| petrology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies rocks: their origin and formation and mineral composition and classification | Synonyms: lithology |
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| pharmacology | (noun) the science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects | Synonyms: materia medica, pharmacological medicine |
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| phenomenology | (noun) a philosophical doctrine proposed by Edmund Husserl based on the study of human experience in which considerations of objective reality are not taken into account | - |
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| philogyny | (noun) admiration for women | - |
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| philology | (noun) the humanistic study of language and literature | Synonyms: linguistics |
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| phonology | (noun) the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes | Synonyms: phonemics |
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| phraseology | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phrasing, verbiage, wording |
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| phrenology | (noun) a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties | - |
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| phycology | (noun) the branch of botany that studies algae | Synonyms: algology |
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| physiology | (noun) processes and functions of an organism | - |
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| (noun) the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms | - |
| phytology | (noun) the branch of biology that studies plants | Synonyms: botany |
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| piggy | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, porcine, swinish |
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| (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piglet, shoat, shote |
| piggyback | (noun) the act of carrying something piggyback | - |
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| (adverb) on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip | Synonyms: pickaback, pig-a-back |
| (adverb) on a railroad flatcar | Synonyms: pickaback, pig-a-back |
| (verb) bring into alignment with | - |
| (verb) support on the back and shoulders | - |
| (verb) haul by railroad car | - |
| (verb) haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars | - |
| (verb) ride on someone's shoulders or back | - |
| podgy | (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: dumpy, pudgy, roly-poly, tubby |
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| poenology | (noun) the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation | Synonyms: penology |
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| pogy | (noun) money received from the state | Synonyms: dole, pogey |
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| polygynist | (noun) a man with two or more wives | - |
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| polygynous | (adjective) having more than one wife at a time | - |
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| polygyny | (noun) a form of polygamy in which a man has multiple wives | - |
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| pomology | (noun) the branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruits | - |
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| porgy | (noun) important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide | - |
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| (noun) lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: scup |
| posology | (noun) the pharmacological determination of appropriate doses of drugs and medicines | - |
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| primatology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies primates | - |
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| proctology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the colon or rectum or anus | - |
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| prodigy | (noun) an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality | - |
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| (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication |
| (noun) an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration | - |
| progymnosperm | (noun) an ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived | - |
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| prongy | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged |
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| protoanthropology | (noun) the study of humans prior to the invention of writing | Synonyms: protohistory |
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| protoarchaeology | (noun) the study of prehistoric human artifacts and human fossils | Synonyms: protoarcheology |
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| protoarcheology | (noun) the study of prehistoric human artifacts and human fossils | Synonyms: protoarchaeology |
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| protology | (noun) the study of origins and first things | - |
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| protozoology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies protozoans | - |
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| psephology | (noun) the branch of sociology that studies election trends (as by opinion polls) | - |
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| psychology | (noun) the science of mental life | Synonyms: psychological science |
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| psychopathology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders | Synonyms: psychiatry, psychological medicine |
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| (noun) the branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior | Synonyms: abnormal psychology |
| psychopharmacology | (noun) the study of drugs that affect the mind | - |
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| psychophysiology | (noun) the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes | Synonyms: neuropsychology, physiological psychology |
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| pteridology | (noun) the branch of botany that studies ferns | - |
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| pudgy | (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: dumpy, podgy, roly-poly, tubby |
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| quaggy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| radiobiology | (noun) the branch of biology that studies the effects of radiation on living organisms | - |
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| radiology | (noun) (radiology) examination of the inner structure of opaque objects using X rays or other penetrating radiation | Synonyms: radioscopy |
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| (noun) the branch of medical science dealing with the medical use of X-rays or other penetrating radiation | - |
| rangy | (adjective) allowing ample room for ranging | - |
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| (adjective) adapted to wandering or roaming | - |
| (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangling, gangly, lanky |
| reflexology | (noun) massage to relieve tension by finger pressure; based on the belief that there are reflex points on the feet, hands, and head that are connected to every part of the body | - |
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| (noun) the study of reflex action as it relates to the behavior of organisms | - |
| rheology | (noun) the branch of physics that studies the deformation and flow of matter | - |
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| rheumatology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of pathologies of the muscles or tendons or joints | - |
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| rhinolaryngology | (noun) the medical specialty that deals with diseases of the ear, nose and throat | Synonyms: otolaryngology, otorhinolaryngology |
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| scatology | (noun) (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes) | - |
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| (noun) a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions) | - |
| scatophagy | (noun) the eating of excrement or other filth | - |
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| scraggy | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
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| (adjective) having a sharply uneven surface or outline | Synonyms: jagged, jaggy |
| sedgy | (adjective) covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants) | - |
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| seismology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other planet-like bodies | - |
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| selenology | (noun) the branch of astronomy that deals with the moon | - |
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| semasiology | (noun) the branch of semantics that studies the cognitive aspects of meaning | Synonyms: cognitive semantics, conceptual semantics |
