| avirulent | (adjective) not virulent; unable to produce disease | - |
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| cerulean | (adjective) of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky | Synonyms: azure, bright blue, sky-blue |
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| (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue |
| chondrule | (noun) small granule (of e.g. chrysolite) found in some meteoric rocks | - |
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| citrulline | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is an intermediate in the conversion of ornithine to arginine | - |
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| cruller | (noun) small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | Synonyms: twister |
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| ferrule | (noun) a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting | Synonyms: collet |
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| ferule | (noun) a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children | - |
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| garrulity | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness |
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| garrulous | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky |
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| garrulously | (adverb) in a chatty loquacious manner | Synonyms: loquaciously, talkatively, talkily |
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| garrulousness | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness |
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| gastrula | (noun) double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm | - |
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| gastrulation | (noun) the process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cells | - |
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| glomerular | (adjective) of or relating to glomeruli | - |
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| glomerule | (noun) a compacted or sessile cyme | - |
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| glomerulonephritis | (noun) nephritis marked by inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema | - |
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| glomerulus | (noun) a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; it filters the blood during urine formation | - |
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| metarule | (noun) a rule that describes how other rules should be used (as in AI) | - |
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| misrule | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misgovernment |
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| morula | (noun) a solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits; develops into the blastula | - |
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| mucopurulent | (adjective) containing or composed of mucus and pus | - |
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| nonpurulent | (adjective) not containing pus | - |
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| overrule | (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overthrow, overturn, reverse |
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| puberulent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, pubescent, sericeous |
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| purulence | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus) | Synonyms: purulency |
| purulency | (noun) symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus) | Synonyms: purulence |
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| purulent | (adjective) containing pus | Synonyms: pussy |
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| querulous | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, whiney, whiny |
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| querulously | (adverb) in a peevish manner | Synonyms: fractiously, peevishly |
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| querulousness | (noun) the quality of being given to complaining | - |
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| rule | (noun) measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths | Synonyms: ruler |
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| (noun) a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior | Synonyms: regulation |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, pattern |
| (noun) a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system | Synonyms: principle |
| (noun) a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct | Synonyms: principle |
| (noun) (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems | Synonyms: formula |
| (noun) prescribed guide for conduct or action | Synonyms: prescript |
| (noun) (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice | Synonyms: linguistic rule |
| (noun) directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted | - |
| (noun) any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order | - |
| (noun) dominance or power through legal authority | Synonyms: dominion |
| (noun) the duration of a monarch's or government's power | - |
| (verb) keep in check | Synonyms: harness, rein |
| (verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: decree |
| (verb) decide on and make a declaration about | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) mark or draw with a ruler | - |
| (verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: govern |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, prevail, reign |
| (verb) have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac | - |
| ruled | (adjective) subject to a ruling authority | - |
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| ruler | (noun) measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths | Synonyms: rule |
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| (noun) a person who rules or commands | Synonyms: swayer |
| rulership | (noun) the position of ruler | - |
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| ruling | (adjective) exercising power or authority | Synonyms: regnant, reigning |
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| (noun) the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself) | Synonyms: opinion |
| ruly | (adjective) neat and tidy | - |
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| serrulate | (adjective) minutely serrated | - |
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| spherule | (noun) a small sphere | - |
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| spirula | (noun) a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral | Synonyms: Spirula peronii |
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| sporulate | (verb) convert into spores | - |
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| (verb) produce spores | - |
| sporulation | (noun) asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores | Synonyms: monogenesis |
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| torulose | (adjective) of a cylindrical or ellipsoid body; swollen and constricted at intervals | - |
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| truly | (adverb) in accordance with truth or fact or reality | Synonyms: genuinely, really |
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| (adverb) by right | Synonyms: rightfully |
| (adverb) with sincerity; without pretense | Synonyms: sincerely, unfeignedly |
| (adverb) in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) | Synonyms: in truth, really |
| unruliness | (noun) the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline | Synonyms: fractiousness, wilfulness, willfulness |
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| unruly | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious |
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| (adjective) unwilling to submit to authority | Synonyms: disobedient |
| (adjective) incapable of being controlled | Synonyms: indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable |
| untruly | (adverb) in a untrue manner | - |
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| virulence | (noun) extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) | Synonyms: virulency |
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| (noun) extreme hostility | Synonyms: virulency |
| virulency | (noun) extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) | Synonyms: virulence |
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| (noun) extreme hostility | Synonyms: virulence |
| virulent | (adjective) infectious; having the ability to cause disease | - |
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| (adjective) extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom | Synonyms: deadly, venomous |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, vitriolic |
| virulently | (adverb) in a virulent manner | - |
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