| persimmon | (noun) orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe | - |
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| (noun) any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros | Synonyms: persimmon tree |
| pheromone | (noun) a chemical substance secreted externally by some animals (especially insects) that influences the physiology or behavior of other animals of the same species | - |
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| philharmonic | (adjective) composing or characteristic of an orchestral group | - |
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| (adjective) devoted to or appreciative of music | - |
| (noun) a large orchestra; can perform symphonies | Synonyms: symphony, symphony orchestra |
| photomontage | (noun) a montage that uses photographic images | - |
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| phytohormone | (noun) (botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone | Synonyms: growth regulator, plant hormone |
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| piedmont | (noun) a gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land | - |
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| pleuropneumonia | (noun) pleurisy and pneumonia | - |
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| pneumonectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a lung (usually to treat lung cancer) | - |
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| pneumonia | (noun) respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants | - |
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| pneumonic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pulmonary, pulmonic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by or affected by pneumonia | - |
| pneumonitis | (noun) inflammation of the lungs; caused by a virus or an allergic reaction | - |
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| pneumonoconiosis | (noun) chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles | Synonyms: pneumoconiosis |
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| polemoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Polemoniaceae | - |
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| polemonium | (noun) any plant of the genus Polemonium; most are low-growing often foul-smelling plants of temperate to Arctic regions | - |
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| premonition | (noun) an early warning about a future event | Synonyms: forewarning |
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| (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, foreboding, presentiment |
| premonitory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: precursory |
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| promontory | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: foreland, head, headland |
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| pseudomonad | (noun) bacteria usually producing greenish fluorescent water-soluble pigment; some pathogenic for plants and animals | - |
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| pulmonary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonic |
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| pulmonic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonary |
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| ramona | (noun) shrubby plant with aromatic greyish-green leaves used as a cooking herb | Synonyms: common sage, Salvia officinalis |
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| ramontchi | (noun) small shrubby tree of Madagascar cultivated in tropical regions as a hedge plant and for its deep red acid fruits resembling small plums | Synonyms: batoko palm, Flacourtia indica, governor's plum, governor plum, Madagascar plum |
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| reharmonisation | (noun) a piece of music whose original harmony has been revised | Synonyms: reharmonization |
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| reharmonise | (verb) provide with a different harmony | Synonyms: reharmonize |
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| reharmonization | (noun) a piece of music whose original harmony has been revised | Synonyms: reharmonisation |
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| reharmonize | (verb) provide with a different harmony | Synonyms: reharmonise |
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| remonstrance | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: expostulation, objection, remonstration |
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| remonstrate | (verb) argue in protest or opposition | - |
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| (verb) present and urge reasons in opposition | Synonyms: point out |
| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| remonstration | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: expostulation, objection, remonstrance |
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| rhodomontade | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, braggadocio, rodomontade |
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| rodomontade | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, braggadocio, rhodomontade |
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| rumormonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumourmonger |
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| rumourmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger |
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| salmon | (adjective) of orange tinged with pink | Synonyms: pink-orange, pinkish-orange |
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| (noun) any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn | - |
| (noun) a pale pinkish orange color | - |
| (noun) flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae | - |
| salmonberry | (noun) large erect red-flowered raspberry of western North America having large pinkish-orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus spectabilis |
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| (noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, thimbleberry |
| (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: bakeapple, baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus |
| salmonella | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| salmonellosis | (noun) a kind of food poisoning caused by eating foods contaminated with Salmonella typhimurium | - |
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| salmonid | (noun) soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters | - |
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| sanctimonious | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, self-righteous |
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| sanctimoniously | (adverb) in a sanctimonious manner | Synonyms: self-righteously |
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| sanctimoniousness | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimony |
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| sanctimony | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimoniousness |
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| scammony | (noun) twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin | Synonyms: Convolvulus scammonia |
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| (noun) resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia | - |
| (noun) tropical American morning glory | Synonyms: Ipomoea orizabensis |
| scammonyroot | (noun) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato | Synonyms: Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, manroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine |
