| neurosarcoma | (noun) a malignant neoplasm of nerve tissue and fibrous tissue and connective tissue | Synonyms: malignant neuroma |
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| newspaperwoman | (noun) a female journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | - |
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| newswoman | (noun) a female newsperson | - |
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| noblewoman | (noun) a woman of the peerage in Britain | Synonyms: Lady, peeress |
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| noma | (noun) acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals; often seen in undernourished children | - |
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| nomad | (noun) a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons | - |
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| nomadism | (noun) The way of life of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc. | - |
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| nymphomania | (noun) abnormally intense sexual desire in women | - |
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| nymphomaniac | (noun) a woman with abnormal sexual desires | Synonyms: nympho |
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| oarswoman | (noun) a woman oarsman | - |
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| oleomargarine | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarin, margarine, marge, oleo |
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| omasum | (noun) the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant | Synonyms: psalterium, third stomach |
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| oneiromancer | (noun) someone who divines through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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| oneiromancy | (noun) divination through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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| onomancer | (noun) one who practices onomancy | - |
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| onomancy | (noun) divination by the letters of a name | - |
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| onomasticon | (noun) a list of proper nouns naming persons or places | - |
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| onomastics | (noun) the branch of lexicology that studies the forms and origins of proper names | - |
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| onomatomania | (noun) obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness | - |
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| onomatopoeia | (noun) using words that imitate the sound they denote | - |
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| osteoblastoma | (noun) benign tumor of bone and fibrous tissue; occurs in the vertebrae or femur or tibia or arm bones (especially in young adults) | - |
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| osteochondroma | (noun) benign tumor containing both bone and cartilage; usually occurs near the end of a long bone | - |
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| osteoma | (noun) a slow growing benign tumor of consisting of bone tissue; usually on the skull or mandible | - |
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| osteomalacia | (noun) abnormal softening of bones caused by deficiencies of phosphorus or calcium or vitamin D | - |
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| osteosarcoma | (noun) malignant bone tumor; most common in children and young adults where it tends to affect the femur | Synonyms: osteogenic sarcoma |
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| ottoman | (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: hassock, pouf, pouffe, puff |
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| (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, footstool, tuffet |
| outdoorswoman | (noun) a woman who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting and fishing) | - |
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| paleomammalogy | (noun) the paleobiology of ancient mammals | - |
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| papilloma | (noun) a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass | Synonyms: papillary tumor, papillary tumour, villoma |
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| parahoma | (noun) ritual drink prepared from Haoma plant. | - |
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| paronomasia | (noun) a humorous play on words | Synonyms: pun, punning, wordplay |
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| phaeochromocytoma | (noun) a vascular tumor of the adrenal gland; hypersecretion of epinephrine results in intermittent or sustained hypertension | Synonyms: pheochromocytoma |
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| phaneromania | (noun) an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) | - |
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| pheochromocytoma | (noun) a vascular tumor of the adrenal gland; hypersecretion of epinephrine results in intermittent or sustained hypertension | Synonyms: phaeochromocytoma |
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| philomath | (noun) a lover of learning | - |
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| pinealoma | (noun) tumor of the pineal gland | - |
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| plasmacytoma | (noun) neoplasm of plasma cells (usually in bone marrow) | - |
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| policewoman | (noun) a woman policeman | Synonyms: police matron |
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| polyoma | (noun) a virus that can initiate various kinds of tumors in mice | Synonyms: polyoma virus |
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| pomade | (noun) hairdressing consisting of a perfumed oil or ointment | Synonyms: pomatum |
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| pomatum | (noun) hairdressing consisting of a perfumed oil or ointment | Synonyms: pomade |
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| potomania | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: alcoholism, dipsomania |
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| prodroma | (noun) an early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur | Synonyms: prodrome |
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| protomammal | (noun) probably warm-blooded; considered direct ancestor of mammals | Synonyms: therapsid |
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| psammoma | (noun) a tumor derived from fibrous tissue of the meninges or choroid plexus or certain other structures associated with the brain; characterized by sandlike particles | Synonyms: sand tumor |
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| psychomachy | (noun) a conflict of the soul (as with the body or between good and evil). | - |
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| ptomain | (noun) any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria | Synonyms: ptomaine |
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| ptomaine | (noun) a term for food poisoning that is no longer in scientific use; food poisoning was once thought to be caused by ingesting ptomaines | Synonyms: ptomaine poisoning |
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| (noun) any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria | Synonyms: ptomain |
| pyromancer | (noun) one who practices pyromancy | - |
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| pyromancy | (noun) divination by fire or flames | - |
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| pyromania | (noun) an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things | - |
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| pyromaniac | (noun) a person with a mania for setting things on fire | - |
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| retinoblastoma | (noun) malignant ocular tumor of retinal cells; usually occurs before the third year of life; composed of primitive small round retinal cells | - |
