| allotropism | (noun) the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms | Synonyms: allotropy |
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| apishamore | (noun) a saddle blanket made of buffalo hide | - |
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| concupiscence | (noun) a desire for sexual intimacy | Synonyms: eros, physical attraction, sexual desire |
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| despisal | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despising |
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| despising | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despisal |
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| drypis | (noun) spiny-leaved perennial herb of southern Europe having terminal clusters of small flowers | - |
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| electrotherapist | (noun) someone who specializes in the treatment of disease by electricity | - |
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| episcia | (noun) any plant of the genus Episcia; usually creeping and stoloniferous and of cascading habit; grown for their colorful foliage and flowers | - |
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| episcleritis | (noun) inflammation of the sclera of the eye | - |
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| episcopacy | (noun) the collective body of bishops | Synonyms: episcopate |
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| episcopate | (noun) the office and dignity of a bishop | Synonyms: bishopry |
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| (noun) the collective body of bishops | Synonyms: episcopacy |
| (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: bishopric, diocese |
| (noun) the term of office of a bishop | - |
| episiotomy | (noun) surgical incision of the perineum to enlarge the vagina and so facilitate delivery during childbirth | - |
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| episode | (noun) film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie | Synonyms: sequence |
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| (noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: installment, instalment |
| (noun) a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series | - |
| (noun) a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events | - |
| episodicity | (noun) The quality of being sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly. | - |
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| episome | (noun) DNA that is not incorporated into the genome but is replicated together with the genome (especially in bacterial cells) | - |
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| epispadias | (noun) a congenital abnormality in males in which the urethra is on the upper surface of the penis | - |
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| episperm | (noun) protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants | Synonyms: seed coat, testa |
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| epistasis | (noun) the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene | Synonyms: hypostasis |
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| epistaxis | (noun) bleeding from the nose | Synonyms: nosebleed |
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| episteme | (noun) the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time | - |
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| epistemologist | (noun) a specialist in epistemology | - |
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| epistemology | (noun) the philosophical theory of knowledge | - |
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| epistle | (noun) a specially long, formal letter | - |
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| epistrophe | (noun) repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. | Synonyms: epiphora |
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| ergotropism | (noun) an affinity for work | - |
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| escapism | (noun) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy | Synonyms: escape |
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| escapist | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: dreamer, wishful thinker |
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| foppishness | (noun) the manner and dress of a fop or dandy | Synonyms: dandyism |
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| geotropism | (noun) an orienting response to gravity | - |
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| harpist | (noun) someone who plays the harp | Synonyms: harper |
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| heliotropism | (noun) an orienting response to the sun | - |
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| impishness | (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: mischievousness, puckishness, whimsicality |
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| inspissation | (noun) the act of thickening | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) the process of thickening by dehydration | - |
| landscapist | (noun) someone who paints landscapes | - |
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| (noun) someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively | Synonyms: landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper |
| malapropism | (noun) the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar | Synonyms: malaprop |
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| meteortropism | (noun) an effect of climate on biological processes (as the effect on joint pains etc.) | - |
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| microscopist | (noun) a scientist who specializes in research with the use of microscopes | - |
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| misanthropist | (noun) someone who dislikes people in general | Synonyms: misanthrope |
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| monotopism | (noun) origin of a systematic group only once (as by mutation) or at a single location. | - |
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| neurotropism | (noun) an affinity for neural tissues | - |
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| opisthorchiasis | (noun) infestation with flukes obtained from eating raw fish; common in eastern Asia | - |
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| opisthotonos | (noun) severe spasm in which the back arches and the head bends back and heels flex toward the back | - |
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| orthoepist | (noun) a practitioner of orthoepy (especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely) | - |
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| papism | (noun) offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: popery |
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| (noun) the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome | Synonyms: Roman Catholicism, Romanism |
| papist | (noun) an offensive term for Roman Catholics; originally, a Roman Catholic who was a strong advocate of the papacy | - |
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| philanthropist | (noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | Synonyms: altruist |
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| phototropism | (noun) an orienting response to light | - |
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| physiotherapist | (noun) therapist who treats injury or dysfunction with exercises and other physical treatments of the disorder | Synonyms: physical therapist |
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| pipistrel | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
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| pipistrelle | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrel, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
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| pisanosaur | (noun) primitive dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: pisanosaurus |
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| pisanosaurus | (noun) primitive dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: pisanosaur |
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| piscary | (noun) a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold | Synonyms: fishery |
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| pisiform | (noun) a small wrist bone that articulates only with the triquetral | Synonyms: os pisiforme, pisiform bone |
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| pismire | (noun) social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers | Synonyms: ant, emmet |
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| piss | (noun) informal terms for urination | Synonyms: pee, peeing, pissing |
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| (noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: pee, piddle, urine, water, weewee |
| pisser | (noun) a very disagreeable difficulty | - |
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| (noun) a person who urinates | Synonyms: urinator |
| pissing | (noun) informal terms for urination | Synonyms: pee, peeing, piss |
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| pistachio | (noun) nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel | Synonyms: pistachio nut |
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| (noun) small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts | Synonyms: pistachio tree, Pistacia vera |
| piste | (noun) a ski run densely packed with snow | - |
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| (noun) a flat rectangular area for fencing bouts | - |
| pistia | (noun) pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes | Synonyms: Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoites, water cabbage, water lettuce |
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| pistil | (noun) the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma | - |
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| pistillode | (noun) a sterile vestigial pistil remaining in a staminate flower | - |
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| pistol | (noun) a firearm that is held and fired with one hand | Synonyms: handgun, shooting iron, side arm |
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| pistoleer | (noun) someone armed with a pistol (especially a soldier so armed) | - |
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| piston | (noun) mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion | Synonyms: plunger |
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| pistonphone | (noun) an acoustical calibrator (sound source) that uses a closed coupling volume to generate a precise sound pressure for the calibration of measurement microphones. | - |
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| priapism | (noun) condition in which the penis is continually erect; usually painful and seldom with sexual arousal | - |
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| psychotherapist | (noun) a therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders | Synonyms: clinical psychologist |
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| radiotherapist | (noun) a medical specialist who uses radioactive substances and X-rays in the treatment of disease | Synonyms: radiologist |
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| rapist | (noun) someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse | Synonyms: raper |
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| sheepishness | (noun) feeling embarrassed about yourself | Synonyms: shamefacedness |
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| sinapism | (noun) a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient | Synonyms: mustard plaster |
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| sinopis | (noun) a red ocher formerly used as a pigment | Synonyms: sinoper, sinopia |
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| snappishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, surliness, temper |
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| tapis | (noun) a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery | Synonyms: tapestry |
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| theanthropism | (noun) (theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine | - |
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| (noun) the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits | Synonyms: anthropomorphism |
| therapist | (noun) a person skilled in a particular type of therapy | Synonyms: healer |
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| thermotropism | (noun) an orienting response to warmth | - |
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| trophotropism | (noun) an orienting response to food | - |
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| tropism | (noun) an involuntary orienting response; positive or negative reaction to a stimulus source | - |
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| typist | (noun) someone paid to operate a typewriter | - |
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| uppishness | (noun) assumption of airs beyond one's station | Synonyms: uppityness |
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