| pavonia | (noun) any of various evergreen plants of the genus Pavonia having white or yellow or purple flowers | - |
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| peavey | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavy |
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| peavy | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavey |
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| photoengraving | (noun) an engraving used to reproduce an illustration | Synonyms: halftone, halftone engraving |
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| photogravure | (noun) using photography to produce a plate for printing | Synonyms: rotogravure |
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| (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: gravure, heliogravure |
| (noun) printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods | - |
| picornavirus | (noun) a group of single-strand RNA viruses with a protein coat | - |
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| postcava | (noun) receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart; formed from the union of the two iliac veins | Synonyms: inferior vena cava |
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| pravastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Pravachol) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after nonfatal heart attacks | Synonyms: Pravachol |
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| precava | (noun) receives blood from the head and arms and chest and empties into the right atrium of the heart; formed from the azygos and both brachiocephalic veins | Synonyms: superior vena cava |
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| primigravida | (noun) (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time | Synonyms: gravida I |
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| protoavis | (noun) most primitive avian type known; extinct bird of the Triassic having bird-like jaw and hollow limbs and breastbone with dinosaur-like tail and hind limbs | - |
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| quaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note | Synonyms: eighth note |
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| (noun) a tremulous sound | - |
| ravage | (noun) (usually plural) a destructive action | Synonyms: depredation |
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| ravaging | (noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | Synonyms: devastation |
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| rave | (noun) an extravagantly enthusiastic review | - |
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| (noun) a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played | - |
| ravehook | (noun) a hooked hand tool used to prepare the seams of a boat for oakum | - |
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| ravel | (noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ladder, run |
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| raveling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: ravelling |
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| ravelling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: raveling |
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| raven | (noun) large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail | Synonyms: Corvus corax |
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| ravenala | (noun) giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap; reputedly an emergency source of water for travelers | Synonyms: Ravenala madagascariensis, traveler's tree, traveller's tree |
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| ravenousness | (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, voraciousness, voracity |
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| raver | (noun) someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner | Synonyms: ranter |
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| (noun) a participant in a rave dancing party | - |
| ravigote | (noun) veloute sauce seasoned with chopped chervil, chives, tarragon, shallots and capers | Synonyms: ravigotte |
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| ravigotte | (noun) veloute sauce seasoned with chopped chervil, chives, tarragon, shallots and capers | Synonyms: ravigote |
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| ravine | (noun) a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water) | - |
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| raving | (noun) declaiming wildly | - |
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| ravioli | (noun) small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings | Synonyms: cappelletti |
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| ravisher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: debaucher, violator |
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| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| ravishment | (noun) the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | Synonyms: assault, rape, violation |
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| (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: entrancement |
| ribavirin | (noun) an inhaled antiviral agent (trade name Virazole) that may be used to treat serious virus infections | Synonyms: Virazole |
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| riboflavin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss | Synonyms: hepatoflavin, lactoflavin, ovoflavin, vitamin B2, vitamin G |
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| ritonavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Norvir) used in treating HIV | Synonyms: Norvir |
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| rotavirus | (noun) the reovirus causing infant enteritis | - |
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| rotogravure | (noun) using photography to produce a plate for printing | Synonyms: photogravure |
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| (noun) printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press | - |
| (noun) printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press | - |
| saquinavir | (noun) a weak protease inhibitor (trade name Invirase) used in treating HIV | Synonyms: Invirase |
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| savage | (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: barbarian |
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| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, wildcat, wolf |
| savageness | (noun) the property of being untamed and ferocious | Synonyms: savagery |
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| savagery | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, brutality |
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| (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: brutality, ferociousness, viciousness |
| (noun) the property of being untamed and ferocious | Synonyms: savageness |
| savanna | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savannah |
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| savannah | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savanna |
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| savant | (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: initiate, learned person, pundit |
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| savarin | (noun) a sponge cake baked in a ring mold | - |
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| save | (noun) (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring | - |
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| saveloy | (noun) a ready-cooked and highly seasoned pork sausage | - |
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| saver | (noun) someone who saves (especially money) | - |
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| (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: recoverer, rescuer |
| savin | (noun) procumbent or spreading juniper | Synonyms: dwarf juniper, Juniperus sabina |
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| saving | (noun) an act of economizing; reduction in cost | Synonyms: economy |
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| (noun) the activity of protecting something from loss or danger | Synonyms: preservation |
| (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, delivery, rescue |
| savings | (noun) a fund of money put by as a reserve | Synonyms: nest egg |
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| savior | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: deliverer, rescuer, saviour |
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| saviour | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: deliverer, rescuer, savior |
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| savor | (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savour, smack, tang |
