| getatable | (adjective) capable of being reached or attained | Synonyms: come-at-able, get-at-able |
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| gravitate | (verb) move due to the pull of gravitation | - |
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| (verb) be attracted to | - |
| (verb) move toward | - |
| gravitation | (noun) a figurative movement toward some attraction | - |
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| (noun) movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction | - |
| (noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitational attraction, gravitational force, gravity |
| gravitational | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitative |
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| gravitationally | (adverb) with respect to gravitation | - |
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| gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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| gustation | (noun) the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | Synonyms: gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste |
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| gustative | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustatorial, gustatory |
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| gustatorial | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatory |
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| gustatory | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial |
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| habilitate | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, raiment, tog |
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| (verb) qualify for teaching at a university in Europe | - |
| habitat | (noun) the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs | Synonyms: home ground |
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| habitation | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: inhabitancy, inhabitation |
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| (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, home |
| (noun) the native habitat or home of an animal or plant | - |
| haemostat | (noun) a surgical instrument that stops bleeding by clamping the blood vessel | Synonyms: hemostat |
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| hastate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) like a spear point, with flaring pointed lobes at the base | Synonyms: spearhead-shaped |
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| hemostat | (noun) a surgical instrument that stops bleeding by clamping the blood vessel | Synonyms: haemostat |
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| hemostatic | (adjective) tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels | Synonyms: styptic |
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| hesitate | (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: waffle, waver |
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| (verb) interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing | Synonyms: pause |
| hesitater | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitator, vacillator, waverer |
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| hesitating | (adjective) lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly | Synonyms: hesitant |
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| hesitatingly | (adverb) with hesitation; in a hesitant manner | Synonyms: hesitantly |
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| hesitation | (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, faltering, waver |
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| (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, indisposition, reluctance |
| (noun) indecision in speech or action | Synonyms: vacillation, wavering |
| hesitator | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitater, vacillator, waverer |
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| homeostatic | (adjective) related to or characterized by homeostasis | - |
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| homeostatically | (adverb) in a homeostatic manner | - |
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| hortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortatory |
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| hortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative |
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| hydrostatic | (adjective) relating to fluids at rest or to the pressures they exert or transmit | - |
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| hydrostaticity | (noun) The condition of relating to fluids, especially to the pressure that they exert or transmit. | - |
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| hydrostatics | (noun) study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion | - |
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| hyperalimentation | (noun) administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes | Synonyms: total parenteral nutrition, TPN |
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| hyperpigmentation | (noun) unusual darkening of the skin | - |
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| hypopigmentation | (noun) unusual lack of skin color | - |
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| hypostatisation | (noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing | Synonyms: hypostatization, reification |
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| hypostatise | (verb) construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity | Synonyms: hypostatize |
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| hypostatization | (noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing | Synonyms: hypostatisation, reification |
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| hypostatize | (verb) construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity | Synonyms: hypostatise |
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| imitate | (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, simulate |
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| (verb) make a reproduction or copy of | - |
| (verb) appear like, as in behavior or appearance | - |
| imitation | (adjective) not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article | Synonyms: fake, false, faux, simulated |
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| (noun) copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else | - |
| (noun) something copied or derived from an original | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations | - |
| (noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: caricature, impersonation |
| imitative | (adjective) marked by or given to imitation | - |
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| (adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic |
| (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: counterfeit |
| imitativeness | (noun) the state of being imitating, copying, or unoriginal. | - |
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| imitator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, emulator |
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| (noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: impersonator |
| impartation | (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: conveyance, imparting |
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| implantation | (noun) the act of planting or setting in the ground | - |
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| (noun) a surgical procedure that places something in the human body | - |
| (noun) (embryology) the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammals | Synonyms: nidation |
| implementation | (noun) the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect | Synonyms: effectuation |
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| (noun) the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order | Synonyms: carrying out, execution |
| importation | (noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country | Synonyms: importing |
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| (noun) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | Synonyms: import |
| imputation | (noun) the attribution to a source or cause | - |
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| (noun) a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense) | - |
| incantation | (noun) a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect | Synonyms: conjuration |
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| incapacitate | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, disenable |
| incapacitated | (adjective) lacking in or deprived of strength or power | Synonyms: helpless |
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| incapacitating | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, disabling |
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| incitation | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitement |
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| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitement, provocation |
