| peony | (noun) any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: paeony |
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| philogyny | (noun) admiration for women | - |
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| phony | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, pretender |
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| phylogeny | (noun) (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms | Synonyms: evolution, organic evolution, phylogenesis |
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| picaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: piccaninny, pickaninny |
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| piccaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, pickaninny |
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| pickaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, piccaninny |
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| pikeblenny | (noun) tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory | - |
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| pinny | (noun) a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing | Synonyms: jumper, pinafore |
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| polony | (noun) another name for Bologna sausage | - |
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| polygyny | (noun) a form of polygamy in which a man has multiple wives | - |
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| polyphony | (noun) music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments | Synonyms: concerted music, polyphonic music |
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| pony | (noun) any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder | - |
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| (noun) a range horse of the western United States | - |
| (noun) an informal term for a racehorse | - |
| (noun) a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey | Synonyms: jigger, shot glass |
| (noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) | Synonyms: crib, trot |
| progeny | (noun) the immediate descendants of a person | Synonyms: issue, offspring |
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| pyrotechny | (noun) the craft of making fireworks | Synonyms: pyrotechnics |
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| quadraphony | (noun) a stereophonic sound recording or reproducing system using four separate channels | Synonyms: quadraphonic system, quadriphonic system |
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| radiotelephony | (noun) telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelephone, wireless telephone |
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| sanctimony | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimoniousness |
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| scammony | (noun) twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin | Synonyms: Convolvulus scammonia |
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| (noun) resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia | - |
| (noun) tropical American morning glory | Synonyms: Ipomoea orizabensis |
| schizogony | (noun) asexual reproduction by multiple fission; characteristic of many sporozoan protozoans | - |
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| scrutiny | (noun) the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) | Synonyms: examination |
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| (noun) a prolonged intense look | - |
| shanny | (noun) European scaleless blenny | Synonyms: Blennius pholis |
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| shawny | (noun) showy perennial herb with white flowers; leaves sometimes used as edible greens in southeastern United States | Synonyms: Hydrophyllum virginianum, Indian salad, John's cabbage, Shawnee salad, Virginia waterleaf |
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| sheeny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew | Synonyms: hymie, kike, yid |
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| shinny | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinney |
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| simony | (noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: barratry |
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| skinny | (noun) confidential information about a topic or person | - |
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| snakeblenny | (noun) found in Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lumpenus lumpretaeformis |
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| sonny | (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: cub, lad, laddie, sonny boy |
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| stereophony | (noun) reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound | Synonyms: stereo, stereo system, stereophonic system |
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| symphony | (noun) a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra | Synonyms: symphonic music |
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| (noun) a large orchestra; can perform symphonies | Synonyms: philharmonic, symphony orchestra |
| synchrony | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing |
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| syntony | (noun) the state of being normally responsive to and in harmony with the environment. | - |
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| telephony | (noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephone |
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| testimony | (noun) a solemn statement made under oath | - |
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| (noun) an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact | - |
| (noun) something that serves as evidence | Synonyms: testimonial |
| tetany | (noun) clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis | Synonyms: apyretic tetanus, intermittent cramp, intermittent tetanus, tetanilla |
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| theogony | (noun) the study of the origins and genealogy of the gods | - |
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| theophany | (noun) a visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a deity to a human person | - |
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| towny | (noun) resident of a college town not affiliated with the college | Synonyms: townie |
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| tunny | (noun) any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters | Synonyms: tuna |
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| (noun) important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks | Synonyms: tuna, tuna fish |
| tyranny | (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, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism |
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| (noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence | Synonyms: absolutism, despotism |
| villainy | (noun) a criminal or vicious act | - |
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| (noun) the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior | Synonyms: villainousness |
| whinny | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whicker |
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| zany | (noun) a buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect | - |
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| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat |