| aeciospore | (noun) spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium | - |
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| airport | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, drome |
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| apportioning | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
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| apportionment | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
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| archespore | (noun) primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops | Synonyms: archesporium |
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| archesporium | (noun) primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops | Synonyms: archespore |
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| arthrospore | (noun) one of a string of thick walled vegetative resting cells formed by some algae and fungi | - |
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| (noun) a body that resembles a spore but is not an endospore; produced by some bacteria | - |
| ascospore | (noun) sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus | - |
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| basidiospore | (noun) a sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium | - |
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| blastopore | (noun) the opening into the archenteron | - |
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| carport | (noun) garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles | Synonyms: car port |
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| carpospore | (noun) a nonmotile spore of red algae | - |
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| cephalosporin | (noun) one of several broad spectrum antibiotic substances obtained from fungi and related to penicillin (trade names Mefoxin); addition of side chains has produced semisynthetic antibiotics with greater antibacterial activity | Synonyms: Mefoxin |
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| chlamydospore | (noun) thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae | - |
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| comportment | (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, mien, presence |
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| conidiospore | (noun) an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore | Synonyms: conidium |
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| contemporaneity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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| (noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneousness |
| contemporaneousness | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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| (noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneity |
| contemporaries | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, generation |
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| contemporariness | (noun) The state or quality of being contemporary, modern, of the present age. | - |
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| contemporary | (noun) a person of nearly the same age as another | Synonyms: coeval |
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| corporal | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines | - |
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| corporality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporeality, materiality, physicalness |
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| corporation | (noun) slang for a paunch | Synonyms: bay window, pot, potbelly, tummy |
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| (noun) a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state | Synonyms: corp |
| corporatism | (noun) control of a state or organization by large interest groups | - |
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| corporatist | (noun) a supporter of corporatism | - |
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| corporeality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporality, materiality, physicalness |
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| davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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| (noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
| deportation | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: exile, expatriation, transportation |
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| (noun) the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien | - |
| deportee | (noun) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority | Synonyms: exile |
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| deportment | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour |
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| diaspora | (noun) the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) | - |
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| (noun) the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel | - |
| disproportion | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: dissymmetry, imbalance |
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| emporium | (noun) a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain | Synonyms: department store |
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| endospore | (noun) a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae | - |
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| esports | (noun) electronic sports | - |
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| eusporangium | (noun) a sporangium that arises from a group of epidermal cells | - |
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| evaporation | (noun) the process of becoming a vapor | Synonyms: vapor, vaporisation, vaporization, vapour |
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| (noun) the process of extracting moisture | Synonyms: dehydration, desiccation, drying up |
| evaporite | (noun) the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater | - |
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| evaporometer | (noun) an instrument that measures rate of evaporation of water | Synonyms: atmometer |
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| export | (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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| exportation | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exporting |
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| (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: export |
| exporter | (noun) a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale) | - |
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| exporting | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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| extemporisation | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporization, improvisation |
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| extemporization | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, improvisation |
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| haemosporidian | (noun) minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens | - |
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| haplosporidian | (noun) parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance | - |
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| heliport | (noun) an airport for helicopters | - |
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| heterospory | (noun) the development of both microspores and megaspores | - |
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| homospory | (noun) the development of a single kind of asexual spores | - |
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| import | (noun) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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| (noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: consequence, moment |
| (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, significance |
| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: meaning, significance, signification |
| (noun) an imported person brought from a foreign country | Synonyms: importee |
| importance | (noun) the quality of being important and worthy of note | - |
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| (noun) a prominent status | Synonyms: grandness |
| importation | (noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country | Synonyms: importing |
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| (noun) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | Synonyms: import |
| importee | (noun) an imported person brought from a foreign country | Synonyms: import |
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| importer | (noun) someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country) | - |
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| importing | (noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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| importunateness | (noun) Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. | Synonyms: importunity |
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| importunity | (noun) Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. | Synonyms: importunateness |
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| (noun) insistent solicitation and entreaty | Synonyms: urgency, urging |
| incorporation | (noun) including by incorporating | - |
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| (noun) consolidating two or more things; union in (or into) one body | - |
| (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: internalisation, internalization |
| incorporeality | (noun) the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter | Synonyms: immateriality |
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| inopportuneness | (noun) the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time | Synonyms: untimeliness |
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| japorn | (noun) Japanese pornography | - |
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| leporid | (noun) rabbits and hares | Synonyms: leporid mammal |
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| leporide | (noun) red breed of domestic rabbits; hybrid between Old World rabbit and hare | Synonyms: Belgian hare |
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| leptosporangium | (noun) a sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell; characteristic of the Filicales or of almost all modern ferns | - |
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| macrosporangium | (noun) a plant structure that produces megaspores | Synonyms: megasporangium |
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| macrospore | (noun) larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte | Synonyms: megaspore |
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| madrepore | (noun) corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands | Synonyms: madriporian coral, stony coral |
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| megasporangium | (noun) a plant structure that produces megaspores | Synonyms: macrosporangium |
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| megaspore | (noun) larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte | Synonyms: macrospore |
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| megasporophyll | (noun) in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only megasporangia | - |
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| microsporangium | (noun) a plant structure that produces microspores | - |
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| microspore | (noun) smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte | - |
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| microsporidian | (noun) parasite of arthropods and fishes that invade and destroy host cells | - |
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| microsporophyll | (noun) in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only microsporangia | - |
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| myxosporidian | (noun) mostly parasitic in fishes and including various serious pathogens | - |
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| oospore | (noun) a thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi | - |
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| opportuneness | (noun) timely convenience | Synonyms: patness, timeliness |
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| opportunism | (noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: expedience, self-interest, self-seeking |
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| opportunist | (noun) a person who places expediency above principle | Synonyms: self-seeker |
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| opportunity | (noun) a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances | Synonyms: chance |
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| osteoporosis | (noun) abnormal loss of bony tissue resulting in fragile porous bones attributable to a lack of calcium; most common in postmenopausal women | - |
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| outport | (noun) a subsidiary port built in deeper water than the original port (but usually farther from the center of trade) | - |
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| passport | (noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission | Synonyms: recommendation |
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| (noun) a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country | - |
| (noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere | Synonyms: pass |
| pervaporation | (noun) the concentration of a colloidal solution whose colloid will not pass through a semipermeable membrane; solution is placed in a bag of the membrane and the solvent is evaporated off | - |
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| polypore | (noun) woody pore fungi; any fungus of the family Polyporaceae or family Boletaceae having the spore-bearing surface within tubes or pores; the fruiting bodies are usually woody at maturity and persistent | Synonyms: pore fungus, pore mushroom |
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| porbeagle | (noun) voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Lamna nasus |
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| porc | (noun) meat from a domestic hog or pig | Synonyms: pork |
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| porcelain | (noun) ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic | - |
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| porch | (noun) a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance | - |
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| porcupine | (noun) relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | Synonyms: hedgehog |
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| porcupinefish | (noun) spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: Diodon hystrix, porcupine fish |
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| porcupines | (noun) meat patties rolled in rice and simmered in a tomato sauce | Synonyms: porcupine ball |
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| pore | (noun) any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal | - |
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| (noun) a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass | Synonyms: stoma, stomate |
| (noun) any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas) | - |
| porgy | (noun) important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide | - |
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| (noun) lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: scup |
| poriferan | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: parazoan, sponge |
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| pork | (noun) meat from a domestic hog or pig | Synonyms: porc |
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| (noun) a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents | Synonyms: pork barrel |
| porkchop | (noun) chop cut from a hog | - |
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| porker | (noun) a pig fattened to provide meat | - |
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