| nitroglycerin | (noun) a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat) | Synonyms: glyceryl trinitrate, nitroglycerine, Nitrospan, Nitrostat, trinitroglycerin |
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| nitroglycerine | (noun) a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat) | Synonyms: glyceryl trinitrate, nitroglycerin, Nitrospan, Nitrostat, trinitroglycerin |
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| nondrinker | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, abstinent |
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| norepinephrine | (noun) a catecholamine precursor of epinephrine that is secreted by the adrenal medulla and also released at synapses | Synonyms: noradrenaline |
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| numbering | (noun) a numbered list | Synonyms: enumeration |
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| ocarina | (noun) egg-shaped terracotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes | Synonyms: sweet potato |
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| offering | (noun) the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity | Synonyms: oblation |
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| (noun) something offered (as a proposal or bid) | Synonyms: offer |
| (noun) the verbal act of offering | Synonyms: offer |
| (noun) money contributed to a religious organization; item or items contributed to a religious organization for religious purposes | - |
| offprint | (noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | Synonyms: reprint, separate |
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| offspring | (noun) any immature animal | Synonyms: young |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialisation, materialization |
| (noun) the immediate descendants of a person | Synonyms: issue, progeny |
| oleomargarine | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarin, margarine, marge, oleo |
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| ordering | (noun) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement | Synonyms: order |
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| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: order, ordination |
| ordinariness | (noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity |
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| orinasal | (noun) a speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels) | Synonyms: orinasal phone |
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| orneriness | (noun) meanspirited disagreeable contrariness | Synonyms: cussedness |
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| orphenadrine | (noun) a skeletal muscle relaxant (trade name Norflex) used to treat severe muscle strain and Parkinsonism | Synonyms: Norflex |
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| outpouring | (noun) a large flow | Synonyms: flood, overflow |
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| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: barrage, bombardment, onslaught |
| (noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: discharge, run |
| (noun) a sudden rapid flow (as of water) | Synonyms: flush, gush |
| (noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: fountain, natural spring, outflow, spring |
| overbearingness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: domineeringness, imperiousness |
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| overindulgence | (noun) excessive indulgence | Synonyms: excess |
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| overinterpretation | (noun) Excessive interpretation. | - |
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| overprint | (noun) something added by overprinting | Synonyms: surprint |
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| pairing | (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: conjugation, coupling, mating, sexual union, union |
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| (noun) the act of grouping things or people in pairs | - |
| paltering | (noun) a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear | Synonyms: fibbing |
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| paltriness | (noun) worthlessness due to insignificance | Synonyms: sorriness |
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| pampering | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, humouring, indulgence, indulging |
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| papaverine | (noun) an alkaloid medicine (trade name Kavrin) obtained from opium; used to relax smooth muscles; it is nonaddictive | Synonyms: Kavrin |
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| papering | (noun) the application of wallpaper | Synonyms: paperhanging |
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| paring | (noun) (usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is pared or cut off; especially the skin or peel | - |
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| (noun) a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something | Synonyms: shaving, sliver |
| passerine | (noun) perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless | Synonyms: passeriform bird |
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| pepperiness | (noun) a hot spiciness | Synonyms: hotness |
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| peregrination | (noun) traveling or wandering around | - |
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| peregrine | (noun) a widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry | Synonyms: Falco peregrinus, peregrine falcon |
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| perinatologist | (noun) an obstetrician specializing in perinatology | - |
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| perinatology | (noun) the branch of obstetrics concerned with the anatomy and physiology and diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the mother and the fetus or newborn baby during late pregnancy and childbirth and the puerperium | - |
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| perineotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the perineum | - |
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| perineum | (noun) the general region between the anus and the genital organs | - |
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| perineurium | (noun) the sheath of connective tissue that covers a bundle of nerve fibers | - |
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| phenylephrine | (noun) a powerful vasoconstrictor used to dilate the pupils and relieve nasal congestion | - |
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| phycoerythrin | (noun) red pigment in red algae | - |
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| picturing | (noun) visual representation as by photography or painting | Synonyms: pictorial representation |
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| (noun) visual imagery | Synonyms: envisioning |
| piperin | (noun) derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper | Synonyms: piperine |
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| piperine | (noun) derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper | Synonyms: piperin |
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| plastering | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: daubing |
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| plundering | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillage, pillaging |
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| porphyrin | (noun) any of various pigments distributed widely in living tissues | - |
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| porringer | (noun) a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle) | - |
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| posturing | (noun) adopting a vain conceited posture | - |
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| poudrin | (noun) small crystals of ice | Synonyms: diamond dust, frost mist, frost snow, ice crystal, ice needle, snow mist |
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| powderiness | (noun) having a very fine texture | Synonyms: fineness |
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| prechlorination | (noun) chlorination prior to another chemical process | - |
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| prince | (noun) a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign) | - |
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| princedom | (noun) territory ruled by a prince | Synonyms: principality |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a prince | - |
| princeling | (noun) a young prince | - |
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| (noun) a petty or insignificant prince who rules some unimportant principality | - |
| princess | (noun) a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign) | - |
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| princewood | (noun) tropical American timber tree | Synonyms: Cordia gerascanthus, Spanish elm |
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| (noun) large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood | Synonyms: Cordia alliodora, cypre, Equador laurel, salmwood, Spanish elm |
| principal | (noun) the educator who has executive authority for a school | Synonyms: head, head teacher, school principal |
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| (noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: lead, star |
| (noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: dealer |
| (noun) (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement | - |
| (noun) the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated | - |
| (noun) capital as contrasted with the income derived from it | Synonyms: corpus, principal sum |
