| pitman | (noun) someone who works in a coal mine | Synonyms: coal miner, collier |
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| placeman | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeseeker |
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| plainclothesman | (noun) a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty | - |
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| plainsman | (noun) an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America) | - |
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| plan | (noun) scale drawing of a structure | Synonyms: architectural plan |
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| (noun) a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished | Synonyms: program, programme |
| (noun) an arrangement scheme | Synonyms: design |
| planarian | (noun) free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | Synonyms: planaria |
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| plantsman | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: horticulturist |
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| platan | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits | Synonyms: plane tree, sycamore |
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| platitudinarian | (noun) a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes | - |
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| platyctenean | (noun) ctenophore have long tentacles and flattened body | - |
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| platyrrhinian | (noun) hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: New World monkey, platyrrhine |
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| plebeian | (noun) one of the common people | Synonyms: pleb |
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| plecopteran | (noun) primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones | Synonyms: stone fly, stonefly |
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| ploughman | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: plower, plowman |
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| plowman | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: ploughman, plower |
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| pogonophoran | (noun) slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering; lives on the deep ocean bottom | Synonyms: beard worm |
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| pointsman | (noun) a policeman stationed at an intersection to direct traffic | - |
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| policeman | (noun) a male member of a police force | - |
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| policewoman | (noun) a woman policeman | Synonyms: police matron |
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| politician | (noun) a person active in party politics | Synonyms: pol, political leader, politico |
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| (noun) a leader engaged in civil administration | - |
| (noun) a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways | - |
| polyurethan | (noun) any of various polymers containing the urethane radical; a wide variety of synthetic forms are made and used as adhesives or plastics or paints or rubber | Synonyms: polyurethane |
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| polyzoan | (noun) sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | Synonyms: bryozoan, moss animal, sea mat, sea moss |
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| poriferan | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: parazoan, sponge |
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| posseman | (noun) an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse | - |
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| postdiluvian | (noun) anything living after Noah's flood | - |
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| postman | (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman |
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| potman | (noun) a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores | Synonyms: potboy |
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| poultryman | (noun) a dealer in poultry and poultry products | Synonyms: poulterer |
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| practician | (noun) someone who practices a learned profession | Synonyms: practitioner |
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| predestinarian | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist |
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| pressman | (noun) someone whose occupation is printing | Synonyms: printer |
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| (noun) a male journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newspaperman |
| privateersman | (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateer |
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| proboscidean | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidian |
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| proboscidian | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidean |
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| proletarian | (noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: prole, worker |
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| propman | (noun) member of the stage crew in charge of properties | Synonyms: property man, property master |
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| prosimian | (noun) primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits | - |
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| protistan | (noun) free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes | Synonyms: protist |
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| prototherian | (noun) primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea | - |
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| protozoan | (noun) any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic | Synonyms: protozoon |
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| proturan | (noun) any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter | Synonyms: telsontail |
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| ptarmigan | (noun) large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage | - |
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| publican | (noun) the keeper of a public house | Synonyms: tavern keeper |
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| pulasan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulassan |
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| (noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan tree, pulassan |
| pulassan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulasan |
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| (noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan, pulasan tree |
| puritan | (noun) someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures | - |
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| (noun) a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum | Synonyms: prude |
| quarryman | (noun) a man who works in a quarry | Synonyms: quarrier |
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| quartan | (noun) a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day | - |
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| radian | (noun) the unit of plane angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to the angle at the center of a circle subtended by an arc equal in length to the radius (approximately 57.295 degrees) | Synonyms: rad |
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| radiolarian | (noun) protozoa with amoeba-like bodies and radiating filamentous pseudopods | - |
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| raftman | (noun) someone who travels by raft | Synonyms: rafter, raftsman |
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| raftsman | (noun) someone who travels by raft | Synonyms: rafter, raftman |
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| raglan | (noun) a garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan sleeves | - |
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| railwayman | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railroader, railway man, trainman |
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| rambotan | (noun) pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines | Synonyms: rambutan |
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| (noun) Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit | Synonyms: Nephelium lappaceum, rambutan, rambutan tree |
| rambutan | (noun) pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines | Synonyms: rambotan |
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| (noun) Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit | Synonyms: Nephelium lappaceum, rambotan, rambutan tree |
| ratan | (noun) a switch made from the stems of the rattan palms | Synonyms: rattan |
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| rataplan | (noun) the sound made by beating a drum | Synonyms: drumbeat, rub-a-dub |
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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 |
| repairman | (noun) a skilled worker whose job is to repair things | Synonyms: maintenance man, service man |
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| reptilian | (noun) any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms | Synonyms: reptile |
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| republican | (noun) an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy) | - |
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| rhetorician | (noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration | Synonyms: orator, public speaker, speechifier, speechmaker |
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| rhizopodan | (noun) protozoa characterized by a pseudopod | Synonyms: rhizopod |
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| rifleman | (noun) a soldier whose weapon is a rifle | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in the use of a rifle | - |
| roadman | (noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: bagman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
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| (noun) a workman who is employed to repair roads | Synonyms: road mender |
| roan | (noun) a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray | - |
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| (noun) a soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to resemble morocco; used in bookbinding | - |
| roman | (noun) a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions | Synonyms: roman letters, roman print, roman type |
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| roundsman | (noun) a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on) | - |
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| rowan | (noun) Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits | Synonyms: European mountain ash, rowan tree, Sorbus aucuparia |
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| ruffian | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| sacristan | (noun) an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects | Synonyms: sexton |
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| salesman | (noun) a man salesperson | - |
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| saleswoman | (noun) a woman salesperson | Synonyms: salesgirl, saleslady |
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| salientian | (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, batrachian, frog, toad, toad frog |
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| saltpan | (noun) a shallow basin in a desert region; contains salt and gypsum that was deposited by an evaporated salt lake | - |
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| salutatorian | (noun) a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises | Synonyms: salutatory speaker |
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| saman | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, monkeypod, rain tree, zaman, zamang |
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| sampan | (noun) an Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars | - |
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| sandman | (noun) an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy | - |
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| sandwichman | (noun) a person with advertising boards hanging from the shoulders | - |
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| saran | (noun) any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things | - |
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| sarcocystidean | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystieian, sarcosporidian |
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| sarcocystieian | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystidean, sarcosporidian |
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| sarcodinian | (noun) protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopods | Synonyms: sarcodine |
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| sarcosporidian | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystidean, sarcocystieian |
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| saucepan | (noun) a deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling | - |
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| saurian | (noun) any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs | - |
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| saurischian | (noun) herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile | Synonyms: saurischian dinosaur |
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| scan | (noun) the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region | - |
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| (noun) an image produced by scanning | Synonyms: CAT scan |
| scarabaean | (noun) any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes | Synonyms: scarabaeid, scarabaeid beetle |
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| schoolman | (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: academician |
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| screwbean | (noun) shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods | Synonyms: Prosopis pubescens, screw bean, screwbean mesquite, tornillo |
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| scyphozoan | (noun) any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle | - |
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| seaman | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, tar |
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| sectarian | (noun) a member of a sect | Synonyms: sectarist, sectary |
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| sedan | (noun) a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors | Synonyms: saloon |
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| (noun) a closed litter for one passenger | Synonyms: sedan chair |
| seedman | (noun) a dealer in seeds | Synonyms: seedsman |
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| seedsman | (noun) a dealer in seeds | Synonyms: seedman |
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| selachian | (noun) any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates | Synonyms: elasmobranch |
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