| incertitude | (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, uncertainty |
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| ineptitude | (noun) having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful | Synonyms: worthlessness |
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| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
| inexactitude | (noun) the quality of being inexact | Synonyms: inexactness |
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| ingratitude | (noun) a lack of gratitude | Synonyms: ungratefulness |
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| institute | (noun) an association organized to promote art or science or education | - |
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| (verb) advance or set forth in court | Synonyms: bring |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, plant |
| institution | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated | - |
| (noun) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | Synonyms: asylum, insane asylum, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital |
| (noun) a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society | - |
| (noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: establishment |
| institutional | (adjective) organized as or forming an institution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or constituting or involving an institution | - |
| (adjective) characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative | Synonyms: uninteresting |
| institutionalise | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalize, send |
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| institutionalised | (adjective) officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution | Synonyms: institutionalized |
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| (adjective) given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system | Synonyms: institutionalized |
| institutionalize | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, send |
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| institutionalized | (adjective) officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution | Synonyms: institutionalised |
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| (adjective) given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system | Synonyms: institutionalised |
| institutionally | (adverb) by an institution | - |
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| interstitial | (adjective) of or relating to interstices | - |
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| investiture | (noun) the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | Synonyms: investment |
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| (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization |
| iridokeratitis | (noun) inflammation of the iris and cornea of the eye | - |
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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) | - |
| keratitis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea causing watery painful eyes and blurred vision | - |
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| latitude | (noun) scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction | - |
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| (noun) the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself | - |
| (noun) an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator | Synonyms: line of latitude, parallel, parallel of latitude |
| (noun) freedom from normal restraints in conduct | - |
| latitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to latitudes north or south | - |
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| latitudinarian | (adjective) unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) | Synonyms: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical |
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| (noun) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) | - |
| lockstitch | (noun) machine stitch in which the top thread interlocks with the bobbin thread | - |
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| magnetite | (noun) an oxide of iron that is strongly attracted by magnets | Synonyms: magnetic iron-ore |
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| massicotite | (noun) the mineral form of lead monoxide; in the form of yellow powder it is used as a pigment | Synonyms: massicot |
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| mastitis | (noun) inflammation of a breast (or udder) | - |
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| multipartite | (adjective) involving more than two parties | - |
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| multitude | (noun) a large gathering of people | Synonyms: concourse, throng |
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| (noun) the common people generally | Synonyms: hoi polloi, mass, masses, people, the great unwashed |
| (noun) a large indefinite quantity | Synonyms: battalion, large number, pack, plurality |
| multitudinous | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| multitudinousness | (noun) a very large number (especially of people) | - |
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| neurodermatitis | (noun) dermatitis in which localized areas (especially the forearms or back of the neck or outer part of the ankle) itch persistently; cause is unknown | - |
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| nictitate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictate, wink |
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| nictitation | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, wink, winking |
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| noncompetitive | (adjective) not involving competition or competitiveness | - |
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| noncompetitively | (adverb) in a noncompetitive manner | - |
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| nonentity | (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, nobody |
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| (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonexistence |
| nonidentity | (noun) Difference, distinction; failure to be identical. | - |
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| noninstitutional | (adjective) not institutional | - |
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| noninstitutionalised | (adjective) not committed to an institution | Synonyms: noninstitutionalized |
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| noninstitutionalized | (adjective) not committed to an institution | Synonyms: noninstitutionalised |
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| nonrepetitive | (adjective) marked by the absence of repetition | - |
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| otitis | (noun) inflammation of the ear | - |
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| pancreatitis | (noun) inflammation of the pancreas; usually marked by abdominal pain | - |
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| parotitis | (noun) inflammation of one or both parotid glands | - |
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| partita | (noun) (music) an instrumental suite common in the 18th century | - |
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| (noun) one of the variations contained in a partita | - |
| partition | (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: division, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
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| (noun) a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) | Synonyms: divider |
| (noun) (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit | - |
| (verb) separate or apportion into sections | Synonyms: zone |
| (verb) divide into parts, pieces, or sections | Synonyms: partition off |
| partitioning | (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: division, partition, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
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| (noun) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories | Synonyms: breakdown |
| partitionist | (noun) an advocate of partitioning a country | - |
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| partitive | (adjective) indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts | - |
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| (adjective) (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole | - |
| (adjective) serving to separate or divide into parts | Synonyms: separative |
| (noun) word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole | - |
| pegmatite | (noun) a form of igneous rock consisting of extremely coarse granite resulting from the crystallization of magma rich in rare elements | - |
