| alternate | (adjective) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternative, substitute |
| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternating |
| (adjective) every second one of a series | - |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: replacement, surrogate |
| (verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
| (verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
| (verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
| alternately | (adverb) in an alternating sequence or position | - |
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| alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
| alternation | (noun) successive change from one thing or state to another and back again | - |
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| alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
| (adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
| (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
| alternatively | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: instead, or else |
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| alternator | (noun) an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles) | - |
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| asternal | (adjective) not connected to the sternum or breastbone | - |
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| barnacle | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: cirriped, cirripede |
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| (noun) European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north | Synonyms: barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis |
| bearnaise | (noun) a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice | - |
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| bicornate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
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| burnable | (adjective) capable of burning | Synonyms: ignitable, ignitible |
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| carnage | (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
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| carnal | (adjective) of or relating to the body or flesh | - |
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| (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: animal, fleshly, sensual |
| carnalise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalize, sensualise, sensualize |
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| carnality | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience, pruriency |
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| carnalize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, sensualise, sensualize |
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| (verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: sensualize |
| (verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: sensualize |
| carnallite | (noun) a white or reddish mineral consisting of hydrous chlorides of potassium and magnesium; used as a fertilizer and as a source of potassium and magnesium | - |
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| carnally | (adverb) in a carnal manner | - |
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| carnassial | (adjective) (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh | - |
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| carnation | (adjective) pink or pinkish | - |
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| (noun) a pink or reddish-pink color | - |
| (noun) Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors | Synonyms: clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus, gillyflower |
| carnauba | (noun) Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax | Synonyms: carnauba palm, Copernicia cerifera, Copernicia prunifera, wax palm |
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| (noun) hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes | Synonyms: carnauba wax |
| cisterna | (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cistern |
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| consternate | (verb) fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion | - |
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| consternation | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: alarm, dismay |
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| cybernate | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, computerize |
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| cybernation | (noun) the control of processes by computer | Synonyms: computerization |
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| cybernaut | (noun) a computer user who uses the internet; someone who explores cyberspace | - |
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| discernability | (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: legibility |
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| discernable | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernible |
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| disincarnate | (verb) make immaterial; remove the real essence of | - |
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| diurnal | (adjective) of or belonging to or active during the day | - |
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| (adjective) having a daily cycle or occurring every day | - |
| doornail | (noun) a nail with a large head; formerly used to decorate doors | - |
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| eburnation | (noun) a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory | - |
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| eternal | (adjective) tiresomely long; seemingly without end | Synonyms: endless, interminable |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| eternalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternally | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: everlastingly, evermore, forever |
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| external | (adjective) happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface | - |
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| (adjective) coming from the outside | Synonyms: extraneous, outside |
| (adjective) from or between other countries | Synonyms: international, outside |
| (adjective) purely outward or superficial | - |
| (noun) outward features | - |
| externalisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalization |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalization |
| externalise | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalize, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalize, project |
| externality | (noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior | Synonyms: outwardness |
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| externalization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalisation |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalisation |
| externalize | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, project |
| externally | (adverb) with respect to the outside | Synonyms: outwardly |
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| (adverb) on or from the outside | - |
| fingernail | (noun) the nail at the end of a finger | - |
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| fraternal | (adjective) (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova | Synonyms: biovular |
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| (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, brotherly |
| (adjective) of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men | - |
| fraternally | (adverb) in a brotherly manner | - |
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| furnace | (noun) an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. | - |
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| governable | (adjective) capable of being controlled | Synonyms: controllable |
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| governance | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governing, government, government activity |
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| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governing body, organisation, organization |
| gubernatorial | (adjective) relating to a governor | - |
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| gurnard | (noun) bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom | - |
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| hibernal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: brumal, hiemal |
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| hibernate | (verb) sleep during winter | Synonyms: hole up |
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| (verb) be in an inactive or dormant state | - |
| hibernating | (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: dormant, torpid |
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| hibernation | (noun) the act of retiring into inactivity | - |
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| (noun) the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter | - |
| (noun) cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals | - |
| hypernatremia | (noun) excessive amounts of sodium in the blood; possibly indicating diabetes insipidus | - |
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| incarnadine | (verb) make flesh-colored | - |
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| incarnate | (adjective) invested with a bodily form especially of a human body | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied |
| (verb) make concrete and real | - |
| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, substantiate |
| incarnation | (noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | Synonyms: personification |
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| (noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: avatar, embodiment |
| (noun) time passed in a particular bodily form | - |
| infernal | (adjective) being of the underworld | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or resembling Hell | - |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire | - |
| (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned |
| (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, satanic, unholy |
| (noun) an inhabitant of Hell | - |
| infernally | (adverb) diabolically | Synonyms: hellishly |
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| internal | (adjective) happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface | - |
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| (adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: home, interior, national |
| (adjective) occurring within an institution or community | Synonyms: intragroup |
| (adjective) innermost or essential | Synonyms: inner, intimate |
| (adjective) located inward | Synonyms: inner, interior |
| internalisation | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalization |
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| internalise | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalize |
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| internality | (noun) preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values) | Synonyms: inwardness |
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| internalization | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalisation |
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| internalize | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalise |
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| internally | (adverb) on or from the inside | - |
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| international | (adjective) concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations | - |
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| (adjective) from or between other countries | Synonyms: external, outside |
| internationalisation | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalization |
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| internationalise | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalize |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalize |
| internationalism | (noun) quality of being international in scope | Synonyms: internationality |
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| (noun) the doctrine that nations should cooperate because their common interests are more important than their differences | - |
| internationalist | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalistic |
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| (noun) an advocate of internationalism | - |
| (noun) a member of a socialist or communist international | - |
| internationalistic | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalist |
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| internationality | (noun) quality of being international in scope | Synonyms: internationalism |
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| internationalization | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalisation |
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| internationalize | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalise |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalise |
| internationally | (adverb) worldwide | Synonyms: globally |
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| journal | (noun) the part of the axle contained by a bearing | - |
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| (noun) a record book as a physical object | - |
| (noun) a periodical dedicated to a particular subject | - |
| (noun) a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations | Synonyms: diary |
| (noun) a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | Synonyms: daybook |
| journalese | (noun) the style in which newspapers are written | - |
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| journalism | (noun) the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media | - |
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| (noun) newspapers and magazines collectively | Synonyms: news media |
| journalist | (noun) a writer for newspapers and magazines | - |
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| (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diarist, diary keeper |
| journalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism | - |
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| journalistically | (adverb) by journalists | - |
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| juggernaut | (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| maternal | (adjective) characteristic of a mother | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent | Synonyms: parental, paternal |
| (adjective) relating to or derived from one's mother | - |
| (adjective) related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, enatic |
| maternalism | (noun) motherly care; behavior characteristic of a mother; the practice of acting as a mother does toward her children | - |
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| (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternity, motherliness |
| maternalistic | (adjective) showing maternal instincts | - |
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| maternally | (adverb) in a maternal manner; as a mother | Synonyms: motherly |
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| nocturnal | (adjective) belonging to or active during the night | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or occurring in the night | - |
| nocturnally | (adverb) at night | - |
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| nonreturnable | (adjective) that may not be returned | - |
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| ornament | (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornamentation |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace |
| (verb) be an ornament to | - |
| ornamental | (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: cosmetic, decorative |
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| (noun) any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value | - |
| ornamentalism | (noun) the practice of ornamental display | - |
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| ornamentalist | (noun) someone who decorates | Synonyms: decorator |
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| ornamentally | (adverb) in an ornamental, nonfunctional manner | - |
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