| plump | (noun) the sound of a sudden heavy fall | - |
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| podocarp | (noun) any evergreen in the Southern Hemisphere of the genus Podocarpus having a pulpy fruit with one hard seed | - |
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| pogonip | (noun) a dense winter fog containing ice particles | Synonyms: ice fog |
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| polyp | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth | - |
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| (noun) a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane | Synonyms: polypus |
| pomp | (noun) ceremonial elegance and splendor | Synonyms: eclat |
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| (noun) cheap or pretentious or vain display | Synonyms: gaudery |
| poop | (noun) the rear part of a ship | Synonyms: after part, quarter, stern, tail |
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| (noun) slang terms for inside information | Synonyms: dope, low-down, the skinny |
| (noun) a stupid foolish person | Synonyms: nincompoop, ninny |
| (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, dirt, shit, shite, turd |
| pop | (noun) music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love | Synonyms: pop music |
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| (noun) a sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork | Synonyms: popping |
| (noun) a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring | Synonyms: soda, soda pop, soda water, tonic |
| (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa |
| porkchop | (noun) chop cut from a hog | - |
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| praetorship | (noun) the office of praetor | - |
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| precentorship | (noun) the position of precentor | - |
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| preceptorship | (noun) the position of preceptor | - |
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| premiership | (noun) the office of premier | - |
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| prep | (noun) preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) | Synonyms: preparation |
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| presidentship | (noun) the office and function of president | Synonyms: presidency |
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| primateship | (noun) the office of primate | - |
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| principalship | (noun) the post of principal | - |
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| priorship | (noun) the office of prior | - |
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| proconsulship | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulate |
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| proctorship | (noun) the position of proctor | - |
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| professorship | (noun) the position of professor | Synonyms: chair |
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| prop | (noun) a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling | - |
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| (noun) a propeller that rotates to push against air | Synonyms: airplane propeller, airscrew |
| (noun) any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie | Synonyms: property |
| proprietorship | (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietary |
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| protectorship | (noun) the position of protector | - |
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| protip | (noun) an insightful bit of advice | - |
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| pseudocarp | (noun) fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry | Synonyms: accessory fruit |
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| psychopomp | (noun) a conductor of souls to the afterworld | - |
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| psyop | (noun) military actions designed to influence the perceptions and attitudes of individuals, groups, and foreign governments | Synonyms: psychological operation |
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| pulp | (noun) the soft inner part of a tooth | - |
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| (noun) an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper | Synonyms: pulp magazine |
| (noun) any soft or soggy mass | Synonyms: mush |
| (noun) a soft moist part of a fruit | Synonyms: flesh |
| (noun) a mixture of cellulose fibers | - |
| pump | (noun) a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction | - |
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| (noun) a low-cut shoe without fastenings | - |
| (noun) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | Synonyms: heart, ticker |
| pup | (noun) young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf | Synonyms: whelp |
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| (noun) an inexperienced young person | Synonyms: puppy |
| pushup | (noun) an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms | Synonyms: press-up |
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| quickstep | (noun) a ballroom dance with both quick and slow steps | - |
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| (noun) military march accompanying quick time | - |
| quip | (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, sally, wisecrack |
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| (noun) a witty saying | Synonyms: epigram |
| raindrop | (noun) a drop of rain | - |
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| ramp | (noun) an inclined surface connecting two levels | Synonyms: incline |
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| (noun) a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft | - |
| (noun) North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers | Synonyms: Allium tricoccum, wild leek |
| rap | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, whack, whang |
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| (noun) a reproach for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: blame |
| (noun) voluble conversation | - |
| (noun) genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged | Synonyms: hip-hop, rap music |
| (noun) the sound made by a gentle blow | Synonyms: pat, tap |
| (noun) a gentle blow | Synonyms: strike, tap |
| rasp | (noun) a coarse file with sharp pointed projections | Synonyms: wood file |
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| (noun) uttering in an irritated tone | Synonyms: rasping |
| rattrap | (noun) a trap for catching rats | - |
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| (noun) filthy run-down dilapidated housing | - |
| (noun) a difficult entangling situation | - |
| readership | (noun) the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.) | - |
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| recap | (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recapitulation, review |
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| (noun) a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads | Synonyms: retread |
| receivership | (noun) the office of a receiver | - |
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| (noun) a court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can be preserved for the benefit of all | - |
| (noun) the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver | - |
| rectorship | (noun) the office or station of a rector | Synonyms: rectorate |
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| redcap | (noun) a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station | - |
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| (noun) a member of the military police in Britain | - |
| relationship | (noun) a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness) | Synonyms: human relationship |
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| (noun) (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption | Synonyms: family relationship, kinship |
| (noun) a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection) | - |
| (noun) a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries | - |
| rep | (noun) a fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs | Synonyms: repp |
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| (noun) informal abbreviation of `representative' | - |
| repp | (noun) a fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs | Synonyms: rep |
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| rip | (noun) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something | Synonyms: rent, split |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, crosscurrent, riptide, tide rip |
| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rent, snag, split, tear |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, roue |
| romp | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: caper, frolic, gambol, play |
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| (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
| (noun) a girl who behaves in a boyish manner | Synonyms: hoyden, tomboy |
| rooftop | (noun) the top of a (usually flat) roof | - |
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| rosehip | (noun) the fruit of a rose plant | Synonyms: hip, rose hip |
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| roundup | (noun) the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police | - |
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| (noun) the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold | - |
