| fastidious | (adjective) giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness | - |
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| (adjective) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures | Synonyms: exacting |
| fastidiously | (adverb) in a fastidious manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a fastidious and painstaking manner | Synonyms: painstakingly |
| fastidiousness | (noun) the trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style | - |
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| fastigiate | (adjective) having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column) | - |
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| fasting | (noun) abstaining from food | Synonyms: fast |
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| fatalistic | (adjective) of or relating to fatalism | Synonyms: fatalist |
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| feasting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: banqueting |
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| feistiness | (noun) The quality or state of being tenacious, energetic, spunky. | Synonyms: scrappiness |
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| festinate | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: hasten, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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| festination | (noun) involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g., Parkinson's disease) | - |
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| festival | (noun) an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place) | Synonyms: fete |
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| (noun) a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration | - |
| festive | (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, gay, merry |
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| festivity | (noun) any joyous diversion | Synonyms: celebration |
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| feudalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism | Synonyms: feudal |
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| fiddlestick | (noun) a bow used in playing the violin | Synonyms: violin bow |
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| fisticuffs | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: boxing, pugilism |
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| (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fistfight, slugfest |
| forecasting | (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: foretelling, prediction, prognostication |
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| forestiera | (noun) any plant of the genus Forestiera | - |
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| formalistic | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalised, formalized |
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| frostily | (adverb) without warmth or enthusiasm | Synonyms: frigidly |
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| frostiness | (noun) coldness as evidenced by frost | - |
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| (noun) a silvery-white color | Synonyms: hoariness |
| frosting | (noun) a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes | Synonyms: ice, icing |
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| fundamentalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents | Synonyms: fundamentalist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism | Synonyms: fundamentalist |
| fustian | (noun) a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap | - |
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| (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, bombast, claptrap, rant |
| fustigate | (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: cudgel |
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| futuristic | (adjective) of or relating to futurism | Synonyms: futurist |
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| futuristics | (noun) the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions | Synonyms: futurology |
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| gastrointestinal | (adjective) of or relating to the stomach and intestines | Synonyms: GI |
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| gearstick | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, shifter |
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| gesticulate | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesture, motion |
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| gesticulating | (adjective) making gestures while speaking | - |
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| gesticulation | (noun) a deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion | - |
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| gnostic | (adjective) possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things | - |
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| guesstimate | (noun) an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing | Synonyms: guestimate |
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| (verb) estimate based on a calculation | - |
| guestimate | (noun) an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing | Synonyms: guesstimate |
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| gymnastic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in exercises intended to develop strength and agility | - |
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| (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: acrobatic, athletic |
| gymnastics | (noun) a sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility | Synonyms: gymnastic exercise |
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| gynecomastia | (noun) excessive development of the breasts in males; usually the result of hormonal imbalance or treatment with certain drugs (including some antihypertensives) | - |
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| handstitched | (adjective) sewn by hand rather than machine | Synonyms: handsewn |
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| harvesting | (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest, harvest home |
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| hastily | (adverb) in a hurried or hasty manner | Synonyms: hurriedly, in haste |
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| hastiness | (noun) hasty impulsiveness | - |
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| (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation |
| hedonistic | (adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: epicurean, hedonic |
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| hemstitch | (noun) embroidery similar to drawnwork | - |
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| (noun) a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups | Synonyms: hemstitching |
| (verb) sew with hemstitches | - |
| hemstitching | (noun) a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups | Synonyms: hemstitch |
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| heuristic | (adjective) of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation | - |
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| (noun) a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem | Synonyms: heuristic program, heuristic rule |
| histidine | (noun) an essential amino acid found in proteins that is important for the growth and repair of tissue | - |
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| histiocyte | (noun) a macrophage that is found in connective tissue | - |
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| histiocytosis | (noun) a blood disease characterized by an abnormal multiplication of macrophages | - |
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| holistic | (adjective) emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole | - |
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| hostile | (adjective) characterized by enmity or ill will | - |
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| (adjective) not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally | - |
| (adjective) unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business) | - |
| (adjective) very unfavorable to life or growth | Synonyms: uncongenial, unfriendly |
| (adjective) impossible to bring into friendly accord | - |
