| pallor | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, wanness |
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| parallax | (noun) the apparent displacement of an object as seen from two different points that are not on a line with the object | - |
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| parallel | (noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analog, analogue |
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| (noun) an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator | Synonyms: latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude |
| (noun) (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes) | - |
| parallelepiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepipedon, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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| parallelepipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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| parallelism | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: correspondence |
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| parallelogram | (noun) a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length | - |
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| parallelopiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon |
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| parallelopipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopiped |
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| paywall | (noun) A mechanism used to limit access to only paying users | - |
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| pedaller | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaler |
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| phalloidin | (noun) one of a group of toxins from the death cap (Amanita phalloides) known as phallotoxins. | - |
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| phalloplasty | (noun) reconstructive surgery on the penis to repair congenital abnormality or injury | - |
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| phallus | (noun) the male sex organ | Synonyms: member, penis |
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| pinball | (noun) a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets | Synonyms: pinball game |
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| pitfall | (noun) a trap in the form of a concealed hole | Synonyms: pit |
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| (noun) an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty | Synonyms: booby trap |
| pleurothallis | (noun) any of numerous small tufted orchids of the genus Pleurothallis having leathery to fleshy leaves and racemes of 1 to many small flowers | - |
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| pratfall | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup |
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| (noun) a fall onto your buttocks | - |
| pseudohallucination | (noun) an image vivid enough to be a hallucination but recognized as unreal | - |
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| pseudosmallpox | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: alastrim, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
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| puffball | (noun) any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature | Synonyms: true puffball |
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| (noun) any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Synonyms: earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball |
| punchball | (noun) an inflated ball or bag that is suspended and punched for training in boxing | Synonyms: punch bag, punching bag, punching ball |
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| pushball | (noun) a game using a leather ball six feet in diameter; the two side try to push it across the opponents' goal | - |
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| pyrogallol | (noun) a toxic white lustrous crystalline phenol used to treat certain skin diseases and as a photographic developer | Synonyms: pyrogallic acid |
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| racquetball | (noun) a game played on a handball court with short-handled rackets | - |
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| (noun) the ball used in playing the game of racquetball | - |
| rainfall | (noun) water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere | Synonyms: rain |
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| rally | (noun) (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes | Synonyms: exchange |
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| (noun) the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort | Synonyms: rallying |
| (noun) an automobile race run over public roads | - |
| (noun) a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm | Synonyms: mass meeting |
| (noun) a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness | - |
| rallying | (noun) the act of mobilizing for a common purpose | - |
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| (noun) the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort | Synonyms: rally |
| rapscallion | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
| reallocation | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallotment, reapportionment |
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| (noun) a share that has been allocated again | - |
| reallotment | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallocation, reapportionment |
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| recall | (noun) the act of removing an official by petition | - |
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| (noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) | Synonyms: recollection, reminiscence |
| (noun) a call to return | - |
| (noun) a bugle call that signals troops to return | - |
| (noun) a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) | Synonyms: callback |
| robocall | (noun) An phone call made by an automated service | - |
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| sallet | (noun) a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision | Synonyms: salade |
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| sallow | (noun) any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal | - |
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| sallowness | (noun) a sickly yellowish skin color | - |
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| sally | (noun) a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position | Synonyms: sortie |
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| (noun) a venture off the beaten path | Synonyms: sallying forth |
| (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, quip, wisecrack |
| scallion | (noun) a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads | Synonyms: green onion, spring onion |
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| (noun) plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum | Synonyms: Allium porrum, leek |
| scallop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: escallop, scollop |
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| (noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: escallop, scollop |
| (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, escallop, scollop |
| (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle |
| scallopine | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopini |
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| scallopini | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopine |
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| scallywag | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scamp |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, varlet |
| (noun) a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest) | Synonyms: scalawag |
| screwball | (noun) a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown | - |
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| (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case |
| screwballer | (noun) (baseball) a pitcher who throws screwballs | - |
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| seawall | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, bulwark, groin, groyne, jetty, mole |
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| shallon | (noun) small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries | Synonyms: Gaultheria shallon, salal |
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| shallot | (noun) small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning | - |
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| (noun) type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning | Synonyms: Allium ascalonicum, Allium cepa aggregatum, eschalot, multiplier onion |
| (noun) aggregate bulb of the multiplier onion | - |
| shallow | (noun) a stretch of shallow water | Synonyms: shoal |
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| shallowness | (noun) the quality of lacking physical depth | - |
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| (noun) lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling | Synonyms: superficiality |
| shallu | (noun) sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains; introduced into United States from India | Synonyms: Sorghum vulgare rosburghii |
