| irritable | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| (adjective) capable of responding to stimuli | Synonyms: excitable |
| (adjective) abnormally sensitive to a stimulus | - |
| irritably | (adverb) in an irritable manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a petulant manner | Synonyms: pettishly, petulantly, testily |
| irritant | (noun) something that causes irritation and annoyance | Synonyms: thorn |
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| irritate | (verb) excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame | - |
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| (verb) excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| irritated | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| irritating | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritative |
| (adjective) causing physical discomfort | Synonyms: painful |
| irritatingly | (adverb) in an irritating manner | - |
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| irritation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, provocation |
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| (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, annoying, vexation |
| (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: discomfort, soreness |
| (noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: pique, temper |
| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, vexation |
| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, innervation |
| (noun) (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation | - |
| irritative | (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritating |
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| isarithm | (noun) a line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable | Synonyms: isogram, isopleth |
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| jocularity | (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jest, joke |
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| (noun) fun characterized by humor | Synonyms: jocosity |
| (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocundity |
| keratoiritis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea and the iris of the eye | - |
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| keratoscleritis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea and sclera of the eye | - |
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| kerite | (noun) a compound in which tar or asphalt combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber. | - |
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| kieserite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of hydrous magnesium sulfate often found in salt mines | - |
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| krennerite | (noun) an orthorhombic gold telluride mineral which can contain a relatively small amount of silver in the structure. | - |
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| laterite | (noun) a red soil produced by rock decay; contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides | - |
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| lechatelierite | (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: crystal, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
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| legerity | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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| linearity | (noun) the property of having one dimension | Synonyms: one-dimensionality |
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| lobularity | (noun) the property of having lobules | - |
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| logarithm | (noun) the exponent required to produce a given number | Synonyms: log |
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| logarithmic | (adjective) of or relating to or using logarithms | - |
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| logarithmically | (adverb) in a logarithmic manner | - |
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| majority | (noun) the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part | Synonyms: bulk |
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| (noun) (elections) more than half of the votes | Synonyms: absolute majority |
| (noun) the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs | Synonyms: legal age |
| malnutrition | (noun) a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods | - |
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| margarita | (noun) a cocktail made of tequila and triple sec with lime and lemon juice | - |
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| marguerite | (noun) tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, Leucanthemum vulgare, moon daisy, ox-eyed daisy, oxeye daisy, white daisy |
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| (noun) perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Argyranthemum frutescens, Chrysanthemum frutescens, marguerite daisy, Paris daisy |
| marital | (adjective) of or relating to the state of marriage | Synonyms: married, matrimonial |
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| mariticide | (noun) the murder of a husband by his wife | - |
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| maritime | (adjective) relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen | Synonyms: marine, nautical |
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| (adjective) bordering on or living or characteristic of those near the sea | - |
| maturity | (noun) state of being mature; full development | Synonyms: matureness |
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| (noun) the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed | Synonyms: adulthood |
| (noun) the date on which an obligation must be repaid | Synonyms: due date, maturity date |
| meanspirited | (adjective) lacking in magnanimity | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, mean |
| meanspiritedly | (adverb) in a meanspirited manner | - |
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| mediocrity | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: averageness |
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| (noun) a person of second-rate ability or value | Synonyms: second-rater |
| merit | (noun) any admirable quality or attribute | Synonyms: virtue |
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| (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, meritoriousness |
| (verb) be worthy or deserving | Synonyms: deserve |
| meritable | (adjective) deserving reward or praise | Synonyms: meritorious |
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| merited | (adjective) properly deserved | Synonyms: deserved |
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| meritless | (adjective) without merit; of little or no value or use | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry |
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| meritocracy | (noun) the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth | - |
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| (noun) a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects | - |
| meritocratic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy | - |
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| meritorious | (adjective) deserving reward or praise | Synonyms: meritable |
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| meritoriously | (adverb) in a meritorious manner | - |
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| meritoriousness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, merit |
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| meteorite | (noun) stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that has reached the earth's surface | - |
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| meteoritic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by meteorites | Synonyms: meteoritical |
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| meteoritical | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by meteorites | Synonyms: meteoritic |
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| metritis | (noun) inflammation of the lining of the uterus (of the endometrium) | Synonyms: endometritis |
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| micrometeorite | (noun) a meteorite or meteoroid so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmosphere | Synonyms: micrometeor, micrometeoroid |
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| micrometeoritic | (adjective) of or relating to micrometeoroids | Synonyms: micrometeoric |
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| micturition | (noun) the discharge of urine | Synonyms: urination |
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| millerite | (noun) a yellow mineral consisting of nickel sulfide; a minor source of nickel | - |
