| phylloclade | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, cladophyll, phylloclad |
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| phyllode | (noun) an expanded petiole taking on the function of a leaf blade | - |
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| phyllodial | (adjective) having a phyllode | - |
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| phylloquinone | (noun) a form of vitamin K, based on 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, with a 3-phytyl substituent | Synonyms: phytonadione, vitamin K1 |
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| pillock | (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, dullard, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person |
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| pillory | (noun) a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn | - |
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| (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, crucify, savage |
| (verb) punish by putting in a pillory | - |
| (verb) expose to ridicule or public scorn | Synonyms: gibbet |
| pillow | (noun) a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person | - |
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| (verb) rest on or as if on a pillow | Synonyms: rest |
| pillowcase | (noun) bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow | Synonyms: case, pillow slip, slip |
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| pistillode | (noun) a sterile vestigial pistil remaining in a staminate flower | - |
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| playfellow | (noun) a companion at play | Synonyms: playmate |
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| pollock | (noun) important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod | Synonyms: Pollachius pollachius, pollack |
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| (noun) lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish | Synonyms: pollack |
| pollotarianism | (noun) the practice of following a diet that includes chicken or other poultry, but not meat from mammals. | - |
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| propellor | (noun) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | Synonyms: propeller |
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| pullout | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: disengagement, fallback |
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| pullover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: slipover |
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| pyrogallol | (noun) a toxic white lustrous crystalline phenol used to treat certain skin diseases and as a photographic developer | Synonyms: pyrogallic acid |
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| reallocate | (verb) allocate, distribute, or apportion anew | Synonyms: reapportion |
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| reallocation | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallotment, reapportionment |
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| (noun) a share that has been allocated again | - |
| reallot | (verb) allot again | - |
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| reallotment | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallocation, reapportionment |
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| rollover | (noun) the act of changing the institution that invests your pension plan without incurring a tax penalty | - |
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| sallow | (adjective) unhealthy looking | Synonyms: sickly |
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| (noun) any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal | - |
| (verb) cause to become sallow | - |
| sallowness | (noun) a sickly yellowish skin color | - |
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| salmonellosis | (noun) a kind of food poisoning caused by eating foods contaminated with Salmonella typhimurium | - |
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| scallop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: escallop, scollop |
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| (noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: escallop, scollop |
| (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, escallop, scollop |
| (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle |
| (verb) shape or cut in scallops | Synonyms: scollop |
| (verb) fish for scallops | Synonyms: scollop |
| (verb) form scallops in | Synonyms: scollop |
| (verb) decorate an edge with scallops | - |
| (verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: escallop |
| scalloped | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, crenated |
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| scallopine | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopini |
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| scallopini | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopine |
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| schoolfellow | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolmate |
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| scollop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: escallop, scallop |
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| (noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: escallop, scallop |
| (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, escallop, scallop |
| (verb) shape or cut in scallops | Synonyms: scallop |
| (verb) fish for scallops | Synonyms: scallop |
| (verb) form scallops in | Synonyms: scallop |
| selloff | (noun) a sale of a relatively large number of assets (stocks or bonds or commodities) at a low price typically done to dispose of them rather than as normal trade | - |
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| sellotape | (verb) fasten or attach with sellotape | Synonyms: scotch tape |
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| sellout | (noun) a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc. | - |
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| (noun) the selling of an entire stock of something | - |
| (noun) an event for which all tickets are sold | - |
| (noun) someone who has sold out | - |
| shallon | (noun) small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries | Synonyms: Gaultheria shallon, salal |
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| shallot | (noun) small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning | - |
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| (noun) type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning | Synonyms: Allium ascalonicum, Allium cepa aggregatum, eschalot, multiplier onion |
| (noun) aggregate bulb of the multiplier onion | - |
| shallow | (adjective) lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center | - |
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| (adjective) not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply | - |
| (adjective) lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious | - |
| (noun) a stretch of shallow water | Synonyms: shoal |
| (verb) become shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
| (verb) make shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
| shallowly | (adverb) in a shallow manner | - |
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| shallowness | (noun) the quality of lacking physical depth | - |
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| (noun) lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling | Synonyms: superficiality |
| shigellosis | (noun) an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains | Synonyms: bacillary dysentery |
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| spillover | (noun) (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure | - |
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| swallow | (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, drink |
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| (noun) small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations | - |
| (noun) a small amount of liquid food | Synonyms: sup |
| (verb) believe or accept without questioning or challenge | - |
| (verb) keep from expressing | - |
| (verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: accept, live with |
| (verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: take back, unsay, withdraw |
| (verb) utter unclearly | - |
| (verb) engulf and destroy | - |
| (verb) pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking | Synonyms: get down |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, immerse, swallow up |
| swallowtail | (noun) a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back | Synonyms: morning coat, swallow-tailed coat |
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| swallowwort | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: celandine, Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort |
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| (noun) tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: Asclepias curassavica, blood flower |