| principality | (noun) territory ruled by a prince | Synonyms: princedom |
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| principalship | (noun) the post of principal | - |
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| principle | (noun) a basic truth or law or assumption | - |
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| (noun) a rule or standard especially of good behavior | - |
| (noun) (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | Synonyms: rationale |
| (noun) a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) rule of personal conduct | Synonyms: precept |
| print | (noun) a picture or design printed from an engraving | - |
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| (noun) a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers) | - |
| (noun) a printed picture produced from a photographic negative | Synonyms: photographic print |
| (noun) a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it) | - |
| (noun) the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication | - |
| (noun) a visible indication made on a surface | Synonyms: mark |
| (noun) availability in printed form | - |
| printer | (noun) a machine that prints | Synonyms: printing machine |
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| (noun) (computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing | - |
| (noun) someone whose occupation is printing | Synonyms: pressman |
| printing | (noun) the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution | - |
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| (noun) reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication | Synonyms: printing process |
| (noun) text handwritten in the style of printed matter | - |
| (noun) all the copies of a work printed at one time | Synonyms: impression |
| printmaker | (noun) an artist who designs and makes prints | Synonyms: graphic artist |
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| printmaking | (noun) artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens | - |
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| printout | (noun) the output of a computer in printed form | - |
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| proaccelerin | (noun) a coagulation factor | Synonyms: accelerator factor, factor V, prothrombin accelerator |
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| pseudoephedrine | (noun) poisonous crystalline alkaloid occurring with ephedrine and isomorphic with it | - |
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| purine | (noun) a colorless crystalline organic base containing nitrogen; the parent compound of various biologically important substances | - |
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| (noun) any of several bases that are derivatives of purine | - |
| quartering | (noun) dividing into four equal parts | - |
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| (noun) living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel) | - |
| (noun) a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages | - |
| quinacrine | (noun) a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria | Synonyms: Atabrine, mepacrine, quinacrine hydrochloride |
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| quivering | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quiver, vibration |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
| racketeering | (noun) engaging in a racket | - |
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| radiochlorine | (noun) a radioactive isotope of chlorine | - |
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| rearing | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, upbringing |
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| (noun) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child | Synonyms: nurture, raising |
| reconnoitering | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitring, scouting |
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| reconnoitring | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitering, scouting |
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| refractoriness | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, unmanageableness |
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| rehearing | (noun) the act of hearing again | Synonyms: relistening |
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| remembering | (noun) the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered | Synonyms: memory |
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| rendering | (noun) giving in acknowledgment of obligation | - |
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| (noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: interpretation, rendition |
| (noun) perspective drawing of an architect's design | - |
| (noun) a coat of stucco applied to a masonry wall | - |
| (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, interpreting, rendition |
| (noun) a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc. | Synonyms: rendition |
| (noun) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | Synonyms: interlingual rendition, translation, version |
| reordering | (noun) a rearrangement in a different order | - |
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| reprint | (noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | Synonyms: offprint, separate |
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| (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reissue, reprinting |
| reprinting | (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reissue, reprint |
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| revolutionariness | (noun) The state or quality of being revolutionary. | - |
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| ribavirin | (noun) an inhaled antiviral agent (trade name Virazole) that may be used to treat serious virus infections | Synonyms: Virazole |
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| rind | (noun) the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating) | - |
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| rinderpest | (noun) an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes | Synonyms: cattle plague |
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| ring | (noun) jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger | Synonyms: band |
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| (noun) a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) | Synonyms: band |
| (noun) a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling | Synonyms: hoop |
| (noun) a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle | - |
| (noun) a characteristic sound | - |
| (noun) the sound of a bell ringing | Synonyms: ringing, tintinnabulation |
| (noun) an association of criminals | Synonyms: gang, mob, pack |
| (noun) (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop | Synonyms: closed chain |
| (noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, doughnut, halo |
| ringdove | (noun) greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged | Synonyms: Streptopelia risoria |
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| (noun) Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck | Synonyms: Columba palumbus, cushat, wood pigeon |
| ringer | (noun) (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg | - |
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| (noun) a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses | - |
| (noun) a person who is almost identical to another | Synonyms: clone, dead ringer |
| (noun) a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) | Synonyms: bell ringer, toller |
| ringgit | (noun) the basic unit of money in Malaysia; equal to 100 sen | - |
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| ringhals | (noun) highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet | Synonyms: Hemachatus haemachatus, rinkhals, spitting snake |
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| ringing | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| (noun) the giving of a ring as a token of engagement | - |
| (noun) the sound of a bell ringing | Synonyms: ring, tintinnabulation |
| ringleader | (noun) a person who leads (especially in illicit activities) | - |
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| ringlet | (noun) any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae | Synonyms: ringlet butterfly |
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| (noun) a little ring | - |
| (noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: curl, whorl |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, roll, scroll, whorl |
| ringmaster | (noun) the person in charge of performances in a circus ring | - |
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| rings | (noun) gymnastic apparatus consisting of a pair of heavy metal circles (usually covered with leather) suspended by ropes; used for gymnastic exercises | - |
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| ringside | (noun) first row of seating; has an unobstructed view of a boxing or wrestling ring | Synonyms: ringside seat |
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| ringtail | (noun) an immature golden eagle | - |
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| (noun) North American raccoon | Synonyms: common raccoon, common racoon, coon, Procyon lotor |
| (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, bassarisk, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat |
| (noun) monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl | Synonyms: capuchin, Cebus capucinus |
| ringway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: beltway, bypass, ring road |
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| ringworm | (noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: roundworm, tinea |
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