| appetence | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetency, appetite |
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| appetency | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetence, appetite |
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| appetiser | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetizer, starter |
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| appetisingness | (noun) the property of stimulating the appetite | Synonyms: appetizingness |
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| appetite | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetence, appetency |
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| appetizer | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetiser, starter |
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| appetizingness | (noun) the property of stimulating the appetite | Synonyms: appetisingness |
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| carpet | (noun) floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile) | Synonyms: carpeting, rug |
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| (noun) a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet | - |
| carpetbag | (noun) traveling bag made of carpet; widely used in 19th century | - |
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| carpetbagger | (noun) an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously | - |
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| carpeting | (noun) floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile) | Synonyms: carpet, rug |
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| carpetweed | (noun) annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America | Synonyms: Indian chickweed, Molluga verticillata |
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| competence | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competency |
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| competency | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competence |
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| competition | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: contention, rivalry |
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| (noun) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants | Synonyms: contest |
| (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competitor, contender, rival |
| (noun) a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers | - |
| competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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| competitor | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, contender, rival |
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| crapette | (noun) solitaire with two players using separate packs | Synonyms: Russian bank |
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| crumpet | (noun) a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle | - |
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| herpetologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians | - |
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| herpetology | (noun) the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians | - |
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| immunocompetence | (noun) the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| impetigo | (noun) a very contagious infection of the skin; common in children; localized redness develops into small blisters that gradually crust and erode | - |
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| impetuosity | (noun) rash impulsiveness | Synonyms: impetuousness |
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| impetuousness | (noun) rash impulsiveness | Synonyms: impetuosity |
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| impetus | (noun) the act of applying force suddenly | Synonyms: impulse, impulsion |
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| (noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: drift, impulsion |
| incompetence | (noun) lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications | Synonyms: incompetency |
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| (noun) inability of a part or organ to function properly | - |
| incompetency | (noun) lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications | Synonyms: incompetence |
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| incompetent | (noun) someone who is not competent to take effective action | Synonyms: incompetent person |
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| lappet | (noun) medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars | Synonyms: lappet moth |
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| (noun) a small lap on a garment or headdress | - |
| (noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards | Synonyms: wattle |
| limpet | (noun) any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas | - |
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| (noun) mollusk with a low conical shell | - |
| moppet | (noun) a little girl (usually one you are fond of) | - |
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| osteopetrosis | (noun) an inherited disorder characterized by an increase in bone density; in severe forms the bone marrow cavity may be obliterated | Synonyms: Albers-Schonberg disease, marble bones disease |
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| parapet | (noun) fortification consisting of a low wall | Synonyms: breastwork |
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| (noun) a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony | - |
| peripeteia | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripetia, peripety |
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| peripetia | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripeteia, peripety |
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| peripety | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripeteia, peripetia |
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| perpetration | (noun) the act of committing a crime | Synonyms: commission, committal |
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| perpetrator | (noun) someone who perpetrates wrongdoing | Synonyms: culprit |
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| perpetuation | (noun) the act of prolonging something | Synonyms: lengthening, prolongation, protraction |
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| perpetuity | (noun) the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) | Synonyms: sempiternity |
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| pet | (noun) a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement | - |
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| (noun) a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight) | - |
| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite |
| petabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 terabits or 10^15 bits | Synonyms: Pb, Pbit |
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| petabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes | Synonyms: PB, pebibyte, PiB |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes | Synonyms: PB |
| petaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one quadrillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: PFLOPS |
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| petal | (noun) part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored | Synonyms: flower petal |
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| petard | (noun) an explosive device used to break down a gate or wall | - |
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| petchary | (noun) a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America; similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird | Synonyms: gray kingbird, grey kingbird, Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis |
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| petcock | (noun) regulator consisting of a small cock or faucet or valve for letting out air or releasing compression or draining | - |
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| petechia | (noun) a minute red or purple spot on the surface of the skin as the result of tiny hemorrhages of blood vessels in the skin (as in typhoid fever) | - |
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| petfood | (noun) food prepared for animal pets | Synonyms: pet-food, pet food |
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| petiole | (noun) the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf | Synonyms: leafstalk |
