| germicide | (noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobial, antimicrobic, disinfectant |
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| glade | (noun) a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area | Synonyms: clearing |
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| glide | (noun) the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it | Synonyms: coast, slide |
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| (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: gliding, sailing, sailplaning, soaring |
| (noun) a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant | Synonyms: semivowel |
| (verb) move smoothly and effortlessly | - |
| (verb) fly in or as if in a glider plane | - |
| (verb) cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly | - |
| glipizide | (noun) an oral antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucotrol) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas | Synonyms: Glucotrol |
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| glissade | (noun) (ballet) a gliding or sliding step in ballet | - |
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| (verb) perform a glissade, in ballet | - |
| glucoside | (noun) a glycoside derived from glucose | - |
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| glutethimide | (noun) sedative (trade name Doriden) used to treat some sleep disorders | Synonyms: Doriden |
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| glyburide | (noun) an oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas | Synonyms: DiaBeta, Micronase |
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| glyceraldehyde | (noun) a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars | Synonyms: glyceric aldehyde |
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| glyceride | (noun) an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils | Synonyms: acylglycerol |
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| glycoside | (noun) a group of compounds derived from monosaccharides | - |
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| gourde | (noun) the basic unit of money in Haiti | - |
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| grade | (noun) a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed | - |
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| (noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: degree, level |
| (noun) the gradient of a slope or road or other surface | - |
| (noun) the height of the ground on which something stands | Synonyms: ground level |
| (noun) a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance) | Synonyms: mark, score |
| (noun) a degree of ablaut | Synonyms: gradation |
| (noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, course, form |
| (noun) one-hundredth of a right angle | Synonyms: grad |
| (noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group | Synonyms: level, tier |
| (verb) determine the grade of or assign a grade to | - |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: order, place, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: mark, score |
| (verb) level to the right gradient | - |
| gratitude | (noun) a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation | - |
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| greenside | (adjective) adjacent to a putting green | - |
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| grenade | (noun) a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile | - |
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| guide | (noun) a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something | - |
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| (noun) a model or standard for making comparisons | Synonyms: template, templet |
| (noun) something that offers basic information or instruction | Synonyms: guidebook |
| (noun) someone employed to conduct others | Synonyms: usher |
| (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: pathfinder, scout |
| (noun) someone who shows the way by leading or advising | - |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, pass, run |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, direct, lead, take |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) use as a guide | Synonyms: guide on |
| (verb) be a guiding or motivating force or drive | Synonyms: steer |
| habitude | (noun) habitual mode of behavior | - |
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| halide | (noun) a salt of any halogen acid | - |
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| handmade | (adjective) made by hand or a hand process | Synonyms: hand-crafted |
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| harlequinade | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, japery, prank |
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| hebetude | (noun) mental lethargy or dullness | - |
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| hemipode | (noun) small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains | Synonyms: bustard quail, button-quail, button quail |
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| herbicide | (noun) a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: weed killer, weedkiller |
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| hide | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: pelt, skin |
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| (noun) the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal) | Synonyms: fell |
| (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, obliterate, obscure, veil |
| (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, enshroud, shroud |
| (verb) prevent from being seen or discovered | Synonyms: conceal |
| (verb) be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety | Synonyms: hide out |
| hillside | (noun) the side or slope of a hill | - |
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| homemade | (adjective) made or produced in the home or by yourself | - |
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| homicide | (noun) the killing of a human being by another human being | - |
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| horde | (noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: host, legion |
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| (noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: drove, swarm |
| (noun) a nomadic community | - |
| hornblende | (noun) a green to black mineral of the amphibole group; consists of silicates of calcium and sodium and magnesium and iron | - |
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| horsehide | (noun) leather from the hide of a horse | - |
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| hydathode | (noun) a pore that exudes water on the surface or margin of a leaf of higher plants | Synonyms: water pore, water stoma |
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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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| hydride | (noun) any binary compound formed by the union of hydrogen and other elements | - |
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| hydrochloride | (noun) a complex consisting of an organic base in association with hydrogen chloride | - |
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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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| hydroxide | (noun) a compound of an oxide with water | Synonyms: hydrated oxide |
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| (noun) a chemical compound containing the hydroxyl group | - |
| imide | (noun) any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO- | - |
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| impede | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
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| (verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: hinder |
| implode | (verb) burst inward | Synonyms: go off |
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| inaptitude | (noun) a lack of aptitude | - |
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| incertitude | (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, uncertainty |
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| include | (verb) add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category | - |
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| (verb) consider as part of something | - |
| (verb) allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of | Synonyms: admit, let in |
| (verb) have as a part, be made up out of | - |
| incommode | (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
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| indapamide | (noun) diuretic (trade name Lozal) used in the treatment of hypertension | Synonyms: Lozal |
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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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| infanticide | (noun) murdering an infant | - |
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| (noun) a person who murders an infant | - |
| infinitude | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infiniteness, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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| (noun) an infinite quantity | - |
| ingratitude | (noun) a lack of gratitude | Synonyms: ungratefulness |
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| inquietude | (noun) feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable | Synonyms: disquietude, edginess, uneasiness |
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| insecticide | (noun) a chemical used to kill insects | Synonyms: insect powder |
