| multiplex | (noun) a movie theater that has several different auditoriums in the same building | - |
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| (noun) communicates two or more signals over a common channel | - |
| multiplexer | (noun) a device that can interleave two or more activities | - |
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| multiplicand | (noun) the number that is multiplied by the multiplier | - |
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| multiplication | (noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed | Synonyms: times |
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| (noun) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production | Synonyms: generation, propagation |
| (noun) a multiplicative increase | - |
| multiplicity | (noun) a large number | Synonyms: numerosity, numerousness |
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| (noun) the property of being multiple | - |
| multiplier | (noun) the number by which a multiplicand is multiplied | Synonyms: multiplier factor |
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| multiprocessing | (noun) simultaneous processing by two or more processing units | Synonyms: parallel processing |
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| multiprocessor | (noun) a computer that uses two or more processing units under integrated control | - |
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| multiprogramming | (noun) the execution of two or more computer programs by a single computer | Synonyms: concurrent execution |
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| multistage | (noun) occurring in more than one stage | - |
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| multitude | (noun) a large gathering of people | Synonyms: concourse, throng |
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| (noun) the common people generally | Synonyms: hoi polloi, mass, masses, people, the great unwashed |
| (noun) a large indefinite quantity | Synonyms: battalion, large number, pack, plurality |
| multitudinousness | (noun) a very large number (especially of people) | - |
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| multivalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalency, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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| multivalency | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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| multiversity | (noun) a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers | - |
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| multivitamin | (noun) a pill or tablet containing several vitamins | Synonyms: multivitamin pill |
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| naltrexone | (noun) an oral antagonist against the action of opiates | - |
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| nanovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one billionth of a volt | - |
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| ngultrum | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bhutan | - |
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| novelty | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, trinket |
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| (noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: knickknack |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel | Synonyms: freshness |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being new and surprising | Synonyms: freshness |
| occult | (noun) supernatural practices and techniques | Synonyms: occult arts |
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| (noun) supernatural forces and events and beings collectively | Synonyms: supernatural |
| occultation | (noun) one celestial body obscures another | Synonyms: eclipse |
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| occultism | (noun) a belief in supernatural powers and the possibility of bringing them under human control | - |
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| (noun) the study of the supernatural | - |
| occultist | (noun) a believer in occultism; someone versed in the occult arts | - |
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| paltering | (noun) a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear | Synonyms: fibbing |
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| paltriness | (noun) worthlessness due to insignificance | Synonyms: sorriness |
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| pelt | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: hide, skin |
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| (noun) the dressed hairy coat of a mammal | Synonyms: fur |
| pelter | (noun) a thrower of missiles | - |
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| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
| pelting | (noun) anything happening rapidly or in quick successive | Synonyms: rain |
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| penalty | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, punishment |
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| (noun) the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition | - |
| (noun) (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game | - |
| (noun) a payment required for not fulfilling a contract | - |
| penult | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penultima, penultimate |
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| penultima | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penult, penultimate |
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| penultimate | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penult, penultima |
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| personalty | (noun) movable property (as distinguished from real estate) | Synonyms: personal estate, personal property, private property |
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| phenyltoloxamine | (noun) antihistamine included in some preparations used to treat coughing and nasal congestion | - |
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| philter | (noun) a drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it | Synonyms: love-philter, love-philtre, love-potion, philtre |
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| philtre | (noun) a drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it | Synonyms: love-philter, love-philtre, love-potion, philter |
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| picovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one trillionth of a volt | - |
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| poltergeist | (noun) a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder | - |
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| poltroon | (noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: craven, recreant |
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| poltroonery | (noun) abject pusillanimity | - |
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| porkholt | (noun) made of lamb or pork | - |
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| poulterer | (noun) a dealer in poultry and poultry products | Synonyms: poultryman |
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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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| poultry | (noun) a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: domestic fowl, fowl |
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| (noun) flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food | - |
| poultryman | (noun) a dealer in poultry and poultry products | Synonyms: poulterer |
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| propylthiouracil | (noun) a crystalline compound used as an antithyroid drug in the treatment of goiter | - |
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| psalterium | (noun) the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant | Synonyms: omasum, third stomach |
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| psaltery | (noun) an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings | - |
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| quilt | (noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comfort, comforter, puff |
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| quilting | (noun) a material used for making a quilt, or a quilted fabric | - |
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| (noun) stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design | - |
| realty | (noun) property consisting of houses and land | Synonyms: immovable, real estate, real property |
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| result | (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, resolution, solution, solvent |
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| (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: resultant role |
