| nosh | (noun) (Yiddish) a snack or light meal | - |
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| notch | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: nick, snick |
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| (noun) a V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface | - |
| (noun) the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks | Synonyms: mountain pass, pass |
| (noun) a V-shaped indentation | - |
| nudibranch | (noun) any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body | Synonyms: sea slug |
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| nullah | (noun) a ravine or gully in southern Asia | - |
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| numbfish | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: crampfish, electric ray, torpedo |
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| numdah | (noun) an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt | Synonyms: nammad, numdah rug |
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| nuthatch | (noun) any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects | Synonyms: nutcracker |
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| nymph | (noun) a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly) | - |
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| (noun) (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden | - |
| (noun) a voluptuously beautiful young woman | Synonyms: houri |
| oarfish | (noun) thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin | Synonyms: king of the herring, Regalecus glesne, ribbonfish |
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| oath | (noun) a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury | Synonyms: swearing |
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| (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, swearing, swearword |
| (noun) a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior | - |
| obeah | (noun) a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas | Synonyms: obi |
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| (noun) (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery | Synonyms: obi |
| oilcloth | (noun) cloth treated on one side with a drying oil or synthetic resin | - |
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| oilfish | (noun) very large deep-water snake mackerel | Synonyms: Ruvettus pretiosus |
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| okeh | (noun) an endorsement | Synonyms: O.K., OK, okay, okey |
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| oldwench | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish | Synonyms: Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwife, queen triggerfish |
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| oligarch | (noun) one of the rulers in an oligarchy | - |
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| onrush | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onset, onslaught |
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| (noun) a forceful forward rush or flow | - |
| oomph | (noun) the activeness of an energetic personality | Synonyms: dynamism, pizzaz, pizzazz, zing |
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| (noun) attractiveness to the opposite sex | Synonyms: desirability, desirableness, sex appeal |
| opah | (noun) large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean | Synonyms: Lampris regius, moonfish |
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| orach | (noun) any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes | Synonyms: orache |
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| orograph | (noun) A machine for use in making topographical maps. | - |
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| oscillograph | (noun) a device for making a record of the wave forms of fluctuating voltages or currents | - |
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| osteopath | (noun) a therapist who manipulates the skeleton and muscles | Synonyms: osteopathist |
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| ostrich | (noun) fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird | Synonyms: Struthio camelus |
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| (noun) a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand) | - |
| outgrowth | (noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: appendage, process |
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| (noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: emergence, growth |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offset, offshoot |
| outreach | (noun) the act of reaching out | - |
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| overgrowth | (noun) a profusion of growth on or over something else | - |
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| (noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: giantism, gigantism |
| overmuch | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuchness, superabundance |
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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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| oysterfish | (noun) a variety of toadfish | Synonyms: oyster-fish, oyster fish |
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| paddlefish | (noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: duckbill, Polyodon spathula |
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| paintbrush | (noun) a brush used as an applicator (to apply paint) | - |
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| paleolith | (noun) a stone tool from the Paleolithic age | - |
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| panfish | (noun) any of numerous small food fishes; especially those caught with hook and line and not available on the market | - |
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| pantograph | (noun) mechanical device used to copy a figure or plan on a different scale | - |
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| parabolograph | (noun) An outdated instrument for drawing parabolas. | - |
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| paragraph | (noun) one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line | - |
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| paraph | (noun) a flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery) | - |
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| pariah | (noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home) | Synonyms: castaway, Ishmael, outcast |
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| parish | (noun) a local church community | - |
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| (noun) the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor | - |
| parrotfish | (noun) gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth | Synonyms: polly fish, pollyfish |
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| patch | (noun) a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole | - |
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| (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: darn, mend |
| (noun) a protective cloth covering for an injured eye | Synonyms: eyepatch |
| (noun) a connection intended to be used for a limited time | Synonyms: temporary hookup |
| (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: bandage |
| (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, speckle, spot |
| (noun) a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program | - |
| (noun) a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation | Synonyms: plot, plot of ground, plot of land |
| (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: piece, spell, while |
| path | (noun) a course of conduct | Synonyms: way, way of life |
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| (noun) a way especially designed for a particular use | - |
| (noun) an established line of travel or access | Synonyms: itinerary, route |
| (noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves | Synonyms: course, track |
| patriarch | (noun) the male head of family or tribe | Synonyms: paterfamilias |
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| (noun) any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race | - |
| (noun) title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem) | - |
| (noun) a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself | - |
| paunch | (noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: belly |
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| peach | (noun) a shade of pink tinged with yellow | Synonyms: apricot, salmon pink, yellowish pink |
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| (noun) downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh | - |
| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| (noun) cultivated in temperate regions | Synonyms: peach tree, Prunus persica |
| pearlfish | (noun) found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds | Synonyms: pearl-fish |
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| pennyworth | (noun) the amount that can be bought for a penny | Synonyms: penn'orth |
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| perch | (noun) spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes | - |
| (noun) support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird) | - |
| (noun) any of numerous fishes of America and Europe | - |
| (noun) an elevated place serving as a seat | - |
| (noun) a linear measure of 16.5 feet | Synonyms: pole, rod |
| (noun) a square rod of land | Synonyms: pole, rod |
| perianth | (noun) collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils | Synonyms: chlamys, floral envelope, perigone, perigonium |
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| perilymph | (noun) the bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear | - |
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| petroglyph | (noun) a carving or line drawing on rock (especially one made by prehistoric people) | - |
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| philomath | (noun) a lover of learning | - |
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| phonograph | (noun) machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically | Synonyms: record player |
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| photoflash | (noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | Synonyms: flash, flash bulb, flash lamp, flashbulb, flashgun |
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| photograph | (noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: exposure, photo, pic, picture |
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| photoheliograph | (noun) a telescope, with a camera attached, used to photograph the Sun. | - |
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| photolithograph | (noun) a lithograph produced by photographically produced plates | - |
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| photomicrograph | (noun) a photograph taken with the help of a microscope | - |
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| phototelegraph | (noun) an apparatus for transmitting pictures by phototelegraphy. | - |
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| pibroch | (noun) martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes | - |
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| pictograph | (noun) a graphic character used in picture writing | - |
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| pigfish | (noun) found from Long Island southward | Synonyms: hogfish, Orthopristis chrysopterus |
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| (noun) found around the Great Barrier Reef | Synonyms: Achoerodus gouldii, giant pigfish |
| pigwash | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, slop, slops, swill |
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| pilotfish | (noun) small pelagic fish often accompanying sharks or mantas | Synonyms: Naucrates ductor |
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| pinch | (noun) a squeeze with the fingers | Synonyms: tweak |
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| (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, taking into custody |
| (noun) a small sharp bite or snip | Synonyms: nip |
| (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: emergency, exigency |
| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
| (noun) an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed | - |
| (noun) a painful or straitened circumstance | - |
| pinfish | (noun) similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States | Synonyms: Lagodon rhomboides, sailor's-choice, squirrelfish |
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| pipefish | (noun) fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | Synonyms: needlefish |
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| pitch | (noun) the action or manner of throwing something | - |
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| (noun) an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump | Synonyms: auction pitch |
| (noun) a high approach shot in golf | Synonyms: pitch shot |
| (noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: delivery |
| (noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: lurch, pitching |
| (noun) the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration | - |
| (noun) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane | Synonyms: rake, slant |
| (noun) promotion by means of an argument and demonstration | Synonyms: sales pitch, sales talk |
| (noun) a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk) | - |
| (noun) a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer | Synonyms: soccer field |
| (noun) any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue | Synonyms: tar |
| pith | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, substance, sum |
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| (noun) soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants | - |
| plash | (noun) the sound like water splashing | Synonyms: splash |
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| platyhelminth | (noun) parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body | Synonyms: flatworm |
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| plectognath | (noun) tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines | Synonyms: plectognath fish |
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| plethysmograph | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring changes in volume of a part or organ or whole body (usually resulting from fluctuations in the amount of blood it contains) | - |
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| plinth | (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: footstall, pedestal |
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| plough | (noun) a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing | Synonyms: plow |
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| plush | (noun) a fabric with a nap that is longer and softer than velvet | - |
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| polish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: burnish, gloss, glossiness |
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| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, culture, finish, refinement |
| (noun) a preparation used in polishing | - |
| pollyfish | (noun) gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth | Synonyms: parrotfish, polly fish |
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| polygraph | (noun) a medical instrument that records several physiological processes simultaneously (e.g., pulse rate and blood pressure and respiration and perspiration) | - |
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| polymath | (noun) a person of great and varied learning | - |
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| polymorph | (noun) an organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites | - |
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| pooch | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: barker, bow-wow, doggie, doggy |
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| porch | (noun) a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance | - |
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| porcupinefish | (noun) spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: Diodon hystrix, porcupine fish |
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| porkfish | (noun) black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil | Synonyms: Anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish |
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| potash | (noun) a potassium compound often used in agriculture and industry | Synonyms: caustic potash, potassium hydroxide |
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| potlatch | (noun) a ceremonial feast held by some Indians of the northwestern coast of North America (as in celebrating a marriage or a new accession) in which the host gives gifts to tribesmen and others to display his superior wealth (sometimes, formerly, to his own impoverishment) | - |
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| pouch | (noun) a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things | - |
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| (noun) (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) | Synonyms: pocket |
| (noun) an enclosed space | Synonyms: pocket, sac, sack |
| psychopath | (noun) someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath') | Synonyms: sociopath |
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| ptyalith | (noun) calculus in a salivary gland | - |
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| puckerbush | (noun) evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United States having small hard berries thickly coated with white wax used for candles | Synonyms: bay myrtle, Myrica cerifera |
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| pufferfish | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: blowfish, globefish, puffer |
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| (noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: blowfish, puffer, sea squab |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| purdah | (noun) a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers | - |
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| (noun) the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded | Synonyms: sex segregation |
| (noun) a state of social isolation | Synonyms: solitude |
| push | (noun) the act of applying force in order to move something away | Synonyms: pushing |
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| (noun) an effort to advance | - |
| (noun) an electrical switch operated by pressing | Synonyms: button, push button |
| (noun) enterprising or ambitious drive | Synonyms: energy, get-up-and-go |
| (noun) the force used in pushing | Synonyms: thrust |
| putsch | (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup, coup d'etat, takeover |
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| pyracanth | (noun) any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries | Synonyms: fire thorn, firethorn, Pyracantha |
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| pyrograph | (noun) a design produced by pyrography | - |
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