| hypersensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| immerse | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, plunge, soak up, steep |
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| (verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, swallow, swallow up |
| indorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: endorse |
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| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, endorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, endorse |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, endorse, second |
| indorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: endorsement |
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| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, sanction, warrant |
| (noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, endorsement |
| (noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: endorsement, second, secondment |
| (noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: endorsement |
| indorser | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, ratifier, subscriber |
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| (noun) a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security | Synonyms: endorser |
| intercourse | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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| (noun) communication between individuals | Synonyms: social intercourse |
| intersect | (verb) meet at a point | Synonyms: cross |
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| intersectant | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: decussate, intersecting |
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| intersecting | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: decussate, intersectant |
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| intersection | (noun) the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path) | - |
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| (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossroad, crossway |
| (noun) a point where lines intersect | Synonyms: intersection point, point of intersection |
| (noun) a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena | Synonyms: convergence, overlap |
| (noun) the set of elements common to two or more sets | Synonyms: Cartesian product, product |
| (noun) a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations | - |
| intersex | (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, hermaphrodite |
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| intersexual | (adjective) having sexual characteristics intermediate between those of male and female | - |
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| (adjective) existing or occurring between the sexes | - |
| intersperse | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: interlard |
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| (verb) place at intervals in or among | - |
| inverse | (adjective) opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | - |
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| (adjective) reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect | Synonyms: reverse |
| (noun) something inverted in sequence or character or effect | Synonyms: opposite |
| inversely | (adverb) in an inverse or contrary manner | Synonyms: reciprocally |
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| jersey | (noun) a slightly elastic machine-knit fabric | - |
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| (noun) a close-fitting pullover shirt | Synonyms: T-shirt, tee shirt |
| marseille | (noun) strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedspreads | - |
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| morsel | (noun) a small amount of solid food; a mouthful | Synonyms: bit, bite |
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| (noun) a small quantity of anything | - |
| nonintersecting | (adjective) (of lines, planes, or surfaces) never meeting or crossing | Synonyms: nonconvergent |
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| nurse | (noun) one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician) | - |
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| (noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nanny, nursemaid |
| (verb) try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury | - |
| (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbor, harbour, hold |
| (verb) serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people | - |
| (verb) treat carefully | - |
| nursed | (adjective) (of an infant) breast-fed | Synonyms: suckled |
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| nurseling | (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nursling, suckling |
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| nursemaid | (noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nanny, nurse |
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| nurser | (noun) a person who treats something carefully | - |
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| nursery | (noun) a child's room for a baby | Synonyms: baby's room |
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| nurseryman | (noun) someone who takes care of a garden | Synonyms: gardener |
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| obverse | (noun) the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design | - |
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| (noun) the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides | - |
| outercourse | (noun) sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration | - |
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| oversea | (adjective) being or passing over or across the sea | Synonyms: overseas |
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| (adverb) beyond or across the sea | Synonyms: overseas |
| overseas | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: abroad |
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| (adjective) being or passing over or across the sea | Synonyms: oversea |
| (adverb) beyond or across the sea | Synonyms: oversea |
| (adverb) in a place across an ocean | Synonyms: abroad |
| oversee | (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: manage, superintend, supervise |
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| overseer | (noun) a person who directs and manages an organization | Synonyms: superintendent |
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| oversensitive | (adjective) unduly sensitive or thin-skinned | - |
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| oversensitiveness | (noun) sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset | - |
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| overserious | (adjective) excessively serious | - |
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| oversew | (verb) sew (two edges) with close stitches that pass over them both | - |
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| oversewn | (adjective) sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together) | Synonyms: overhand |
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| oversexed | (adjective) having excessive sexual desire or appeal | Synonyms: highly-sexed |
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| packhorse | (noun) a workhorse used as a pack animal | - |
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| parse | (verb) analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence) | - |
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| parsec | (noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years | Synonyms: secpar |
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| parser | (noun) a computer program that divides code up into functional components | - |
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| persecute | (verb) cause to suffer | Synonyms: oppress |
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| persecution | (noun) the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion) | - |
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| persecutor | (noun) someone who torments | Synonyms: tormenter, tormentor |
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| perseverance | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseveration, persistence |
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| (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
| perseverate | (verb) repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus | - |
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| perseveration | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, persistence |
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| (noun) the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it | - |
| persevere | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persist |
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| persevering | (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: diligent |
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| perseveringly | (adverb) with perseverance | - |
