| politics | (noun) the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs | - |
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| (noun) the activities and affairs involved in managing a state or a government | - |
| (noun) the study of government of states and other political units | Synonyms: government, political science |
| (noun) the opinion you hold with respect to political questions | Synonyms: political sympathies |
| (noun) social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power | Synonyms: political relation |
| polyarteritis | (noun) inflammation of several arteries | - |
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| polymyositis | (noun) myositis characterized by weakness of limb and neck muscles and much muscle pain and swelling; progression and severity vary among individuals | - |
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| polyneuritis | (noun) inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy) | Synonyms: multiple neuritis |
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| portraitist | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: limner, portrait painter, portrayer |
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| position | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, positioning |
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| (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, place, post, situation |
| (noun) (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player | - |
| (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, place, stead |
| (noun) the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom | - |
| (noun) the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated | Synonyms: spatial relation |
| (noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: attitude, posture |
| (noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: perspective, view |
| (noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: posture, stance |
| (noun) an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute | Synonyms: side |
| (noun) an item on a list or in a sequence | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) the particular portion of space occupied by something | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons | Synonyms: military position |
| (noun) the appropriate or customary location | - |
| (noun) the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society | Synonyms: status |
| (noun) a condition or position in which you find yourself | Synonyms: situation |
| positioner | (noun) (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track | Synonyms: rotary actuator |
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| (noun) a device used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals. | - |
| positioning | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, position |
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| positive | (noun) a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject | - |
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| (noun) the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution | Synonyms: positive degree |
| positiveness | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positivism, positivity |
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| (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positivity, profitableness |
| (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positivity |
| (noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positivity |
| (noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positivity |
| positivism | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivity |
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| (noun) the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) | Synonyms: logical positivism |
| positivist | (noun) someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | Synonyms: rationalist |
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| positivity | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivism |
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| (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, profitableness |
| (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positiveness |
| (noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positiveness |
| (noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positiveness |
| posthitis | (noun) inflammation of the foreskin of the penis; usually caused by bacterial infection | - |
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| postposition | (noun) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached) | - |
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| practitioner | (noun) someone who practices a learned profession | Synonyms: practician |
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| precipitin | (noun) an antibody that causes precipitation when it unites with its antigen | - |
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| precognition | (noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs | Synonyms: foreknowledge |
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| precondition | (noun) a condition that is a prerequisite | - |
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| (noun) an assumption that is taken for granted | Synonyms: given, presumption |
| (noun) an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else | Synonyms: condition, stipulation |
| predisposition | (noun) a disposition in advance to react in a particular way | - |
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| (noun) an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way | - |
| (noun) susceptibility to a pathogen | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| premonition | (noun) an early warning about a future event | Synonyms: forewarning |
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| (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, foreboding, presentiment |
| preposition | (noun) a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word | - |
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| (noun) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached) | - |
| presupposition | (noun) the act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument) | - |
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| preterition | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralepsis, paralipsis |
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| primitive | (noun) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms | - |
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| (noun) a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived | - |
| (noun) a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization | Synonyms: primitive person |
| primitiveness | (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitivism, rudeness |
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| primitivism | (noun) a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children | - |
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| (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, rudeness |
| proclitic | (noun) a clitic that is associated with a following word. | - |
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| proctitis | (noun) inflammation of the rectum; marked by bloody stools and a frequent urge to defecate; frequently associated with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis | - |
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| prohibition | (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: forbiddance, inhibition |
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| (noun) a decree that prohibits something | Synonyms: ban, proscription |
| (noun) refusal to approve or assent to | - |
| (noun) a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages | - |
| (noun) the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment | Synonyms: prohibition era |
| prohibitionist | (noun) a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: dry |
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| propitiation | (noun) the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | Synonyms: conciliation, placation |
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| (noun) the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) | Synonyms: atonement, expiation |
| propitiousness | (noun) the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result | Synonyms: auspiciousness |
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| proposition | (noun) a task to be dealt with | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false | - |
| (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer, suggestion |
| (noun) the act of making a proposal | Synonyms: proposal |
| (noun) an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors) | - |
| prostatitis | (noun) inflammation of the prostate gland characterized by perineal pain and irregular urination and (if severe) chills and fever | - |
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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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| pyelitis | (noun) inflammation of the renal pelvis | - |
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| pyelonephritis | (noun) inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis caused by bacterial infection | - |
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| rachitis | (noun) childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus | Synonyms: rickets |
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| (noun) inflammation of the vertebral column | - |
| radiculitis | (noun) inflammation of the radicle of a nerve | - |
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| radiosensitivity | (noun) sensitivity to the action of radiant energy | Synonyms: photosensitivity |
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| ranitidine | (noun) a histamine blocker and antacid (trade name Zantac) used to treat peptic ulcers and gastritis and esophageal reflux | Synonyms: Zantac |
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| realpolitik | (noun) politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations | Synonyms: practical politics |
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| recognition | (noun) designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body | - |
