| pasteboard | (noun) stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper | - |
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| patchboard | (noun) telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords | Synonyms: plugboard, switchboard |
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| patchcord | (noun) a length of wire that has a plug at each end; used to make connections at a patchboard | - |
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| pegboard | (noun) a board perforated with regularly spaced holes into which pegs can be fitted | - |
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| perdition | (noun) (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment | Synonyms: Hell, infernal region, Inferno, nether region, pit |
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| perdurability | (noun) the property of being extremely durable | - |
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| pericarditis | (noun) inflammation of the pericardium | - |
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| pericardium | (noun) a serous membrane with two layers that surrounds the heart | - |
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| petard | (noun) an explosive device used to break down a gate or wall | - |
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| pilchard | (noun) small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring | Synonyms: Sardina pilchardus, sardine |
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| (noun) small fatty fish usually canned | Synonyms: sardine |
| placard | (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, poster, posting |
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| plasterboard | (noun) wallboard with a gypsum plaster core bonded to layers of paper or fiberboard; used instead of plaster or wallboard to make interior walls | Synonyms: gypsum board |
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| plugboard | (noun) telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords | Synonyms: patchboard, switchboard |
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| plyboard | (noun) a laminate made of thin layers of wood | Synonyms: plywood |
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| pochard | (noun) heavy-bodied Old World diving duck having a grey-and-black body and reddish head | Synonyms: Aythya ferina |
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| pollard | (noun) a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed | - |
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| (noun) a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage | - |
| poniard | (noun) a dagger with a slender blade | Synonyms: bodkin |
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| postcard | (noun) a card for sending messages by post without an envelope | Synonyms: mailing-card, post card, postal card |
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| posterboard | (noun) a cardboard suitable for making posters | Synonyms: paperboard, poster board |
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| potsherd | (noun) a shard of pottery | - |
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| precordium | (noun) the external surface of the body overlying the heart and stomach | - |
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| preordination | (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: foreordination, predestination, predetermination |
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| primordiality | (noun) The quality of being first, earliest or original. | - |
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| primordium | (noun) an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development | Synonyms: anlage |
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| puffbird | (noun) brownish tropical American bird having a large head with fluffed out feathers | - |
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| punchboard | (noun) a small board full of holes; each hole contains a slip of paper with symbols printed on it; a gambler pays a small sum for the privilege of pushing out a slip in the hope of obtaining one that entitles him to a prize | - |
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| purdah | (noun) a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers | - |
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| (noun) the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded | Synonyms: sex segregation |
| (noun) a state of social isolation | Synonyms: solitude |
| quarterdeck | (noun) the stern area of a ship's upper deck | - |
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| racecard | (noun) a program for a race meeting; lists the races and the names of the horses | - |
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| railbird | (noun) a fan of racing who watches races from the outer rail of the track | - |
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| railyard | (noun) an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines | Synonyms: railway yard, yard |
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| rearguard | (noun) a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body | - |
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| rearward | (noun) direction toward the rear | - |
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| record | (noun) an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport) | - |
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| (noun) the sum of recognized accomplishments | Synonyms: track record |
| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter |
| (noun) a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted | Synonyms: criminal record |
| (noun) a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone | Synonyms: book, record book |
| (noun) anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events | - |
| (noun) a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction | - |
| (noun) the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had | - |
| recorder | (noun) a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece | Synonyms: fipple flute, fipple pipe, vertical flute |
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| (noun) equipment for making records | Synonyms: recording equipment, recording machine |
| (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, registrar |
| (noun) a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs | - |
| recording | (noun) the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | Synonyms: transcription |
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| (noun) a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded | - |
| (noun) a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded | - |
| redbird | (noun) crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male | Synonyms: cardinal, cardinal grosbeak, Cardinalis cardinalis, Richmondena Cardinalis |
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| (noun) the male is bright red with black wings and tail | Synonyms: firebird, Piranga olivacea, scarlet tanager |
| reedbird | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, ricebird |
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| (noun) small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa | Synonyms: Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, sedge bird, sedge warbler, sedge wren |
| regard | (noun) a long fixed look | Synonyms: gaze |
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| (noun) (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point | Synonyms: respect |
| (noun) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: attentiveness, heed, paying attention |
| (noun) an attitude of admiration or esteem | Synonyms: esteem, respect |
| (noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: compliments, wish |
| (noun) a feeling of friendship and esteem | Synonyms: respect |
| (noun) the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) | Synonyms: esteem, respect |
| reorder | (noun) a repeated order for the same merchandise | - |
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| reordering | (noun) a rearrangement in a different order | - |
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| retard | (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron |
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| retardant | (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardation, retardent |
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| retardation | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: lag, slowdown |
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| (noun) a decrease in rate of change | Synonyms: deceleration, slowing |
| (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, slowness, subnormality |
| (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardant, retardent |
| (noun) the extent to which something is delayed or held back | - |
| retarded | (noun) people collectively who are mentally retarded | Synonyms: developmentally challenged, mentally retarded |
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| retardent | (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardant, retardation |
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| reward | (noun) an act performed to strengthen approved behavior | Synonyms: reinforcement |
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| (noun) benefit resulting from some event or action | Synonyms: advantage |
