| petal | (noun) part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored | Synonyms: flower petal |
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| petaled | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petalled, petalous |
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| petalled | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petaled, petalous |
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| petalless | (adjective) (of flowers) having no petals | Synonyms: apetalous |
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| petallike | (adjective) resembling a petal | Synonyms: petal-like |
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| petaloid | (adjective) resembling a flower petal | - |
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| petalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petaled, petalled |
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| petard | (noun) an explosive device used to break down a gate or wall | - |
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| phenylacetamide | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: acetanilid, acetanilide |
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| pieta | (noun) a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus | - |
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| planetal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetary |
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| planetarium | (noun) an apparatus or model for representing the solar systems | - |
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| (noun) an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome | - |
| (noun) a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling | - |
| planetary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: terrestrial |
| (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, world-wide, world, worldwide |
| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, wandering |
| pocketable | (adjective) small enough to be carried in a garment pocket | Synonyms: pocket-size, pocket-sized |
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| polypetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of many separated or distinct petals | - |
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| proletarian | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat | - |
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| (noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: prole, worker |
| proletarianism | (noun) The condition or political position of a member of the working class. | - |
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| proletariat | (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, labour, working class |
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| proprietary | (adjective) protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights | - |
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| (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietorship |
| raetam | (noun) desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista | Synonyms: Genista raetam, juniper, juniper bush, Retama raetam, retem |
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| reinterpretation | (noun) a new or different interpretation | - |
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| (noun) a new or different meaning | - |
| retail | (noun) the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale | - |
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| (adverb) at a retail price | - |
| (verb) sell on the retail market | - |
| (verb) be sold at the retail level | - |
| retailer | (noun) a merchant who sells goods at retail | Synonyms: retail merchant |
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| retailing | (noun) the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers | - |
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| retain | (verb) keep in one's mind | - |
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| (verb) secure and keep for possible future use or application | Synonyms: hold, hold back, keep back |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: continue, keep, keep on |
| (verb) hold back within | - |
| retained | (adjective) continued in your keeping or use or memory | Synonyms: maintained |
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| retainer | (noun) a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment | - |
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| (noun) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | Synonyms: servant |
| (noun) a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone | Synonyms: consideration |
| retake | (noun) a shot or scene that is photographed again | - |
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| (verb) photograph again | - |
| (verb) capture again | Synonyms: recapture |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: recapture |
| retaking | (noun) the act of taking something back | Synonyms: recapture |
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| retaliate | (verb) make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil | Synonyms: strike back |
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| (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, revenge |
| retaliation | (noun) action taken in return for an injury or offense | Synonyms: revenge |
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| retaliative | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliatory, retributive, retributory, vindicatory |
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| retaliator | (noun) someone who takes vengeance | Synonyms: avenger |
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| retaliatory | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory |
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| retard | (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron |
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| (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate | - |
| (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: check, delay |
| (verb) be delayed | - |
| retardant | (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardation, retardent |
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| retardation | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: lag, slowdown |
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| (noun) a decrease in rate of change | Synonyms: deceleration, slowing |
| (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, slowness, subnormality |
| (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardant, retardent |
| (noun) the extent to which something is delayed or held back | - |
| retarded | (adjective) relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development | - |
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| (noun) people collectively who are mentally retarded | Synonyms: developmentally challenged, mentally retarded |
| retardent | (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardant, retardation |
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| schizopetalon | (noun) a dainty South American annual having deeply pinnatifid leaves and racemes of fringed almond-scented purple-white flowers | Synonyms: Schizopetalon walkeri |
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| secretaire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: escritoire, secretary, writing table |
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| secretarial | (adjective) of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work | - |
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| secretariat | (noun) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations | Synonyms: secretariate |
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| secretariate | (noun) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations | Synonyms: secretariat |
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| secretary | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: escritoire, secretaire, writing table |
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| (noun) an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization | Synonyms: secretarial assistant |
| (noun) a person who is head of an administrative department of government | - |
| (noun) a person to whom a secret is entrusted | Synonyms: repository |
| secretaryship | (noun) the position of secretary | - |
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| secretase | (noun) a set of enzymes believed to snip pieces off a longer protein producing fragments of amyloid protein that bunch up and create amyloid protein plaques in brain tissue (the pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's) | - |
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| semidetached | (adjective) attached on one side only | - |
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| seta | (noun) a stiff hair or bristle | - |
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| (noun) stalk of a moss capsule | - |
| setaceous | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| skeletal | (adjective) of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton | - |
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| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted |
| societal | (adjective) relating to human society and its members | Synonyms: social |
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| squaretail | (noun) sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters | - |
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| sulfacetamide | (noun) a topical sulfonamide (trade name Sulamyd) used to treat eye infections | Synonyms: Sulamyd |
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| superfetate | (verb) conceive when a fetus is already present in the uterus | - |
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| superfetation | (noun) fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun; results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at the same time | - |
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| sympetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel | Synonyms: gamopetalous |
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| taffeta | (noun) a crisp smooth lustrous fabric | - |
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| tattletale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale |
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| tetanic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing tetanus | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or causing tetany | - |
| tetanilla | (noun) clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis | Synonyms: apyretic tetanus, intermittent cramp, intermittent tetanus, tetany |
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| tetanus | (noun) a sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid series of nerve impulses | - |
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| (noun) an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages | Synonyms: lockjaw |
| tetany | (noun) clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis | Synonyms: apyretic tetanus, intermittent cramp, intermittent tetanus, tetanilla |
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| tetartanopia | (noun) a form of dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to yellow light; so rare that its existence has been questioned | Synonyms: yellow-blindness |
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| theta | (noun) the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| timetable | (noun) a schedule of times of arrivals and departures | - |
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| (noun) a schedule listing events and the times at which they will take place | - |
| triacetate | (noun) cellulose acetate that is relatively slow to burn; used instead of celluloid for motion-picture film | Synonyms: cellulose triacetate |
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| tripletail | (noun) large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail | - |
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| undersecretary | (noun) a secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government | - |
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| ungetatable | (adjective) difficult to reach or attain | Synonyms: un-come-at-able, un-get-at-able |
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| unmarketable | (adjective) not capable of being sold | - |
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| (adjective) not fit for sale | Synonyms: unmerchantable, unvendible |
| varietal | (noun) a wine made principally from one grape and carrying the name of that grape | Synonyms: varietal wine |
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| vegetable | (noun) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | Synonyms: veg, veggie |
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| (noun) any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower | - |
| vegetal | (adjective) composed of vegetation or plants | Synonyms: vegetational, vegetative |
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| (adjective) (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes | Synonyms: vegetative |
| vegetarian | (noun) eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products | - |
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| vegetarianism | (noun) a diet excluding all meat and fish | - |
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| vegetate | (verb) engage in passive relaxation | Synonyms: veg out |
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| (verb) propagate asexually | - |
| (verb) grow like a plant | - |
| (verb) produce vegetation | - |
| (verb) establish vegetation on | - |
| (verb) grow or spread abnormally | - |
| (verb) lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind | - |
| vegetation | (noun) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life | - |
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| (noun) an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) | - |
| (noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: botany, flora |
| (noun) the process of growth in plants | - |
| vegetational | (adjective) composed of vegetation or plants | Synonyms: vegetal, vegetative |
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| vegetative | (adjective) composed of vegetation or plants | Synonyms: vegetal, vegetational |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous | Synonyms: vegetive |
| (adjective) (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes | Synonyms: vegetal |
| (adjective) relating to involuntary bodily functions | - |
| whitetail | (noun) common North American deer; tail has a white underside | Synonyms: Odocoileus Virginianus, Virginia deer, white-tailed deer, white tail, whitetail deer |
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| wiretap | (noun) the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information | Synonyms: tap |
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| (verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: bug, intercept, tap |
| wiretapper | (noun) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire | Synonyms: phone tapper, tapper |
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| zeta | (noun) the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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