| 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) | - |
| equiangular | (adjective) having all angles equal | - |
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| expostulate | (verb) reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion | - |
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| expostulation | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: objection, remonstrance, remonstration |
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| (noun) an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof | - |
| extracellular | (adjective) located or occurring outside a cell or cells | - |
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| extracurricular | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extramarital |
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| (adjective) outside the regular duties of your job or profession | - |
| (adjective) outside the regular academic curriculum | - |
| facula | (noun) a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots | Synonyms: solar facula |
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| (noun) a bright spot on a planet | - |
| fasciculation | (noun) muscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers | - |
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| fecula | (noun) excreta (especially of insects) | - |
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| fibula | (noun) the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: calf bone |
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| fistula | (noun) an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface | Synonyms: sinus |
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| (noun) a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse | Synonyms: fistulous withers |
| fistular | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistulate, fistulous |
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| fistulate | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulous |
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| flocculate | (verb) form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass | - |
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| (verb) cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate | - |
| flocculation | (noun) the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations | - |
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| flocculator | (noun) An apparatus used in the process of flocculation. | - |
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| follicular | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a follicle | - |
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| formula | (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, normal, pattern, rule |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: expression |
| (noun) a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle | - |
| (noun) directions for making something | Synonyms: recipe |
| (noun) a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements | Synonyms: chemical formula |
| (noun) a liquid food for infants | - |
| formulaic | (adjective) characterized by or in accordance with some formula | - |
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| formularise | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularize |
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| formularize | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularise |
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| formulary | (adjective) of or relating to or of the nature of a formula | - |
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| (noun) (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation | Synonyms: pharmacopeia |
| formulate | (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, give voice, phrase, word |
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| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: develop, explicate |
| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, invent |
| (verb) prepare according to a formula | - |
| formulated | (adjective) devised; developed according to an orderly plan | - |
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| formulation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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| (noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: expression |
| (noun) a substance prepared according to a formula | Synonyms: preparation |
| foulard | (noun) a light plain-weave or twill-weave silk or silklike fabric (usually with a printed design) | - |
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| funicular | (adjective) relating to or operated by a cable | - |
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| (noun) a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars | Synonyms: cable railway, funicular railway |
| furcula | (noun) a forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles of most birds | - |
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| gastrula | (noun) double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm | - |
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| gastrulation | (noun) the process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cells | - |
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| geniculate | (adjective) bent at a sharp angle | - |
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| gesticulate | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesture, motion |
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| gesticulating | (adjective) making gestures while speaking | - |
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| gesticulation | (noun) a deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion | - |
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| glandular | (adjective) relating to or affecting or functioning as a gland | - |
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| globular | (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, orbicular, spheric, spherical |
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| globularness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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| glomerular | (adjective) of or relating to glomeruli | - |
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| goulash | (noun) a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika | Synonyms: gulyas, Hungarian goulash |
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| granular | (adjective) having a granular structure like that of chondrites | Synonyms: chondritic |
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| (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granulose, gritty, mealy |
| granularity | (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarseness, graininess |
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| granulate | (verb) form granulating tissue | - |
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| (verb) form into grains | Synonyms: grain |
| (verb) become granular | Synonyms: grain |
| granulated | (adjective) made grainy or formed into granules | - |
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| granulation | (noun) the act of forming something into granules or grains | - |
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| (noun) new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process | Synonyms: granulation tissue |
| granulator | (noun) a machine that forms material (such as plastics, bottles, organics, etc.) into granules. | Synonyms: granulator machine |
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| gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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| gula | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gluttony, overeating |
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| gulag | (noun) a Russian prison camp for political prisoners | - |
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| haulage | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: draw, haul |
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| heulandite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous aluminum silicate of sodium and calcium | - |
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| hexangular | (adjective) having six sides or divided into hexagons | Synonyms: hexagonal |
