| pasteboard | (noun) stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper | - |
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| pastel | (noun) any of various pale or light colors | - |
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| paster | (noun) an adhesive label | Synonyms: gummed label, sticker |
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| (noun) a workman who pastes | - |
| pastern | (noun) the part between the fetlock and the hoof | Synonyms: fetter bone |
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| pasteurellosis | (noun) an acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection | Synonyms: hemorrhagic septicemia |
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| pasteurisation | (noun) partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food | Synonyms: pasteurization |
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| pasteuriser | (noun) an apparatus for pasteurizing substances (especially milk). | Synonyms: pasteurizer |
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| pasteurization | (noun) partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food | Synonyms: pasteurisation |
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| pasteurizer | (noun) an apparatus for pasteurizing substances (especially milk). | Synonyms: pasteuriser |
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| paternoster | (noun) a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor | - |
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| paymaster | (noun) a person in charge of paying wages | - |
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| periosteum | (noun) a dense fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones (except at their extremities) and serving as an attachment for tendons and muscles; contains nerves and blood vessels that nourish the enclosed bone | - |
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| persistence | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, perseveration |
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| (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
| (noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: continuity |
| persistency | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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| pesterer | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: blighter, cuss, gadfly, pest |
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| phrontistery | (noun) an establishment for study and learning (sometimes including modern universities) | - |
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| physostegia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Physostegia having sessile linear to oblong leaves and showy white or rose or lavender flowers | - |
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| piaster | (noun) a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria | Synonyms: piastre |
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| (noun) 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey | Synonyms: kurus, piastre |
| pilaster | (noun) a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached | - |
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| piste | (noun) a ski run densely packed with snow | - |
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| (noun) a flat rectangular area for fencing bouts | - |
| plaster | (noun) adhesive tape used in dressing wounds | Synonyms: adhesive plaster, sticking plaster |
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| (noun) a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) | Synonyms: plasterwork |
| (noun) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. | Synonyms: cataplasm, poultice |
| (noun) a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings | - |
| (noun) any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs | Synonyms: plaster of Paris |
| 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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| plasterer | (noun) a worker skilled in applying plaster | - |
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| plastering | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: daubing |
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| plasterwork | (noun) a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) | Synonyms: plaster |
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| pleonaste | (noun) a dark-colored spinel containing iron | Synonyms: ceylonite |
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| pollster | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: canvasser, headcounter, poll taker |
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| polyester | (noun) any of a large class of synthetic fabrics | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous synthetic resins; they are light and strong and weather resistant | - |
| (noun) a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics or as a plasticizer | - |
| poster | (noun) a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers | Synonyms: post-horse, post horse |
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| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, placard, posting |
| (noun) someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards | Synonyms: bill poster, bill sticker |
| posterboard | (noun) a cardboard suitable for making posters | Synonyms: paperboard, poster board |
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| posterior | (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, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| (noun) a tooth situated at the back of the mouth | Synonyms: back tooth |
| posteriority | (noun) the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end | - |
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| (noun) following in time | Synonyms: subsequence, subsequentness |
| posterity | (noun) all future generations | - |
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| (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: descendants |
| postern | (noun) a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle | - |
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| postmaster | (noun) the person in charge of a post office | - |
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| prankster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, tricker, trickster |
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| preexistence | (noun) existing in a former state or previous to something else | - |
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| priestess | (noun) a woman priest | - |
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| progesterone | (noun) a steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy | Synonyms: Lipo-Lutin |
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| protester | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: demonstrator |
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| (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, dissident, objector |
| punster | (noun) someone overly fond of making puns | - |
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| quartermaster | (noun) an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops | - |
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| quester | (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: searcher, seeker |
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| quickstep | (noun) a ballroom dance with both quick and slow steps | - |
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| (noun) military march accompanying quick time | - |
| quizmaster | (noun) the host or chairman of a radio or tv quiz show or panel game | Synonyms: question master |
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| raster | (noun) the rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitor | - |
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| register | (noun) a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device | - |
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| (noun) an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room | - |
| (noun) a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill | Synonyms: cash register |
| (noun) (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind | - |
| (noun) (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments | - |
| (noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: registry |
| (noun) a book in which names and transactions are listed | - |
| relistening | (noun) the act of hearing again | Synonyms: rehearing |
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| requester | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, suppliant, supplicant |
