| paleontologist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: fossilist, palaeontologist |
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| paleontology | (noun) the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains | Synonyms: fossilology, palaeontology |
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| paleopathology | (noun) the study of disease of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence) | Synonyms: palaeopathology |
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| paleornithology | (noun) the paleobiology of birds | Synonyms: palaeornithology |
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| paleostriatum | (noun) the inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: globus pallidus, pallidum |
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| paleozoology | (noun) the study of fossil animals | Synonyms: palaeozoology |
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| palestra | (noun) a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes | Synonyms: palaestra |
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| paletiology | (noun) the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes) | Synonyms: palaetiology |
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| palette | (noun) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used | Synonyms: pallet |
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| (noun) one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor | Synonyms: pallette |
| (noun) the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art | Synonyms: pallet |
| paralegal | (noun) a person with specialized training who assists lawyers | Synonyms: legal assistant |
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| paraleipsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paralepsis, paralipsis, preterition |
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| paralepsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition |
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| pastorale | (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, idyll, pastoral |
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| pedaler | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaller |
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| pentavalent | (adjective) having a valence of five | - |
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| percale | (noun) a fine closely woven cotton fabric | - |
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| petaled | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petalled, petalous |
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| phenolphthalein | (noun) a laxative used in many preparations under various trade names; also used as an acid-base indicator in titrations involving weak acids and strong bases because it is brilliant red at high alkalinity and colorless below pH 8 | - |
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| polyvalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, multivalency, polyvalency |
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| (noun) (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism | Synonyms: polyvalency |
| polyvalency | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, multivalency, polyvalence |
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| (noun) (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism | Synonyms: polyvalence |
| polyvalent | (adjective) having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher | Synonyms: multivalent |
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| (adjective) containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen | - |
| potamogale | (noun) amphibious African insectivorous mammal that resembles an otter | Synonyms: otter shrew, Potamogale velox |
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| prevalence | (noun) the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread | - |
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| (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: preponderance |
| (noun) (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population | - |
| prevalent | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevailing, rife |
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| rale | (noun) a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders) | Synonyms: rattle, rattling |
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| rationale | (noun) (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | Synonyms: principle |
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| regale | (verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink | Synonyms: treat |
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| resale | (noun) the selling of something purchased | - |
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| rescale | (verb) establish on a new scale | - |
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| resorcinolphthalein | (noun) a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed) | Synonyms: fluorescein, fluoresceine, fluorescent dye |
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| sale | (noun) a particular instance of selling | - |
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| (noun) an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices | Synonyms: cut-rate sale, sales event |
| (noun) the general activity of selling | - |
| (noun) an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer) | Synonyms: sales agreement |
| (noun) the state of being purchasable; offered or exhibited for selling | - |
| saleable | (adjective) capable of being sold; fit for sale | Synonyms: salable |
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| saleratus | (noun) a white soluble compound (NaHCO3) used in effervescent drinks and in baking powders and as an antacid | Synonyms: baking soda, bicarbonate of soda, sodium bicarbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate |
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| saleroom | (noun) an area where merchandise (such as cars) can be displayed | Synonyms: salesroom, showroom |
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| sales | (noun) income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time | Synonyms: gross revenue, gross sales |
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| salesclerk | (noun) a salesperson in a store | Synonyms: clerk, shop assistant, shop clerk |
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| salesgirl | (noun) a woman salesperson | Synonyms: saleslady, saleswoman |
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| saleslady | (noun) a woman salesperson | Synonyms: salesgirl, saleswoman |
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| salesman | (noun) a man salesperson | - |
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| salesmanship | (noun) skill in selling; skill in persuading people to buy | - |
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| salesperson | (noun) a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited) | Synonyms: sales rep, sales representative |
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| salesroom | (noun) an area where merchandise (such as cars) can be displayed | Synonyms: saleroom, showroom |
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| saleswoman | (noun) a woman salesperson | Synonyms: salesgirl, saleslady |
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| sandaled | (adjective) shod with sandals | Synonyms: sandalled |
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| scale | (noun) a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals | - |
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| (noun) an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks | - |
| (noun) a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass | Synonyms: weighing machine |
| (noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: plate, shell |
| (noun) (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) | Synonyms: musical scale |
| (noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: exfoliation, scurf |
| (noun) a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin | Synonyms: scale leaf |
| (noun) relative magnitude | - |
| (noun) the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it | - |
| (noun) an ordered reference standard | Synonyms: graduated table, ordered series, scale of measurement |
| (verb) measure with or as if with scales | - |
| (verb) size or measure according to a scale | - |
| (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: descale |
| (verb) pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard | - |
| (verb) climb up by means of a ladder | - |
| (verb) reach the highest point of | Synonyms: surmount |
| (verb) take by attacking with scaling ladders | - |
| (verb) measure by or as if by a scale | - |
| scaled | (adjective) (used of armor) having overlapping metal plates attached to a leather backing | - |
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| (adjective) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles | Synonyms: scaley, scaly |
| scaleless | (adjective) destitute of scales | - |
