| piscatorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatory |
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| polynomial | (adjective) having the character of a polynomial | Synonyms: multinomial |
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| (noun) a mathematical function that is the sum of a number of terms | Synonyms: multinomial |
| postglacial | (adjective) relating to or occurring during the time following a glacial period | - |
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| postindustrial | (adjective) of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research | - |
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| postmillennial | (adjective) of or relating to the period following the millennium | - |
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| postnuptial | (adjective) relating to events after a marriage | - |
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| postprandial | (adjective) following a meal (especially dinner) | - |
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| potential | (adjective) existing in possibility | Synonyms: possible |
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| (adjective) expected to become or be; in prospect | Synonyms: likely |
| (noun) the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts | Synonyms: electric potential, potential difference, potential drop, voltage |
| (noun) the inherent capacity for coming into being | Synonyms: potency, potentiality |
| potentiality | (noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capability, capableness |
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| (noun) the inherent capacity for coming into being | Synonyms: potency, potential |
| potentially | (adverb) with a possibility of becoming actual | - |
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| praetorial | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorian, pretorial, pretorian |
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| prandial | (adjective) of or relating to a meal | - |
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| precedential | (adjective) having precedence (especially because of longer service) | - |
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| precocial | (adjective) (of hatchlings) covered with down and having eyes open; capable of leaving the nest within a few days | - |
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| precordial | (adjective) in front of the heart; involving the precordium | - |
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| prefatorial | (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: introductory, prefatory |
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| preferential | (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: discriminatory |
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| preferentially | (adverb) in a preferential manner | - |
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| prejudicial | (adjective) tending to favor preconceived ideas | Synonyms: prejudicious |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, detrimental, prejudicious |
| prenuptial | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: antenuptial, premarital |
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| preprandial | (adjective) preceding a meal (especially dinner) | - |
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| presidential | (adjective) befitting a president | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a president or presidency | - |
| presidentially | (adverb) in a presidential manner | - |
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| pretorial | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorian |
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| pretrial | (noun) (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases | Synonyms: pretrial conference |
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| primordial | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primaeval, primal, primeval |
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| primordiality | (noun) The quality of being first, earliest or original. | - |
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| professorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of professors | - |
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| professorially | (adverb) in a professorial manner | - |
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| prosociality | (noun) The quality of being beneficial to all parties and consistent with community laws and mores. | - |
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| proverbial | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb | - |
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| (adjective) widely known and spoken of | - |
| proverbially | (adverb) in the manner of something that has become a byword | - |
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| providential | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of providence | - |
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| (adjective) peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention | Synonyms: heaven-sent, miraculous |
| (adjective) resulting from divine providence | Synonyms: divine |
| providentially | (adverb) in a providential manner; as determined by providence | - |
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| (adverb) in a fortunately providential manner | - |
| (adverb) in a prudent manner | Synonyms: prudently |
| provincial | (adjective) characteristic of the provinces or their people | - |
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| (adjective) of or associated with a province | - |
| (noun) a country person | Synonyms: bucolic, peasant |
| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order | - |
| provincialism | (noun) a partiality for some particular place | Synonyms: localism, sectionalism |
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| (noun) a lack of sophistication | - |
| provincially | (adverb) by the province; through the province | - |
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| prudential | (adjective) arising from or characterized by prudence especially in business matters | - |
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| purgatorial | (adjective) of or resembling purgatory | - |
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| (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purging, purifying |
| quatercentennial | (noun) the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quatercentenary |
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| quincentennial | (adjective) of or relating to a 500th anniversary | Synonyms: quincentenary |
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| (noun) the 500th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quincentenary |
| quintessential | (adjective) representing the perfect example of a class or quality | - |
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| racial | (adjective) of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups | - |
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| (adjective) of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people | - |
| racialism | (noun) discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race | Synonyms: racial discrimination, racism |
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| racialist | (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief that one racial group is superior to others | Synonyms: racist |
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| racially | (adverb) with respect to race | - |
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| radial | (adjective) relating to or moving along or having the direction of a radius | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or near the radius | - |
| (adjective) issuing in rays from a common center; relating to rays of light | - |
| (adjective) arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center | Synonyms: radiate, stellate |
| (noun) pneumatic tire that has radial-ply casing | Synonyms: radial-ply tire, radial tire |
| radially | (adverb) in a radial manner | - |
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| raptorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of birds of prey | - |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
| reburial | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburying |
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| referential | (adjective) referring or pointing to something | - |
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| remedial | (adjective) tending or intended to rectify or improve | - |
