| monkshood | (noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, helmetflower |
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| mountebank | (noun) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes | Synonyms: charlatan |
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| nankeen | (noun) a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color | - |
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| nanoplankton | (noun) microscopic organisms found in plankton | - |
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| nomenklatura | (noun) the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party | - |
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| nondrinker | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, abstinent |
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| nonkosher | (adjective) not conforming to dietary laws | Synonyms: terefah, tref |
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| oink | (noun) the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs | Synonyms: grunt |
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| (verb) utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs | Synonyms: squeal |
| onkos | (noun) A high ornate headdress worn by the performers of Greek tragedy. | - |
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| outflank | (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: best, outdo, scoop, trump |
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| (verb) go around the flank of (an opposing army) | Synonyms: go around |
| outrank | (verb) take precedence or surpass others in rank | Synonyms: rank |
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| overthink | (verb) to spend to much time considering something and thus reach the wrong conclusion | - |
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| pachinko | (noun) a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board | - |
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| painkiller | (noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne, pain pill |
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| palankeen | (noun) a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers | Synonyms: palanquin |
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| penknife | (noun) a small pocketknife; originally used to cut quill pens | - |
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| periwinkle | (noun) edible marine gastropod | Synonyms: winkle |
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| (noun) small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked | Synonyms: winkle |
| (noun) chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers | - |
| (noun) commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers | Synonyms: Cape periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus, cayenne jasmine, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, red periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Vinca rosea |
| pfannkuchen | (noun) puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce | Synonyms: german pancake |
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| phytoplankton | (noun) photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae | - |
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| pink | (adjective) of a light shade of red | Synonyms: pinkish |
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| (noun) a light shade of red | - |
| (noun) a person with mildly leftist political views | Synonyms: pinko |
| (noun) any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers | Synonyms: garden pink |
| (verb) cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing | - |
| (verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: knock, rap, tap |
| (verb) sound like a car engine that is firing too early | Synonyms: knock, ping |
| pinkeye | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: conjunctivitis |
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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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| pinkness | (noun) the quality of being pink | - |
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| pinko | (noun) a person with mildly leftist political views | Synonyms: pink |
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| pinkroot | (noun) a fungal disease of onions | - |
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| pinky | (noun) the finger farthest from the thumb | Synonyms: little finger, pinkie |
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| plank | (noun) an endorsed policy in the platform of a political party | - |
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| (noun) a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes | Synonyms: board |
| (verb) cook and serve on a plank | - |
| (verb) cover with planks | Synonyms: plank over |
| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
| 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 | - |
| plankton | (noun) the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water | - |
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| planktonic | (adjective) of or relating to plankton | - |
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| plonk | (noun) the noise of something dropping (as into liquid) | - |
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| (noun) a cheap wine of inferior quality | - |
| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
| plunk | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunker |
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| (noun) a hollow twanging sound | - |
| (adverb) with a short hollow thud | Synonyms: plop |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk down |
| (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: dive, plunge |
| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clump, clunk |
| plunker | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunk |
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| potamoplankton | (noun) plankton that inhabit rivers | - |
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| prank | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, joke, put-on, trick |
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| (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery |
| (verb) dress up showily | - |
| (verb) dress or decorate showily or gaudily | - |
| 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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| prankster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, tricker, trickster |
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| prink | (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
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| (verb) dress very carefully and in a finicky manner | - |
| pronk | (verb) jump straight up | - |
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| punk | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, sleazy, tinny |
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| (noun) rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock | Synonyms: punk rock |
| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
| (noun) a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture | Synonyms: punk rocker |
| (noun) substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks) | - |
| (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, spunk, tinder, touchwood |
| punkah | (noun) a large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling; used in India for circulating air in a room | - |
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| punkey | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkie, punky |
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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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| punks | (noun) a youth subculture closely associated with punk rock music in the late 1970s; in part a reaction to the hippy subculture; dress was optional but intended to shock (plastic garbage bags or old school uniforms) and hair was dyed in bright colors (in Mohican haircuts or sometimes spiked in bright plumes) | - |
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| punky | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punkie |
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| rank | (adjective) growing profusely | - |
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| (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer |
| (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross |
| (adjective) very fertile; producing profuse growth | - |
| (adjective) very offensive in smell or taste | - |
| (noun) a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another | - |
| (noun) the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army) | Synonyms: rank and file |
| (noun) the body of members of an organization or group | Synonyms: membership |
| (noun) relative status | - |
| (noun) position in a social hierarchy | Synonyms: social rank, social station, social status |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, place, range, rate |
| (verb) take or have a position relative to others | - |
| (verb) take precedence or surpass others in rank | Synonyms: outrank |
| ranked | (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: graded, stratified |
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| ranker | (noun) an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces | - |
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| (noun) a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status | - |
| 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 | - |
| rankle | (verb) gnaw into; make resentful or angry | Synonyms: eat into, fret, grate |
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| rankness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, malodorousness, stinkiness |
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| (noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, prolificacy, richness |
| redshank | (noun) a common Old World wading bird with long red legs | Synonyms: Tringa totanus |
