| consummation | (noun) the act of bringing to completion or fruition | - |
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| (noun) the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse | - |
| consumption | (noun) the act of consuming something | Synonyms: expenditure, using up |
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| (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: ingestion, intake, uptake |
| (noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services |
| (noun) involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body | Synonyms: phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague |
| consumptive | (adjective) tending to consume or use often wastefully | - |
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| (adjective) afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis | - |
| (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: lunger, tubercular |
| counterinsurgency | (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: pacification |
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| counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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| countermeasure | (noun) an action taken to offset another action | - |
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| countersubversion | (noun) the aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect and prevent subversive activities | - |
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| countersuit | (noun) a suit brought against someone who has sued you | - |
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| cryosurgery | (noun) the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers) | - |
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| cynosure | (noun) something that strongly attracts attention and admiration | - |
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| (noun) something that provides guidance (as Polaris guides mariners) | - |
| depressurise | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurize |
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| depressurize | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurise |
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| descensus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: prolapse, prolapsus |
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| desuetude | (noun) a state of inactivity or disuse | - |
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| desulfurize | (verb) remove sulfur from | Synonyms: desulphurize |
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| desulphurize | (verb) remove sulfur from | Synonyms: desulfurize |
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| desultory | (adjective) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another | - |
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| disclosure | (noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: revealing, revelation |
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| discomposure | (noun) a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure | - |
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| (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, disconcertion, disconcertment |
| displeasure | (noun) the feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something | - |
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| dissuade | (verb) turn away from by persuasion | Synonyms: deter |
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| dissuasion | (noun) persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action | - |
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| (noun) a communication that dissuades you | - |
| dissuasive | (adjective) deterring from action | - |
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| disulfiram | (noun) a drug (trade name Antabuse) used in the treatment of alcoholism; causes nausea and vomiting if alcohol is ingested | Synonyms: Antabuse |
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| disunify | (verb) break up or separate | Synonyms: break apart |
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| disunion | (noun) the termination or destruction of union | - |
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| disunite | (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: divide, part, separate |
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| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, divorce |
| disunited | (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disconnected, fragmented, split |
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| disunity | (noun) lack of unity (usually resulting from dissension) | - |
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| disuse | (noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | Synonyms: neglect |
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| disused | (adjective) no longer in use | Synonyms: obsolete |
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| dorsum | (noun) the back of the body of a vertebrate or any analogous surface (as the upper or outer surface of an organ or appendage or part) | - |
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| (noun) the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine | Synonyms: back |
| dysuria | (noun) painful or difficult urination | - |
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| electrosurgery | (noun) surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery) | - |
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| embrasure | (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: port, porthole |
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| encapsulate | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule or other small container | - |
| encapsulation | (noun) the process of enclosing (as in a capsule) | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being enclosed (as in a capsule) | - |
| enclosure | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, envelopment, inclosure |
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| (noun) a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose | - |
| (noun) something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter | Synonyms: inclosure |
| (noun) a naturally enclosed space | Synonyms: natural enclosure |
| ensuant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| ensue | (verb) issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end | Synonyms: result |
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| ensuing | (adjective) following immediately and as a result of what went before | - |
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| ensure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, control, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, guarantee, insure, secure |
| erasure | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: expunction, expunging |
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| (noun) a correction made by erasing | - |
| (noun) a surface area where something has been erased | - |
| esurience | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
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| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity |
| esurient | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, greedy |
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| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved |
| ethosuximide | (noun) an anticonvulsant drug (trade names Emeside and Zarontin) used to treat petit mal epilepsy | Synonyms: Emeside, Zarontin |
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| excursus | (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, divagation, parenthesis |
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| exposure | (noun) abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open) | - |
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| (noun) the act of exposing film to light | - |
| (noun) presentation to view in an open or public manner | - |
| (noun) the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience | - |
| (noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: photo, photograph, pic, picture |
| (noun) vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain | - |
| (noun) aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces | - |
| (noun) the disclosure of something secret | - |
| (noun) the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate | - |
| (noun) the state of being vulnerable or exposed | Synonyms: vulnerability |
| fissure | (noun) (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, scissure |
| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, crevice |
| (verb) break into fissures or fine cracks | - |
| footsure | (adjective) not liable to stumble or fall | Synonyms: sure-footed, surefooted |
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| foreclosure | (noun) the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default | - |
