| backstitch | (noun) an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one | - |
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| (verb) do backstitches | - |
| celestite | (noun) a mineral consisting of strontium sulphate | - |
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| chastity | (noun) abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | Synonyms: celibacy, sexual abstention |
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| (noun) morality with respect to sexual relations | Synonyms: sexual morality, virtue |
| cholecystitis | (noun) inflammation of the gall bladder | - |
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| colpocystitis | (noun) inflammation of the vagina and bladder | - |
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| constituency | (noun) the body of voters who elect a representative for their area | - |
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| constituent | (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constitutional, constitutive, organic |
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| (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: component, element |
| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, element, factor, ingredient |
| (noun) (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction | Synonyms: grammatical constituent |
| (noun) a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes | - |
| (noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component, component part, part, portion |
| constitute | (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: establish, found, institute, plant |
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| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, name, nominate |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, make up, represent |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: form, make |
| constituted | (adjective) brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established | Synonyms: established |
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| constitution | (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: establishment, formation, organisation, organization |
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| (noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: composition, make-up, makeup, physical composition |
| (noun) law determining the fundamental political principles of a government | Synonyms: fundamental law, organic law |
| constitutional | (adjective) sanctioned by or consistent with or operating under the law determining the fundamental political principles of a government | - |
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| (adjective) of benefit to or intended to benefit your physical makeup | - |
| (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constituent, constitutive, organic |
| (adjective) existing as an essential constituent or characteristic | Synonyms: built-in, inbuilt, inherent, integral |
| (noun) a regular walk taken as a form of exercise | - |
| constitutionalise | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalize |
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| constitutionalism | (noun) advocacy of a system of government according to constitutional principles | - |
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| (noun) a constitutional system of government (usually with a written constitution) | - |
| constitutionalist | (noun) an advocate of constitutional government | - |
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| constitutionalize | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalise |
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| (verb) take a walk for one's health or to aid digestion, as after a meal | - |
| (verb) provide with a constitution, as of a country | - |
| constitutionally | (adverb) according to the constitution | - |
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| constitutive | (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constituent, constitutional, organic |
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| cystitis | (noun) inflammation of the urinary bladder and ureters | - |
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| dacryocystitis | (noun) inflammation of the lacrimal sac causing obstruction of the tube draining tears into the nose | - |
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| destitute | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, devoid, free, innocent |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
| destitution | (noun) a state without friends or money or prospects | - |
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| divestiture | (noun) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division | - |
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| (noun) an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior | - |
| handstitched | (adjective) sewn by hand rather than machine | Synonyms: handsewn |
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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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| 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 |
| institution | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated | - |
| (noun) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | Synonyms: asylum, insane asylum, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital |
| (noun) a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society | - |
| (noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: establishment |
| institutional | (adjective) organized as or forming an institution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or constituting or involving an institution | - |
| (adjective) characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative | Synonyms: uninteresting |
| institutionalise | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalize, send |
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| institutionalised | (adjective) officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution | Synonyms: institutionalized |
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| (adjective) given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system | Synonyms: institutionalized |
| institutionalize | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, send |
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| institutionalized | (adjective) officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution | Synonyms: institutionalised |
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| (adjective) given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system | Synonyms: institutionalised |
| institutionally | (adverb) by an institution | - |
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| interstitial | (adjective) of or relating to interstices | - |
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| investiture | (noun) the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | Synonyms: investment |
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| (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization |
| lockstitch | (noun) machine stitch in which the top thread interlocks with the bobbin thread | - |
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| mastitis | (noun) inflammation of a breast (or udder) | - |
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| noninstitutional | (adjective) not institutional | - |
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| noninstitutionalised | (adjective) not committed to an institution | Synonyms: noninstitutionalized |
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| noninstitutionalized | (adjective) not committed to an institution | Synonyms: noninstitutionalised |
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| prostitute | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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| (verb) sell one's body; exchange sex for money | - |
| prostitution | (noun) offering sexual intercourse for pay | Synonyms: harlotry, whoredom |
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| reconstitute | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: restructure |
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| restitute | (verb) restore to a previous or better condition | Synonyms: renovate |
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| (verb) give or bring back | Synonyms: restore |
| restitution | (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: regaining, restoration, return |
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| (noun) the act of restoring something to its original state | - |
| (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnification, indemnity, redress |
| stitch | (noun) a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing | - |
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| (noun) a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running | - |
| (verb) fasten by sewing; do needlework | Synonyms: run up, sew, sew together |
| stitched | (adjective) fastened with stitches | Synonyms: sewed, sewn |
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| stitcher | (noun) a garmentmaker who performs the finishing steps | - |
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| stitchery | (noun) needlework on which you are working with needle and thread | Synonyms: sewing |
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| stitching | (noun) joining or attaching by stitches | Synonyms: sewing |
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| stitchwort | (noun) low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side | Synonyms: greater stitchwort, starwort, Stellaria holostea |
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| substitutability | (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: commutability, replaceability |
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| substitutable | (adjective) capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent | Synonyms: commutable |
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| (adjective) (of words) interchangeable in a given context without changing the import of the expression | - |
| substitute | (adjective) artificial and inferior | Synonyms: ersatz |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, alternative |
| (adjective) capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team | Synonyms: utility |
| (noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another | Synonyms: replacement |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, reliever, stand-in |
| (noun) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced | Synonyms: reserve, second-stringer |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, interchange, replace |
| (verb) be a substitute | Synonyms: fill in, stand in, sub |
| (verb) act as a substitute | Synonyms: deputise, deputize, step in |
| substituting | (noun) working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence | Synonyms: subbing |
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| substitution | (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: commutation, exchange |
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| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, switch, transposition |
| superstition | (noun) an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear | Synonyms: superstitious notion |
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| superstitious | (adjective) showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance | - |
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| superstitiously | (adverb) in a superstitious manner | - |
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| transvestite | (adjective) receiving sexual gratification from wearing clothing of the opposite sex | Synonyms: transvestic |
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| (noun) someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross-dresser |
| transvestitism | (noun) the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross dressing, transvestism |
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| unconstitutional | (adjective) not consistent with or according to a constitution; contrary to the U.S. Constitution | - |
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| unconstitutionality | (noun) The status of being unconstitutional; of not being in accord with the provisions of the appropriate constitution. | - |
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| unconstitutionally | (adverb) in an unconstitutional manner | - |
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| vestiture | (noun) an archaic term for clothing | - |
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| whipstitch | (noun) a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally | Synonyms: whipping, whipstitching |
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| whipstitching | (noun) a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally | Synonyms: whipping, whipstitch |
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