| plebiscite | (noun) a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance | - |
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| politeness | (noun) the act of showing regard for others | Synonyms: civility |
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| (noun) a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage | Synonyms: niceness |
| politesse | (noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: chivalry, gallantry |
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| pollucite | (noun) a rare mineral that is an important source of cesium | - |
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| prerequisite | (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: requirement |
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| preterite | (noun) a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense | Synonyms: preterit |
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| profiteer | (noun) someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply) | - |
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| profiterole | (noun) a small hollow pastry that is typically filled with cream and covered with chocolate | - |
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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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| pyrite | (noun) a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color | Synonyms: fool's gold, iron pyrite |
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| pyrites | (noun) any of various metallic-looking sulfides (of which pyrite is the commonest) | - |
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| pyrolusite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese dioxide; an important source of manganese | - |
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| pyromorphite | (noun) a mineral consisting of lead chloride and phosphate; a minor source of lead | Synonyms: green lead ore |
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| pyrophyllite | (noun) a white or greenish aluminum silicate mineral (resembles talc) | - |
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| pyrrhotite | (noun) a brownish iron sulfide mineral (FeS) having weak magnetic properties | Synonyms: magnetic pyrites, pyrrhotine |
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| quartzite | (noun) hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals | - |
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| rabbiteye | (noun) shrub of southeastern United States grown commercially especially for canning industry | Synonyms: rabbit-eye blueberry, rabbiteye blueberry, Vaccinium ashei |
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| ratite | (noun) flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, rheas, kiwis, elephant birds | Synonyms: flightless bird, ratite bird |
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| reciter | (noun) someone who recites from memory | - |
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| reconditeness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity |
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| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity |
| reconnoitering | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitring, scouting |
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| recruiter | (noun) an official who enlists personnel for military service | - |
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| (noun) someone who supplies members or employees | - |
| reiteration | (noun) the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: reduplication |
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| rensselaerite | (noun) a kind of soft talc; sometimes used as wood filler | - |
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| requisite | (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessity, requirement |
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| requisiteness | (noun) the state of being absolutely required | - |
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| respite | (noun) a pause from doing something (as work) | Synonyms: break, recess, time out |
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| (noun) the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment | Synonyms: reprieve |
| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, reprieve, suspension |
| (noun) a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort | Synonyms: reprieve |
| (noun) a pause for relaxation | Synonyms: relief, rest, rest period |
| rewrite | (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: rescript, revision |
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| rewriter | (noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication | Synonyms: redact, redactor, reviser, rewrite man |
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| rhodochrosite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese carbonate; a source of manganese | - |
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| rhodolite | (noun) a red or pink variety of garnet used as a gemstone | - |
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| rhodonite | (noun) a pink or red mineral consisting of crystalline manganese silicate; used as an ornamental stone | - |
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| rhyolite | (noun) very acid volcanic rock | - |
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| rite | (noun) any customary observance or practice | Synonyms: ritual |
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| (noun) an established ceremony prescribed by a religion | Synonyms: religious rite |
| samarskite | (noun) a complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites | - |
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| samite | (noun) a heavy silk fabric (often woven with silver or gold threads); used to make clothing in the Middle Ages | - |
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| saprolite | (noun) a deposit of clay and disintegrating rock that is found in its original place | - |
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| satellite | (noun) man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon | Synonyms: artificial satellite, orbiter |
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| (noun) any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star | - |
| (noun) a person who follows or serves another | Synonyms: planet |
| scheelite | (noun) a mineral used as an ore of tungsten | - |
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| sclerite | (noun) hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods | - |
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| screenwriter | (noun) someone who writes screenplays | Synonyms: film writer |
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| scriptwriter | (noun) someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas | - |
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| selenite | (noun) a compound that contains a SeO32− anion. | - |
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| semiparasite | (noun) a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis | Synonyms: hemiparasite |
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| sempiternity | (noun) the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) | Synonyms: perpetuity |
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| sepiolite | (noun) a white clayey mineral | Synonyms: meerschaum |
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| shite | (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, dirt, poop, shit, turd |
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| siderite | (noun) a meteorite consisting principally of nickel and iron | - |
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| (noun) iron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate | Synonyms: chalybite |
| site | (noun) a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web | Synonyms: internet site, web site, website |
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| (noun) the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located) | Synonyms: land site |
| (noun) physical position in relation to the surroundings | Synonyms: situation |
