| nowhere | (noun) an insignificant place | - |
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| offerer | (noun) someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offeror |
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| oosphere | (noun) a gamete; used especially of lower plants | - |
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| operetta | (noun) a short amusing opera | Synonyms: light opera |
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| orderer | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
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| (noun) someone who places an order to buy | - |
| overeating | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gluttony, gula |
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| overemphasis | (noun) too much emphasis | - |
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| overestimate | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimation, overrating, overreckoning |
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| (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overappraisal, overestimation, overvaluation |
| overestimation | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overrating, overreckoning |
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| (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overappraisal, overestimate, overvaluation |
| overexertion | (noun) excessive exertion; so much exertion that discomfort or injury results | - |
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| overexploitation | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overuse, overutilisation, overutilization |
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| overexposure | (noun) the act of exposing film to too much light or for too long a time | - |
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| (noun) the act of exposing someone excessively to an influencing experience | - |
| ozonosphere | (noun) a layer in the stratosphere (at approximately 20 miles) that contains a concentration of ozone sufficient to block most ultraviolet radiation from the sun | Synonyms: ozone layer |
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| paleocerebellum | (noun) the anterior lobe of the cerebellum which was one of the earliest parts of the hindbrain to develop in mammals | - |
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| pamperer | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, mollycoddler, spoiler |
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| panderer | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, pimp, ponce, procurer |
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| (noun) a person who serves or caters to the vulgar passions or plans of others (especially in order to make money) | - |
| panhysterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the uterus and the ovaries and oviducts and cervix and related lymph nodes | Synonyms: radical hysterectomy |
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| paperer | (noun) one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper | Synonyms: paperhanger |
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| peeress | (noun) a woman of the peerage in Britain | Synonyms: Lady, noblewoman |
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| peregrination | (noun) traveling or wandering around | - |
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| peregrine | (noun) a widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry | Synonyms: Falco peregrinus, peregrine falcon |
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| perennation | (noun) the process of living through a number of years (as a perennial plant) | - |
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| perennial | (noun) (botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more | - |
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| perestroika | (noun) an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy | - |
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| pesterer | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: blighter, cuss, gadfly, pest |
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| pheresis | (noun) a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion | Synonyms: apheresis |
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| philanderer | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: womaniser, womanizer |
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| photosphere | (noun) the intensely luminous surface of a star (especially the sun) | - |
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| pickerel | (noun) any of several North American species of small pike | - |
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| (noun) flesh of young or small pike | - |
| pickerelweed | (noun) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds | Synonyms: pickerel weed, Pontederia cordata, wampee |
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| pilferer | (noun) a thief who steals without using violence | Synonyms: sneak thief, snitcher |
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| plasmapheresis | (noun) plasma is separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| plasterer | (noun) a worker skilled in applying plaster | - |
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| plateletpheresis | (noun) platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| plunderer | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, raider, spoiler |
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| ponderer | (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muller, muser, ruminator |
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| portiere | (noun) a heavy curtain hung across a doorway | - |
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| potterer | (noun) a person who putters about | Synonyms: putterer |
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| poulterer | (noun) a dealer in poultry and poultry products | Synonyms: poultryman |
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| powderer | (noun) someone who applies or scatters powder | - |
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| preference | (noun) grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties) | - |
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| (noun) the right or chance to choose | Synonyms: druthers |
| (noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: orientation, predilection |
| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, predilection, taste |
| premiere | (noun) the first public performance of a play or movie | - |
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| prerequisite | (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: requirement |
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| putterer | (noun) a person who putters about | Synonyms: potterer |
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| recoverer | (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: rescuer, saver |
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| referee | (noun) (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play | Synonyms: ref |
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| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: reader, reviewer |
| (noun) an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case | - |
| refereeing | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, officiation, umpirage |
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| reference | (noun) the act of referring or consulting | Synonyms: consultation |
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| (noun) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | Synonyms: denotation, extension |
| (noun) the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to | - |
| (noun) a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability | Synonyms: character, character reference |
| (noun) a remark that calls attention to something or someone | Synonyms: mention |
| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation |
| (noun) a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts | Synonyms: book of facts, reference book, reference work |
| (noun) an indicator that orients you generally | Synonyms: point of reference, reference point |
| (noun) a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to | Synonyms: source |
| (noun) (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored | Synonyms: address, computer address |
| referendum | (noun) a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate | - |
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| referent | (noun) something referred to; the object of a reference | - |
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| (noun) the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate | - |
| (noun) something that refers; a term that refers to another term | - |
