| orthopaedics | (noun) the branch of medical science concerned with disorders or deformities of the spine and joints | Synonyms: orthopedics |
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| orthopedic | (adjective) of or relating to orthopedics | Synonyms: orthopaedic, orthopedical |
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| orthopedical | (adjective) of or relating to orthopedics | Synonyms: orthopaedic, orthopedic |
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| orthopedics | (noun) the branch of medical science concerned with disorders or deformities of the spine and joints | Synonyms: orthopaedics |
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| pandiculation | (noun) yawning and stretching (as when first waking up) | - |
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| paramedic | (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedical |
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| paramedical | (adjective) of or denoting a person who is trained to assist physicians and nurses in their activities | - |
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| (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedic |
| pedicab | (noun) a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling); used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire | Synonyms: cycle rickshaw |
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| pedicel | (noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle | Synonyms: pedicle |
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| pedicle | (noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle | Synonyms: pedicel |
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| pediculicide | (noun) a chemical agent that kills lice | - |
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| pediculosis | (noun) infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching | Synonyms: lousiness |
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| pedicure | (noun) professional care for the feet and toenails | - |
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| (verb) care for one's feet by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
| periodic | (adjective) happening or recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodical |
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| (adjective) recurring or reappearing from time to time | Synonyms: occasional |
| periodical | (adjective) happening or recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodic |
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| (noun) a publication that appears at fixed intervals | - |
| periodically | (adverb) in a sporadic manner | Synonyms: sporadically |
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| periodicity | (noun) the quality of recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: cyclicity |
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| perpendicular | (adjective) intersecting at or forming right angles | - |
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| (adjective) at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line | Synonyms: vertical |
| (adjective) so steep as to be nearly vertical | - |
| (noun) an extremely steep face | - |
| (noun) a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point | Synonyms: plumb line |
| (noun) a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting | Synonyms: English-Gothic, English-Gothic architecture, perpendicular style |
| (noun) a straight line at right angles to another line | - |
| perpendicularity | (noun) the quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon) | - |
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| (noun) the relation of opposition between things at right angles | Synonyms: orthogonal opposition, orthogonality |
| perpendicularly | (adverb) in a perpendicular manner | - |
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| (adverb) straight up or down without a break | Synonyms: sheer |
| predicament | (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: plight, quandary |
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| predicate | (noun) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements | Synonyms: verb phrase |
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| (noun) (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula | - |
| (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: proclaim |
| (verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | Synonyms: connote |
| (verb) make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition | - |
| predication | (noun) (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument | Synonyms: postulation |
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| predicative | (adjective) of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence | - |
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| predicatively | (adverb) occurring within the predicate phrase | - |
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| predicator | (noun) an expression that predicates | - |
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| predict | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| predictability | (noun) the quality of being predictable | - |
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| predictable | (adjective) capable of being foretold | - |
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| predictably | (adverb) in a predictable manner or to a predictable degree | - |
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| prediction | (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prevision |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prognostication |
| predictive | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: prognostic, prognosticative |
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| predictor | (noun) a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival | - |
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| (noun) information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events | - |
| (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer |
| preindication | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, foretoken, sign |
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| prejudice | (noun) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | Synonyms: bias, preconception |
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| (verb) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance | Synonyms: prepossess |
| (verb) disadvantage by prejudice | - |
| prejudiced | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: discriminatory |
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| (adjective) emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices | - |
| prejudicial | (adjective) tending to favor preconceived ideas | Synonyms: prejudicious |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, detrimental, prejudicious |
| prejudicious | (adjective) tending to favor preconceived ideas | Synonyms: prejudicial |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, detrimental, prejudicial |
| premedical | (adjective) preparing for the study of medicine | - |
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| (adjective) preceding and preparing for the study of medicine | - |
| prosodic | (adjective) of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing | - |
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| pyramidic | (adjective) resembling a pyramid | Synonyms: pyramidal, pyramidical |
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| pyramidical | (adjective) resembling a pyramid | Synonyms: pyramidal, pyramidic |
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| pyramidically | (adverb) in a pyramidal manner or shape | - |
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| radical | (adjective) especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem | Synonyms: basal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root | - |
| (adjective) arising from or going to the root or source | - |
| (adjective) (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm | Synonyms: extremist, ultra |
| (adjective) markedly new or introducing radical change | Synonyms: revolutionary |
| (noun) a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram | - |
| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: base, root, root word, stem, theme |
| (noun) a person who has radical ideas or opinions | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule | Synonyms: chemical group, group |
| (noun) an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule | Synonyms: free radical |
| radicalism | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor revolutionary change in government and society | - |
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| radicalize | (verb) make more radical in social or political outlook | - |
