| ampersand | (noun) a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and) | - |
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| analysand | (noun) a person undergoing psychoanalysis | - |
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| anticonvulsant | (noun) a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) | Synonyms: anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic, antiepileptic drug |
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| antidepressant | (noun) any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects | Synonyms: antidepressant drug |
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| artisan | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, craftsman, journeyman |
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| asana | (noun) (Hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga) | - |
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| brisance | (noun) the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion | - |
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| chrysanthemum | (noun) any of numerous perennial Old World herbs having showy brightly colored flower heads of the genera Chrysanthemum, Argyranthemum, Dendranthema, Tanacetum; widely cultivated | - |
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| (noun) the flower of a chrysanthemum plant | - |
| cognisance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| complaisance | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
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| consanguinity | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, cognation |
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| conversance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversancy, familiarity |
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| conversancy | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, familiarity |
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| corposant | (noun) an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere | Synonyms: corona, corona discharge, electric glow, Saint Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's light, Saint Ulmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light, St. Elmo's fire |
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| courtesan | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, doxy, paramour |
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| croissant | (noun) very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll | Synonyms: crescent roll |
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| depressant | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: downer, sedative, sedative drug |
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| diocesan | (noun) a bishop having jurisdiction over a diocese | - |
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| discussant | (noun) a participant in a formal discussion | - |
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| glissando | (noun) a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale | - |
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| goosander | (noun) common merganser of Europe and North America | Synonyms: Mergus merganser |
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| greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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| hosanna | (noun) a cry of praise or adoration (to God) | - |
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| immunosuppressant | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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| impuissance | (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, weakness |
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| incessancy | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessantness |
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| incessantness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessancy |
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| insaneness | (noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity | Synonyms: lunacy, madness |
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| insanity | (noun) relatively permanent disorder of the mind | - |
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| isanemone | (noun) an isogram connecting points having equal wind speed. | - |
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| malfeasance | (noun) wrongful conduct by a public official | - |
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| malfeasant | (noun) one guilty of malfeasance | - |
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| medusan | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusa, medusoid |
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| misanthrope | (noun) someone who dislikes people in general | Synonyms: misanthropist |
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| misanthropist | (noun) someone who dislikes people in general | Synonyms: misanthrope |
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| misanthropy | (noun) a disposition to dislike and mistrust other people | - |
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| (noun) hatred of mankind | - |
| misfeasance | (noun) doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner | - |
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| nonfeasance | (noun) a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do | - |
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| nonpartisan | (noun) a person who is nonpartisan | Synonyms: nonpartizan |
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| nonpartisanship | (noun) an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally | Synonyms: impartiality |
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| nuisance | (noun) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| obeisance | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obedience |
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| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, bowing |
| pachysandra | (noun) any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover | - |
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| partisan | (noun) a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: partizan |
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| (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: drumbeater, zealot |
| (noun) an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | Synonyms: enthusiast, partizan |
| partisanship | (noun) an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives | Synonyms: partiality |
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| pasang | (noun) wild goat of Iran and adjacent regions | Synonyms: bezoar goat, Capra aegagrus |
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| (noun) large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns | Synonyms: oryx |
| peasant | (noun) a country person | Synonyms: bucolic, provincial |
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| (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tike, tyke |
| (noun) one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers | - |
| peasanthood | (noun) the state of being a peasant | - |
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| peasantry | (noun) the class of peasants | - |
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| pesantran | (noun) a Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders | Synonyms: pesantren |
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| pesantren | (noun) a Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders | Synonyms: pesantran |
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| pheasant | (noun) large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a pheasant; usually braised | - |
| pisanosaur | (noun) primitive dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: pisanosaurus |
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| pisanosaurus | (noun) primitive dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: pisanosaur |
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| pleasance | (noun) a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | Synonyms: pleasure |
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| (noun) a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion | - |
| pleasantness | (noun) the quality of giving pleasure | Synonyms: sweetness |
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| (noun) the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling | - |
| pleasantry | (noun) an agreeable or amusing remark | - |
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| puissance | (noun) power to influence or coerce | - |
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| pulasan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulassan |
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| (noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan tree, pulassan |
| pulassan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulasan |
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| (noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan, pulasan tree |
| quicksand | (noun) a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down | - |
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| (noun) a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy | - |
| recognisance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognizance |
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| reconnaissance | (noun) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) | Synonyms: reconnaissance mission |
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| recusancy | (noun) refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England | - |
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| recusant | (noun) someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct | Synonyms: nonconformist |
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| sanatarium | (noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | Synonyms: sanatorium, sanitarium |
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| sanatorium | (noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | Synonyms: sanatarium, sanitarium |
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| (noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum | Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, snake pit |
| sanctification | (noun) a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | - |
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| sanctimoniousness | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimony |
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| sanctimony | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimoniousness |
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| sanction | (noun) the act of final authorization | - |
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| (noun) a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards | - |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization |
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, warrant |
| sanctitude | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctity |
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| sanctity | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctitude |
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| sanctuary | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: bema, chancel |
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| (noun) a shelter from danger or hardship | Synonyms: asylum, refuge |
| (noun) a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept | - |
| sanctum | (noun) a place of inviolable privacy | Synonyms: sanctum sanctorum |
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| (noun) a sacred place of pilgrimage | Synonyms: holy, holy place |
| sand | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, grit, gumption, guts, moxie |
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| (noun) a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral | - |
| sandal | (noun) a shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot | - |
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| sandalwood | (noun) close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork | - |
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| sandarac | (noun) a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes | Synonyms: sandarach |
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| (noun) large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes | Synonyms: Callitris quadrivalvis, sandarac tree, Tetraclinis articulata |
| (noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: citronwood |
| sandarach | (noun) a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes | Synonyms: sandarac |
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| sandbag | (noun) a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast | - |
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| sandbagger | (noun) someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you | - |
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| sandbank | (noun) a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide | - |
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| sandbar | (noun) a bar of sand | Synonyms: sand bar |
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| sandberry | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, wild cranberry |
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| sandblast | (noun) a blast of wind laden with sand | - |
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| sandblaster | (noun) a tool that throws out a blast of steam laden with sand; used to clean or grind hard surfaces | - |
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| sandbox | (noun) a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in | Synonyms: sandpile, sandpit |
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| (noun) mold consisting of a box with sand shaped to mold metal | - |
| sandboy | (noun) a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy' | - |
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| sandbur | (noun) grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs | Synonyms: Cenchrus tribuloides, field sandbur, sandspur |
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| sander | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, smoother |
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| sanderling | (noun) small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world | Synonyms: Crocethia alba |
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| sandfish | (noun) either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand | - |
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| (noun) fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand | Synonyms: beaked salmon, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus |
| sandfly | (noun) any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis | Synonyms: Phlebotomus papatasii, sand fly |
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| sandglass | (noun) timepiece in which the passage of time is indicated by the flow of sand from one transparent container to another through a narrow passage | - |
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| sandgrouse | (noun) pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young | Synonyms: sand grouse |
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| sandhi | (noun) the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech) | - |
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| sandhopper | (noun) small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches | Synonyms: beach flea, sand flea, sand hopper |
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| sandiness | (noun) a texture resembling that of sand | - |
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| (noun) The property of containing sand. | - |
| sandlot | (noun) a vacant lot used by city boys to play games | - |
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