| megasporangium | (noun) a plant structure that produces megaspores | Synonyms: macrosporangium |
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| melange | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| metalanguage | (noun) a language that can be used to describe languages | - |
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| microsporangium | (noun) a plant structure that produces microspores | - |
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| morangoska | (noun) a Portuguese variation of Caipirinha made using strawberries instead of lime. | - |
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| mustang | (noun) small hardy range horse of the western plains descended from horses brought by the Spanish | - |
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| nephroangiosclerosis | (noun) kidney disease that is usually associated with hypertension; sclerosis of the renal arterioles reduces blood flow that can lead to kidney failure and heart failure | Synonyms: nephrosclerosis |
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| omnirange | (noun) a navigational system consisting of a network of radio beacons that provide aircraft with information about exact position and bearing | Synonyms: omnidirectional radio range, omnidirectional range |
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| orang | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orangutan, orangutang, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| orange | (noun) orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow | Synonyms: orangeness |
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| (noun) round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees | - |
| (noun) any citrus tree bearing oranges | Synonyms: orange tree |
| (noun) any pigment producing the orange color | - |
| orangeade | (noun) sweetened beverage of diluted orange juice | - |
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| orangeness | (noun) orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow | Synonyms: orange |
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| orangery | (noun) a place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas | - |
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| orangewood | (noun) fine-grained wood of an orange tree; used in fine woodwork | - |
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| orangutan | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutang, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| orangutang | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| otoganglion | (noun) an autonomic ganglion whose postganglionic fibers are distributed to the parotid gland | Synonyms: otic ganglion |
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| overhang | (noun) projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else | - |
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| pang | (noun) a sudden sharp feeling | Synonyms: stab, twinge |
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| (noun) a sharp spasm of pain | - |
| (noun) a mental pain or distress | Synonyms: sting |
| panga | (noun) a large heavy knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation | Synonyms: machete, matchet |
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| pangen | (noun) a hypothetical heredity-controlling particle of protoplasm. | - |
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| pangolin | (noun) toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites | Synonyms: anteater, scaly anteater |
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| paperhanger | (noun) one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper | Synonyms: paperer |
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| (noun) someone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money | - |
| paperhanging | (noun) the application of wallpaper | Synonyms: papering |
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| paralanguage | (noun) the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings | Synonyms: paralinguistic communication |
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| parang | (noun) a stout straight knife used in Malaysia and Indonesia | - |
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| pasang | (noun) wild goat of Iran and adjacent regions | Synonyms: bezoar goat, Capra aegagrus |
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| (noun) large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns | Synonyms: oryx |
| pentangle | (noun) a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon | Synonyms: pentacle, pentagram |
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| permanganate | (noun) a dark purple salt of permanganic acid; in water solution it is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic | - |
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| phalanger | (noun) small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: opossum, possum |
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| phalangist | (noun) a Spanish member of General Franco's political party | Synonyms: falangist |
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| phalangitis | (noun) inflammation of a finger or toe | - |
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| pitanga | (noun) Brazilian tree with spicy red fruit; often cultivated in California and Florida | Synonyms: Eugenia uniflora, Surinam cherry |
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| plangency | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| prang | (noun) a crash involving a car or plane | - |
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| prearrangement | (noun) something arranged in advance | - |
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| quadrangle | (noun) a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings | Synonyms: quad |
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| (noun) a four-sided polygon | Synonyms: quadrilateral, tetragon |
| quandang | (noun) red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam | Synonyms: native peach, quandong, quantong |
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| (noun) Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed | Synonyms: Eucarya acuminata, Fusanus acuminatus, quandong, quandong tree |
| quango | (noun) a quasi nongovernmental organization; an organization that is financed by the government yet acts independently of the government | Synonyms: quasi-NGO |
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| range | (noun) a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds | - |
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| (noun) a kitchen appliance used for cooking food | Synonyms: cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, stove |
| (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, reach, scope |
| (noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: compass, grasp, reach |
| (noun) a variety of different things or activities | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined | Synonyms: image, range of a function |
| (noun) the limits within which something can be effective | Synonyms: reach |
| (noun) a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze | - |
| (noun) a series of hills or mountains | Synonyms: chain, chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, range of mountains |
| rangefinder | (noun) a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object | Synonyms: range finder |
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| rangeland | (noun) land suitable for grazing livestock | - |
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| ranger | (noun) an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest | Synonyms: fire warden, forest fire fighter |
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| (noun) a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids | Synonyms: commando |
| ranginess | (noun) The state of being slender and long of limb, lanky. | - |
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| rangpur | (noun) hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel | Synonyms: Citrus limonia, lemanderin, rangpur lime |
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| rearrangement | (noun) changing an arrangement | - |
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| rectangle | (noun) a parallelogram with four right angles | - |
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| rectangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: oblongness |
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| sang | (noun) North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng | Synonyms: American ginseng, Panax quinquefolius |
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| sangapenum | (noun) a variety of gum | Synonyms: gum sangapenum |
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| sangaree | (noun) sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water | Synonyms: sangria |
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| sangoma | (noun) a traditional Zulu healer and respected elder | - |
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| sangria | (noun) sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water | Synonyms: sangaree |
