| hydralazine | (noun) an antihypertensive drug (trade name Apresoline) that dilates blood vessels; used (often with a diuretic) to treat hypertension and congestive heart failure | Synonyms: Apresoline |
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| hydrazide | (noun) any of a class of organic compounds sharing a common functional group characterized by a nitrogen to nitrogen covalent bond with 4 substituents with at least one of them being an acyl group. | - |
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| hydrazine | (noun) a colorless fuming corrosive liquid; a powerful reducing agent; used chiefly in rocket fuels | - |
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| hydrazoite | (noun) a salt of hydrazoic acid | - |
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| hydrochlorothiazide | (noun) a diuretic drug (trade name Microzide, Esidrix, and HydroDIURIL) used in the treatment of hypertension | Synonyms: Esidrix, HydroDIURIL, Microzide |
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| hydroflumethiazide | (noun) diuretic used to treat hypertension and edema | - |
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| hydroisopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of identical pressures in the water bearing stratum. | - |
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| hydrolize | (verb) make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis | Synonyms: hydrolise |
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| hydrolyzable | (adjective) capable of undergoing hydrolysis | - |
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| hydrolyze | (verb) undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water | Synonyms: hydrolyse |
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| hydroxybenzene | (noun) a toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of benzene; used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic; poisonous if taken internally | Synonyms: carbolic acid, oxybenzene, phenol, phenylic acid |
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| hydroxyzine | (noun) a drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness | Synonyms: Atarax, hydroxyzine hydrochloride, Vistaril |
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| hydrozoan | (noun) colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant | Synonyms: hydroid |
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| hygienize | (verb) make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing | Synonyms: hygienise, sanitise, sanitize |
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| hyperbolize | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| hypersensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| hypnotize | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, mesmerise, mesmerize |
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| hypnotized | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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| hypnotizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, mesmerist, mesmerizer |
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| hypophysectomize | (verb) remove the pituitary glands | Synonyms: hypophysectomise |
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| hypophysectomized | (adjective) having the pituitary gland removed by surgery | Synonyms: hypophysectomised |
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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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| hypothesize | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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| hypozeugma | (noun) use of a series of subjects with a single predicate | - |
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| hypozeuxis | (noun) use of a series of parallel clauses (as in `I came, I saw, I conquered') | - |
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| idealization | (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: glorification, idealisation |
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| (noun) something that exists only as an idea | Synonyms: idealisation |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad | Synonyms: idealisation |
| idealize | (verb) consider or render as ideal | Synonyms: idealise |
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| (verb) form ideals | Synonyms: idealise |
| idealized | (adjective) exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence | Synonyms: idealised |
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| ideologization | (noun) the process of giving an ideological character or interpretation to; especially of changing or interpreting in relation to a sociopolitical ideology often seen as biased or limited. | - |
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| idolization | (noun) the act of worshiping blindly and to excess | Synonyms: idolisation |
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| (noun) the act of admiring strongly | Synonyms: adoration, idolisation |
| idolize | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, revere, worship |
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| idolized | (adjective) regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god) | Synonyms: adored, idolised, worshipped |
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| idolizer | (noun) a person who worships idols | Synonyms: idol worshiper, idolater, idoliser |
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| (noun) a lover blind with admiration and devotion | Synonyms: idoliser |
| illegalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, outlaw |
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| imidazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, iminazole |
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| iminazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, imidazole |
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| immaterialize | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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| immobilization | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilisation, immobilizing |
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| (noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing | Synonyms: immobilisation |
| immobilize | (verb) cause to be unable to move | Synonyms: immobilise |
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| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilise |
| (verb) convert (assets) into fixed capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
| (verb) make defenseless | Synonyms: immobilise |
| (verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilise, pin, trap |
| (verb) hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
| immobilizing | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilisation, immobilization |
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| immortalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, memorialise, memorialize |
| immunization | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunisation |
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| immunize | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, inoculate, vaccinate |
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| (verb) grant immunity from prosecution | Synonyms: immunise |
| immunized | (adjective) having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease | Synonyms: immunised, vaccinated |
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| improvize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvise |
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| incognizable | (adjective) incapable of being perceived or known | Synonyms: incognoscible |
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| incognizance | (noun) a lack of knowledge or recognition | - |
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| incognizant | (adjective) (often followed by `of') not aware | Synonyms: unaware |
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| individualization | (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualisation, individuation |
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| individualize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, personalise, personalize |
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| (verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualise |
