiopathic | (adjective) (of diseases) arising from an unknown cause | - |
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| idiopathy | (noun) any disease arising from internal dysfunctions of unknown cause | Synonyms: idiopathic disease, idiopathic disorder |
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| immunopathology | (noun) the branch of immunology that deals with pathologies of the immune system | - |
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| impact | (noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: encroachment, impingement |
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| (noun) the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat | Synonyms: shock |
| (noun) the striking of one body against another | - |
| (noun) a forceful consequence; a strong effect | Synonyms: wallop |
| (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, touch, touch on |
| (verb) press or wedge together; pack together | - |
| impacted | (adjective) wedged or packed in together | Synonyms: wedged |
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| impaction | (noun) a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something | Synonyms: impingement |
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| (noun) a disorder in which a tooth is so crowded in its socket that it cannot erupt normally | Synonyms: impacted tooth |
| (noun) a disorder in which feces are impacted in the lower colon | - |
| (noun) the condition of being pressed closely together and firmly fixed | - |
| impair | (verb) make worse or less effective | - |
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| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, mar, spoil, vitiate |
| impaired | (adjective) diminished in strength, quality, or utility | - |
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| (adjective) mentally or physically unfit | Synonyms: afflicted |
| impairer | (noun) an agent that impairs | - |
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| impairment | (noun) damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality | - |
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| (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, stultification |
| (noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: damage, harm |
| (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, disablement, handicap |
| (noun) a symptom of reduced quality or strength | Synonyms: deterioration |
| impala | (noun) African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps | Synonyms: Aepyceros melampus |
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| impale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: empale, spike, transfix |
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| (verb) kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole | Synonyms: stake |
| impalement | (noun) the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture | - |
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| impalpability | (noun) the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch | Synonyms: intangibility, intangibleness |
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| (noun) Ungraspability by or inapprehensibility to the mind. | - |
| impalpable | (adjective) imperceptible to the senses or the mind | - |
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| (adjective) incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch | Synonyms: intangible |
| (adjective) not perceptible to the touch | - |
| impalpably | (adverb) not substantially; lacking substantial expression or fullness | Synonyms: insubstantially |
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| impanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: empanel, panel |
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| (verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: empanel |
| imparipinnate | (adjective) (a leaf shape) pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex | Synonyms: odd-pinnate |
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| impart | (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, convey, transmit |
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| (verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: give, leave, pass on |
| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, contribute, lend |
| impartation | (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: conveyance, imparting |
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| impartial | (adjective) showing lack of favoritism | - |
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| (adjective) free from undue bias or preconceived opinions | Synonyms: unprejudiced |
| impartiality | (noun) an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally | Synonyms: nonpartisanship |
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| impartially | (adverb) in an impartial manner | - |
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| imparting | (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: conveyance, impartation |
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| impassable | (adjective) incapable of being passed | Synonyms: unpassable |
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| impasse | (noun) a street with only one way in or out | Synonyms: blind alley, cul de sac, dead-end street |
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| (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, deadlock, stalemate, standstill |
| impassioned | (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, perfervid, torrid |
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| impassive | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, expressionless, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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| (adjective) having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: stolid |
| impassively | (adverb) in an impassive manner | - |
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| impassiveness | (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassivity, indifference, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
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| impassivity | (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, indifference, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
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| impasto | (noun) painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible | - |
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| impatience | (noun) a dislike of anything that causes delay | - |
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| (noun) a restless desire for change and excitement | - |
| (noun) a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay | Synonyms: restlessness |
| impatient | (adjective) restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition | - |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness | Synonyms: raring |
| impatiently | (adverb) with impatience; in an impatient manner | - |
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| incapability | (noun) the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: incapableness |
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| (noun) lack of potential for development | Synonyms: incapableness |
| incapable | (adjective) (followed by `of') lacking capacity or ability | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `of') not having the temperament or inclination for | - |
| (adjective) not meeting requirements | Synonyms: incompetent, unequal to |
| (adjective) not being susceptible to or admitting of something (usually followed by `of') | - |
