| juvenescence | (noun) the process of growing into a youth | - |
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| lenience | (noun) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers | Synonyms: leniency |
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| (noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: leniency, lenity, mildness |
| (noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: indulgence, leniency |
| leukoencephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the white matter of the brain | - |
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| licence | (noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: license, permit |
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| (noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: license |
| (noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: license |
| (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, license |
| licenced | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licensed |
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| luminescence | (noun) light from nonthermal sources | Synonyms: glow |
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| (noun) light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures | - |
| macrencephalic | (adjective) having a large brain case | Synonyms: macrencephalous |
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| macrencephalous | (adjective) having a large brain case | Synonyms: macrencephalic |
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| macrencephaly | (noun) an abnormally large braincase | - |
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| magnificence | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, splendor, splendour |
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| (noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, impressiveness, richness |
| magniloquence | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, ornateness, rhetoric |
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| maleficence | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, mischief |
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| (noun) doing or causing evil | - |
| malevolence | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolency, malice |
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| (noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malignity |
| meningoencephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis |
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| mesencephalon | (noun) the middle portion of the brain | Synonyms: midbrain |
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| metencephalon | (noun) the part of the hindbrain that develops into the pons and the cerebellum | - |
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| multivalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalency, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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| munificence | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness |
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| myelencephalon | (noun) the posterior part of the hindbrain in developing vertebrates; forms the medulla oblongata in adults | - |
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| nascence | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascency, nativity |
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| neencephalon | (noun) the part of the brain having the most recent phylogenetic origin; the cerebral cortex and related parts | Synonyms: neoencephalon |
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| negligence | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, nonperformance |
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| (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, neglectfulness |
| neoencephalon | (noun) the part of the brain having the most recent phylogenetic origin; the cerebral cortex and related parts | Synonyms: neencephalon |
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| nescience | (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: ignorantness, unknowing, unknowingness |
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| neuroscience | (noun) the scientific study of the nervous system | - |
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| ninepence | (noun) a coin worth nine pennies | - |
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| nonequivalence | (noun) not interchangeable | - |
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| nonexistence | (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonentity |
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| nonindulgence | (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: asceticism, austerity |
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| noninterference | (noun) a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes | Synonyms: nonintervention |
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| nonoccurrence | (noun) absence by virtue of not occurring | - |
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| nonviolence | (noun) peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate | Synonyms: nonviolent resistance, passive resistance |
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| obedience | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obeisance |
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| (noun) behavior intended to please your parents | Synonyms: respect |
| (noun) the trait of being willing to obey | - |
| obsolescence | (noun) the process of becoming obsolete; falling into disuse or becoming out of date | - |
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| occurrence | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: happening, natural event, occurrent |
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| (noun) an instance of something occurring | - |
| offence | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offense, offensive |
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| (noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offense |
| (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offense, offensive activity |
| (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offense, umbrage |
| (noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offense |
| offenceless | (adjective) incapable of offending or attacking | Synonyms: offenseless |
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| omnipotence | (noun) the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power | - |
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| omnipresence | (noun) the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) | Synonyms: ubiquitousness, ubiquity |
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| omniscience | (noun) the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge | - |
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| opalescence | (noun) the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface | Synonyms: iridescence |
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| opulence | (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | Synonyms: luxuriousness, luxury, sumptuousness |
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| overconfidence | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, cocksureness |
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| overindulgence | (noun) excessive indulgence | Synonyms: excess |
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| palaeencephalon | (noun) the more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically; most structures other than the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: paleencephalon, paleoencephalon |
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| paleencephalon | (noun) the more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically; most structures other than the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: palaeencephalon, paleoencephalon |
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| paleoencephalon | (noun) the more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically; most structures other than the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: palaeencephalon, paleencephalon |
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| panencephalitis | (noun) diffuse inflammation of the entire brain | - |
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| patience | (noun) a card game played by one person | Synonyms: solitaire |
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| (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: forbearance, longanimity |
| penitence | (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penance, repentance |
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| permanence | (noun) the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | Synonyms: permanency |
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| persistence | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, perseveration |
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| (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
| (noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: continuity |
| pertinence | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: applicability, pertinency |
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| pestilence | (noun) a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of | Synonyms: canker |