| (noun) the offer of money for helping to find a criminal or for returning lost property | - |
| (noun) a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing | Synonyms: payoff, wages |
| (noun) payment made in return for a service rendered | - |
| rewording | (noun) changing a particular word or phrase | Synonyms: recasting, rephrasing |
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| ricebird | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird |
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| (noun) small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields | Synonyms: Java finch, Java sparrow, Padda oryzivora |
| riflebird | (noun) velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail | Synonyms: Ptloris paradisea |
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| ripcord | (noun) a cord that is pulled to open a parachute from its pack during a descent | - |
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| (noun) a cord that is pulled to open the gasbag of a balloon wide enough to release gas and so causes the balloon to descend | - |
| rutherford | (noun) a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second | - |
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| rutherfordium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized | Synonyms: atomic number 104, element 104, Rf, unnilquadium, Unq |
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| sacerdotalism | (noun) a belief that priests can act as mediators between human beings and God | - |
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| safeguard | (noun) a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. | Synonyms: guard, precaution |
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| (noun) a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war | Synonyms: safe-conduct |
| sard | (noun) a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: sardine, sardius |
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| sardine | (noun) any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned | - |
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| (noun) small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring | Synonyms: pilchard, Sardina pilchardus |
| (noun) small fatty fish usually canned | Synonyms: pilchard |
| (noun) a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: sard, sardius |
| sardius | (noun) a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: sard, sardine |
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| sardonyx | (noun) an onyx characterized by parallel layers of sard and a different colored mineral | - |
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| scabbard | (noun) a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet | - |
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| schoolyard | (noun) the yard associated with a school | - |
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| scoreboard | (noun) a large board for displaying the score of a contest (and some other information) | - |
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| scorecard | (noun) (golf) a record of scores (as in golf) | Synonyms: card |
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| scrubbird | (noun) small fast-running Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrub | Synonyms: scrub-bird, scrub bird |
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| seabird | (noun) a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls, pelicans, gannets, cormorants, albatrosses, petrels, etc. | Synonyms: sea bird, seafowl |
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| seaboard | (noun) the shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort | Synonyms: seaside |
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| seaward | (noun) the direction toward the sea | - |
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| shard | (noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact | Synonyms: fragment, sherd |
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| sheepherder | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepman, shepherd |
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| shepherd | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepherder, sheepman |
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| (noun) a clergyman who watches over a group of people | - |
| shepherdess | (noun) a woman shepherd | - |
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| sherd | (noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact | Synonyms: fragment, shard |
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| shipyard | (noun) a workplace where ships are built or repaired | - |
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| shoebird | (noun) large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe | Synonyms: Balaeniceps rex, shoebill |
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| shorebird | (noun) any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries | Synonyms: limicoline bird, shore bird |
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| shovelboard | (noun) a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | Synonyms: shuffleboard |
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| shuffleboard | (noun) a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | Synonyms: shovelboard |
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| sideboard | (noun) a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers | Synonyms: buffet, counter |
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| (noun) a board that forms part of the side of a bed or crib | - |
| (noun) a removable board fitted on the side of a wagon to increase its capacity | - |
| signboard | (noun) structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted | Synonyms: sign |
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| silversword | (noun) low-growing plant found only in volcanic craters on Hawaii having rosettes of narrow pointed silver-green leaves and clusters of profuse red-purple flowers on a tall stem | Synonyms: Argyroxiphium sandwicense |
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| sirdar | (noun) an important person in India | - |
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| skateboard | (noun) a board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position and propelled by foot | - |
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| skateboarder | (noun) someone who skates on a skateboard | - |
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| skateboarding | (noun) the sport of skating on a skateboard | - |
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| sluggard | (noun) an idle slothful person | Synonyms: slug |
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| smorgasbord | (noun) an assortment of foods starting with herring or smoked eel or salmon etc with bread and butter; then cheeses and eggs and pickled vegetables and aspics; finally hot foods; served as a buffet meal | - |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, variety |
| snakebird | (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: anhinga, darter |
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| snowbird | (noun) white Arctic bunting | Synonyms: Plectrophenax nivalis, snow bunting, snowflake |
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| (noun) small North American finch seen chiefly in winter | Synonyms: junco |
| (noun) medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter | Synonyms: fieldfare, Turdus pilaris |
| snowboard | (noun) a board that resembles a broad ski or a small surfboard; used in a standing position to slide down snow-covered slopes | - |
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| snowboarder | (noun) someone who slides down snow-covered slopes while standing on a snowboard | - |
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| snowboarding | (noun) the act of sliding down a snow-covered slope while standing on a snowboard | - |
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| songbird | (noun) any bird having a musical call | Synonyms: songster |
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| sordidness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, despicableness |
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| (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: squalidness, squalor |
| sordino | (noun) a mute for a violin | Synonyms: sourdine |
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| soundboard | (noun) (music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument | Synonyms: sounding board |
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| sourdine | (noun) an organ stop resulting in a soft muted sound | - |
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| (noun) a mute for a violin | Synonyms: sordino |
| sourdough | (noun) a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) | - |
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| (noun) a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread | - |
| southeastward | (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeast |
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| southward | (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees | Synonyms: due south, S, south |
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| southwestward | (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwest, SW |
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