| megatherian | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian mammal, megatheriid |
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| mephistophelian | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean |
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| meridian | (adjective) of or happening at noon | - |
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| (adjective) being at the best stage of development | Synonyms: prime |
| (noun) an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator | Synonyms: line of longitude |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| mesalliance | (noun) a marriage with a person of inferior social status | - |
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| messianic | (adjective) of or relating to a messiah promising deliverance | - |
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| metatherian | (noun) primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas | - |
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| microradian | (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to one thousandth of a milliradian | - |
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| microsporidian | (noun) parasite of arthropods and fishes that invade and destroy host cells | - |
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| millenarian | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: chiliastic |
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| (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarist |
| millenarianism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarism, millenniumism |
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| millennian | (adjective) relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years | Synonyms: millennial |
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| milliradian | (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to one thousandth of a radian | - |
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| misalliance | (noun) an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) | - |
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| mongolianism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolism, trisomy 21 |
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| mortician | (noun) one whose business is the management of funerals | Synonyms: funeral director, funeral undertaker, undertaker |
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| musician | (noun) artist who composes or conducts music as a profession | - |
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| (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: instrumentalist, player |
| musicianship | (noun) artistry in performing music | - |
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| myxosporidian | (noun) mostly parasitic in fishes and including various serious pathogens | - |
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| naiant | (adjective) applied to a fish depicted horizontally | Synonyms: swimming |
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| napoleoniana | (noun) items related to the life of Napoleon (engravings, paintings, books, etc.). | - |
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| necessitarian | (noun) someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will | - |
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| negotiant | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiator, treater |
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| nonagenarian | (adjective) being from 90 to 99 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone whose age is in the nineties | - |
| nonchristian | (adjective) not believing in Christ | Synonyms: christless |
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| noncompliance | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: disobedience |
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| noncompliant | (adjective) boldly resisting authority or an opposing force | Synonyms: defiant |
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| (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: balker, baulker |
| nonsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: unsectarian |
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| obsidian | (noun) acid or granitic glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava without crystallization; usually dark, but transparent in thin pieces | - |
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| obstetrician | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: accoucheur |
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| octogenarian | (adjective) being from 80 to 89 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone whose age is in the eighties | - |
| officiant | (noun) a clergyman who officiates at a religious ceremony or service | - |
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| olympian | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, prodigious, surpassing |
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| (adjective) majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters | Synonyms: majestic |
| ophidian | (noun) limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous | Synonyms: serpent, snake |
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| optician | (noun) a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision | Synonyms: lens maker |
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| ornithischian | (noun) herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird | Synonyms: ornithischian dinosaur |
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| ovarian | (adjective) of or involving the ovaries | - |
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| overvaliant | (adjective) having or showing undue valor or boldness | - |
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| paediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, pediatrician, pediatrist |
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| parliamentarian | (noun) an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures | - |
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| patrician | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle |
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| (adjective) befitting a person of noble origin | - |
| (noun) a member of the aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocrat, blue blood |
| (noun) a person of refined upbringing and manners | - |
| pedestrian | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, prosaic, prosy |
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| (noun) a person who travels by foot | Synonyms: footer, walker |
| pediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrist |
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| perianal | (adjective) around the anus | - |
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| perianth | (noun) collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils | Synonyms: chlamys, floral envelope, perigone, perigonium |
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| peridinian | (noun) flagellate with a thick test composed of plates | - |
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| phasianid | (noun) a kind of game bird in the family Phasianidae | - |
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| phonetician | (noun) a specialist in phonetics | - |
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| photometrician | (noun) someone who practices photometry | Synonyms: photometrist |
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| physician | (noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doc, doctor, Dr., MD, medico |
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| pianism | (noun) performance by or technique of a pianist | - |
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| pianissimo | (adjective) (chiefly a direction or description in music) very soft | - |
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| (noun) (music) low loudness | Synonyms: piano |
