| galvanisation | (noun) either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting | Synonyms: galvanization |
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| (noun) stimulation that arouses a person to lively action | Synonyms: galvanization |
| (noun) stimulation with a galvanic current | Synonyms: galvanization |
| gangsaw | (noun) a power saw that has several parallel blades making simultaneous cuts | - |
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| generalisation | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generality, generalization |
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| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalization, induction, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalization, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalization |
| glamorisation | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorization, glamourisation, glamourization |
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| glamourisation | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamorization, glamourization |
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| glissade | (noun) (ballet) a gliding or sliding step in ballet | - |
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| (verb) perform a glissade, in ballet | - |
| glissando | (noun) a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale | - |
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| (adverb) (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes) | - |
| globalisation | (noun) growth to a global or worldwide scale | Synonyms: globalization |
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| gloriosa | (noun) any plant of the genus Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers; all parts are poisonous | Synonyms: climbing lily, creeping lily, Gloriosa superba, glory lily |
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| glossa | (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: clapper, lingua, tongue |
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| glossalgia | (noun) pain in the tongue | Synonyms: glossodynia |
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| glossarist | (noun) a scholiast who writes glosses or glossaries | - |
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| glossary | (noun) an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field | Synonyms: gloss |
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| glucosamine | (noun) an amino derivative of glucose that is a component of many polysaccharides | - |
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| godforsaken | (adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: waste, wild |
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| goosander | (noun) common merganser of Europe and North America | Synonyms: Mergus merganser |
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| gossamer | (adjective) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy | Synonyms: ethereal |
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| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| (noun) a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture | - |
| (noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: cobweb |
| greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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| gripsack | (noun) a small suitcase | - |
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| grisaille | (noun) chiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of relief | - |
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| gunnysack | (noun) a bag made of burlap | Synonyms: burlap bag, gunny sack |
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| hacksaw | (noun) saw used with one hand for cutting metal | Synonyms: hack saw, metal saw |
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| hadrosaur | (noun) any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic | Synonyms: duck-billed dinosaur, hadrosaurus |
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| hadrosaurus | (noun) any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic | Synonyms: duck-billed dinosaur, hadrosaur |
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| handsaw | (noun) a saw used with one hand for cutting wood | Synonyms: carpenter's saw, hand saw |
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| harmonisation | (noun) singing in harmony | Synonyms: harmonization |
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| (noun) a piece of harmonized music | Synonyms: harmonization |
| haversack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, knapsack, packsack, rucksack |
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| headsail | (noun) any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel | - |
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| hearsay | (adjective) heard through another rather than directly | - |
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| (noun) gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth | Synonyms: rumor, rumour |
| herrerasaur | (noun) a kind of theropod dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: herrerasaurus |
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| herrerasaurus | (noun) a kind of theropod dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: herrerasaur |
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| hierarchisation | (noun) The act or result of hierarchizing; the establishment of a hierarchy. | Synonyms: hierarchization |
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| homogenisation | (noun) the act of making something homogeneous or uniform in composition | Synonyms: homogenization |
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| hopsack | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsacking |
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| hopsacking | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsack |
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| hosanna | (noun) a cry of praise or adoration (to God) | - |
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| hospitalisation | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalization |
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| huisache | (noun) tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery | Synonyms: Acacia farnesiana, cassie, flame tree, mimosa bush, scented wattle, sweet acacia, sweet wattle |
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| humanisation | (noun) the act of making more human | Synonyms: humanization |
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| hussar | (noun) a member of a European light cavalry unit; renowned for elegant dress | - |
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| hyalinisation | (noun) the state of being hyaline or having become hyaline | Synonyms: hyalinization |
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| hybridisation | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| hydrolysate | (noun) a product of hydrolysis | - |
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| hypoglossal | (noun) supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue muscles | Synonyms: hypoglossal nerve, nervus hypoglosus, twelfth cranial nerve |
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| hypostatisation | (noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing | Synonyms: hypostatization, reification |
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| hysterosalpingogram | (noun) X ray of the uterus and Fallopian tubes; usually done in diagnosing infertility (to see if there any blockages) | - |
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| ichthyosaur | (noun) any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs | - |
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| ichthyosaurus | (noun) ichthyosaurs of the Jurassic | - |
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| icosahedral | (adjective) of or relating to an icosahedron | - |
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| icosahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having twenty plane faces | - |
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| ictodosaur | (noun) intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals | - |
