| neptunium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production of plutonium | Synonyms: atomic number 93, Np |
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| nondisjunction | (noun) meiosis in which there is a failure of paired homologous chromosomes to separate; results in an abnormal number of chromosomes in the daughter cells | - |
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| nonuniformity | (noun) the quality of being diverse and interesting | - |
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| nosecount | (noun) a periodic count of the population | Synonyms: census, nose count |
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| noun | (noun) a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action | - |
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| (noun) the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition | - |
| nun | (noun) a buoy resembling a cone | Synonyms: conical buoy, nun buoy |
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| (noun) a woman religious | - |
| (noun) the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
| nuna | (noun) used by males to address an older female | Synonyms: noona |
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| nuncio | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status | Synonyms: papal nuncio |
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| nunnery | (noun) the convent of a community of nuns | - |
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| opportuneness | (noun) timely convenience | Synonyms: patness, timeliness |
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| opportunism | (noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: expedience, self-interest, self-seeking |
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| opportunist | (noun) a person who places expediency above principle | Synonyms: self-seeker |
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| opportunity | (noun) a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances | Synonyms: chance |
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| osmund | (noun) any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters | Synonyms: flowering fern |
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| 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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| ounce | (noun) large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur | Synonyms: Panthera uncia, snow leopard |
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| (noun) a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams | Synonyms: oz. |
| (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound | Synonyms: apothecaries' ounce, troy ounce |
| overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
| overrun | (noun) too much production or more than expected | Synonyms: overproduction |
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| oyabun | (noun) a Japanese supervisor | - |
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| paramountcy | (noun) the state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority | - |
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| paunch | (noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: belly |
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| paunchiness | (noun) the bodily property of a protruding belly | Synonyms: abdominousness |
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| peduncle | (noun) a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain | Synonyms: cerebral peduncle |
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| (noun) stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower | - |
| (noun) the thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body | - |
| perilune | (noun) periapsis in orbit around the moon | Synonyms: periselene |
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| petunia | (noun) any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers | - |
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| playground | (noun) yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play | - |
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| (noun) an area where many people go for recreation, holidays or other purposes | Synonyms: resort area, vacation spot |
| plunder | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, prize, swag |
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| plunderage | (noun) the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard) | - |
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| plunderer | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, raider, spoiler |
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| plundering | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillage, pillaging |
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| plunge | (noun) a brief swim in water | Synonyms: dip |
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| (noun) a steep and rapid fall | - |
| plunger | (noun) mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion | Synonyms: piston |
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| (noun) hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains | Synonyms: plumber's helper |
| (noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Synonyms: speculator |
| (noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: diver |
| plunk | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunker |
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| (noun) a hollow twanging sound | - |
| plunker | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunk |
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| popgun | (noun) plaything consisting of a toy gun that makes a popping sound | - |
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| pothunter | (noun) a nonprofessional archeologist | - |
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| (noun) someone who participates in contests in order to collect trophies | - |
| (noun) someone who hunts for food (not for sport) | - |
| pounce | (noun) the act of pouncing | - |
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| pound | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, hammering, pounding |
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| (noun) a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs | Synonyms: dog pound |
| (noun) a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain) | Synonyms: pound sign |
| (noun) a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec | Synonyms: lbf. |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence | Synonyms: British pound, British pound sterling, pound sterling, quid |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Cypriot pound |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters | Synonyms: Egyptian pound |
| (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence | Synonyms: Irish pound, Irish punt, punt |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters | Synonyms: Lebanese pound |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters | Synonyms: Sudanese pound |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters | Synonyms: Syrian pound |
| (noun) 16 ounces avoirdupois | Synonyms: lb |
| (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy | - |
| poundage | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, impoundment, internment |
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| (noun) weight expressed in pounds | - |
| (noun) a fee charged for the recovery of impounded animals | - |
| (noun) a charge based on weight measured in pounds | - |
| poundal | (noun) a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound; equal to 0.1382 newtons | Synonyms: pdl |
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| pounder | (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: muller, pestle |
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| (noun) (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds | - |
| pounding | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, hammering, pound |
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| (noun) repeated heavy blows | Synonyms: buffeting |
| (noun) an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) | Synonyms: throb, throbbing |
| profoundness | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: deepness, profundity |
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| (noun) intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" | Synonyms: profundity |
| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profundity |
| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness |
| (noun) extremeness of degree | - |
| profundity | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: deepness, profoundness |
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| (noun) intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" | Synonyms: profoundness |
| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profoundness |
| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, reconditeness |
| pronoun | (noun) a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase | - |
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| pronouncement | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: dictum, say-so |
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| pronunciamento | (noun) a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) | Synonyms: manifesto |
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| pronunciation | (noun) the manner in which someone utters a word | - |
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| (noun) the way a word or a language is customarily spoken | Synonyms: orthoepy |
| prune | (noun) dried plum | - |
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| pruner | (noun) a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees | Synonyms: lopper, pruning hook |