| (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, outcome, resultant, termination |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, upshot |
| resultant | (noun) a vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors | Synonyms: vector sum |
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| (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, outcome, result, termination |
| (noun) the final point in a process | Synonyms: end point |
| revolt | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, rising, uprising |
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| royalty | (noun) royal persons collectively | Synonyms: royal family, royal house, royal line |
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| (noun) payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property | - |
| salt | (noun) the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: salinity, saltiness |
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| (noun) white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food | Synonyms: common salt, table salt |
| (noun) a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) | - |
| saltation | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, leaping, spring |
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| (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, dancing, terpsichore |
| (noun) (genetics) a mutation that drastically changes the phenotype of an organism or species | - |
| (noun) an abrupt transition | Synonyms: jump, leap |
| (noun) (geology) the leaping movement of sand or soil particles as they are transported in a fluid medium over an uneven surface | - |
| saltbox | (noun) a type of house built in New England; has two stories in front and one behind | - |
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| saltbush | (noun) any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil | - |
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| saltcellar | (noun) a small container for holding salt at the dining table | - |
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| salter | (noun) someone who makes or deals in salt | Synonyms: salt merchant |
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| (noun) someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other foods | - |
| saltine | (noun) a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking | - |
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| saltiness | (noun) the property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution) | - |
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| (noun) the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: salinity, salt |
| (noun) language or humor that is down-to-earth | Synonyms: coarseness |
| salting | (noun) the act of adding salt to food | - |
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| saltire | (noun) a cross resembling the letter x, with diagonal bars of equal length | Synonyms: St. Andrew's cross |
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| saltpan | (noun) a shallow basin in a desert region; contains salt and gypsum that was deposited by an evaporated salt lake | - |
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| saltpeter | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: niter, nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpetre |
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| saltpetre | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: niter, nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpeter |
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| saltshaker | (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt | Synonyms: salt shaker |
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| saltwater | (noun) water containing salts | Synonyms: brine, seawater |
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| saltworks | (noun) a plant where salt is produced commercially | - |
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| saltwort | (noun) low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves | Synonyms: Batis maritima |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda |
| schmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmalz, shmaltz |
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| schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
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| schooltime | (noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school, school day |
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| (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooldays |
| seatbelt | (noun) a safety belt used in a car or plane to hold you in your seat in case of an accident | Synonyms: seat belt |
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| seltzer | (noun) naturally effervescent mineral water | - |
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| (noun) effervescent beverage artificially charged with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: carbonated water, club soda, soda water, sparkling water |
| sepulture | (noun) a chamber that is used as a grave | Synonyms: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre |
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| (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment |
| sericulture | (noun) the production of raw silk by raising silkworms | - |
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| (noun) raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk | - |
| sericulturist | (noun) a producer of raw silk | - |
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| severalty | (noun) exclusive individual ownership | - |
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| (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: discreteness, distinctness, separateness |
| shelter | (noun) a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger | - |
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| (noun) protective covering that provides protection from the weather | - |
| (noun) temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons | - |
| (noun) a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings | Synonyms: tax shelter |
| (noun) the condition of being protected | Synonyms: protection |
| shelterbelt | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: windbreak |
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| shmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmaltz, schmalz |
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| silt | (noun) mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake | - |
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| siltstone | (noun) a fine-grained sandstone of consolidated silt | - |
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| silviculture | (noun) the branch of forestry dealing with the development and care of forests | - |
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| simultaneity | (noun) happening or existing or done at the same time | Synonyms: simultaneousness |
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| simultaneousness | (noun) happening or existing or done at the same time | Synonyms: simultaneity |
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| singultus | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccough, hiccup |
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| smaltite | (noun) a grey mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel; an important source of cobalt and nickel | - |
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| smelt | (noun) small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters | - |
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| (noun) small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water | - |
| smelter | (noun) an industrial plant for smelting | Synonyms: smeltery |
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| smeltery | (noun) an industrial plant for smelting | Synonyms: smelter |
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| somersault | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersaulting, somerset, summersault, summerset |
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| somersaulting | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somerset, summersault, summerset |
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| specialty | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, specialism, speciality, specialization |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, peculiarity, speciality, specialness |
| (noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, metier, speciality, strength, strong point, strong suit |
| spelt | (noun) hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed | Synonyms: Triticum aestivum spelta, Triticum spelta |
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| spelter | (noun) impure zinc containing about three percent lead and other impurities (especially in the form of ingots) | - |
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