| polyphonous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by polyphony | Synonyms: polyphonic |
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| polysemous | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemantic |
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| pompous | (adjective) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display | Synonyms: ceremonious |
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| (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous |
| ponderous | (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: heavy, lumbering |
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| (adjective) having great mass and weight and unwieldiness | - |
| (adjective) labored and dull | - |
| populous | (adjective) densely populated | Synonyms: thickly settled |
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| poriferous | (adjective) full of pores or vessels or holes | Synonyms: porous |
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| porous | (adjective) full of pores or vessels or holes | Synonyms: poriferous |
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| (adjective) allowing passage in and out | Synonyms: holey |
| (adjective) able to absorb fluids | - |
| portentous | (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical |
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| (adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: fateful, foreboding |
| (adjective) of momentous or ominous significance | Synonyms: prodigious |
| posthumous | (adjective) occurring or coming into existence after a person's death | - |
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| precancerous | (adjective) of or relating to a growth that is not malignant but is likely to become so if not treated | - |
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| precarious | (adjective) fraught with danger | Synonyms: parlous, perilous, touch-and-go |
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| (adjective) not secure; beset with difficulties | Synonyms: shaky |
| (adjective) affording no ease or reassurance | Synonyms: unstable |
| precious | (adjective) obviously contrived to charm | Synonyms: cute |
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| (adjective) characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for | Synonyms: cherished, treasured, wanted |
| (adjective) of high worth or cost | - |
| (adjective) held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature | Synonyms: valued |
| precipitous | (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitate |
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| (adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: abrupt, sharp |
| precocious | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude) | - |
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| (adjective) appearing or developing early | - |
| predaceous | (adjective) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | Synonyms: predacious, predatory |
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| (adjective) hunting and killing other animals for food | Synonyms: predacious |
| predacious | (adjective) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | Synonyms: predaceous, predatory |
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| (adjective) hunting and killing other animals for food | Synonyms: predaceous |
| prejudicious | (adjective) tending to favor preconceived ideas | Synonyms: prejudicial |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, detrimental, prejudicial |
| preposterous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, ridiculous |
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| prestigious | (adjective) exerting influence by reason of high status or prestige | - |
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| (adjective) having an illustrious reputation; respected | Synonyms: esteemed, honored, honoured |
| presumptuous | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, assumptive |
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| pretentious | (adjective) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction | - |
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| (adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others | Synonyms: ostentatious |
| (adjective) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar | Synonyms: ostentatious |
| previous | (adjective) too soon or too hasty | Synonyms: premature |
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| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | Synonyms: former, late |
| (adjective) just preceding something else in time or order | Synonyms: old |
| primiparous | (adjective) of or relating to a woman who has given birth only once | - |
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| prodigious | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, surpassing |
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| (adjective) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe | Synonyms: colossal, stupendous |
| (adjective) of momentous or ominous significance | Synonyms: portentous |
| prognathous | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: hypognathous, prognathic |
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| promiscuous | (adjective) not selective of a single class or person | - |
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| (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, loose, sluttish, wanton |
| propitious | (adjective) presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success | - |
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| prosperous | (adjective) marked by peace and prosperity | Synonyms: golden, halcyon |
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| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, golden, lucky |
| (adjective) in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich | Synonyms: comfortable, easy, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do |
| (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, roaring, thriving |
| proteinaceous | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of protein | - |
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| pseudonymous | (adjective) bearing or identified by an assumed (often pen) name | - |
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| pugnacious | (adjective) ready and able to resort to force or violence | Synonyms: rough |
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| (adjective) tough and callous by virtue of experience | Synonyms: hard-bitten, hard-boiled |
| pulchritudinous | (adjective) used of persons only; having great physical beauty | - |
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| punctilious | (adjective) marked by precise accordance with details | Synonyms: meticulous |
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| pusillanimous | (adjective) lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful | Synonyms: poor-spirited, unmanly |
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| pyrogenous | (adjective) produced under conditions involving intense heat | Synonyms: igneous, pyrogenic |
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| (adjective) produced by or producing fever | Synonyms: pyrogenetic, pyrogenic |
| pyroligneous | (adjective) of a substance produced by the effect of heat on wood, especially by destructive distillation | Synonyms: pyrolignic |
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| querulous | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, whiney, whiny |
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| rambunctious | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: boisterous, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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| ramous | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, branching, ramate, ramose |
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| rampageous | (adjective) displaying raging violence; often destructive | - |
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| rancorous | (adjective) showing deep-seated resentment | - |
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| rapacious | (adjective) excessively greedy and grasping | Synonyms: ravening, voracious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| rapturous | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, enraptured, rapt, rhapsodic |
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| raucous | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and harsh | Synonyms: strident |
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| (adjective) disturbing the public peace; loud and rough | Synonyms: rowdy |
| ravenous | (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, voracious, wolfish |
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| (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: esurient, famished, sharp-set, starved |
| rebellious | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent |
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| (adjective) participating in organized resistance to a constituted government | - |
| (adjective) resisting control or authority | - |
