| literate | (noun) a person who can read and write | Synonyms: literate person |
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| literati | (noun) the literary intelligentsia | - |
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| literature | (noun) the profession or art of a writer | - |
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| (noun) the humanistic study of a body of literature | Synonyms: lit |
| (noun) creative writing of recognized artistic value | - |
| (noun) published writings in a particular style on a particular subject | - |
| litterateur | (noun) a writer of literary works | Synonyms: essayist |
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| lucrativeness | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: gainfulness, profitability, profitableness |
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| lucubration | (noun) laborious cogitation | - |
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| (noun) a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation | - |
| macerate | (noun) a macerated substance, sometimes used to infuse vodka with flavor. | - |
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| maceration | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness |
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| (noun) softening due to soaking or steeping | - |
| magistrate | (noun) a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses) | - |
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| magistrature | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistracy |
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| marathon | (noun) any long and arduous undertaking | Synonyms: endurance contest |
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| (noun) a footrace of 26 miles 385 yards | - |
| marathoner | (noun) someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) | Synonyms: long-distance runner, marathon runner, road runner |
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| maturation | (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
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| (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturement, ripening |
| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: festering, suppuration |
| melioration | (noun) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better | Synonyms: amelioration, betterment |
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| (noun) the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning | - |
| (noun) a condition superior to an earlier condition | Synonyms: improvement |
| mensuration | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measurement, measuring |
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| migration | (noun) the movement of persons from one country or locality to another | - |
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| (noun) the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule | - |
| (noun) a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period) | - |
| migrator | (noun) an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the year | - |
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| (noun) traveler who moves from one region or country to another | Synonyms: migrant |
| ministration | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: relief, succor, succour |
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| moderate | (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: centrist, middle of the roader, moderationist |
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| moderateness | (noun) quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes | Synonyms: moderation |
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| (noun) the property of being moderate in price or expenditures | Synonyms: modestness, reasonableness |
| moderation | (noun) the action of lessening in severity or intensity | Synonyms: mitigation |
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| (noun) quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes | Synonyms: moderateness |
| (noun) the trait of avoiding excesses | Synonyms: temperance |
| (noun) a change for the better | Synonyms: easing, relief |
| moderationism | (noun) the policy of being moderate or acting with moderation | - |
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| moderationist | (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: centrist, middle of the roader, moderate |
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| (noun) a moderate drinker (as opposed to a total abstainer) | - |
| moderatism | (noun) a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action | Synonyms: centrism |
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| moderator | (noun) someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence | - |
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| (noun) someone who presides over a forum or debate | - |
| (noun) in the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly | - |
| (noun) any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors | - |
| moderatorship | (noun) the position of moderator | - |
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| monohydrate | (noun) a hydrate that contains one molecule of water per molecule of the compound | - |
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| moratorium | (noun) suspension of an ongoing activity | - |
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| (noun) a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged | - |
| murmuration | (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuring, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
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| muskrat | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: musquash, Ondatra zibethica |
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| (noun) the brown fur of a muskrat | Synonyms: muskrat fur |
| narration | (noun) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | Synonyms: recital, yarn |
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| (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narrative, story, tale |
| (noun) (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth | - |
| narrative | (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, story, tale |
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| narrator | (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: storyteller, teller |
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| nitrate | (noun) any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid) | - |
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| nonproliferation | (noun) the prevention of something increasing or spreading (especially the prevention of an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons) | Synonyms: non-proliferation |
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| numeration | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, reckoning, tally |
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| (noun) naming numbers | - |
| numerator | (noun) the dividend of a fraction | - |
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| obliteration | (noun) destruction by annihilating something | Synonyms: annihilation |
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| (noun) the complete destruction of every trace of something | Synonyms: eradication |
| obliterator | (noun) an eliminator that does away with all traces | - |
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| obturator | (noun) a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate) | - |
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| operation | (noun) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Synonyms: surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
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| (noun) (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods | Synonyms: mathematical operation, mathematical process |
| (noun) activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) | Synonyms: military operation |
| (noun) a planned activity involving many people performing various actions | - |
| (noun) a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | Synonyms: procedure |
| (noun) a business especially one run on a large scale | - |
| (noun) the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.) | - |
| (noun) (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents | Synonyms: cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, process |
| (noun) (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction) | - |
| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, performance |
| (noun) the state of being in effect or being operative | - |
| operationalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in proving or applying it | - |
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| operations | (noun) financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records | Synonyms: trading operations |
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| operative | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus, sherlock |
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| (noun) a person secretly employed in espionage for a government | Synonyms: intelligence agent, intelligence officer, secret agent |
| operator | (noun) an agent that operates some apparatus or machine | Synonyms: manipulator |
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| (noun) someone who owns or operates a business | - |
| (noun) a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties | Synonyms: hustler, wheeler dealer |
| (noun) a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation | - |
| oration | (noun) an instance of oratory | - |
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| orator | (noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration | Synonyms: public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker |
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| oratorio | (noun) a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text | Synonyms: cantata |
