| hypoesthesia | (noun) impairment of tactile sensitivity; decrease of sensitivity | Synonyms: hypesthesia |
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| hypogammaglobulinemia | (noun) an abnormally low concentration of gamma globulin in the blood and increased risk of infection | - |
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| hypoglycaemia | (noun) abnormally low blood sugar usually resulting from excessive insulin or a poor diet | Synonyms: hypoglycemia |
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| hypoglycemia | (noun) abnormally low blood sugar usually resulting from excessive insulin or a poor diet | Synonyms: hypoglycaemia |
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| hypokalemia | (noun) abnormally low level of potassium in the circulating blood leading to weakness and heart abnormalities; associated with adrenal tumors or starvation or taking diuretics | - |
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| hypolipoproteinemia | (noun) any of various disorders of lipoprotein and cholesterol metabolism that result in low levels of lipoprotein and cholesterol in the circulating blood | - |
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| hyponatremia | (noun) abnormally low level of sodium in the blood; associated with dehydration | - |
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| hypoplasia | (noun) underdevelopment of an organ because of a decrease in the number of cells | - |
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| hypopnea | (noun) slow or shallow breathing | - |
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| hypoproteinemia | (noun) abnormally low level of protein in the blood; can indicate inadequate diet or intestinal or renal disorders | - |
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| hyposmia | (noun) lessened sensitivity to odors | - |
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| hypothermia | (noun) subnormal body temperature | - |
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| hypothrombinemia | (noun) a low level of prothrombin (factor II) in the circulating blood; results in long clotting time and poor clot formation and sometimes excessive bleeding; can result from vitamin K deficiency | - |
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| hypotonia | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic | Synonyms: hypotonicity, hypotonus |
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| hypovolaemia | (noun) a blood disorder consisting of a decrease in the volume of circulating blood | Synonyms: hypovolemia |
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| hypovolemia | (noun) a blood disorder consisting of a decrease in the volume of circulating blood | Synonyms: hypovolaemia |
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| hypoxia | (noun) oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency | - |
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| hypozeugma | (noun) use of a series of subjects with a single predicate | - |
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| hysteria | (noun) excessive or uncontrollable fear | - |
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| (noun) neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions | Synonyms: hysterical neurosis |
| (noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury |
| ichthyostega | (noun) early tetrapod amphibian found in Greenland | - |
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| idea | (noun) the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about | Synonyms: thought |
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| (noun) your intention; what you intend to do | Synonyms: mind |
| (noun) an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth | Synonyms: approximation, estimate, estimation |
| (noun) a personal view | - |
| (noun) (music) melodic subject of a musical composition | Synonyms: melodic theme, musical theme, theme |
| idesia | (noun) deciduous roundheaded Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries | Synonyms: Idesia polycarpa |
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| iguana | (noun) large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America | Synonyms: common iguana, Iguana iguana |
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| ilama | (noun) whitish tropical fruit with a pinkish tinge related to custard apples; grown in the southern United States | - |
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| (noun) tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit | Synonyms: Annona diversifolia, ilama tree |
| imbauba | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree, trumpetwood |
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| impala | (noun) African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps | Synonyms: Aepyceros melampus |
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| impedimenta | (noun) the baggage and equipment carried by an army | - |
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| (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor |
| inamorata | (noun) a woman with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship | - |
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| incisura | (noun) (anatomy) a notch or small hollow | Synonyms: incisure |
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| indaba | (noun) a council at which indigenous peoples of southern Africa meet to discuss some important question | - |
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| inertia | (noun) a disposition to remain inactive or inert | Synonyms: inactiveness, inactivity |
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| (noun) (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force | - |
| influenza | (noun) an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease | Synonyms: flu, grippe |
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| infra | (adverb) (in writing) at a later place | Synonyms: below |
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| inga | (noun) any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers; cultivated as ornamentals | - |
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| ingesta | (noun) solid and liquid nourishment taken into the body through the mouth | - |
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| insignia | (noun) a badge worn to show official position | - |
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| insomnia | (noun) an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness | - |
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| intelligentsia | (noun) an educated and intellectual elite | Synonyms: clerisy |
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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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| intima | (noun) the innermost membrane of an organ (especially the inner lining of an artery or vein or lymphatic vessel) | - |
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| inula | (noun) any plant of the genus Inula | - |
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| invidia | (noun) spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: envy |
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| iota | (noun) the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
| ira | (noun) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: anger, ire, wrath |
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| irredenta | (noun) a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another | Synonyms: irridenta |
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| irridenta | (noun) a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another | Synonyms: irredenta |
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| ischaemia | (noun) local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism | Synonyms: ischemia |
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| ischemia | (noun) local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism | Synonyms: ischaemia |
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| isometropia | (noun) equality of refractive power in the two eyes | - |
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| iva | (noun) any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers; common in moist areas (as coastal salt marshes) of eastern and central North America | Synonyms: marsh elder |
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| jaboticaba | (noun) tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil | - |
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| (noun) small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches | Synonyms: jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria cauliflora |
| jacaranda | (noun) an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black | Synonyms: Brazilian rosewood, caviuna wood, Dalbergia nigra |
