| gayfeather | (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, snakeroot |
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| geothermal | (adjective) of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth | Synonyms: geothermic |
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| geothermally | (adverb) by means of heat from the interior of the earth | - |
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| geothermic | (adjective) of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth | Synonyms: geothermal |
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| goatherd | (noun) a person who tends a flock of goats | Synonyms: goat herder |
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| godfather | (noun) any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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| (noun) someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild | - |
| godmother | (noun) any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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| goldsmithery | (noun) the work, art, or trade of a one who makes or deals in articles of gold. | - |
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| gomphothere | (noun) extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene | - |
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| grandfather | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandpa |
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| grandmother | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grannie, granny, nan, nanna |
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| heather | (noun) interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color | Synonyms: heather mixture |
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| (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather |
| heliotherapy | (noun) therapeutic exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: insolation |
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| heterothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, poikilothermic, poikilothermous |
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| hither | (adverb) to this place (especially toward the speaker) | Synonyms: here |
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| hitherto | (adverb) used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time | Synonyms: as yet, heretofore, so far, thus far, til now, until now, up to now, yet |
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| homeotherm | (noun) an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature | Synonyms: homoiotherm, homotherm |
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| homeothermic | (adjective) of birds and mammals; having constant and relatively high body temperature | Synonyms: homoiothermic, homothermic |
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| homoiotherm | (noun) an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature | Synonyms: homeotherm, homotherm |
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| homoiothermic | (adjective) of birds and mammals; having constant and relatively high body temperature | Synonyms: homeothermic, homothermic |
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| homotherm | (noun) an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature | Synonyms: homeotherm, homoiotherm |
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| homothermic | (adjective) of birds and mammals; having constant and relatively high body temperature | Synonyms: homeothermic, homoiothermic |
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| housefather | (noun) a man in charge of children in an institution | - |
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| housemother | (noun) a woman employed as a chaperon in a residence for young people | - |
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| hydrotherapy | (noun) the internal and external use of water in the treatment of disease | Synonyms: hydropathy |
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| hyperthermal | (adjective) of or relating to or affected by hyperthermia | - |
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| hyperthermia | (noun) abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer) | Synonyms: hyperthermy |
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| hyperthermy | (noun) abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer) | Synonyms: hyperthermia |
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| hypnotherapy | (noun) the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy | - |
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| hypothermia | (noun) subnormal body temperature | - |
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| hypothermic | (adjective) of or relating to or affected by hypothermia | - |
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| immunotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to immunotherapy | - |
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| immunotherapy | (noun) therapy designed to produce immunity to a disease or to enhance resistance by the immune system | - |
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| ingathering | (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, solicitation |
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| iontotherapy | (noun) therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues | Synonyms: electromotive drug administration, EMDA, ionic medication, iontophoresis |
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| isogeotherm | (noun) an isogram connecting points of equal temperature below the surface of the earth. | - |
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| isothere | (noun) a line on a map linking places with the same mean summer temperature. | - |
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| isotherm | (noun) (meteorology) an isogram connecting points having the same temperature at a given time | - |
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| isothermal | (adjective) of a process or change taking place at constant temperature | - |
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| isothermic | (adjective) of or relating to an isotherm | - |
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| lather | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: soapsuds, suds |
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| (noun) the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse) | - |
| (noun) a workman who puts up laths | - |
| (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, stew, sweat, swither |
| (verb) rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning | Synonyms: soap |
| (verb) exude sweat or lather | - |
| (verb) form a lather | - |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| lathery | (adjective) resembling lather or covered with lather | Synonyms: sudsy |
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| leather | (noun) an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning | - |
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| (verb) whip with a leather strap | - |
| leatherback | (noun) wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle | Synonyms: Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle |
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| leathered | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leatherlike, leathery |
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| leatherette | (noun) fabric made to look like leather | Synonyms: imitation leather |
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| leatherfish | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjack | (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjacket | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherfish |
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| (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjack |
| (noun) tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies | - |
| leatherleaf | (noun) north temperate bog shrub with evergreen leathery leaves and small white cylindrical flowers | Synonyms: Chamaedaphne calyculata |
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| (noun) stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib | Synonyms: coast polypody, leathery polypody, Polypodium scouleri |
| leatherlike | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leathery |
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| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| leatherwood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, moose-wood, moosewood, ropebark, wicopy |
