| pushover | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, snap, walkover |
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| (noun) someone who is easily taken advantage of | - |
| pushpin | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, thumbtack |
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| pushup | (noun) an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms | Synonyms: press-up |
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| pusillanimity | (noun) contemptible fearfulness | Synonyms: pusillanimousness |
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| pusillanimousness | (noun) contemptible fearfulness | Synonyms: pusillanimity |
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| puss | (noun) informal terms referring to a domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty-cat, kitty, pussy, pussycat |
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| (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: cunt, pussy, slit, snatch, twat |
| pussley | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussly, verdolagas |
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| pussly | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussley, verdolagas |
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| pussy | (noun) informal terms referring to a domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty-cat, kitty, puss, pussycat |
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| (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: cunt, puss, slit, snatch, twat |
| pussycat | (noun) informal terms referring to a domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty-cat, kitty, puss, pussy |
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| (noun) a person who is regarded as easygoing and agreeable | - |
| pussytoes | (noun) low-growing perennial herb having leaves with whitish down and clusters of small white flowers | Synonyms: Antennaria dioica, cat's feet, cat's foot |
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| pustule | (noun) a small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus | - |
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| put | (noun) the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date | Synonyms: put option |
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| putamen | (noun) the outer reddish part of the lenticular nucleus | - |
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| putoff | (noun) a pretext for delay or inaction | - |
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| putout | (noun) an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout) | - |
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| putrefaction | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity |
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| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, decomposition, rot, rotting |
| (noun) a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor | Synonyms: rot |
| putrescence | (noun) the quality of rotting and becoming putrid | Synonyms: rottenness |
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| (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putridness, rottenness |
| putrescine | (noun) a colorless crystalline ptomaine with a foul odor that is produced in decaying animal matter | - |
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| putridity | (noun) the state of being putrid | - |
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| putridness | (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putrescence, rottenness |
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| putsch | (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup, coup d'etat, takeover |
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| putt | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putting |
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| puttee | (noun) a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I | - |
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| putter | (noun) the iron normally used on the putting green | Synonyms: putting iron |
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| (noun) a golfer who is putting | - |
| putterer | (noun) a person who putters about | Synonyms: potterer |
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| putting | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putt |
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| putty | (noun) a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass | - |
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| puttyroot | (noun) North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers | Synonyms: adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale |
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| putz | (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, prick, shaft, tool |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a fool; an idiot | - |
| puzzle | (noun) a game that tests your ingenuity | - |
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| (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: mystifier, puzzler, teaser |
| puzzlement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation |
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| puzzler | (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: mystifier, puzzle, teaser |
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| quipu | (noun) calculator consisting of a cord with attached cords; used by ancient Peruvians for calculating and keeping records | - |
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| rangpur | (noun) hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel | Synonyms: Citrus limonia, lemanderin, rangpur lime |
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| republic | (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: commonwealth, democracy |
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| (noun) a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch | - |
| republican | (noun) an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy) | - |
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| republicanism | (noun) the political orientation of those who hold that a republic is the best form of government | - |
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| republication | (noun) the act of publishing again | Synonyms: republishing |
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| (noun) something that has been published again; a fresh publication (as of a literary work) | - |
| republishing | (noun) the act of publishing again | Synonyms: republication |
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| repudiation | (noun) the exposure of falseness or pretensions | Synonyms: debunking |
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| (noun) rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid | Synonyms: renunciation |
| (noun) refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities) | - |
| repugnance | (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repulsion, revulsion |
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| (noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: incompatibility, inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness |
| repulse | (noun) an instance of driving away or warding off | Synonyms: rebuff, snub |
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| repulsion | (noun) the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand | Synonyms: standoff |
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| (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repugnance, revulsion |
| (noun) the force by which bodies repel one another | Synonyms: repulsive force |
| repulsiveness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, lousiness, sliminess, vileness, wickedness |
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| repulsor | (noun) a fictional anti-gravity device in the Star Wars Universe. | Synonyms: repulsorlift, repulsorlift engine |
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| (noun) A repulsor is either one of two drives located in the gauntlets of Iron Man's armor; they have been referred to as being magnetic, a blast of charged particles, and as a force beam. | - |
| repulsorlift | (noun) a fictional anti-gravity device in the Star Wars Universe. | Synonyms: repulsor, repulsorlift engine |
