| motherliness | (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternalism, maternity |
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| motherwort | (noun) bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers | Synonyms: Leonurus cardiaca |
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| muncher | (noun) a chewer who makes a munching noise | - |
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| musher | (noun) a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team | - |
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| netherworld | (noun) (religion) the world of the dead | Synonyms: Hades, Hell, infernal region, Scheol, underworld |
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| normothermia | (noun) normal body temperature | - |
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| norther | (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: boreas, north wind, northerly |
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| northerly | (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: boreas, north wind, norther |
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| northernness | (noun) the property of being to the north | - |
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| nosher | (noun) someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals | Synonyms: snacker |
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| nowhere | (noun) an insignificant place | - |
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| oceanographer | (noun) a scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas | - |
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| ocher | (noun) a moderate yellow-orange to orange color | Synonyms: ochre |
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| (noun) any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment | Synonyms: ochre |
| oosphere | (noun) a gamete; used especially of lower plants | - |
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| otherness | (noun) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | Synonyms: distinctness, separateness |
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| otherworld | (noun) an abstract spiritual world beyond earthly reality | - |
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| otherworldliness | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: spiritism, spiritualism, spirituality |
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| oystercatcher | (noun) black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc. | Synonyms: oyster catcher |
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| 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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| paleographer | (noun) an archeologist skilled in paleography | Synonyms: paleographist |
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| panther | (noun) a leopard in the black color phase | - |
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| (noun) a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis | Synonyms: Felis onca, jaguar, Panthera onca |
| (noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: catamount, cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, puma |
| paragrapher | (noun) a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper) | - |
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| paraphernalia | (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: appurtenance, gear |
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| penpusher | (noun) a clerk who does boring paperwork | Synonyms: pencil pusher |
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| percher | (noun) a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists | Synonyms: Insessores, order Insessores, perching bird |
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| (noun) a person situated on a perch | - |
| peripheral | (noun) electronic equipment external to the circuit board that contains the CPU of a computer | Synonyms: computer peripheral, peripheral device |
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| periphery | (noun) the outside boundary or surface of something | Synonyms: fringe, outer boundary |
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| perisher | (noun) bounder | - |
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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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| pheromone | (noun) a chemical substance secreted externally by some animals (especially insects) that influences the physiology or behavior of other animals of the same species | - |
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| philosopher | (noun) a specialist in philosophy | - |
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| (noun) a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity | - |
| photographer | (noun) someone who takes photographs professionally | Synonyms: lensman |
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| photosphere | (noun) the intensely luminous surface of a star (especially the sun) | - |
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| phototherapy | (noun) the use of strong light to treat acne or hyperbilirubinemia of the newborn | - |
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| physiotherapist | (noun) therapist who treats injury or dysfunction with exercises and other physical treatments of the disorder | Synonyms: physical therapist |
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| physiotherapy | (noun) therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities | Synonyms: physiatrics, physical therapy |
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| phytotherapy | (noun) the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) | Synonyms: botanical medicine, herbal therapy |
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| pinscher | (noun) any of three breeds of dogs whose ears and tail are usually cropped | - |
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| pitcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit | Synonyms: mound |
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| (noun) an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring | Synonyms: ewer |
| (noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: hurler, twirler |
| (noun) (botany) a leaf that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer | - |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcherful |
| pitcherful | (noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcher |
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| plasmapheresis | (noun) plasma is separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| plateletpheresis | (noun) platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| poacher | (noun) small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters | Synonyms: sea poacher, sea poker |
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| (noun) a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs) | - |
| (noun) someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another | - |
| poikilotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: ectotherm |
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| polisher | (noun) a power tool used to buff surfaces | Synonyms: buffer |
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| pornographer | (noun) someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores | Synonyms: porn merchant |
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| portwatcher | (noun) a watchman on a wharf | Synonyms: port watcher |
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| pother | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: dither, flap, fuss, tizzy |
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| potherb | (noun) any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning | - |
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| potsherd | (noun) a shard of pottery | - |
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| preacher | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer |
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| prototherian | (noun) primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea | - |
