| pinscher | (noun) any of three breeds of dogs whose ears and tail are usually cropped | - |
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| pitched | (adjective) (of sound) set to a certain pitch or key; usually used as a combining form | - |
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| (adjective) set at a slant | - |
| pitcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit | Synonyms: mound |
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| (noun) an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring | Synonyms: ewer |
| (noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: hurler, twirler |
| (noun) (botany) a leaf that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer | - |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcherful |
| pitcherful | (noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcher |
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| planchet | (noun) a flat metal disk ready for stamping as a coin | Synonyms: coin blank |
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| planchette | (noun) a triangular board supported on casters; when lightly touched with the fingertips it is supposed to spell out supernatural (or unconscious) messages | - |
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| poached | (adjective) cooked in hot water | Synonyms: boiled, stewed |
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| poacher | (noun) small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters | Synonyms: sea poacher, sea poker |
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| (noun) a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs) | - |
| (noun) someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another | - |
| polychete | (noun) chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles | Synonyms: polychaete, polychaete worm, polychete worm |
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| portwatcher | (noun) a watchman on a wharf | Synonyms: port watcher |
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| postiche | (noun) something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be | Synonyms: fake, sham |
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| (noun) a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment | Synonyms: false hair, hairpiece |
| pouched | (adjective) having a pouch | - |
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| preacher | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer |
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| protoarcheology | (noun) the study of prehistoric human artifacts and human fossils | Synonyms: protoarchaeology |
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| psyche | (noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: brain, head, mind, nous |
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| (noun) the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life | Synonyms: soul |
| psychedelia | (noun) the subculture of users of psychedelic drugs | - |
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| psychedelic | (adjective) (of a mental state) characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair | - |
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| (adjective) having the vivid colors and bizarre patterns associated with psychedelic states | - |
| (adjective) producing distorted sensory perceptions and feelings or altered states of awareness or sometimes states resembling psychosis | - |
| puncher | (noun) a tool for making holes or indentations | Synonyms: punch |
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| (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher |
| (noun) someone who delivers punches | - |
| pyrochemical | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by chemical reactions at high temperatures | - |
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| pyrochemistry | (noun) processes for chemical reactions at high temperatures | Synonyms: pyrochemical process |
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| quenched | (adjective) allayed | Synonyms: satisfied, slaked |
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| (adjective) subdued or overcome | Synonyms: quelled, squelched |
| quiche | (noun) a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables) | - |
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| rachet | (noun) mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction | Synonyms: ratch, ratchet |
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| radiochemist | (noun) a chemist who specializes in nuclear chemistry | Synonyms: nuclear chemist |
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| radiochemistry | (noun) the chemistry of radioactive substances | Synonyms: nuclear chemistry |
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| rancher | (noun) a person who owns or operates a ranch | - |
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| rapprochement | (noun) the reestablishing of cordial relations | Synonyms: reconciliation |
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| ratchet | (noun) mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction | Synonyms: rachet, ratch |
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| (verb) move by degrees in one direction only | Synonyms: rachet up, ratchet down |
| recherche | (adjective) lavishly elegant and refined | Synonyms: exquisite |
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| reproacher | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reprover, upbraider |
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| reschedule | (verb) assign a new time and place for an event | - |
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| researcher | (noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: investigator, research worker |
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| rhinotracheitis | (noun) a respiratory infection of the nose and throat in cattle | - |
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| riches | (noun) an abundance of material possessions and resources | Synonyms: wealth |
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| ricochet | (noun) a glancing rebound | Synonyms: carom |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, spring, take a hop |
| sachem | (noun) a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief) | Synonyms: sagamore |
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| (noun) a political leader (especially of Tammany Hall) | - |
| sachet | (noun) a small soft bag containing perfumed powder; used to perfume items in a drawer or chest | - |
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| satchel | (noun) luggage consisting of a small case with a flat bottom and (usually) a shoulder strap | - |
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| schedule | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, docket |
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| (noun) an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur | - |
| (verb) plan for an activity or event | - |
| (verb) make a schedule; plan the time and place for events | - |
| scheduled | (adjective) planned or scheduled for some certain time or times | - |
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| scheduler | (noun) computer hardware that arranges jobs to be done by the computer in an appropriate order | - |
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| scheduling | (noun) setting an order and time for planned events | Synonyms: programing, programming |
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| scheelite | (noun) a mineral used as an ore of tungsten | - |
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| schema | (noun) a schematic or preliminary plan | Synonyms: outline, scheme |
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| (noun) an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world | Synonyms: scheme |
| schematic | (adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: conventional, formal |
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| (noun) diagram of an electrical or mechanical system | Synonyms: schematic drawing |
| schematically | (adverb) in a schematic manner | - |
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| schematisation | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: diagramming, schematization |
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| (noun) the act of reducing to a scheme or formula | Synonyms: schematization |
| schematise | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematize |
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| schematization | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: diagramming, schematisation |
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| (noun) the act of reducing to a scheme or formula | Synonyms: schematisation |
| schematize | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematise |