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| sanguification | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis |
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| sanguine | (noun) chalk of a reddish-brown colour that resembles dried blood | Synonyms: red chalk |
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| (noun) a blood-red color | - |
| sanguineness | (noun) feeling sanguine; optimistically cheerful and confident | Synonyms: sanguinity |
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| sanguinity | (noun) feeling sanguine; optimistically cheerful and confident | Synonyms: sanguineness |
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| satang | (noun) 100 satangs equal 1 baht in Thailand | - |
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| shanghaier | (noun) a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship | Synonyms: seizer |
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| shebang | (noun) an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang' | - |
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| siamang | (noun) large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web | Synonyms: Hylobates syndactylus, Symphalangus syndactylus |
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| slang | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular |
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| (noun) informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar | Synonyms: slang expression, slang term |
| slanginess | (noun) casualness in use of language | - |
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| slanguage | (noun) language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant | - |
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| spangle | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: diamante, sequin |
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| sporangiophore | (noun) stalk bearing one or more sporangia | - |
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| sporangium | (noun) organ containing or producing spores | Synonyms: spore case, spore sac |
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| sprechgesang | (noun) a style of dramatic vocalization between singing and speaking | Synonyms: sprechstimme |
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| strangeness | (noun) unusualness as a consequence of not being well known | Synonyms: unfamiliarity |
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| (noun) the quality of being alien or not native | Synonyms: curiousness, foreignness |
| (noun) (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third lightest of all quarks | - |
| stranger | (noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | Synonyms: alien, unknown |
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| (noun) an individual that one is not acquainted with | - |
| stranglehold | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe | - |
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| (noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, throttlehold |
| strangler | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, throttler |
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| (noun) an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree | Synonyms: strangler tree |
| strangles | (noun) an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes | Synonyms: equine distemper |
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| strangling | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangulation, throttling |
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| strangulation | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangling, throttling |
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| (noun) (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid | - |
| (noun) the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage | - |
| straphanger | (noun) a standing subway or bus passenger who grips a hanging strap for support | - |
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| (noun) a commuter who uses public transportation | - |
| tang | (noun) any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria | Synonyms: sea tangle |
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| (noun) any of various coarse seaweeds | Synonyms: sea tang |
| (noun) brown algae seaweed with serrated edges | Synonyms: Fucus serratus, serrated wrack |
| (noun) a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure | Synonyms: black rockweed, bladder fucus, bladderwrack, Fucus vesiculosus |
| (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tanginess, zest |
| (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack |
| tanga | (noun) 100 tanga equal 1 Tajikistani ruble | - |
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| tangelo | (noun) large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin | Synonyms: ugli, ugli fruit |
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| (noun) hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida | Synonyms: Citrus tangelo, tangelo tree, ugli fruit |
| tangency | (noun) (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact | Synonyms: contact |
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| (noun) the state of being tangent; having contact at a single point or along a line without crossing | - |
| tangent | (noun) ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: tan |
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| (noun) a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point | - |
| tangerine | (noun) a reddish to vivid orange color | - |
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| (noun) any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa | - |
| (noun) a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin | Synonyms: tangerine tree |
| tangibility | (noun) the quality of being perceivable by touch | Synonyms: palpability, tangibleness |
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| tangibleness | (noun) the quality of being perceivable by touch | Synonyms: palpability, tangibility |
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| tanginess | (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, zest |
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| tangle | (noun) something jumbled or confused | Synonyms: maze, snarl |
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| (noun) a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven | - |
| tanglebush | (noun) spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits | Synonyms: desert olive, Forestiera neomexicana |
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| tango | (noun) a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin | - |
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| (noun) music written in duple time for dancing the tango | - |
| tangor | (noun) large citrus tree having large sweet deep orange fruit that is easily peeled; widely cultivated in Florida | Synonyms: Citrus nobilis, king orange, temple orange, temple orange tree |
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| tangram | (noun) a Chinese puzzle consisting of a square divided into seven pieces that must be arranged to match particular designs | - |
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| televangelism | (noun) evangelism at a distance by the use of television | - |
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| televangelist | (noun) an evangelist who conducts services on television | - |
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| tetrasporangium | (noun) a sporangium containing four asexual spores | - |
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| trepang | (noun) of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese | Synonyms: Holothuria edulis |
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| triangle | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle | - |
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| (noun) any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles | - |
| (noun) a three-sided polygon | Synonyms: trigon, trilateral |
| (noun) something approximating the shape of a triangle | - |
| triangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a triangle | - |
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| triangulation | (noun) a method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated | - |
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| (noun) a trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points of a known distance apart; useful in navigation | - |
| twang | (noun) exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects) | Synonyms: nasal twang |
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| (noun) a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string) | - |
| unchangeability | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: changelessness, unchangeableness, unchangingness |
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| unchangeableness | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: changelessness, unchangeability, unchangingness |
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