| expurgate | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, shorten |
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| expurgated | (adjective) having material deleted | - |
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| expurgation | (noun) the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work | Synonyms: castration |
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| expurgator | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, bowdlerizer |
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| finespun | (adjective) developed in excessively fine detail | Synonyms: hairsplitting |
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| (adjective) developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety | Synonyms: delicate |
| grampus | (noun) slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas | Synonyms: Grampus griseus |
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| (noun) predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas | Synonyms: killer, killer whale, orca, Orcinus orca, sea wolf |
| harpulla | (noun) fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building | Synonyms: Harpullia cupanioides |
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| harpullia | (noun) any of various tree of the genus Harpullia | - |
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| hippocampus | (noun) a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of grey matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories | - |
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| homespun | (adjective) made of cloth spun or woven in the home | - |
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| (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: nubbly, nubby, slubbed, tweedy |
| (adjective) characteristic of country life | Synonyms: cracker-barrel |
| (noun) a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home | - |
| hotspur | (noun) a rash or impetuous person | - |
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| hushpuppy | (noun) deep-fried cornbread ball (southern) | Synonyms: hush puppy |
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| impudence | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, insolence |
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| (noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: cheek, impertinence |
| impudent | (adjective) marked by casual disrespect | Synonyms: flip, insolent, snotty-nosed |
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| (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise |
| impudently | (adverb) in an impudent or impertinent manner | Synonyms: freshly, impertinently, pertly, saucily |
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| impugn | (verb) attack as false or wrong | - |
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| impugnable | (adjective) subject to being discredited | - |
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| impuissance | (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, weakness |
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| impuissant | (adjective) lacking physical strength or vigor | - |
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| impulse | (noun) the act of applying force suddenly | Synonyms: impetus, impulsion |
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| (noun) an impelling force or strength | Synonyms: momentum |
| (noun) the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber | Synonyms: nerve impulse, nervous impulse, neural impulse |
| (noun) (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients) | Synonyms: pulsation, pulse, pulsing |
| (noun) a sudden desire | Synonyms: caprice, whim |
| (noun) an instinctive motive | Synonyms: urge |
| impulsion | (noun) the act of applying force suddenly | Synonyms: impetus, impulse |
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| (noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: drift, impetus |
| impulsive | (adjective) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | Synonyms: capricious, whimsical |
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| (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: driving |
| (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, madcap, tearaway |
| (adjective) proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus | Synonyms: unprompted |
| (adjective) without forethought | - |
| impulsively | (adverb) in an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions | Synonyms: impetuously |
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| impulsiveness | (noun) the trait of acting suddenly on impulse without reflection | - |
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| impunity | (noun) exemption from punishment or loss | - |
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| impure | (adjective) (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene | - |
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| (adjective) combined with extraneous elements | - |
| (adjective) having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws | Synonyms: unclean |
| impureness | (noun) the condition of being impure | Synonyms: impurity |
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| impurity | (noun) the condition of being impure | Synonyms: impureness |
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| (noun) worthless or dangerous material that should be removed | Synonyms: dross |
| imputable | (adjective) capable of being assigned or credited to | Synonyms: ascribable, due, referable |
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| imputation | (noun) the attribution to a source or cause | - |
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| (noun) a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense) | - |
| impute | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, assign, attribute |
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| (verb) attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source | - |
| imputrescible | (adjective) not subject to decay | - |
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| incomputable | (adjective) beyond calculation or measure | Synonyms: immeasurable, inestimable |
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| indisputability | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indubitability, unquestionability, unquestionableness |
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| indisputable | (adjective) impossible to doubt or dispute | Synonyms: sure |
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| (adjective) not open to question; obviously true | Synonyms: incontestable, undisputable |
| inexpugnable | (adjective) incapable of being overcome, challenged or refuted | Synonyms: impregnable |
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| inexpungeable | (adjective) not capable of being expunged | Synonyms: inexpungible |
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| inexpungible | (adjective) not capable of being expunged | Synonyms: inexpungeable |
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| input | (noun) a component of production; something that goes into the production of output | - |
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| (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: stimulant, stimulation, stimulus |
| (noun) signal going into an electronic system | Synonyms: input signal |
| (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: comment, remark |
| (verb) enter (data or a program) into a computer | - |
| intrapulmonary | (adjective) being or occurring within a lung | - |
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| jodhpur | (noun) a short riding boot that fastens with a buckle at the side | Synonyms: jodhpur boot, jodhpur shoe |
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| jodhpurs | (noun) (used in the plural) flared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots | Synonyms: jodhpur breeches, riding breeches |
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| kapuka | (noun) small New Zealand broadleaf evergreen tree often cultivated in warm regions as an ornamental | Synonyms: Griselinia littoralis |
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| kaput | (adjective) destroyed or killed | Synonyms: done for, gone |
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| larkspur | (noun) any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium | - |
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| lilliputian | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, midget, petite, tiny |
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| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
| (noun) a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian) | - |
| lupulin | (noun) Lupulin is a powder separated from the strobiles of common hop. | - |
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| lupus | (noun) any of several forms of ulcerative skin disease | - |
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| manipulability | (noun) the quality of being controllable by skilled movements of the hands | - |