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| (noun) the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering | Synonyms: identification |
| (noun) an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid | - |
| (noun) coming to understand something clearly and distinctly | Synonyms: realisation, realization |
| (noun) approval | Synonyms: credit |
| (noun) the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country | - |
| (noun) (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape | - |
| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, acknowledgment |
| redefinition | (noun) the act of giving a new definition | - |
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| redeposition | (noun) deposition from one deposit to another | - |
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| redisposition | (noun) the withdrawal and redistribution of forces in an attempt to use them more effectively | Synonyms: redeployment |
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| reimposition | (noun) imposition again | - |
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| rendition | (noun) handing over prisoners to the country in which a crime was committed | - |
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| (noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: interpretation, rendering |
| (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, interpreting, rendering |
| (noun) a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc. | Synonyms: rendering |
| repetition | (noun) the act of doing or performing again | Synonyms: repeating |
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| (noun) the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device | - |
| (noun) an event that repeats | Synonyms: repeat |
| repetitiousness | (noun) verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions | Synonyms: repetitiveness |
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| repetitiveness | (noun) verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions | Synonyms: repetitiousness |
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| repositing | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: reposition, storage, warehousing |
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| reposition | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: repositing, storage, warehousing |
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| repositioning | (noun) the act of placing in a new position | - |
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| requisition | (noun) seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized | Synonyms: sequestration |
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| (noun) the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use | - |
| (noun) an official form on which a request is made | Synonyms: requisition form |
| retinitis | (noun) inflammation of the retina | - |
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| rewriting | (noun) editing that involves writing something again | Synonyms: revising |
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| rhinitis | (noun) an inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nose (usually associated with nasal discharge) | Synonyms: coryza |
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| rhinotracheitis | (noun) a respiratory infection of the nose and throat in cattle | - |
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| salpingitis | (noun) inflammation of a Fallopian tube (usually the result of infection spreading from the vagina or uterus) or of a Eustachian tube | - |
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| sanitisation | (noun) making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing | Synonyms: sanitation, sanitization |
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| sanitization | (noun) making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing | Synonyms: sanitation, sanitisation |
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| scleritis | (noun) inflammation of the sclera | - |
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| sedition | (noun) an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government | - |
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| senioritis | (noun) tiredness with the final year of high school | - |
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| seniti | (noun) 100 seniti equal 1 pa'anga in Tonga | - |
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| sensitisation | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitising, sensitization, sensitizing |
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| (noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) | Synonyms: sensitization |
| (noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen) | Synonyms: sensitization |
| sensitiser | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitizer |
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| sensitising | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitization, sensitizing |
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| sensitive | (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, spiritualist |
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| sensitiveness | (noun) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | Synonyms: sensitivity |
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| (noun) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| (noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensibility, sensitivity |
| (noun) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| sensitivity | (noun) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
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| (noun) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
| (noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensibility, sensitiveness |
| (noun) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
| (noun) susceptibility to a pathogen | Synonyms: predisposition |
| sensitization | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitizing |
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| (noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) | Synonyms: sensitisation |
| (noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen) | Synonyms: sensitisation |
| sensitizer | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitiser |
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| sensitizing | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitization |
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| sialadenitis | (noun) inflammation of the salivary glands | - |
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| sinusitis | (noun) inflammation of one of the paranasal sinuses | - |
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| skywriting | (noun) writing formed in the sky by smoke released from an airplane | - |
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| sortition | (noun) making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn | Synonyms: casting lots, drawing lots |
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| spiritism | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: otherworldliness, spiritualism, spirituality |
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| splenitis | (noun) inflammation of the spleen | - |
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| spondylarthritis | (noun) arthritis that affects one or more of the intervertebral joints in the spine | - |
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| spondylitis | (noun) inflammation of a spinal joint; characterized by pain and stiffness | - |
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| stomatitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth | - |
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| suiting | (noun) a fabric used for suits | - |
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| superposition | (noun) the placement of one thing on top of another | - |
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| (noun) (geometry) the placement of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide | - |
| (noun) (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest | Synonyms: principle of superposition, superposition principle |
| (noun) (geology) the deposition of one geological stratum on another | - |
| superstition | (noun) an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear | Synonyms: superstitious notion |
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| supposition | (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: assumption, supposal |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of supposing | Synonyms: supposal |
| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, surmisal, surmise |
| synovitis | (noun) inflammation of the synovial membrane that lines a synovial joint; results in pain and swelling | - |
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| syphilitic | (noun) a person suffering from syphilis | - |
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| tarsitis | (noun) inflammation of the eyelid | - |
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| tendinitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon | Synonyms: tendonitis, tenonitis |
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| tendonitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon | Synonyms: tendinitis, tenonitis |
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| tendosynovitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath | Synonyms: tendonous synovitis, tenosynovitis |
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| tenonitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon | Synonyms: tendinitis, tendonitis |
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| tenosynovitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath | Synonyms: tendonous synovitis, tendosynovitis |
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| thortveitite | (noun) a mineral consisting of scandium yttrium silicate; a source of scandium | - |
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| thrombophlebitis | (noun) phlebitis in conjunction with the formation of a blood clot (thrombus) | - |
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| thyroiditis | (noun) inflammation of the thyroid gland | - |
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