| demystify | (verb) make less mysterious or remove the mystery from | - |
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| justifiable | (adjective) capable of being justified | - |
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| justifiably | (adverb) with good reason | - |
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| justification | (noun) the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning | - |
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| (noun) something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary | - |
| (noun) a statement in explanation of some action or belief | - |
| justificative | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificatory |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificatory, vindicatory |
| justificatory | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificative |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, vindicatory |
| justified | (adjective) having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins | - |
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| justifiedly | (adverb) with honesty | Synonyms: justly, rightly |
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| justifier | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: apologist, vindicator |
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| justify | (verb) adjust the spaces between words | - |
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| (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: vindicate |
| (verb) (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin | - |
| mastiff | (noun) an old breed of powerful deep-chested smooth-coated dog used chiefly as a watchdog and guard dog | - |
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| mystification | (noun) the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered | Synonyms: obfuscation |
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| (noun) something designed to mystify or bewilder | - |
| (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement |
| mystified | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrabolized, metagrobolised, metagrobolized |
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| mystifier | (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: puzzle, puzzler, teaser |
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| mystify | (verb) make mysterious | - |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| mystifying | (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious |
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| pestiferous | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestilent, pestilential, plaguey |
| (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, perversive |
| (adjective) contaminated with infecting organisms | Synonyms: dirty |
| stiff | (adjective) having a strong physiological or chemical effect | Synonyms: potent, strong |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: buckram, starchy |
| (adjective) not moving or operating freely | - |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, tight, wet |
| (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
| (adjective) strong, vigorous | - |
| (adjective) incapable of or resistant to bending | Synonyms: rigid |
| (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: cadaver, clay, corpse, remains |
| (noun) an ordinary man | - |
| (adverb) in a stiff manner | Synonyms: stiffly |
| (adverb) to a great degree | - |
| stiffen | (verb) become stiff or stiffer | - |
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| (verb) make stiff or stiffer | - |
| (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: constrain, tighten, tighten up |
| stiffener | (noun) a member attached to a beam web to prevent loss of strength due to web buckling. | - |
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| (noun) material used for stiffening something | - |
| stiffening | (noun) the act of becoming stiff | - |
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| (noun) the process of becoming stiff or rigid | Synonyms: rigidification, rigidifying |
| stiffly | (adverb) in a stiff manner | Synonyms: stiff |
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| (adverb) in a rigid manner | Synonyms: bolt, rigidly |
| stiffness | (noun) the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend | - |
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| (noun) the property of moving with pain or difficulty | - |
| (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness |
| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
| (noun) firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action | - |
| stifle | (noun) joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee | Synonyms: knee |
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| (verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: dampen |
| (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiate, suffocate |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, smother, strangle |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, suffocate |
| stifled | (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: smothered, strangled, suppressed |
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| stifler | (noun) a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses | Synonyms: smotherer |
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| stifling | (adjective) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | Synonyms: sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry |
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| (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, quelling, suppression |
| testifier | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deponent, deposer |
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| testify | (verb) give testimony in a court of law | Synonyms: attest, bear witness, take the stand |
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| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, prove, show |
| unjustifiable | (adjective) incapable of being justified or explained | Synonyms: indefensible, insupportable, unwarrantable, unwarranted |
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| unjustifiably | (adverb) without any excuse | Synonyms: inexcusably |
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| unjustified | (adjective) lacking justification or authorization | Synonyms: undue, unwarranted |
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