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| fructosuria | (noun) the presence of levulose is the urine | - |
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| fursuit | (noun) A full body animal suit | - |
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| glucosuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of glucose in the urine | - |
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| glycosuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of sugar in the urine | - |
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| goatsucker | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, nightjar |
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| gypsum | (noun) a common white or colorless mineral (hydrated calcium sulphate) used to make cements and plasters (especially plaster of Paris) | - |
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| hardsub | (noun) (often plural) a subtitle whose text is irreversibly merged in original video frames. | Synonyms: hard subtitle |
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| hirsute | (adjective) having or covered with hair | Synonyms: haired, hairy |
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| hirsuteness | (noun) excessive hairiness | Synonyms: hirsutism |
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| hirsutism | (noun) excessive hairiness | Synonyms: hirsuteness |
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| honeysucker | (noun) Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar | Synonyms: honey eater |
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| honeysuckle | (noun) shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera | - |
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| (noun) columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers | Synonyms: Aquilegia canadensis, meeting house |
| (noun) shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers | Synonyms: Australian honeysuckle, Banksia integrifolia, coast banksia |
| immeasurability | (noun) the quality of being immeasurable. | - |
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| immeasurable | (adjective) impossible to measure | Synonyms: immensurable, unmeasurable |
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| (adjective) beyond calculation or measure | Synonyms: incomputable, inestimable |
| immeasurably | (adverb) to an immeasurable degree; beyond measurement | - |
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| (adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: boundlessly, infinitely |
| immensurable | (adjective) impossible to measure | Synonyms: immeasurable, unmeasurable |
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| immunosuppressant | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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| immunosuppressed | (adjective) of persons whose immune response is inadequate | - |
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| immunosuppression | (noun) lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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| immunosuppressive | (adjective) of or relating to a substance that lowers the body's normal immune response and induces immunosuppression | - |
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| (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
| immunosuppressor | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug |
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| incisura | (noun) (anatomy) a notch or small hollow | Synonyms: incisure |
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| incisure | (noun) (anatomy) a notch or small hollow | Synonyms: incisura |
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| inclosure | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, envelopment |
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| (noun) something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter | Synonyms: enclosure |
| incommensurable | (adjective) not having a common factor | - |
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| (adjective) impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence | - |
| incommensurate | (adjective) not corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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| insubordinate | (adjective) not submissive to authority | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: resistant, resistive |
| insubordination | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: rebelliousness |
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| (noun) defiance of authority | - |
| insubstantial | (adjective) lacking material form or substance; unreal | Synonyms: unreal, unsubstantial |
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| (adjective) lacking in nutritive value | - |
| (adjective) lacking solidity or strength | Synonyms: flimsy |
| insubstantiality | (noun) lacking substance or reality | - |
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| (noun) lack of solid substance and strength | - |
| insubstantially | (adverb) not substantially; lacking substantial expression or fullness | Synonyms: impalpably |
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| insufferable | (adjective) unbearably arrogant or conceited | - |
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| (adjective) too extreme to bear | Synonyms: unsufferable |
| insufferably | (adverb) in an extremely arrogant or conceited manner | - |
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| (adverb) to an insufferable degree | Synonyms: unsufferably |
| insufficiency | (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: deficiency, inadequacy |
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| (noun) (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally | - |
| (noun) a lack of competence | Synonyms: inadequacy |
| insufficient | (adjective) of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement | Synonyms: deficient |
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| insufficiently | (adverb) to an insufficient degree | - |
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| insufflate | (verb) blow or breathe hard on or into | - |
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| (verb) treat by blowing a powder or vapor into a bodily cavity | - |
| (verb) breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit | - |
| insufflation | (noun) an act of blowing or breathing on or into something | - |
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| (noun) (medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity) | - |
| insulant | (noun) insulating material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity | Synonyms: insulation |
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| insular | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island | - |
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| (adjective) suggestive of the isolated life of an island | - |
| (adjective) narrowly restricted in outlook or scope | Synonyms: parochial |
| insularism | (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: detachment, insularity, insulation |
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| insularity | (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: detachment, insularism, insulation |
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| insulate | (verb) place or set apart | Synonyms: isolate |
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| (verb) protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material | - |
| insulation | (noun) the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity | - |
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| (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: detachment, insularism, insularity |
| (noun) insulating material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity | Synonyms: insulant |
| insulator | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: dielectric, nonconductor |
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| insulin | (noun) hormone secreted by the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas; regulates storage of glycogen in the liver and accelerates oxidation of sugar in cells | - |
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| insult | (noun) a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect | Synonyms: affront |
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| (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, revilement, vilification |
| (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: affront, diss |
| insulting | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: contemptuous, disdainful, scornful |
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| insultingly | (adverb) in an unfair and insulting manner | Synonyms: foully |
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| (adverb) in a disrespectful and insulting manner | - |