| patroller | (noun) someone on patrol duty; an individual or a member of a group that patrols an area | - |
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| pedaller | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaler |
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| pellet | (noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | Synonyms: shot |
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| (noun) a small rounded mass of a substance | - |
| pennoncelle | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, penoncel |
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| phellem | (noun) (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells | Synonyms: cork |
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| philhellene | (noun) an admirer of Greece and everything Greek | Synonyms: Graecophile, philhellenist |
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| philhellenism | (noun) admiration for Greece and the Greeks and Greek customs | - |
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| philhellenist | (noun) an admirer of Greece and everything Greek | Synonyms: Graecophile, philhellene |
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| pipistrelle | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrel, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
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| pollen | (noun) the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant | - |
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| pollenation | (noun) transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant | Synonyms: pollination |
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| pollex | (noun) the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb | Synonyms: thumb |
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| propellent | (noun) any substance that propels | Synonyms: propellant |
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| propeller | (noun) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | Synonyms: propellor |
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| puller | (noun) someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | Synonyms: dragger, tugger |
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| (noun) someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself | - |
| pullet | (noun) young hen usually less than a year old | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: frier, fryer |
| pulley | (noun) a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | Synonyms: block, pulley-block, pulley block |
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| quadrille | (noun) a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples | - |
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| (noun) music for dancing the quadrille | - |
| quarreller | (noun) a disputant who quarrels | Synonyms: quarreler |
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| raillery | (noun) light teasing repartee | Synonyms: backchat, banter, give-and-take |
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| rappeller | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: abseiler |
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| ratatouille | (noun) a vegetable stew; usually made with tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, peppers, onion, and seasonings | - |
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| rathskeller | (noun) a tavern below street level featuring beer; originally a German restaurant in the basement of city hall | - |
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| recollection | (noun) the ability to recall past occurrences | Synonyms: anamnesis, remembrance |
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| (noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) | Synonyms: recall, reminiscence |
| (noun) something recalled to the mind | - |
| repellent | (noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellant |
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| (noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellant |
| (noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellant |
| reveille | (noun) a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise | - |
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| (noun) (military) signal to wake up | Synonyms: wake-up signal |
| reveller | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveler |
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| roller | (noun) a grounder that rolls along the infield | - |
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| (noun) Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers | - |
| (noun) pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground | Synonyms: tumbler, tumbler pigeon |
| (noun) a cylinder that revolves | - |
| (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: crimper, curler, hair curler |
| (noun) a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate) | - |
| (noun) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore | Synonyms: roll, rolling wave |
| rollerblader | (noun) a skater who uses Rollerblades | - |
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| rollerblading | (noun) skating using Rollerblades | - |
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| roselle | (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, rozelle, sorrel |
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| rozelle | (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, sorrel |
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| rubicelle | (noun) a yellow or orange variety of ruby spinel | - |
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| sallet | (noun) a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision | Synonyms: salade |
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| screwballer | (noun) (baseball) a pitcher who throws screwballs | - |
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| sculler | (noun) someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward) | - |
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| scullery | (noun) a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done | - |
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| seller | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, trafficker, vender, vendor |
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| sewellel | (noun) bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent | Synonyms: Aplodontia rufa, mountain beaver |
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| sheller | (noun) a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters) | - |
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| shillelagh | (noun) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) | Synonyms: shillalah |
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| shoveller | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveler |
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| (noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveler |
| signaller | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaler |
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| skillessness | (noun) Lack of skill; ineptness. | - |
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| skillet | (noun) a pan used for frying foods | Synonyms: frying pan, frypan |
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| skilletfish | (noun) clingfish with typical skillet shape | Synonyms: Gobiesox strumosus, skillet fish |
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| slopseller | (noun) a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slop-seller |
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| sniveller | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, squawker, whiner |
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| solleret | (noun) armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel | Synonyms: sabaton |
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| speller | (noun) an introductory textbook to teach spelling | - |
