| decentralize | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, deconcentrate |
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| decentralized | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralised |
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| decentralizing | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralising |
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| deferral | (noun) act of putting off to a future time | Synonyms: deferment, postponement |
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| (noun) a state of abeyance or suspended business | Synonyms: recess |
| demineralisation | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralization |
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| (noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralization |
| demineralise | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralize |
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| demineralization | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralisation |
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| (noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralisation |
| demineralize | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralise |
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| demoralisation | (noun) destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy | Synonyms: demoralization |
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| (noun) depression resulting from an undermining of your morale | Synonyms: demoralization |
| (noun) a state of disorder and confusion | Synonyms: demoralization |
| demoralise | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
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| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| demoralised | (adjective) made less hopeful or enthusiastic | Synonyms: demoralized, discouraged, disheartened |
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| demoralising | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralizing, disheartening, dispiriting |
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| demoralization | (noun) destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy | Synonyms: demoralisation |
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| (noun) depression resulting from an undermining of your morale | Synonyms: demoralisation |
| (noun) a state of disorder and confusion | Synonyms: demoralisation |
| demoralize | (verb) confuse or put into disorder | - |
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| (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| demoralized | (adjective) made less hopeful or enthusiastic | Synonyms: demoralised, discouraged, disheartened |
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| demoralizing | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting |
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| demurral | (noun) (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings | Synonyms: demur, demurrer |
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| denaturalise | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalize |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalize |
| denaturalize | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalise |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalise |
| desacralize | (verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: secularize |
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| dextral | (adjective) of or on the right | - |
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| (adjective) preferring to use right foot or hand or eye | - |
| dextrality | (noun) preference for using the right hand | Synonyms: right-handedness |
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| diametral | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical |
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| doctoral | (adjective) of or relating to a doctor or doctorate | Synonyms: doctorial |
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| dorsoventral | (adjective) extending from the back to the belly | - |
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| dorsoventrally | (adverb) in a dorsoventral direction | - |
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| dural | (adjective) of or relating to the dura mater | - |
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| electoral | (adjective) of or relating to elections | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or composed of electors | - |
| electroneutral | (adjective) having no net electric charge | Synonyms: neutral |
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| emerald | (noun) the green color of an emerald | - |
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| (noun) a transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
| (noun) a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone | - |
| enteral | (adjective) of or relating to the enteron | Synonyms: enteric |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteric, intestinal |
| enthral | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthrall, ravish, transport |
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| enthrall | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, ravish, transport |
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| enthralled | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, entranced |
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| enthralling | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, entrancing, fascinating |
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| enthrallingly | (adverb) in a bewitching manner | Synonyms: bewitchingly, captivatingly, enchantingly |
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| enthrallment | (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, fascination |
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| ephemeral | (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: fugacious, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory |
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| (noun) anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form | Synonyms: ephemeron |
| ephemerality | (noun) the property of lasting for a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeralness, fleetingness |
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| ephemeralness | (noun) the property of lasting for a very short time | Synonyms: ephemerality, fleetingness |
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| epidural | (adjective) on or outside the dura mater | Synonyms: extradural |
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| (noun) regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery | Synonyms: epidural anaesthesia, epidural anesthesia |
| equilateral | (adjective) having all sides or faces equal | - |
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| (noun) a figure whose sides are all equal | - |
| exaugural | (adjective) occurring at or marking the close of a term of office | - |
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| extradural | (adjective) on or outside the dura mater | Synonyms: epidural |
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| extralegal | (adjective) not regulated or sanctioned by law | Synonyms: nonlegal |
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| extralinguistic | (adjective) not included within the realm of language | - |
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| extramural | (adjective) carried on outside the bounds of an institution or community | - |
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| federal | (adjective) characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the central government of a federation | - |
| (adjective) national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units | - |
| federalisation | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
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| (noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
| federalise | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
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| (verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalize |
| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
| federalism | (noun) the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units | - |
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| federalist | (noun) an advocate of federalism | - |
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| federalization | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
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| (noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
| federalize | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
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| (verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalise |
| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