| (noun) a summary list; as in e.g. "a news roundup" | - |
| rulership | (noun) the position of ruler | - |
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| rump | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, croupe, hindquarters |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round | - |
| runup | (noun) a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time | Synonyms: run-up |
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| salesmanship | (noun) skill in selling; skill in persuading people to buy | - |
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| salp | (noun) minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end | Synonyms: salpa |
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| sannup | (noun) a married male American Indian | - |
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| sap | (noun) a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people | Synonyms: blackjack, cosh |
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| (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, muggins, saphead, tomfool |
| (noun) a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant | - |
| satrap | (noun) a governor of a province in ancient Persia | - |
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| scallop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: escallop, scollop |
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| (noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: escallop, scollop |
| (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, escallop, scollop |
| (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle |
| scalp | (noun) the skin that covers the top of the head | - |
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| scamp | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag |
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| scarp | (noun) a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification | Synonyms: escarp, escarpment, protective embankment |
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| (noun) a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion | Synonyms: escarpment |
| scaup | (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: bluebill, broadbill, scaup duck |
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| schizocarp | (noun) a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed | - |
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| schlep | (noun) a tedious or difficult journey | Synonyms: shlep |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlepper, shlep, shlepper |
| scholarship | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning |
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| (noun) financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit | - |
| scollop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: escallop, scallop |
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| (noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: escallop, scallop |
| (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, escallop, scallop |
| scoop | (noun) a large ladle | - |
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| (noun) the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe | Synonyms: scoop shovel |
| (noun) street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate | Synonyms: easy lay, Georgia home boy, goop, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, max, soap |
| (noun) a news report that is reported first by one news organization | Synonyms: exclusive |
| (noun) the quantity a scoop will hold | Synonyms: scoopful |
| (noun) a hollow concave shape made by removing something | Synonyms: pocket |
| scrap | (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fight, fighting |
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| (noun) a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used | - |
| (noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: bit, chip, flake, fleck |
| (noun) worthless material that is to be disposed of | Synonyms: rubbish, trash |
| scrapheap | (noun) pile of discarded metal | - |
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| (noun) an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter | Synonyms: garbage heap, junk heap, junk pile, refuse heap, rubbish heap, trash heap, trash pile |
| screwtop | (noun) the top of a container that must be screwed off and on | - |
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| screwup | (noun) the complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation | - |
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| scrip | (noun) a certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and payee; scrip is not currency but may be convertible into currency | - |
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| scup | (noun) porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America | Synonyms: southern porgy, southern scup, Stenotomus aculeatus |
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| (noun) found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish | Synonyms: northern porgy, northern scup, Stenotomus chrysops |
| (noun) lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: porgy |
| (noun) flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
| seamanship | (noun) skill in sailing | - |
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| secretaryship | (noun) the position of secretary | - |
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| senatorship | (noun) the office of senator | - |
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| sendup | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| setup | (noun) an act that incriminates someone on a false charge | Synonyms: frame-up |
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| (noun) equipment designed to serve a specific function | Synonyms: apparatus |
| (noun) the way something is organized or arranged | - |
| shakeup | (noun) the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes) | Synonyms: reorganisation, reorganization, shake-up |
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| sharp | (noun) a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point | - |
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| (noun) a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named | - |
| sheep | (noun) woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat | - |
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| (noun) a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision | - |
| (noun) a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon | - |
| ship | (noun) a vessel that carries passengers or freight | - |
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| shlep | (noun) a tedious or difficult journey | Synonyms: schlep |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlep, schlepper, shlepper |
| shop | (noun) a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity) | Synonyms: shop class |
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| (noun) a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services | Synonyms: store |
| (noun) small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done | Synonyms: workshop |
| shortstop | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | Synonyms: short |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position | - |
| showmanship | (noun) the ability to present something (especially theatrical shows) in an attractive manner | - |
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| shrimp | (noun) small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible | - |
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| (noun) any of various edible decapod crustaceans | Synonyms: prawn |
| (noun) disparaging terms for small people | Synonyms: half-pint, peewee, runt |
| shtup | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag |
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| sideslip | (noun) an unexpected slide | Synonyms: skid, slip |
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| (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air | Synonyms: slip |
| sidestep | (noun) a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing) | - |
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| silvertip | (noun) powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America | Synonyms: grizzly, grizzly bear, silver-tip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis |
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| sip | (noun) a small drink | - |
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| sirup | (noun) a thick sweet sticky liquid | Synonyms: syrup |
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| sistership | (noun) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest | Synonyms: sisterhood |
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| (noun) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings | Synonyms: sisterhood |
| skep | (noun) a domed beehive made of twisted straw | - |
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| (noun) a large round wicker basket (used on farms) | - |
| skip | (noun) a mistake resulting from neglect | Synonyms: omission |
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| (noun) a gait in which steps and hops alternate | - |
| skullcap | (noun) rounded brimless cap fitting the crown of the head | - |
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| (noun) the dome of the skull | Synonyms: calvaria |
| (noun) a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised | Synonyms: helmetflower |
| skycap | (noun) a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport | - |
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