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| (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, curative, healing, sanative, therapeutic |
| residential | (adjective) used or designed for residence or limited to residences | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or connected with residence | - |
| residentially | (adverb) used as a residence | - |
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| retrial | (noun) a new trial in which issues already litigated and to which the court has already rendered a verdict or decision are reexamined by the same court; occurs when the initial trial is found to have been improper or unfair due to procedural errors | - |
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| reverential | (adjective) feeling or manifesting veneration | Synonyms: respectful, venerating |
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| reverentially | (adverb) with reverence; in a reverent manner | Synonyms: reverently |
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| rial | (noun) the basic unit of money in Yemen; equal to 100 fils | Synonyms: Yemeni rial |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Iran | Synonyms: Iranian rial |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Oman | Synonyms: Omani rial, riyal-omani |
| rickettsial | (adjective) relating to or caused by rickettsias | - |
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| rickettsialpox | (noun) mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox | - |
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| sacrificial | (adjective) used in or connected with a sacrifice | - |
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| sapiential | (adjective) characterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God | - |
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| sartorial | (adjective) of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the sartorius muscle | - |
| secretarial | (adjective) of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work | - |
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| sectorial | (adjective) relating to or resembling a sector | - |
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| semestrial | (adjective) occurring every six months or during every period of six months | Synonyms: semestral |
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| semicentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentenary |
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| (noun) the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: semicentenary |
| semiofficial | (adjective) having some official authority or sanction | - |
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| semiterrestrial | (adjective) chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial | - |
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| senatorial | (adjective) of or relating to senators | - |
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| sensorial | (adjective) involving or derived from the senses | Synonyms: sensory |
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| sentential | (adjective) of or relating to a sentence | - |
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| sequential | (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: consecutive, sequent, serial, successive |
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| sequentially | (adverb) in a sequential manner | Synonyms: consecutive |
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| serial | (adjective) pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or composed in serial technique | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations | Synonyms: in series, nonparallel |
| (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: consecutive, sequent, sequential, successive |
| (noun) a serialized set of programs | Synonyms: series |
| (noun) a periodical that appears at scheduled times | Synonyms: serial publication, series |
| serialisation | (noun) publication in serial form | Synonyms: serialization |
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| serialise | (verb) arrange serially | Synonyms: serialize |
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| serialism | (noun) 20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition | Synonyms: serial music |
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| serialization | (noun) publication in serial form | Synonyms: serialisation |
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| serialize | (verb) arrange serially | Synonyms: serialise |
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| serially | (adverb) in a serial manner | - |
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| sesquicentennial | (noun) the 150th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| sial | (noun) the granitelike rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and aluminum | - |
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| sialadenitis | (noun) inflammation of the salivary glands | - |
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| sialolith | (noun) a stone formed in the salivary gland | Synonyms: salivary calculus |
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| social | (adjective) living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups | - |
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| (adjective) relating to human society and its members | Synonyms: societal |
| (adjective) relating to or belonging to or characteristic of high society | - |
| (adjective) marked by friendly companionship with others | - |
| (adjective) tending to move or live together in groups or colonies of the same kind | - |
| (adjective) composed of sociable people or formed for the purpose of sociability | - |
| (noun) a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity | Synonyms: mixer, sociable |
| socialisation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, enculturation, socialization |
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| (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialising, socialization, socializing |
| (noun) the action of establishing on a socialist basis | Synonyms: socialization |
| socialise | (verb) make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies | Synonyms: socialize |
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| (verb) prepare for social life | Synonyms: socialize |
| (verb) train for a social environment | Synonyms: socialize |
| (verb) take part in social activities; interact with others | Synonyms: socialize |
| socialised | (adjective) under group or government control | Synonyms: socialized |
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| socialiser | (noun) a person who takes part in social activities | Synonyms: socializer |
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| socialising | (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialization, socializing |
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| socialism | (noun) a political theory advocating state ownership of industry | - |
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| (noun) an economic system based on state ownership of capital | Synonyms: socialist economy |
| socialist | (adjective) advocating or following the socialist principles | Synonyms: socialistic |
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| (noun) a political advocate of socialism | - |
| socialistic | (adjective) advocating or following the socialist principles | Synonyms: socialist |
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| socialite | (noun) a socially prominent person | - |
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| sociality | (noun) the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups | - |
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| socialization | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, enculturation, socialisation |
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| (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialising, socializing |
| (noun) the action of establishing on a socialist basis | Synonyms: socialisation |
| socialize | (verb) make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies | Synonyms: socialise |
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| (verb) prepare for social life | Synonyms: socialise |
| (verb) train for a social environment | Synonyms: socialise |
| (verb) take part in social activities; interact with others | Synonyms: socialise |
| socialized | (adjective) under group or government control | Synonyms: socialised |
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| socializer | (noun) a person who takes part in social activities | Synonyms: socialiser |
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