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| (noun) someone who spells words | Synonyms: good speller, poor speller |
| spiller | (noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: setline, trawl, trawl line, trotline |
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| (noun) an attacker who sheds or spills blood | Synonyms: shedder |
| splitsville | (noun) separation or breakup or divorce | - |
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| steamroller | (noun) vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements | Synonyms: road roller |
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| (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: juggernaut |
| stonewaller | (noun) one who stonewalls or refuses to answer or cooperate; someone who delays by lengthy speeches etc. | - |
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| storyteller | (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: narrator, teller |
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| (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fabricator, fibber |
| stroller | (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, pusher |
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| (noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace | Synonyms: ambler, saunterer |
| sullenness | (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sourness, sulkiness |
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| (noun) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling | Synonyms: glumness, moroseness |
| surmullet | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: goatfish, Mullus surmuletus, red mullet |
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| syllepsis | (noun) use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one | - |
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| tagliatelle | (noun) pasta cut in narrow ribbons | - |
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| taleteller | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| tarantelle | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantella |
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| teetotaller | (noun) a total abstainer | Synonyms: teetotaler, teetotalist |
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| teller | (noun) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money | Synonyms: bank clerk, cashier |
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| (noun) an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly) | Synonyms: vote counter |
| (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: narrator, storyteller |
| thriller | (noun) a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie | - |
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| tiller | (noun) lever used to turn the rudder on a boat | - |
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| (noun) a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) | Synonyms: cultivator |
| (noun) someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops) | - |
| (noun) a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass | - |
| toller | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, tollgatherer, tollkeeper, tollman |
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| (noun) a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) | Synonyms: bell ringer, ringer |
| tomalley | (noun) edible greenish substance in boiled lobster | - |
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| tonsillectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the palatine tonsils; commonly performed along with adenoidectomy | - |
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| traveller | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveler |
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| troller | (noun) a fisherman who uses a hook and line | Synonyms: angler |
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| trolley | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley car |
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| trolleybus | (noun) a passenger bus with an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires | Synonyms: trackless trolley, trolley coach |
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| tuille | (noun) armor plate that protects the hip and thigh | - |
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| tulle | (noun) a fine (often starched) net used for veils or tutus or gowns | - |
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| underseller | (noun) a seller that sells at a lower price than others do | - |
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| unmalleability | (noun) a lack of malleability | - |
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| unraveller | (noun) a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state | Synonyms: disentangler, unraveler |
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| vallecula | (noun) (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part | Synonyms: groove |
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| valley | (noun) a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river | Synonyms: vale |
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| vaudeville | (noun) a variety show with songs and comic acts etc. | Synonyms: music hall |
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| velleity | (noun) volition in its weakest form | - |
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| (noun) a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain | - |
| victualler | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, sutler, victualer |
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| (noun) an innkeeper (especially British) | Synonyms: victualer |
| villein | (noun) (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord | Synonyms: helot, serf |
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| villeinage | (noun) tenure by which a villein held land | - |
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| (noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villainage |
| volaille | (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: chicken, poulet |
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| volley | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, fusillade, salvo |
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| (noun) a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces | - |
| volleyball | (noun) a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands | Synonyms: volley ball, volleyball game |
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| (noun) an inflated ball used in playing volleyball | Synonyms: volley ball |
| volvelle | (noun) a circular slide chart having rotating parts | Synonyms: wheel chart |
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| wallet | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: billfold, notecase, pocketbook |
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| walleye | (noun) pike-like freshwater perches | Synonyms: dory, jack salmon, Stizostedion vitreum, walleyed pike |
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| (noun) strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward | Synonyms: divergent strabismus, exotropia |
| weedkiller | (noun) a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: herbicide, weed killer |
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| wellerism | (noun) a comparison comprising a well-known quotation followed by a facetious sequel | - |
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| willet | (noun) large North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf Coasts | Synonyms: Catoptrophorus semipalmatus |
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| woollen | (noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: wool, woolen |
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| yeller | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter |
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| yodeller | (noun) a singer who changes register rapidly (popular in Swiss folk songs) | - |
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