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| rethink | (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: afterthought, reconsideration, second thought |
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| (verb) change one's mind | - |
| rink | (noun) building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating | Synonyms: skating rink |
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| rinkhals | (noun) highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet | Synonyms: Hemachatus haemachatus, ringhals, spitting snake |
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| riverbank | (noun) the bank of a river | Synonyms: riverside |
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| sandbank | (noun) a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide | - |
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| scrimshank | (verb) avoid work | - |
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| scrimshanker | (noun) a shirker | - |
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| shank | (noun) a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball | - |
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| (noun) lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals | Synonyms: cannon |
| (noun) the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole | Synonyms: waist |
| (noun) cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill | - |
| (noun) cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head | - |
| (noun) cylinder forming a long narrow part of something | Synonyms: stem |
| (noun) the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle | - |
| (noun) a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg | - |
| (verb) hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction | - |
| sheepshank | (noun) a knot for shortening a line | - |
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| shrink | (noun) a physician who specializes in psychiatry | Synonyms: head-shrinker, psychiatrist |
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| (verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: contract |
| (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: reduce |
| (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrivel, shrivel up, wither |
| (verb) decrease in size, range, or extent | Synonyms: shrivel |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, squinch, wince |
| shrinkable | (adjective) capable of being shrunk | - |
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| shrinkage | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shoplifting |
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| (noun) the amount by which something shrinks | - |
| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinking |
| shrinking | (noun) the act of becoming less | - |
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| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinkage |
| shrinkwrap | (verb) wrap something tightly with heated plastic that shrinks upon cooling | - |
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| shrunken | (adjective) reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity | Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled |
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| (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled, withered, wizen, wizened |
| sink | (noun) plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe | - |
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| (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, cesspool, sump |
| (noun) a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof | Synonyms: sinkhole, swallow hole |
| (noun) (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system | - |
| (verb) fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly | Synonyms: fall off, slump |
| (verb) embed deeply | Synonyms: bury |
| (verb) go under | Synonyms: go down, go under, settle |
| (verb) fall or descend to a lower place or level | Synonyms: drop, drop down |
| (verb) cause to sink | - |
| (verb) fall or sink heavily | Synonyms: slide down, slump |
| (verb) appear to move downward | Synonyms: dip |
| (verb) descend into or as if into some soft substance or place | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: lapse, pass |
| sinkable | (adjective) capable of being sunk | - |
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| sinker | (noun) a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate | - |
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| (noun) a weight that sinks (as to hold nets or fishing lines under water) | - |
| (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, doughnut |
| sinkhole | (noun) a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof | Synonyms: sink, swallow hole |
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| sinking | (noun) a descent as through liquid (especially through water) | - |
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| (noun) a slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength) | - |
| (noun) a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension | Synonyms: sinking feeling |
| skank | (noun) a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees | - |
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| (noun) any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant | Synonyms: crud, filth |
| (verb) dance the skank | - |
| skanky | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, wicked, yucky |
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| skink | (noun) alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide | Synonyms: scincid, scincid lizard |
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| skunk | (noun) American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae | Synonyms: polecat, wood pussy |
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| (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, smoke, weed |
| (noun) a defeat in a game where one side fails to score | Synonyms: shutout |
| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
| (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: lurch |
| skunkbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, squaw-bush, squawbush |
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| skunkweed | (noun) tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell | Synonyms: Polemonium viscosum, skunk-weed |
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| slink | (verb) walk stealthily | - |
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| snowbank | (noun) a mound or heap of snow | Synonyms: snow bank |
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| spank | (noun) a slap with the flat of the hand | - |
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| (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: larrup, paddle |
| spanker | (noun) a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vessel | - |
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| (noun) a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand | Synonyms: slapper |
| spanking | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, zippy |
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| (noun) the act of slapping on the buttocks | - |
| spelunk | (verb) explore natural caves | Synonyms: cave |
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| spelunker | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: potholer, spelaeologist, speleologist |
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| spindleshanks | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
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| (noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
| sprinkle | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkling |
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| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkling |
| (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: besprinkle, sparge |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, splosh |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, scatter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit |
| sprinkler | (noun) mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden | - |
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| sprinkles | (noun) bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream | Synonyms: jimmies |
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| sprinkling | (noun) the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) | Synonyms: aspersion |
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| (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkle |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: scattering |
| spunk | (noun) the courage to carry on | Synonyms: heart, mettle, nerve |
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| (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, tinder, touchwood |
| spunky | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited |
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| (adjective) showing courage | Synonyms: feisty, plucky |
| stank | (noun) A smell of genitals or sex | - |
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| steampunk | (noun) A subgenre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th century society. | - |
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| stink | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench |
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| (verb) smell badly and offensively | Synonyms: reek |
| (verb) be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance | - |
| stinkbird | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoactzin, hoatzin, Opisthocomus hoazin |
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| stinker | (noun) an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory | Synonyms: lemon |
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| (noun) anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar) | - |
| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinkpot |