| noviciate | (noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: novitiate |
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| novitiate | (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novice |
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| (noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: noviciate |
| numberplate | (noun) a plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number | Synonyms: license plate |
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| oblate | (noun) a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life | - |
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| odonate | (noun) large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings | - |
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| opiate | (noun) a narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative | - |
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| ordinate | (noun) the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis | - |
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| organophosphate | (noun) an insecticide that interferes with an insect's nervous system | - |
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| orthophosphate | (noun) a salt of phosphoric acid | Synonyms: inorganic phosphate, phosphate |
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| overestimate | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimation, overrating, overreckoning |
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| (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overappraisal, overestimation, overvaluation |
| oxalacetate | (noun) a salt or ester of oxalacetic acid | Synonyms: oxaloacetate |
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| oxalate | (noun) a salt or ester of oxalic acid | - |
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| oxaloacetate | (noun) a salt or ester of oxalacetic acid | Synonyms: oxalacetate |
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| palate | (noun) the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities | Synonyms: roof of the mouth |
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| palatinate | (noun) a territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine | - |
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| particulate | (noun) a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) | Synonyms: particulate matter |
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| pastorate | (noun) the position of pastor | Synonyms: pastorship |
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| (noun) pastors collectively | - |
| pate | (noun) liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned | - |
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| (noun) the top of the head | Synonyms: crown, poll |
| patriarchate | (noun) a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | Synonyms: patriarchy |
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| (noun) the jurisdiction of a patriarch | - |
| patriciate | (noun) members of the patrician class. | - |
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| penultimate | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penult, penultima |
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| perchlorate | (noun) a salt of perchloric acid | - |
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| percolate | (noun) the product of percolation | - |
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| permanganate | (noun) a dark purple salt of permanganic acid; in water solution it is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic | - |
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| phosphate | (noun) carbonated drink with fruit syrup and a little phosphoric acid | - |
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| (noun) a salt of phosphoric acid | Synonyms: inorganic phosphate, orthophosphate |
| pirate | (noun) a ship that is manned by pirates | Synonyms: pirate ship |
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| (noun) someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation | Synonyms: buccaneer, sea robber, sea rover |
| (noun) someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own | Synonyms: literary pirate, plagiariser, plagiarist, plagiarizer |
| plate | (noun) dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten | - |
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| (noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: scale, shell |
| (noun) a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic | - |
| (noun) a shallow receptacle for collection in church | Synonyms: collection plate |
| (noun) (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score | Synonyms: home, home base, home plate |
| (noun) structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage | - |
| (noun) a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper) | - |
| (noun) a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded | Synonyms: photographic plate |
| (noun) the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube | - |
| (noun) a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth | Synonyms: dental plate, denture |
| (noun) any flat platelike body structure or part | - |
| (noun) a main course served on a plate | - |
| (noun) the thin under portion of the forequarter | - |
| (noun) a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly | Synonyms: crustal plate |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a plate | Synonyms: plateful |
| playmate | (noun) a companion at play | Synonyms: playfellow |
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| polyphosphate | (noun) a salt or ester of polyphosphoric acid | - |
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| pomegranate | (noun) large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind | - |
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| (noun) shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit | Synonyms: pomegranate tree, Punica granatum |
| pontificate | (noun) the government of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papacy |
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| postgraduate | (noun) a student who continues studies after graduation | Synonyms: grad student, graduate student |
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| postulate | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: posit |
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| potentate | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: dictator |
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| prate | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: blether, chin music, idle talk, prattle |
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| precipitate | (noun) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering | - |
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| predicate | (noun) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements | Synonyms: verb phrase |
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| (noun) (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula | - |
| prelate | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, primate |
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| primate | (noun) any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet | - |
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| (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate |
| private | (noun) an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines | Synonyms: buck private, common soldier |
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| probate | (noun) the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements | - |
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| (noun) a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate | Synonyms: probate will |
| proconsulate | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulship |
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| profligate | (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
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| (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, squanderer |
| propenoate | (noun) a salt or ester of propenoic acid | Synonyms: acrylate |
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| prostate | (noun) a firm partly muscular chestnut sized gland in males at the neck of the urethra; produces a viscid secretion that is the fluid part of semen | Synonyms: prostate gland |
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| protectorate | (noun) a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty | Synonyms: associated state |
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| pyrophosphate | (noun) a salt or ester of pyrophosphoric acid | - |
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| quadrate | (noun) a square-shaped object | - |
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| (noun) a cubelike object | - |
| quadrumvirate | (noun) a group of four men | - |