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| scalelike | (adjective) reduced to a small appressed thing that resembles a scale | - |
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| scalene | (adjective) of or relating to any of the scalene muscles | - |
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| (adjective) of a triangle having three sides of different lengths | - |
| scalenus | (noun) any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib; involved in moving the neck and in breathing | Synonyms: musculus scalenus, scalene muscle |
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| scaler | (noun) an electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually | - |
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| scaley | (adjective) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles | Synonyms: scaled, scaly |
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| sealed | (adjective) closed or secured with or as if with a seal | - |
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| (adjective) established irrevocably | Synonyms: certain |
| (adjective) undisclosed for the time being | - |
| (adjective) determined irrevocably | - |
| (adjective) apply a non-porous coating to something so as to ensure it is impervious | - |
| (adjective) covered with a waterproof coating | - |
| (adjective) (of walls) covered with a coat of plaster | Synonyms: plastered |
| sealer | (noun) an official who affixes a seal to a document | - |
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| (noun) a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface) | Synonyms: sealant |
| shale | (noun) a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay | - |
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| signaler | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaller |
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| sphalerite | (noun) an ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form | Synonyms: blende, zinc blende |
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| squealer | (noun) domestic swine | Synonyms: grunter, hog, pig, Sus scrofa |
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| (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, blabber, informer, rat |
| stale | (adjective) lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age | - |
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| (adjective) lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new | Synonyms: cold, dusty, moth-eaten |
| (verb) urinate, of cattle and horses | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) subject to a stalemate | - |
| stalemated | (adjective) at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions | Synonyms: deadlocked |
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| staleness | (noun) having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging | - |
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| (noun) unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed | Synonyms: triteness |
| stealer | (noun) a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it | Synonyms: thief |
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| suprarenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: adrenalectomy |
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| swale | (noun) a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges) | - |
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| tale | (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, narrative, story |
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| (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, taradiddle, tarradiddle |
| talebearer | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| talebearing | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, leaky, tattling |
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| talent | (noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: endowment, gift, natural endowment |
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| (noun) a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity | - |
| talented | (adjective) endowed with talent or talents | Synonyms: gifted |
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| talentless | (adjective) devoid of talent; not gifted | Synonyms: untalented |
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| talentlessness | (noun) a lack of talent | - |
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| taleteller | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| tamale | (noun) dough stuffed with a meat mixture and sometimes wrapped in corn husks and steamed | Synonyms: tamal |
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| tattletale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale |
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| teetotaler | (noun) a total abstainer | Synonyms: teetotalist, teetotaller |
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| telltale | (adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed | Synonyms: revealing, telling |
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| (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale |
| tetravalent | (adjective) having a valence of four | - |
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| timbale | (noun) individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell | - |
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| (noun) small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods | Synonyms: timbale case |
| totaled | (adjective) used of automobiles; completely demolished | Synonyms: totalled |
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| trivalent | (adjective) having a valence of three | - |
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| unalert | (adjective) not alert to what is potentially dangerous | Synonyms: unvigilant, unwatchful |
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| unannealed | (adjective) (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured | Synonyms: brittle |
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| unconcealed | (adjective) not concealed or hidden | - |
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| undersealed | (adjective) (of motor vehicles) having a coating of tar or other rustproof material applied to the underside | Synonyms: undercoated |
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| unequaled | (adjective) radically distinctive and without equal | Synonyms: alone, unequalled, unique, unparalleled |
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| unhealed | (adjective) not healed | - |
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| univalent | (adjective) used of a chromosome that is not paired or united with its homologous chromosome during synapsis | - |
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| (adjective) having a valence of 1 | Synonyms: monovalent |
| unrevealed | (adjective) not made known | Synonyms: undisclosed |
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| unrivaled | (adjective) eminent beyond or above comparison | Synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one, one and only, peerless, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivalled |
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| unsaleable | (adjective) impossible to sell | Synonyms: unsalable |
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| unsealed | (adjective) not closed or secured with or as if with a seal | - |
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| (adjective) not established or confirmed | Synonyms: uncertain |
| untalented | (adjective) devoid of talent; not gifted | Synonyms: talentless |
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| upscale | (adjective) appropriate for people with good incomes | - |
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| vale | (noun) a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river | Synonyms: valley |
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| valediction | (noun) the act of saying farewell | - |
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| (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valedictory, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
| valedictorian | (noun) the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement | Synonyms: valedictory speaker |
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| valedictory | (adjective) of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell | - |
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| (adjective) of a speech expressing leave-taking | - |
| (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
| valence | (noun) (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent) | Synonyms: valency |
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| (noun) (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate | Synonyms: valency |
| valency | (noun) (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent) | Synonyms: valence |
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| (noun) (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate | Synonyms: valence |
| (noun) the phenomenon of forming chemical bonds | - |