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| (noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, plague |
| (noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestis, plague |
| phosphorescence | (noun) a fluorescence that persists after the bombarding radiation has ceased | - |
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| pneumoencephalogram | (noun) an X ray of the brain made by replacing spinal fluid with a gas (usually oxygen) to improve contrast | Synonyms: encephalogram |
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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 |
| potence | (noun) the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse | Synonyms: potency |
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| precedence | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedency, precession |
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| (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedency, priority |
| (noun) status established in order of importance or urgency | Synonyms: precedency, priority |
| preeminence | (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: distinction, eminence, note |
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| preexistence | (noun) existing in a former state or previous to something else | - |
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| preference | (noun) grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties) | - |
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| (noun) the right or chance to choose | Synonyms: druthers |
| (noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: orientation, predilection |
| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, predilection, taste |
| prescience | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prevision |
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| presence | (noun) the act of being present | - |
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| (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, comportment, mien |
| (noun) the impression that something is present | - |
| (noun) the immediate proximity of someone or something | Synonyms: front |
| (noun) an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby | - |
| (noun) the state of being present; current existence | - |
| pretence | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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| (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretense, pretension |
| (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretense, pretext |
| (noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretense |
| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretense |
| 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 | - |
| prominence | (noun) relative importance or fame | - |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| (noun) the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent | - |
| prosencephalon | (noun) the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube | Synonyms: forebrain |
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| prospicience | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prevision |
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| provenience | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance |
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| providence | (noun) the guardianship and control exercised by a deity | - |
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| (noun) the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources | - |
| (noun) a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures | - |
| prudence | (noun) discretion in practical affairs | - |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: circumspection, discreetness, discretion |
| prurience | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, pruriency |
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| pseudoscience | (noun) an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions | - |
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| pubescence | (noun) the time of life when sex glands become functional | Synonyms: puberty |
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| purulence | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus) | Synonyms: purulency |
| putrescence | (noun) the quality of rotting and becoming putrid | Synonyms: rottenness |
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| (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putridness, rottenness |
| quiescence | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescency, sleeping |
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| (noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescency |
| quintessence | (noun) the purest and most concentrated essence of something | - |
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| (noun) the most typical example or representative of a type | - |
| (noun) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies | Synonyms: ether |
| recommence | (verb) begin again | - |
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| (verb) cause to start anew | - |
| recommencement | (noun) beginning again | Synonyms: resumption |
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| recrudescence | (noun) a return of something after a period of abatement | - |
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| recurrence | (noun) happening again (especially at regular intervals) | Synonyms: return |
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| redolence | (noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: bouquet, fragrance, fragrancy, sweetness |
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| reference | (noun) the act of referring or consulting | Synonyms: consultation |
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| (noun) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | Synonyms: denotation, extension |
| (noun) the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to | - |
| (noun) a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability | Synonyms: character, character reference |
| (noun) a remark that calls attention to something or someone | Synonyms: mention |
| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation |
| (noun) a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts | Synonyms: book of facts, reference book, reference work |
| (noun) an indicator that orients you generally | Synonyms: point of reference, reference point |
| (noun) a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to | Synonyms: source |
| (noun) (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored | Synonyms: address, computer address |
| (verb) refer to | Synonyms: cite |
| referenced | (adjective) supported with written references or citations | - |
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| refulgence | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgency, shine |
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| rejuvenescence | (noun) A renewal of youthful characteristics or vitality. | - |
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| reminiscence | (noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) | Synonyms: recall, recollection |
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| (noun) a mental impression retained and recalled from the past | - |
| renascence | (noun) a second or new birth | Synonyms: rebirth, reincarnation |
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| residence | (noun) the act of dwelling in a place | Synonyms: abidance, residency |
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| (noun) the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president) | - |
| (noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: hall, manse, mansion, mansion house |
| (noun) any address at which you dwell more than temporarily | Synonyms: abode |
| resilience | (noun) the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit | Synonyms: resiliency |
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| (noun) an occurrence of rebounding or springing back | Synonyms: resiliency |
| resplendence | (noun) brilliant radiant beauty | Synonyms: glory, resplendency |
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| resurgence | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification |
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| reticence | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | Synonyms: reserve, taciturnity |
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| reverence | (noun) an act showing respect (especially a bow or curtsy) | - |
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| (noun) a reverent mental attitude | - |
| (noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, fear, veneration |
| (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, revere, venerate |
| rhinencephalon | (noun) a center in the cerebral hemispheres that governs the sense of smell in lower animals; in humans it seems to mediate complex emotional behavior | Synonyms: olfactory brain |
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| rhombencephalon | (noun) the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem | Synonyms: hindbrain |
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| salience | (noun) the state of being salient | Synonyms: saliency, strikingness |
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| sapience | (noun) ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight | Synonyms: wisdom |
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