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| hula | (noun) a Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman | Synonyms: Hawaiian dancing, hula-hula |
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| hypercellularity | (noun) the state of having abnormally many cells | - |
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| hypocellularity | (noun) the state of having abnormally few cells | - |
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| immaculacy | (noun) The characteristic of having no stain or blemish; of being spotless, undefiled, clear, pure. | - |
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| immaculate | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spick, spotless |
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| (adjective) without fault or error | Synonyms: faultless, impeccable, incorrupted |
| (adjective) free from stain or blemish | Synonyms: undefiled |
| immaculately | (adverb) in an immaculate manner | - |
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| immaculateness | (noun) the state of being spotlessly clean | Synonyms: spotlessness |
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| inarticulate | (adjective) without or deprived of the use of speech or words | Synonyms: unarticulate |
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| inarticulately | (adverb) in an inarticulate manner | - |
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| (adverb) without eloquence; in an inarticulate manner | Synonyms: ineloquently |
| incalculable | (adjective) not able to be computed or enumerated | - |
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| (adjective) too much to be measured | Synonyms: untold |
| inoculant | (noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease | Synonyms: inoculum |
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| inoculate | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, immunize, vaccinate |
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| (verb) insert a bud for propagation | - |
| (verb) impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune | - |
| (verb) introduce a microorganism into | - |
| (verb) introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of | - |
| inoculating | (noun) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | Synonyms: vaccinating |
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| inoculation | (noun) taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease | Synonyms: vaccination |
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| inoculator | (noun) a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases | Synonyms: vaccinator |
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| inosculate | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: anastomose |
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| (verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: anastomose |
| inosculation | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: anastomosis |
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| 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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| intercellular | (adjective) located between cells | - |
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| interlobular | (adjective) between lobes or lobules | - |
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| intermolecular | (adjective) existing or acting between molecules | - |
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| intracellular | (adjective) located or occurring within a cell or cells | - |
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| intralobular | (adjective) inside lobes or lobules | - |
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| intramolecular | (adjective) within the molecule; occurring by a reaction between different parts of the same molecule | - |
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| intramuscular | (adjective) within a muscle | - |
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| intramuscularly | (adverb) in an intramuscular way | - |
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| intraventricular | (adjective) within the system of ventricles in the brain | - |
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| inula | (noun) any plant of the genus Inula | - |
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| irregular | (adjective) contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice | - |
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| (adjective) (of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement | - |
| (adjective) (used of the military) not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces | - |
| (adjective) deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal | Synonyms: atypical |
| (adjective) failing to meet a standard of manufacture due to an imperfection | - |
| (adjective) lacking continuity or regularity | Synonyms: temporary |
| (adjective) not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals | Synonyms: unpredictable |
| (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: maverick, unorthodox |
| (adjective) (of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical | - |
| (noun) merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name | Synonyms: second |
| (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, guerrilla, insurgent |
| irregularity | (noun) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| (noun) not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals | Synonyms: unregularity |
| (noun) an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern | Synonyms: geometrical irregularity |
| (noun) irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis | Synonyms: constipation |
| irregularly | (adverb) in an inconstant manner, not according to fixed rate or schedule | Synonyms: on an irregular basis |
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| (adverb) at an uneven rate | - |
| (adverb) having an irregular form | - |
| jocular | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, joking |
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| (adverb) with humor | Synonyms: jocosely |
| jocularity | (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jest, joke |
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| (noun) fun characterized by humor | Synonyms: jocosity |
| (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocundity |
| jugular | (adjective) relating to or located in the region of the neck or throat | - |
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| (noun) a vital part that is vulnerable to attack | - |
| (noun) veins in the neck that return blood from the head | Synonyms: jugular vein, vena jugularis |
| lenticular | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lentiform |
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| lingulate | (adjective) shaped like a tongue | Synonyms: tongue-shaped |
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| lobular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a lobule | - |
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| lobularity | (noun) the property of having lobules | - |
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| lunula | (noun) a crescent-shaped metal ornament of the Bronze Age | - |
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| (noun) the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail | Synonyms: half-moon, lunule |
| macromolecular | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or characterized by macromolecules | - |
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| macula | (noun) a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision | Synonyms: macula lutea, macular area, yellow spot |
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| (noun) a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases | Synonyms: macule |
| (noun) a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field | Synonyms: sunspot |
| maculate | (adjective) spotted or blotched | - |
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| (adjective) morally blemished; stained or impure | Synonyms: defiled |
| (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, defile, foul |
| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, stain, sully, tarnish |