photoemissive | (adjective) of or relating to photoemission | - |
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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 |
pipsissewa | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Chimaphila | Synonyms: prince's pine |
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piss | (noun) informal terms for urination | Synonyms: pee, peeing, pissing |
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(noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: pee, piddle, urine, water, weewee |
(verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
pissed | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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(adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
pisser | (noun) a very disagreeable difficulty | - |
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(noun) a person who urinates | Synonyms: urinator |
pissing | (noun) informal terms for urination | Synonyms: pee, peeing, piss |
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premiss | (noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | Synonyms: assumption, premise |
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(verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premise |
prestissimo | (adjective) (of tempo) as fast as possible | - |
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(adverb) extremely fast; as fast as possible | - |
pretermission | (noun) letting pass without notice | - |
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prissily | (adverb) in a prissy manner | Synonyms: primly |
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prissy | (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish |
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(adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
promissory | (adjective) relating to or having the character of a promise | - |
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puissance | (noun) power to influence or coerce | - |
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puissant | (adjective) powerful or influential | - |
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readmission | (noun) the act of admitting someone again | - |
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recission | (noun) (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made | Synonyms: rescission |
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reconnaissance | (noun) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) | Synonyms: reconnaissance mission |
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reissue | (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reprint, reprinting |
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(verb) print anew | Synonyms: reprint |
(verb) issue (a new version of) | - |
remiss | (adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: delinquent, derelict, neglectful |
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remission | (noun) the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance | Synonyms: absolution, remission of sin, remittal |
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(noun) (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) | Synonyms: remit, remitment |
(noun) an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease) | Synonyms: remittal, subsidence |
(noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remitment, remittal, remittance |
remissness | (noun) the quality of being lax and neglectful | Synonyms: laxity, laxness, slackness |
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rescission | (noun) (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made | Synonyms: recission |
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rissole | (noun) minced cooked meat or fish coated in egg and breadcrumbs and fried in deep fat | - |
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rotisserie | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats | - |
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(noun) an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns | - |
scission | (noun) the act of dividing by cutting or splitting | - |
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scissor | (verb) cut with or as if with scissors | - |
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scissors | (noun) a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze | Synonyms: scissor grip, scissor hold, scissors grip, scissors hold |
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(noun) a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move | - |
(noun) an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades | Synonyms: pair of scissors |
scissortail | (noun) grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings | Synonyms: Muscivora-forficata, scissortailed flycatcher |
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scissure | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, fissure |
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siss | (verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: hiss, sibilate, sizz |
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(verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: hiss, sibilate, sizz |
sissification | (noun) Sexual act where a male is forced to act effeminately and dress like a woman | - |
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sissified | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissy, sissyish |
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sissiness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
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sissoo | (noun) East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties | Synonyms: Dalbergia sissoo, sisham, sissu |
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sissu | (noun) East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties | Synonyms: Dalbergia sissoo, sisham, sissoo |
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sissy | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissyish |
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(noun) a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive | Synonyms: milksop, Milquetoast, pansy, pantywaist |
sissyish | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy |
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submission | (noun) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | Synonyms: compliance |
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(noun) something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition) | Synonyms: entry |
(noun) an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter | - |
(noun) a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter | - |
(noun) (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing | - |
(noun) the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness | Synonyms: meekness |
(noun) the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else | - |
submissive | (adjective) inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination | - |
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(adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: slavish, subservient |
submissively | (adverb) in a servile manner | Synonyms: deferentially |
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submissiveness | (noun) the trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force etc. | - |
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tissue | (noun) part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function | - |
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(noun) a soft thin (usually translucent) paper | Synonyms: tissue paper |
(verb) create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton | Synonyms: weave |
transmissible | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmittable |
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(adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted |
(adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial |
transmission | (noun) the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted | Synonyms: transmittal, transmitting |
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(noun) the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle | Synonyms: transmission system |
(noun) communication by means of transmitted signals | - |
(noun) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted | Synonyms: contagion, infection |
(noun) the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance | Synonyms: transmittance |
undissolved | (adjective) retaining a solid form | - |
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unpermissive | (adjective) not inclined to grant permission; severe in discipline | - |
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unpermissiveness | (noun) a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits | Synonyms: restrictiveness |
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unsubmissive | (adjective) not servile or submissive | Synonyms: unservile |
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vibrissa | (noun) a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat | Synonyms: sensory hair, whisker |
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vicissitude | (noun) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another) | - |
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(noun) a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something | - |