| (noun) troops belonging to the enemy's military forces | - |
| hostilely | (adverb) with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner | Synonyms: belligerently |
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| hostilities | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: belligerency |
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| hostility | (noun) violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked | Synonyms: aggression |
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| (noun) a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition | Synonyms: ill will |
| (noun) the feeling of a hostile person | Synonyms: enmity, ill will |
| (noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: antagonism, enmity |
| humanistic | (adjective) pertaining to or concerned with the humanities | Synonyms: humane, humanist |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion | Synonyms: humanist |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism | Synonyms: humanist |
| (adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanitarian |
| hustings | (noun) the activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making) | - |
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| hypermastigote | (noun) flagellate symbiotic in the intestines of e.g. termites | - |
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| iconoclastic | (adjective) destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions | - |
| idealistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas | Synonyms: ideal |
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| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
| imperialistic | (adjective) of or relating to imperialism | Synonyms: imperialist |
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| impressionistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism | Synonyms: impressionist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or based on an impression rather than on facts or reasoning | - |
| inartistic | (adjective) lacking aesthetic sensibility | Synonyms: unartistic |
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| incombustible | (adjective) not capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: noncombustible |
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| incontestible | (adjective) incapable of being contested or disputed | Synonyms: incontestable |
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| indigestibility | (noun) the property of being difficult to digest | Synonyms: indigestibleness |
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| indigestible | (adjective) digested with difficulty | - |
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| indigestibleness | (noun) the property of being difficult to digest | Synonyms: indigestibility |
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| indigestion | (noun) a disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea | Synonyms: dyspepsia, stomach upset, upset stomach |
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| indistinct | (adjective) not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand | - |
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| indistinctly | (adverb) in a dim indistinct manner | Synonyms: dimly |
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| indistinctness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness, softness |
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| indistinguishability | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identicalness, identity |
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| indistinguishable | (adjective) not capable of being distinguished or differentiated | Synonyms: undistinguishable |
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| (adjective) exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different | Synonyms: identical |
| individualistic | (adjective) with minimally restricted freedom in commerce | Synonyms: laissez-faire |
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| (adjective) marked by or expressing individuality | Synonyms: individualist |
| individualistically | (adverb) in an individualistic manner | - |
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| inelastic | (adjective) not elastic | - |
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| inelasticity | (noun) the lack of elasticity | - |
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| inestimable | (adjective) beyond calculation or measure | Synonyms: immeasurable, incomputable |
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| inexhaustibility | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to exhaust; of being unlimited. | - |
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| inexhaustible | (adjective) incapable of being entirely consumed or used up | - |
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| (adjective) that cannot be entirely consumed or used up | Synonyms: unlimited |
| inexhaustibly | (adverb) with indefatigable energy | Synonyms: indefatigably, tirelessly |
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| ingestion | (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: consumption, intake, uptake |
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| injustice | (noun) an unjust act | Synonyms: iniquity, shabbiness, unfairness |
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| (noun) the practice of being unjust or unfair | Synonyms: unjustness |
| insisting | (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insistence |
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| instigant | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigator, provoker |
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| instigate | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: incite, set off, stir up |
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| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, prompt |
| instigation | (noun) deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord) | Synonyms: fomentation |
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| (noun) the verbal act of urging on | Synonyms: abetment, abettal |
| instigative | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| instigator | (noun) a person who initiates a course of action | Synonyms: initiator |
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| (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigant, provoker |
| instil | (verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instill |
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| instill | (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, tincture |
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| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: impress, ingrain |
| (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: inculcate, infuse |
| (verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instil |
| (verb) impart gradually | Synonyms: transfuse |
| instillation | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillment, instilment |
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| (noun) a liquid that is instilled drop by drop | - |
| instillator | (noun) medical apparatus that puts a liquid into a cavity drop by drop | - |
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| instilling | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, ingraining |
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| instillment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instilment |
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| instilment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instillment |
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| instinct | (adjective) (followed by `with') deeply filled or permeated | Synonyms: imbued, replete |
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| (noun) inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli | Synonyms: inherent aptitude |
| instinctive | (adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: natural |
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| instinctively | (adverb) as a matter of instinct | - |
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| institute | (noun) an association organized to promote art or science or education | - |
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| (verb) advance or set forth in court | Synonyms: bring |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, plant |