| aponeurosis | (noun) any of the deeper and thicker fascia that attach muscles to bones; resemble flattened tendons | - |
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| bioweapon | (noun) any weapon usable in biological warfare | Synonyms: bioarm, biological weapon |
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| campong | (noun) a native malay village | Synonyms: kampong |
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| capon | (noun) castrated male chicken | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a castrated male chicken | - |
| component | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: constituent, element |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: constituent, element, factor, ingredient |
| (noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component part, constituent, part, portion |
| corespondent | (noun) the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding | Synonyms: co-respondent |
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| cornpone | (noun) cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern) | Synonyms: pone |
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| correspondence | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: parallelism |
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| (noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: agreement |
| (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetry |
| (noun) communication by the exchange of letters | - |
| (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness |
| correspondent | (noun) someone who communicates by means of letters | Synonyms: letter writer |
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| (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newswriter |
| coupon | (noun) a test sample of some substance | - |
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| (noun) a negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed | Synonyms: voucher |
| crampon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampoon |
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| (noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampoon |
| deponent | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deposer, testifier |
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| despondence | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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| despondency | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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| eponym | (noun) the name derived from a person (real or imaginary) | - |
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| (noun) the person for whom something is named | - |
| eponymy | (noun) the derivation of a general name from that of a famous person | - |
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| exponent | (noun) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself | Synonyms: index, power |
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| (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, advocator, proponent |
| (noun) someone who expounds and interprets or explains | - |
| exponential | (noun) a function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent | Synonyms: exponential function |
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| exponentiation | (noun) the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power | Synonyms: involution |
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| fishpond | (noun) a freshwater pond with fish | - |
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| horsepond | (noun) a pond for watering horses | - |
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| hydroponics | (noun) a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients | Synonyms: aquiculture, tank farming |
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| hyponatremia | (noun) abnormally low level of sodium in the blood; associated with dehydration | - |
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| hyponym | (noun) a word that is more specific than a given word | Synonyms: subordinate, subordinate word |
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| hyponymy | (noun) the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class | Synonyms: subordination |
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| imponderable | (noun) a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed | - |
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| irresponsibility | (noun) a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions | Synonyms: irresponsibleness |
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| irresponsibleness | (noun) a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions | Synonyms: irresponsibility |
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| japonica | (noun) deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms | Synonyms: Chaenomeles japonica, maule's quince |
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| (noun) greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties | Synonyms: Camellia japonica |
| kampong | (noun) a native malay village | Synonyms: campong |
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| mascarpone | (noun) soft mild Italian cream cheese | - |
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| microtoponym | (noun) a name of a "minor" or small natural feature (e.g., a field, path, bridge, ditch, etc.). | - |
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| millpond | (noun) a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel | - |
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| opponent | (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opposer, resister |
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| (noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opposite, opposition |
| pompon | (noun) dusky grey food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward | Synonyms: Anisotremus surinamensis, black margate |
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| (noun) decoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk; usually worn on a hat | Synonyms: pom-pom |
| ponce | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, procurer |
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| (noun) a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses | - |
| poncho | (noun) a blanket-like cloak with a hole in the center for the head | - |
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| pond | (noun) a small lake | Synonyms: pool |
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| ponderer | (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muller, muser, ruminator |
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| ponderosa | (noun) common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature | Synonyms: bull pine, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine |
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| ponderosity | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness |
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| ponderousness | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity |
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| (noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | Synonyms: heaviness |
| pondweed | (noun) any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae | - |
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| (noun) submerged freshwater perennials | Synonyms: ditchmoss, Elodea, genus Elodea |
| pone | (noun) cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern) | Synonyms: cornpone |
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| pong | (noun) an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: niff |
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| pongee | (noun) a soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation) | - |
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| pongid | (noun) any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae | Synonyms: great ape |
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| poniard | (noun) a dagger with a slender blade | Synonyms: bodkin |
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| pons | (noun) a band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain | Synonyms: pons Varolii |
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| pontifex | (noun) a member of the highest council of priests in ancient Rome | - |
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| pontiff | (noun) the head of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: Bishop of Rome, Catholic Pope, Holy Father, pope, Roman Catholic Pope, Vicar of Christ |
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| pontifical | (noun) the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop) | - |
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| pontificate | (noun) the government of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papacy |
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| pontoon | (noun) a float supporting a seaplane | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge | - |
