| picturesque | (adjective) suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture | - |
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| (adjective) strikingly expressive | - |
| pleasurable | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: enjoyable, gratifying |
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| pleural | (adjective) of or relating to the pleura or the walls of the thorax | - |
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| pleurocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches | - |
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| plural | (adjective) grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units | - |
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| (adjective) composed of more than one member, set, or kind | - |
| pluralistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of pluralism | - |
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| polyunsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) having many unsaturated bonds | - |
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| postural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving posture | - |
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| pouring | (adjective) flowing profusely | Synonyms: gushing |
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| precursory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: premonitory |
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| prefectural | (adjective) of or relating to a prefecture | - |
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| prefigurative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, foreshadowing |
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| premature | (adjective) born after a gestation period of less than the normal time | - |
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| (adjective) uncommonly early or before the expected time | Synonyms: untimely |
| (adjective) too soon or too hasty | Synonyms: previous |
| preternatural | (adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal | Synonyms: uncanny |
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| (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, transcendental |
| procedural | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: adjective |
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| (adjective) of or relating to procedure | - |
| procurable | (adjective) capable of being obtained | Synonyms: getable, gettable, obtainable |
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| prurient | (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lubricious, lustful, salacious |
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| psychoneurotic | (adjective) affected with emotional disorder | Synonyms: neurotic |
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| puncturable | (adjective) capable of being punctured | - |
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| punctured | (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforate, perforated, pierced |
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| punctureless | (adjective) being without punctures or incapable of being punctured | - |
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| purblind | (adjective) having greatly reduced vision | Synonyms: dim-sighted, near-blind, sand-blind, visually challenged, visually impaired |
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| (adjective) lacking in insight or discernment | Synonyms: obtuse |
| purchasable | (adjective) available for purchase | Synonyms: for sale |
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| (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, corruptible, dishonest, venal |
| pure | (adjective) (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless | - |
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| (adjective) free of extraneous elements of any kind | - |
| (adjective) (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black | Synonyms: saturated |
| (adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous |
| (adjective) free from discordant qualities | - |
| (adjective) concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied | - |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| pureblood | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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| pureblooded | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, thoroughbred |
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| purebred | (adjective) bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain | - |
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| purgative | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, evacuant |
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| purgatorial | (adjective) of or resembling purgatory | - |
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| (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purging, purifying |
| purging | (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purgatorial, purifying |
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| purifying | (adjective) freeing from noxious matter | - |
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| (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purgatorial, purging |
| (adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: cleansing |
| puritanic | (adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: blue, puritanical |
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| puritanical | (adjective) of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism | - |
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| (adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: blue, puritanic |
| (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
| purple | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purplish, violet |
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| (adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: imperial, majestic, regal, royal |
| (adjective) excessively elaborate or showily expressed | Synonyms: empurpled, over-embellished |
| purplish | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purple, violet |
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| purposeful | (adjective) serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal | - |
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| (adjective) having meaning through having an aim | - |
| purposeless | (adjective) not evidencing any purpose or goal | - |
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| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, pointless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
| purposive | (adjective) having or showing or acting with a purpose or design | - |
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| (adjective) having a purpose | Synonyms: goal-directed |
| pursuant | (adjective) (followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with | - |
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| pursued | (adjective) followed with enmity as if to harm | - |
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| pursuing | (adjective) following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit | - |
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| pursy | (adjective) breathing laboriously or convulsively | Synonyms: blown, short-winded, winded |
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| purulent | (adjective) containing pus | Synonyms: pussy |
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| rapturous | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, enraptured, rapt, rhapsodic |
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| reassured | (adjective) having confidence restored; freed from anxiety | - |
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| reassuring | (adjective) restoring confidence and relieving anxiety | - |
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| recurrent | (adjective) recurring again and again | Synonyms: perennial, repeated |
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| recurring | (adjective) coming back | Synonyms: revenant |
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| recursive | (adjective) of or relating to a recursion | - |
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| recurvate | (adjective) curved backward or inward | Synonyms: recurved |
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| recurved | (adjective) curved backward or inward | Synonyms: recurvate |
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| resourceful | (adjective) having inner resources; adroit or imaginative | - |
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| resourceless | (adjective) lacking or deficient in natural resources | - |
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| resurgent | (adjective) rising again as to new life and vigor | Synonyms: renascent |
