| mozzarella | (noun) mild white Italian cheese | - |
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| multicellular | (adjective) consisting of many cells | - |
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| muscadelle | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscat, muscatel |
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| muskellunge | (noun) large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America | Synonyms: Esox masquinongy |
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| (noun) flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish | - |
| nacelle | (noun) a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine | - |
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| nigella | (noun) any plant of the genus Nigella | - |
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| nitrocellulose | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, guncotton, nitrocotton |
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| nonbelligerent | (adjective) not directly at war | - |
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| noncellular | (adjective) not made up of or divided into cells | Synonyms: acellular |
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| nonintellectual | (adjective) not intellectual | - |
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| novella | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novelette |
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| nucellus | (noun) central part of a plant ovule; contains the embryo sac | - |
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| nutshell | (noun) the shell around the kernel of a nut | - |
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| ocellated | (adjective) having ocelli | - |
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| ocellus | (noun) an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color | Synonyms: eyespot |
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| (noun) an eye having a single lens | Synonyms: simple eye, stemma |
| organelle | (noun) a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ | Synonyms: cell organ, cell organelle |
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| outsell | (verb) sell more than others | - |
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| (verb) be sold more often than other, similar products | - |
| paella | (noun) saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken | - |
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| 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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| panelled | (adjective) fitted or decorated with panels or wainscoting | Synonyms: paneled, wainscoted |
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| panelling | (noun) a panel or section of panels in a wall or door | Synonyms: pane, paneling |
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| panellist | (noun) a member of a panel | Synonyms: panelist |
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| panetella | (noun) a long slender cigar | Synonyms: panatela, panetela |
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| parcellation | (noun) the division into parcels | - |
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| parcelling | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling |
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| pasteurellosis | (noun) an acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection | Synonyms: hemorrhagic septicemia |
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| patella | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneecap, kneepan |
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| patellar | (adjective) near or relating to the patella or kneecap | - |
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| patelliform | (adjective) shaped like a dish or pan | Synonyms: dish-shaped, dished |
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| pellagra | (noun) a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments | Synonyms: Alpine scurvy, maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, mayidism, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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| pellet | (noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | Synonyms: shot |
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| (noun) a small rounded mass of a substance | - |
| pellicle | (noun) thin protective membrane in some protozoa | - |
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| pellitory | (noun) a small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache | Synonyms: Anacyclus pyrethrum, pellitory-of-Spain |
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| (noun) herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers | Synonyms: Parietaria difusa, pellitory-of-the-wall, wall pellitory |
| pellucid | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, perspicuous |
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| (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, transparent |
| pellucidity | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: limpidity, pellucidness |
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| (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness |
| pellucidly | (adverb) in a clear and lucid manner | Synonyms: limpidly, lucidly, perspicuously |
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| pellucidness | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: limpidity, pellucidity |
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| pennoncelle | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, penoncel |
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| phellem | (noun) (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells | Synonyms: cork |
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| philhellene | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellenic |
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| (noun) an admirer of Greece and everything Greek | Synonyms: Graecophile, philhellenist |
| philhellenic | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellene |
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| philhellenism | (noun) admiration for Greece and the Greeks and Greek customs | - |
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| philhellenist | (noun) an admirer of Greece and everything Greek | Synonyms: Graecophile, philhellene |
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| photocell | (noun) a transducer used to detect and measure light and other radiations | Synonyms: electric eye, magic eye, photoconductive cell, photoelectric cell |
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| pipistrelle | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrel, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
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| playfellow | (noun) a companion at play | Synonyms: playmate |
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| potbellied | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: abdominous, paunchy |
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| potbelly | (noun) a bulbous stove in which wood or coal is burned | Synonyms: potbelly stove |
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| (noun) slang for a paunch | Synonyms: bay window, corporation, pot, tummy |
| propellant | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellent, propelling, propulsive |
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| (noun) any substance that propels | Synonyms: propellent |
| propellent | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propelling, propulsive |
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| (noun) any substance that propels | Synonyms: propellant |
| propeller | (noun) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | Synonyms: propellor |
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| propelling | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propulsive |
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| propellor | (noun) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | Synonyms: propeller |
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| pseudorubella | (noun) a viral disease of infants and young children; characterized by abrupt high fever and mild sore throat; a few days later there is a faint pinkish rash that lasts for a few hours to a few days | Synonyms: exanthema subitum, roseola infantilis, roseola infantum |
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| pyrocellulose | (noun) nitrocellulose containing less nitrogen than guncotton; used in making smokeless powder | - |