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| radically | (adverb) in a radical manner | - |
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| radicchio | (noun) prized variety of chicory having globose heads of red leaves | - |
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| radicle | (noun) (anatomy) a small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve) | - |
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| radiculitis | (noun) inflammation of the radicle of a nerve | - |
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| rededicate | (verb) dedicate anew | - |
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| rededication | (noun) a new dedication | - |
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| rhapsodic | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, enraptured, rapt, rapturous |
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| rhapsodically | (adverb) in an ecstatic manner | Synonyms: ecstatically, rapturously |
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| ridicule | (noun) the act of deriding or treating with contempt | Synonyms: derision |
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| (noun) language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate | - |
| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, roast |
| ridiculer | (noun) a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | Synonyms: ironist, satirist |
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| ridiculous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous |
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| (adjective) broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce | Synonyms: farcical, ludicrous |
| (adjective) inspiring scornful pity | Synonyms: pathetic, silly |
| ridiculously | (adverb) so as to arouse or deserve laughter | Synonyms: laughably, ludicrously, preposterously |
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| ridiculousness | (noun) a message whose content is at variance with reason | Synonyms: absurdity, absurdness |
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| saccadic | (adjective) of or related to the rapid movement of the eyes between points of fixation | - |
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| spasmodic | (adjective) occurring in spells and often abruptly | Synonyms: fitful |
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| (adjective) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | Synonyms: convulsive, spastic |
| spasmodically | (adverb) in spurts and fits | - |
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| (adverb) with spasms | Synonyms: jerkily |
| sporadic | (adjective) recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances | - |
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| sporadically | (adverb) in a sporadic manner | Synonyms: periodically |
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| sporadicalness | (noun) The quality of being rare and scattered in occurrence. | - |
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| syndic | (noun) one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions | - |
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| syndicalism | (noun) a radical political movement that advocates bringing industry and government under the control of labor unions | - |
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| syndicalist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: anarchist, nihilist |
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| syndicate | (noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: consortium, pool |
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| (noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, family, mob |
| (noun) a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication | - |
| (verb) sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations | - |
| (verb) organize into or form a syndicate | - |
| (verb) join together into a syndicate | - |
| syndication | (noun) organizing into or administering as a syndicate | - |
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| (noun) selling (an article or cartoon) for publication in many magazines or newspapers at the same time | - |
| syndicator | (noun) a businessman who forms a syndicate | - |
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| theodicy | (noun) the branch of theology that defends God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil | - |
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| unaddicted | (adjective) not addicted | - |
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| undedicated | (adjective) not dedicated | - |
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| underbodice | (noun) a short sleeveless undergarment for women | Synonyms: camisole |
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| unmedical | (adjective) not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed | Synonyms: nonmedicinal, unmedicative, unmedicinal |
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| unmedicative | (adjective) not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed | Synonyms: nonmedicinal, unmedical, unmedicinal |
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| unmedicinal | (adjective) not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed | Synonyms: nonmedicinal, unmedical, unmedicative |
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| unmelodic | (adjective) lacking melody | Synonyms: unmelodious, unmusical |
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| unmethodical | (adjective) not efficient or methodical | - |
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| unpredictability | (noun) lacking predictability | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being unpredictably irresolute | Synonyms: volatility |
| (noun) the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses | Synonyms: capriciousness |
| unpredictable | (adjective) not capable of being foretold | - |
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| (adjective) unknown in advance | - |
| (adjective) not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals | Synonyms: irregular |
| unpredictably | (adverb) in an erratic unpredictable manner | Synonyms: erratically |
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| unpredicted | (adjective) without warning or announcement | Synonyms: unannounced, unheralded |
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| unpredictive | (adjective) having no predictive value | - |
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| unprejudiced | (adjective) free from undue bias or preconceived opinions | Synonyms: impartial |
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| unvindictive | (adjective) not vindictive | - |
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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 |
| verdict | (noun) (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment | Synonyms: finding of fact |
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| veridical | (adjective) coinciding with reality | Synonyms: real |
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| vindicate | (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: justify |
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| (verb) clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof | - |
| (verb) maintain, uphold, or defend | - |
| vindicated | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: absolved, clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated |
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| vindication | (noun) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc. | Synonyms: exoneration |
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| (noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defence, defense |
| vindicator | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: apologist, justifier |
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| vindicatory | (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
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| (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, retributory |
| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory |
| vindictive | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: despiteful, spiteful |
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| (adjective) disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge | Synonyms: revengeful, vengeful |
| vindictively | (adverb) in a vindictive, revengeful manner | Synonyms: revengefully, vengefully |
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| vindictiveness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vengefulness |
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