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| oratory | (noun) addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous) | - |
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| orchestration | (noun) the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments | Synonyms: instrumentation |
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| (noun) an arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect | - |
| (noun) an arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band | - |
| orchestrator | (noun) an arranger who writes for orchestras | - |
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| overrating | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overreckoning |
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| packrat | (noun) any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects | Synonyms: bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea, pack rat, trade rat |
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| (noun) a collector of miscellaneous useless objects | - |
| palpebration | (noun) repeated blinking or winking (especially if uncontrolled and persistent) | - |
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| parathion | (noun) a colorless and odorless toxic oil used as an insecticide | - |
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| parathormone | (noun) hormone synthesized and released into the blood stream by the parathyroid glands; regulates phosphorus and calcium in the body and functions in neuromuscular excitation and blood clotting | Synonyms: parathyroid hormone |
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| parathyroid | (noun) any one of four endocrine glands situated above or within the thyroid gland | Synonyms: parathyroid gland |
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| paratrooper | (noun) a soldier in the paratroops | Synonyms: para |
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| paratroops | (noun) infantry trained and equipped to parachute | - |
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| paratyphoid | (noun) any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever | Synonyms: paratyphoid fever |
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| pastorate | (noun) the position of pastor | Synonyms: pastorship |
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| (noun) pastors collectively | - |
| penetration | (noun) an attack that penetrates into enemy territory | Synonyms: incursion |
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| (noun) the act of entering into or through something | - |
| (noun) the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman | - |
| (noun) the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target) | - |
| (noun) the ability to make way into or through something | - |
| (noun) clear or deep perception of a situation | Synonyms: insight |
| penetrator | (noun) an intruder who passes into or through (often by overcoming resistance) | - |
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| perchlorate | (noun) a salt of perchloric acid | - |
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| perforation | (noun) the act of punching a hole (especially a row of holes as for ease of separation) | - |
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| (noun) a line of small holes for tearing at a particular place | - |
| (noun) a hole made in something | - |
| peroration | (noun) (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration | - |
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| (noun) a flowery and highly rhetorical oration | - |
| 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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| perseveration | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, persistence |
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| (noun) the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it | - |
| perspiration | (noun) salty fluid secreted by sweat glands | Synonyms: sudor, sweat |
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| (noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: diaphoresis, hidrosis, sudation, sweating |
| 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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| phratry | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept |
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| pirate | (noun) a ship that is manned by pirates | Synonyms: pirate ship |
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| (noun) someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation | Synonyms: buccaneer, sea robber, sea rover |
| (noun) someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own | Synonyms: literary pirate, plagiariser, plagiarist, plagiarizer |
| plutocrat | (noun) someone who exercises power by virtue of wealth | - |
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| prat | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| prate | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: blether, chin music, idle talk, prattle |
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| prater | (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, spouter |
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| pratfall | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup |
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| (noun) a fall onto your buttocks | - |
| pratincole | (noun) Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers | Synonyms: glareole |
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| prattle | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: blether, chin music, idle talk, prate |
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| prattler | (noun) someone who speaks in a childish way | - |
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| prefiguration | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, foreshadowing |
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| (noun) an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come | - |
| preparation | (noun) activity leading to skilled behavior | Synonyms: grooming, training |
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| (noun) preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) | Synonyms: prep |
| (noun) the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose | Synonyms: readying |
| (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cookery, cooking |
| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: planning, provision |
| (noun) (music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord | - |
| (noun) the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) | Synonyms: preparedness, readiness |
| (noun) a substance prepared according to a formula | Synonyms: formulation |
| procurator | (noun) (ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to act for another | Synonyms: placeholder, proxy |
| proliferation | (noun) growth by the rapid multiplication of parts | - |
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| (noun) a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons) | - |
| proration | (noun) the proportional limitation of production or distribution of something (e.g. crude oil or natural gas) to some fractional part of the total capacity of each producer | - |
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| prostration | (noun) the act of assuming a prostrate position | - |
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| (noun) abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body | - |
| (noun) an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion | Synonyms: collapse |
| protectorate | (noun) a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty | Synonyms: associated state |
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| protoceratops | (noun) small horned dinosaur | - |
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| quadrate | (noun) a square-shaped object | - |
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| (noun) a cubelike object | - |
| quadratic | (noun) a polynomial of the second degree | Synonyms: quadratic polynomial |
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| (noun) an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square | Synonyms: quadratic equation |
| quadratics | (noun) a branch of algebra dealing with quadratic equations | - |
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| quadrature | (noun) the construction of a square having the same area as some other figure | - |
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| quadrumvirate | (noun) a group of four men | - |
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| rat | (noun) any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse | - |
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| (noun) a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure | - |
| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
| (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, scab, strikebreaker |
| (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, blabber, informer, squealer |
| ratability | (noun) the quality of being capable of being rated or estimated | - |
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| (noun) the state of being liable to assessment or taxation | Synonyms: rateability |
| ratables | (noun) property that provides tax income for local governments | Synonyms: rateables |
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| ratafee | (noun) sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds | Synonyms: ratafia |
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| ratafia | (noun) sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds | Synonyms: ratafee |
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| (noun) macaroon flavored with ratafia liqueur | Synonyms: ratafia biscuit |
| ratan | (noun) a switch made from the stems of the rattan palms | Synonyms: rattan |
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