| pageboy | (noun) a smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inward | - |
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| (noun) a boy who is employed to run errands | Synonyms: page |
| paleocerebellum | (noun) the anterior lobe of the cerebellum which was one of the earliest parts of the hindbrain to develop in mammals | - |
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| palpebra | (noun) either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye | Synonyms: eyelid, lid |
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| palpebrate | (adjective) having eyelids | - |
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| (verb) wink or blink, especially repeatedly | - |
| palpebration | (noun) repeated blinking or winking (especially if uncontrolled and persistent) | - |
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| partridgeberry | (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, twinberry |
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| pasteboard | (noun) stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper | - |
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| peba | (noun) having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay | Synonyms: Dasypus novemcinctus, nine-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo |
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| pebble | (noun) a small smooth rounded rock | - |
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| pebbly | (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: gravelly, shingly |
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| pebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibits or 2^50 bits | Synonyms: Pibit |
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| pebibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes | Synonyms: PB, petabyte, PiB |
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| phlebectomy | (noun) surgical removal or all or part of a vein; sometimes done in cases of severe varicose veins | - |
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| phlebitis | (noun) inflammation of a vein (usually in the legs) | - |
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| phlebogram | (noun) an X ray of a vein injected with a radiopaque contrast medium | Synonyms: venogram |
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| phlebothrombosis | (noun) thrombosis of a vein without prior inflammation of the vein; associated with sluggish blood flow (as in prolonged bedrest or pregnancy or surgery) or with rapid coagulation of the blood | Synonyms: venous thrombosis |
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| phlebotomise | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomize |
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| phlebotomist | (noun) someone who practices phlebotomy | - |
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| phlebotomize | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomise |
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| phlebotomus | (noun) a mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii | Synonyms: pappataci fever, sandfly fever |
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| phlebotomy | (noun) surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis | Synonyms: venesection |
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| phoebe | (noun) small dun-colored North American flycatcher | Synonyms: phoebe bird, Sayornis phoebe |
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| phonebook | (noun) a directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers | Synonyms: phone book, telephone book, telephone directory |
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| piebald | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| pikeblenny | (noun) tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory | - |
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| pilosebaceous | (adjective) of or relating to a hair follicle and its sebaceous gland | - |
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| placebo | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead | - |
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| (noun) an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug | - |
| pleb | (noun) one of the common people | Synonyms: plebeian |
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| plebe | (noun) a military trainee (as at a military academy) | Synonyms: cadet |
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| plebeian | (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: common, unwashed, vulgar |
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| (noun) one of the common people | Synonyms: pleb |
| plebeianism | (noun) The quality or state of being of or pertaining to the common people; of being vulgar, common. | - |
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| plebiscite | (noun) a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance | - |
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| prebend | (noun) the stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon | - |
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| prebendary | (noun) a canon who receives a prebend for serving the church | - |
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| prickleback | (noun) small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines | - |
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| (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: stickleback |
| pueblo | (noun) a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States | - |
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| pureblood | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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| (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: purebred, thoroughbred |
| pureblooded | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, thoroughbred |
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| purebred | (adjective) bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain | - |
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| (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, thoroughbred |
| rarebit | (noun) cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast | Synonyms: Welsh rabbit, Welsh rarebit |
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| rattlebox | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: crotalaria |
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| rattlebrained | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty |
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| rebarbative | (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: repellant, repellent |
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| rebate | (noun) a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together | Synonyms: rabbet |
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| (noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: discount |
| (verb) cut a rebate in (timber or stone) | - |
| (verb) join with a rebate | - |
| (verb) give a reduction in the price during a sale | - |
| rebato | (noun) a wired or starched collar of intricate lace; worn in 17th century | Synonyms: rabato |
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| rebel | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist |
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| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: maverick |
| (verb) take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance | Synonyms: arise, rise, rise up |
| (verb) break with established customs | Synonyms: renegade |
| rebellion | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising |
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| (noun) refusal to accept some authority or code or convention | - |
| rebellious | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent |
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| (adjective) participating in organized resistance to a constituted government | - |
| (adjective) resisting control or authority | - |
| rebelliously | (adverb) in a rebellious manner | Synonyms: contumaciously, defiantly |
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| rebelliousness | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: insubordination |
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| (noun) intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude | Synonyms: defiance |
| rebind | (verb) provide with a new binding | - |
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| rebirth | (noun) a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life | Synonyms: conversion, spiritual rebirth |