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| peridotite | (noun) a dark coarse-grained igneous rock consisting principally of olivine | - |
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| periodontitis | (noun) a disease that attacks the gum and bone and around the teeth | Synonyms: periodontal disease |
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| petite | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, tiny |
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| (noun) a garment size for short or slender women | - |
| petiteness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: diminutiveness, minuteness, tininess, weeness |
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| petitio | (noun) the logical fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises; begging the question | Synonyms: petitio principii |
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| petition | (noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: postulation, request |
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| (noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: orison, prayer |
| (verb) write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing | - |
| petitionary | (adjective) of the nature of or expressing a petition | - |
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| petitioner | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: requester, suppliant, supplicant |
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| (noun) someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right | Synonyms: suer |
| platitude | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, commonplace |
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| platitudinal | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, corny, platitudinous |
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| platitudinarian | (noun) a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes | - |
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| platitudinize | (verb) utter platitudes | - |
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| platitudinous | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, corny, platitudinal |
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| plentitude | (noun) a full supply | Synonyms: plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty |
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| practitioner | (noun) someone who practices a learned profession | Synonyms: practician |
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| proctitis | (noun) inflammation of the rectum; marked by bloody stools and a frequent urge to defecate; frequently associated with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis | - |
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| promptitude | (noun) the characteristic of doing things without delay | Synonyms: promptness |
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| prostatitis | (noun) inflammation of the prostate gland characterized by perineal pain and irregular urination and (if severe) chills and fever | - |
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| prostitute | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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| (verb) sell one's body; exchange sex for money | - |
| prostitution | (noun) offering sexual intercourse for pay | Synonyms: harlotry, whoredom |
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| pyrrhotite | (noun) a brownish iron sulfide mineral (FeS) having weak magnetic properties | Synonyms: magnetic pyrites, pyrrhotine |
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| quadripartite | (adjective) involving four parties | Synonyms: four-party |
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| quantitative | (adjective) expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement | - |
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| (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables | - |
| (adjective) relating to the measurement of quantity | - |
| quantitatively | (adverb) in a quantitative manner | - |
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| quantity | (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Synonyms: amount, measure |
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| (noun) an adequate or large amount | - |
| (noun) the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable | - |
| ratite | (noun) flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, rheas, kiwis, elephant birds | Synonyms: flightless bird, ratite bird |
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| reconstitute | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: restructure |
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| rectitude | (noun) righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest | Synonyms: uprightness |
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| repetition | (noun) the act of doing or performing again | Synonyms: repeating |
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| (noun) the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device | - |
| (noun) an event that repeats | Synonyms: repeat |
| repetitious | (adjective) characterized by repetition | Synonyms: repetitive |
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| repetitiousness | (noun) verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions | Synonyms: repetitiveness |
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| repetitive | (adjective) characterized by repetition | Synonyms: repetitious |
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| (adjective) repetitive and persistent | Synonyms: insistent |
| repetitively | (adverb) in a repetitive manner | - |
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| repetitiveness | (noun) verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions | Synonyms: repetitiousness |
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| restitute | (verb) restore to a previous or better condition | Synonyms: renovate |
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| (verb) give or bring back | Synonyms: restore |
| restitution | (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: regaining, restoration, return |
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| (noun) the act of restoring something to its original state | - |
| (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnification, indemnity, redress |
| sanctitude | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctity |
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| sanctity | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctitude |
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| smaltite | (noun) a grey mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel; an important source of cobalt and nickel | - |
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| sortition | (noun) making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn | Synonyms: casting lots, drawing lots |
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| stalactite | (noun) a cylinder of calcium carbonate hanging from the roof of a limestone cave | - |
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| steatite | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soaprock, soapstone |
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| stitch | (noun) a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing | - |
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| (noun) a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running | - |
| (verb) fasten by sewing; do needlework | Synonyms: run up, sew, sew together |
| stitched | (adjective) fastened with stitches | Synonyms: sewed, sewn |
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| stitcher | (noun) a garmentmaker who performs the finishing steps | - |
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| stitchery | (noun) needlework on which you are working with needle and thread | Synonyms: sewing |
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| stitching | (noun) joining or attaching by stitches | Synonyms: sewing |
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| stitchwort | (noun) low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side | Synonyms: greater stitchwort, starwort, Stellaria holostea |
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| stomatitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth | - |
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| substitutability | (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: commutability, replaceability |
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| substitutable | (adjective) capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent | Synonyms: commutable |
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| (adjective) (of words) interchangeable in a given context without changing the import of the expression | - |