| incrementation | (noun) the operation of adding one to the operand. | - |
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| incrustation | (noun) a decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an inlay or overlay | Synonyms: encrustation |
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| (noun) a hard outer layer that covers something | Synonyms: crust, encrustation |
| (noun) the formation of a crust | Synonyms: encrustation |
| indentation | (noun) the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions | - |
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| (noun) the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line | Synonyms: indent, indention, indenture |
| (noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: pitting, roughness |
| (noun) a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline) | Synonyms: indenture |
| infestation | (noun) a swarm of insects that attack plants | Synonyms: plague |
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| (noun) the state of being invaded or overrun by parasites | - |
| ingurgitate | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| inhabitation | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: habitation, inhabitancy |
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| 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 | - |
| interpretation | (noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: rendering, rendition |
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| (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpreting, rendering, rendition |
| (noun) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something | Synonyms: reading, version |
| (noun) an explanation that results from interpreting something | - |
| interpretative | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretive |
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| interstate | (adjective) involving and relating to the mutual relations of states especially of the United States | - |
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| (noun) one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States | Synonyms: interstate highway |
| intestate | (adjective) having made no legally valid will before death or not disposed of by a legal will | - |
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| intrastate | (adjective) relating to or existing within the boundaries of a state | - |
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| invitation | (noun) a tempting allurement | - |
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| (noun) a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something | - |
| invitational | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of an invitation | - |
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| invitatory | (adjective) conveying an invitation | - |
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| irritate | (verb) excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame | - |
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| (verb) excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| irritated | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| irritating | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritative |
| (adjective) causing physical discomfort | Synonyms: painful |
| irritatingly | (adverb) in an irritating manner | - |
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| irritation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, provocation |
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| (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, annoying, vexation |
| (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: discomfort, soreness |
| (noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: pique, temper |
| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, vexation |
| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, innervation |
| (noun) (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation | - |
| irritative | (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritating |
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| jactation | (noun) (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness | Synonyms: jactitation |
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| jactitate | (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
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| jactitation | (noun) (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness | Synonyms: jactation |
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| (noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | Synonyms: boast, boasting, self-praise |
| (noun) (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law) | - |
| lactate | (noun) a salt or ester of lactic acid | - |
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| (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
| lactating | (adjective) producing or secreting milk | Synonyms: wet |
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| lactation | (noun) feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast | Synonyms: suckling |
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| (noun) the production and secretion of milk by the mammary glands | - |
| (noun) the period following birth during which milk is secreted | - |
| lamentation | (noun) the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | Synonyms: mourning |
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| (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lament, plaint, wail |
| levitate | (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: hover |
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| (verb) cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity | - |
| levitation | (noun) the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means | - |
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| (noun) movement upward in virtue of lightness | - |
| (noun) the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means | - |
| levorotation | (noun) rotation to the left | Synonyms: counterclockwise rotation |
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| levorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotary |
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| lexicostatistic | (adjective) pertaining to statistical methods used in studying the relations between languages | - |
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| lexicostatistics | (noun) a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language | - |
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| limitation | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: restriction |
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| (noun) the quality of being limited or restricted | - |
| (noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: restriction |
| (noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limit |
| (noun) (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought | - |
| lovastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Mevacor) to reduce blood cholesterol levels; used when dietary changes have proved inadequate | Synonyms: Mevacor |
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| manifestation | (noun) a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature) | Synonyms: demonstration |
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| (noun) a manifest indication of the existence or presence or nature of some person or thing | - |
| (noun) expression without words | Synonyms: expression, reflection, reflexion |
| (noun) a clear appearance | - |
| (noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: materialisation, materialization |
| meditate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, study |
| meditation | (noun) continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature | Synonyms: speculation |
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| (noun) (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects) | - |
| meditative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| meditatively | (adverb) in a meditative manner | - |
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| meditativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: contemplativeness, pensiveness |
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| mellitate | (noun) a salt of mellitic acid. | - |
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| mentation | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, thinking, thought, thought process |
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| metastatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by metastasis | - |
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| metatarsal | (adjective) of or relating to the metatarsus | - |
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| (noun) any bone of the foot between the ankle and the toes | - |
| metatarsus | (noun) the skeleton of the human foot between the toes and the tarsus; the corresponding part of the foot in birds or of the hind foot in quadrupeds | - |
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