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| manipulable | (adjective) easily managed (controlled or taught or molded) | Synonyms: tractable |
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| manipulate | (verb) treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed | - |
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| (verb) hold something in one's hands and move it | - |
| (verb) maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage | Synonyms: control, keep in line |
| (verb) manipulate in a fraudulent manner | Synonyms: rig |
| (verb) influence or control shrewdly or deviously | Synonyms: pull strings, pull wires |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, wangle |
| manipulation | (noun) exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage | Synonyms: use |
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| (noun) the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means | Synonyms: handling |
| manipulative | (adjective) skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage | - |
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| manipulatively | (adverb) in an artfully manipulative manner | - |
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| manipulativeness | (noun) The quality of using manipulation purposefully, of tending to manipulate others. | - |
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| manipulator | (noun) an agent that operates some apparatus or machine | Synonyms: operator |
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| (noun) a person who handles things manually | - |
| mercaptopurine | (noun) a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia | Synonyms: Purinethol |
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| mesohippus | (noun) North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses | - |
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| metacarpus | (noun) the part of the hand between the carpus and phalanges | - |
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| microcomputer | (noun) a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time | Synonyms: PC, personal computer |
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| minicomputer | (noun) a digital computer of medium size | - |
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| mucopurulent | (adjective) containing or composed of mucus and pus | - |
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| multipurpose | (adjective) having multiple uses | - |
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| napu | (noun) chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil; found in India and Malaya | Synonyms: Tragulus Javanicus |
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| nonpublic | (adjective) not invested with or related to prominent position or status etc. | - |
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| nonpurulent | (adjective) not containing pus | - |
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| nonsuppurative | (adjective) not suppurative | - |
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| occiput | (noun) back part of the head or skull | - |
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| octopus | (noun) bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles | Synonyms: devilfish |
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| (noun) tentacles of octopus prepared as food | - |
| oppugn | (verb) challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of | Synonyms: call into question, question |
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| opulence | (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | Synonyms: luxuriousness, luxury, sumptuousness |
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| opulent | (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, princely, sumptuous |
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| opulently | (adverb) in a sumptuous and opulent manner | Synonyms: sumptuously |
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| opus | (noun) a musical work that has been created | Synonyms: composition, musical composition, piece, piece of music |
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| output | (noun) production of a certain amount | Synonyms: yield |
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| (noun) final product; the things produced | Synonyms: end product |
| (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: outturn, turnout |
| (noun) signal that comes out of an electronic system | Synonyms: output signal |
| (noun) the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time) | Synonyms: production, yield |
| (verb) to create or manufacture a specific amount | - |
| overpopulate | (verb) cause to have too great a population | - |
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| overpopulation | (noun) too much population | - |
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| pappus | (noun) calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions | - |
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| papule | (noun) a small inflamed elevation of skin that is nonsuppurative (as in chicken pox) | - |
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| papulovesicle | (noun) a papule that changes into a blister | Synonyms: vesicopapule |
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| peepul | (noun) fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists | Synonyms: bo tree, Ficus religiosa, pipal, pipal tree, pipul, sacred fig |
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| penpusher | (noun) a clerk who does boring paperwork | Synonyms: pencil pusher |
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| picklepuss | (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, pouter, sourpuss |
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| pipul | (noun) fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists | Synonyms: bo tree, Ficus religiosa, peepul, pipal, pipal tree, sacred fig |
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| platypus | (noun) small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae | Synonyms: duck-billed platypus, duckbill, duckbilled platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus |
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| polypus | (noun) a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane | Synonyms: polyp |
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| populace | (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: public, world |
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| popular | (adjective) regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public | - |
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| (adjective) carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large | - |
| (adjective) (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people) | Synonyms: pop |
| (adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large | Synonyms: democratic |
| popularisation | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularization, vulgarisation, vulgarization |
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| (noun) an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable | Synonyms: popularization |
| popularise | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularize |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| populariser | (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularizer, vulgariser, vulgarizer |
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| popularism | (noun) music adapted to the understanding and taste of the majority | - |
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| popularity | (noun) the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after | - |
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| popularization | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularisation, vulgarisation, vulgarization |
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| (noun) an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable | Synonyms: popularisation |
| popularize | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularise |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| popularizer | (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, vulgariser, vulgarizer |
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| popularly | (adverb) among the people | - |
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| populate | (verb) fill with inhabitants | - |
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| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, live |
| populated | (adjective) furnished with inhabitants | - |
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| population | (noun) the act of populating (causing to live in a place) | - |
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| (noun) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | Synonyms: universe |
| (noun) the people who inhabit a territory or state | - |
| (noun) a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area | - |
| (noun) the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.) | - |