| phytelephas | (noun) small genus of South American feather palms | Synonyms: genus Phytelephas |
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| piezoelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt); alternatively, electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear dimensions of the crystal | Synonyms: piezo effect, piezoelectric effect |
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| platelet | (noun) tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting | Synonyms: blood platelet, thrombocyte |
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| plateletpheresis | (noun) platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| polyelectrolyte | (noun) an electrolyte of high molecular weight | - |
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| pricelessness | (noun) the positive quality of being precious and beyond value | Synonyms: invaluableness, preciousness, valuableness |
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| proaccelerin | (noun) a coagulation factor | Synonyms: accelerator factor, factor V, prothrombin accelerator |
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| proctocele | (noun) protrusion or herniation of the rectum into the vagina; can occur if pelvic muscles are weakened by childbirth | Synonyms: rectocele |
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| purposelessness | (noun) the quality of lacking any definite purpose | Synonyms: aimlessness |
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| pyroelectricity | (noun) generation of an electric charge on certain crystals (such as tourmaline) as a result of a change in temperature | - |
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| quarreler | (noun) a disputant who quarrels | Synonyms: quarreller |
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| radiotelegraph | (noun) the use of radio to send telegraphic messages (usually by Morse code) | Synonyms: radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraph, wireless telegraphy |
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| (noun) telegraphy that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraphy |
| radiotelegraphy | (noun) the use of radio to send telegraphic messages (usually by Morse code) | Synonyms: radiotelegraph, wireless telegraph, wireless telegraphy |
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| (noun) telegraphy that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelegraph, wireless telegraphy |
| radiotelephone | (noun) a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables | Synonyms: radiophone, wireless telephone |
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| (noun) telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelephony, wireless telephone |
| radiotelephony | (noun) telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelephone, wireless telephone |
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| rectocele | (noun) protrusion or herniation of the rectum into the vagina; can occur if pelvic muscles are weakened by childbirth | Synonyms: proctocele |
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| reelection | (noun) election again | - |
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| reeler | (noun) a dancer of reels | - |
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| (noun) someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall | Synonyms: staggerer, totterer |
| release | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: outlet, vent |
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| (noun) the act of liberating someone or something | Synonyms: freeing, liberation |
| (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, sack, sacking |
| (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape | Synonyms: spill, spillage |
| (noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: discharge, waiver |
| (noun) (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone | Synonyms: tone ending |
| (noun) merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film) | - |
| (noun) a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism | Synonyms: button |
| (noun) an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation | Synonyms: handout, press release |
| (noun) a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: acquittance |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, passing |
| (noun) a process that liberates or discharges something | - |
| relegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, delegation, deputation, relegation |
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| relegation | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, delegation, deputation, relegating |
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| (noun) mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position | - |
| (noun) the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category | - |
| relentlessness | (noun) mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up | Synonyms: inexorability, inexorableness |
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| relevance | (noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: relevancy |
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| relevancy | (noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: relevance |
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| reveler | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveller |
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| rondelet | (noun) a shorter form of rondeau | - |
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| selection | (noun) the act of choosing or selecting | Synonyms: choice, option, pick |
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| (noun) the person or thing chosen or selected | Synonyms: choice, pick |
| (noun) a passage selected from a larger work | Synonyms: excerpt, excerption, extract |
| (noun) an assortment of things from which a choice can be made | - |
| (noun) a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment | Synonyms: natural selection, survival, survival of the fittest |
| selectivity | (noun) the property of being selective | - |
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| selectman | (noun) a male elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns | - |
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| selector | (noun) a switch that is used to select among alternatives | Synonyms: selector switch |
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| (noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: chooser, picker |
| selectwoman | (noun) a female elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns | - |
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| selenator | (noun) A fan of Selena Gomez | - |
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| selenite | (noun) a compound that contains a SeO32− anion. | - |
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| selenium | (noun) a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in sulfide ores (as pyrite) | Synonyms: atomic number 34, Se |
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| selenolatry | (noun) the worship of the moon | Synonyms: moon-worship |
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| selenology | (noun) the branch of astronomy that deals with the moon | - |
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| senselessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, pointlessness, vacuity |
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| shamelessness | (noun) behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame | Synonyms: brazenness |
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| shapelessness | (noun) the quality of lacking an esthetically pleasing shape | - |
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| (noun) an amorphous or indefinite shape | - |
| shoveler | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveller |
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| (noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveller |
| skeleton | (noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: frame, skeletal frame, underframe |
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| (noun) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal | Synonyms: frame, skeletal system, systema skeletale |
| (noun) a scandal that is kept secret | Synonyms: skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard |
| (noun) something reduced to its minimal form | - |
| sniveler | (noun) a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose | Synonyms: sniffler |
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| speleologist | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: potholer, spelaeologist, spelunker |
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| speleology | (noun) the pastime of exploring caves | Synonyms: spelaeology |
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| (noun) the scientific study of caves | Synonyms: spelaeology |