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| semiology | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols | Synonyms: semiotics |
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| serology | (noun) the branch of medical science that deals with serums; especially with blood serums and disease | - |
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| shaggy | (adjective) having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags | Synonyms: shagged |
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| (adjective) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed | Synonyms: bushy, shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired |
| shaggymane | (noun) common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores | Synonyms: Coprinus comatus, shaggy cap, shaggymane mushroom |
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| slangy | (adjective) constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang | - |
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| smoggy | (adjective) clouded with a mixture of smoke and fog | - |
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| smudgy | (adjective) smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination | - |
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| sociobiology | (noun) the branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history | - |
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| sociology | (noun) the study and classification of human societies | - |
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| soggy | (adjective) having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking | Synonyms: doughy |
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| (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: inert, sluggish, torpid |
| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
| soteriology | (noun) the branch of Christian theology that deals with salvation as the effect of a divine agency | - |
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| spelaeology | (noun) the pastime of exploring caves | Synonyms: speleology |
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| (noun) the scientific study of caves | Synonyms: speleology |
| speleology | (noun) the pastime of exploring caves | Synonyms: spelaeology |
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| (noun) the scientific study of caves | Synonyms: spelaeology |
| spirogyra | (noun) freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands | - |
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| spongy | (adjective) like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed | Synonyms: spongelike |
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| (adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongelike, squashy, squishy |
| springy | (adjective) (of movements) light and confidently active | - |
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| (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, resilient |
| stagy | (adjective) having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: stagey |
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| stemmatology | (noun) the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis) | Synonyms: stemmatics |
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| stingy | (adjective) unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.) | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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| (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy |
| stodgy | (adjective) excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull | Synonyms: stuffy |
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| (adjective) heavy and starchy and hard to digest | - |
| (adjective) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned | Synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud |
| stogy | (noun) a cheap cigar | Synonyms: stogie |
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| strategy | (noun) an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Synonyms: scheme |
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| (noun) the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war | - |
| stringy | (adjective) consisting of or containing string or strings | - |
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| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, thready |
| (adjective) lean and sinewy | Synonyms: wiry |
| (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, unchewable |
| stringybark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having fibrous inner bark | - |
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| swingy | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: lilting, swinging, tripping |
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| symbology | (noun) the study or the use of symbols and symbolism | - |
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| synergy | (noun) the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects | Synonyms: synergism |
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| syzygy | (noun) the straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system | - |
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| tangy | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, lemony, sourish, tart |
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| tautology | (noun) useless and pointless repetition | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a statement that is necessarily true | - |
| technology | (noun) the application of the knowledge and usage of tools (such as machines or utensils) and techniques to control one's environment | - |
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| (noun) machinery and equipment developed from engineering or other applied sciences | - |
| (noun) the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems | Synonyms: applied science, engineering, engineering science |
| teleology | (noun) (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes | - |
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| teratology | (noun) the branch of biology concerned with the development of malformations or serious deviations from the normal type of organism | - |
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| terminology | (noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | Synonyms: language, nomenclature |
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| tetralogy | (noun) a series of four related works (plays or operas or novels) | - |
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| thanatology | (noun) the branch of science that studies death (especially its social and psychological aspects) | - |
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| thaumaturgy | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, trick |
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| (noun) any art that invokes supernatural powers | Synonyms: magic |
| theatrology | (noun) the study of theatrical performance in relation to its literary, physical, psycho-biological, sociological, and historical contexts. | Synonyms: theatre studies |
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| theology | (noun) the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary) | - |
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| (noun) a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings | Synonyms: theological system |
| (noun) the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth | Synonyms: divinity |
| theurgy | (noun) white magic performed with the help of beneficent spirits (as formerly practiced by Neoplatonists) | - |
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| (noun) the effect of supernatural or divine intervention in human affairs | - |
| tocology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother | Synonyms: midwifery, OB, obstetrics |
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| topology | (noun) the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions | Synonyms: analysis situs |
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| (noun) the study of anatomy based on regions or divisions of the body and emphasizing the relations between various structures (muscles and nerves and arteries etc.) in that region | Synonyms: regional anatomy, topographic anatomy |
| (noun) topographic study of a given place (especially the history of the place as indicated by its topography) | - |
| (noun) the configuration of a communication network | Synonyms: network topology |
| toxicology | (noun) the branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons | - |
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| traumatology | (noun) the branch of medicine that deals with the surgical repair of injuries and wounds arising from accidents | Synonyms: accident surgery |
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| tribology | (noun) the branch of engineering that deals with the interaction of surfaces in relative motion (as in bearings or gears): their design and friction and wear and lubrication | - |
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| trilogy | (noun) a set of three literary or dramatic works related in subject or theme | - |
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