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| quarreller | (noun) a disputant who quarrels | Synonyms: quarreler |
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| quell | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quench, squelch |
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| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: appease, stay |
| quelled | (adjective) subdued or overcome | Synonyms: quenched, squelched |
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| quelling | (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, stifling, suppression |
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| quellung | (noun) the swelling of the capsule surrounding a microorganism after reaction with an antibody; the basis of certain tests for identifying microorganisms | Synonyms: quellung reaction |
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| rakehell | (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rip, roue |
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| rappeller | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: abseiler |
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| rathskeller | (noun) a tavern below street level featuring beer; originally a German restaurant in the basement of city hall | - |
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| ravelling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: raveling |
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| 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 |
| redbelly | (noun) freshwater turtle of Chesapeake Bay tributaries having red markings on the lower shell | Synonyms: Pseudemys rubriventris, red-bellied terrapin, red-bellied turtle |
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| regnellidium | (noun) small latex-containing aquatic fern of southern Brazil | Synonyms: Regnellidium diphyllum |
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| repellant | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellent |
| (noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellent |
| (noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellent |
| (noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellent |
| repellent | (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: resistant |
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| (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
| (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellant |
| (noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellant |
| (noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellant |
| (noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellant |
| repellently | (adverb) in a repellent manner | Synonyms: repellingly |
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| repelling | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| repellingly | (adverb) in a repellent manner | Synonyms: repellently |
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| resell | (verb) sell (something) again after having bought it | - |
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| retell | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate |
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| (verb) render verbally | Synonyms: recite |
| (verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize |
| reveller | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveler |
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| roccella | (noun) a source of the dye archil and of litmus | Synonyms: Roccella tinctoria |
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| roselle | (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, rozelle, sorrel |
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| rozelle | (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, sorrel |
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| rubella | (noun) a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester | Synonyms: epidemic roseola, German measles, three-day measles |
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| rubicelle | (noun) a yellow or orange variety of ruby spinel | - |
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| salmonella | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| salmonellosis | (noun) a kind of food poisoning caused by eating foods contaminated with Salmonella typhimurium | - |
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| saltcellar | (noun) a small container for holding salt at the dining table | - |
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| satellite | (adjective) surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power | - |
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| (noun) man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon | Synonyms: artificial satellite, orbiter |
| (noun) any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star | - |
| (noun) a person who follows or serves another | Synonyms: planet |
| (verb) broadcast or disseminate via satellite | - |
| schoolfellow | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolmate |
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| scoundrelly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: blackguardly, rascally, roguish |
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| seashell | (noun) the shell of a marine organism | - |
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| sell | (noun) the activity of persuading someone to buy | - |
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| (verb) persuade somebody to accept something | - |
| (verb) exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent | - |
| (verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: deal, trade |
| (verb) give up for a price or reward | - |
| (verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: betray |
| (verb) be sold at a certain price or in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be responsible for the sale of | - |
| (verb) be approved of or gain acceptance | - |
| sellable | (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: marketable, merchantable, vendable, vendible |
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| seller | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, trafficker, vender, vendor |
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| selling | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, merchandising |
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| selloff | (noun) a sale of a relatively large number of assets (stocks or bonds or commodities) at a low price typically done to dispose of them rather than as normal trade | - |
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| sellotape | (verb) fasten or attach with sellotape | Synonyms: scotch tape |
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| sellout | (noun) a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc. | - |
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| (noun) the selling of an entire stock of something | - |
| (noun) an event for which all tickets are sold | - |
| (noun) someone who has sold out | - |
| sequella | (noun) a secondary consequence | - |
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| sewellel | (noun) bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent | Synonyms: Aplodontia rufa, mountain beaver |
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| shell | (noun) the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod | - |
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| (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, cuticle, shield |
| (noun) ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun | - |
| (noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: plate, scale |
| (noun) the housing or outer covering of something | Synonyms: case, casing |
| (noun) a very light narrow racing boat | Synonyms: racing shell |
| (noun) a rigid covering that envelops an object | - |
| (noun) the exterior covering of a bird's egg | Synonyms: eggshell |
| (noun) the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts | - |
| (noun) the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals | - |
| (verb) remove from its shell or outer covering | - |
| (verb) remove the husks from | Synonyms: husk |
| (verb) use explosives on | Synonyms: blast |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) hit the pitches of hard and regularly | - |
| (verb) look for and collect shells by the seashore | - |
| (verb) fall out of the pod or husk | - |
| (verb) create by using explosives | Synonyms: blast |