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| jagua | (noun) tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit | Synonyms: Genipa Americana, genipap fruit, marmalade box |
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| jambalaya | (noun) spicy Creole dish of rice and ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and celery | - |
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| jambosa | (noun) tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit | Synonyms: Eugenia jambos, rose-apple tree, rose apple |
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| japonica | (noun) deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms | Synonyms: Chaenomeles japonica, maule's quince |
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| (noun) greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties | Synonyms: Camellia japonica |
| java | (noun) a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans | Synonyms: coffee |
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| javelina | (noun) dark grey peccary with an indistinct white collar; of semi desert areas of Mexico and southwestern United States | Synonyms: collared peccary, Peccari angulatus, Tayassu angulatus, Tayassu tajacu |
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| jellaba | (noun) a loose cloak with a hood; worn in the Middle East and northern Africa | - |
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| jerboa | (noun) mouselike jumping rodent | - |
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| jinrikisha | (noun) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person | Synonyms: ricksha, rickshaw |
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| junta | (noun) a group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power | Synonyms: military junta |
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| kabala | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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| kabbala | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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| kachina | (noun) a carved doll wearing the costume of a particular Pueblo spirit; usually presented to a child as a gift | - |
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| (noun) a deified spirit of the Pueblo people | - |
| (noun) a masked dancer during a Pueblo religious ceremony who is thought to embody some particular spirit | - |
| kagura | (noun) a stately dance of the Shinto religion that now forms a part of Japanese village festivals. | - |
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| kahikatea | (noun) New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood | Synonyms: Dacrycarpus dacrydioides, New Zealand Dacryberry, New Zealand white pine, Podocarpus dacrydioides |
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| kalansuwa | (noun) a cap that is wrapped around by a turban and worn by Muslim religious elders | - |
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| kalemia | (noun) the presence of excess potassium in the circulating blood | - |
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| kalmia | (noun) any plant of the genus Kalmia | - |
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| kamilavka | (noun) A headdress worn among Orthodox Christian monastics and clergy. | - |
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| kapeika | (noun) 100 kapeikas equal 1 rubel in Belarus | - |
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| kappa | (noun) the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| kapuka | (noun) small New Zealand broadleaf evergreen tree often cultivated in warm regions as an ornamental | Synonyms: Griselinia littoralis |
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| karma | (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | - |
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| kasha | (noun) boiled or baked buckwheat | - |
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| kava | (noun) an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub | Synonyms: kavakava |
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| kavakava | (noun) an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub | Synonyms: kava |
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| kawaka | (noun) New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress | Synonyms: Libocedrus plumosa |
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| kea | (noun) large brownish-green New Zealand parrot | Synonyms: Nestor notabilis |
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| keratalgia | (noun) pain in the cornea | - |
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| keratectasia | (noun) abnormal bulging of the cornea of the eye | - |
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| keratoacanthoma | (noun) skin tumor that grows rapidly (especially in older people) and resembles a carcinoma but does not spread; it usually disappears spontaneously, often leaving a scar | - |
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| keratoderma | (noun) any skin disorder consisting of a growth that appears horny | Synonyms: keratodermia |
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| keratodermia | (noun) any skin disorder consisting of a growth that appears horny | Synonyms: keratoderma |
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| keratomalacia | (noun) softening and drying and ulceration of the cornea resulting from vitamin A deficiency; symptom of cystic fibrosis or sprue | - |
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| kerugma | (noun) preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church | Synonyms: kerygma |
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| kerygma | (noun) preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church | Synonyms: kerugma |
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| keteleeria | (noun) Asiatic conifers resembling firs | - |
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| ketembilla | (noun) maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves | Synonyms: kitambilla, kitembilla |
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| (noun) a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India | Synonyms: Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa, ketembilla tree, kitambilla, kitembilla |
| ketoaciduria | (noun) excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation | Synonyms: acetonuria, ketonuria |
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| ketonemia | (noun) an abnormal increase of ketone bodies in the blood as in diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: acetonemia, ketosis |
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| ketonuria | (noun) excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation | Synonyms: acetonuria, ketoaciduria |
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| kina | (noun) the basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea | - |
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| kinaesthesia | (noun) the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc | Synonyms: feeling of movement, kinesthesia |
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| (noun) the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body | Synonyms: kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinesthesis, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement |
| kinanesthesia | (noun) inability to sense movement | - |
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| kinda | (adverb) to some (great or small) extent | Synonyms: kind of, rather, sort of |
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| kinesthesia | (noun) the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc | Synonyms: feeling of movement, kinaesthesia |
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| (noun) the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body | Synonyms: kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, kinesthesis, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement |
| kitambilla | (noun) maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves | Synonyms: ketembilla, kitembilla |
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| (noun) a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India | Synonyms: Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa, ketembilla, ketembilla tree, kitembilla |
| kitembilla | (noun) maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves | Synonyms: ketembilla, kitambilla |
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| (noun) a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India | Synonyms: Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa, ketembilla, ketembilla tree, kitambilla |