| pony | (noun) any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder | - |
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| (noun) a range horse of the western United States | - |
| (noun) an informal term for a racehorse | - |
| (noun) a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey | Synonyms: jigger, shot glass |
| (noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) | Synonyms: crib, trot |
| ponycart | (noun) a cart with an underslung axle and two seats | Synonyms: donkey cart, pony cart, tub-cart |
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| ponytail | (noun) a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail | - |
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| postponement | (noun) act of putting off to a future time | Synonyms: deferment, deferral |
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| (noun) time during which some action is awaited | Synonyms: delay, hold, time lag, wait |
| postponer | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: cunctator, procrastinator |
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| preponderance | (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: prevalence |
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| (noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight | - |
| (noun) superiority in power or influence | - |
| proponent | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, advocator, exponent |
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| respondent | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, responder |
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| (noun) the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent | - |
| responder | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, respondent |
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| response | (noun) a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent | Synonyms: reaction |
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| (noun) the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals | - |
| (noun) the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Synonyms: reply |
| (noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: answer, reply |
| (noun) the manner in which something is greeted | Synonyms: reception |
| (noun) a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister | - |
| (noun) a result | - |
| responsibility | (noun) the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force | Synonyms: duty, obligation |
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| (noun) a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct | Synonyms: responsibleness |
| (noun) the proper sphere or extent of your activities | Synonyms: province |
| responsibleness | (noun) a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct | Synonyms: responsibility |
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| responsiveness | (noun) the quality of being responsive; reacting quickly; as a quality of people, it involves responding with emotion to people and events | - |
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| (noun) responsive to stimulation | Synonyms: reactivity |
| saponification | (noun) a chemical reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali (especially the alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap) | - |
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| saponin | (noun) any of various plant glucosides that form soapy lathers when mixed and agitated with water; used in detergents and foaming agents and emulsifiers | - |
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| spondee | (noun) a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables | - |
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| spondylarthritis | (noun) arthritis that affects one or more of the intervertebral joints in the spine | - |
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| spondylitis | (noun) inflammation of a spinal joint; characterized by pain and stiffness | - |
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| spondylolisthesis | (noun) a forward dislocation of one vertebra over the one beneath it producing pressure on spinal nerves | - |
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| sponge | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: parazoan, poriferan |
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| (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: leech, parasite, sponger |
| (noun) someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily | Synonyms: quick study |
| (noun) a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used | - |
| spongefly | (noun) hairy-bodied insect whose larvae feed on freshwater sponges | Synonyms: spongillafly |
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| sponger | (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: leech, parasite, sponge |
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| (noun) a workman employed to collect sponges | - |
| spongillafly | (noun) hairy-bodied insect whose larvae feed on freshwater sponges | Synonyms: spongefly |
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| sponginess | (noun) the porosity of a sponge | - |
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| (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: compressibility, squeezability |
| spongioblast | (noun) any of various columnar epithelial cells in the central nervous system that develop into neuroglia | - |
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| spongioblastoma | (noun) a fast-growing malignant brain tumor composed of spongioblasts; nearly always fatal | Synonyms: glioblastoma |
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| sponsor | (noun) someone who supports or champions something | Synonyms: patron, supporter |
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| (noun) an advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.) | Synonyms: presenter |
| sponsorship | (noun) the act of sponsoring (either officially or financially) | - |
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| spontaneity | (noun) the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint | Synonyms: spontaneousness |
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| spontaneousness | (noun) the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint | Synonyms: spontaneity |
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| tampon | (noun) plug of cotton or other absorbent material; inserted into wound or body cavity to absorb exuded fluids (especially blood) | - |
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| tamponade | (noun) blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding) | Synonyms: tamponage |
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| tamponage | (noun) blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding) | Synonyms: tamponade |
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| tarpon | (noun) large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida | Synonyms: Tarpon atlanticus |
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| toponomy | (noun) the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language | Synonyms: toponymy |
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| (noun) the nomenclature of regional anatomy | Synonyms: toponymy |
| toponym | (noun) the name by which a geographical place is known | Synonyms: place name |
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| toponymy | (noun) the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language | Synonyms: toponomy |
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| (noun) the nomenclature of regional anatomy | Synonyms: toponomy |
| transponder | (noun) electrical device designed to receive a specific signal and automatically transmit a specific reply | - |
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| treponema | (noun) spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws) | - |
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| troponomy | (noun) the place names of a region or a language considered collectively | Synonyms: troponymy |
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| troponym | (noun) a word that denotes a manner of doing something | Synonyms: manner name |
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| troponymy | (noun) the place names of a region or a language considered collectively | Synonyms: troponomy |
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| (noun) the semantic relation of being a manner of does something | - |
| unresponsiveness | (noun) the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events | Synonyms: deadness |
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| weapon | (noun) any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting | Synonyms: arm, weapon system |
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| (noun) a means of persuading or arguing | Synonyms: artillery |
| weaponry | (noun) weapons considered collectively | Synonyms: arms, implements of war, munition, weapons system |
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