| perirhinal | (adjective) near the nose | Synonyms: perinasal |
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| phosphine | (noun) a colorless gas with a strong fishy smell; used as a pesticide | - |
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| pitching | (noun) (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team | - |
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| (noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: lurch, pitch |
| pithiness | (noun) terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words | Synonyms: conciseness, concision, succinctness |
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| platyrhine | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| platyrhinian | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| platyrrhine | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| (noun) hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: New World monkey, platyrrhinian |
| platyrrhinian | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinic |
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| (noun) hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: New World monkey, platyrrhine |
| platyrrhinic | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian |
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| plaything | (noun) an artifact designed to be played with | Synonyms: toy |
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| ploughing | (noun) tilling the land with a plow | Synonyms: plowing |
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| poaching | (noun) cooking in simmering liquid | - |
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| polishing | (noun) the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | Synonyms: shining |
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| praiseworthiness | (noun) the quality of being worthy of praise | Synonyms: laudability, laudableness |
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| praisworthiness | (noun) the property of deserving praise | - |
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| preaching | (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: discourse, sermon |
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| (noun) a moralistic rebuke | Synonyms: sermon |
| publishing | (noun) the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution | Synonyms: publication |
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| punishing | (adjective) resulting in punishment | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, toilsome |
| punishingly | (adverb) in a punishing manner | - |
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| pushiness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: bumptiousness, cockiness, forwardness |
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| pushing | (noun) the act of applying force in order to move something away | Synonyms: push |
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| quenching | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, extinguishing |
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| ranching | (noun) farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle) | - |
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| ravishing | (adjective) stunningly beautiful | - |
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| ravishingly | (adverb) in a ravishing manner or to a ravishing degree | - |
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| reaching | (noun) accomplishment of an objective | Synonyms: arrival |
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| (noun) the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | Synonyms: reach, stretch |
| refreshing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: bracing, brisk, fresh, refreshful, tonic |
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| (adjective) pleasantly new or different | Synonyms: novel |
| refreshingly | (adverb) in a pleasantly novel manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner that relieves fatigue and restores vitality | Synonyms: refreshfully |
| relinquishing | (noun) the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc. | Synonyms: relinquishment |
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| (noun) a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc. | Synonyms: relinquishment |
| relishing | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, savoring, savouring, tasting |
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| republishing | (noun) the act of publishing again | Synonyms: republication |
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| rethink | (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: afterthought, reconsideration, second thought |
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| (verb) change one's mind | - |
| rhinal | (adjective) of or in or relating to the nose | Synonyms: nasal |
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| 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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| rhinestone | (noun) an imitation diamond made from rock crystal or glass or paste | - |
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| rhinion | (noun) the anterior tip at the end of the suture of the nasal bones | - |
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| rhinitis | (noun) an inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nose (usually associated with nasal discharge) | Synonyms: coryza |
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| rhino | (noun) massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout | Synonyms: rhinoceros |
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| rhinoceros | (noun) massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout | Synonyms: rhino |
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| rhinolaryngologist | (noun) a specialist in the disorders of the ear or nose or throat | Synonyms: ear-nose-and-throat doctor, ENT man, otolaryngologist, otorhinolaryngologist |
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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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| rhinopathy | (noun) any disease or malformation of the nose | - |
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| rhinophyma | (noun) enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin; often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: brandy nose, copper nose, hammer nose, hypertrophic rosacea, potato nose, rum-blossom, rum nose, toper's nose |
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| rhinoplasty | (noun) cosmetic surgery to improve the appearance of your nose | Synonyms: nose job |
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| rhinorrhea | (noun) persistent watery mucus discharge from the nose (as in the common cold) | - |
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| rhinoscope | (noun) medical instrument consisting of a mirror mounted at an angle on a rod; used to examine the nasal passages (through the nasopharynx) | - |
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| rhinoscopy | (noun) examination of the nasal passages (either through the anterior nares or with a rhinoscope through the nasopharynx) | - |
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| rhinosporidiosis | (noun) fungal infection of the nose; often acquired while swimming | - |
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| rhinostenosis | (noun) narrowing of the passages in the nasal cavities | - |
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| rhinotomy | (noun) surgical procedure in which an incision is made in the nose to drain accumulated pus | - |
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| rhinotracheitis | (noun) a respiratory infection of the nose and throat in cattle | - |
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| rhinovirus | (noun) any of a group of picornaviruses that are responsible for many upper respiratory infections | - |
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| roadworthiness | (noun) (of motor vehicles) the quality of being fit to drive on the open road | - |
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| rushing | (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rush |
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| (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rush |
| scathing | (adjective) marked by harshly abusive criticism | Synonyms: vituperative |
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| scathingly | (adverb) in a scathing and unsparing manner | Synonyms: unsparingly |
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| scorching | (adjective) hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface | - |
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| (adverb) capable of causing burns | - |
| scorchingness | (noun) The quality of being scorching; extreme heat. | - |
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| scratchiness | (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: abrasiveness, harshness |
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| scratching | (noun) a harsh noise made by scraping | Synonyms: scrape, scraping, scratch |
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| screeching | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, shriek, shrieking |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, shriek, shrieking |
| searching | (adjective) exploring thoroughly | - |
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| (adjective) diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | Synonyms: inquisitory, probing |
| (adjective) having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect | Synonyms: trenchant |
| searchingly | (adverb) in a searching manner | - |
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| seaworthiness | (noun) fitness to traverse the seas | - |
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| seething | (adjective) in constant agitation | - |
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| sheathing | (noun) protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior | Synonyms: overlay, overlayer |
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| shin | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin bone, shinbone, tibia |
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| (noun) the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle | - |
| (noun) the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
| (noun) a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg | Synonyms: shin bone |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
| shinbone | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin, shin bone, tibia |
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| shindig | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindy |
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| shindy | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindig |
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| shine | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency |
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| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, smooth, smoothen |
| (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, glitter |
| (verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: fall, strike |
| (verb) be distinguished or eminent | - |
| (verb) be clear and obvious | - |
| (verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: beam |
| (verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: reflect |
| (verb) throw or flash the light of (a lamp) | - |
| shiner | (noun) any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis | - |
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| (noun) important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales | Synonyms: common mackerel, Scomber scombrus |
| (noun) something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) | - |
| (noun) a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye | Synonyms: black eye, mouse |
| shingle | (noun) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. | - |
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| (noun) building material used as siding or roofing | Synonyms: shake |
| (noun) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) | - |
| (verb) cover with shingles | - |
| shingler | (noun) a worker who shingles roofs | - |
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| shingles | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, zoster |
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| shingling | (noun) the laying on of shingles | - |
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| (noun) (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction | - |
| shingly | (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: gravelly, pebbly |
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| shininess | (noun) the visual property of something that shines with reflected light | Synonyms: luster, lustre, sheen |
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| shining | (adjective) marked by exceptional merit | - |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shiny |
| (noun) the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | Synonyms: polishing |
| shinleaf | (noun) North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters | Synonyms: Pyrola elliptica, wild lily of the valley |
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| shinney | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinny |
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| shinny | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinney |
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| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, skin, sputter, struggle |
| shinpad | (noun) a stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins | Synonyms: shin guard |
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| shinplaster | (noun) paper money of little value issued on insufficient security | - |
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| shiny | (adjective) having a shiny surface or coating | Synonyms: glazed |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining |
| shoeshine | (noun) the act of shining shoes | - |
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| (noun) a shiny finish put on shoes with polish and buffing | - |
| sketchiness | (noun) incompleteness of details | - |
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| slashing | (adjective) as if striking with slashing blows | - |
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| sleuthing | (noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detecting, detection, detective work |
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| slouchingly | (adverb) with a slouching gait or posture | - |
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| sloughing | (noun) the process whereby something is shed | Synonyms: shedding |
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| smashing | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, swell |
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| (noun) the act of breaking something into small pieces | Synonyms: shattering |
| smashingly | (adverb) with a loud crash | Synonyms: smash |
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| smooching | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, snuggling |
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| somatotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans | Synonyms: growth hormone, human growth hormone, somatotrophic hormone, somatotropic hormone, somatotropin, STH |
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| soothing | (adjective) affording physical relief | - |
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| (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: assuasive |
| soothingly | (adverb) in a soothing manner | - |
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| soughing | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: murmurous, rustling, susurrous |
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| soughingly | (adverb) with a soft sound | - |
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| sphincter | (noun) a ring of muscle that contracts to close an opening | Synonyms: anatomical sphincter, sphincter muscle |
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