| mendacious | (adjective) intentionally untrue | - |
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| (adjective) given to lying | - |
| mendaciously | (adverb) in a mendacious and untruthful manner | Synonyms: untruthfully |
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| mendacity | (noun) the tendency to be untruthful | - |
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| mendelevium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol) | Synonyms: atomic number 101, Md, Mv |
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| mender | (noun) a skilled worker who mends or repairs things | Synonyms: fixer, repairer |
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| mendicancy | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, begging |
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| (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicity |
| mendicant | (adjective) practicing beggary | - |
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| (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: beggar |
| (noun) a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms | Synonyms: friar |
| mendicity | (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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| mending | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, repair, reparation |
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| (noun) garments that must be repaired | - |
| minuend | (noun) the number from which the subtrahend is subtracted | - |
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| misapprehend | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| misspend | (verb) spend (money or other resources) unwisely | - |
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| (verb) spend time badly or unwisely | - |
| moneylender | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, shylock, usurer |
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| neuroendocrine | (adjective) of or relating to the nervous and endocrine systems (especially as they function together) | - |
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| newsvendor | (noun) someone who sells newspapers | Synonyms: newsagent, newsdealer, newsstand operator |
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| nonattendance | (noun) the failure to attend | - |
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| nonattender | (noun) someone who shirks duty | Synonyms: no-show, truant |
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| offend | (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, spite, wound |
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| (verb) cause to feel resentment or indignation | Synonyms: pique |
| (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, transgress, violate |
| offended | (adjective) emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed | Synonyms: injured, pained |
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| offender | (noun) a person who transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: wrongdoer |
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| offending | (adjective) offending against or breaking a law or rule | - |
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| oligodendria | (noun) tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers | Synonyms: oligodendroglia |
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| oligodendrocyte | (noun) a cell of the oligodendroglia | - |
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| oligodendroglia | (noun) tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers | Synonyms: oligodendria |
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| overextend | (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overstrain |
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| overspend | (verb) spend at a high rate | - |
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| (verb) spend more than available of (a budget) | - |
| palaeodendrology | (noun) the branch of paleobotany that studies fossil trees | Synonyms: paleodendrology |
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| paleodendrology | (noun) the branch of paleobotany that studies fossil trees | Synonyms: palaeodendrology |
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| pendant | (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: dependent, pendent |
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| (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: chandelier, pendent |
| (noun) an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) | Synonyms: pendent |
| pendent | (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: dependent, pendant |
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| (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: chandelier, pendant |
| (noun) an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) | Synonyms: pendant |
| pending | (adjective) awaiting conclusion or confirmation | - |
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| pendragon | (noun) the supreme war chief of the ancient Britons | - |
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| pendulous | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, nodding, weeping |
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| pendulum | (noun) an apparatus consisting of an object mounted so that it swings freely under the influence of gravity | - |
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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 |
| philodendron | (noun) often grown as a houseplant | - |
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| pitchblende | (noun) a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore | Synonyms: uraninite |
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| portend | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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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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| prehend | (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: clutch, seize, take hold, take hold of |
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| pretend | (adjective) imagined as in a play | Synonyms: make-believe |
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| (noun) the enactment of a pretense | Synonyms: make-believe |
| (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, sham |
| (verb) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | Synonyms: make, make believe |
| (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, venture |
| (verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: profess |
| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, dissemble |
| (verb) put forward a claim and assert right or possession of | - |
| pretended | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, put on, sham |
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| pretender | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony |
| pretending | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense, simulation |
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| provender | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provisions, viands, victuals |
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| (noun) food for domestic livestock | Synonyms: feed |
| pudendal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the pudendum | - |
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| pudendum | (noun) human external genital organs collectively especially of a female | - |
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| recommend | (verb) make attractive or acceptable | - |
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| (verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: commend |
| (verb) push for something | Synonyms: advocate, urge |
| recommendation | (noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission | Synonyms: passport |
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| (noun) something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable | - |
| (noun) something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable | Synonyms: good word, testimonial |
| referendum | (noun) a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate | - |
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| rend | (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rip, rive |
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| render | (noun) a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls | - |
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| (verb) cause to become | - |
| (verb) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities | Synonyms: try |
| (verb) bestow | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, return |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: interpret, translate |
| (verb) coat with plastic or cement | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, return, yield |
| (verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: interpret |
| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, show |
| (verb) give back | Synonyms: return |
| (verb) make over as a return | Synonyms: submit |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, provide, supply |
