| perestroika | (noun) an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy | - |
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| pest | (noun) any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc. | - |
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| (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: blighter, cuss, gadfly, pesterer |
| (noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pestilence, 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: pestilence, pestis, plague |
| pester | (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, tease |
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| pestered | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harassed, harried, vexed |
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| pesterer | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: blighter, cuss, gadfly, pest |
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| pestering | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| pesthole | (noun) a breeding ground for epidemic disease | - |
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| pesthouse | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, lazaretto |
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| pesticide | (noun) a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects) | - |
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| pestiferous | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestilent, pestilential, plaguey |
| (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, perversive |
| (adjective) contaminated with infecting organisms | Synonyms: dirty |
| 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 |
| pestilent | (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilential, plaguey |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pernicious |
| pestilential | (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, plaguey |
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| pestis | (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, pestilence, plague |
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| pestle | (noun) a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar | - |
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| (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: muller, pounder |
| (noun) machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores | Synonyms: stamp |
| (verb) grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar | - |
| pesto | (noun) a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil | - |
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| pikestaff | (noun) the staff of a pike | - |
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| polestar | (noun) the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it | Synonyms: North Star, polar star, Polaris, pole star |
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| polyester | (noun) any of a large class of synthetic fabrics | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous synthetic resins; they are light and strong and weather resistant | - |
| (noun) a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics or as a plasticizer | - |
| polyestrous | (adjective) having more than one period of estrus per year | Synonyms: polyoestrous |
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| polyoestrous | (adjective) having more than one period of estrus per year | Synonyms: polyestrous |
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| predestinarian | (adjective) of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination | - |
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| (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist |
| predestinarianism | (noun) the belief or doctrine of predestinarians | - |
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| predestinate | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: foreordained, predestined |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
| predestination | (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: foreordination, predetermination, preordination |
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| (noun) previous determination as if by destiny or fate | - |
| predestinationist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinarian |
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| predestine | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, preordain |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestinate |
| (verb) decree or determine beforehand | - |
| predestined | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: foreordained, predestinate |
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| predigest | (verb) digest (food) beforehand | - |
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| predigested | (adjective) artificially partially digested as by enzymatic action | - |
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| prestidigitation | (noun) manual dexterity in the execution of tricks | Synonyms: sleight of hand |
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| prestidigitator | (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, magician |
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| prestige | (noun) a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc. | Synonyms: prestigiousness |
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| prestigious | (adjective) exerting influence by reason of high status or prestige | - |
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| (adjective) having an illustrious reputation; respected | Synonyms: esteemed, honored, honoured |
| prestigiousness | (noun) a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc. | Synonyms: prestige |
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| prestissimo | (adjective) (of tempo) as fast as possible | - |
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| (adverb) extremely fast; as fast as possible | - |
| presto | (adjective) (of tempo) very fast | - |
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| (adverb) suddenly | - |
| (adverb) at a very fast tempo (faster than allegro) | - |
| priest | (noun) a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders | - |
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| (noun) a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion | Synonyms: non-Christian priest |
| priestcraft | (noun) the skills involved in the work of a priest | - |
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| (noun) a derogatory reference to priests who use their influence to control secular or political affairs | - |
| priestess | (noun) a woman priest | - |
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| priesthood | (noun) the body of ordained religious practitioners | - |
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| priestlike | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood | Synonyms: priestly |
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| priestly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood | Synonyms: priestlike |
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| (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal |
| progestational | (adjective) preceding and favoring gestation; of or relating to physiological changes associated with ovulation and formation of the corpus luteum | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to progesterone (or to a drug with effects like those of progesterone) | - |
| progesterone | (noun) a steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy | Synonyms: Lipo-Lutin |
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| progestin | (noun) any of a group of steroid hormones that have the effect of progesterone | Synonyms: progestogen |
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| progestogen | (noun) any of a group of steroid hormones that have the effect of progesterone | Synonyms: progestin |
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| protest | (noun) the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent | Synonyms: dissent, objection |
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| (noun) a formal and solemn declaration of objection | Synonyms: protestation |
| (noun) the act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and disapproval | - |
| (verb) utter words of protest | - |
| (verb) affirm or avow formally or solemnly | - |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, resist |
| protestant | (adjective) protesting | - |
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| protestation | (noun) a strong declaration of protest | - |
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| (noun) a formal and solemn declaration of objection | Synonyms: protest |
| protester | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: demonstrator |
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| (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, dissident, objector |
| quaestor | (noun) any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration) | - |
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| quest | (noun) the act of searching for something | Synonyms: seeking |
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| (noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuance, pursuit |
| (verb) seek alms, as for religious purposes | - |
| (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, bespeak, call for, request |
| (verb) bark with prolonged noises, of dogs | Synonyms: bay |
| (verb) search the trail of (game) | - |
| (verb) make a search (for) | - |
| quester | (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: searcher, seeker |
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| question | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness |
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| (noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry, interrogation, query |
| (noun) the subject matter at issue | Synonyms: head |
| (noun) a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote | Synonyms: motion |
| (noun) a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogative, interrogative sentence |
| (noun) an informal reference to a marriage proposal | - |
| (verb) pose a question | Synonyms: query |
| (verb) challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of | Synonyms: call into question, oppugn |
