politely | (adverb) in a polite manner | Synonyms: courteously |
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politeness | (noun) the act of showing regard for others | Synonyms: civility |
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(noun) a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage | Synonyms: niceness |
politesse | (noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: chivalry, gallantry |
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pollucite | (noun) a rare mineral that is an important source of cesium | - |
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popliteal | (adjective) of or relating to the area behind the knee joint | - |
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preliterate | (adjective) not yet having acquired the ability to read and write | - |
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(adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: nonliterate |
prerequisite | (adjective) required as a prior condition or course of study | - |
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(noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: requirement |
preterite | (noun) a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense | Synonyms: preterit |
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profiteer | (noun) someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply) | - |
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(verb) make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods | - |
profiterole | (noun) a small hollow pastry that is typically filled with cream and covered with chocolate | - |
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prohibited | (adjective) forbidden by law | Synonyms: banned |
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(adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten |
pseudohermaphrodite | (adjective) having internal reproductive organs of one sex and external sexual characteristics of the other sex | Synonyms: pseudohermaphroditic |
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(noun) someone having external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth | - |
pyrite | (noun) a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color | Synonyms: fool's gold, iron pyrite |
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pyrites | (noun) any of various metallic-looking sulfides (of which pyrite is the commonest) | - |
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pyrolusite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese dioxide; an important source of manganese | - |
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pyromorphite | (noun) a mineral consisting of lead chloride and phosphate; a minor source of lead | Synonyms: green lead ore |
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pyrophyllite | (noun) a white or greenish aluminum silicate mineral (resembles talc) | - |
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pyrrhotite | (noun) a brownish iron sulfide mineral (FeS) having weak magnetic properties | Synonyms: magnetic pyrites, pyrrhotine |
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quadripartite | (adjective) involving four parties | Synonyms: four-party |
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quartzite | (noun) hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals | - |
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quite | (adverb) to the greatest extent; completely | - |
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(adverb) to a degree (not used with a negative) | Synonyms: rather |
(adverb) of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative) | Synonyms: quite a, quite an |
(adverb) actually or truly or to an extreme | - |
rabbiteye | (noun) shrub of southeastern United States grown commercially especially for canning industry | Synonyms: rabbit-eye blueberry, rabbiteye blueberry, Vaccinium ashei |
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ratite | (noun) flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, rheas, kiwis, elephant birds | Synonyms: flightless bird, ratite bird |
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recite | (verb) repeat aloud from memory | - |
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(verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: narrate, recount, tell |
(verb) recite in elocution | Synonyms: declaim |
(verb) specify individually | Synonyms: enumerate, itemise, itemize |
(verb) render verbally | Synonyms: retell |
reciter | (noun) someone who recites from memory | - |
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recondite | (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: abstruse, deep |
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reconditeness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity |
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(noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity |
reconnoiter | (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoitre, scout |
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reconnoitering | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitring, scouting |
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recruiter | (noun) an official who enlists personnel for military service | - |
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(noun) someone who supplies members or employees | - |
reignite | (verb) ignite anew, as of something burning | - |
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reiterate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, repeat, restate, retell |
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reiteration | (noun) the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: reduplication |
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reiterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: iterative |
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rensselaerite | (noun) a kind of soft talc; sometimes used as wood filler | - |
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requisite | (adjective) necessary for relief or supply | Synonyms: needed, needful, required |
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(noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessity, requirement |
requisiteness | (noun) the state of being absolutely required | - |
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requite | (verb) make repayment for or return something | Synonyms: repay |
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respite | (noun) a pause from doing something (as work) | Synonyms: break, recess, time out |
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(noun) the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment | Synonyms: reprieve |
(noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, reprieve, suspension |
(noun) a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort | Synonyms: reprieve |
(noun) a pause for relaxation | Synonyms: relief, rest, rest period |
(verb) postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution | Synonyms: reprieve |
reunite | (verb) have a reunion; unite again | - |
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(verb) unify again, as of a country | Synonyms: reunify |
rewrite | (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: rescript, revision |
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(verb) write differently; alter the writing of | - |
(verb) rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose | - |
rewriter | (noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication | Synonyms: redact, redactor, reviser, rewrite man |
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rhodochrosite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese carbonate; a source of manganese | - |
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rhodolite | (noun) a red or pink variety of garnet used as a gemstone | - |
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rhodonite | (noun) a pink or red mineral consisting of crystalline manganese silicate; used as an ornamental stone | - |
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rhyolite | (noun) very acid volcanic rock | - |
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rite | (noun) any customary observance or practice | Synonyms: ritual |
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(noun) an established ceremony prescribed by a religion | Synonyms: religious rite |
ritenuto | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rallentando, rit., ritardando |
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samarskite | (noun) a complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites | - |
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samite | (noun) a heavy silk fabric (often woven with silver or gold threads); used to make clothing in the Middle Ages | - |
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saprolite | (noun) a deposit of clay and disintegrating rock that is found in its original place | - |
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satellite | (adjective) surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power | - |
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(noun) man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon | Synonyms: artificial satellite, orbiter |
(noun) any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star | - |
(noun) a person who follows or serves another | Synonyms: planet |
(verb) broadcast or disseminate via satellite | - |
scheelite | (noun) a mineral used as an ore of tungsten | - |
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sclerite | (noun) hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods | - |
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screenwriter | (noun) someone who writes screenplays | Synonyms: film writer |
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scriptwriter | (noun) someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas | - |
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selenite | (noun) a compound that contains a SeO32− anion. | - |
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semiliterate | (adjective) literate but poorly informed | - |
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(adjective) barely able to read and write | - |
(adjective) able to read but not to write | - |
semiparasite | (noun) a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis | Synonyms: hemiparasite |
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semiterrestrial | (adjective) chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial | - |
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sempiternal | (adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: dateless, endless |
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sempiternity | (noun) the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) | Synonyms: perpetuity |
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sepiolite | (noun) a white clayey mineral | Synonyms: meerschaum |
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shite | (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, dirt, poop, shit, turd |
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siderite | (noun) a meteorite consisting principally of nickel and iron | - |
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(noun) iron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate | Synonyms: chalybite |
site | (noun) a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web | Synonyms: internet site, web site, website |
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(noun) the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located) | Synonyms: land site |
(noun) physical position in relation to the surroundings | Synonyms: situation |
(verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: locate, place |
smaltite | (noun) a grey mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel; an important source of cobalt and nickel | - |
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smite | (verb) cause physical pain or suffering in | Synonyms: afflict |
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(verb) inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon | - |
(verb) affect suddenly with deep feeling | - |
smithsonite | (noun) a mineral ore of zinc. | Synonyms: zinc spar |
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snakebite | (noun) a bite inflicted by a (venomous) snake | - |
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socialite | (noun) a socially prominent person | - |
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sodalite | (noun) a vitreous mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate and sodium chloride in crystalline form; occurs in igneous rocks | - |
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sodomite | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: bugger, sod, sodomist |
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somite | (noun) one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally | Synonyms: metamere |
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songwriter | (noun) a composer of words or music for popular songs | Synonyms: ballad maker, songster |
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speechwriter | (noun) a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver | - |
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sphalerite | (noun) an ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form | Synonyms: blende, zinc blende |
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spirited | (adjective) displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness | - |
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(adjective) made lively or spirited | Synonyms: enlivened |
(adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spunky |
(adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncing, bouncy, peppy, zippy |
spiritedly | (adverb) in a spirited or lively manner; with animation and vivacity | - |
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spiritedness | (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: animation, brio, invigoration, vivification |
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spite | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spitefulness |
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(noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: malice, maliciousness, spitefulness, venom |
(verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, offend, wound |
spiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: despiteful, vindictive |
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spitefully | (adverb) with spite; in a spiteful manner | - |
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(adverb) in a maliciously spiteful manner | Synonyms: despitefully |
spitefulness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spite |
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(noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: malice, maliciousness, spite, venom |
sporozoite | (noun) one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle | - |
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sportswriter | (noun) a journalist who writes about sports | Synonyms: sports writer |
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sprite | (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, faery, fairy, fay |
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sprites | (noun) atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves) | Synonyms: red sprites |
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stalactite | (noun) a cylinder of calcium carbonate hanging from the roof of a limestone cave | - |
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stalagmite | (noun) a cylinder of calcium carbonate projecting upward from the floor of a limestone cave | - |
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stannite | (noun) a dark grey mineral with a metallic luster that is a source of tin | Synonyms: tin pyrites |
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steatite | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soaprock, soapstone |
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stibnite | (noun) a soft grey mineral; the chief ore of antimony | - |
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straiten | (verb) squeeze together | - |
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(verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: distress |
strontianite | (noun) a mineral consisting of strontium carbonate | - |
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stylite | (noun) an early Christian ascetic who lived on top of high pillars | - |
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subliterary | (adjective) not written as or intended to be literature | - |
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suburbanite | (noun) a resident of a suburb | - |
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suite | (noun) apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel) | Synonyms: rooms |
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(noun) a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected | - |
(noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, entourage, retinue |
(noun) a matching set of furniture | - |
suited | (adjective) outfitted or supplied with clothing | - |
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(adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: appropriate, suitable |