| phenolic | (noun) a thermosetting resin | Synonyms: phenolic resin, phenoplast |
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| philharmonic | (noun) a large orchestra; can perform symphonies | Synonyms: symphony, symphony orchestra |
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| philippic | (noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: broadside, tirade |
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| photomosaic | (noun) arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture | Synonyms: arial mosaic, mosaic |
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| physic | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, cathartic, purgative |
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| pic | (noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: exposure, photo, photograph, picture |
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| (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, picture, picture show |
| picnic | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
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| (noun) any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion | - |
| (noun) a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering | Synonyms: field day, outing |
| plastic | (noun) a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has sufficient means of payment and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered | Synonyms: charge card, charge plate |
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| (noun) generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives | - |
| pneumogastric | (noun) a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera | Synonyms: nervus vagus, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus, vagus nerve, wandering nerve |
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| polemic | (noun) a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma) | - |
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| (noun) a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) | Synonyms: polemicist, polemist |
| polytechnic | (noun) a technical school offering instruction in many industrial arts and applied sciences | Synonyms: engineering school, polytechnic institute |
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| pragmatic | (noun) an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land | Synonyms: pragmatic sanction |
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| probiotic | (noun) a beneficial bacterium found in the intestinal tract of healthy mammals; often considered to be a plant | Synonyms: probiotic bacterium, probiotic flora, probiotic microflora |
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| (noun) A dietary supplement containing live bacteria, usually taken after a course of antibiotics to replenish the damaged gastrointestinal flora. | - |
| proclitic | (noun) a clitic that is associated with a following word. | - |
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| prognostic | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostication |
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| propaedeutic | (noun) a course that provides an introduction to an art or science (or to more advanced study generally) | Synonyms: propaedeutics |
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| prophylactic | (noun) contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse | Synonyms: condom, rubber, safe, safety |
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| (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventative, preventive |
| psychic | (noun) a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception | - |
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| psychoneurotic | (noun) a person suffering from neurosis | Synonyms: mental case, neurotic |
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| psychotic | (noun) a person afflicted with psychosis | Synonyms: psycho, psychotic person |
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| public | (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: populace, world |
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| (noun) a body of people sharing some common interest | - |
| pyrectic | (noun) any substance that can cause a rise in body temperature | Synonyms: pyrogen |
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| pyrotechnic | (noun) (usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc. | Synonyms: firework |
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| pyrrhic | (noun) an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare | - |
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| (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables | Synonyms: dibrach |
| quadratic | (noun) a polynomial of the second degree | Synonyms: quadratic polynomial |
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| (noun) an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square | Synonyms: quadratic equation |
| quadric | (noun) a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree | Synonyms: quadric surface |
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| quadriplegic | (noun) a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs | - |
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| quantic | (noun) a homogeneous polynomial having at least two variables | - |
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| quartic | (noun) an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadrate, biquadratic, fourth power |
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| relic | (noun) an antiquity that has survived from the distant past | - |
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| (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: keepsake, souvenir, token |
| republic | (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: commonwealth, democracy |
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| (noun) a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch | - |
| rhetoric | (noun) study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) | - |
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| (noun) using language effectively to please or persuade | - |
| (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness |
| (noun) loud and confused and empty talk | Synonyms: empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver |
| rheumatic | (noun) a person suffering with rheumatism | - |
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| romantic | (noun) a soulful or amorous idealist | - |
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| (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romanticist |
| rubric | (noun) category name | - |
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| (noun) a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type | - |
| (noun) an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text | Synonyms: gloss |
| (noun) an authoritative rule of conduct or procedure | - |
| (noun) directions for the conduct of Christian church services (often printed in red in a prayer book) | - |
| (noun) a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with | Synonyms: statute title, title |
| rustic | (noun) an unsophisticated country person | - |
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| sceptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: doubter, skeptic |
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| schematic | (noun) diagram of an electrical or mechanical system | Synonyms: schematic drawing |
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| schizophrenic | (noun) someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia | - |
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| scholastic | (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: bookworm, pedant |
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| semiautomatic | (noun) a pistol that is a semiautomatic firearm capable of loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: semiautomatic pistol |
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| shopaholic | (noun) a compulsive shopper | - |
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| skeptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: doubter, sceptic |
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| soporific | (noun) a drug that induces sleep | Synonyms: hypnotic |
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| spasmolytic | (noun) a drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles) | Synonyms: antispasmodic, antispasmodic agent |
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| spastic | (noun) a person suffering from spastic paralysis | - |
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| specific | (noun) a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease | - |
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| (noun) a fact about some part (as opposed to general) | Synonyms: particular |
| spic | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent | Synonyms: spick, spik |
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| static | (noun) angry criticism | - |
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| (noun) a crackling or hissing noise caused by electrical interference | Synonyms: atmospheric static, atmospherics |
| statistic | (noun) a datum that can be represented numerically | - |
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| stigmatic | (noun) a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) | Synonyms: stigmatist |
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| stoic | (noun) someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions | Synonyms: unemotional person |
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| styptic | (noun) a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals | Synonyms: astringent, astringent drug |
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| subtonic | (noun) (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale | Synonyms: leading tone |
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| sudorific | (noun) a medicine that causes or increases sweating | Synonyms: sudatory |
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| supertonic | (noun) (music) the second note of a diatonic scale | - |
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| syllogistic | (noun) in logic, the formal analysis of logical terms and operators and the structures that make it possible to infer true conclusions from given premises. | - |
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| syndic | (noun) one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions | - |
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| synthetic | (noun) a compound made artificially by chemical reactions | Synonyms: synthetic substance |
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| syphilitic | (noun) a person suffering from syphilis | - |
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| tactic | (noun) a plan for attaining a particular goal | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre, tactics |
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| therapeutic | (noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: curative, cure, remedy |
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| thermoplastic | (noun) a material that softens when heated and hardens again when cooled | Synonyms: thermoplastic resin |
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| thrombolytic | (noun) a kind of pharmaceutical that can break up clots blocking the flow of blood to the heart muscle | Synonyms: clot buster, thrombolytic agent |
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| tic | (noun) a local and habitual twitching especially in the face | - |
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| tonic | (noun) a medicine that strengthens and invigorates | Synonyms: restorative |
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| (noun) (music) the first note of a diatonic scale | Synonyms: keynote |
| (noun) a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring | Synonyms: pop, soda, soda pop, soda water |
| (noun) lime- or lemon-flavored carbonated water containing quinine | Synonyms: quinine water, tonic water |
| topic | (noun) some situation or event that is thought about | Synonyms: issue, matter, subject |
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| (noun) the subject matter of a conversation or discussion | Synonyms: subject, theme |
| traffic | (noun) buying and selling; especially illicit trade | - |
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| (noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | Synonyms: dealings |
| (noun) the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time | - |
| (noun) the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time | - |
| tricyclic | (noun) an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin and thus making more of those substances available to act on receptors in the brain | Synonyms: tricyclic antidepressant, tricyclic antidepressant drug |
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| tropic | (noun) either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics | - |
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| tunic | (noun) any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees | - |
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| (noun) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue | Synonyms: adventitia, tunica |
| turmeric | (noun) ground dried rhizome of the turmeric plant used as seasoning | - |
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| (noun) widely cultivated tropical plant of India having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome; source of a condiment and a yellow dye | Synonyms: Curcuma domestica, Curcuma longa |
| workaholic | (noun) person with a compulsive need to work | - |
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| zygomatic | (noun) the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek | Synonyms: cheekbone, jugal bone, malar, malar bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic bone |
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