| abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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| (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: aborticide, abortion-inducing drug |
| acetify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acidify |
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| (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acidify, acidulate, sour |
| amentiferous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentaceous |
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| antifeminism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: chauvinism, male chauvinism |
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| antifeminist | (noun) someone who does not believe in the social or economic or political equality of men and women | - |
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| antiferromagnet | (noun) any material that has antiferromagnetic properties. | - |
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| antiferromagnetic | (adjective) relating to antiferromagnetism | - |
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| antiferromagnetism | (noun) magnetic field creates parallel but opposing spins; varies with temperature | - |
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| antifertility | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: contraceptive, prophylactic |
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| antifertilizin | (noun) An immunologically specific substance produced by animal sperm to implement attraction by the egg before fertilization. | - |
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| antiflatulent | (noun) any agent that reduces intestinal gas | - |
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| antifreeze | (noun) a liquid added to the water in a cooling system to lower its freezing point | - |
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| antifungal | (adjective) capable of destroying fungi | Synonyms: fungicidal |
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| (noun) any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi | Synonyms: antifungal agent, antimycotic, antimycotic agent, fungicide |
| aperitif | (noun) alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer | - |
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| apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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| argentiferous | (adjective) containing or yielding silver | - |
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| artifact | (noun) a man-made object taken as a whole | Synonyms: artefact |
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| artifactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artefactual |
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| artifice | (noun) a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) | Synonyms: ruse |
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| artificer | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artisan, craftsman, journeyman |
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| (noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: discoverer, inventor |
| (noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armorer, armourer |
| artificial | (adjective) contrived by art rather than nature | Synonyms: unreal |
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| (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: contrived, hokey, stilted |
| (adjective) not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes | - |
| artificialism | (noun) Czech surrealism founded in 1928 by Jindrich Styrsky and Toyen (Marie Cerminova). | - |
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| artificiality | (noun) the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally | - |
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| artificially | (adverb) not according to nature; not by natural means | Synonyms: by artificial means, unnaturally |
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| beatific | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
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| (adjective) experiencing or bestowing celestial joy | - |
| beatification | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization | - |
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| (noun) the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy | - |
| (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatitude, blessedness |
| beatified | (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: blessed |
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| beatify | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood | - |
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| (verb) make blessedly happy | - |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
| beautification | (noun) the act of making something more beautiful | - |
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| beautiful | (adjective) delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather) highly enjoyable | - |
| beautifully | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: attractively |
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| beautify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: embellish, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
| bipinnatifid | (adjective) pinnatifid with the segments also pinnatifid | - |
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| bountiful | (adjective) producing in abundance | Synonyms: plentiful |
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| (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
| bountifully | (adverb) in a bountiful manner | Synonyms: bounteously, plenteously, plentifully |
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| bountifulness | (noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: amplitude, bounty |
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| caitiff | (adjective) despicably mean and cowardly | - |
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| (noun) a cowardly and despicable person | - |
| certifiable | (adjective) capable of being guaranteed or certified | - |
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| (adjective) fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly) | Synonyms: certified |
| certificate | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certification, credential, credentials |
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| (noun) a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends | Synonyms: security |
| (verb) authorize by certificate | - |
| (verb) present someone with a certificate | - |
| certificated | (adjective) furnished with or authorized by a certificate: | - |
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| certification | (noun) the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on | Synonyms: enfranchisement |
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| (noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: authentication |
| (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: corroboration, documentation |
| (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, credential, credentials |
| certificatory | (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
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| certified | (adjective) endorsed authoritatively as having met certain requirements | - |
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| (adjective) fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly) | Synonyms: certifiable |
| (adjective) holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill | Synonyms: qualified |
| certify | (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, demonstrate, evidence, manifest |
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| (verb) declare legally insane | - |
| (verb) guarantee payment on; of checks | - |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: endorse, indorse |
| (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: licence, license |
| citified | (adjective) being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person | Synonyms: city-born, city-bred, cityfied |
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| citify | (verb) accustom to urban ways | - |
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| decertify | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: derecognise, derecognize |
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| demystify | (verb) make less mysterious or remove the mystery from | - |
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| dentifrice | (noun) a substance for cleaning the teeth; applied with a toothbrush | - |
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| desertification | (noun) the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land | - |
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| dutiful | (adjective) willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect | Synonyms: duteous |
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| dutifully | (adverb) out of a sense of duty; in a dutiful manner | - |
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| dutifulness | (noun) piety by virtue of devotion to duty | - |