| (adverb) a direction in music; to be played very softly | Synonyms: very softly |
| pianist | (noun) a person who plays the piano | Synonyms: piano player |
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| pianistic | (adjective) skilled at or adapted for the piano | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the piano | - |
| piano | (adjective) (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone | Synonyms: soft |
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| (noun) a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds | Synonyms: forte-piano, pianoforte |
| (noun) (music) low loudness | Synonyms: pianissimo |
| (adverb) used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly | Synonyms: softly |
| pianoforte | (noun) a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds | Synonyms: forte-piano, piano |
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| planarian | (noun) free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | Synonyms: planaria |
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| platitudinarian | (noun) a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes | - |
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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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| 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 |
| plebeian | (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: common, unwashed, vulgar |
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| (noun) one of the common people | Synonyms: pleb |
| plebeianism | (noun) The quality or state of being of or pertaining to the common people; of being vulgar, common. | - |
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| pliancy | (noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliability, pliantness, suppleness |
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| (noun) the property of being pliant and flexible | Synonyms: pliantness, suppleness |
| pliant | (adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions | Synonyms: elastic, flexible, pliable |
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| (adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | Synonyms: bendable, pliable, waxy |
| (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: ductile, malleable, pliable, tensile, tractile |
| (adjective) capable of being influenced or formed | Synonyms: plastic |
| pliantness | (noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliability, pliancy, suppleness |
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| (noun) the property of being pliant and flexible | Synonyms: pliancy, suppleness |
| poinciana | (noun) a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: bird of paradise, Caesalpinia gilliesii, Poinciana gilliesii |
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| politician | (noun) a person active in party politics | Synonyms: pol, political leader, politico |
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| (noun) a leader engaged in civil administration | - |
| (noun) a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways | - |
| pollotarianism | (noun) the practice of following a diet that includes chicken or other poultry, but not meat from mammals. | - |
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| postdiluvian | (adjective) existing or occurring after Noah's flood | - |
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| (noun) anything living after Noah's flood | - |
| postmeridian | (adjective) after midday | - |
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| practician | (noun) someone who practices a learned profession | Synonyms: practitioner |
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| praetorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, pretorial, pretorian |
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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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| prelapsarian | (adjective) of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve | - |
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| pretorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorial |
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| proboscidian | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidean |
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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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| prosimian | (noun) primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits | - |
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| prototherian | (noun) primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea | - |
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| quotidian | (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: everyday, mundane, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
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| radian | (noun) the unit of plane angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to the angle at the center of a circle subtended by an arc equal in length to the radius (approximately 57.295 degrees) | Synonyms: rad |
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| radiance | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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| (noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface | Synonyms: glow, glowing |
| (noun) an attractive combination of good health and happiness | - |
| radiancy | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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| radiant | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, effulgent, refulgent |
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| radiantly | (adverb) in a radiant manner | - |
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| radiolarian | (noun) protozoa with amoeba-like bodies and radiating filamentous pseudopods | - |
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| reliance | (noun) certainty based on past experience | Synonyms: trust |
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| (noun) the state of relying on something | - |
| reliant | (adjective) relying on another for support | - |
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| renunciant | (adjective) used especially of behavior | Synonyms: renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying |
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| reptilian | (adjective) of or relating to the class Reptilia | - |
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| (noun) any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms | Synonyms: reptile |
| rhetorician | (noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration | Synonyms: orator, public speaker, speechifier, speechmaker |
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| riant | (adjective) showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness | Synonyms: laughing |
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| riparian | (adjective) of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream | - |
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| ruffian | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| ruffianism | (noun) violent lawless behavior | - |
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| ruffianly | (adjective) violent and lawless | Synonyms: tough |
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| sabianism | (noun) the religion of a group mentioned in the Koran as entitled to Muslim religious toleration along with Jews and Christians and usually identified with the Mandaeans or the Elkesaites. | - |
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| salientian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, batrachian |
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| (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, batrachian, frog, toad, toad frog |
| salutatorian | (noun) a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises | Synonyms: salutatory speaker |
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