| abstruse | (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: deep, recondite |
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| abstrusely | (adverb) in a manner difficult to understand | - |
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| abstruseness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness |
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| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstrusity, profoundness, profundity, reconditeness |
| abstrusity | (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, profoundness, profundity, reconditeness |
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| anestrum | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrus, anoestrum, anoestrus |
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| anestrus | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrum, anoestrum, anoestrus |
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| anoestrum | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrus |
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| anoestrus | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrum |
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| awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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| claustrum | (noun) a layer of grey matter in the brain adjacent to the lenticular nucleus | - |
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| colostrum | (noun) milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition | Synonyms: foremilk |
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| construal | (noun) an interpretation of the meaning of something; the act of construing | - |
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| construct | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: concept, conception |
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| (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: reconstruct, retrace |
| (verb) draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: build, make |
| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: fabricate, manufacture |
| (verb) create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts | - |
| (verb) create by linking linguistic units | - |
| construction | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: building |
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| (noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: building |
| (noun) drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem | - |
| (noun) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | Synonyms: structure |
| (noun) the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought | Synonyms: mental synthesis |
| (noun) an interpretation of a text or action | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | Synonyms: expression, grammatical construction |
| constructive | (adjective) constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development | - |
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| (adjective) emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good | - |
| constructively | (adverb) in a constructive manner | - |
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| constructiveness | (noun) the quality of serving to build or improve | - |
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| constructivism | (noun) an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects | - |
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| constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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| constructor | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: builder |
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| construe | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: interpret, see |
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| deconstruct | (verb) interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing | - |
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| deconstruction | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstructionism |
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| deconstructionism | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstruction |
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| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| deconstructivism | (noun) a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | - |
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| destruct | (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destroy |
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| (verb) destroy (one's own missile or rocket) | - |
| destructibility | (noun) vulnerability to destruction | - |
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| destructible | (adjective) easily destroyed | - |
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| destruction | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: devastation |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, wipeout |
| (noun) a final state | Synonyms: death, end |
| destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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| destructively | (adverb) in a destructive manner | - |
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| destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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| diestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| diestrum | (noun) (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity | Synonyms: diestrus |
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| diestrus | (noun) (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity | Synonyms: diestrum |
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| dioestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, diestrual, dioestrous |
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| distrust | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrustfulness, mistrust |
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| (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: misgiving, mistrust, suspicion |
| (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: mistrust, suspect |
| distrustful | (adjective) having or showing distrust | - |
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| distrustfully | (adverb) with distrust | Synonyms: mistrustfully |
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| distrustfulness | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust |
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| dumbstruck | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| estrus | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity | Synonyms: heat, oestrus, rut |
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| gastrula | (noun) double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm | - |
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| gastrulation | (noun) the process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cells | - |
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| hippeastrum | (noun) amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers | Synonyms: Hippeastrum puniceum |
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| indestructibility | (noun) the strength to resist destruction | - |
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| indestructible | (adjective) not easily destroyed | - |
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| (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: durable, perdurable, undestroyable |
| infrastructure | (noun) the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area | Synonyms: base |
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| (noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: substructure |
| instruct | (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: learn, teach |
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| (verb) give instructions or directions for some task | - |
| (verb) make aware of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| instruction | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: pedagogy, teaching |
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| (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, pedagogy, teaching |
| (noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: command, program line, statement |
| (noun) a message describing how something is to be done | Synonyms: direction |
| instructional | (adjective) of or relating to or used in instruction | - |
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| instructions | (noun) a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it | Synonyms: book of instructions, instruction manual, operating instructions |
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| instructive | (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: informative |
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| instructively | (adverb) in an informative manner | Synonyms: informatively |
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| instructor | (noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: teacher |
