| poikilotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: ectotherm |
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| polycythemia | (noun) a disorder characterized by an abnormal increase in the number of red blood cells in the blood | - |
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| polytheism | (noun) belief in multiple Gods | - |
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| polytheist | (noun) one who believes in a plurality of gods | - |
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| polythene | (noun) a lightweight thermoplastic; used especially in packaging and insulation | Synonyms: polyethylene |
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| pothead | (noun) someone who smokes marijuana habitually | - |
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| pother | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: dither, flap, fuss, tizzy |
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| potherb | (noun) any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning | - |
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| prostheon | (noun) craniometric point that is the most anterior point in the midline on the alveolar process of the maxilla | Synonyms: alveolar point, prosthion |
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| prosthesis | (noun) corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body | Synonyms: prosthetic device |
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| prosthetics | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the production and use of artificial body parts | - |
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| prosthetist | (noun) an expert in prosthetics | - |
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| prototherian | (noun) primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea | - |
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| psychotherapeutics | (noun) the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods | Synonyms: mental hygiene, psychotherapy |
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| psychotherapist | (noun) a therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders | Synonyms: clinical psychologist |
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| psychotherapy | (noun) the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means | - |
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| (noun) the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods | Synonyms: mental hygiene, psychotherapeutics |
| radiotherapist | (noun) a medical specialist who uses radioactive substances and X-rays in the treatment of disease | Synonyms: radiologist |
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| radiotherapy | (noun) (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance | Synonyms: actinotherapy, irradiation, radiation, radiation therapy |
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| rhodanthe | (noun) Australian annual everlasting having light pink nodding flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Helipterum | Synonyms: Helipterum manglesii, Rhodanthe manglesii, Swan River everlasting |
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| rudapithecus | (noun) fossil hominoids from northern central Hungary; late Miocene | Synonyms: Dryopithecus Rudapithecus hungaricus |
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| ruthenium | (noun) a rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group; it is found associated with platinum | Synonyms: atomic number 44, Ru |
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| 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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| scathe | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, harm, hurt |
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| scythe | (noun) an edge tool for cutting grass; has a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground | - |
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| shithead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull |
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| smithereens | (noun) a collection of small fragments considered as a whole | - |
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| smoother | (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, sander |
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| smother | (noun) a stifling cloud of smoke | - |
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| (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, welter |
| smotherer | (noun) a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses | Synonyms: stifler |
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| softheartedness | (noun) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | Synonyms: tenderness |
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| somaesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| (noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia |
| somaesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| somataesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| somatesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| (noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia |
| somesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesis |
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| (noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation |
| somesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia |
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| southeast | (noun) a location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point | - |
| southeaster | (noun) a strong wind from the southeast | Synonyms: sou'easter |
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| southeastward | (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeast |
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| souther | (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, southerly |
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| southerly | (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, souther |
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| southernism | (noun) an attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US) | - |
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| (noun) a locution or pronunciation peculiar to the southern United States | - |
| southernness | (noun) the property of being to the south | - |
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| southernwood | (noun) shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer | Synonyms: Artemisia abrotanum |
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| spathe | (noun) a conspicuous bract surrounding or subtending a spadix or other inflorescence | - |
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| spondylolisthesis | (noun) a forward dislocation of one vertebra over the one beneath it producing pressure on spinal nerves | - |
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| stepbrother | (noun) a brother who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-brother, half brother |
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| stepfather | (noun) the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| stepmother | (noun) the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| sthene | (noun) a unit of force equal to 1000 newtons | - |
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| stoutheartedness | (noun) the trait of having a courageous spirit | - |
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| strengthener | (noun) a device designed to provide additional strength | Synonyms: reinforcement |
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| strengthening | (noun) the act of increasing the strength of something | - |
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| (noun) becoming stronger | - |
| sunbather | (noun) someone who basks in the sunshine in order to get a suntan | - |
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| swathe | (noun) an enveloping bandage | Synonyms: wrapping |
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| sweetheart | (noun) a person loved by another person | Synonyms: steady, sweetie, truelove |
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| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner |
| (noun) any well-liked individual | - |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetie |
| swither | (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, lather, stew, sweat |
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| sympathectomy | (noun) surgical interruption of a nerve pathway in the sympathetic nervous system | - |
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| synaesthesia | (noun) a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated | Synonyms: synesthesia |
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| synesthesia | (noun) a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated | Synonyms: synaesthesia |
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| synthesis | (noun) the combination of ideas into a complex whole | Synonyms: synthetic thinking |
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| (noun) reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | Synonyms: deduction, deductive reasoning |
| (noun) the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds) | - |
| synthesiser | (noun) (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments | Synonyms: synthesizer |
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| (noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesist, synthesizer |
| synthesist | (noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesiser, synthesizer |
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| synthesizer | (noun) (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments | Synonyms: synthesiser |
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| (noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesiser, synthesist |
| synthetic | (noun) a compound made artificially by chemical reactions | Synonyms: synthetic substance |
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| synthetism | (noun) a genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas | - |
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| telethermometer | (noun) a thermometer that registers the temperature at some distant point | - |
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| tether | (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: lead, leash |
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| tetherball | (noun) a game with two players who use rackets to strike a ball that is tethered to the top of a pole; the object is to wrap the string around the pole | - |
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| theanthropism | (noun) (theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine | - |
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| (noun) the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits | Synonyms: anthropomorphism |
| theater | (noun) a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented | Synonyms: house, theatre |
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| (noun) the art of writing and producing plays | Synonyms: dramatic art, dramatics, dramaturgy, theatre |
| (noun) a region in which active military operations are in progress | Synonyms: field, field of operations, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations |
| theatergoer | (noun) someone who attends the theater | Synonyms: playgoer, theatregoer |
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| theatre | (noun) a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented | Synonyms: house, theater |
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| (noun) the art of writing and producing plays | Synonyms: dramatic art, dramatics, dramaturgy, theater |
| (noun) a region in which active military operations are in progress | Synonyms: field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre of operations |
| theatregoer | (noun) someone who attends the theater | Synonyms: playgoer, theatergoer |
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| theatrical | (noun) a performance of a play | Synonyms: histrionics, representation, theatrical performance |
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| theatricality | (noun) an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: staginess |
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| theatrology | (noun) the study of theatrical performance in relation to its literary, physical, psycho-biological, sociological, and historical contexts. | Synonyms: theatre studies |
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| thebe | (noun) 100 thebe equal 1 pula in Botswana | - |
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| theca | (noun) outer sheath of the pupa of certain insects | - |
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| (noun) a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule | Synonyms: sac |
| thecodont | (noun) presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds | Synonyms: thecodont reptile |
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| theelin | (noun) a naturally occurring weak estrogenic hormone secreted by the mammalian ovary; synthesized (trade name Estronol) and used to treat estrogen deficiency | Synonyms: estrone, Estronol, oestrone |
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| theft | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, stealing, thievery, thieving |
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| theine | (noun) caffeine when present in tea. | - |
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| theism | (noun) the doctrine or belief in the existence of a God or gods | - |
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| theist | (noun) one who believes in the existence of a god or gods | - |
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| thelarche | (noun) the start of breast development in a woman at the beginning of puberty | - |
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| theme | (noun) a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work | Synonyms: motif |
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| (noun) the subject matter of a conversation or discussion | Synonyms: subject, topic |
| (noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: composition, paper, report |
| (noun) (music) melodic subject of a musical composition | Synonyms: idea, melodic theme, musical theme |
| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: base, radical, root, root word, stem |
| then | (noun) that time; that moment | - |
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| thenar | (noun) the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers | Synonyms: palm |
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| (noun) the fleshy area of the palm at the base of the thumb | - |
| theocentrism | (noun) the belief that God is the central aspect to our existence. | - |
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| theocracy | (noun) the belief in government by divine guidance | - |
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| (noun) a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided) | - |
| theodicy | (noun) the branch of theology that defends God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil | - |
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| theodolite | (noun) a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod | Synonyms: transit |
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| theogony | (noun) the study of the origins and genealogy of the gods | - |
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| theologian | (noun) someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology | Synonyms: theologiser, theologist, theologizer |
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| theologiser | (noun) someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology | Synonyms: theologian, theologist, theologizer |
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| theologist | (noun) someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology | Synonyms: theologian, theologiser, theologizer |
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| theologizer | (noun) someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology | Synonyms: theologian, theologiser, theologist |
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| theology | (noun) the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary) | - |
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| (noun) a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings | Synonyms: theological system |
| (noun) the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth | Synonyms: divinity |