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| scandalmonger | (noun) a person who spreads malicious gossip | - |
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| scandalmongering | (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: sensationalistic, yellow |
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| (noun) spreading malicious gossip | - |
| scaremonger | (noun) a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble | Synonyms: stirrer |
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| semimonthly | (adjective) occurring twice a month | Synonyms: bimonthly |
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| (noun) a periodical that is published twice each month (or 24 issues per year) | - |
| (adverb) twice a month | Synonyms: bimonthly |
| sermon | (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: discourse, preaching |
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| (noun) a moralistic rebuke | Synonyms: preaching |
| sermonise | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, preachify, sermonize |
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| sermoniser | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher, preacher man, sermonizer |
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| sermonism | (noun) the conceptualism of Abelard. | - |
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| sermonize | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, preachify, sermonise |
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| sermonizer | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher, preacher man, sermoniser |
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| simony | (noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: barratry |
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| summon | (verb) make ready for action or use | Synonyms: marshal, mobilise, mobilize |
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| (verb) call in an official matter, such as to attend court | Synonyms: cite, summons |
| (verb) ask to come | - |
| (verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster, muster up, rally |
| (verb) cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively | Synonyms: call up |
| summoning | (noun) calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations | Synonyms: evocation |
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| summons | (noun) a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant | Synonyms: process |
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| (noun) a request to be present | Synonyms: bidding |
| (noun) an order to appear in person at a given place and time | - |
| (verb) call in an official matter, such as to attend court | Synonyms: cite, summon |
| telamon | (noun) a figure of a man used as a supporting column | Synonyms: atlas |
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| testimonial | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting testimony | - |
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| (adjective) expressing admiration or appreciation | - |
| (noun) something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable | Synonyms: good word, recommendation |
| (noun) something given or done as an expression of esteem | Synonyms: tribute |
| (noun) something that serves as evidence | Synonyms: testimony |
| testimony | (noun) a solemn statement made under oath | - |
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| (noun) an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact | - |
| (noun) something that serves as evidence | Synonyms: testimonial |
| thermonuclear | (adjective) using nuclear weapons based on fusion as distinguished from fission | - |
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| tramontana | (noun) a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean | Synonyms: tramontane |
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| tramontane | (adjective) on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker) | Synonyms: transmontane |
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| (adjective) being or coming from another country | - |
| (noun) a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean | Synonyms: tramontana |
| transmontane | (adjective) on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker) | Synonyms: tramontane |
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| trichomonad | (noun) cause of trichomoniasis in women and cattle and birds | - |
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| trichomoniasis | (noun) infection of the vagina | - |
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| twelvemonth | (noun) a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days | Synonyms: year, yr |
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| ultramontane | (adjective) of or relating to ultramontanism | - |
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| (adjective) on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps | Synonyms: cisalpine |
| (adjective) on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps) | Synonyms: transalpine |
| (noun) a Roman Catholic who advocates ultramontanism (supreme papal authority in matters of faith and discipline) | - |
| ultramontanism | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the policy that the absolute authority of the church should be vested in the pope | - |
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| unceremonial | (adjective) without ceremony or formality | Synonyms: unceremonious |
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| unceremonious | (adjective) without due formalities | - |
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| (adjective) without ceremony or formality | Synonyms: unceremonial |
| unceremoniously | (adverb) in an unceremonious manner | - |
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| unceremoniousness | (noun) an unceremonial manner | - |
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| uncommon | (adjective) not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind | - |
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| (adjective) marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind | Synonyms: rare |
| uncommonly | (adverb) exceptionally | - |
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| uncommonness | (noun) extraordinariness as a consequence of being rare and seldom encountered | - |
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| (noun) extraordinariness as a consequence of being marked by an uncommon or superlative quality | - |
| undemonstrative | (adjective) not given to open expression of emotion | - |
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| unharmonious | (adjective) not in harmony | Synonyms: inharmonious |
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| unharmoniously | (adverb) in a discordant manner | Synonyms: discordantly |
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| warmonger | (noun) a person who advocates war or warlike policies | Synonyms: militarist |
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| warmongering | (noun) a policy of advocating war | Synonyms: war advocacy |
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| whoremonger | (noun) a pimp who procures whores | Synonyms: whoremaster |
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| (noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, trick, whoremaster |
| wordmonger | (noun) a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning | - |
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| xanthomonad | (noun) bacteria producing yellow non-water-soluble pigments; some pathogenic for plants | - |
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