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| rhabdomancer | (noun) someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water | Synonyms: dowser, water witch |
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| rhabdomancy | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowse, dowsing |
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| rhabdomyoma | (noun) benign tumor of striated muscle | - |
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| rhabdomyosarcoma | (noun) a highly malignant neoplasm derived from striated muscle | Synonyms: rhabdosarcoma |
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| rhabdosarcoma | (noun) a highly malignant neoplasm derived from striated muscle | Synonyms: rhabdomyosarcoma |
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| romaine | (noun) lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head | Synonyms: cos, cos lettuce, romaine lettuce |
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| roman | (noun) a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions | Synonyms: roman letters, roman print, roman type |
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| romance | (noun) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) | Synonyms: romanticism |
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| (noun) a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | - |
| (noun) a story dealing with love | Synonyms: love story |
| (noun) a relationship between two lovers | Synonyms: love affair |
| romantic | (noun) a soulful or amorous idealist | - |
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| (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romanticist |
| romanticisation | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticization, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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| romanticism | (noun) impractical romantic ideals and attitudes | - |
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| (noun) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) | Synonyms: romance |
| romanticist | (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romantic |
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| (noun) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality | Synonyms: sentimentalist |
| romanticization | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticisation, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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| sadomasochism | (noun) sadism and masochism combined in one person | - |
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| sadomasochist | (noun) someone who enjoys both sadism and masochism | - |
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| saleswoman | (noun) a woman salesperson | Synonyms: salesgirl, saleslady |
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| sangoma | (noun) a traditional Zulu healer and respected elder | - |
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| sarcoma | (noun) a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer | - |
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| scotoma | (noun) an isolated area of diminished vision within the visual field | - |
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| selectwoman | (noun) a female elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns | - |
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| semiautomatic | (noun) a pistol that is a semiautomatic firearm capable of loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: semiautomatic pistol |
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| semicoma | (noun) a mild comatose state; a coma from which the person can be roused by appropriate stimuli | - |
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| seminoma | (noun) malignant tumor of the testis; usually occurring in older men | Synonyms: testicular cancer |
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| soma | (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape |
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| (noun) leafless East Indian vine; its sour milky juice formerly used to make an intoxicating drink | Synonyms: haoma, Sarcostemma acidum |
| somaesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| (noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia |
| somaesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| soman | (noun) a nerve agent easily absorbed into the body; a lethal cholinesterase inhibitor that is highly toxic when inhaled | Synonyms: GD |
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| somataesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| somatesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| (noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia |
| somatosense | (noun) any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain | - |
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| somatotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans | Synonyms: growth hormone, human growth hormone, somatotrophic hormone, somatotropic hormone, somatotropin, STH |
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| somatotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans | Synonyms: growth hormone, human growth hormone, somatotrophic hormone, somatotrophin, somatotropic hormone, STH |
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| somatotype | (noun) a category of physique | Synonyms: body type |
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| sphygmomanometer | (noun) a pressure gauge for measuring blood pressure | - |
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| spokeswoman | (noun) a female spokesperson | - |
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| spongioblastoma | (noun) a fast-growing malignant brain tumor composed of spongioblasts; nearly always fatal | Synonyms: glioblastoma |
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| sportswoman | (noun) a female who engages in sports | - |
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| stateswoman | (noun) a woman statesman | - |
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| steatocystoma | (noun) a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked | Synonyms: pilar cyst, sebaceous cyst, wen |
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| sternocleidomastoid | (noun) one of two thick muscles running from the sternum and clavicle to the mastoid and occipital bone; turns head obliquely to the opposite side; when acting together they flex the neck and extend the head | Synonyms: musculus sternocleidomastoideus, sternocleido mastoideus, sternocleidomastoid muscle |
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| stoma | (noun) a mouth or mouthlike opening (especially one created by surgery on the surface of the body to create an opening to an internal organ) | - |
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| (noun) a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass | Synonyms: pore, stomate |
| stomach | (noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: breadbasket, tum, tummy |
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| (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, belly, venter |
| (noun) an appetite for food | - |
| (noun) an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness | - |
| stomachache | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: bellyache, gastralgia, stomach ache |
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| stomacher | (noun) garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century | - |
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| stomate | (noun) a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass | Synonyms: pore, stoma |
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| stomatitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth | - |
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| stomatopod | (noun) a kind of crustacean | Synonyms: stomatopod crustacean |
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