| nonconformism | (noun) the practice of nonconformity | - |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformity |
| nonconformist | (noun) someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct | Synonyms: recusant |
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| nonconformity | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformance |
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| (noun) unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values | - |
| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformism |
| (noun) lack of harmony or correspondence | - |
| nonperformance | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence |
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| nonuniformity | (noun) the quality of being diverse and interesting | - |
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| oxford | (noun) a low shoe laced over the instep | - |
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| perforation | (noun) the act of punching a hole (especially a row of holes as for ease of separation) | - |
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| (noun) a line of small holes for tearing at a particular place | - |
| (noun) a hole made in something | - |
| performance | (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, execution |
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| (noun) the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment | - |
| (noun) any recognized accomplishment | - |
| (noun) a dramatic or musical entertainment | Synonyms: public presentation |
| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, operation |
| performer | (noun) an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience | Synonyms: performing artist |
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| performing | (noun) the performance of a part or role in a drama | Synonyms: acting, playacting, playing |
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| pianoforte | (noun) a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds | Synonyms: forte-piano, piano |
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| pinafore | (noun) a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing | Synonyms: jumper, pinny |
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| pisiform | (noun) a small wrist bone that articulates only with the triquetral | Synonyms: os pisiforme, pisiform bone |
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| pitchfork | (noun) a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay | - |
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| platform | (noun) a raised horizontal surface | - |
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| (noun) any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons | Synonyms: weapons platform |
| (noun) a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole | Synonyms: chopine |
| (noun) the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system | - |
| (noun) a long, flat raised structure of a railway station, where people get on and off of trains | - |
| (noun) a document stating the aims and principles of a political party | Synonyms: political platform, political program, program |
| preformation | (noun) a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell | Synonyms: theory of preformation |
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| rainforest | (noun) a forest with heavy annual rainfall | Synonyms: rain forest |
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| reenforcement | (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reinforcement, support |
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| (noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reinforcement |
| reforestation | (noun) the restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting | Synonyms: re-afforestation |
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| reform | (noun) a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses | - |
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| (noun) a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices | - |
| (noun) self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice | - |
| reformation | (noun) rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course | Synonyms: reclamation |
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| (noun) improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs | - |
| reformatory | (noun) correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders | Synonyms: reform school, training school |
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| reformer | (noun) an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel | - |
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| (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: crusader, meliorist, reformist, social reformer |
| reformism | (noun) a doctrine of reform | - |
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| reformist | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: crusader, meliorist, reformer, social reformer |
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| reinforcement | (noun) an act performed to strengthen approved behavior | Synonyms: reward |
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| (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, support |
| (noun) a device designed to provide additional strength | Synonyms: strengthener |
| (noun) (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it | Synonyms: reinforcer, reinforcing stimulus |
| (noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reenforcement |
| reinforcer | (noun) (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it | Synonyms: reinforcement, reinforcing stimulus |
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| rutherford | (noun) a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second | - |
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| rutherfordium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized | Synonyms: atomic number 104, element 104, Rf, unnilquadium, Unq |
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| sforzando | (noun) (music) a notation written above a note and indicating that it is to be played with a strong initial attack | - |
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| (noun) an accented chord | - |
| straightforwardness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: downrightness |
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| (noun) without hypocrisy | Synonyms: singleness |
| tablefork | (noun) a fork for eating at a dining table | - |
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| transformation | (noun) the act of changing in form or shape or appearance | Synonyms: translation |
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| (noun) (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA | - |
| (noun) a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure | - |
| (noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: shift, transmutation |
| (noun) (mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system | - |
| transformer | (noun) an electrical device by which alternating current of one voltage is changed to another voltage | - |
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| uncomfortableness | (noun) embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you | Synonyms: self-consciousness, uneasiness |
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| (noun) the state of being tense and feeling pain | Synonyms: discomfort |
| underperformer | (noun) a business that is less successful than expected | - |
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| (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: nonachiever, underachiever |
| unforgivingness | (noun) The quality of having no allowance for weakness. | - |
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| unfortunate | (noun) a person who suffers misfortune | Synonyms: unfortunate person |
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| uniform | (noun) clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification | - |
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| uniformity | (noun) the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) | Synonyms: uniformness |
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| (noun) a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying | - |
| uniformness | (noun) the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) | Synonyms: uniformity |
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| waveform | (noun) the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time | Synonyms: wave form, wave shape |
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| wherefore | (noun) the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores' | Synonyms: why |
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| workforce | (noun) the force of workers available | Synonyms: hands, manpower, men, work force |
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