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| idealisation | (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: glorification, idealization |
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| (noun) something that exists only as an idea | Synonyms: idealization |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad | Synonyms: idealization |
| idolisation | (noun) the act of worshiping blindly and to excess | Synonyms: idolization |
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| (noun) the act of admiring strongly | Synonyms: adoration, idolization |
| immobilisation | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilization, immobilizing |
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| (noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing | Synonyms: immobilization |
| immunisation | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunization |
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| immunoassay | (noun) identification of a substance (especially a protein) by its action as an antigen | Synonyms: immunochemical assay |
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| immunosuppressant | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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| impassable | (adjective) incapable of being passed | Synonyms: unpassable |
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| impresario | (noun) a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments | Synonyms: promoter, showman |
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| improvisation | (noun) an unplanned expedient | Synonyms: temporary expedient |
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| (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, extemporization |
| (noun) a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation) | - |
| impuissance | (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, weakness |
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| impuissant | (adjective) lacking physical strength or vigor | - |
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| inadvisability | (noun) the quality of being ill-advised | - |
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| inadvisable | (adjective) not prudent or wise; not recommended | Synonyms: unadvisable |
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| (adjective) not advisable | - |
| inadvisably | (adverb) in an expedient manner | Synonyms: expediently |
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| incessancy | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessantness |
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| incessant | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, constant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
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| incessantly | (adverb) invariably | Synonyms: always, constantly, forever, perpetually |
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| (adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: ceaselessly, continuously, endlessly, unceasingly, unendingly |
| incessantness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessancy |
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| indispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensableness, vitalness |
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| indispensable | (adjective) not to be dispensed with; essential | - |
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| (adjective) absolutely necessary; vitally necessary | Synonyms: essential |
| (adjective) unavoidable | - |
| indispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensability, vitalness |
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| individualisation | (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualization, individuation |
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| industrialisation | (noun) the development of industry on an extensive scale | Synonyms: industrial enterprise, industrialization |
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| inexcusable | (adjective) without excuse or justification | - |
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| (adjective) not excusable | Synonyms: unforgivable |
| inexcusably | (adverb) in an unpardonable manner or to an unpardonable degree | Synonyms: unforgivably, unpardonably |
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| (adverb) without any excuse | Synonyms: unjustifiably |
| initialisation | (noun) (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position | Synonyms: initialization, low-level formatting |
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| insalubrious | (adjective) detrimental to health | Synonyms: unhealthful, unhealthy |
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| insalubriousness | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubrity |
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| insalubrity | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubriousness |
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| insane | (adjective) afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement | - |
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| (adjective) very foolish | Synonyms: harebrained, mad |
| insanely | (adverb) in an insane manner | Synonyms: crazily, dementedly, madly |
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| (adverb) (used as intensives) excessively | Synonyms: deadly, deucedly, devilishly, madly |
| insaneness | (noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity | Synonyms: lunacy, madness |
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| insanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: unhealthful, unsanitary |
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| insanity | (noun) relatively permanent disorder of the mind | - |
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| insatiable | (adjective) impossible to satisfy | Synonyms: insatiate, unsatiable |
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| insatiably | (adverb) in an insatiable manner; with persistence but without satisfaction | Synonyms: unsatiably |
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| (adverb) to an insatiable degree | Synonyms: unsatiably |
| insatiate | (adjective) impossible to satisfy | Synonyms: insatiable, unsatiable |
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| insensate | (adjective) devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation | Synonyms: insentient |
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| (adjective) without compunction or human feeling | Synonyms: cold-blooded, cold, inhuman |
| insensately | (adverb) in an insensate manner | - |
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| inspissate | (verb) become thick or thicker | Synonyms: thicken |
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| (verb) make thick or thicker | Synonyms: thicken |
| (verb) make viscous or dense | Synonyms: thicken |
| inspissation | (noun) the act of thickening | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) the process of thickening by dehydration | - |
| intellectualisation | (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict | Synonyms: intellectualization |
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| internalisation | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalization |
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| internationalisation | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalization |
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| interspersal | (noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things | Synonyms: interspersion |
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| intravasation | (noun) entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel | - |
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| ionisation | (noun) the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas | Synonyms: ionization |
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| (noun) the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge) | Synonyms: ionization |
| isanemone | (noun) an isogram connecting points having equal wind speed. | - |
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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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