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| repurchase | (noun) the act of purchasing back something previously sold | Synonyms: buyback, redemption |
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| reputability | (noun) honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation | Synonyms: respectability |
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| reputation | (noun) the general estimation that the public has for a person | Synonyms: report |
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| (noun) the state of being held in high esteem and honor | Synonyms: repute |
| (noun) notoriety for some particular characteristic | - |
| repute | (noun) the state of being held in high esteem and honor | Synonyms: reputation |
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| rhizopus | (noun) any of various rot causing fungi of the genus Rhizopus | - |
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| rumpus | (noun) the act of making a noisy disturbance | Synonyms: commotion, din, ruckus, ruction, tumult |
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| sandspur | (noun) grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs | Synonyms: Cenchrus tribuloides, field sandbur, sandbur |
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| scapula | (noun) either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings | Synonyms: shoulder blade, shoulder bone |
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| scapular | (noun) a feather covering the shoulder of a bird | - |
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| (noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapulary |
| scapulary | (noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapular |
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| scrupulousness | (noun) conformity to high standards of ethics or excellence | - |
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| (noun) strict attention to minute details | Synonyms: meticulosity, meticulousness, punctiliousness |
| seppuku | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harakiri, harikari |
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| sepulcher | (noun) a chamber that is used as a grave | Synonyms: burial chamber, sepulchre, sepulture |
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| sepulchre | (noun) a chamber that is used as a grave | Synonyms: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulture |
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| sepulture | (noun) a chamber that is used as a grave | Synonyms: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre |
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| (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment |
| sinciput | (noun) the front part of the head or skull (including the forehead) | - |
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| sipunculid | (noun) small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut | Synonyms: peanut worm |
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| sourpuss | (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, picklepuss, pouter |
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| spud | (noun) a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds | Synonyms: stump spud |
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| (noun) an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland | Synonyms: Irish potato, murphy, potato, tater, white potato |
| spume | (noun) foam or froth on the sea | - |
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| spunk | (noun) the courage to carry on | Synonyms: heart, mettle, nerve |
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| (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, tinder, touchwood |
| spur | (noun) a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward | Synonyms: gad |
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| (noun) a railway line connected to a trunk line | Synonyms: branch line, spur track |
| (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, prodding, spurring, urging |
| (noun) tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers | - |
| (noun) any sharply pointed projection | Synonyms: acantha, spine |
| spurge | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice | - |
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| spuriousness | (noun) state of lacking genuineness | - |
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| spurner | (noun) a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt | - |
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| spurring | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, prodding, spur, urging |
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| spurt | (noun) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) | Synonyms: jet, spirt, squirt |
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| sputnik | (noun) a Russian artificial satellite | - |
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| sputter | (noun) an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage) | Synonyms: splutter |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputtering |
| sputtering | (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter |
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| sputum | (noun) expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness | Synonyms: phlegm |
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| steampunk | (noun) A subgenre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th century society. | - |
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| stipulation | (noun) a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement | Synonyms: specification |
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| (noun) an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else | Synonyms: condition, precondition |
| (noun) (law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record | Synonyms: judicial admission |
| stipule | (noun) a small leafy outgrowth at the base of a leaf or its stalk; usually occurring in pairs and soon shed | - |
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| streptocarpus | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Streptocarpus having leaves in a basal rosette and flowers like primroses | - |
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| subpopulation | (noun) a population that is part of a larger population | - |
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| supercomputer | (noun) a mainframe computer that is one of the most powerful available at a given time | - |
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| suppuration | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, purulence, pus, sanies |
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| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: festering, maturation |
| tempura | (noun) vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried | - |
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| throughput | (noun) output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time) | - |
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| tipu | (noun) semi-evergreen South American tree with odd-pinnate leaves and golden yellow flowers cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: pride of Bolivia, tipu tree, yellow jacaranda |
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| unpopularity | (noun) the quality of lacking general approval or acceptance | - |
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| unscrupulousness | (noun) the quality of unscrupulous dishonesty | - |
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| venipuncture | (noun) (medicine) puncture of a vein through the skin in order to withdraw blood for analysis or to start an intravenous drip or to inject medication or a radiopaque dye | - |
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| vesicopapule | (noun) a papule that changes into a blister | Synonyms: papulovesicle |
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| wampum | (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency | Synonyms: peag, wampumpeag |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar |
| wampumpeag | (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency | Synonyms: peag, wampum |
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