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| pseudohermaphrodite | (noun) someone having external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth | - |
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| pseudohermaphroditism | (noun) congenital condition in which a person has external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex | - |
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| psychotherapeutics | (noun) the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods | Synonyms: mental hygiene, psychotherapy |
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| psychotherapist | (noun) a therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders | Synonyms: clinical psychologist |
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| psychotherapy | (noun) the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means | - |
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| (noun) the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods | Synonyms: mental hygiene, psychotherapeutics |
| publisher | (noun) a firm in the publishing business | Synonyms: publishing company, publishing firm, publishing house |
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| (noun) a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music | - |
| (noun) the proprietor of a newspaper | Synonyms: newspaper publisher |
| puncher | (noun) a tool for making holes or indentations | Synonyms: punch |
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| (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher |
| (noun) someone who delivers punches | - |
| pusher | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, stroller |
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| (noun) a sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes | Synonyms: zori |
| (noun) someone who pushes | Synonyms: shover |
| (noun) an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler |
| (noun) one who intrudes or pushes himself forward | Synonyms: thruster |
| pyrographer | (noun) an artist who practices pyrography | - |
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| radiographer | (noun) a person who makes radiographs | - |
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| radiotherapist | (noun) a medical specialist who uses radioactive substances and X-rays in the treatment of disease | Synonyms: radiologist |
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| radiotherapy | (noun) (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance | Synonyms: actinotherapy, irradiation, radiation, radiation therapy |
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| rancher | (noun) a person who owns or operates a ranch | - |
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| rasher | (noun) a commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: Sebastes miniatus, vermillion rockfish |
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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 |
| refinisher | (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: preserver, renovator, restorer |
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| refresher | (noun) a course that reviews and updates a topic for those who have not kept abreast of developments | Synonyms: refresher course |
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| (noun) a drink that refreshes | - |
| (noun) a fee (in addition to that marked on the brief) paid to counsel in a case that lasts more than one day | - |
| reproacher | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reprover, upbraider |
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| researcher | (noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: investigator, research worker |
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| rusher | (noun) a person who rushes; someone in a hurry; someone who acts precipitously | - |
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| (noun) someone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territory | - |
| (noun) (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by running with the ball | - |
| 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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| scherzo | (noun) a fast movement (usually in triple time) | - |
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| schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
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| scorcher | (noun) a very hard hit ball | Synonyms: screamer |
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| (noun) an extremely hot day | - |
| scratcher | (noun) a device used for scratching | - |
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| (noun) a person who scratches to relieve an itch | - |
| (noun) a workman who uses a tool for scratching | - |
| screecher | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, shouter, yeller |
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| searcher | (noun) large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America | Synonyms: Calosoma scrutator, searcher beetle |
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| (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: quester, seeker |
| (noun) a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items | - |
| sepulcher | (noun) a chamber that is used as a grave | Synonyms: burial chamber, sepulchre, sepulture |
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| sheepherder | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepman, shepherd |
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| shepherd | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepherder, sheepman |
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| (noun) a clergyman who watches over a group of people | - |
| shepherdess | (noun) a woman shepherd | - |
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| sherbert | (noun) a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin | Synonyms: sherbet |
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| sherbet | (noun) a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin | Synonyms: sherbert |
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| sherd | (noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact | Synonyms: fragment, shard |
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| sheriff | (noun) the principal law-enforcement officer in a county | - |
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| sherlock | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus |
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| sherry | (noun) dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif | - |
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| sketcher | (noun) an implement for sketching | - |
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| (noun) someone who draws sketches | - |
| skirmisher | (noun) someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party) | - |
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| slasher | (noun) a weapon (a sword or dagger) used for slashing | - |
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| (noun) someone who slashes another person | - |
| sloucher | (noun) a person who slouches; someone with a drooping carriage | - |
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| smasher | (noun) a conspicuous success | Synonyms: bang, hit, smash, strike |
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| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, stunner, sweetheart |
| (noun) a person who smashes something | - |
| smithereens | (noun) a collection of small fragments considered as a whole | - |
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| smoother | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, sander |
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| smother | (noun) a stifling cloud of smoke | - |
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| (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, welter |
| smotherer | (noun) a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses | Synonyms: stifler |
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| snatcher | (noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper |
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| (noun) a thief who grabs and runs | - |