| motto | (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, shibboleth, slogan |
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| mulatto | (noun) an offspring of a black and a white parent | - |
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| musette | (noun) a small bagpipe formerly popular in France | Synonyms: shepherd's pipe |
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| mutt | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: cur, mongrel |
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| mutter | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, muttering |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, muttering |
| mutterer | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: mumbler, murmurer |
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| muttering | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter |
| mutton | (noun) meat from a mature domestic sheep | Synonyms: mouton |
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| muttonfish | (noun) similar to and often marketed as `red snapper' | Synonyms: Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper |
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| muttonhead | (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, numskull, shithead |
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| natterjack | (noun) common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops | Synonyms: Bufo calamita |
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| nattiness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, rakishness |
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| netiquette | (noun) Etiquette practiced or advocated in electronic communication over a computer network. | - |
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| netting | (noun) creating nets | - |
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| (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: gauze, veiling |
| nettle | (noun) any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae) | - |
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| neurotransmitter | (noun) a neurochemical that transmits nerve impulses across a synapse | - |
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| newsletter | (noun) report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group | Synonyms: newssheet |
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| nighttime | (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, night |
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| nitrocotton | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, guncotton, nitrocellulose |
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| nonattendance | (noun) the failure to attend | - |
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| nonattender | (noun) someone who shirks duty | Synonyms: no-show, truant |
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| nonremittal | (noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: default, nonpayment |
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| (noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: default, nonpayment |
| notturno | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: nocturne |
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| novelette | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novella |
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| nutter | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: wacko, whacko |
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| octette | (noun) a musical composition written for eight performers | Synonyms: octet |
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| (noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: eightsome, octet |
| (noun) a set of eight similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet |
| (noun) eight performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: octet |
| omelette | (noun) beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly | Synonyms: omelet |
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| operetta | (noun) a short amusing opera | Synonyms: light opera |
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| ottar | (noun) essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers | Synonyms: atar, athar, attar |
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| otter | (noun) freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur | - |
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| (noun) the fur of an otter | - |
| otterhound | (noun) hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat; bred for hunting otters | Synonyms: otter hound |
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| ottoman | (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: hassock, pouf, pouffe, puff |
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| (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, footstool, tuffet |
| oubliette | (noun) a dungeon with the only entrance or exit being a trap door in the ceiling | - |
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| outfitter | (noun) a shop that provides equipment for some specific purpose | - |
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| (noun) someone who sells men's clothes | - |
| outfitting | (noun) the act of renovating and fitting out a ship | - |
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| outtake | (noun) a scene that is filmed but is not used in the final editing of the film | - |
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| outthrust | (noun) an outcropping of rock that extends outward | - |
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| outturn | (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, turnout |
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| pacesetter | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacemaker, pacer |
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| (noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacemaker |
| palette | (noun) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used | Synonyms: pallet |
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| (noun) one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor | Synonyms: pallette |
| (noun) the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art | Synonyms: pallet |
| pallette | (noun) one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor | Synonyms: palette |
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| palmetto | (noun) any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves | - |
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| pargetting | (noun) ornamental plastering | Synonyms: pargeting |
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| (noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargeting, pargetry |
| (noun) plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys | Synonyms: parget, pargeting |
| patten | (noun) footwear usually with wooden soles | Synonyms: clog, geta, sabot |
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| patter | (noun) plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) | Synonyms: line of gab, spiel |
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| (noun) a quick succession of light rapid sounds | - |
| pattern | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: practice |
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| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, figure |
| (noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: form, shape |
| (noun) a model considered worthy of imitation | - |
| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, design |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, rule |
| (noun) graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle | Synonyms: radiation diagram, radiation pattern |
| (noun) the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport | Synonyms: approach pattern, traffic pattern |
| patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
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| patty | (noun) round flat candy | - |
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| (noun) small pie or pasty | - |
| (noun) small flat mass of chopped or ground food | Synonyms: cake |
| petter | (noun) a lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one | Synonyms: fondler |
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| petticoat | (noun) undergarment worn under a skirt | Synonyms: half-slip, underskirt |
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| pettifogger | (noun) a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods | Synonyms: shyster |
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| (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, caviller, quibbler |
| pettifoggery | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| pettiness | (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: puniness, slightness, triviality |
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| (noun) lack of generosity in trifling matters | Synonyms: littleness, smallness |
| (noun) narrowness of mind or ideas or views | - |
| petting | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, smooching, snuggling |
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| pettishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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| petty | (noun) larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale) | Synonyms: petit larceny, petty larceny |
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| pipefitting | (noun) fitting consisting of threaded pieces of pipe for joining pipes together | Synonyms: pipe fitting |
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| pipette | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube | Synonyms: pipet |
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| pirouette | (noun) (ballet) a rapid spin of the body (especially on the toes as in ballet) | - |
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| pitta | (noun) any bird of the genus Pitta; brilliantly colored chiefly terrestrial birds with short wings and tail and stout bills | - |
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| pittance | (noun) an inadequate payment | - |
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| pitting | (noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: indentation, roughness |
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| planchette | (noun) a triangular board supported on casters; when lightly touched with the fingertips it is supposed to spell out supernatural (or unconscious) messages | - |
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| platter | (noun) a large shallow dish used for serving food | - |
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| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, record |
| plotter | (noun) an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures | - |
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| (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: coconspirator, conspirator, machinator |
| (noun) a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action | Synonyms: schemer |
| (noun) a clerk who marks data on a chart | Synonyms: mapper |
| poinsettia | (noun) tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Christmas flower, Christmas star, Euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf |
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| pottage | (noun) a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat | - |
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| (noun) thick (often creamy) soup | Synonyms: potage |
| potter | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramicist, ceramist, thrower |
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| potterer | (noun) a person who putters about | Synonyms: putterer |
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| pottery | (noun) the craft of making earthenware | - |
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| (noun) ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln | Synonyms: clayware |
| (noun) a workshop where clayware is made | - |
| pottle | (noun) a pot that holds 2 quarts | - |
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| potto | (noun) a kind of gray-brown lemur (Perodicticus potto) | Synonyms: kinkajou, Perodicticus potto |
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| (noun) arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail | Synonyms: honey bear, kinkajou, Potos caudivolvulus, Potos flavus |
| potty | (noun) a receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom | Synonyms: chamberpot, thunder mug |
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| (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, pot, stool, throne, toilet |
| poulette | (noun) allemande sauce with chopped parsley | - |
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| prattle | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: blether, chin music, idle talk, prate |
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| prattler | (noun) someone who speaks in a childish way | - |
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| prettiness | (noun) the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman) | Synonyms: cuteness |
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| prosciutto | (noun) Italian salt-cured ham usually sliced paper thin | - |
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| psittacosaur | (noun) primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal | Synonyms: psittacosaurus |
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| psittacosaurus | (noun) primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal | Synonyms: psittacosaur |
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| psittacosis | (noun) infectious disease of birds | Synonyms: parrot disease |
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| (noun) an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds | Synonyms: ornithosis, parrot fever |
| putt | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putting |
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| puttee | (noun) a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I | - |
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| putter | (noun) the iron normally used on the putting green | Synonyms: putting iron |
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| (noun) a golfer who is putting | - |
| putterer | (noun) a person who putters about | Synonyms: potterer |
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| putting | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putt |
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| putty | (noun) a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass | - |
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| puttyroot | (noun) North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers | Synonyms: adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale |
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| quartette | (noun) a musical composition for four performers | Synonyms: quartet |
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| (noun) four people considered as a unit | Synonyms: foursome, quartet |
| (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quadruplet, quartet |
| (noun) four performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: quartet |
| quattrocento | (noun) the 15th century in Italian art and literature | - |
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| quintette | (noun) a musical composition for five performers | Synonyms: quintet |
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| (noun) five people considered as a unit | Synonyms: fivesome, quintet |
| (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintuple, quintuplet |
| (noun) five performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: quintet |
| quittance | (noun) payment of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: repayment |
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| (noun) a document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt | - |
| quitter | (noun) a person who gives up too easily | - |
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| rattail | (noun) deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | Synonyms: grenadier, rattail fish |
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| rattan | (noun) a switch made from the stems of the rattan palms | Synonyms: ratan |
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| (noun) climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes | Synonyms: Calamus rotang, rattan palm |
| (noun) the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes | Synonyms: rattan cane |
| ratter | (noun) any of several breeds of terrier developed to catch rats | Synonyms: rat terrier |
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| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, deserter, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
| ratting | (noun) to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) | Synonyms: informing |
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| rattle | (noun) loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail | - |
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| (noun) a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken | - |
| (noun) a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders) | Synonyms: rale, rattling |
| rattlebox | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: crotalaria |
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| rattler | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattlesnake |
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| (noun) a railroad train consisting of freight cars | Synonyms: freight train |