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| shillyshally | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: cunctation, procrastination |
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| shortfall | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortage |
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| sidewall | (noun) a wall that forms the side of a structure | - |
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| (noun) the side of an automobile tire | - |
| signaller | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaler |
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| signalling | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signal, signaling |
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| small | (noun) a garment size for a small person | - |
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| (noun) the slender part of the back | - |
| smallholder | (noun) a person owning or renting a smallholding | - |
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| smallholding | (noun) a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation | - |
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| smallmouth | (noun) a variety of black bass; the angle of the jaw falls below the eye | Synonyms: Micropterus dolomieu, smallmouth bass, smallmouth black bass, smallmouthed bass, smallmouthed black bass |
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| smallness | (noun) the property of having a relatively small size | Synonyms: littleness |
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| (noun) lack of generosity in trifling matters | Synonyms: littleness, pettiness |
| (noun) the property of being a relatively small amount | - |
| (noun) the property of having relatively little strength or vigor | Synonyms: littleness |
| (noun) The quality of being minor in influence, power, or rank. | - |
| smallpox | (noun) a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars | Synonyms: variola, variola major |
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| snowball | (noun) snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully) | - |
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| (noun) ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup | - |
| (noun) ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce | - |
| (noun) plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions | Synonyms: Abronia elliptica, sweet sand verbena |
| snowfall | (noun) precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals | Synonyms: snow |
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| softball | (noun) a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger | Synonyms: softball game |
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| (noun) ball used in playing softball | - |
| sourball | (noun) round piece of tart hard candy | - |
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| spall | (noun) a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge | Synonyms: spawl |
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| spallation | (noun) (physics) a nuclear reaction in which a bombarded nucleus breaks up into many particles | - |
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| spitball | (noun) an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it | Synonyms: spitter |
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| (noun) a projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere | - |
| sportsball | (noun) Sports of an unspecified kind, usually condescending | - |
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| squall | (noun) sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation | - |
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| stall | (noun) a tactic used to mislead or delay | Synonyms: stalling |
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| (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, cubicle, kiosk |
| (noun) a booth where articles are displayed for sale | Synonyms: sales booth, stand |
| (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, carrell, cubicle |
| (noun) a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed | - |
| (noun) seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater | - |
| (noun) a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge | - |
| stalling | (noun) a tactic used to mislead or delay | Synonyms: stall |
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| stallion | (noun) uncastrated adult male horse | Synonyms: entire |
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| stalls | (noun) a farm building for housing horses or other livestock | Synonyms: horse barn, stable |
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| stickball | (noun) a form of baseball played in the streets with a rubber ball and broomstick handle | Synonyms: stickball game |
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| stonewaller | (noun) one who stonewalls or refuses to answer or cooperate; someone who delays by lengthy speeches etc. | - |
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| stonewalling | (noun) stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate | - |
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| swallow | (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, drink |
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| (noun) small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations | - |
| (noun) a small amount of liquid food | Synonyms: sup |
| swallowtail | (noun) a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back | Synonyms: morning coat, swallow-tailed coat |
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| swallowwort | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: celandine, Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort |
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| (noun) tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: Asclepias curassavica, blood flower |
| tall | (noun) a garment size for a tall person | - |
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| tallboy | (noun) a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs | Synonyms: highboy |
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| tallgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that are tall and that flourish with abundant moisture | Synonyms: tall-grass |
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| tallis | (noun) (Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer | Synonyms: prayer shawl, tallith |
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| tallith | (noun) (Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer | Synonyms: prayer shawl, tallis |
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| tallness | (noun) the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top | Synonyms: height |
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| (noun) the property of being taller than average stature | - |
| tallow | (noun) obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants | - |
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| tally | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, numeration, reckoning |
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| (noun) a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely | Synonyms: run |
| (noun) a bill for an amount due | Synonyms: reckoning |
| tallyman | (noun) one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received | Synonyms: tally clerk |
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| (noun) one who sells goods on the installment plan | - |
| teetotaller | (noun) a total abstainer | Synonyms: teetotaler, teetotalist |
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| tetherball | (noun) a game with two players who use rackets to strike a ball that is tethered to the top of a pole; the object is to wrap the string around the pole | - |
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| thallium | (noun) a soft grey malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air; it is highly toxic and is used in rodent and insect poisons; occurs in zinc blende and some iron ores | Synonyms: atomic number 81, Tl |
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| thallophyte | (noun) any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf | - |
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| thallus | (noun) a plant body without true stems or roots or leaves or vascular system; characteristic of the thallophytes | - |
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| thrall | (noun) someone held in bondage | - |
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| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thraldom, thralldom |
| thralldom | (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, slavery, thraldom, thrall |
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| thumbstall | (noun) protective covering for an injured thumb | - |
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| tomalley | (noun) edible greenish substance in boiled lobster | - |
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| topgallant | (noun) a mast fixed to the head of a topmast on a square-rigged vessel | Synonyms: topgallant mast |
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| (noun) a sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast | Synonyms: topgallant sail |
| trackball | (noun) an electronic device consisting of a rotatable ball in a housing; used to position the cursor and move images on a computer screen | - |
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