| syllogise | (verb) reason by syllogisms | Synonyms: syllogize |
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| syllogiser | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogist, syllogizer |
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| syllogism | (noun) deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises | - |
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| syllogist | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogiser, syllogizer |
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| syllogistic | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of syllogism | - |
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| (noun) in logic, the formal analysis of logical terms and operators and the structures that make it possible to infer true conclusions from given premises. | - |
| syllogize | (verb) reason by syllogisms | Synonyms: syllogise |
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| syllogizer | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogiser, syllogist |
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| tallow | (noun) obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants | - |
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| tamarillo | (noun) South American arborescent shrub having pale pink blossoms followed by egg-shaped reddish-brown edible fruit somewhat resembling a tomato | Synonyms: tree tomato |
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| thalloid | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or consisting of a thallus | - |
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| thallophyte | (noun) any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf | - |
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| thallophytic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of thallophytes | - |
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| tollon | (noun) ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia | Synonyms: Christmas berry, Christmasberry, Heteromeles arbutifolia, Photinia arbutifolia, toyon |
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| tomatillo | (noun) small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk | Synonyms: husk tomato, Mexican husk tomato |
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| (noun) annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: jamberry, Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa |
| (noun) Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: jamberry, miltomate, Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry |
| tornillo | (noun) shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods | Synonyms: Prosopis pubescens, screw bean, screwbean, screwbean mesquite |
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| trichotillomania | (noun) an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair | - |
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| trollop | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet |
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| (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slattern, slovenly woman, slut |
| (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: ho, hoe, hussy, slut |
| trompillo | (noun) weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America | Synonyms: prairie berry, purple nightshade, silver-leaved nettle, silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, Solanum elaeagnifolium, white horse nettle |
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| unalloyed | (adjective) free from admixture | - |
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| unfollow | (verb) to stop following a user on social media | - |
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| unhallow | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: deconsecrate, desecrate |
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| unhallowed | (adjective) not hallowed or consecrated | Synonyms: unholy |
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| villoma | (noun) a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass | Synonyms: papillary tumor, papillary tumour, papilloma |
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| violoncello | (noun) a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing | Synonyms: cello |
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| wallop | (noun) a severe blow | - |
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| (noun) a forceful consequence; a strong effect | Synonyms: impact |
| (verb) defeat soundly and utterly | - |
| (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: whack, wham, whop |
| walloper | (noun) a gross untruth; a blatant lie | Synonyms: whopper |
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| (noun) a winner by a wide margin | - |
| (noun) a very hard hitter | - |
| walloping | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, humongous, thumping, whopping |
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| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, whipping |
| wallow | (noun) an indolent or clumsy rolling about | - |
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| (noun) a puddle where animals go to wallow | - |
| (verb) delight greatly in | - |
| (verb) devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure | - |
| (verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: rejoice, triumph |
| (verb) roll around | Synonyms: welter |
| (verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: billow |
| waxmallow | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers | Synonyms: sleeping hibiscus, wax mallow |
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| willow | (noun) a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix | Synonyms: willow tree |
| willowherb | (noun) a plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers and seeds with silky hairs | - |
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| willowware | (noun) chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river | Synonyms: willow-pattern |
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| willowy | (adjective) slender and graceful | Synonyms: gracile |
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| workfellow | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, colleague, fellow worker |
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| yellow | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | Synonyms: xanthous, yellowish |
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| (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied |
| (adjective) cowardly or treacherous | - |
| (adjective) changed to a yellowish color by age | Synonyms: yellowed |
| (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: scandalmongering, sensationalistic |
| (adjective) affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc | Synonyms: icteric, jaundiced |
| (noun) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons | Synonyms: yellowness |
| (verb) turn yellow | - |
| yellowbird | (noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: goldfinch, New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis |
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| (noun) yellow-throated American wood warbler | Synonyms: Dendroica petechia, golden warbler, yellow warbler |
| yellowcake | (noun) an impure mixture of uranium oxides obtained during the processing of uranium ore | Synonyms: U308 |
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| yellowed | (adjective) changed to a yellowish color by age | Synonyms: yellow |
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| yellowfin | (noun) may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics | Synonyms: Thunnus albacares, yellowfin tuna |
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| yellowhammer | (noun) European bunting the male being bright yellow | Synonyms: Emberiza citrinella, yellow bunting |
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| (noun) large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail | Synonyms: Colaptes auratus, yellow-shafted flicker |
| yellowish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | Synonyms: xanthous, yellow |
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| yellowlegs | (noun) either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs | - |
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| yellowness | (noun) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons | Synonyms: yellow |
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| yellowtail | (noun) superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail | Synonyms: Ocyurus chrysurus, yellowtail snapper |
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| (noun) game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin | Synonyms: Seriola dorsalis |
| yellowthroat | (noun) small olive-colored American warblers with yellow breast and throat | - |
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| yellowwood | (noun) any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract | Synonyms: yellowwood tree |
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| (noun) the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees | - |