| procrastinator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: cunctator, postponer |
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| progestin | (noun) any of a group of steroid hormones that have the effect of progesterone | Synonyms: progestogen |
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| prolactin | (noun) gonadotropic hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary; in females it stimulates growth of the mammary glands and lactation after parturition | Synonyms: lactogenic hormone, luteotropin |
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| prompting | (noun) persuasion formulated as a suggestion | Synonyms: suggestion |
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| (noun) a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken) | Synonyms: prompt |
| protactinium | (noun) a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead | Synonyms: atomic number 91, Pa, protoactinium |
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| protoactinium | (noun) a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead | Synonyms: atomic number 91, Pa, protactinium |
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| punting | (noun) (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground | Synonyms: punt |
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| putting | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putt |
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| pyrrhotine | (noun) a brownish iron sulfide mineral (FeS) having weak magnetic properties | Synonyms: magnetic pyrites, pyrrhotite |
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| quarantine | (noun) isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease | - |
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| (noun) enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease | - |
| quilting | (noun) a material used for making a quilt, or a quilted fabric | - |
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| (noun) stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design | - |
| racketiness | (noun) the auditory effect characterized by loud and constant noise | Synonyms: noisiness |
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| ranting | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: harangue, rant |
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| rating | (noun) act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of | Synonyms: evaluation |
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| (noun) an appraisal of the value of something | Synonyms: evaluation, valuation |
| (noun) standing or position on a scale | - |
| (noun) rank in a military organization | Synonyms: military rank, military rating, paygrade |
| ratting | (noun) to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) | Synonyms: informing |
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| reboxetine | (noun) an antidepressant drug that blocks the reuptake of norepinephrine | Synonyms: Edronax |
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| recasting | (noun) changing a particular word or phrase | Synonyms: rephrasing, rewording |
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| recounting | (noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: relation, telling |
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| regulating | (noun) the act of controlling or directing according to rule | Synonyms: regulation |
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| relegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, delegation, deputation, relegation |
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| renting | (noun) the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car) | Synonyms: rental |
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| repeating | (noun) the act of doing or performing again | Synonyms: repetition |
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| reporting | (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: coverage, reportage |
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| repositing | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: reposition, storage, warehousing |
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| 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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| retina | (noun) the innermost light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball; it is continuous with the optic nerve | - |
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| retinal | (noun) either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from rhodopsin by the action of light | Synonyms: retinene |
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| retinene | (noun) either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from rhodopsin by the action of light | Synonyms: retinal |
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| retinitis | (noun) inflammation of the retina | - |
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| retinoblastoma | (noun) malignant ocular tumor of retinal cells; usually occurs before the third year of life; composed of primitive small round retinal cells | - |
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| retinol | (noun) an unsaturated alcohol that occurs in marine fish-liver oils and is synthesized biologically from carotene | Synonyms: vitamin A1 |
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| retinopathy | (noun) a disease of the retina that can result in loss of vision | - |
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| retinue | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, entourage, suite |
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| reverting | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion |
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| rewriting | (noun) editing that involves writing something again | Synonyms: revising |
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| rhizoctinia | (noun) any fungus now or formerly belonging to the form genus Rhizoctinia | - |
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| ricketiness | (noun) the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place | Synonyms: unsteadiness |
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| rioting | (noun) a state of disorder involving group violence | Synonyms: riot |
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| roasting | (noun) cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added) | - |
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| rooting | (noun) the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow | - |
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| rotting | (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, decomposition, putrefaction, rot |
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| routine | (noun) an unvarying or habitual method or procedure | Synonyms: modus operandi |
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| (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: function, procedure, subprogram, subroutine |
| (noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, number, turn |
| routineness | (noun) The state or quality of being routine, of possessing the traits of being quotidian, and repeating a pattern regularly. | - |
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| runtiness | (noun) smallness of stature | Synonyms: puniness, stuntedness |
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| rustiness | (noun) ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being coated or clogged with rust | - |
| rusting | (noun) the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water | Synonyms: rust |
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| saltine | (noun) a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking | - |
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| saltiness | (noun) the property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution) | - |
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| (noun) the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: salinity, salt |
| (noun) language or humor that is down-to-earth | Synonyms: coarseness |
| salting | (noun) the act of adding salt to food | - |
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| satin | (noun) a smooth fabric of silk or rayon; has a glossy face and a dull back | - |
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| satinet | (noun) a fabric with a finish resembling satin but made partly or wholly from cotton or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: satinette |
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| satinette | (noun) a fabric with a finish resembling satin but made partly or wholly from cotton or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: satinet |
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| satinleaf | (noun) tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit | Synonyms: caimitillo, Chrysophyllum oliviforme, damson plum, satin leaf |
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| satinpod | (noun) southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration | Synonyms: honesty, Lunaria annua, money plant, satin flower, silver dollar |
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| satinwood | (noun) East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood | Synonyms: Chloroxylon swietenia, satinwood tree |
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| (noun) West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood | Synonyms: West Indian satinwood, Zanthoxylum flavum |
| (noun) hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools | - |
| scantiness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantness |
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| (noun) Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing. | Synonyms: skimpiness |
| scarlatina | (noun) an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash | Synonyms: scarlet fever |
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| sclerotinia | (noun) any fungus of the genus Sclerotinia; some causing brown rot diseases in plants | - |
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| scouting | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitering, reconnoitring |
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| scrutineer | (noun) someone who examines votes at an election | Synonyms: canvasser |
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| scrutiniser | (noun) a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care | Synonyms: scrutinizer |
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| scrutinizer | (noun) a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care | Synonyms: scrutiniser |
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| scrutiny | (noun) the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) | Synonyms: examination |
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| (noun) a prolonged intense look | - |
| seating | (noun) the service of ushering people to their seats | - |
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| (noun) an area that includes places where several people can sit | Synonyms: seating area, seating room, seats |
| secretin | (noun) a gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion of water and bicarbonate from the pancreas and bile ducts whenever the stomach empties too much acid into the small intestine | - |
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| sentinel | (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentry, spotter, watch |
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| serotine | (noun) common brown bat of Europe | Synonyms: Eptesicus serotinus, European brown bat |
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| sertindole | (noun) an antipsychotic medication used in the treatment of schizophrenia. | - |
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| setting | (noun) a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place | Synonyms: mount |
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| (noun) arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted | Synonyms: mise en scene, stage setting |
| (noun) a table service for one person | Synonyms: place setting |
| (noun) the context and environment in which something is set | Synonyms: scene |
| (noun) the physical position of something | - |
| (noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: background, scope |
| (noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: circumstance, context |
| sexting | (noun) sending sexual messages using a mobile phone or computer | - |
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| sheeting | (noun) fabric from which bed sheets are made | - |
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| shiftiness | (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, slipperiness, trickiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being changeable in direction | - |
| shifting | (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shift |
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| shirting | (noun) any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts | - |
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| shittiness | (noun) (vulgar, colloquial) The state or condition of being very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant. | - |
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| shitting | (noun) the elimination of fecal waste through the anus | Synonyms: defecation, laxation |
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| shooting | (noun) the act of firing a projectile | Synonyms: shot |
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| (noun) killing someone by gunfire | - |
| shoplifting | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shrinkage |
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| shouting | (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: cheering |
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| (noun) uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement | Synonyms: yelling |
| shutting | (noun) the act of closing something | Synonyms: closing |
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| sifting | (noun) the act of separating grain from chaff | Synonyms: winnow, winnowing |
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| sighting | (noun) the act of observing | - |
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| simvastatin | (noun) an oral lipid-lowering medicine (trade name Zocor) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after heart attacks | Synonyms: Zocor |
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| sitting | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position | - |
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| (noun) (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) | Synonyms: posing |
| (noun) a session as of a legislature or court | - |
| (noun) a meeting of spiritualists | Synonyms: seance, session |
| skating | (noun) the sport of gliding on skates | - |
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| skywriting | (noun) writing formed in the sky by smoke released from an airplane | - |
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| slatiness | (noun) The state or quality of being of or resembling the mineral slate. | - |
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| slating | (noun) the act of laying slates for a roof | - |
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| (noun) a severely critical attack | - |
| (noun) thin layers of rock used for roofing | Synonyms: slate |
| smarting | (noun) a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore | Synonyms: smart, smartness |
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| smuttiness | (noun) obscenity in speech or writing | Synonyms: dirtiness |
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| (noun) the state of being dirty with soot | Synonyms: sootiness |
| snootiness | (noun) the quality of being snooty | - |
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| snorting | (noun) an act of forcible exhalation | Synonyms: huffing, puffing |
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| somersaulting | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somerset, summersault, summerset |
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| sonatina | (noun) a short and simple sonata | - |
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| sootiness | (noun) the state of being dirty with soot | Synonyms: smuttiness |
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| sorting | (noun) grouping by class or kind or size | - |
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| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, classification |
| (noun) an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion | Synonyms: sort |
| spaghettini | (noun) thin spaghetti | - |
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| spectinomycin | (noun) an antibiotic used to treat gonorrhea | - |
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| spitting | (noun) the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) | Synonyms: expectoration, spit |
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| sportiness | (noun) The characteristic appearance and behavior of people who partake in sports. | - |
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