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| perverse | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverted, reprobate |
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| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, wayward |
| (adjective) marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict | - |
| perversely | (adverb) deliberately deviant | - |
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| (adverb) in a contrary disobedient manner | Synonyms: contrarily, contrariwise |
| perverseness | (noun) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrariness, perversity |
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| (noun) deliberately deviating from what is good | Synonyms: perversity |
| purse | (noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: bag, handbag, pocketbook |
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| (noun) a small bag for carrying money | - |
| (noun) a sum of money offered as a prize | - |
| (noun) a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse | - |
| (verb) contract one's lips into a rounded shape | - |
| (verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: wrinkle |
| purser | (noun) an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare | - |
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| racecourse | (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racetrack, raceway, track |
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| racehorse | (noun) a horse bred for racing | Synonyms: bangtail, race horse |
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| recourse | (noun) act of turning to for assistance | Synonyms: refuge, resort |
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| (noun) something or someone turned to for assistance or security | Synonyms: refuge, resort |
| redhorse | (noun) North American sucker with reddish fins | Synonyms: redhorse sucker |
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| rehearse | (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practice, practise |
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| reimburse | (verb) pay back for some expense incurred | - |
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| (verb) reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | Synonyms: recoup |
| reimbursement | (noun) compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc. | - |
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| remorse | (noun) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) | Synonyms: compunction, self-reproach |
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| remorseful | (adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | Synonyms: contrite, rueful, ruthful |
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| remorsefully | (adverb) in a rueful manner | Synonyms: contritely, ruefully |
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| remorseless | (adjective) without mercy or pity | Synonyms: pitiless, ruthless, unpitying |
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| remorselessly | (adverb) without pity; in a merciless manner | Synonyms: mercilessly, pitilessly, unmercifully |
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| retrorse | (adjective) bent or curved backward or downward | - |
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| reverse | (adjective) of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
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| (adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | Synonyms: rearward |
| (adjective) reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect | Synonyms: inverse |
| (noun) (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction | - |
| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed | Synonyms: reverse gear |
| (noun) the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design | Synonyms: verso |
| (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reversal, setback |
| (noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: contrary, opposite |
| (verb) change to the contrary | Synonyms: change by reversal, turn |
| (verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: invert, turn back |
| (verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: invert |
| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, revoke, vacate |
| reversed | (adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: converse, transposed |
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| (adjective) turned inside out and resewn | - |
| reversely | (adverb) in an opposite way; so as to be reversed | - |
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| sarsenet | (noun) a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings | Synonyms: sarcenet |
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| sawhorse | (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, horse, sawbuck |
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| seahorse | (noun) small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position | Synonyms: sea horse |
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| (noun) either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber | Synonyms: sea horse, walrus |
| sinistrorse | (adjective) spiraling upward from right to left | Synonyms: sinistrorsal |
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| somerset | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, summersault, summerset |
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| sparse | (adjective) not dense | Synonyms: thin |
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| sparsely | (adverb) in a sparse way | - |
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| sparseness | (noun) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | Synonyms: spareness, sparsity, thinness |
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| studhorse | (noun) adult male horse kept for breeding | Synonyms: stud |
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| submerse | (verb) put under water | Synonyms: submerge |
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| (verb) sink below the surface; go under or as if under water | Synonyms: submerge |
| submersed | (adjective) beneath the surface of the water | Synonyms: submerged, underwater |
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| (adjective) growing or remaining under water | Synonyms: subaquatic, subaqueous, submerged, underwater |
| summerset | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summersault |
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| supersede | (verb) take the place or move into the position of | Synonyms: replace, supervene upon, supplant |
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| supersedure | (noun) act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior | Synonyms: supersession |
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| supersensitised | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| supersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitized |
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| supersensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive |
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| supersession | (noun) act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior | Synonyms: supersedure |
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| terse | (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: crisp, curt, laconic |
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| tersely | (adverb) in a short and concise manner | Synonyms: telegraphically |
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| terseness | (noun) a neatly short and concise expressive style | - |
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| thyrse | (noun) a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose | Synonyms: thyrsus |
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| transverse | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: cross, thwartwise, transversal |
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| transversely | (adverb) in a transverse manner | Synonyms: transversally |
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| traverse | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traversal |
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| (noun) travel across | Synonyms: traversal |
| (noun) a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it | Synonyms: transom |
| (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, crosspiece, trave |
| (verb) deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit | Synonyms: deny |
| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track |
| (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: cross, span, sweep |
| traverser | (noun) someone who moves or passes across | - |
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| twitterverse | (noun) the social sphere of the Twitter service | - |
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| undersea | (adjective) beneath the surface of the sea | Synonyms: submarine |
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