| federally | (adverb) by federal government | - |
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| femoral | (adjective) of or relating to or near the femur or thigh | - |
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| fenestral | (adjective) of or relating to windows | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having a fenestra | - |
| feral | (adjective) wild and menacing | Synonyms: ferine, savage |
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| figural | (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figurative |
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| floral | (adjective) of or relating to the plant life in a particular region | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or associated with flowers | - |
| (adjective) resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers | Synonyms: flowered |
| floricultural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving floriculture | - |
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| folderal | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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| funeral | (noun) a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated | Synonyms: obsequy |
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| furfural | (noun) a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corncobs; used in making furan and as a solvent | Synonyms: furfuraldehyde |
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| furfuraldehyde | (noun) a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corncobs; used in making furan and as a solvent | Synonyms: furfural |
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| gastralgia | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: bellyache, stomach ache, stomachache |
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| general | (adjective) applying to all or most members of a category or group | - |
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| (adjective) affecting the entire body | - |
| (adjective) prevailing among and common to the general public | - |
| (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
| (adjective) somewhat indefinite | - |
| (adjective) not specialized or limited to one class of things | - |
| (noun) a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular) | - |
| (noun) a general officer of the highest rank | Synonyms: full general |
| (noun) the head of a religious order or congregation | Synonyms: superior general |
| (verb) command as a general | - |
| generalcy | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalship |
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| generalisation | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generality, generalization |
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| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalization, induction, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalization, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalization |
| generalise | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalize |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalize |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalize, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| generalised | (adjective) not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment | Synonyms: generalized |
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| generalissimo | (noun) the officer who holds the supreme command | Synonyms: commander-in-chief, commander in chief |
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| generalist | (noun) a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests | Synonyms: Renaissance man |
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| generality | (noun) the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability | - |
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| (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization |
| generalization | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generality |
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| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalisation, induction, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalisation, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalisation |
| generalize | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalise |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalise |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| generalized | (adjective) not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment | Synonyms: generalised |
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| generally | (adverb) without regard to specific details or exceptions | Synonyms: broadly, broadly speaking, loosely |
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| (adverb) without distinction of one from others | Synonyms: in general, in the main |
| (adverb) usually; as a rule | Synonyms: by and large, more often than not, mostly |
| generalship | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalcy |
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| (noun) the leadership ability of a military general | - |
| gestural | (adjective) being other than verbal communication | Synonyms: nonverbal |
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| (adjective) used of the language of the deaf | Synonyms: sign-language, sign, signed |
| glyceraldehyde | (noun) a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars | Synonyms: glyceric aldehyde |
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| goral | (noun) small goat antelope with small conical horns; of southern Asian mountains | Synonyms: Naemorhedus goral |
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| guttural | (adjective) relating to or articulated in the throat | - |
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| (adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: croaky |
| (noun) a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat | Synonyms: guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant |
| gutturally | (adverb) in a guttural manner | - |
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| gyral | (adjective) relating to or associated with or comprising a convolution of the brain | - |
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| hemeralopia | (noun) inability to see clearly in bright light | Synonyms: day blindness |
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| herald | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, harbinger, precursor, predecessor |
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| (noun) (formal) a person who announces important news | Synonyms: trumpeter |
| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, harbinger |
| (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: acclaim, hail |
| (verb) greet enthusiastically or joyfully | Synonyms: hail |
| heralded | (adjective) proclaimed | - |
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| heraldic | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry | Synonyms: heraldist |
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| (adjective) indicative of or announcing something to come | - |
| heraldist | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry | Synonyms: heraldic |
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| heraldry | (noun) emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms | - |
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| (noun) the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies | - |
| horticultural | (adjective) of or relating to the cultivation of plants | - |
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| horticulturally | (adverb) by means of horticulture | - |
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| humoral | (adjective) of or relating to bodily fluids | - |
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| hydralazine | (noun) an antihypertensive drug (trade name Apresoline) that dilates blood vessels; used (often with a diuretic) to treat hypertension and congestive heart failure | Synonyms: Apresoline |
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| hypaethral | (adjective) partly or entirely open to the sky | Synonyms: hypethral |
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| hyperaldosteronism | (noun) a condition caused by overproduction of aldosterone | Synonyms: aldosteronism |
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| hyperalimentation | (noun) administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes | Synonyms: total parenteral nutrition, TPN |
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| hypethral | (adjective) partly or entirely open to the sky | Synonyms: hypaethral |
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| icosahedral | (adjective) of or relating to an icosahedron | - |
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