| dynamite | (noun) an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp | - |
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| (verb) blow up with dynamite | - |
| ebonite | (noun) a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber | Synonyms: hard rubber, vulcanite |
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| ectoparasite | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
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| egalite | (noun) social and political equality | Synonyms: egality |
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| elite | (adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elect |
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| (noun) a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status | Synonyms: elite group |
| endoparasite | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endozoan, entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon |
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| entoparasite | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entozoan, entozoon |
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| eremite | (noun) a Christian recluse | - |
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| erudite | (adjective) having or showing profound knowledge | Synonyms: learned |
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| erythrite | (noun) a reddish mineral consisting of hydrated cobalt arsenate in monoclinic crystalline form and used in coloring glass; usually found in veins bearing cobalt and arsenic | Synonyms: cobalt bloom |
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| essonite | (noun) a garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown | Synonyms: cinnamon stone, hessonite |
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| evaporite | (noun) the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater | - |
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| excite | (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: stimulate |
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| (verb) produce a magnetic field in | - |
| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energise, energize |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: shake, shake up, stimulate, stir |
| (verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: arouse, sex, turn on, wind up |
| (verb) arouse or elicit a feeling | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: stimulate, stir |
| expedite | (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: hasten |
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| (verb) process fast and efficiently | - |
| exquisite | (adjective) of extreme beauty | - |
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| (adjective) delicately beautiful | Synonyms: dainty |
| (adjective) lavishly elegant and refined | Synonyms: recherche |
| (adjective) intense or sharp | Synonyms: keen |
| extradite | (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deliver, deport |
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| favorite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favoured, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| (adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favourite |
| (noun) something regarded with special favor or liking | Synonyms: favourite |
| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favourite, pet |
| (noun) a competitor thought likely to win | Synonyms: favourite, front-runner |
| (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favourite |
| favourite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| (adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favorite |
| (noun) something regarded with special favor or liking | Synonyms: favorite |
| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, pet |
| (noun) a competitor thought likely to win | Synonyms: favorite, front-runner |
| (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favorite |
| fergusonite | (noun) a dark mineral consisting of oxides of yttrium and erbium and tantalum and other minerals | - |
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| ferrite | (noun) a solid solution in which alpha iron is the solvent | - |
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| (noun) a magnetic allotrope of iron; stable below 906 degrees centigrade | Synonyms: alpha-Fe, alpha-ferrite |
| finite | (adjective) bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent | - |
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| (adjective) (of verbs) relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person | - |
| fluorapatite | (noun) a form of apatite in which fluorine predominates over chlorine | - |
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| fluorite | (noun) a soft mineral (calcium fluoride) that is fluorescent in ultraviolet light; chief source of fluorine | Synonyms: fluor, fluorspar |
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| fomite | (noun) any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another | Synonyms: vehicle |
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| frostbite | (noun) destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene | Synonyms: cryopathy |
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| gadolinite | (noun) a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium | Synonyms: ytterbite |
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| garnierite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate; a source of nickel | - |
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| gelignite | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelly |
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| germanite | (noun) a rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide | - |
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| ghostwrite | (verb) write for someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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| gibbsite | (noun) white crystalline mineral consisting of aluminum hydroxide; a constituent of bauxite and a source of alumina | - |
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| glauconite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated silicate of potassium or iron or magnesium or aluminum; found in greensand | - |
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| glycerite | (noun) a medicine made by mixing a substance in glycerin | Synonyms: glycerole |
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| goethite | (noun) a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust | Synonyms: gothite |
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| gothite | (noun) a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust | Synonyms: goethite |
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| granite | (noun) something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness) | - |
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| (noun) plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz | - |
| graphite | (noun) used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors | Synonyms: black lead, plumbago |
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| greenockite | (noun) ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form | Synonyms: cadmium sulphide |
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| gummite | (noun) a gummy orange mixture of uranium oxides and silicates occurring naturally in the hydration and oxidation of pitchblende | - |
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| gunite | (noun) a mixture of cement and sand and water that is sprayed on a surface under pneumatic pressure | - |
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| haematite | (noun) the principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy form | Synonyms: hematite |
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| halite | (noun) naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride | Synonyms: rock salt |
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| handwrite | (verb) write by hand | - |
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| hausmannite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese tetroxide; a source of manganese | - |
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| hematite | (noun) the principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy form | Synonyms: haematite |
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| hemimorphite | (noun) a white mineral; a common ore of zinc | Synonyms: calamine |
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| hemiparasite | (noun) a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis | Synonyms: semiparasite |
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| hermaphrodite | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphroditic |
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| (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, intersex |
| hessonite | (noun) a garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown | Synonyms: cinnamon stone, essonite |
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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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| hiddenite | (noun) a green transparent form of the mineral spodumene used as a gemstone | - |
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| hydrazoite | (noun) a salt of hydrazoic acid | - |