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| savoriness | (noun) having an appetizing flavor | Synonyms: flavorsomeness, flavoursomeness |
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| savoring | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, relishing, savouring, tasting |
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| savorlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, flavourlessness, savourlessness, tastelessness |
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| savory | (noun) either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family | Synonyms: savoury |
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| (noun) an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre | Synonyms: savoury |
| (noun) any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees | - |
| (noun) dwarf aromatic shrub of Mediterranean regions | Synonyms: Micromeria juliana |
| savour | (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, smack, tang |
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| savouring | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, relishing, savoring, tasting |
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| savourlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, flavourlessness, savorlessness, tastelessness |
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| savoury | (noun) either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family | Synonyms: savory |
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| (noun) an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre | Synonyms: savory |
| savoy | (noun) head of soft crinkly leaves | Synonyms: savoy cabbage |
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| savvy | (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: apprehension, discernment, understanding |
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| scavenger | (noun) any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter | - |
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| (noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others | Synonyms: magpie, pack rat |
| (noun) a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities | - |
| secundigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the second time | Synonyms: gravida II |
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| semiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixteenth note |
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| shave | (noun) the act of removing hair with a razor | Synonyms: shaving |
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| shaver | (noun) a razor powered by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric razor, electric shaver |
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| (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
| (noun) an adult male who shaves | - |
| shaving | (noun) the act of removing hair with a razor | Synonyms: shave |
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| (noun) the act of brushing against while passing | Synonyms: grazing, skimming |
| (noun) a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something | Synonyms: paring, sliver |
| slave | (noun) a person who is owned by someone | - |
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| (noun) someone who works as hard as a slave | Synonyms: hard worker, striver |
| (noun) someone entirely dominated by some influence or person | - |
| slaveholder | (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaver |
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| slaveholding | (noun) the practice of owning slaves | Synonyms: slavery |
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| slaver | (noun) a person engaged in slave trade | Synonyms: slave dealer, slave trader |
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| (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaveholder |
| slavery | (noun) work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay | - |
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| (noun) the practice of owning slaves | Synonyms: slaveholding |
| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
| slavey | (noun) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work | Synonyms: skivvy |
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| spavin | (noun) a swelling of the hock joint of a horse; resulting in lameness | - |
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| spokeshave | (noun) a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes) | - |
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| stave | (noun) one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket | Synonyms: lag |
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| (noun) a crosspiece between the legs of a chair | Synonyms: round, rung |
| (noun) (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written | Synonyms: staff |
| suaveness | (noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: blandness, smoothness, suavity |
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| suavity | (noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: blandness, smoothness, suaveness |
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| tavern | (noun) a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: tap house |
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| tertigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the third time | Synonyms: gravida III |
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| thermogravimeter | (noun) a hydrometer that includes a thermometer | Synonyms: thermohydrometer |
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| thermogravimetry | (noun) the measurement of changes in weight as a function of changes in temperature used as a technique of chemically analyzing substances | - |
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| travail | (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat |
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| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency |
| trave | (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, crosspiece, traverse |
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| travel | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: traveling, travelling |
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| (noun) self-propelled movement | Synonyms: locomotion |
| (noun) a movement through space that changes the location of something | Synonyms: change of location |
| traveler | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveller |
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| traveling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, travelling |
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| traveller | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveler |
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| travelling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, traveling |
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| travelog | (noun) a film or illustrated lecture on traveling | Synonyms: travelogue |
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| travelogue | (noun) a film or illustrated lecture on traveling | Synonyms: travelog |
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| traversal | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traverse |
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| (noun) travel across | Synonyms: traverse |
| traverse | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traversal |
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| (noun) travel across | Synonyms: traversal |
| (noun) a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it | Synonyms: transom |
| (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, crosspiece, trave |
| traverser | (noun) someone who moves or passes across | - |
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| travesty | (noun) a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations | Synonyms: farce, farce comedy |
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| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff |
| ultraviolet | (noun) radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays | Synonyms: ultraviolet illumination, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet radiation, UV |
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| unavailability | (noun) the quality of not being available when needed | - |
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| unavoidability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: ineluctability |
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| unfavorableness | (noun) the quality of not being encouraging or indicative of success | Synonyms: unfavourableness |
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