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| resister | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, thwarter |
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| (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer |
| rester | (noun) a person who rests | - |
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| rhinostenosis | (noun) narrowing of the passages in the nasal cavities | - |
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| rhymester | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, versifier |
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| ringmaster | (noun) the person in charge of performances in a circus ring | - |
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| riposte | (noun) (fencing) a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying the opponents lunge | - |
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| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, return |
| roadstead | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roads |
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| roadster | (noun) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: buggy |
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| (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: runabout, two-seater |
| roaster | (noun) a special cooking pan for roasting | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a large young chicken over 3 1/2 lb suitable for roasting | - |
| (noun) a cook who roasts food | - |
| (noun) a harsh or humorous critic (sometimes intended as a facetious compliment) | - |
| roisterer | (noun) an especially noisy and unrestrained merrymaker | - |
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| rooster | (noun) adult male chicken | Synonyms: cock |
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| roster | (noun) a list of names | Synonyms: roll |
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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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| schlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: shlockmeister |
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| schoolmaster | (noun) food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lutjanus apodus |
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| (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, master |
| (noun) any person (or institution) who acts as an educator | - |
| scoutmaster | (noun) the leader of a troop of Scouts | - |
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| seamster | (noun) a person whose occupation is making and altering garments | Synonyms: sartor, tailor |
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| semester | (noun) one of two divisions of an academic year | - |
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| (noun) half a year; a period of 6 months | - |
| servosystem | (noun) control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system | Synonyms: servo, servomechanism |
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| sestet | (noun) a musical composition written for six performers | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
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| (noun) a rhythmic group of six lines of verse | - |
| (noun) a set of six similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
| (noun) six performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
| shinplaster | (noun) paper money of little value issued on insufficient security | - |
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| shirtwaister | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaist |
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| shlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: schlockmeister |
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| shyster | (noun) a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods | Synonyms: pettifogger |
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| sidestep | (noun) a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing) | - |
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| sister | (noun) a female person who has the same parents as another person | Synonyms: sis |
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| (noun) a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group | - |
| sisterhood | (noun) a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns) | - |
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| (noun) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest | Synonyms: sistership |
| (noun) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings | Synonyms: sistership |
| sistership | (noun) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest | Synonyms: sisterhood |
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| (noun) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings | Synonyms: sisterhood |
| sodbuster | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: farmer, granger, husbandman |
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| solenogaster | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: aplacophoran |
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| songster | (noun) any bird having a musical call | Synonyms: songbird |
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| (noun) a person who sings with skill | - |
| (noun) a composer of words or music for popular songs | Synonyms: ballad maker, songwriter |
| southeaster | (noun) a strong wind from the southeast | Synonyms: sou'easter |
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| southwester | (noun) a strong wind from the southwest | Synonyms: sou'wester |
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| spinmeister | (noun) a public relations person who tries to forestall negative publicity by publicizing a favorable interpretation of the words or actions of a company or political party or famous person | Synonyms: spin doctor |
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| spinster | (noun) an elderly unmarried woman | Synonyms: old maid |
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| (noun) someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) | Synonyms: spinner, thread maker |
| spinsterhood | (noun) the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) | - |
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| sportscaster | (noun) an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events | Synonyms: sports announcer, sports commentator |
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| spymaster | (noun) someone who directs clandestine intelligence activities | - |
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| stationmaster | (noun) the person in charge of a railway station | Synonyms: station agent |
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| stead | (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, place, position |
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| steadfastness | (noun) loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty | Synonyms: staunchness |
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| (noun) steadfast resolution | - |
| steadiness | (noun) the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place | Synonyms: firmness |
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| (noun) the quality of being steady--regular and unvarying | - |
| (noun) freedom from wavering or indecision; constancy of resolve or conduct | - |
| steady | (noun) a person loved by another person | Synonyms: sweetheart, sweetie, truelove |
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| steak | (noun) a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish | - |
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| steakhouse | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in steaks | Synonyms: chophouse |
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| steal | (noun) a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch) | - |
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| (noun) an advantageous purchase | Synonyms: bargain, buy |
| stealer | (noun) a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it | Synonyms: thief |
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| stealing | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving |
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| (noun) avoiding detection by moving carefully | Synonyms: stealth |
| stealth | (noun) avoiding detection by moving carefully | Synonyms: stealing |
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| stealthiness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: furtiveness, sneakiness |
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| steam | (noun) water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere | - |
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