| police | (noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: constabulary, law, police force |
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| policeman | (noun) a male member of a police force | - |
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| policewoman | (noun) a woman policeman | Synonyms: police matron |
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| poultice | (noun) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. | Synonyms: cataplasm, plaster |
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| practice | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: pattern |
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| (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice session, recitation |
| (noun) the exercise of a profession | - |
| (noun) translating an idea into action | Synonyms: praxis |
| (noun) knowledge of how something is usually done | - |
| precipice | (noun) a very steep cliff | - |
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| prejudice | (noun) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | Synonyms: bias, preconception |
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| prentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, learner |
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| price | (noun) the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold) | Synonyms: cost, monetary value |
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| (noun) the high value or worth of something | - |
| (noun) value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something | Synonyms: cost, toll |
| (noun) a monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal | - |
| (noun) the amount of money needed to purchase something | Synonyms: damage, terms |
| (noun) cost of bribing someone | - |
| pricelessness | (noun) the positive quality of being precious and beyond value | Synonyms: invaluableness, preciousness, valuableness |
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| pumice | (noun) a light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive | Synonyms: pumice stone |
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| quadriceps | (noun) a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg | Synonyms: musculus quadriceps femoris, quad, quadriceps femoris |
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| reticence | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | Synonyms: reserve, taciturnity |
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| rice | (noun) grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished | - |
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| (noun) annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper | - |
| ricebird | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird |
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| (noun) small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields | Synonyms: Java finch, Java sparrow, Padda oryzivora |
| ricegrass | (noun) any grass of the genus Oryzopsis | Synonyms: rice grass |
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| ricer | (noun) a kitchen utensil used for ricing soft foods by extruding them through small holes | - |
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| rubicelle | (noun) a yellow or orange variety of ruby spinel | - |
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| sacrifice | (noun) the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity | Synonyms: ritual killing |
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| (noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeit, forfeiture |
| (noun) (baseball) an out that advances the base runners | - |
| (noun) personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective) | - |
| (noun) a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value | - |
| sacrificer | (noun) a religious person who offers up a sacrifice | - |
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| semicentenary | (noun) the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: semicentennial |
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| semicentennial | (noun) the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: semicentenary |
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| septicemia | (noun) invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection | Synonyms: blood poisoning, septicaemia |
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| service | (noun) an act of help or assistance; something (such as a tool, software or system) used to render said help or assistance | - |
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| (noun) the act of public worship following prescribed rules | Synonyms: divine service, religious service |
| (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play | Synonyms: serve |
| (noun) the act of mating by male animals | Synonyms: servicing |
| (noun) the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone | Synonyms: service of process, serving |
| (noun) periodic maintenance on a car or machine | Synonyms: inspection and repair, overhaul |
| (noun) the performance of duties by a waiter or servant | - |
| (noun) employment in or work for another | - |
| (noun) work done by one person or group that benefits another | - |
| (noun) (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him | - |
| (noun) tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table | Synonyms: table service |
| (noun) a means of serving | Synonyms: avail, help |
| (noun) a force that is a branch of the armed forces | Synonyms: armed service, military service |
| (noun) a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation | - |
| serviceability | (noun) the quality of being able to provide good service | Synonyms: serviceableness, usability, usableness, useableness |
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| serviceableness | (noun) the quality of being able to provide good service | Synonyms: serviceability, usability, usableness, useableness |
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| serviceberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, shadberry |
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| (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, shadblow, shadbush |
| serviceman | (noun) someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Synonyms: man, military man, military personnel |
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| services | (noun) performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others | - |
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| sesquicentennial | (noun) the 150th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| slice | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: fade, slicing |
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| (noun) a spatula for spreading paint or ink | - |
| (noun) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion | Synonyms: piece |
| (noun) a thin flat piece cut off of some object | - |
| (noun) a share of something | Synonyms: piece |
| (noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: cut, gash, slash |
| slicer | (noun) knife especially designed for slicing particular foods, as cheese | - |
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| (noun) a machine for cutting; usually with a revolving blade | - |
| (noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers) | - |
| sluice | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: penstock, sluiceway |
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| sluicegate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: floodgate, head gate, penstock, sluice valve, water gate |
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| sluiceway | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: penstock, sluice |
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| solstice | (noun) either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator | - |
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| spice | (noun) the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | Synonyms: spicery, spiciness |
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| (noun) any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food | - |
| (noun) aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative | - |
| spiceberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, coralberry |
| spicebush | (noun) deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries | Synonyms: American spicebush, Benjamin bush, Benzoin odoriferum, Lindera benzoin, spice bush |
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| (noun) straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers | Synonyms: California allspice, Calycanthus occidentalis |
| spicemill | (noun) a mill for grinding spices | - |
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| spicery | (noun) the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | Synonyms: spice, spiciness |
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| splice | (noun) joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together | Synonyms: lap joint |
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| (noun) a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together | Synonyms: splicing |
| splicer | (noun) a mechanical device for joining two pieces of paper or film or magnetic tape | - |
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| (noun) a worker who splices ropes together by interweaving strands | - |
| (noun) a woodworker who joins pieces of wood with a splice | - |
| statice | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers | Synonyms: marsh rosemary, sea lavender |
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| surplice | (noun) a loose-fitting white ecclesiastical vestment with wide sleeves | - |
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| trice | (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, twinkling, wink |
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| triceps | (noun) any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii) | - |
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| triceratops | (noun) huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill | - |
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| underbodice | (noun) a short sleeveless undergarment for women | Synonyms: camisole |
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| unnoticeableness | (noun) the quality of being not easily noticed | - |
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| varicella | (noun) an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body | Synonyms: chickenpox |
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| vermicelli | (noun) pasta in strings thinner than spaghetti | - |
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| vice | (noun) a specific form of evildoing | - |
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| (noun) a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place | Synonyms: bench vise, vise |
| (noun) moral weakness | Synonyms: frailty |
| vicegerent | (noun) someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy | - |
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| vicereine | (noun) governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign | Synonyms: viceroy |
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| (noun) wife of a viceroy | - |
| viceroy | (noun) showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller | Synonyms: Limenitis archippus |
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| (noun) governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign | Synonyms: vicereine |
| viceroyalty | (noun) a district or province governed by a viceroy | - |
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| viceroyship | (noun) the position of viceroy | - |
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| voice | (noun) a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated | - |
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| (noun) the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech | - |
| (noun) the ability to speak | - |
| (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, vox |
| (noun) expressing in coherent verbal form | Synonyms: articulation |
| (noun) the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression | - |
| (noun) A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced. | - |
| (noun) a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance | - |
| (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, representative, spokesperson |
| (noun) (metonymy) a singer | - |
| (noun) (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes | - |
| voicelessness | (noun) having no voice in the management or control of affairs | - |
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| (noun) speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: susurration, whisper, whispering |
| (noun) (phonetics, of a consonant) The property of being spoken without vibration of the vocal cords, as [t], [s], or [f]. | - |
| (noun) a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice | Synonyms: aphonia |
| voicemail | (noun) a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed | Synonyms: voice mail |
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| voiceprint | (noun) biometric identification by electronically recording and graphically representing a person's voice | - |
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| voicer | (noun) a speaker who voices an opinion | - |
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| (noun) someone who regulates the tone of organ pipes | - |
| vorticella | (noun) any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk | - |
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