| intricate | (adjective) having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate | - |
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| intricately | (adverb) with elaboration | Synonyms: elaborately, in an elaborate way |
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| isomeric | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting isomerism | - |
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| isometric | (adjective) of or involving muscular contraction in which tension increases while length remains constant | - |
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| (adjective) related by an isometry | - |
| (adjective) of a crystal system characterized by three equal axes at right angles | - |
| (adjective) having equal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: isometrical |
| (noun) a line connecting isometric points | Synonyms: isometric line |
| isometrical | (adjective) having equal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: isometric |
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| isometrics | (noun) muscle-building exercises (or a system of musclebuilding exercises) involving muscular contractions against resistance without movement (the muscles contracts but the length of the muscle does not change) | Synonyms: isometric exercise |
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| licorice | (noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant | Synonyms: liquorice |
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| (noun) deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots | Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, liquorice |
| limerick | (noun) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
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| liquorice | (noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant | Synonyms: licorice |
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| (noun) deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots | Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, licorice |
| lorica | (noun) a hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists, for example) | - |
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| lubricant | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricating substance, lubricator |
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| lubricate | (verb) make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant | - |
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| (verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lube |
| (verb) have lubricating properties | - |
| lubricated | (adjective) smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction | Synonyms: greased |
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| lubrication | (noun) an application of a lubricant to something | - |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made smooth or slippery by the application of a lubricant | - |
| lubricator | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricant, lubricating substance |
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| lubricious | (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lustful, prurient, salacious |
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| (adjective) having a smooth or slippery quality | - |
| lubricity | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, prurience, pruriency |
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| lyric | (adjective) used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way) | - |
| (adjective) relating to or being musical drama | - |
| (adjective) expressing deep emotion | Synonyms: lyrical |
| (noun) a short poem of songlike quality | Synonyms: lyric poem |
| (noun) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | Synonyms: language, words |
| (verb) write lyrics for (a song) | - |
| lyrical | (adjective) expressing deep emotion | Synonyms: lyric |
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| (adjective) suitable for or suggestive of singing | - |
| lyricality | (noun) the property of being suitable for singing | Synonyms: lyricism, songfulness |
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| lyrically | (adverb) in a lyrical manner | - |
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| lyricism | (noun) the property of being suitable for singing | Synonyms: lyricality, songfulness |
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| (noun) unrestrained and exaggerated enthusiasm | - |
| lyricist | (noun) a person who writes the words for songs | Synonyms: lyrist |
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| matric | (noun) admission to a group (especially a college or university) | Synonyms: matriculation |
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| matricentric | (adjective) centered upon the mother | - |
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| matricide | (noun) the murder of your mother | - |
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| (noun) a person who murders their mother | - |
| matriculate | (noun) someone who has been admitted to a college or university | - |
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| (verb) enroll as a student | - |
| matriculation | (noun) admission to a group (especially a college or university) | Synonyms: matric |
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| maverick | (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: irregular, unorthodox |
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| (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
| mercuric | (adjective) of or containing mercury | Synonyms: mercurous |
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| meretricious | (adjective) like or relating to a prostitute | - |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, glossy, specious |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| meretriciously | (adverb) in a meretricious manner | Synonyms: flashily |
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| meretriciousness | (noun) an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility | Synonyms: speciousness |
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| (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, tawdriness |
| merica | (noun) A pejorative term for the United States | - |
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| mericarp | (noun) a carpel with one seed; one of a pair split apart at maturity | - |
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| mesenteric | (adjective) of or relating to or located in a mesentery | - |
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| mesmeric | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmerizing, spellbinding |
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| metacentric | (adjective) having two equal arms because of the median position of the centromere | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the metacenter | - |
| metameric | (adjective) having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters | Synonyms: segmental, segmented |
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| metaphoric | (adjective) expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another | Synonyms: metaphorical |
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| metaphorical | (adjective) expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another | Synonyms: metaphoric |
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| metaphorically | (adverb) in a metaphorical manner | - |
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| meteoric | (adjective) pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions | Synonyms: meteorologic, meteorological |
| (adjective) like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience | - |
| metric | (adjective) based on the meter as a standard of measurement | Synonyms: metrical |
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| (adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables | Synonyms: measured, metrical |
| (noun) a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic | Synonyms: system of measurement |
| (noun) a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds) | Synonyms: metric unit |
| (noun) a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them | Synonyms: metric function |
| metrical | (adjective) based on the meter as a standard of measurement | Synonyms: metric |
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| (adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables | Synonyms: measured, metric |
| metrically | (adverb) with regard to meter | - |