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| quadruplicate | (noun) any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
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| rabbinate | (noun) the office or function of a rabbi | - |
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| (noun) rabbis collectively | - |
| rate | (noun) the relative speed of progress or change | Synonyms: pace |
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| (noun) amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis | Synonyms: charge per unit |
| (noun) a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure | - |
| (noun) a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit | - |
| rebate | (noun) a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together | Synonyms: rabbet |
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| (noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: discount |
| rectorate | (noun) the office or station of a rector | Synonyms: rectorship |
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| repatriate | (noun) a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored | - |
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| reprobate | (noun) a person without moral scruples | Synonyms: miscreant |
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| roommate | (noun) an associate who shares a room with you | Synonyms: roomie, roomy |
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| salicylate | (noun) a salt of salicylic acid (included in several commonly used drugs) | - |
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| schoolmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolfellow |
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| secretariate | (noun) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations | Synonyms: secretariat |
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| segregate | (noun) someone who is or has been segregated | - |
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| senate | (noun) assembly possessing high legislative powers | - |
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| separate | (noun) a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments | - |
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| (noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | Synonyms: offprint, reprint |
| shipmate | (noun) an associate on the same ship with you | - |
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| shogunate | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| silicate | (noun) a salt or ester derived from silicic acid | - |
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| skate | (noun) large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins | - |
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| (noun) sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs | - |
| slate | (noun) (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate | - |
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| (noun) a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices | Synonyms: ticket |
| (noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers | - |
| (noun) thin layers of rock used for roofing | Synonyms: slating |
| sluicegate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: floodgate, head gate, penstock, sluice valve, water gate |
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| solvate | (noun) a compound formed by solvation (the combination of solvent molecules with molecules or ions of the solute) | - |
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| sophisticate | (noun) a worldly-wise person | Synonyms: man of the world |
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| sorbate | (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption | - |
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| spate | (noun) the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow | Synonyms: freshet |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, surge, upsurge |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| stablemate | (noun) a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person | Synonyms: stable companion |
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| stalemate | (noun) drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check | - |
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| (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, deadlock, impasse, standstill |
| state | (noun) the way something is with respect to its main attributes | - |
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| (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica |
| (noun) the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state | - |
| (noun) the territory occupied by a nation | Synonyms: country, land |
| (noun) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | Synonyms: province |
| (noun) a state of depression or agitation | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container) | Synonyms: state of matter |
| stearate | (noun) an ester of stearic acid. | - |
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| (noun) a salt of stearic acid. | - |
| stomate | (noun) a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass | Synonyms: pore, stoma |
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| sublimate | (noun) the product of vaporization of a solid | - |
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| subordinate | (noun) a word that is more specific than a given word | Synonyms: hyponym, subordinate word |
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| (noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | Synonyms: foot soldier, subsidiary, underling |
| substrate | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substratum |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substratum |
| (noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substratum |
| (noun) the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment | - |
| sucralfate | (noun) medicine consisting of a tablet (trade name Carafate) used to treat peptic ulcers; said to bind to the ulcer site and coat it | Synonyms: Carafate |
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| sulfate | (noun) a salt or ester of sulphuric acid | Synonyms: sulphate |
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| sulfonate | (noun) a salt of sulphonic acid | - |
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| sulphate | (noun) a salt or ester of sulphuric acid | Synonyms: sulfate |
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| sultanate | (noun) country or territory ruled by a sultan | - |
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| sundate | (noun) A date on a Sunday | - |
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| superordinate | (noun) a word that is more generic than a given word | Synonyms: hypernym, superordinate word |
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| (noun) one of greater rank or station or quality | Synonyms: higher-up, superior |
| superstrate | (noun) the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language | Synonyms: superstratum |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer superimposed on another | Synonyms: superstratum |
| suricate | (noun) burrowing diurnal meerkat of southern Africa; often kept as a pet | Synonyms: Suricata tetradactyla |
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| surrogate | (noun) a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others | Synonyms: deputy |
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| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: alternate, replacement |
| syndicate | (noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: consortium, pool |
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| (noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, family, mob |
| (noun) a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication | - |
| tablemate | (noun) someone you dine with | Synonyms: dining companion |
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| tailgate | (noun) a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading | Synonyms: tailboard |
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| tartrate | (noun) a salt or ester of tartaric acid | - |
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| teammate | (noun) a fellow member of a team | Synonyms: mate |
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| template | (noun) a model or standard for making comparisons | Synonyms: guide, templet |
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| testate | (noun) a person who makes a will | Synonyms: testator |
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| thiocyanate | (noun) a salt of thiocyanic acid; formed when alkaline cyanides are fused with sulfur | - |
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| tinplate | (noun) a thin sheet of metal (iron or steel) coated with tin to prevent rusting; used especially for cans, pots, and tins | Synonyms: tin plate |
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