| polio | (noun) an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord | Synonyms: acute anterior poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis, poliomyelitis |
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| poliomyelitis | (noun) an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord | Synonyms: acute anterior poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis, polio |
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| poliosis | (noun) loss of color from the hair | - |
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| poliovirus | (noun) the virus causing poliomyelitis | - |
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| polish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: burnish, gloss, glossiness |
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| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, culture, finish, refinement |
| (noun) a preparation used in polishing | - |
| polisher | (noun) a power tool used to buff surfaces | Synonyms: buffer |
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| polishing | (noun) the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | Synonyms: shining |
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| politburo | (noun) the chief executive and political committee of the Communist Party | - |
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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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| politicalness | (noun) The state or quality of concerning or being related to politics, the art and process of governing. | - |
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| politician | (noun) a person active in party politics | Synonyms: pol, political leader, politico |
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| (noun) a leader engaged in civil administration | - |
| (noun) a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways | - |
| politico | (noun) a person active in party politics | Synonyms: pol, political leader, politician |
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| 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 |
| polity | (noun) shrewd or crafty management of public affairs | - |
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| (noun) a politically organized unit | - |
| (noun) the form of government of a social organization | Synonyms: civil order |
| portfolio | (noun) the role of the head of a government department | - |
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| (noun) a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather | - |
| (noun) a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution | - |
| (noun) a set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers | - |
| proliferation | (noun) growth by the rapid multiplication of parts | - |
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| (noun) a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons) | - |
| prolificacy | (noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, rankness, richness |
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| proline | (noun) an amino acid that is found in many proteins (especially collagen) | - |
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| prolixity | (noun) boring verbosity | Synonyms: long-windedness, prolixness, windiness, wordiness |
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| prolixness | (noun) boring verbosity | Synonyms: long-windedness, prolixity, windiness, wordiness |
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| psycholinguist | (noun) a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language | - |
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| psycholinguistics | (noun) the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance | - |
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| ravioli | (noun) small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings | Synonyms: cappelletti |
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| realpolitik | (noun) politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations | Synonyms: practical politics |
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| rhodolite | (noun) a red or pink variety of garnet used as a gemstone | - |
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| rhyolite | (noun) very acid volcanic rock | - |
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| rolypoliness | (noun) the property of having a plump and round body | Synonyms: chubbiness, pudginess, tubbiness |
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| saprolite | (noun) a deposit of clay and disintegrating rock that is found in its original place | - |
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| scholia | (noun) a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature) | Synonyms: scholium |
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| scholiast | (noun) a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author) | - |
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| scholium | (noun) a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature) | Synonyms: scholia |
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| schooling | (noun) the act of teaching at school | - |
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| (noun) the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage) | - |
| (noun) the process of being formally educated at a school | Synonyms: school |
| sciolism | (noun) pretentious superficiality of knowledge | - |
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| sciolist | (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dabbler, dilettante |
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| scolion | (noun) a song (sometimes improvised) sung by guests at a banquet | Synonyms: banquet song |
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| scoliosis | (noun) an abnormal lateral curve to the vertebral column | - |
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| semolina | (noun) milled product of durum wheat (or other hard wheat) used in pasta | - |
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| sepiolite | (noun) a white clayey mineral | Synonyms: meerschaum |
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| shopaholic | (noun) a compulsive shopper | - |
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| sialolith | (noun) a stone formed in the salivary gland | Synonyms: salivary calculus |
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| sociolinguist | (noun) a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication | - |
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| sociolinguistics | (noun) the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context | - |
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| solicitation | (noun) the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) | Synonyms: allurement |
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| (noun) an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status | - |
| (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, ingathering |
| solicitor | (noun) a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents | - |
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| (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: canvasser |
| solicitorship | (noun) the position of solicitor | - |
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| solicitousness | (noun) a feeling of excessive concern | Synonyms: solicitude |
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| solicitude | (noun) a feeling of excessive concern | Synonyms: solicitousness |
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| solid | (noun) a three-dimensional object, structurally rigid, usually resistant to changes of shape or volume | - |
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| (noun) the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape | Synonyms: solid state, solidness |
| (noun) matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure | - |
| solidarity | (noun) a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group | - |
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| solidification | (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, set, solidifying |
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| solidifying | (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, set, solidification |
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| solidity | (noun) the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally | Synonyms: solidness |
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| (noun) the consistency of a solid | Synonyms: solidness |