| incapableness | (noun) the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: incapability |
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| (noun) lack of potential for development | Synonyms: incapability |
| incapacitate | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, disenable |
| incapacitated | (adjective) lacking in or deprived of strength or power | Synonyms: helpless |
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| incapacitating | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, disabling |
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| incapacity | (noun) lack of physical or natural qualifications | - |
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| (noun) lack of intellectual power | - |
| incomparability | (noun) The quality of being so much better than another as to be beyond comparison. | - |
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| (noun) The condition of not being able to be compared. | - |
| incomparable | (adjective) such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared | Synonyms: uncomparable |
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| incomparably | (adverb) in an incomparable manner or to an incomparable degree | Synonyms: uncomparably |
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| incompatibility | (noun) the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination | - |
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| (noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness, repugnance |
| (noun) (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue) | - |
| incompatible | (adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect | Synonyms: antagonistic |
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| (adjective) not compatible | - |
| (adjective) incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification | - |
| (adjective) not suitable to your tastes or needs | Synonyms: uncongenial |
| (adjective) of words so related that one contrasts with the other | Synonyms: contrastive |
| (adjective) used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture | - |
| (adjective) not in keeping with what is correct or proper | Synonyms: inappropriate, out of keeping, unfitting |
| (adjective) not compatible with other facts | Synonyms: discrepant |
| (adjective) not easy to combine harmoniously | Synonyms: ill-sorted, mismated, unsuited |
| incompatibly | (adverb) without compatibility | - |
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| inculpability | (noun) a state of innocence | Synonyms: blamelessness, guiltlessness, inculpableness |
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| inculpable | (adjective) free of guilt; not subject to blame | Synonyms: blameless, irreproachable, unimpeachable |
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| inculpableness | (noun) a state of innocence | Synonyms: blamelessness, guiltlessness, inculpability |
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| inculpate | (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, incriminate |
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| inculpation | (noun) an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: blame, incrimination |
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| inculpative | (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to | Synonyms: inculpatory |
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| inculpatory | (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to | Synonyms: inculpative |
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| indapamide | (noun) diuretic (trade name Lozal) used in the treatment of hypertension | Synonyms: Lozal |
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| inescapable | (adjective) impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: ineluctable, unavoidable |
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| inescapably | (adverb) by necessity | Synonyms: ineluctably, inevitably, unavoidably |
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| inextirpable | (adjective) incapable of extermination or extirpation | Synonyms: inexterminable |
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| inkpad | (noun) a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp | Synonyms: inking pad, pad, stamp pad |
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| inpatient | (noun) a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated | Synonyms: inmate |
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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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| inspan | (verb) attach a yoke or harness to | - |
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| interdepartmental | (adjective) between or among departments | - |
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| (adverb) between departments | - |
| intradepartmental | (adjective) within a department | - |
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| irreparable | (adjective) impossible to repair, rectify, or amend | - |
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| irreparably | (adverb) in an irreparable manner or to an irreparable degree | - |
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| isopropanol | (noun) alcohol used as antifreeze or a solvent | Synonyms: isopropyl alcohol |
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| jampack | (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, ram, wad |
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| jampan | (noun) a kind of sedan chair used in India | - |
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| japan | (noun) lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient | - |
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| (noun) lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer | - |
| (verb) coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan | - |
| jeopardise | (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
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| jeopardize | (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, stake, venture |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, menace, peril, threaten |
| jeopardy | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, hazard, peril, risk |
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| jupati | (noun) a tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes | Synonyms: jupati palm, jupaty, Raffia taedigera |
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| jupaty | (noun) a tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes | Synonyms: jupati, jupati palm, Raffia taedigera |
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| kalpac | (noun) a high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus | Synonyms: calpac, calpack |
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| kalumpang | (noun) large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food | Synonyms: Java olives, Sterculia foetida |
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| kappa | (noun) the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| keypad | (noun) a keyboard that is a data input device for computers; arrangement of keys is modelled after the typewriter keyboard | Synonyms: computer keyboard |
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| kirpan | (noun) a ceremonial four-inch curved dagger that Sikh men and women are obliged to wear at all times | - |
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| kneepan | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneecap, patella |
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| laparocele | (noun) hernia through the abdomen | - |
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