| pavlova | (noun) a dessert consisting of a meringue base or cup filled with fruit and whipped cream | - |
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| perijove | (noun) periapsis in orbit around Jupiter | - |
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| picovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one trillionth of a volt | - |
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| plover | (noun) any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers | - |
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| poliovirus | (noun) the virus causing poliomyelitis | - |
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| poove | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, pouf, queen, queer |
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| popover | (noun) light hollow muffin made of a puff batter (individual Yorkshire pudding) baked in a deep muffin cup | - |
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| poverty | (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: impoverishment, poorness |
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| provability | (noun) capability of being demonstrated or logically proved | Synonyms: demonstrability |
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| provenance | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenience |
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| provender | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provisions, viands, victuals |
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| (noun) food for domestic livestock | Synonyms: feed |
| provenience | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance |
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| proverb | (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: adage, byword, saw |
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| providence | (noun) the guardianship and control exercised by a deity | - |
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| (noun) the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources | - |
| (noun) a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures | - |
| provider | (noun) someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity | Synonyms: supplier |
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| (noun) someone who provides the means for subsistence | - |
| province | (noun) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | Synonyms: state |
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| (noun) the proper sphere or extent of your activities | Synonyms: responsibility |
| provincial | (noun) a country person | Synonyms: bucolic, peasant |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order | - |
| provincialism | (noun) a partiality for some particular place | Synonyms: localism, sectionalism |
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| (noun) a lack of sophistication | - |
| provirus | (noun) cDNA copy of the RNA genome of a retrovirus; the genetic material of a virus as incorporated into and able to replicate with the genome of a host cell | - |
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| provision | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | Synonyms: supply, supplying |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: planning, preparation |
| (noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: proviso |
| (noun) a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms) | - |
| provisioner | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: sutler, victualer, victualler |
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| provisions | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, viands, victuals |
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| proviso | (noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: provision |
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| provitamin | (noun) vitamin precursor; a substance that is converted into a vitamin in animal tissues | - |
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| provocateur | (noun) a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts | Synonyms: agent provocateur |
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| provocation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, irritation |
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| (noun) needed encouragement | Synonyms: incitement |
| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitation, incitement |
| provoker | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigant, instigator |
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| provost | (noun) a high-ranking university administrator | - |
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| pseudovariola | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: alastrim, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudosmallpox, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
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| pullover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: slipover |
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| pushover | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, snap, walkover |
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| (noun) someone who is easily taken advantage of | - |
| recoverer | (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: rescuer, saver |
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| recovery | (noun) the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) | Synonyms: retrieval |
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| (noun) return to an original state | - |
| (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: convalescence, recuperation |
| rediscovery | (noun) the act of discovering again | - |
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| removability | (noun) The state of being able to be dismissed from office. | - |
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| removal | (noun) the act of removing | Synonyms: remotion |
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| (noun) dismissal from office | - |
| remove | (noun) degree of figurative distance or separation | - |
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| remover | (noun) someone who works for a company that moves furniture | - |
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| (noun) a solvent that removes a substance (usually from a surface) | - |
| renovation | (noun) the act of improving by renewing and restoring | Synonyms: overhaul, redevelopment |
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| (noun) the state of being restored to its former good condition | Synonyms: refurbishment, restoration |
| renovator | (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: preserver, refinisher, restorer |
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| reovirus | (noun) any of a group of non-arboviruses including the rotavirus causing infant enteritis | - |
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| reproval | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof |
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| reprover | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, upbraider |
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| retroversion | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, reversion |
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| (noun) translation back into the original language | - |
| (noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part | Synonyms: retroflection, retroflexion |
| retrovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell | - |
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| retrovision | (noun) a vision of events in the distant past | - |
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| rhabdovirus | (noun) any of a group of arboviruses including those causing rabies | - |
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| rhinovirus | (noun) any of a group of picornaviruses that are responsible for many upper respiratory infections | - |
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| ringdove | (noun) greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged | Synonyms: Streptopelia risoria |
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| (noun) Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck | Synonyms: Columba palumbus, cushat, wood pigeon |
| rollover | (noun) the act of changing the institution that invests your pension plan without incurring a tax penalty | - |
