| necking | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| (noun) the molding at the top of a column | Synonyms: gorgerin |
| nonskid | (adjective) designed to reduce or prevent skidding | - |
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| nonspeaking | (adjective) not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines | Synonyms: walk-on |
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| nookie | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup |
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| oilskin | (noun) a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof | Synonyms: slicker |
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| onionskin | (noun) a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies | Synonyms: flimsy |
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| outskirt | (noun) a part of the city far removed from the center | Synonyms: fringe |
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| outskirts | (noun) outlying areas (as of a city or town) | - |
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| overkill | (noun) any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal | - |
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| (noun) the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required | - |
| overlooking | (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: commanding, dominating |
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| overskirt | (noun) an outer skirt worn over another skirt | - |
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| overtaking | (noun) going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | Synonyms: passing |
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| overworking | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overwork |
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| packing | (noun) the enclosure of something in a package or box | Synonyms: boxing |
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| (noun) carrying something in a pack on the back | Synonyms: backpacking |
| (noun) any material used especially to protect something | Synonyms: packing material, wadding |
| packinghouse | (noun) a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products | Synonyms: packing plant |
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| (noun) a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed | - |
| paczki | (noun) A traditional Polish doughnut. | - |
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| painkiller | (noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne, pain pill |
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| painstaking | (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: conscientious, scrupulous |
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| painstakingly | (adverb) in a fastidious and painstaking manner | Synonyms: fastidiously |
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| painstakingness | (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: conscientiousness |
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| pannikin | (noun) a small pan or cup (usually of tin) | - |
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| papermaking | (noun) the craft of making paper | - |
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| parking | (noun) the act of maneuvering a vehicle into a location where it can be left temporarily | - |
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| (noun) space in which vehicles can be parked | - |
| patrikin | (noun) one related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib, patrisib |
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| peckish | (adjective) somewhat hungry | - |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| perkily | (adverb) in a perky manner | - |
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| perkiness | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, impertinence, pertness, sauciness |
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| (noun) cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface | Synonyms: buoyancy |
| pharmacokinetics | (noun) the study of the action of drugs in the body: method and rate of excretion, duration of effect, etc. | - |
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| picking | (noun) the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.) | - |
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| (noun) the quantity of a crop that is harvested | Synonyms: pick |
| pickings | (noun) the act of someone who picks up or takes something | Synonyms: taking |
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| pigskin | (noun) leather from the skin of swine | - |
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| pigsticking | (noun) the sport of hunting wild boar with spears | - |
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| pinkie | (noun) the finger farthest from the thumb | Synonyms: little finger, pinky |
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| pinkify | (verb) make pink | - |
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| pinkish | (adjective) of a light shade of red | Synonyms: pink |
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| piroshki | (noun) small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried | Synonyms: pirogi, pirozhki |
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| pirozhki | (noun) small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried | Synonyms: pirogi, piroshki |
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| placekicker | (noun) (football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal | Synonyms: place-kicker |
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| planking | (noun) the work of covering an area with planks | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship) | - |
| (noun) planks collectively; a quantity of planks | - |
| pluckily | (adverb) in a plucky manner | - |
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| pluckiness | (noun) the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury | Synonyms: gutsiness, pluck |
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| poikilotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: ectotherm |
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| poikilothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermous |
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| poikilothermous | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermic |
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| poking | (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, thrust, thrusting |
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| prankish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, puckish, wicked |
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| prankishness | (noun) the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks | Synonyms: rascality, roguishness |
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| pricking | (noun) the act of puncturing with a small point | Synonyms: prick |
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| printmaking | (noun) artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens | - |
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| provoking | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, agitative |
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| provokingly | (adverb) in a provocative manner | Synonyms: provocatively |
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| psychokinesis | (noun) the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force | Synonyms: telekinesis |
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| psychokinetic | (adjective) moving an object without apparent use of physical means | - |
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| puckish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, wicked |
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| puckishly | (adverb) in an appealing but bold manner | Synonyms: impishly |
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| puckishness | (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: impishness, mischievousness, whimsicality |
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| puking | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting |
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| pumpkin | (noun) usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn | - |
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| (noun) a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes | Synonyms: autumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo, pumpkin vine |
| pumpkinseed | (noun) small brilliantly colored North American sunfish | Synonyms: Lepomis gibbosus |
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| punkie | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punky |
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| quickie | (noun) hurried repair | Synonyms: band aid, quick fix, quicky |
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| quirkiness | (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirk |
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| racking | (adjective) causing great physical or mental suffering | Synonyms: wrenching |
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| rainmaking | (noun) activity intended to produce rain | - |
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| rakish | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| (adjective) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness | Synonyms: devil-may-care, raffish |
| rakishly | (adverb) in a rakish manner | Synonyms: carelessly, raffishly |
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| rakishness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, nattiness |
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| (noun) the quality of a rake | - |
| ramekin | (noun) a small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions | Synonyms: ramequin |
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| (noun) a cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes | Synonyms: ramequin |
| ranking | (adjective) having a higher rank | Synonyms: higher-ranking, superior |
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| (noun) position on a scale in relation to others in status or rank or achievement | - |
| ransacking | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: rummage |
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| rebukingly | (adverb) in the manner of someone delivering a rebuke | - |
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| reeking | (adjective) giving off a strong unpleasant smell | - |
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| (adjective) wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears | Synonyms: watery |
| rekindle | (verb) arouse again | - |
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| (verb) kindle anew, as of a fire | - |
| remaking | (noun) creation that is created again or anew | Synonyms: remake |
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| retaking | (noun) the act of taking something back | Synonyms: recapture |
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| riskily | (adverb) in a dangerously risky manner | - |
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| riskiness | (noun) a state of danger involving risk | Synonyms: peril |
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| roadkill | (noun) the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle | - |
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| rockiness | (noun) the quality of abounding in rocks and stones | - |
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| rollicking | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, sportive |
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| rollickingly | (adverb) in a carefree manner | Synonyms: boisterously |
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| rookie | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, greenhorn |
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| sacking | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack |
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| (noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks | Synonyms: bagging |
| saki | (noun) small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail | - |
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| (noun) Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot | Synonyms: rice beer, sake |
| samarskite | (noun) a complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites | - |
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| screakily | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakily, creakingly |
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| sealskin | (noun) a garment (as a jacket or coat or robe) made of sealskin | - |
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| (noun) the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal | Synonyms: seal |
| seeking | (noun) the act of searching for something | Synonyms: quest |
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| (noun) an attempt to acquire or gain something | - |
| semiskilled | (adjective) possessing or requiring limited skills | - |
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| shakily | (adverb) in a manner characterized by trembling or shaking | - |
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| (adverb) in an insecurely shaky manner | - |
| shakiness | (noun) the quality of being unstable and insecure | - |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shaking, trembling, vibration |
| shaking | (noun) the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements | - |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, trembling, vibration |
| sharkskin | (noun) a smooth crisp fabric | - |
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| sheepskin | (noun) a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study | Synonyms: diploma |
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| (noun) tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing | Synonyms: fleece |
| (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: lambskin, parchment |
| shirking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, slacking, soldiering |
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| shocking | (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful |
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| (adjective) glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism | Synonyms: lurid |
| shockingly | (adverb) to a shocking degree | - |
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| (adverb) so as to shock the feelings | - |
| (adverb) very badly | - |
| shoemaking | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: cobbling, shoe repairing |
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| shrieking | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
| shrinking | (noun) the act of becoming less | - |
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| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinkage |