| overthrow | (noun) the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force) | - |
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| (noun) the act of disturbing the mind or body | Synonyms: derangement, upset |
| overtime | (noun) playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie | Synonyms: extra time |
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| (noun) work done in addition to regular working hours | - |
| overtolerance | (noun) too much permissiveness | - |
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| overtone | (noun) a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency | Synonyms: partial, partial tone |
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| (noun) (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality | - |
| overture | (noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: advance, approach, feeler |
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| (noun) orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio | - |
| (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: preliminary, prelude |
| overturn | (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: turnover, upset |
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| (noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: upset |
| overuse | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overutilisation, overutilization |
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| overutilisation | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overuse, overutilization |
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| overutilization | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overuse, overutilisation |
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| overvaluation | (noun) too high a value or price assigned to something | - |
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| (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overappraisal, overestimate, overestimation |
| overview | (noun) a general summary of a subject | - |
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| overwatch | (noun) surveillence by a unit within a video game which would cause the unit to make an action in response to an enemy unit's action | - |
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| overweight | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, corpulence, stoutness |
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| overwork | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overworking |
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| overworking | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overwork |
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| overzeal | (noun) The quality of being excessively zealous. | Synonyms: overzealousness |
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| overzealousness | (noun) The quality of being excessively zealous. | Synonyms: overzeal |
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| palaver | (noun) loud and confused and empty talk | Synonyms: empty talk, empty words, hot air, rhetoric |
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| (noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: blandishment, cajolery |
| paloverde | (noun) a thorny shrub of the genus Cercidium that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico; has smooth light green bark and racemes of yellow flowers and small leaves | - |
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| papaverine | (noun) an alkaloid medicine (trade name Kavrin) obtained from opium; used to relax smooth muscles; it is nonaddictive | Synonyms: Kavrin |
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| perceiver | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, percipient |
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| perseverance | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseveration, persistence |
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| (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
| perseveration | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, persistence |
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| (noun) the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it | - |
| perverseness | (noun) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrariness, perversity |
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| (noun) deliberately deviating from what is good | Synonyms: perversity |
| perversion | (noun) the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use) | - |
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| (noun) an aberrant sexual practice | Synonyms: sexual perversion |
| (noun) a curve that reverses the direction of something | - |
| perversity | (noun) deliberately deviating from what is good | Synonyms: perverseness |
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| (noun) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrariness, perverseness |
| pervert | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, deviate, perv, perve |
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| plover | (noun) any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers | - |
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| popover | (noun) light hollow muffin made of a puff batter (individual Yorkshire pudding) baked in a deep muffin cup | - |
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| poverty | (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: impoverishment, poorness |
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| preserver | (noun) rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning | Synonyms: flotation device, life preserver |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: refinisher, renovator, restorer |
| (noun) someone who keeps safe from harm or danger | - |
| (noun) a cook who preserves fruits or meat | - |
| proconvertin | (noun) a coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K | Synonyms: cothromboplastin, factor VII, stable factor |
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| proverb | (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: adage, byword, saw |
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| pullover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: slipover |
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| pulverisation | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, mill, pulverization |
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| (noun) annihilation by pulverizing something | Synonyms: pulverization |
| (noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: powder, pulverization |
| pulverization | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, mill, pulverisation |
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| (noun) annihilation by pulverizing something | Synonyms: pulverisation |
| (noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: powder, pulverisation |
| pushover | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, snap, walkover |
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| (noun) someone who is easily taken advantage of | - |
| quaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note | Synonyms: eighth note |
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| (noun) a tremulous sound | - |
| quicksilver | (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, mercury |
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| quiver | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quivering, vibration |
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| (noun) case for holding arrows | - |
| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quivering, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
| quivering | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quiver, vibration |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
| raver | (noun) someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner | Synonyms: ranter |
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| (noun) a participant in a rave dancing party | - |
| receiver | (noun) set that receives radio or tv signals | Synonyms: receiving system |
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| (noun) earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds | Synonyms: telephone receiver |
| (noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: recipient |
| (noun) (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties | Synonyms: liquidator |
| (noun) a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass | Synonyms: pass catcher, pass receiver |
| (noun) the tennis player who receives the serve | - |
| receivership | (noun) the office of a receiver | - |
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| (noun) a court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can be preserved for the benefit of all | - |
| (noun) the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver | - |
| recoverer | (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: rescuer, saver |
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| recovery | (noun) the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) | Synonyms: retrieval |
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| (noun) return to an original state | - |
| (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: convalescence, recuperation |
| rediscovery | (noun) the act of discovering again | - |
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| reliever | (noun) a pitcher who does not start the game | Synonyms: fireman, relief pitcher |
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| (noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, stand-in, substitute |
| (noun) a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies | Synonyms: allayer, comforter |
| remover | (noun) someone who works for a company that moves furniture | - |
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| (noun) a solvent that removes a substance (usually from a surface) | - |
| reprover | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, upbraider |
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| retriever | (noun) a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game | - |
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| retroversion | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, reversion |
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| (noun) translation back into the original language | - |
| (noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part | Synonyms: retroflection, retroflexion |
| reverberance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| reverberation | (noun) the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves | Synonyms: echo, replication, sound reflection |
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| (noun) a remote or indirect consequence of some action | Synonyms: repercussion |
| revere | (noun) a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side | Synonyms: revers |
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| reverence | (noun) an act showing respect (especially a bow or curtsy) | - |
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| (noun) a reverent mental attitude | - |
| (noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, fear, veneration |
| reverend | (noun) a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church | Synonyms: clergyman, man of the cloth |
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| reverie | (noun) an abstracted state of absorption | Synonyms: revery |
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| (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, revery |
| revers | (noun) a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side | Synonyms: revere |
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| reversal | (noun) a change from one state to the opposite state | - |
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| (noun) the act of reversing the order or place of | Synonyms: transposition |
| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reverse, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) a major change in attitude or principle or point of view | Synonyms: about-face, policy change, volte-face |
| (noun) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside | - |
| (noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) turning in an opposite direction or position | Synonyms: turn around |
| (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reverse, setback |
| reverse | (noun) (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction | - |
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| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed | Synonyms: reverse gear |
| (noun) the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design | Synonyms: verso |
| (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reversal, setback |
| (noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: contrary, opposite |
| reversibility | (noun) the quality of being reversible in either direction | - |
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| reversible | (noun) a garment (especially a coat) that can be worn inside out (with either side of the cloth showing) | - |
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| reversion | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting |
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| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, retroversion |
| (noun) (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation) | - |
| (noun) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | Synonyms: atavism, throwback |
| (noun) (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee) | - |
| reversioner | (noun) (law) a party who is entitled to an estate in reversion | - |
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| reversionist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, recidivist |
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| reverting | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion |
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| revery | (noun) an abstracted state of absorption | Synonyms: reverie |
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| (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie |
| revolver | (noun) a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) | Synonyms: six-gun, six-shooter |
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| (noun) a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings | Synonyms: revolving door |
| river | (noun) a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) | - |
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| riverbank | (noun) the bank of a river | Synonyms: riverside |
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| riverbed | (noun) a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river | Synonyms: river bottom |
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| riverside | (noun) the bank of a river | Synonyms: riverbank |
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| rollover | (noun) the act of changing the institution that invests your pension plan without incurring a tax penalty | - |
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| rover | (noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, roamer, wanderer |
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| (noun) an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement | Synonyms: scouter |
| salver | (noun) a tray (or large plate) for serving food or drinks; usually made of silver | - |
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| saver | (noun) someone who saves (especially money) | - |
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| (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: recoverer, rescuer |
| screwdriver | (noun) a hand tool for driving screws; has a tip that fits into the head of a screw | - |
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| (noun) a cocktail made with vodka and orange juice | - |
| semiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixteenth note |
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| server | (noun) utensil used in serving food or drink | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network | Synonyms: host |
| (noun) a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) | Synonyms: waiter |
| (noun) (court games) the player who serves to start a point | - |
| severalty | (noun) exclusive individual ownership | - |
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| (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: discreteness, distinctness, separateness |
| severance | (noun) the act of severing | Synonyms: severing |
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| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, rupture |
| severeness | (noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: austereness, severity |
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| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity, stiffness |
| (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity |
| (noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | Synonyms: badness, severity |
| severing | (noun) the act of severing | Synonyms: severance |
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| severity | (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, stiffness |
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| (noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | Synonyms: badness, severeness |
| (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness |
| (noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: austereness, severeness |
| shaver | (noun) a razor powered by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric razor, electric shaver |
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| (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
| (noun) an adult male who shaves | - |
| shelver | (noun) a worker who puts things (as books) on shelves | - |
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| shiver | (noun) a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement | Synonyms: shake, tremble |
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| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
| shivering | (noun) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever | Synonyms: chill |
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| shover | (noun) someone who pushes | Synonyms: pusher |
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| silver | (noun) silverware eating utensils | Synonyms: flatware |
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| (noun) a trophy made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition | Synonyms: silver medal |
| (noun) a light shade of grey | Synonyms: ash gray, ash grey, silver gray, silver grey |
| (noun) coins made of silver | - |
| (noun) a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography | Synonyms: Ag, atomic number 47 |
| silverback | (noun) an adult male gorilla with grey hairs across the back | - |
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| silverberry | (noun) deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits | Synonyms: Elaeagnus commutata, silver-bush, silver berry, silverbush |
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| silverbush | (noun) deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits | Synonyms: Elaeagnus commutata, silver-bush, silver berry, silverberry |
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| (noun) silvery hairy European shrub with evergreen foliage and pale yellow flowers | Synonyms: Anthyllis barba-jovis, Jupiter's beard, silver-bush |
| silverfish | (noun) a silvery variety of Carassius auratus | - |
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| (noun) silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing | Synonyms: Lepisma saccharina |
| silverpoint | (noun) a drawing made on specially prepared paper with an instrument having a silver tip (15th and 16th centuries) | - |
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| silverrod | (noun) plant of eastern North America having creamy white flowers | Synonyms: Solidago bicolor |
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| silverside | (noun) small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: silversides |
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| silversides | (noun) small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: silverside |
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| (noun) the common North American shiner | Synonyms: common shiner, Notropis cornutus |
| silversmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs articles of silver | Synonyms: silver-worker, silverworker |
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