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| instructorship | (noun) the position of instructor | - |
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| instructress | (noun) a woman instructor | - |
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| instrument | (noun) the means whereby some act is accomplished | Synonyms: tool |
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| (noun) a device that requires skill for proper use | - |
| (noun) any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds | Synonyms: musical instrument |
| (noun) (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right | Synonyms: legal document, legal instrument, official document |
| (noun) the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process | Synonyms: instrumental role |
| (noun) a person used by another to gain an end | Synonyms: cat's-paw, pawn |
| (verb) address a legal document to | - |
| (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrumentate |
| (verb) equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling | - |
| instrumental | (adjective) relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments | - |
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| (adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid | Synonyms: implemental, subservient |
| instrumentalism | (noun) a system of pragmatic philosophy that considers idea to be instruments that should guide our actions and their value is measured by their success | - |
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| instrumentalist | (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: musician, player |
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| instrumentality | (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentation, means |
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| (noun) the quality of being instrumental for some purpose | - |
| (noun) a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose | - |
| instrumentate | (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrument |
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| instrumentation | (noun) the act of providing or using the instruments needed for some implementation | - |
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| (noun) the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments | Synonyms: orchestration |
| (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, means |
| (noun) the instruments called for in a musical score or arrangement for a band or orchestra | - |
| lustrum | (noun) a ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census | - |
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| (noun) a period lasting five years | - |
| menstrual | (adjective) of or relating to menstruation or the menses | Synonyms: catamenial |
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| menstruate | (verb) undergo menstruation | Synonyms: flow |
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| menstruation | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruum, period |
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| menstruum | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, period |
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| (noun) (archaic) a solvent | - |
| misconstrual | (noun) a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately) | Synonyms: misconstruction |
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| misconstruction | (noun) an ungrammatical constituent | - |
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| (noun) a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately) | Synonyms: misconstrual |
| misconstrue | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| mistrust | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrust, distrustfulness |
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| (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: distrust, misgiving, suspicion |
| (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: distrust, suspect |
| mistrustful | (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: leery, suspicious, untrusting, wary |
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| mistrustfully | (adverb) with distrust | Synonyms: distrustfully |
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| moonstruck | (adjective) insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon | Synonyms: lunatic |
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| nonstructural | (adjective) not structural | - |
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| nostrum | (noun) patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable | - |
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| (noun) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists | Synonyms: catholicon, cure-all, panacea |
| obstruct | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obturate, occlude |
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| (verb) shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight | Synonyms: block |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, stymie, stymy |
| obstructed | (adjective) shut off to passage or view or hindered from action | - |
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| obstructer | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstruction, obstructor |
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| (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructionist, obstructor, resister, thwarter |
| obstruction | (noun) getting in someone's way | - |
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| (noun) the act of obstructing | - |
| (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstructor |
| (noun) something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted | Synonyms: obstacle |
| (noun) the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction | Synonyms: blockage |
| obstructionism | (noun) deliberate interference | - |
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| obstructionist | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructor, resister, thwarter |
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| obstructive | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, hindering, impeding |
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| obstructively | (adverb) in an obstructive manner | Synonyms: hinderingly |
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| obstructor | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction |
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| (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, resister, thwarter |
| obstruent | (noun) a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth | - |
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| oestrus | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity | Synonyms: estrus, heat, rut |
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| overstrung | (adjective) too tightly strung | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, restive, uptight |
| premenstrual | (adjective) of or relating to or occurring during the time just before menstruation | - |
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| reconstruct | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: redo, remodel |
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| (verb) cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically | - |
| (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: construct, retrace |
| (verb) build again | Synonyms: rebuild |
| (verb) return to its original or usable and functioning condition | Synonyms: restore |
| reconstructed | (adjective) adapted to social or economic change | - |
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| reconstruction | (noun) the activity of constructing something again | - |
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| (noun) recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall | Synonyms: reconstructive memory |
| (noun) an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence | - |
| reconstructive | (adjective) helping to restore to good condition | Synonyms: rehabilitative |
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| restructure | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: reconstitute |
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| rostrum | (noun) beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils | Synonyms: snout |
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| (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, soapbox, stump |
| struck | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: smitten, stricken |
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| structural | (adjective) relating to or having or characterized by structure | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure | - |
| (adjective) relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals | Synonyms: morphologic, morphological |
| (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, morphological |
| (adjective) concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study | - |
| (adjective) affecting or involved in structure or construction | - |