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| fortification | (noun) the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food) | - |
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| (noun) defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it | Synonyms: munition |
| (noun) the art or science of strengthening defenses | - |
| fortified | (adjective) secured with bastions or fortifications | Synonyms: bastioned |
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| (adjective) having something added to increase the strength | - |
| fortify | (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) | Synonyms: lace, spike |
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| (verb) make strong or stronger | Synonyms: beef up, strengthen |
| (verb) add nutrients to | - |
| (verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: arm, build up, gird |
| (verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification | Synonyms: fort |
| fructification | (noun) organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses) | - |
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| (noun) the bearing of fruit | - |
| fructify | (verb) produce fruit | Synonyms: set |
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| (verb) become productive or fruitful | - |
| (verb) make productive or fruitful | - |
| gratification | (noun) the act or an instance of satisfying | - |
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| (noun) state of being gratified or satisfied | Synonyms: satisfaction |
| gratified | (adjective) having received what was desired | - |
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| gratify | (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: indulge, pander |
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| (verb) make happy or satisfied | Synonyms: satisfy |
| gratifying | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: enjoyable, pleasurable |
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| (adjective) pleasing to the mind or feeling | Synonyms: sweet |
| gratifyingly | (adverb) in a gratifying manner | Synonyms: satisfyingly |
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| identifiable | (adjective) capable of being identified | - |
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| identifiably | (adverb) in an identifiable manner | - |
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| identification | (noun) the act of designating or identifying something | Synonyms: designation |
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| (noun) the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons) | - |
| (noun) the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering | Synonyms: recognition |
| (noun) evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing | - |
| (noun) the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established | - |
| identified | (adjective) having the identity known or established | - |
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| identifier | (noun) a symbol that establishes the identity of the one bearing it | - |
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| identify | (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: place |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, key, key out, name |
| (verb) consider to be equal or the same | - |
| (verb) conceive of as united or associated | - |
| (verb) consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else | - |
| (verb) give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property | Synonyms: name |
| insectifuge | (noun) a chemical substance that repels insects | Synonyms: insect repellant, insect repellent |
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| interstratify | (verb) arrange rocks in alternating strata | - |
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| intifada | (noun) an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 | Synonyms: intifadah |
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| intifadah | (noun) an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 | Synonyms: intifada |
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| justifiable | (adjective) capable of being justified | - |
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| justifiably | (adverb) with good reason | - |
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| justification | (noun) the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning | - |
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| (noun) something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary | - |
| (noun) a statement in explanation of some action or belief | - |
| justificative | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificatory |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificatory, vindicatory |
| justificatory | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificative |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, vindicatory |
| justified | (adjective) having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins | - |
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| justifiedly | (adverb) with honesty | Synonyms: justly, rightly |
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| justifier | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: apologist, vindicator |
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| justify | (verb) adjust the spaces between words | - |
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| (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: vindicate |
| (verb) (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin | - |
| lactifuge | (noun) any agent that reduces milk secretion (as given to a woman who is not breast feeding) | - |
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| leitmotif | (noun) a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner's operas) | Synonyms: leitmotiv |
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| lentiform | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lenticular |
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| mastiff | (noun) an old breed of powerful deep-chested smooth-coated dog used chiefly as a watchdog and guard dog | - |
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| misidentify | (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: mistake |
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| mortification | (noun) (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself) | - |
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| (noun) an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect | Synonyms: humiliation |
| (noun) strong feelings of embarrassment | Synonyms: chagrin, humiliation |
| (noun) the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) | Synonyms: gangrene, necrosis, sphacelus |
| mortified | (adjective) made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride | Synonyms: embarrassed, humiliated |
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| (adjective) suffering from tissue death | Synonyms: gangrenous |
| mortify | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, necrose, sphacelate |
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| (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate |
| (verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: crucify, subdue |
| (verb) practice self-denial of one's body and appetites | - |
| mortifying | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humbling, humiliating |
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| (adjective) causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation | Synonyms: embarrassing |
| motif | (noun) a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration | Synonyms: motive |
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| (noun) a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work | Synonyms: theme |
| (noun) a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Synonyms: motive |
| multifaceted | (adjective) having many aspects or qualities | Synonyms: many-sided, miscellaneous, multifarious |
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| multifactorial | (adjective) involving or depending on several factors or causes (especially pertaining to a condition or disease resulting from the interaction of many genes) | - |
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| multifarious | (adjective) having many aspects or qualities | Synonyms: many-sided, miscellaneous, multifaceted |
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| multifariously | (adverb) in diverse ways | Synonyms: diversely, variously |
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| multifariousness | (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diverseness, diversity, variety |
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| multiflora | (noun) vigorously growing rose having clusters of numerous small flowers; used for hedges and as grafting stock | Synonyms: baby rose, Japanese rose, multiflora rose, Rosa multiflora |
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| multiform | (adjective) occurring in or having many forms or shapes or appearances | - |
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| multifunctionality | (noun) The condition of having multiple functions. | - |
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