| appellant | (noun) the party who appeals a decision of a lower court | Synonyms: plaintiff in error |
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| appellation | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellative, denomination, designation |
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| (noun) a geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown | - |
| appellative | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, denomination, designation |
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| archipelago | (noun) a group of many islands in a large body of water | - |
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| capelan | (noun) very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes | Synonyms: capelin, caplin |
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| capelet | (noun) a small cape that covers the shoulders and is worn predominantly by women. | - |
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| capelin | (noun) very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes | Synonyms: capelan, caplin |
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| cappelletti | (noun) small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings | Synonyms: ravioli |
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| carpel | (noun) a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil | - |
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| chapel | (noun) a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar | Synonyms: chapel service |
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| (noun) a place of worship that has its own altar | - |
| chapelgoer | (noun) a Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England | Synonyms: Nonconformist |
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| cupel | (noun) a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead | Synonyms: bone-ash cup, refractory pot |
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| doppelganger | (noun) a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart | - |
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| doppelzentner | (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, hundredweight, metric hundredweight |
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| drupelet | (noun) a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe | - |
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| epipelon | (noun) cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae that live on or in association with fine-grained substrata. | - |
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| erysipelas | (noun) an acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes | - |
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| estoppel | (noun) a rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled | - |
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| expelling | (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: discharge, emission |
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| fingerspelling | (noun) an alphabet of manual signs | Synonyms: finger spelling |
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| gospel | (noun) a doctrine that is believed to be of great importance | - |
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| (noun) the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group | Synonyms: church doctrine, creed, religious doctrine |
| (noun) an unquestionable truth | Synonyms: gospel truth |
| (noun) folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul) | Synonyms: gospel singing |
| gospeler | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeller, revivalist |
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| gospeller | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, revivalist |
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| hopelessness | (noun) the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success | - |
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| impeller | (noun) the blade of a rotor (as in the compressor of a jet engine) | - |
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| interpellation | (noun) the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts | Synonyms: interjection, interpolation, interposition |
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| (noun) (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy | - |
| lapel | (noun) lap at the front of a coat; continuation of the coat collar | - |
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| misspelling | (noun) a spelling that is incorrect | - |
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| pel | (noun) (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot) | Synonyms: picture element, pixel |
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| pelage | (noun) growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal | Synonyms: coat |
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| pelecypod | (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, lamellibranch |
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| pelf | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| pelican | (noun) large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish | - |
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| peliosis | (noun) any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding | Synonyms: purpura |
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| pelisse | (noun) a sleeveless cape that is lined or trimmed with fur | - |
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| pellagra | (noun) a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments | Synonyms: Alpine scurvy, maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, mayidism, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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| pellet | (noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | Synonyms: shot |
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| (noun) a small rounded mass of a substance | - |
| pellicle | (noun) thin protective membrane in some protozoa | - |
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| pellitory | (noun) a small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache | Synonyms: Anacyclus pyrethrum, pellitory-of-Spain |
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| (noun) herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers | Synonyms: Parietaria difusa, pellitory-of-the-wall, wall pellitory |
| pellucidity | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: limpidity, pellucidness |
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| (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness |
| pellucidness | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: limpidity, pellucidity |
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| pelmet | (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: cornice, valance, valance board |
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| pelota | (noun) a Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket | Synonyms: jai alai |
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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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| peludo | (noun) Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts | Synonyms: Euphractus sexcinctus, poyou |
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| pelvimeter | (noun) measuring instrument for performing pelvimetry | - |
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| pelvimetry | (noun) measurement of the dimensions of the bony birth canal (to determine whether vaginal birth is possible) | - |
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| pelvis | (noun) the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates | Synonyms: hip, pelvic arch, pelvic girdle |
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| (noun) a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter | Synonyms: renal pelvis |
| pelycosaur | (noun) large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America | - |
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| pipeline | (noun) a pipe used to transport liquids or gases | Synonyms: line |
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| (noun) gossip spread by spoken communication | Synonyms: grapevine, word of mouth |
| propellant | (noun) any substance that propels | Synonyms: propellent |
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| propellent | (noun) any substance that propels | Synonyms: propellant |
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| propeller | (noun) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | Synonyms: propellor |
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| propellor | (noun) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | Synonyms: propeller |
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| rappel | (noun) (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body | Synonyms: abseil |
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| rappeller | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: abseiler |
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| repellant | (noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellent |
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| (noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellent |
| (noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellent |
| repellent | (noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellant |
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| (noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellant |
| (noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellant |
| sapropel | (noun) sludge (rich in organic matter) that accumulates at the bottom of lakes or oceans | - |
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| scalpel | (noun) a thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery | - |
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| shapelessness | (noun) the quality of lacking an esthetically pleasing shape | - |
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| (noun) an amorphous or indefinite shape | - |
| shapeliness | (noun) the quality of having a well-rounded body | Synonyms: curvaceousness, voluptuousness |
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| spelaeologist | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: potholer, speleologist, spelunker |
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| spelaeology | (noun) the pastime of exploring caves | Synonyms: speleology |
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| (noun) the scientific study of caves | Synonyms: speleology |
| speleologist | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: potholer, spelaeologist, spelunker |
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| speleology | (noun) the pastime of exploring caves | Synonyms: spelaeology |
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| (noun) the scientific study of caves | Synonyms: spelaeology |
| spell | (noun) a verbal formula believed to have magical force | Synonyms: charm, magic spell, magical spell |
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| (noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: enchantment, trance |
| (noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: go, tour, turn |
| (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: patch, piece, while |
| spellbinder | (noun) an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound | - |
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| spelldown | (noun) a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly | Synonyms: spelling bee, spelling contest |
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| speller | (noun) an introductory textbook to teach spelling | - |
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| (noun) someone who spells words | Synonyms: good speller, poor speller |
| spelling | (noun) forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage | - |
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| 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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| spelunker | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: potholer, spelaeologist, speleologist |
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| stapelia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers | Synonyms: carrion flower, starfish flower |
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| tapeline | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths | Synonyms: tape, tape measure |
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| tupelo | (noun) any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America | Synonyms: tupelo tree |
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| (noun) pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum | - |
| zeppelin | (noun) a large rigid dirigible designed to carry passengers or bombs | Synonyms: Graf Zeppelin |
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