| nucleonics | (noun) the branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei | Synonyms: atomic physics, nuclear physics |
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| nudnick | (noun) (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest | Synonyms: nudnik |
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| oceanic | (adjective) relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean | Synonyms: pelagic |
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| (adjective) constituting or living in the open sea | - |
| (adjective) resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree | - |
| oecumenic | (adjective) concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions | Synonyms: ecumenic, ecumenical, oecumenical |
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| oecumenical | (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
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| (adjective) concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions | Synonyms: ecumenic, ecumenical, oecumenic |
| organic | (adjective) involving or affecting physiology or bodily organs | - |
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| (adjective) relating or belonging to the class of chemical compounds having a carbon basis | - |
| (adjective) being or relating to or derived from or having properties characteristic of living organisms | - |
| (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constituent, constitutional, constitutive |
| (adjective) simple and healthful and close to nature | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to foodstuff grown or raised without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides or hormones | - |
| (noun) a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter | Synonyms: organic fertiliser, organic fertilizer |
| organically | (adverb) involving carbon compounds | - |
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| (adverb) as an important constituent | - |
| (adverb) in an organic manner | - |
| organicism | (noun) theory that the total organization of an organism rather than the functioning of individual organs is the determinant of life processes | - |
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| organicistic | (adjective) relating to or tending toward organicism | - |
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| overnice | (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, nice, prissy, squeamish |
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| panic | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: affright, terror |
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| (noun) sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events | Synonyms: scare |
| (verb) be overcome by a sudden fear | - |
| (verb) cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic | - |
| panicked | (adjective) thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation | Synonyms: frightened, panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicky, terrified |
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| panicky | (adjective) thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation | Synonyms: frightened, panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, terrified |
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| panicle | (noun) compound raceme or branched cluster of flowers | - |
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| panicled | (adjective) having panicles; occurring in panicles | - |
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| paniculate | (adjective) having a panicle | - |
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| pantechnicon | (noun) a large moving van (especially one used for moving furniture) | - |
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| pathogenic | (adjective) able to cause disease | Synonyms: infective, morbific |
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| pathogenically | (adverb) in a pathogenic manner | - |
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| penicillamine | (noun) a drug (trade name Cuprimine) used to treat heavy metal poisoning and Wilson's disease and severe arthritis | Synonyms: Cuprimine |
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| penicillin | (noun) any of various antibiotics obtained from Penicillium molds (or produced synthetically) and used in the treatment of various infections and diseases | - |
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| penicillinase | (noun) enzyme produced by certain bacteria that inactivates penicillin and results in resistance to that antibiotic | Synonyms: beta-lactamase |
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| pentatonic | (adjective) relating to a pentatonic scale | - |
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| pernicious | (adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | Synonyms: insidious, subtle |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pestilent |
| perniciously | (adverb) in a noxiously baneful way | Synonyms: banefully |
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| (adverb) in a harmfully insidious manner | Synonyms: insidiously |
| perniciousness | (noun) grave harmfulness or deadliness | Synonyms: toxicity |
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| pernickety | (adjective) characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details | Synonyms: persnickety |
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| persnickety | (adjective) characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details | Synonyms: pernickety |
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| (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: bigheaded, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
| 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 |
| philhellenic | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellene |
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| phoenicophorium | (noun) latanier palm | Synonyms: genus Phoenicophorium |
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| phonic | (adjective) of or relating to speech sounds | Synonyms: phonetic |
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| (adjective) relating to speech | - |
| (adjective) pertaining to the phonic method of teaching reading | - |
| phonics | (noun) teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values | - |
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| photogenic | (adjective) looking attractive in photographs | - |
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| photomechanical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving various methods of using photography to make plates for printing | - |
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| photomechanics | (noun) the technique of using photomechanical methods to make photographs into plates for printing | - |
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| (noun) the process whereby printing surfaces (plates or cylinders) are produced by photographic methods | Synonyms: photoplate making |
| phrenic | (adjective) of or relating to the diaphragm | - |
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| picknicker | (noun) a person who is picnicking | Synonyms: picnicker |
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| picnic | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
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| (noun) any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion | - |
| (noun) a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering | Synonyms: field day, outing |
| (verb) eat alfresco, in the open air | - |
| picnicker | (noun) a person who is picnicking | Synonyms: picknicker |
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| planktonic | (adjective) of or relating to plankton | - |
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| platonic | (adjective) free from physical desire | - |
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| platyrrhinic | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian |
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| plutonic | (adjective) of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro | Synonyms: irruptive |
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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 | - |
| polygenic | (adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes | - |
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| polyphonic | (adjective) having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together | Synonyms: contrapuntal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by polyphony | Synonyms: polyphonous |
| (adjective) having two or more phonetic values | - |
| polyphonically | (adverb) in a polyphonic manner | - |