| (verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: deliver, fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, turn in |
| rendering | (noun) giving in acknowledgment of obligation | - |
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| (noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: interpretation, rendition |
| (noun) perspective drawing of an architect's design | - |
| (noun) a coat of stucco applied to a masonry wall | - |
| (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, interpreting, rendition |
| (noun) a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc. | Synonyms: rendition |
| (noun) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | Synonyms: interlingual rendition, translation, version |
| rendezvous | (noun) a meeting planned at a certain time and place | - |
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| (noun) a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex | Synonyms: tryst |
| (noun) a place where people meet | - |
| (verb) meet at a rendezvous | - |
| rending | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: ripping, splitting |
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| rendition | (noun) handing over prisoners to the country in which a crime was committed | - |
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| (noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: interpretation, rendering |
| (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, interpreting, rendering |
| (noun) a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc. | Synonyms: rendering |
| reprehend | (verb) to rebuke or reprimand | - |
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| resplend | (verb) be resplendent or radiant; to shine brightly | - |
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| resplendence | (noun) brilliant radiant beauty | Synonyms: glory, resplendency |
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| resplendency | (noun) brilliant radiant beauty | Synonyms: glory, resplendence |
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| resplendent | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, splendid, splendiferous |
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| resplendently | (adverb) in an impressively beautiful manner | Synonyms: gorgeously, magnificently, splendidly |
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| resuspend | (verb) put back into suspension | - |
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| reverend | (adjective) worthy of adoration or reverence | Synonyms: sublime |
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| (noun) a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church | Synonyms: clergyman, man of the cloth |
| rhododendron | (noun) any shrub of the genus Rhododendron: evergreen shrubs or small shrubby trees having leathery leaves and showy clusters of campanulate (bell-shaped) flowers | - |
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| scend | (verb) rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave | Synonyms: surge |
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| schoolfriend | (noun) a friend who attends the same school | - |
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| scolopendrium | (noun) a fern thought to resemble a millipede | - |
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| send | (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: mail, post |
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| (verb) transfer | Synonyms: get off, send off |
| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, broadcast, transmit |
| (verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: place, post, station |
| (verb) to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: send out |
| (verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: ship, transport |
| (verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: direct |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, institutionalize |
| sendee | (noun) the intended recipient of a message | - |
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| sender | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: transmitter |
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| (noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: transmitter |
| sending | (noun) the act of causing something to go (especially messages) | - |
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| sendup | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| serendipitous | (adjective) lucky in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries | - |
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| serendipity | (noun) good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries | - |
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| slender | (adjective) very narrow | Synonyms: thin |
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| (adjective) small in quantity | Synonyms: slim |
| (adjective) having little width in proportion to the length or height | - |
| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slight, slim, svelte |
| slenderise | (verb) make slender or appear to be slender | Synonyms: slenderize |
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| slenderize | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, reduce, slim, slim down, thin |
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| (verb) make slender or appear to be slender | Synonyms: slenderise |
| slenderly | (adverb) in a slim or slender manner | Synonyms: slightly, slimly |
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| (adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner | Synonyms: meagerly, meagrely, sparingly |
| slenderness | (noun) the quality of being slight or inadequate | - |
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| (noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slightness, slimness |
| (noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: tenuity, thinness |
| spend | (verb) pay out | Synonyms: drop, expend |
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| (verb) spend completely | - |
| (verb) use up a period of time in a specific way | Synonyms: pass |
| spendable | (adjective) (used of funds) remaining after taxes | Synonyms: expendable |
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| spender | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: disburser, expender |
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| (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: scattergood, spend-all, spendthrift |
| spending | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | Synonyms: disbursal, disbursement, outlay |
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| (noun) money paid out; an amount spent | Synonyms: expenditure, outgo, outlay |
| spendthrift | (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, profligate |
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| (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: scattergood, spend-all, spender |
| splendid | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, resplendent, splendiferous |
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| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, glorious, magnificent |
| (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, mean, ripping |
| splendidly | (adverb) wonderfully | Synonyms: excellently, famously, magnificently |
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| (adverb) in an impressively beautiful manner | Synonyms: gorgeously, magnificently, resplendently |
| splendiferous | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, resplendent, splendid |
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| splendor | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: brilliancy, luster, lustre, splendour |
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| (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendour |
| splendour | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: brilliancy, luster, lustre, splendor |
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| (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendor |
| stipend | (noun) a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose | - |
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| stipendiary | (adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance | - |
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| (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, remunerative, salaried |
| (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: compensated, remunerated, salaried |
| (noun) (United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases | Synonyms: stipendiary magistrate |
| stupendous | (adjective) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe | Synonyms: colossal, prodigious |
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| stupendously | (adverb) to a stupendous degree | - |
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| subtend | (verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: delimit |
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| subtrahend | (noun) the number to be subtracted from the minuend | - |
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| superintend | (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: manage, oversee, supervise |
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