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| rover | (noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, roamer, wanderer |
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| (noun) an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement | Synonyms: scouter |
| roving | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: vagabondage, wandering |
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| samovar | (noun) a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea | - |
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| shove | (noun) the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something) | - |
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| shovel | (noun) a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle | - |
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| (noun) a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace | - |
| (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: digger, excavator, power shovel |
| (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovelful, spadeful |
| shovelboard | (noun) a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | Synonyms: shuffleboard |
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| shoveler | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveller |
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| (noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveller |
| shovelful | (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovel, spadeful |
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| shovelhead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, bonnethead, Sphyrna tiburo |
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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 |
| shover | (noun) someone who pushes | Synonyms: pusher |
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| sleepover | (noun) an occasion of spending a night away from home or having a guest spend the night in your home (especially as a party for children) | - |
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| slipcover | (noun) a removable fitted cloth covering for upholstered furniture | - |
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| slipover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: pullover |
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| slivovitz | (noun) a colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans | - |
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| sloven | (noun) a coarse obnoxious person | Synonyms: pig, slob, slovenly person |
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| slovenliness | (noun) habitual uncleanliness | - |
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| (noun) a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for | Synonyms: sloppiness, unkemptness |
| sovereign | (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, monarch |
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| sovereignty | (noun) the authority of a state to govern another state | - |
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| (noun) government free from external control | - |
| (noun) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch | Synonyms: reign |
| soviet | (noun) an elected governmental council in a communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) | - |
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| sovietism | (noun) Soviet communism | Synonyms: Bolshevism, collectivism |
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| spillover | (noun) (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure | - |
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| stopover | (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: layover, stop |
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| (noun) a stopping place on a journey | Synonyms: way station |
| stove | (noun) any heating apparatus | - |
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| (noun) a kitchen appliance used for cooking food | Synonyms: cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, range |
| stovepipe | (noun) chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue | - |
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| (noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: beaver, dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, top hat, topper |
| stovepiping | (noun) retrieval of information from unconnected databases; the situation that exists when it is necessary to climb out of one database in order to climb down into another; sometimes used for protection against wandering hackers | - |
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| stover | (noun) the dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested | - |
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| supernova | (noun) a star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process | - |
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| synovia | (noun) viscid lubricating fluid secreted by the membrane lining joints and tendon sheaths etc. | Synonyms: synovial fluid |
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| synovitis | (noun) inflammation of the synovial membrane that lines a synovial joint; results in pain and swelling | - |
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| synovium | (noun) a thin membrane in synovial (freely moving) joints that lines the joint capsule and secretes synovial fluid | Synonyms: synovial membrane |
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| takeover | (noun) a change by sale or merger in the controlling interest of a corporation | - |
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| (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup, coup d'etat, putsch |
| tendosynovitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath | Synonyms: tendonous synovitis, tenosynovitis |
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| tenosynovitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath | Synonyms: tendonous synovitis, tendosynovitis |
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| tovarich | (noun) a comrade (especially in Russian communism) | Synonyms: tovarisch |
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| tovarisch | (noun) a comrade (especially in Russian communism) | Synonyms: tovarich |
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| trove | (noun) treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth) | Synonyms: treasure trove |
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| truelove | (noun) a person loved by another person | Synonyms: steady, sweetheart, sweetie |
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| turnover | (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: overturn, upset |
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| (noun) the volume measured in dollars | Synonyms: dollar volume |
| (noun) a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling | - |
| (noun) the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers | Synonyms: employee turnover, turnover rate |
| turtledove | (noun) any of several Old World wild doves | - |
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| (noun) small Australian dove | Synonyms: Australian turtledove, Stictopelia cuneata |
| uncovering | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: discovery, find |
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| (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, husking, stripping |
| vasovasostomy | (noun) a surgical procedure that attempts to restore the function of the vas deferens after a vasectomy | - |
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| vasovesiculitis | (noun) inflammation of the vas deferens and seminal vesicles; usually occurring with prostatitis | - |
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| vesiculovirus | (noun) an animal virus that causes vesicular stomatitis | - |
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| vulvovaginitis | (noun) inflammation of the vulva and the vagina | - |
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| walkover | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap |
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| (noun) backbends combined with handstands | - |
| zidovudine | (noun) an antiviral drug (trade name Retrovir) used in the treatment of AIDS; adverse side effects include liver damage and suppression of the bone marrow | Synonyms: AZT, Retrovir, ZDV |
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