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| petiolule | (noun) the stalk of a leaflet | - |
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| petite | (noun) a garment size for short or slender women | - |
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| petiteness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: diminutiveness, minuteness, tininess, weeness |
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| petitio | (noun) the logical fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises; begging the question | Synonyms: petitio principii |
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| petition | (noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: postulation, request |
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| (noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: orison, prayer |
| petitioner | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: requester, suppliant, supplicant |
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| (noun) someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right | Synonyms: suer |
| petrel | (noun) relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land | - |
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| petrifaction | (noun) a rock created by petrifaction; an organic object infiltrated with mineral matter and preserved in its original form | - |
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| (noun) the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape | Synonyms: petrification |
| petrification | (noun) the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape | Synonyms: petrifaction |
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| petrissage | (noun) massage of the skin which is gently lifted and squeezed | - |
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| petrochemical | (noun) any compound obtained from petroleum or natural gas | - |
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| petroglyph | (noun) a carving or line drawing on rock (especially one made by prehistoric people) | - |
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| petrol | (noun) a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines | Synonyms: gas, gasolene, gasoline |
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| petrolatum | (noun) a semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in medicinal ointments and for lubrication | Synonyms: mineral jelly, petroleum jelly |
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| petroleum | (noun) a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: crude, crude oil, fossil oil, oil, rock oil |
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| petrology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies rocks: their origin and formation and mineral composition and classification | Synonyms: lithology |
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| petter | (noun) a lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one | Synonyms: fondler |
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| petticoat | (noun) undergarment worn under a skirt | Synonyms: half-slip, underskirt |
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| pettifogger | (noun) a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods | Synonyms: shyster |
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| (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, caviller, quibbler |
| pettifoggery | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| pettiness | (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: puniness, slightness, triviality |
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| (noun) lack of generosity in trifling matters | Synonyms: littleness, smallness |
| (noun) narrowness of mind or ideas or views | - |
| petting | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, smooching, snuggling |
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| pettishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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| petty | (noun) larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale) | Synonyms: petit larceny, petty larceny |
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| petulance | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness |
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| petunia | (noun) any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers | - |
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| pipet | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube | Synonyms: pipette |
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| pipette | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube | Synonyms: pipet |
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| poppet | (noun) a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat; commonly used in internal-combustion engines | Synonyms: poppet valve |
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| puppet | (noun) a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer | Synonyms: marionette |
| (noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: creature, tool |
| puppeteer | (noun) one who operates puppets or marionettes | - |
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| puppetry | (noun) a stilted dramatic performance (as if by puppets) | - |
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| (noun) the art of making puppets and presenting puppet shows | - |
| repetition | (noun) the act of doing or performing again | Synonyms: repeating |
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| (noun) the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device | - |
| (noun) an event that repeats | Synonyms: repeat |
| repetitiousness | (noun) verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions | Synonyms: repetitiveness |
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| repetitiveness | (noun) verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions | Synonyms: repetitiousness |
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| salopettes | (noun) trousers usually of stretch material and kept taut by a strap under the foot, worn for skiing or as a fashion garment. | Synonyms: ski pants |
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| saltpeter | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: niter, nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpetre |
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| saltpetre | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: niter, nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpeter |
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| schizopetalon | (noun) a dainty South American annual having deeply pinnatifid leaves and racemes of fringed almond-scented purple-white flowers | Synonyms: Schizopetalon walkeri |
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| snippet | (noun) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) | Synonyms: snip, snipping |
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| strumpet | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, trollop |
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| tappet | (noun) a lever that is moved in order to tap something else | - |
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| tippet | (noun) a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten | - |
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| trumpet | (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: cornet, horn, trump |
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| trumpeter | (noun) large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated | - |
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| (noun) large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry | Synonyms: Cygnus buccinator, trumpeter swan |
| (noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: cornetist |
| (noun) (formal) a person who announces important news | Synonyms: herald |
| trumpetfish | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down | Synonyms: Aulostomus maculatus |
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| trumpets | (noun) pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids | Synonyms: huntsman's horn, huntsman's horns, Sarracenia flava, yellow pitcher plant, yellow trumpet |
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| trumpetwood | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, imbauba, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree |
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