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| minority | (noun) being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts | - |
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| (noun) a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part | - |
| (noun) any age prior to the legal age | Synonyms: nonage |
| molarity | (noun) concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solution | Synonyms: M, molar concentration |
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| muliebrity | (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women | Synonyms: femininity |
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| (noun) the state of being an adult woman | Synonyms: womanhood |
| multicollinearity | (noun) a case of multiple regression in which the predictor variables are themselves highly correlated | - |
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| muscularity | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, sinew |
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| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour, vim |
| (noun) the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle | - |
| myometritis | (noun) inflammation of the myometrium | - |
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| neocriticism | (noun) a form of neo-Kantianism developed principally by C. B. Renouvier and his followers rejecting the noumena of Kant and restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories. | - |
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| nephrite | (noun) an amphibole mineral consisting of calcium magnesium silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade that is less valuable than from jadeite; once believed to cure kidney disorders | - |
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| nephritic | (adjective) of or relating to the kidneys | Synonyms: renal |
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| (adjective) affected by nephritis | - |
| nephritis | (noun) an inflammation of the kidney | Synonyms: Bright's disease |
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| nerita | (noun) a neritid gastropod having a short smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum | - |
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| neritic | (adjective) of or relating to the region of the sea over the continental shelf which is less than 200 meters deep | - |
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| (adjective) relating to the region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast | - |
| neritid | (noun) operculate seasnail of coastal waters with a short spiral shell | Synonyms: neritid gastropod |
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| neritina | (noun) ornately marked and brightly colored snails of brackish waters | - |
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| neuritis | (noun) inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function | - |
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| newswriter | (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: correspondent |
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| nitrite | (noun) the radical -NO2 or any compound containing it (such as a salt or ester of nitrous acid) | - |
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| noncritical | (adjective) not in a state of crisis or emergency | Synonyms: noncrucial |
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| (adjective) not critical; not at a point of abrupt change | - |
| (adjective) marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures | Synonyms: uncritical |
| nonheritable | (adjective) not inheritable | Synonyms: noninheritable |
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| noninheritable | (adjective) not inheritable | Synonyms: nonheritable |
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| nonterritorial | (adjective) not displaying territoriality | - |
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| nutrition | (noun) the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans) | - |
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| (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, victuals |
| (noun) (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance | - |
| nutritional | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritionary |
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| nutritionally | (adverb) with regard to nutrition | - |
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| nutritionary | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritional |
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| nutritionist | (noun) a specialist in the study of nutrition | - |
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| nutritious | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive |
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| nutritiousness | (noun) the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth | Synonyms: nutritiveness |
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| nutritive | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious |
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| nutritiveness | (noun) the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth | Synonyms: nutritiousness |
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| obscurity | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, reconditeness |
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| (noun) an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known | - |
| (noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination | Synonyms: obscureness |
| oophoritis | (noun) inflammation of one or both ovaries | - |
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| osteoarthritis | (noun) chronic breakdown of cartilage in the joints; the most common form of arthritis occurring usually after middle age | Synonyms: degenerative arthritis, degenerative joint disease |
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| ovaritis | (noun) inflammation of the ovaries | - |
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| overcritical | (adjective) inclined to judge too severely | Synonyms: hypercritical |
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| overfamiliarity | (noun) The state of being common or repeated to the point of being unnoticed or annoying. | - |
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| overwrite | (verb) write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data | - |
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| ozocerite | (noun) a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum; some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles | Synonyms: ader wax, earth wax, mineral wax, ozokerite |
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| ozokerite | (noun) a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum; some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles | Synonyms: ader wax, earth wax, mineral wax, ozocerite |
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| parametritis | (noun) inflammation of connective tissue adjacent to the uterus | - |
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| parity | (noun) functional equality | - |
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| (noun) (physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system | Synonyms: conservation of parity, mirror symmetry, space-reflection symmetry |
| (noun) (computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 1's or an even number of 1's; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1's must contain an error | Synonyms: check bit, parity bit |
| (noun) (mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity | - |
| (noun) (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered | Synonyms: para |
| particularity | (noun) the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance | Synonyms: specialness |
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| parturition | (noun) the process of giving birth | Synonyms: birth, birthing, giving birth |
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| peculiarity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, rarity |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, speciality, specialness, specialty |
| (noun) an odd or unusual characteristic | Synonyms: distinctive feature, distinguishing characteristic |
| pentaerythritol | (noun) a coronary vasodilator (trade name Peritrate) used to treat angina pectoris | Synonyms: Peritrate |
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| periarteritis | (noun) inflammation of the outer coat of an artery | - |
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| perithecium | (noun) flask-shaped ascocarp | - |
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| perithelial | (adjective) of or relating to the tissue layer around small blood vessels | - |
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