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| inside | (adjective) relating to or being on the side closer to the center or within a defined space | - |
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| (adjective) confined to an exclusive group | Synonyms: inner, privileged |
| (adjective) away from the outer edge | - |
| (adjective) being or applying to the inside of a building | - |
| (noun) the inner or enclosed surface of something | Synonyms: interior |
| (noun) the region that is inside of something | Synonyms: interior |
| (adverb) within a building | Synonyms: indoors |
| (adverb) on the inside | Synonyms: within |
| (adverb) in reality | Synonyms: at bottom, at heart, deep down, in spite of appearance |
| (adverb) with respect to private feelings | Synonyms: inwardly |
| intercede | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| interlude | (noun) a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance | Synonyms: entr'acte, intermezzo |
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| (noun) an intervening period or episode | - |
| (verb) perform an interlude | - |
| internode | (noun) a segment of a stem between two nodes | - |
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| intrude | (verb) thrust oneself in as if by force | Synonyms: obtrude |
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| (verb) enter uninvited | Synonyms: irrupt |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, nose, poke, pry |
| (verb) enter unlawfully on someone's property | Synonyms: trespass |
| invade | (verb) march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation | Synonyms: occupy |
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| (verb) penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way | - |
| (verb) to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate | Synonyms: encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon |
| (verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: infest, overrun |
| iodide | (noun) a salt or ester of hydriodic acid | - |
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| iproclozide | (noun) an antidepressant drug that acts as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor | - |
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| ironside | (noun) a man of great strength or bravery | - |
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| isosorbide | (noun) drug (trade name Isordil) used to treat angina pectoris and congestive heart failure | Synonyms: Isordil |
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| jade | (adjective) of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green | Synonyms: jade-green |
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| (noun) an old or over-worked horse | Synonyms: hack, nag, plug |
| (noun) a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green | Synonyms: jade green |
| (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
| (noun) a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite | Synonyms: jadestone |
| (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, pall, tire, weary |
| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
| joyride | (noun) a ride in a car taken solely for pleasure | - |
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| (verb) ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it | Synonyms: tool, tool around |
| lactide | (noun) any of a class of heterocyclic compounds, formally acid anhydrides, formed by heating α-lactones. | - |
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| lade | (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: laden, load, load up |
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| (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: laden, ladle |
| lakeside | (noun) the shore of a lake | Synonyms: lakeshore |
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| lampshade | (noun) a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view | Synonyms: lamp shade, shade |
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| landside | (noun) component consisting of a side piece opposite the moldboard | - |
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| landslide | (noun) a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff | Synonyms: landslip |
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| (noun) an overwhelming electoral victory | - |
| lanthanide | (noun) any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71) | Synonyms: lanthanoid, lanthanon, rare-earth element, rare earth |
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| larvacide | (noun) an insecticide that kills the larvae of insects | - |
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| larvicide | (noun) a chemical used to kill larval pests | - |
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| lassitude | (noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: inanition, lethargy, slackness |
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| (noun) a feeling of lack of interest or energy | Synonyms: languor, listlessness |
| (noun) a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) | Synonyms: lethargy, sluggishness |
| 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 | - |
| lede | (noun) the introductory section of a story | Synonyms: lead-in, lead |
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| leflunomide | (noun) an anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally; can slow the progression of rheumatoid arthritis by slowing the proliferation of white blood cells which reduces inflammation in the synovium | Synonyms: Arava |
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| lemonade | (noun) sweetened beverage of diluted lemon juice | - |
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| leporide | (noun) red breed of domestic rabbits; hybrid between Old World rabbit and hare | Synonyms: Belgian hare |
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| limeade | (noun) sweetened beverage of lime juice and water | - |
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| lipide | (noun) an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates) | Synonyms: lipid, lipoid |
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| lode | (noun) a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks | Synonyms: load |
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| longitude | (noun) the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich | - |
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| made | (adjective) (of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order | - |
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| (adjective) produced by a manufacturing process | - |
| (adjective) successful or assured of success | - |
| magnitude | (noun) the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small) | - |
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| (noun) relative importance | - |
| (noun) a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10 | Synonyms: order of magnitude |
| marinade | (noun) mixtures of vinegar or wine and oil with various spices and seasonings; used for soaking foods before cooking | - |
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| (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinate |
| mariticide | (noun) the murder of a husband by his wife | - |
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| marmalade | (noun) a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits | - |
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| masquerade | (noun) making a false outward show | Synonyms: charade |
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| (noun) a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party | Synonyms: fancy dress, masquerade costume |
| (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: mask, masque, masquerade party |
| (verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not | - |
| (verb) take part in a masquerade | - |
| matricide | (noun) the murder of your mother | - |
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| (noun) a person who murders their mother | - |
| megapode | (noun) large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs | Synonyms: mound-bird, mound bird, mound builder, scrub fowl |
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| microcode | (noun) (computer science) coded instructions that are stored permanently in read-only memory | Synonyms: firmware |
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| millepede | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: milliped, millipede |
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| millipede | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: millepede, milliped |
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| misguide | (verb) give bad advice to | Synonyms: misadvise |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misdirect, mislead |
| mode | (noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: fashion, manner, style, way |
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| (noun) the most frequent value of a random variable | Synonyms: modal value |
| (noun) any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave | Synonyms: musical mode |
| (noun) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility | Synonyms: modality |
| (noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker | Synonyms: modality, mood |
| (noun) a particular functioning condition or arrangement | - |
| monosaccharide | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharose, simple sugar |
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| monoxide | (noun) an oxide containing just one atom of oxygen in the molecule | - |
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| motorcade | (noun) a procession of people traveling in motor cars | - |
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