| spermatocele | (noun) a swelling on the epididymis or the testis; usually contains spermatozoa | - |
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| spiegeleisen | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel, spiegel iron |
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| spikelet | (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spine, sticker, thorn |
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| spindlelegs | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
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| (noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
| spinelessness | (noun) the quality of lacking a strong character; an irresolute disposition | - |
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| stele | (noun) an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings | Synonyms: stela |
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| (noun) the usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant | - |
| sternwheeler | (noun) a paddle steamer having the paddle wheel in the stern | - |
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| tastelessness | (noun) inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste | - |
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| (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, flavourlessness, savorlessness, savourlessness |
| tchotchkeleh | (noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tsatske, tshatshke |
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| telecast | (noun) a television broadcast | - |
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| telecaster | (noun) a television broadcaster | - |
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| telecasting | (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: television, TV, video |
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| telecom | (noun) (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically | Synonyms: telecommunication |
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| telecommerce | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telemarketing, teleselling |
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| telecommunication | (noun) (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance | - |
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| (noun) (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically | Synonyms: telecom |
| telecommuting | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: teleworking |
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| teleconference | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconferencing |
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| teleconferencing | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconference |
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| telefilm | (noun) a movie that is made to be shown on television | - |
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| telegnosis | (noun) apparent knowledge of distant events without using sensory perceptions | - |
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| telegram | (noun) a message transmitted by telegraph | Synonyms: wire |
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| telegraph | (noun) apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) | Synonyms: telegraphy |
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| telegrapher | (noun) someone who transmits messages by telegraph | Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegraphist |
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| telegraphese | (noun) language characterized by terseness and ellipsis as in telegrams | - |
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| telegraphist | (noun) someone who transmits messages by telegraph | Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegrapher |
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| telegraphy | (noun) apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) | Synonyms: telegraph |
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| (noun) communicating at a distance by electric transmission over wire | - |
| telekinesis | (noun) the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force | Synonyms: psychokinesis |
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| telemark | (noun) a turn made in skiing; the outside ski is placed ahead and turned gradually inwards | - |
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| telemarketing | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, teleselling |
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| telemeter | (noun) any scientific instrument for observing events at a distance and transmitting the information back to the observer | - |
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| telemetry | (noun) automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by wire or radio or other means | - |
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| telencephalon | (noun) the anterior division of the forebrain; the cerebrum and related parts of the hypothalamus | - |
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| teleologist | (noun) advocate of teleology | - |
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| teleology | (noun) (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes | - |
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| teleost | (noun) a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei | Synonyms: teleost fish, teleostan |
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| teleostan | (noun) a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei | Synonyms: teleost, teleost fish |
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| telepathist | (noun) someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly | Synonyms: mental telepathist, mind reader, thought-reader |
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| (noun) a magician who seems to discern the thoughts of another person (usually by clever signals from an accomplice) | Synonyms: mind reader, thought-reader |
| telepathy | (noun) apparent communication from one mind to another without using sensory perceptions | Synonyms: thought transference |
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| telephone | (noun) electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds | Synonyms: phone, telephone set |
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| (noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephony |
| telephoner | (noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, caller, phoner |
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| telephonist | (noun) someone who helps callers get the person they are calling | Synonyms: switchboard operator, telephone operator |
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| telephony | (noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephone |
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| telephoto | (noun) a photograph made with a telephoto lens | Synonyms: telephotograph |
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| telephotograph | (noun) a photograph made with a telephoto lens | Synonyms: telephoto |
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| (noun) a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distance | - |
| telephotography | (noun) photography using a telephoto lens | - |
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| (noun) transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance | - |
| teleportation | (noun) a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another | - |
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| teleprinter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teletype machine, teletypewriter, telex, telex machine |
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| teleprocessing | (noun) data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities | Synonyms: distributed data processing, remote-access data processing |
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| telerobotics | (noun) the area of robotics that is concerned with the control of robots from a distance | - |
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| telescope | (noun) a magnifier of images of distant objects | Synonyms: scope |
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| telescopy | (noun) the art of making and using telescopes | - |
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| teleselling | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, telemarketing |
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| telethermometer | (noun) a thermometer that registers the temperature at some distant point | - |
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| teletypewriter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, telex, telex machine |
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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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