| basifixed | (adjective) attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks) | - |
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| basify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalise, alkalize |
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| bursiform | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: pouch-shaped, pouchlike, saclike |
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| classifiable | (adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: distinctive |
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| classification | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people | - |
| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, sorting |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization |
| classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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| classified | (adjective) arranged into classes | - |
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| (adjective) official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation | - |
| (noun) a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type | Synonyms: classified ad, classified advertisement |
| classifier | (noun) an algorithm that implements classification. | - |
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| (noun) a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs | - |
| (noun) a person who creates classifications | - |
| classify | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, separate, sort, sort out |
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| (verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: relegate |
| (verb) declare unavailable, as for security reasons | - |
| declassification | (noun) reduction or removal by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon | - |
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| declassified | (adjective) having had security classification removed | - |
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| declassify | (verb) lift the restriction on and make available again | - |
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| demulsify | (verb) break down into components | - |
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| (verb) cause to demulsify | - |
| densification | (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, compression, concretion |
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| deossification | (noun) the loss of the mineral content of bone tissue | - |
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| diversification | (noun) the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered) | Synonyms: variegation |
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| (noun) the condition of being varied | - |
| diversified | (adjective) having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety | - |
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| diversify | (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, broaden |
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| (verb) make (more) diverse | - |
| (verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: radiate |
| dorsiflexion | (noun) the act of bending backward (of the body or a body part) | - |
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| emulsifier | (noun) a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion | - |
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| emulsify | (verb) form into or become an emulsion | - |
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| (verb) cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion | - |
| ensiform | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: bladelike, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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| falsifiable | (adjective) capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation | Synonyms: confirmable, verifiable |
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| falsification | (noun) the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | Synonyms: falsehood |
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| (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsifying, refutal, refutation |
| (noun) a willful perversion of facts | Synonyms: misrepresentation |
| (noun) any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something | Synonyms: disproof, refutation |
| falsifier | (noun) someone who falsifies | - |
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| falsify | (verb) falsify knowingly | - |
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| (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: alter, interpolate |
| (verb) prove false | - |
| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, garble, warp |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| falsifying | (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsification, refutal, refutation |
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| fusiform | (adjective) tapering at each end | Synonyms: cigar-shaped, spindle-shaped |
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| gasification | (noun) the process of changing into gas | - |
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| gasified | (adjective) converted into a gas or vapor | Synonyms: vaporized, vapourised, volatilised, volatilized |
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| gasify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: aerify, vaporise, vaporize |
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| intensification | (noun) action that makes something stronger or more extreme | - |
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| (noun) the act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film) | - |
| intensified | (adjective) made more intense | - |
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| intensifier | (noun) a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies | Synonyms: intensive |
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| intensify | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: deepen |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, deepen, heighten |
| (verb) increase in extent or intensity | Synonyms: escalate, step up |
| (verb) make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark | - |
| intensifying | (adjective) increasing in strength or intensity | - |
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| massif | (noun) a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range | - |
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| ossiferous | (adjective) containing bones (especially fossil bones) | - |
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| ossification | (noun) hardened conventionality | Synonyms: conformity |
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| (noun) the developmental process of bone formation | - |
| (noun) the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior | - |
| (noun) the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material | - |
| ossified | (adjective) set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs | Synonyms: fossilised, fossilized |
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| ossify | (verb) become bony | - |
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| (verb) cause to become hard and bony | - |
| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: petrify, rigidify |
| persiflage | (noun) light teasing | - |
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| phacoemulsification | (noun) extracapsular surgery for cataracts in which ultrasonic sound breaks the cortex and nucleus of the lens into small fragments that are then vacuumed away through a small tube | - |
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| pisiform | (noun) a small wrist bone that articulates only with the triquetral | Synonyms: os pisiforme, pisiform bone |
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| reclassification | (noun) classifying something again (usually in a new category) | - |
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| reclassify | (verb) classify anew, change the previous classification | - |
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| resift | (verb) sift anew | - |
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| salsify | (noun) either of two long roots eaten cooked | - |
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| (noun) Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root; naturalized throughout United States | Synonyms: oyster plant, Tragopogon porrifolius, vegetable oyster |
| (noun) edible root of the salsify plant | Synonyms: oyster plant |
| sensify | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensitise, sensitize |
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| sift | (verb) distinguish and separate out | Synonyms: sieve |
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| (verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sieve, strain |
| (verb) check and sort carefully | Synonyms: sieve |
| (verb) move as if through a sieve | - |
| sifter | (noun) a household sieve (as for flour) | - |
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| sifting | (noun) the act of separating grain from chaff | Synonyms: winnow, winnowing |
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| sissification | (noun) Sexual act where a male is forced to act effeminately and dress like a woman | - |
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| sissified | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissy, sissyish |
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| unclassifiable | (adjective) not possible to classify | - |
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| unclassified | (adjective) not arranged in any specific grouping | - |
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| (adjective) not subject to a security classification | - |
| undiversified | (adjective) not diversified | - |
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| vasiform | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: cannular, tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular |
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| versification | (noun) the art or practice of writing verse | - |
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| (noun) the form or metrical composition of a poem | - |
| (noun) a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text) | - |
| versifier | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, rhymester |
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| versify | (verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetise, poetize, verse |
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