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| (noun) the revival of learning and culture | Synonyms: Renaissance, Renascence |
| (noun) a second or new birth | Synonyms: reincarnation, renascence |
| (noun) after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body | Synonyms: metempsychosis |
| reboot | (verb) cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes | Synonyms: boot, bring up |
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| reborn | (adjective) spiritually reborn or converted | Synonyms: born-again |
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| (adjective) restored to new life and vigor | Synonyms: revitalised, revitalized |
| rebound | (noun) the act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot | - |
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| (noun) a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration | - |
| (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, recoil, repercussion |
| (verb) return to a former condition | Synonyms: rally |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| reboxetine | (noun) an antidepressant drug that blocks the reuptake of norepinephrine | Synonyms: Edronax |
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| rebozo | (noun) a long woolen or linen scarf covering the head and shoulders (also used as a sling for holding a baby); traditionally worn by Latin-American women | - |
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| rebroadcast | (noun) a broadcast that repeated at a later time | - |
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| (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rerun |
| rebuff | (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: slight |
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| (noun) an instance of driving away or warding off | Synonyms: repulse, snub |
| (verb) reject outright and bluntly | Synonyms: repel, snub |
| (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, repel, repulse |
| rebuild | (verb) build again | Synonyms: reconstruct |
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| rebuilding | (noun) building again | - |
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| rebuke | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval |
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| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| rebuker | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: reproacher, reprover, upbraider |
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| rebukingly | (adverb) in the manner of someone delivering a rebuke | - |
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| reburial | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburying |
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| rebury | (verb) bury again | - |
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| reburying | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburial |
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| rebus | (noun) a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words | - |
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| rebut | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: controvert, refute |
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| (verb) overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof | Synonyms: refute |
| rebuttal | (noun) the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument | - |
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| (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebutter |
| rebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebuttal |
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| (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, disprover, refuter |
| rerebrace | (noun) cannon that provides plate armor for the upper arm | Synonyms: upper cannon |
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| ricebird | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird |
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| (noun) small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields | Synonyms: Java finch, Java sparrow, Padda oryzivora |
| riflebird | (noun) velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail | Synonyms: Ptloris paradisea |
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| roebuck | (noun) male roe deer | - |
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| ropebark | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, wicopy |
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| rosebay | (noun) late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers | Synonyms: Rhododendron maxima |
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| rosebud | (noun) (a literary reference to) a pretty young girl | - |
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| (noun) the bud of a rose | - |
| rosebush | (noun) any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses | Synonyms: rose |
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| rougeberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, bloodberry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant |
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| saddleback | (noun) a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end | Synonyms: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof |
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| (noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddle |
| saddlebag | (noun) a large bag (or pair of bags) hung over a saddle | - |
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| saddlebill | (noun) large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle | Synonyms: Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, jabiru |
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| saddlebow | (noun) handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle | Synonyms: pommel |
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| safebreaker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safecracker |
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| sagebrush | (noun) any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium | Synonyms: sage brush |
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| sauceboat | (noun) a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce | Synonyms: boat, gravy boat, gravy holder |
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| scoreboard | (noun) a large board for displaying the score of a contest (and some other information) | - |
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| scuttlebutt | (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, gossip |
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| sebaceous | (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: greasy, oily, oleaginous |
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| seborrhea | (noun) a condition in which overactivity of the sebaceous glands causes the skin to become oily | - |
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| sebum | (noun) the oily secretion of the sebaceous glands; with perspiration it moistens and protects the skin | - |
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| serviceberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, shadberry |
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| (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, shadblow, shadbush |
| shebang | (noun) an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang' | - |
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| shebeen | (noun) unlicensed drinking establishment | - |
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| shoebill | (noun) large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe | Synonyms: Balaeniceps rex, shoebird |
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| shoebird | (noun) large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe | Synonyms: Balaeniceps rex, shoebill |
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| shoeblack | (noun) a person who polishes shoes and boots | Synonyms: bootblack |
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| shoebox | (noun) an oblong rectangular (usually cardboard) box designed to hold a pair of shoes | - |
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| (noun) a structure resembling a shoebox (as a rectangular building or a cramped room or compartment) | - |
| shorebird | (noun) any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries | Synonyms: limicoline bird, shore bird |
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