| (verb) place in doubt or express doubtful speculation | Synonyms: wonder |
| (verb) pose a series of questions to | Synonyms: interrogate |
| (verb) conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting | Synonyms: interview |
| questionable | (adjective) subject to question | - |
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| (adjective) able to be refuted | Synonyms: confutable, confutative, refutable |
| questionably | (adverb) in a questionable and dubious manner | Synonyms: dubiously |
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| questioner | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier |
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| questioning | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, speculative, wondering |
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| (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: doubting, sceptical, skeptical |
| (adjective) perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) | Synonyms: quizzical |
| (noun) a request for information | Synonyms: inquiring |
| questioningly | (adverb) in a curious and questioning manner | Synonyms: wonderingly |
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| (adverb) in a quizzical and questioning manner | Synonyms: quizzically |
| questionnaire | (noun) a form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information | - |
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| quickest | (adverb) most quickly | Synonyms: fastest |
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| rainforest | (noun) a forest with heavy annual rainfall | Synonyms: rain forest |
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| reestablish | (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reinstate, restore |
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| reforest | (verb) forest anew | - |
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| reforestation | (noun) the restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting | Synonyms: re-afforestation |
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| regest | (noun) (archaic, obsolete) A register. | - |
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| reinvestment | (noun) a second or subsequent investment in the same thing. | - |
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| request | (noun) the verbal act of requesting | Synonyms: asking |
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| (noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: petition, postulation |
| (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, bespeak, call for, quest |
| (verb) ask (a person) to do something | - |
| (verb) inquire for (information) | - |
| requested | (adjective) asked for | - |
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| requester | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, suppliant, supplicant |
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| rest | (noun) freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) | Synonyms: ease, relaxation, repose |
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| (noun) a support on which things can be put | - |
| (noun) a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration | - |
| (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, remainder, residual, residue, residuum |
| (noun) a state of inaction | - |
| (noun) euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) | Synonyms: eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, sleep |
| (noun) a pause for relaxation | Synonyms: relief, respite, rest period |
| (verb) be at rest | - |
| (verb) stay the same; remain in a certain state | Synonyms: remain, stay |
| (verb) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax | Synonyms: breathe, catch one's breath, take a breather |
| (verb) give a rest to | - |
| (verb) not move; be in a resting position | - |
| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: perch, roost |
| (verb) rest on or as if on a pillow | Synonyms: pillow |
| (verb) put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying | - |
| (verb) be inactive, refrain from acting | - |
| (verb) have a place in relation to something else | Synonyms: lie |
| (verb) be inherent or innate in | Synonyms: repose, reside |
| restart | (verb) take up or begin anew | Synonyms: re-start, resume |
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| (verb) start an engine again, for example | Synonyms: re-start |
| restate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, retell |
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| restatement | (noun) a revised statement | - |
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| restaurant | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eatery, eating house, eating place |
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| restauranter | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restaurateur |
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| restaurateur | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restauranter |
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| rested | (adjective) not tired; refreshed as by sleeping or relaxing | - |
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| rester | (noun) a person who rests | - |
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| restful | (adjective) affording physical or mental rest | Synonyms: relaxing, reposeful |
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| restfully | (adverb) in a restful manner | Synonyms: quietly |
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| restfulness | (noun) the attribute of being restful | - |
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| restharrow | (noun) European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners | Synonyms: Ononis repens, rest-harrow |
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| (noun) Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots | Synonyms: Ononis spinosa, rest-harrow |
| restitute | (verb) restore to a previous or better condition | Synonyms: renovate |
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| (verb) give or bring back | Synonyms: restore |
| restitution | (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: regaining, restoration, return |
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| (noun) the act of restoring something to its original state | - |
| (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnification, indemnity, redress |
| restive | (adjective) impatient especially under restriction or delay | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, uptight |
| restively | (adverb) in a restive manner | - |
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| restiveness | (noun) characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright | Synonyms: skittishness |
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| (noun) The characteristic of being resistant of control, stubborn. | - |
| (noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jitteriness, jumpiness, nervousness |
| restless | (adjective) lacking or not affording physical or mental rest | Synonyms: uneasy |
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| (adjective) worried and uneasy | Synonyms: ungratified, unsatisfied |
| (adjective) ceaselessly in motion | - |
| (adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: antsy, fidgety, fretful, itchy |
| restlessly | (adverb) in a restless manner | - |
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| restlessness | (noun) inability to rest or relax or be still | Synonyms: queasiness, uneasiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active | - |
| (noun) a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion | Synonyms: fidget, fidgetiness |
| (noun) a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay | Synonyms: impatience |
| restock | (verb) stock again | - |
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| restoration | (noun) the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state | - |
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| (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: regaining, restitution, return |
| (noun) some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed | - |
| (noun) a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc. | - |
| (noun) the state of being restored to its former good condition | Synonyms: refurbishment, renovation |
| restorative | (adjective) promoting recuperation | Synonyms: recuperative |
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| (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, revitalising, revitalizing, reviving |
| (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: corrective |
| (noun) a medicine that strengthens and invigorates | Synonyms: tonic |
| restore | (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: regenerate, rejuvenate |
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| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, touch on |
| (verb) give or bring back | Synonyms: restitute |
| (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reestablish, reinstate |
| (verb) return to its original or usable and functioning condition | Synonyms: reconstruct |
| restorer | (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: preserver, refinisher, renovator |
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| restrain | (verb) prevent the action or expression of | Synonyms: hold back, keep, keep back |
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| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, constrain, hold |
| (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: cumber, encumber |
| (verb) prevent (someone or something) from doing something | - |
| restrained | (adjective) under restraint | - |
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| (adjective) prudent | Synonyms: guarded |
| (adjective) marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes | Synonyms: moderate |
| (adjective) cool and formal in manner | Synonyms: reticent, unemotional |
| (adjective) not showy or obtrusive | Synonyms: quiet |
| restrainer | (noun) a person who directs and restrains | Synonyms: controller |
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| (noun) a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film | - |