| rerebrace | (noun) cannon that provides plate armor for the upper arm | Synonyms: upper cannon |
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| reredos | (noun) a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table | Synonyms: altarpiece |
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| revere | (noun) a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side | Synonyms: revers |
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| reverence | (noun) an act showing respect (especially a bow or curtsy) | - |
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| (noun) a reverent mental attitude | - |
| (noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, fear, veneration |
| reverend | (noun) a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church | Synonyms: clergyman, man of the cloth |
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| roisterer | (noun) an especially noisy and unrestrained merrymaker | - |
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| sarcomere | (noun) one of the segments into which a myofibril is divided | - |
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| saunterer | (noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace | Synonyms: ambler, stroller |
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| sayeret | (noun) Israel's elite secret commando unit responsible for counterterrorist and top secret intelligence gathering and hostage rescue missions | Synonyms: Sayeret Mat'kal, Sayeret Matkal |
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| scleredema | (noun) a skin disease marked by hard edema of the tissue usually beginning in the face | - |
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| serenade | (noun) a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman | - |
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| (noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: divertimento |
| serendipity | (noun) good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries | - |
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| sereness | (noun) a withered dryness | - |
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| serenity | (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: placidity, quiet, repose, tranquility, tranquillity |
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| (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, heartsease, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose |
| severeness | (noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: austereness, severity |
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| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity, stiffness |
| (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity |
| (noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | Synonyms: badness, severity |
| simperer | (noun) a smiler whose smile is silly and self-conscious and sometimes coy | - |
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| slanderer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, traducer, vilifier |
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| slaughterer | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: butcher |
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| slobberer | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, drooler |
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| slumberer | (noun) a rester who is sleeping | Synonyms: sleeper |
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| smithereens | (noun) a collection of small fragments considered as a whole | - |
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| smotherer | (noun) a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses | Synonyms: stifler |
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| sneerer | (noun) a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression | Synonyms: scorner |
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| solderer | (noun) a worker who joins or mends with solder | - |
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| solleret | (noun) armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel | Synonyms: sabaton |
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| somewhere | (noun) an indefinite or unknown location | - |
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| sorcerer | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| sorceress | (noun) a woman sorcerer | - |
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| sovereign | (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, monarch |
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| sovereignty | (noun) the authority of a state to govern another state | - |
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| (noun) government free from external control | - |
| (noun) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch | Synonyms: reign |
| sphere | (noun) any spherically shaped artifact | - |
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| (noun) a particular aspect of life or activity | Synonyms: sector |
| (noun) the geographical area in which one nation is very influential | Synonyms: sphere of influence |
| (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, vault of heaven, welkin |
| (noun) a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses) | - |
| (noun) a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center | - |
| (noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, arena, domain, field, orbit |
| squanderer | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate |
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| staggerer | (noun) someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall | Synonyms: reeler, totterer |
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| stammerer | (noun) someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions | Synonyms: stutterer |
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| steerer | (noun) a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) | Synonyms: decoy |
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| (noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: helmsman, steersman |
| stereo | (noun) reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound | Synonyms: stereo system, stereophonic system, stereophony |
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| (noun) two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together | Synonyms: stereoscopic photograph, stereoscopic picture |
| stereochromy | (noun) a process of mural painting in which the pigment is fixed by a series of reactions between the lime, fluosilicic acid, and water glass. | - |
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| stereoisomer | (noun) any of a group of isomers in which atoms are linked in the same order but differ in their spatial arrangement. | - |
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| stereophony | (noun) reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound | Synonyms: stereo, stereo system, stereophonic system |
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| stereophotography | (noun) photography producing images that appear to have depth and solidness and that are created by using a special device (called a stereoscope) to look at two slightly different photographs of something at the same time. | Synonyms: stereo photography, stereoscopic photography |
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| stereoscope | (noun) an optical device for viewing stereoscopic photographs | - |
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| stereoscopy | (noun) three-dimensional vision produced by the fusion of two slightly different views of a scene on each retina | Synonyms: stereoscopic vision |
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| stereotype | (noun) a conventional or formulaic conception or image | - |
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| stratosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere | - |
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| stutterer | (noun) someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions | Synonyms: stammerer |
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| sufferer | (noun) a person suffering from an illness | Synonyms: diseased person, sick person |
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| (noun) one who suffers for the sake of principle | Synonyms: martyr |
| superego | (noun) (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience | - |
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| supererogation | (noun) an effort above and beyond the call of duty | - |
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| surrenderer | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: yielder |
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| swaggerer | (noun) someone who walks in an arrogant manner | - |
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