| acrosome | (noun) a process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg | - |
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| adventuresome | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventurous |
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| anisometric | (adjective) having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: unsymmetrical |
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| anisometropia | (noun) difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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| anisometropic | (adjective) relating to a difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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| autosomal | (adjective) of or relating to an autosome | - |
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| autosome | (noun) any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa | Synonyms: somatic chromosome |
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| awesome | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing |
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| besom | (noun) a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle | - |
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| blithesome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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| blossom | (noun) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | Synonyms: bloom, flower |
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| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| (verb) develop or come to a promising stage | Synonyms: blossom forth, blossom out, unfold |
| (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, flower |
| blossoming | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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| bosom | (noun) a close affectionate and protective acceptance | Synonyms: embrace |
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| (noun) cloth that covers the chest or breasts | - |
| (noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, breast, knocker, tit, titty |
| (noun) a person's breast or chest | - |
| (noun) the locus of feelings and intuitions | Synonyms: heart |
| (noun) the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept | - |
| (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: embrace, hug, squeeze |
| (verb) hide in one's bosom | - |
| bosomed | (adjective) having a bosom as specified or having something likened to a bosom; usually used in compounds | - |
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| bosomy | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| bothersome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| bunglesome | (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ungainly |
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| burdensome | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: onerous, taxing |
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| burdensomeness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
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| calosoma | (noun) any beetle of the genus Calosoma | - |
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| centrosome | (noun) small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules | Synonyms: central body |
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| centrosomic | (adjective) of or relating to a centrosome | - |
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| chondriosome | (noun) an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy | Synonyms: mitochondrion |
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| chrisom | (noun) a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam | Synonyms: chrism, holy oil, sacramental oil |
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| chromosomal | (adjective) of or relating to a chromosome | - |
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| chromosome | (noun) a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order | - |
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| chrysomelid | (noun) brightly colored beetle that feeds on plant leaves; larvae infest roots and stems | Synonyms: leaf beetle |
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| consomme | (noun) clear soup usually of beef or veal or chicken | - |
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| cuddlesome | (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging | Synonyms: cuddly |
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| cumbersome | (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
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| (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbrous |
| cumbersomeness | (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: awkwardness, unwieldiness |
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| dictyosome | (noun) a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) | Synonyms: Golgi apparatus, Golgi body, Golgi complex |
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| dipsomania | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: alcoholism, potomania |
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| dipsomaniac | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, lush, soaker, souse |
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| dysomia | (noun) impairment of the sense of smell | - |
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| eightsome | (noun) a Scottish reel for eight dancers | - |
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| (noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet, octette |
| episome | (noun) DNA that is not incorporated into the genome but is replicated together with the genome (especially in bacterial cells) | - |
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| fearsome | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| fearsomely | (adverb) in a fearsome manner | - |
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| fivesome | (noun) five people considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
| flavorsome | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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| flavorsomeness | (noun) having an appetizing flavor | Synonyms: flavoursomeness, savoriness |
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| flavoursome | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, sapid, saporous |
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| flavoursomeness | (noun) having an appetizing flavor | Synonyms: flavorsomeness, savoriness |
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| foursome | (noun) four people considered as a unit | Synonyms: quartet, quartette |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
| frolicsome | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, rollicking, sportive |
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| frolicsomeness | (noun) lively high-spirited playfulness | Synonyms: friskiness, sportiveness |
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| fulsome | (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
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| fulsomely | (adverb) in an unctuous manner | Synonyms: smarmily, unctuously |
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| fulsomeness | (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unction, unctuousness |
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| (noun) excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm | Synonyms: smarm, unction |
| gasometer | (noun) a large gas-tight spherical or cylindrical tank for holding gas to be used as fuel | Synonyms: gas holder |
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| (noun) a meter for measuring the amount of gas flowing through a particular pipe | Synonyms: gas meter |
| gladsome | (adjective) experiencing or expressing gladness or joy | - |
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| gladsomeness | (noun) experiencing joy and pleasure | Synonyms: gladfulness, gladness |
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| gruesome | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, macabre, sick |