| (noun) state of having the interior filled with matter | - |
| solidness | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: substantiality, substantialness |
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| (noun) the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally | Synonyms: solidity |
| (noun) the consistency of a solid | Synonyms: solidity |
| (noun) the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape | Synonyms: solid, solid state |
| solidus | (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, slash, stroke, virgule |
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| (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezant, bezzant, byzant |
| soliloquy | (noun) speech you make to yourself | Synonyms: monologue |
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| (noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections | - |
| solipsism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist | - |
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| solitaire | (noun) a card game played by one person | Synonyms: patience |
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| (noun) a dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song | - |
| (noun) extinct flightless bird related to the dodo | Synonyms: Pezophaps solitaria |
| (noun) a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself | - |
| solitariness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness |
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| (noun) the state of being alone in solitary isolation | Synonyms: loneliness |
| solitary | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitudinarian, troglodyte |
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| (noun) confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners | Synonyms: solitary confinement |
| soliton | (noun) (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance; does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate | Synonyms: solitary wave, soliton wave |
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| solitude | (noun) a solitary place | - |
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| (noun) a state of social isolation | Synonyms: purdah |
| (noun) the state or situation of being alone | - |
| solitudinarian | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitary, troglodyte |
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| spoliation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation |
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| (noun) (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence | - |
| spondylolisthesis | (noun) a forward dislocation of one vertebra over the one beneath it producing pressure on spinal nerves | - |
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| stercolith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: coprolith, faecalith, fecalith |
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| stolidity | (noun) an indifference to pleasure or pain | Synonyms: stoicism, stolidness |
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| (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, phlegm, unemotionality |
| stolidness | (noun) an indifference to pleasure or pain | Synonyms: stoicism, stolidity |
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| stoolie | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolpigeon |
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| succinylcholine | (noun) a muscle relaxant for striated muscle that is used as an adjunct to anesthesia during certain surgical procedures | - |
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| symbolisation | (noun) the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning | Synonyms: symbolism, symbolization |
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| (noun) something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | Synonyms: symbol, symbolic representation, symbolization |
| (noun) the use of symbols to convey meaning | Synonyms: symbolization |
| symboliser | (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symbolist, symbolizer |
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| symbolising | (noun) the act of representing something with a symbol | Synonyms: symbolizing |
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| symbolism | (noun) the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning | Synonyms: symbolisation, symbolization |
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| (noun) a system of symbols and symbolic representations | - |
| (noun) an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images | - |
| symbolist | (noun) a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symboliser, symbolizer |
| symbolization | (noun) the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning | Synonyms: symbolisation, symbolism |
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| (noun) something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | Synonyms: symbol, symbolic representation, symbolisation |
| (noun) the use of symbols to convey meaning | Synonyms: symbolisation |
| symbolizer | (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symboliser, symbolist |
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| symbolizing | (noun) the act of representing something with a symbol | Synonyms: symbolising |
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| tabooli | (noun) a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat | Synonyms: tabbouleh |
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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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| thromboembolism | (noun) occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus that has broken away from a thrombus | - |
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| tolazoline | (noun) vasodilator that is used to treat spasms of peripheral blood vessels (as in acrocyanosis) | - |
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| trampoline | (noun) gymnastic apparatus consisting of a strong canvas sheet attached with springs to a metal frame; used for tumbling | - |
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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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| trifoliata | (noun) small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges | Synonyms: Poncirus trifoliata, trifoliate orange, wild orange |
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| tripoli | (noun) a weathered and decomposed siliceous limestone; in powdered form it is used in polishing | Synonyms: rottenstone |
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| unholiness | (noun) the quality of being unholy | - |
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| urolith | (noun) a urinary stone | - |
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| vacuolisation | (noun) the state of having become filled with vacuoles | Synonyms: vacuolation, vacuolization |
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| vacuolization | (noun) the state of having become filled with vacuoles | Synonyms: vacuolation, vacuolisation |
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| variolization | (noun) the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox | Synonyms: variolation |
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| violin | (noun) bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow | Synonyms: fiddle |
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| violinist | (noun) a musician who plays the violin | Synonyms: fiddler |
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| violist | (noun) a musician who plays the viola | - |
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| volition | (noun) the act of making a choice | Synonyms: willing |
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| (noun) the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention | Synonyms: will |
| workaholic | (noun) person with a compulsive need to work | - |
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| workaholism | (noun) compulsiveness about working | - |
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| xenolith | (noun) (geology) a piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded | - |
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| zeolite | (noun) any of a family of glassy minerals analogous to feldspar containing hydrated aluminum silicates of calcium or sodium or potassium; formed in cavities in lava flows and in plutonic rocks | - |
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