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| polytechnic | (noun) a technical school offering instruction in many industrial arts and applied sciences | Synonyms: engineering school, polytechnic institute |
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| postganglionic | (adjective) beyond or distal to a ganglion (referring especially to the unmyelinated fibers that originate from cells in autonomic ganglia) | - |
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| preclinical | (adjective) of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared | Synonyms: presymptomatic |
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| psychogenic | (adjective) of or relating to the psychological cause of a disorder | Synonyms: psychogenetic |
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| (adjective) mental or emotional rather than physiological in origin | - |
| pulmonic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonary |
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| pumpernickel | (noun) bread made of coarse rye flour | Synonyms: black bread |
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| punic | (adjective) tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans | Synonyms: perfidious, treacherous |
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| puritanic | (adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: blue, puritanical |
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| puritanical | (adjective) of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism | - |
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| (adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: blue, puritanic |
| (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
| puritanically | (adverb) in a prudish manner | Synonyms: prudishly |
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| pyknic | (adjective) having a squat and fleshy build | Synonyms: endomorphic |
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| pyogenic | (adjective) producing pus | - |
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| pyrogenic | (adjective) produced under conditions involving intense heat | Synonyms: igneous, pyrogenous |
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| (adjective) produced by or producing fever | Synonyms: pyrogenetic, pyrogenous |
| pyrolignic | (adjective) of a substance produced by the effect of heat on wood, especially by destructive distillation | Synonyms: pyroligneous |
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| pyrotechnic | (adjective) of or relating to the craft of making fireworks | Synonyms: pyrotechnical |
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| (adjective) suggestive of fireworks | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc. | Synonyms: firework |
| pyrotechnical | (adjective) of or relating to the craft of making fireworks | Synonyms: pyrotechnic |
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| pyrotechnics | (noun) the craft of making fireworks | Synonyms: pyrotechny |
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| (noun) (music) brilliance of display (as in the performance of music) | - |
| quadraphonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadrasonic, quadriphonic, quadrisonic |
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| quadrasonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadraphonic, quadriphonic, quadrisonic |
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| quadriphonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadraphonic, quadrasonic, quadrisonic |
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| quadrisonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadraphonic, quadrasonic, quadriphonic |
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| rabbinic | (adjective) of or relating to rabbis or their teachings | Synonyms: rabbinical |
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| rabbinical | (adjective) of or relating to rabbis or their teachings | Synonyms: rabbinic |
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| radiocommunication | (noun) medium for communication | Synonyms: radio, wireless |
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| radiophonic | (adjective) relating to or by means of radiotelephony | Synonyms: radiotelephonic |
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| radiotelephonic | (adjective) relating to or by means of radiotelephony | Synonyms: radiophonic |
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| runic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of runes | - |
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| sanicle | (noun) a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers | Synonyms: snakeroot |
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| sardonic | (adjective) disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking | Synonyms: snarky |
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| sardonically | (adverb) in a sarcastic manner | Synonyms: sarcastically |
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| satanic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, unholy |
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| scenic | (adjective) of or relating to the stage or stage scenery | - |
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| (adjective) used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery | - |
| scenically | (adverb) with respect to stage scenery | - |
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| schizophrenic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia | Synonyms: schizoid |
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| (adjective) suffering from some form of schizophrenia | - |
| (noun) someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia | - |
| servomechanical | (adjective) of or involving servomechanisms | Synonyms: servo |
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| snick | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: nick, notch |
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| (noun) a glancing contact with the ball off the edge of the cricket bat | - |
| (verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: nick |
| (verb) hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat | - |
| snicker | (noun) a disrespectful laugh | Synonyms: snigger, snort |
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| (verb) laugh quietly | Synonyms: snigger |
| snickersnee | (noun) fighting with knives | Synonyms: cut-and-thrust, knife fight |
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| somatogenic | (adjective) of or arising from physiological causes rather than being psychogenic in origin | Synonyms: somatogenetic |
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| sonic | (adjective) (of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level | Synonyms: transonic |
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| (adjective) relating to audible sound | - |
| splanchnic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the viscera | Synonyms: visceral |
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| splenic | (adjective) of or relating to the spleen | Synonyms: lienal, splenetic |
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| stannic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing tin | Synonyms: stannous |
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| stereophonic | (adjective) designating the reproduction of sound using two or more independent audio channels | Synonyms: stereo, two-channel |
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| subclinical | (adjective) relating to the stage in the development of a disease before the symptoms are observed | - |
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| suboceanic | (adjective) formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed | Synonyms: subocean |
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| subsonic | (adjective) (of speed) less than that of sound in a designated medium | - |
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| subtonic | (noun) (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale | Synonyms: leading tone |
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| succinic | (adjective) of or relating to or obtained from amber | - |
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| supersonic | (adjective) (of speed) greater than the speed of sound in a given medium (especially air) | - |
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| (adjective) having frequencies above those of audible sound | Synonyms: ultrasonic |
| supertonic | (noun) (music) the second note of a diatonic scale | - |
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| symphonic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic or suggestive of a symphony | - |
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| (adjective) harmonious in sound | Synonyms: symphonious |