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| gruesomely | (adverb) in a gruesome manner | - |
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| gruesomeness | (noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, grimness, luridness |
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| handsome | (adjective) pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion | Synonyms: better-looking, fine-looking, good-looking, on fleek, well-favored, well-favoured |
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| (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, liberal, openhanded |
| handsomely | (adverb) in a generously handsome manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an attractively handsome manner | - |
| handsomeness | (noun) the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man) | Synonyms: good looks |
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| hansom | (noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers | Synonyms: hansom cab |
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| hypersomnia | (noun) an inability to stay awake | - |
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| hypsometer | (noun) an altimeter that uses the boiling point of water to determine land elevation | - |
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| hypsometry | (noun) measurement of the elevation of land above sea level | Synonyms: hypsography |
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| insomnia | (noun) an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness | - |
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| insomniac | (adjective) experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness | Synonyms: sleepless, watchful |
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| (noun) someone who cannot sleep | Synonyms: sleepless person |
| insomuch | (adverb) to such an extent or degree; so | - |
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| irksome | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| isomer | (noun) a compound that exists in forms having different arrangements of atoms but the same molecular weight | - |
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| isomerase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes its substrate to an isomeric form | - |
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| isomeric | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting isomerism | - |
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| isomerisation | (noun) the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself | Synonyms: isomerization |
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| isomerise | (verb) change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerize |
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| (verb) cause to change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerize |
| isomerism | (noun) the state of being an isomer; the complex of chemical and physical phenomena characteristic of isomers | - |
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| isomerization | (noun) the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself | Synonyms: isomerisation |
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| isomerize | (verb) change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerise |
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| (verb) cause to change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerise |
| isometric | (adjective) of or involving muscular contraction in which tension increases while length remains constant | - |
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| (adjective) related by an isometry | - |
| (adjective) of a crystal system characterized by three equal axes at right angles | - |
| (adjective) having equal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: isometrical |
| (noun) a line connecting isometric points | Synonyms: isometric line |
| isometrical | (adjective) having equal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: isometric |
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| isometrics | (noun) muscle-building exercises (or a system of musclebuilding exercises) involving muscular contractions against resistance without movement (the muscles contracts but the length of the muscle does not change) | Synonyms: isometric exercise |
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| isometropia | (noun) equality of refractive power in the two eyes | - |
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| isometry | (noun) equality of measure (e.g., equality of height above sea level or equality of loudness etc.) | - |
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| (noun) equality of elevation above sea level | - |
| (noun) a one-to-one mapping of one metric space into another metric space that preserves the distances between each pair of points | - |
| (noun) the growth rates in different parts of a growing organism are the same | - |
| isomorphic | (adjective) having similar appearance but genetically different | Synonyms: isomorphous |
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| isomorphism | (noun) (biology) similarity or identity of form or shape or structure | Synonyms: isomorphy |
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| isomorphous | (adjective) having similar appearance but genetically different | Synonyms: isomorphic |
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| isomorphy | (noun) (biology) similarity or identity of form or shape or structure | Synonyms: isomorphism |
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| lightsome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted |
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| (adjective) moving easily and quickly; nimble | Synonyms: light, tripping |
| lightsomely | (adverb) in a light-hearted manner | Synonyms: light-heartedly |
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| (adverb) moving with quick light steps | Synonyms: trippingly |
| lightsomeness | (noun) the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous | Synonyms: lightness |
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| (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightness, nimbleness |
| (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness |
| liposome | (noun) an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector | - |
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| lissom | (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissome, lithe, lithesome, sinuous, supple |
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| lissome | (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lithe, lithesome, sinuous, supple |
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| lissomeness | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple | Synonyms: litheness, suppleness |
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| lithesome | (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithe, sinuous, supple |
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| loathsome | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
| loathsomeness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: lousiness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, wickedness |
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| lonesome | (adjective) marked by dejection from being alone | Synonyms: lonely |
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| (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, only, sole, solitary |
| lonesomeness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, loneliness, solitariness |
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| lovesome | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: affectionate, fond, tender |
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| lysosome | (noun) an organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells) | - |
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| meddlesome | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddling, officious |
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| meddlesomeness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, officiousness |
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