| individualized | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, personalised, personalized |
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| industrialization | (noun) the development of industry on an extensive scale | Synonyms: industrial enterprise, industrialisation |
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| industrialize | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialise |
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| (verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialise |
| industrialized | (adjective) made industrial; converted to industrialism | Synonyms: industrialised |
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| influenza | (noun) an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease | Synonyms: flu, grippe |
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| initialization | (noun) (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position | Synonyms: initialisation, low-level formatting |
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| initialize | (verb) divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data | Synonyms: format, initialise |
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| (verb) assign an initial value to a computer program | Synonyms: initialise |
| 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 |
| intellectualization | (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict | Synonyms: intellectualisation |
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| interiorize | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, internalise, internalize |
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| intermezzo | (noun) a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance | Synonyms: entr'acte, interlude |
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| (noun) a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera | - |
| (noun) a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony | - |
| internalization | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalisation |
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| internalize | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalise |
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| internationalization | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalisation |
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| internationalize | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalise |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalise |
| intransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise |
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| iodize | (verb) treat with iodine so as to prevent infection | Synonyms: iodise |
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| (verb) treat with iodine | Synonyms: iodise |
| iodized | (adjective) treated with iodine | Synonyms: iodinated, iodised |
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| ionization | (noun) the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas | Synonyms: ionisation |
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| (noun) the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge) | Synonyms: ionisation |
| ionize | (verb) convert into ions | Synonyms: ionise |
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| (verb) become converted into ions | Synonyms: ionise |
| ionized | (adjective) converted totally or partly into ions | Synonyms: ionised |
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| iproclozide | (noun) an antidepressant drug that acts as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor | - |
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| isocarboxazid | (noun) a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Marplan) that is used to treat clinical depression | Synonyms: Marplan |
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| isochalaz | (noun) a line indicating a constant frequency of hail storms. | - |
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| isomerization | (noun) the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself | Synonyms: isomerisation |
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| isomerize | (verb) change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerise |
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| (verb) cause to change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerise |
| isoniazid | (noun) antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis | Synonyms: INH, Nydrazid |
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| isopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting places with equal ground water pressure. | Synonyms: isopiestic line |
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| italicize | (verb) print in italics | Synonyms: italicise |
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| itemization | (noun) the act of making a list of items | Synonyms: itemisation, listing |
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| itemize | (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: enumerate, itemise, recite |
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| (verb) place on a list of items | Synonyms: itemise |
| itraconazole | (noun) an oral antifungal drug (trade name Sporanox) taken for cases of fungal nail disease | Synonyms: Sporanox |
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| izar | (noun) a voluminous cotton outer garment (usually white) traditionally worn by Muslim women of northern Africa and the Middle East; covers the entire body | - |
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| izzard | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: ezed, Z, z, zed, zee |
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| jazz | (noun) a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles | - |
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| (noun) a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands | - |
| (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, malarkey, malarky, nothingness, wind |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
| (verb) play something in the style of jazz | - |
| jazzman | (noun) a musician who plays or composes jazz music | Synonyms: jazz musician |
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| jazzy | (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, showy, sporty |
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| (adjective) resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm) | - |
| jeopardize | (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, stake, venture |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, menace, peril, threaten |
| jezebel | (noun) a shameless impudent scheming woman | - |
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| kameez | (noun) a long tunic worn by many people from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars) | - |
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| kamikaze | (noun) a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II | - |
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| (noun) a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash | - |
| kanzu | (noun) (Swahili) a long garment (usually white) with long sleeves; worn by men in East Africa | - |
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| katzenjammer | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, hubbub, uproar |
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| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: hangover |
| kazoo | (noun) a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece | - |
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| keratinization | (noun) organic process by which keratin is deposited in cells and the cells become horny (as in nails and hair) | Synonyms: keratinisation |
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| keratinize | (verb) become horny and impregnated with keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
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| (verb) convert into keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
| kibbitz | (verb) make unwanted and intrusive comments | Synonyms: kibitz |
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| kibbutz | (noun) a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively | - |
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