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| returnable | (adjective) that may be returned | - |
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| returning | (adjective) tending to be turned back | Synonyms: reversive |
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| (adjective) tending to return to an earlier state | Synonyms: reverting |
| rural | (adjective) of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city; living in or characteristic of farming or country life; living in or characteristic of farming or country life | - |
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| saturated | (adjective) used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled | - |
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| (adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | Synonyms: concentrated |
| (adjective) (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black | Synonyms: pure |
| saturnine | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, sour, sullen |
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| (adjective) bitter or scornful | - |
| saurian | (adjective) of or relating to lizards | Synonyms: lacertilian |
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| savourless | (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, vapid |
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| savoury | (adjective) morally wholesome or acceptable | Synonyms: savory |
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| (adjective) having a pleasant taste | Synonyms: mouth-watering, savory |
| (adjective) having an agreeably pungent taste | Synonyms: piquant, savory, zesty |
| scoured | (adjective) worn away as by water or ice or wind | Synonyms: eroded |
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| scriptural | (adjective) of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible | Synonyms: biblical |
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| (adjective) written or relating to writing | - |
| sculptural | (adjective) relating to or consisting of sculpture | - |
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| (adjective) resembling sculpture | Synonyms: modeled, modelled, sculptured, sculpturesque |
| sculptured | (adjective) cut into a desired shape | Synonyms: graven, sculpted |
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| (adjective) resembling sculpture | Synonyms: modeled, modelled, sculptural, sculpturesque |
| sculpturesque | (adjective) resembling sculpture | Synonyms: modeled, modelled, sculptural, sculptured |
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| scurfy | (adjective) having or producing or covered with scurf | - |
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| (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly |
| scurrilous | (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: abusive, opprobrious |
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| scurrying | (adjective) moving with great haste | Synonyms: hurrying |
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| scurvy | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: abject, low-down, low, miserable, scummy |
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| secure | (adjective) free from fear or doubt; easy in mind | Synonyms: unafraid, untroubled |
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| (adjective) free from danger or risk | - |
| (adjective) not likely to fail or give way | - |
| (adjective) immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | Synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, strong, unassailable, unattackable |
| (adjective) financially safe | Synonyms: dependable, good, safe |
| sensorineural | (adjective) of or relating to the neural process of sensation | - |
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| sericultural | (adjective) of or relating to sericulture | - |
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| slurred | (adjective) spoken as if with a thick tongue | Synonyms: thick |
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| sociocultural | (adjective) relating to both social and cultural matters | - |
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| sour | (adjective) having a sharp biting taste | - |
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| (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen |
| (adjective) inaccurate in pitch | Synonyms: false, off-key |
| (adjective) smelling of fermentation or staleness | Synonyms: rancid |
| (adjective) in an unpalatable state | Synonyms: off, turned |
| (adjective) one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons | - |
| soured | (adjective) having turned bad | - |
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| sourish | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, lemony, tangy, tart |
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| spurious | (adjective) false or fake; not what it appears to be | Synonyms: inauthentic, unauthentic |
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| (adjective) plausible but false | Synonyms: specious |
| (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten |
| (adjective) ostensibly valid, but not actually valid | - |
| spurned | (adjective) rebuffed (by a lover) without warning | Synonyms: jilted, rejected |
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| spurting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spouting, squirting |
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| structural | (adjective) relating to or having or characterized by structure | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure | - |
| (adjective) relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals | Synonyms: morphologic, morphological |
| (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, morphological |
| (adjective) concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study | - |
| (adjective) affecting or involved in structure or construction | - |
| structured | (adjective) having definite and highly organized structure | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a living organism in organization or development | Synonyms: integrated |
| sturdy | (adjective) not making concessions | Synonyms: inflexible, uncompromising |
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| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stalwart, stout |
| (adjective) substantially made or constructed | Synonyms: tough |
| subdural | (adjective) below the dura mater but above the arachnoid membrane of the meninges | - |
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| subsurface | (adjective) beneath the surface | - |
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| suburban | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs | - |
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| suburbanised | (adjective) surrounded by many suburbs | Synonyms: suburbanized |
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| suburbanized | (adjective) surrounded by many suburbs | Synonyms: suburbanised |
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| sulfuretted | (adjective) treated or impregnated with sulfur | Synonyms: sulfurized, sulphuretted |
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| sulfuric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing sulfur | Synonyms: sulphuric |
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| sulfurized | (adjective) treated or impregnated with sulfur | Synonyms: sulfuretted, sulphuretted |
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| sulfurous | (adjective) of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur | Synonyms: sulphurous |
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| (adjective) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | Synonyms: stifling, sulphurous, sultry |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| sulphuretted | (adjective) treated or impregnated with sulfur | Synonyms: sulfuretted, sulfurized |
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| sulphuric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing sulfur | Synonyms: sulfuric |
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| sulphurous | (adjective) of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur | Synonyms: sulfurous |
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| (adjective) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | Synonyms: stifling, sulfurous, sultry |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| sunburned | (adjective) suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight | Synonyms: sunburnt |
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| sunburnt | (adjective) suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight | Synonyms: sunburned |
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| supernatural | (adjective) not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material | - |
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