| alpenstock | (noun) a stout staff with a metal point; used by mountain climbers | - |
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| compensation | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: recompense |
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| (noun) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors | - |
| diapensia | (noun) any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia | - |
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| dispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensableness |
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| dispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensability |
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| dispensary | (noun) clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed | - |
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| dispensation | (noun) the act of dispensing (giving out in portions) | - |
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| (noun) an exemption from some rule or obligation | - |
| (noun) a share that has been dispensed or distributed | - |
| dispenser | (noun) a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts | - |
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| (noun) a person who dispenses | - |
| expense | (noun) a detriment or sacrifice | - |
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| (noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, disbursement |
| (noun) money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer | - |
| expensiveness | (noun) the quality of being high-priced | - |
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| happenstance | (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: coincidence |
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| indispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensableness, vitalness |
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| indispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensability, vitalness |
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| inexpensiveness | (noun) the quality of being affordable | - |
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| overcompensation | (noun) excessive compensation | - |
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| (noun) (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite | - |
| pension | (noun) a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working | - |
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| pensionary | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: hireling |
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| (noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensioner |
| pensioner | (noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensionary |
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| pensiveness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: contemplativeness, meditativeness |
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| (noun) persistent morbid meditation on a problem | Synonyms: brooding |
| penstock | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: sluice, sluiceway |
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| (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: floodgate, head gate, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
| propensity | (noun) a disposition to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: aptness |
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| (noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: leaning, proclivity |
| (noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: leaning, tendency |
| recompense | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: compensation |
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| (noun) payment or reward (as for service rendered) | - |
| resuspension | (noun) a renewed suspension of insoluble particles after they have been precipitated | - |
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| suspense | (noun) an uncertain cognitive state | - |
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| (noun) excited anticipation of an approaching climax | - |
| (noun) apprehension about what is going to happen | - |
| suspension | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: dangling, hanging |
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| (noun) a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc) | Synonyms: temporary removal |
| (noun) a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: suspension system |
| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, reprieve, respite |
| (noun) temporary cessation or suspension | Synonyms: abeyance |
| (noun) a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy | - |
| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, intermission, interruption, pause |
| suspensor | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, jockstrap, supporter |
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| suspensory | (noun) a bandage of elastic fabric applied to uplift a dependant part (as the scrotum or a pendulous breast) | Synonyms: suspensory bandage |
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