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| hypochlorite | (noun) any salt or ester of hypochlorous acid | - |
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| hypocrite | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| ignite | (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: fire, light |
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| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, inflame, stir up, wake |
| (verb) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat | Synonyms: light |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, erupt, take fire |
| ilmenite | (noun) a weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titanium | - |
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| impolite | (adjective) not polite | - |
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| inapposite | (adjective) of an inappropriate or misapplied nature | Synonyms: out of place |
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| incite | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: instigate, set off, stir up |
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| (verb) urge on; cause to act | Synonyms: egg on, prod |
| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, motivate, move, prompt, propel |
| indefinite | (adjective) vague or not clearly defined or stated | - |
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| (adjective) not decided or not known | - |
| indite | (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, pen, write |
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| infinite | (adjective) having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude | - |
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| (adjective) (of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive) | Synonyms: non-finite, nonfinite |
| (adjective) total and all-embracing | - |
| (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
| (noun) the unlimited expanse in which everything is located | Synonyms: space |
| invite | (noun) a colloquial expression for invitation | - |
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| (verb) ask someone in a friendly way to do something | Synonyms: bid |
| (verb) request the participation or presence of | Synonyms: call for |
| (verb) ask to enter | Synonyms: ask in |
| (verb) express willingness to have in one's home or environs | Synonyms: receive, take in |
| (verb) give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting | Synonyms: tempt |
| (verb) increase the likelihood of | Synonyms: ask for |
| (verb) invite someone to one's house | Synonyms: ask over, ask round |
| (verb) have as a guest | Synonyms: pay for |
| jadeite | (noun) a hard green mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade; found principally in Burma | - |
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| kainite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of magnesium sulphate and potassium chloride; a source of potassium salts; used as a fertilizer | - |
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| kaolinite | (noun) a mineral consisting of aluminum silicate; main source of kaolin | - |
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| kerite | (noun) a compound in which tar or asphalt combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber. | - |
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| kernite | (noun) a light soft mineral consisting of hydrated sodium borate in crystalline form; an important source of boron | - |
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| kieserite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of hydrous magnesium sulfate often found in salt mines | - |
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| kimberlite | (noun) a rare type of peridotite that sometimes contains diamonds; found in South Africa and Siberia | - |
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| kite | (noun) any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals | - |
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| (noun) plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string | - |
| (noun) a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float | - |
| (noun) a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value | - |
| (verb) fly a kite | - |
| (verb) soar or fly like a kite | - |
| (verb) get credit or money by using a bad check | - |
| (verb) increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently | - |
| krennerite | (noun) an orthorhombic gold telluride mineral which can contain a relatively small amount of silver in the structure. | - |
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| kunzite | (noun) a pinkish lilac crystal form of the mineral spodumene that is used as a gemstone | - |
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| kyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: cyanite |
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| langbeinite | (noun) a mineral consisting of potassium magnesium double sulphate; used as a fertilizer | - |
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| laterite | (noun) a red soil produced by rock decay; contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides | - |
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| lechatelierite | (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: crystal, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
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| lepidocrocite | (noun) a red to reddish brown mineral consisting of iron oxide hydroxide; often found in iron ores together with goethite | - |
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| lepidolite | (noun) a mineral of the mica group; an important source of lithium | - |
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| lignite | (noun) intermediate between peat and bituminous coal | Synonyms: brown coal, wood coal |
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| limonite | (noun) a widely occurring iron oxide ore; a mixture of goethite and hematite and lepidocrocite | - |
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| lintwhite | (noun) small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead | Synonyms: Carduelis cannabina, linnet |
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| lite | (adjective) having relatively few calories | Synonyms: calorie-free, light, low-cal |
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| magnesite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium | - |
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| magnetite | (noun) an oxide of iron that is strongly attracted by magnets | Synonyms: magnetic iron-ore |
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| malachite | (noun) a green or blue mineral used as an ore of copper and for making ornamental objects | - |
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| manganite | (noun) a black mineral consisting of basic manganese oxide; a source of manganese | - |
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| marguerite | (noun) tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, Leucanthemum vulgare, moon daisy, ox-eyed daisy, oxeye daisy, white daisy |
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| (noun) perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Argyranthemum frutescens, Chrysanthemum frutescens, marguerite daisy, Paris daisy |
| marlite | (noun) metamorphic rock with approximately the same composition as marl | Synonyms: marlstone |
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| marmite | (noun) a large pot especially one with legs used e.g. for cooking soup | - |
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| (noun) soup cooked in a large pot | - |
| martensite | (noun) a solid solution of carbon in alpha-iron that is formed when steel is cooled so rapidly that the change from austenite to pearlite is suppressed; responsible for the hardness of quenched steel | - |
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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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| merozoite | (noun) a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle | - |
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| mesquite | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquit |
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| metabolite | (noun) any substance involved in metabolism (either as a product of metabolism or as necessary for metabolism) | - |
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| meteorite | (noun) stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that has reached the earth's surface | - |
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| micrometeorite | (noun) a meteorite or meteoroid so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmosphere | Synonyms: micrometeor, micrometeoroid |
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| millerite | (noun) a yellow mineral consisting of nickel sulfide; a minor source of nickel | - |
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| mite | (noun) any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods | - |
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| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
| molybdenite | (noun) a mineral resembling graphite that is valued as the chief source of molybdenum and its compounds | - |
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