| patchcord | (noun) a length of wire that has a plug at each end; used to make connections at a patchboard | - |
|---|
| precordium | (noun) the external surface of the body overlying the heart and stomach | - |
|---|
| preordination | (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: foreordination, predestination, predetermination |
|---|
| primordiality | (noun) The quality of being first, earliest or original. | - |
|---|
| primordium | (noun) an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development | Synonyms: anlage |
|---|
| record | (noun) an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport) | - |
|---|
| (noun) the sum of recognized accomplishments | Synonyms: track record |
| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter |
| (noun) a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted | Synonyms: criminal record |
| (noun) a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone | Synonyms: book, record book |
| (noun) anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events | - |
| (noun) a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction | - |
| (noun) the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had | - |
| recorder | (noun) a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece | Synonyms: fipple flute, fipple pipe, vertical flute |
|---|
| (noun) equipment for making records | Synonyms: recording equipment, recording machine |
| (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, registrar |
| (noun) a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs | - |
| recording | (noun) the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | Synonyms: transcription |
|---|
| (noun) a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded | - |
| (noun) a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded | - |
| reorder | (noun) a repeated order for the same merchandise | - |
|---|
| reordering | (noun) a rearrangement in a different order | - |
|---|
| rewording | (noun) changing a particular word or phrase | Synonyms: recasting, rephrasing |
|---|
| ripcord | (noun) a cord that is pulled to open a parachute from its pack during a descent | - |
|---|
| (noun) a cord that is pulled to open the gasbag of a balloon wide enough to release gas and so causes the balloon to descend | - |
| rutherford | (noun) a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second | - |
|---|
| rutherfordium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized | Synonyms: atomic number 104, element 104, Rf, unnilquadium, Unq |
|---|
| silversword | (noun) low-growing plant found only in volcanic craters on Hawaii having rosettes of narrow pointed silver-green leaves and clusters of profuse red-purple flowers on a tall stem | Synonyms: Argyroxiphium sandwicense |
|---|
| smorgasbord | (noun) an assortment of foods starting with herring or smoked eel or salmon etc with bread and butter; then cheeses and eggs and pickled vegetables and aspics; finally hot foods; served as a buffet meal | - |
|---|
| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, variety |
| sordidness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, despicableness |
|---|
| (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: squalidness, squalor |
| sordino | (noun) a mute for a violin | Synonyms: sourdine |
|---|
| suborder | (noun) (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order | - |
|---|
| subordinate | (noun) a word that is more specific than a given word | Synonyms: hyponym, subordinate word |
|---|
| (noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | Synonyms: foot soldier, subsidiary, underling |
| subordinateness | (noun) secondary importance | Synonyms: subsidiarity |
|---|
| subordination | (noun) the act of mastering or subordinating someone | Synonyms: mastery |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of obedient submissiveness | - |
| (noun) the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head | - |
| (noun) the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class | Synonyms: hyponymy |
| (noun) the state of being subordinate to something | - |
| superorder | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group ranking above an order and below a class or subclass | - |
|---|
| superordinate | (noun) a word that is more generic than a given word | Synonyms: hypernym, superordinate word |
|---|
| (noun) one of greater rank or station or quality | Synonyms: higher-up, superior |
| superordination | (noun) the semantic relation of being superordinate or belonging to a higher rank or class | Synonyms: hypernymy |
|---|
| swearword | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing |
|---|
| sword | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, brand, steel |
|---|
| swordfish | (noun) large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night | Synonyms: Xiphias gladius |
|---|
| (noun) flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks | - |
| swordplay | (noun) the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully | Synonyms: play |
|---|
| swordsman | (noun) someone skilled at fencing | Synonyms: fencer |
|---|
| swordsmanship | (noun) skill in fencing | - |
|---|
| swordtail | (noun) freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: helleri, topminnow, Xyphophorus helleri |
|---|
| urochord | (noun) a notochord of a larval tunicate typically confined to the caudal region | - |
|---|
| (noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva | Synonyms: tunicate, urochordate |
| urochordate | (noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva | Synonyms: tunicate, urochord |
|---|
| warlord | (noun) supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak | - |
|---|
| watchword | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, password, word |
|---|
| (noun) a slogan used to rally support for a cause | Synonyms: battle cry, cry, rallying cry, war cry |
| whipcord | (noun) a strong worsted or cotton fabric with a diagonal rib | - |
|---|
| (noun) closely twisted hard cord used for the lashes of whips | - |
| word | (noun) a unit of language that native speakers can identify | - |
|---|
| (noun) a promise | Synonyms: parole, word of honor |
| (noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: intelligence, news, tidings |
| (noun) a brief statement | - |
| (noun) an exchange of views on some topic | Synonyms: discussion, give-and-take |
| (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, password, watchword |
| (noun) a verbal command for action | - |
| (noun) a string of bits stored in computer memory | - |
| wordbook | (noun) a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings) | - |
|---|
| wordfinder | (noun) a thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think of | Synonyms: word finder |
|---|
| wordiness | (noun) boring verbosity | Synonyms: long-windedness, prolixity, prolixness, windiness |
|---|
| wording | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, verbiage |
|---|
| wordmonger | (noun) a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning | - |
|---|
| wordnet | (noun) any of the machine-readable lexical databases modeled after the Princeton WordNet | - |
|---|
| wordplay | (noun) a humorous play on words | Synonyms: paronomasia, pun, punning |
|---|
| words | (noun) words making up the dialogue of a play | Synonyms: actor's line, speech |
|---|
| (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, wrangle |
| (noun) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | Synonyms: language, lyric |
| (noun) the words that are spoken | - |
| (noun) language that is spoken or written | - |
| wordsmith | (noun) a fluent and prolific writer | - |
|---|