| religious | (adjective) having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows | - |
| (adjective) concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church | Synonyms: spiritual |
| (adjective) extremely scrupulous and conscientious | - |
| repetitious | (adjective) characterized by repetition | Synonyms: repetitive |
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| resinous | (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: pitchy, resiny, tarry |
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| rhizomatous | (adjective) producing or possessing or resembling rhizomes | - |
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| ridiculous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous |
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| (adjective) broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce | Synonyms: farcical, ludicrous |
| (adjective) inspiring scornful pity | Synonyms: pathetic, silly |
| righteous | (adjective) characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice | - |
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| (adjective) morally justified | - |
| rigorous | (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: stringent, tight |
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| (adjective) rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard | Synonyms: strict |
| riotous | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse |
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| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate |
| (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: disruptive, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent |
| rivalrous | (adjective) eager to surpass others | Synonyms: emulous |
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| robustious | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: boisterous, rambunctious, rumbustious, unruly |
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| rosaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Rosaceae | - |
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| (adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color | Synonyms: rose, roseate |
| ruinous | (adjective) causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin | Synonyms: blasting |
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| (adjective) extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin | Synonyms: catastrophic |
| rumbustious | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, unruly |
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| rupicolous | (adjective) composed of or inscribed on rock | Synonyms: rupestral |
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| sacrilegious | (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: blasphemous, profane |
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| sagacious | (adjective) skillful in statecraft or management | - |
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| (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: perspicacious, sapient |
| salacious | (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: lewd, obscene, raunchy |
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| (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lubricious, lustful, prurient |
| saliferous | (adjective) containing or yielding salt | - |
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| salubrious | (adjective) promoting health; healthful | Synonyms: good for you, healthy |
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| (adjective) favorable to health of mind or body | - |
| sanctimonious | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, self-righteous |
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| sanguineous | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguinary, slaughterous |
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| (adjective) confidently optimistic and cheerful | Synonyms: sanguine |
| sanious | (adjective) of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies | Synonyms: ichorous |
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| saponaceous | (adjective) resembling or having the qualities of soap | Synonyms: soapy |
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| saporous | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid |
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| saprophagous | (adjective) (of certain animals) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter | Synonyms: saprozoic |
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| sarcolemnous | (adjective) of or relating to sarcolemma | Synonyms: sarcolemmic |
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| saxicolous | (adjective) growing on or living among rocks | Synonyms: saxatile, saxicoline |
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| scabrous | (adjective) dealing with salacious or indecent material | - |
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| (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, leprose, scaly, scurfy |
| scandalous | (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: disgraceful, shameful, shocking |
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| scotomatous | (adjective) relating to scotoma | - |
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| scrofulous | (adjective) afflicted with scrofula | - |
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| (adjective) morally contaminated | - |
| (adjective) having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula | - |
| scrumptious | (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, toothsome, yummy |
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| scrupulous | (adjective) having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: conscientious, painstaking |
| scurrilous | (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: abusive, opprobrious |
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| sebaceous | (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: greasy, oily, oleaginous |
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| seditious | (adjective) in opposition to a civil authority or government | Synonyms: insurgent, subversive |
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| (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing |
| sedulous | (adjective) marked by care and persistent effort | Synonyms: assiduous |
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| semiconscious | (adjective) partially conscious; not completely aware of sensations | - |
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| seminiferous | (adjective) bearing or producing seed or semen | - |
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| semiprecious | (adjective) used of gemstones having less commercial value than precious stones | - |
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| sensuous | (adjective) taking delight in beauty | - |
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| sententious | (adjective) concise and full of meaning | Synonyms: pithy |
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| (adjective) abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing | - |
| serendipitous | (adjective) lucky in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries | - |
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| sericeous | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, puberulent, pubescent |
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| serious | (adjective) concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities | - |
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| (adjective) completely lacking in playfulness | Synonyms: sober, unplayful |
| (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grave, grievous, life-threatening, severe |
| (adjective) requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve | - |
| (adjective) of great consequence | - |
| (adjective) appealing to the mind | Synonyms: good |
| serous | (adjective) of or producing or containing serum | - |
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| setaceous | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| siliceous | (adjective) relating to or containing or resembling silica | Synonyms: silicious |
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| silicious | (adjective) relating to or containing or resembling silica | Synonyms: siliceous |
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| simultaneous | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring |
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| sinuous | (adjective) curved or curving in and out | Synonyms: sinuate, wiggly |
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| (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, supple |
| slanderous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous |
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| slaughterous | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguinary, sanguineous |
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| slumberous | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumbery, slumbrous, somnolent |
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| (adjective) quiet and tranquil | Synonyms: slumbrous |