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| (verb) formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula | - |
| scheme | (noun) an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Synonyms: strategy |
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| (noun) an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world | Synonyms: schema |
| (noun) a schematic or preliminary plan | Synonyms: outline, schema |
| (noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodge, dodging |
| (noun) a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole | Synonyms: system |
| (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: connive, intrigue |
| (verb) devise a system or form a scheme for | - |
| schemer | (noun) a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action | Synonyms: plotter |
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| scheming | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: designing |
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| (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, calculative, conniving, shrewd |
| schemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: shemozzle |
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| scherzo | (noun) a fast movement (usually in triple time) | - |
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| schnorchel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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| schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
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| schottische | (noun) a German round dance resembling a slow polka | - |
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| (noun) music performed for dancing the schottische | - |
| scorched | (adjective) having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy | - |
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| (adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: adust, baked, parched, sunbaked |
| scorcher | (noun) a very hard hit ball | Synonyms: screamer |
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| (noun) an extremely hot day | - |
| scratcher | (noun) a device used for scratching | - |
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| (noun) a person who scratches to relieve an itch | - |
| (noun) a workman who uses a tool for scratching | - |
| screecher | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, shouter, yeller |
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| scutcheon | (noun) a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms | Synonyms: escutcheon |
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| (noun) a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers | Synonyms: escutcheon, finger plate |
| searcher | (noun) large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America | Synonyms: Calosoma scrutator, searcher beetle |
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| (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: quester, seeker |
| (noun) a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items | - |
| seiche | (noun) a wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay; caused by atmospheric or seismic disturbances | - |
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| semidetached | (adjective) attached on one side only | - |
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| sepulcher | (noun) a chamber that is used as a grave | Synonyms: burial chamber, sepulchre, sepulture |
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| sketcher | (noun) an implement for sketching | - |
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| (noun) someone who draws sketches | - |
| sloucher | (noun) a person who slouches; someone with a drooping carriage | - |
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| snatcher | (noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper |
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| (noun) a thief who grabs and runs | - |
| snitcher | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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| (noun) a thief who steals without using violence | Synonyms: pilferer, sneak thief |
| soutache | (noun) a narrow braid used as a decorative trimming | - |
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| spirochete | (noun) parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals | Synonyms: spirochaete |
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| splotched | (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotched, blotchy |
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| squelched | (adjective) subdued or overcome | Synonyms: quelled, quenched |
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| squelcher | (noun) an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise | Synonyms: squelch, squelch circuit |
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| (noun) a crushing remark | Synonyms: put-down, squelch, takedown |
| squinched | (adjective) having eyes half closed in order to see better | Synonyms: squinting |
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| starches | (noun) foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread) | - |
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| stitched | (adjective) fastened with stitches | Synonyms: sewed, sewn |
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| stitcher | (noun) a garmentmaker who performs the finishing steps | - |
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| stitchery | (noun) needlework on which you are working with needle and thread | Synonyms: sewing |
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| stomachache | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: bellyache, gastralgia, stomach ache |
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| stomacher | (noun) garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century | - |
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| stretched | (adjective) (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching | - |
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| (adjective) extended or spread over a wide area or distance | - |
| stretcher | (noun) a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles | - |
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| (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: capstone, copestone, coping stone |
| (noun) a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it | - |
| (noun) a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting | - |
| switcher | (noun) a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip | Synonyms: whipper |
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| switcheroo | (noun) a sudden unexpected switch | - |
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| synecdoche | (noun) substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa | - |
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| tacheometer | (noun) a theodolite designed for rapid measurements | Synonyms: tachymeter |
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| teacher | (noun) a personified abstraction that teaches | - |
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| (noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: instructor |
| teachership | (noun) the position of teacher | - |
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| thatcher | (noun) someone skilled in making a roof from plant stalks or foliage | - |
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| thelarche | (noun) the start of breast development in a woman at the beginning of puberty | - |
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| thermochemistry | (noun) the branch of chemistry that studies the relation between chemical action and the amount of heat absorbed or generated | - |
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| toothache | (noun) an ache localized in or around a tooth | Synonyms: odontalgia |
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| touched | (adjective) having come into contact | - |
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| (adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: affected, moved, stirred |
| (adjective) slightly insane | Synonyms: fey |
| toucher | (noun) a person who causes or allows a part of the body to come in contact with someone or something | - |
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| trachea | (noun) membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi | Synonyms: windpipe |
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| (noun) one of the tubules forming the respiratory system of most insects and many arachnids | - |
| tracheal | (adjective) relating to or resembling or functioning like a trachea | - |
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| tracheid | (noun) long tubular cell peculiar to xylem | - |
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