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| (noun) a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs | Synonyms: trimmer |
| pruning | (noun) the act of trimming a plant | - |
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| (noun) something that has been pruned off of a plant | - |
| pruno | (noun) a liquor concocted from a mixture of ingredients (such as prunes and raisins and milk and sugar) that can be fermented to produce alcohol; made by prison inmates | - |
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| pun | (noun) a humorous play on words | Synonyms: paronomasia, punning, wordplay |
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| punch | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, lick, poke, slug |
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| (noun) a tool for making holes or indentations | Synonyms: puncher |
| (noun) an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl | - |
| punchayet | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayat, panchayet |
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| punchball | (noun) an inflated ball or bag that is suspended and punched for training in boxing | Synonyms: punch bag, punching bag, punching ball |
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| punchboard | (noun) a small board full of holes; each hole contains a slip of paper with symbols printed on it; a gambler pays a small sum for the privilege of pushing out a slip in the hope of obtaining one that entitles him to a prize | - |
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| puncher | (noun) a tool for making holes or indentations | Synonyms: punch |
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| (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher |
| (noun) someone who delivers punches | - |
| punctilio | (noun) strict observance of formalities | - |
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| (noun) a fine point of etiquette or petty formality | - |
| punctiliousness | (noun) strict attention to minute details | Synonyms: meticulosity, meticulousness, scrupulousness |
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| punctuality | (noun) the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time | Synonyms: promptness |
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| punctuation | (noun) the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases | - |
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| (noun) the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases | Synonyms: punctuation mark |
| (noun) something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions | - |
| punctum | (noun) (anatomy) a point or small area | - |
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| puncture | (noun) the act of puncturing or perforating | - |
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| (noun) a small hole made by a sharp object | - |
| (noun) loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object | - |
| pundit | (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: initiate, learned person, savant |
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| pung | (noun) a one-horse sleigh consisting of a box on runners | - |
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| pungapung | (noun) putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber | Synonyms: Amorphophallus campanulatus, Amorphophallus paeonifolius, elephant yam, telingo potato |
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| pungency | (noun) a strong odor or taste property | Synonyms: bite, raciness, sharpness |
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| (noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality | Synonyms: bite |
| puniness | (noun) smallness of stature | Synonyms: runtiness, stuntedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: pettiness, slightness, triviality |
| punishment | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, penalty |
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| punk | (noun) rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock | Synonyms: punk rock |
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| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
| (noun) a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture | Synonyms: punk rocker |
| (noun) substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks) | - |
| (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, spunk, tinder, touchwood |
| punkah | (noun) a large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling; used in India for circulating air in a room | - |
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| punkey | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkie, punky |
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| punkie | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punky |
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| punks | (noun) a youth subculture closely associated with punk rock music in the late 1970s; in part a reaction to the hippy subculture; dress was optional but intended to shock (plastic garbage bags or old school uniforms) and hair was dyed in bright colors (in Mohican haircuts or sometimes spiked in bright plumes) | - |
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| punky | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punkie |
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| punnet | (noun) a small light basket used as a measure for fruits | - |
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| punning | (noun) a humorous play on words | Synonyms: paronomasia, pun, wordplay |
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| punster | (noun) someone overly fond of making puns | - |
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| punt | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence | Synonyms: Irish pound, Irish punt, pound |
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| (noun) (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground | Synonyms: punting |
| (noun) an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole | - |
| punter | (noun) (football) a person who kicks the football by dropping it from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits the ground | - |
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| (noun) someone who bets | Synonyms: better, bettor, wagerer |
| (noun) someone who propels a boat with a pole | - |
| 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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| quellung | (noun) the swelling of the capsule surrounding a microorganism after reaction with an antibody; the basis of certain tests for identifying microorganisms | Synonyms: quellung reaction |
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| quidnunc | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: busybody, nosey-parker, nosy-parker |
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| racerunner | (noun) very swift lizard of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Cnemidophorus sexlineatus, race runner, six-lined racerunner |
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| radiocommunication | (noun) medium for communication | Synonyms: radio, wireless |
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| radioimmunoassay | (noun) immunoassay of a substance that has been radioactively labeled | - |
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| raunch | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarism, vulgarity |
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| rebound | (noun) the act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot | - |
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| (noun) a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration | - |
| (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, recoil, repercussion |
| recount | (noun) an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election | - |
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| recounting | (noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: relation, telling |
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| redundance | (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundancy |
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| redundancy | (noun) repetition of an act needlessly | - |
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| (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundance |
| (noun) (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails | - |
| (noun) repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission | - |
| refund | (noun) the act of returning money received previously | Synonyms: repayment |
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| (noun) money returned to a payer | - |
| remount | (noun) a fresh horse especially (formerly) to replace one killed or injured in battle | - |
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| remuneration | (noun) the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses | - |
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| (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: earnings, pay, salary, wage |
| remunerator | (noun) a person who pays money for something | Synonyms: payer |
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| renouncement | (noun) an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned | Synonyms: renunciation |
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| renunciation | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forgoing, forswearing |
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| (noun) an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned | Synonyms: renouncement |
| (noun) rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid | Synonyms: repudiation |
| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: apostasy, defection |
| rerun | (noun) a program that is broadcast again | - |
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