| smaltite | (noun) a grey mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel; an important source of cobalt and nickel | - |
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| smithsonite | (noun) a mineral ore of zinc. | Synonyms: zinc spar |
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| snakebite | (noun) a bite inflicted by a (venomous) snake | - |
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| socialite | (noun) a socially prominent person | - |
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| sodalite | (noun) a vitreous mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate and sodium chloride in crystalline form; occurs in igneous rocks | - |
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| sodomite | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: bugger, sod, sodomist |
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| somite | (noun) one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally | Synonyms: metamere |
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| songwriter | (noun) a composer of words or music for popular songs | Synonyms: ballad maker, songster |
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| speechwriter | (noun) a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver | - |
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| sphalerite | (noun) an ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form | Synonyms: blende, zinc blende |
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| spiritedness | (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: animation, brio, invigoration, vivification |
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| spite | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spitefulness |
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| (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: malice, maliciousness, spitefulness, venom |
| spitefulness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spite |
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| (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: malice, maliciousness, spite, venom |
| sporozoite | (noun) one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle | - |
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| sportswriter | (noun) a journalist who writes about sports | Synonyms: sports writer |
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| sprite | (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, faery, fairy, fay |
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| sprites | (noun) atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves) | Synonyms: red sprites |
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| stalactite | (noun) a cylinder of calcium carbonate hanging from the roof of a limestone cave | - |
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| stalagmite | (noun) a cylinder of calcium carbonate projecting upward from the floor of a limestone cave | - |
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| stannite | (noun) a dark grey mineral with a metallic luster that is a source of tin | Synonyms: tin pyrites |
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| steatite | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soaprock, soapstone |
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| stibnite | (noun) a soft grey mineral; the chief ore of antimony | - |
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| strontianite | (noun) a mineral consisting of strontium carbonate | - |
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| stylite | (noun) an early Christian ascetic who lived on top of high pillars | - |
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| suburbanite | (noun) a resident of a suburb | - |
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| suite | (noun) apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel) | Synonyms: rooms |
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| (noun) a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected | - |
| (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, entourage, retinue |
| (noun) a matching set of furniture | - |
| sybarite | (noun) a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses | Synonyms: voluptuary |
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| sylvanite | (noun) a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America | Synonyms: graphic tellurium |
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| sylvite | (noun) a mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds | Synonyms: sylvine |
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| tachylite | (noun) a basic or basalt glass | - |
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| taconite | (noun) a variety of chert containing magnetite and hematite; mined as a low-grade iron ore | - |
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| tantalite | (noun) a mineral consisting of tantalum oxide of iron and manganese that occurs with niobite or in coarse granite; an ore of tantalum | - |
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| tektite | (noun) thought to derive from meteorites | - |
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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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| termite | (noun) whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood | Synonyms: white ant |
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| textolite | (noun) a laminated composite material used for electrotechnical components, inserts and bearings. | - |
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| theodolite | (noun) a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod | Synonyms: transit |
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| thorite | (noun) a radioactive mineral consisting of thorium silicate; it is a source of thorium that is found in coarse granite | - |
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| thortveitite | (noun) a mineral consisting of scandium yttrium silicate; a source of scandium | - |
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| titer | (noun) the concentration of a solution as determined by titration | Synonyms: titre |
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| transliteration | (noun) a transcription from one alphabet to another | - |
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| transvestite | (noun) someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross-dresser |
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| tremolite | (noun) a white or pale green mineral (calcium magnesium silicate) of the amphibole group used as a form of asbestos | - |
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| tridymite | (noun) a mineral form of silica | - |
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| trilobite | (noun) an extinct arthropod that was abundant in Paleozoic times; had an exoskeleton divided into three parts | - |
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| triteness | (noun) unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed | Synonyms: staleness |
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| trophozoite | (noun) a sporozoan in the active feeding stage of its life cycle | - |
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| tympanites | (noun) distension of the abdomen that is caused by the accumulation of gas in the intestines or the peritoneal cavity | - |
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| typewriter | (noun) hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time | - |
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| underwriter | (noun) a financial institution that sells insurance | Synonyms: insurance company, insurance firm, insurance underwriter, insurer |
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| (noun) a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities | Synonyms: investment banker |
| (noun) an agent who sells insurance | Synonyms: general agent, insurance agent, insurance broker |
| uraninite | (noun) a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore | Synonyms: pitchblende |
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