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| metricate | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricise, metricize, metrify |
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| metrication | (noun) the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds | Synonyms: metrification |
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| metricise | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricize, metrify |
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| (verb) express in the metric system | Synonyms: metricize |
| metricize | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricise, metrify |
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| (verb) express in the metric system | Synonyms: metricise |
| metrics | (noun) the study of poetic meter and the art of versification | Synonyms: prosody |
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| micrometeoric | (adjective) of or relating to micrometeoroids | Synonyms: micrometeoritic |
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| monitrice | (noun) an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes | Synonyms: birthing coach, doula, labor coach |
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| neuropsychiatric | (adjective) of or relating to neuropsychiatry | - |
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| nitric | (adjective) of or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: azotic, nitrous |
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| noncaloric | (adjective) of food have no (or few) calories | - |
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| nonconcentric | (adjective) not having a common center; not concentric | Synonyms: eccentric |
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| nonparametric | (adjective) not involving an estimation of the parameters of a statistic | - |
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| nonrestrictive | (adjective) not limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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| nonspherical | (adjective) not spherical | - |
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| nontricyclic | (noun) a class of antidepressant drugs that are not tricyclic drugs and do not act by inhibiting MAO | Synonyms: nontricyclic antidepressant, nontricyclic antidepressant drug, nontricyclic drug |
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| numeric | (adjective) of or relating to or denoting numbers | Synonyms: numeral, numerical |
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| (adjective) measured or expressed in numbers | Synonyms: numerical |
| numerical | (adjective) relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers | Synonyms: mathematical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or denoting numbers | Synonyms: numeral, numeric |
| (adjective) measured or expressed in numbers | Synonyms: numeric |
| numerically | (adverb) in number; with regard to numbers | - |
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| obstetric | (adjective) of or relating to or used in or practicing obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetrical |
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| obstetrical | (adjective) of or relating to or used in or practicing obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetric |
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| obstetrician | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: accoucheur |
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| obstetrics | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother | Synonyms: midwifery, OB, tocology |
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| oneiric | (adjective) of or relating to or suggestive of dreams | - |
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| oratorical | (adjective) characteristic of an orator or oratory | - |
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| ostrich | (noun) fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird | Synonyms: Struthio camelus |
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| (noun) a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand) | - |
| overprice | (verb) price excessively high | - |
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| overpriced | (adjective) too costly for the value | - |
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| paediatric | (adjective) of or relating to the medical care of children | Synonyms: pediatric |
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| paediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, pediatrician, pediatrist |
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| paediatrics | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: pediatric medicine, pediatrics, pedology |
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| panegyric | (adjective) formally expressing praise | Synonyms: encomiastic, eulogistic, panegyrical |
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| (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, paean, pean |
| panegyrical | (adjective) formally expressing praise | Synonyms: encomiastic, eulogistic, panegyric |
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| parametric | (adjective) of or relating to or in terms of a parameter | - |
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| paregoric | (noun) medicine used to treat diarrhea | Synonyms: camphorated tincture of opium |
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| parricide | (noun) the murder of your own father or mother | - |
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| (noun) someone who kills his or her parent | - |
| patricentric | (adjective) centered upon the father | - |
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| patrician | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle |
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| (adjective) befitting a person of noble origin | - |
| (noun) a member of the aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocrat, blue blood |
| (noun) a person of refined upbringing and manners | - |
| patriciate | (noun) members of the patrician class. | - |
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| patricide | (noun) the murder of your father | - |
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| (noun) a person who murders their father | - |
| pediatric | (adjective) of or relating to the medical care of children | Synonyms: paediatric |
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| pediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrist |
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| pediatrics | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: paediatrics, pediatric medicine, pedology |
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| pericardiac | (adjective) located around the heart or relating to or affecting the pericardium | Synonyms: pericardial |
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| pericardial | (adjective) located around the heart or relating to or affecting the pericardium | Synonyms: pericardiac |
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| pericarditis | (noun) inflammation of the pericardium | - |
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| pericardium | (noun) a serous membrane with two layers that surrounds the heart | - |
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| pericarp | (noun) the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary | Synonyms: seed vessel |
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| pericementoclasia | (noun) pus pocket formation around a tooth | - |
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| periclase | (noun) a white solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase; a source of magnesium | Synonyms: magnesia, magnesium oxide |
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| peritrichous | (adjective) covered all over with uniformly distributed flagella | - |
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| phantasmagoric | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic |
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| phantasmagorical | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagoric, surreal, surrealistic |
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| phosphoric | (adjective) containing or characteristic of phosphorus | Synonyms: phosphorous |
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| photoelectric | (adjective) of or pertaining to photoelectricity | Synonyms: photoelectrical |
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