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| (noun) shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage | Synonyms: cyrilla, Cyrilla racemiflora, white titi |
| leatherwork | (noun) work made of leather | - |
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| leathery | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike |
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| loather | (noun) one who hates or loathes | Synonyms: abominator |
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| mammothermography | (noun) the use of thermography to detect breast tumors (which appear as hot spots) | - |
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| megathere | (noun) gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America | Synonyms: ground sloth |
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| megatherian | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian mammal, megatheriid |
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| megatheriid | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian, megatherian mammal |
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| metatherian | (noun) primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas | - |
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| mother | (noun) a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation | - |
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| (noun) a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother) | Synonyms: female parent |
| (noun) a term of address for a mother superior | - |
| (noun) a term of address for an elderly woman | - |
| (noun) a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar | - |
| (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, sire |
| (verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, overprotect |
| motherese | (noun) an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk, babytalk |
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| motherfucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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| motherhood | (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | Synonyms: maternity |
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| motherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, fatherland, homeland, mother country, native land |
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| motherless | (adjective) having no living or known mother | - |
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| motherlike | (adjective) suggestive of or acting like a mother | - |
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| motherliness | (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternalism, maternity |
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| motherly | (adjective) befitting a mother; warm and nurturing | - |
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| (adverb) in a maternal manner; as a mother | Synonyms: maternally |
| motherwort | (noun) bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers | Synonyms: Leonurus cardiaca |
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| neither | (adjective) not either; not one or the other; entity, dual, negative pronoun; quantifier, dual, negative | - |
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| nether | (adjective) lower | - |
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| (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonian, chthonic |
| (adjective) located below or beneath something else | Synonyms: under |
| nethermost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: bottommost, lowermost |
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| netherworld | (noun) (religion) the world of the dead | Synonyms: Hades, Hell, infernal region, Scheol, underworld |
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| nonthermal | (adjective) not involving heat | - |
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| normothermia | (noun) normal body temperature | - |
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| norther | (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: boreas, north wind, northerly |
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| northerly | (adjective) coming from the north; used especially of wind | Synonyms: northern |
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| (adjective) oriented toward the north | Synonyms: northern |
| (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: boreas, north wind, norther |
| (adverb) in a northern direction | Synonyms: north, northward, northwards |
| northern | (adjective) situated in regions of the north | - |
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| (adjective) in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line | - |
| (adjective) coming from the north; used especially of wind | Synonyms: northerly |
| (adjective) oriented toward the north | Synonyms: northerly |
| northernmost | (adjective) situated farthest north | Synonyms: northmost |
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| northernness | (noun) the property of being to the north | - |
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| other | (adjective) not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; quantifier, other | - |
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| (adjective) recently past | - |
| (adjective) very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected | - |
| (adjective) belonging to the distant past | Synonyms: early, former |
| otherness | (noun) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | Synonyms: distinctness, separateness |
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| otherwise | (adjective) other than as supposed or expected | - |
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| (adverb) in other respects or ways | - |
| (adverb) in another and different manner | Synonyms: differently |
| otherworld | (noun) an abstract spiritual world beyond earthly reality | - |
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| otherworldliness | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: spiritism, spiritualism, spirituality |
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| otherworldly | (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, preternatural, transcendental |
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| panther | (noun) a leopard in the black color phase | - |
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| (noun) a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis | Synonyms: Felis onca, jaguar, Panthera onca |
| (noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: catamount, cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, puma |
| phototherapy | (noun) the use of strong light to treat acne or hyperbilirubinemia of the newborn | - |
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| physiotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in physical therapy | - |
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| physiotherapist | (noun) therapist who treats injury or dysfunction with exercises and other physical treatments of the disorder | Synonyms: physical therapist |
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| physiotherapy | (noun) therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities | Synonyms: physiatrics, physical therapy |
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| phytotherapy | (noun) the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) | Synonyms: botanical medicine, herbal therapy |
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| poikilotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: ectotherm |
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| poikilothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermous |
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| poikilothermous | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermic |
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| pother | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: dither, flap, fuss, tizzy |
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| (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: dither, flap |
| (verb) make upset or troubled | - |
| potherb | (noun) any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning | - |
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| prototherian | (noun) primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea | - |
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