| overclock | (verb) To run a processor (CPU), or any electronic logic device, at a speed higher than is recommended by the manufacturer. | - |
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| overstock | (verb) stock excessively | - |
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| paddock | (noun) pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race | - |
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| padlock | (noun) a detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut | - |
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| (verb) fasten with a padlock | - |
| peacock | (noun) male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots | - |
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| (noun) European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot | Synonyms: Inachis io, peacock butterfly |
| penstock | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: sluice, sluiceway |
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| (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: floodgate, head gate, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
| petcock | (noun) regulator consisting of a small cock or faucet or valve for letting out air or releasing compression or draining | - |
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| pickpocket | (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: cutpurse, dip |
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| piddock | (noun) marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells | - |
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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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| pock | (noun) a pustule in an eruptive disease | - |
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| (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pit, scar |
| pocked | (adjective) marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease | Synonyms: pockmarked |
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| (adjective) used of paved surfaces having holes or pits | Synonyms: pockmarked, potholed |
| pocket | (noun) a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles | - |
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| (noun) an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck | - |
| (noun) (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) | Synonyms: pouch |
| (noun) a small isolated group of people | - |
| (noun) a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly | Synonyms: air hole, air pocket |
| (noun) a supply of money | - |
| (noun) an enclosed space | Synonyms: pouch, sac, sack |
| (noun) a hollow concave shape made by removing something | Synonyms: scoop |
| (noun) (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left | - |
| (verb) put in one's pocket | - |
| (verb) take unlawfully | Synonyms: bag |
| pocketable | (adjective) small enough to be carried in a garment pocket | Synonyms: pocket-size, pocket-sized |
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| pocketbook | (noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: bag, handbag, purse |
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| (noun) pocket-sized paperback book | Synonyms: pocket book, pocket edition |
| (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: billfold, notecase, wallet |
| (noun) your personal financial means | - |
| pocketcomb | (noun) a small comb suitable for carrying in a pocket | Synonyms: pocket comb |
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| pocketful | (noun) the quantity a pocket will hold | - |
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| pocketknife | (noun) a knife with a blade that folds into the handle; suitable for carrying in the pocket | Synonyms: pocket knife |
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| pockmark | (noun) a scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease | - |
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| (verb) mark with or as if with pockmarks | - |
| pockmarked | (adjective) marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease | Synonyms: pocked |
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| (adjective) used of paved surfaces having holes or pits | Synonyms: pocked, potholed |
| 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 |
| poppycock | (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: hooey, stuff, stuff and nonsense |
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| restock | (verb) stock again | - |
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| retrorocket | (noun) a small rocket engine on a larger rocket or spacecraft that is fired to slow or alter its course | - |
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| roadblock | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: barricade |
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| (noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: barrier |
| rock | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, sway, tilt |
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| (noun) a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western | Synonyms: rock-and-roll, rock'n'roll, rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock music |
| (noun) hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) | Synonyms: rock candy |
| (noun) a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter | Synonyms: stone |
| (noun) (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable | - |
| (noun) material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust | Synonyms: stone |
| (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: shake, sway |
| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: sway |
| rockabilly | (noun) a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat | - |
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| rockbound | (adjective) abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps | Synonyms: rock-ribbed |
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| rockchuck | (noun) heavy-bodied yellowish-brown marmot of rocky areas of western North America | Synonyms: Marmota flaviventris, yellowbelly marmot |
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| rockcress | (noun) any of several rock-loving cresses of the genus Arabis | Synonyms: rock cress |
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| (noun) noxious cress with yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium | Synonyms: Barbarea vulgaris, rocket cress, Sisymbrium barbarea, yellow rocket |
| rocker | (noun) a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro | - |
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| (noun) a chair mounted on rockers | Synonyms: rocking chair |
| (noun) an ice skate with a curved blade | - |
| (noun) a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold | Synonyms: cradle |
| (noun) a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles | - |
| (noun) a performer or composer or fan of rock music | Synonyms: rock 'n' roll musician |
| (noun) an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle | - |
| rockers | (noun) originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers | Synonyms: bikers |
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| rockery | (noun) a garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants | Synonyms: rock garden |
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| rocket | (noun) a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion | Synonyms: rocket engine |
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| (noun) any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine | Synonyms: projectile |
| (noun) sends a firework display high into the sky | Synonyms: skyrocket |
| (noun) propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon | Synonyms: skyrocket |
| (noun) erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender | Synonyms: arugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa, garden rocket, rocket salad, roquette |
| (verb) propel with a rocket | - |
| (verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: skyrocket |
| rocketry | (noun) the branch of engineering science that studies rocket design and operation | - |
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| rockfish | (noun) marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America | - |
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| (noun) marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone | Synonyms: Roccus saxatilis, striped bass, striper |
| (noun) the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks | - |
| rockfoil | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: breakstone, saxifrage |
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| rockiness | (noun) the quality of abounding in rocks and stones | - |
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| rocklike | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitelike, granitic, stony |
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| rockrose | (noun) small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage | Synonyms: rock rose |
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| (noun) any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers | Synonyms: rock rose |
| rockslide | (noun) a landslide of rocks | - |
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| rockweed | (noun) coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide | - |
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| rocky | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rough |
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| (adjective) full of hardship or trials | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, bouldery, stony |
| (adjective) liable to rock | - |
| rootstock | (noun) root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots | - |
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| (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstalk |
| rowlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, peg, pin, thole, tholepin |
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| rudderstock | (noun) a vertical post at the forward edge of a rudder that enables the rudder to pivot | Synonyms: rudderpost |
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| schlock | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: dreck, shlock |
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| schlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: shlockmeister |
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| shaddock | (noun) large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp | Synonyms: pomelo |
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| (noun) southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits | Synonyms: Citrus decumana, Citrus grandis, Citrus maxima, pomelo, pomelo tree, pummelo |
| shamrock | (noun) clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock | Synonyms: hop clover, lesser yellow trefoil, Trifolium dubium |
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| (noun) creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage | Synonyms: dutch clover, Trifolium repens, white clover |
| (noun) Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers | Synonyms: common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, Oxalis acetosella |
| sherlock | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus |
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| shlock | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: dreck, schlock |
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| shlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: schlockmeister |
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| shock | (noun) a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body | Synonyms: electric shock, electrical shock |
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| (noun) the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat | Synonyms: impact |
| (noun) a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses | Synonyms: cushion, shock absorber |
| (noun) an instance of agitation of the earth's crust | Synonyms: seismic disturbance |
| (noun) an unpleasant or disappointing surprise | Synonyms: blow |
| (noun) a sudden jarring impact | Synonyms: jar, jolt, jounce |
| (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: daze, stupor |
| (noun) a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field | - |
| (noun) a bushy thick mass (especially hair) | - |
| (noun) (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor | - |
| (verb) inflict a trauma upon | Synonyms: traumatise, traumatize |
| (verb) subject to electrical shocks | - |
| (verb) collect or gather into shocks | - |
| (verb) collide violently | - |
| (verb) strike with horror or terror | - |
| (verb) surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off | Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, floor, take aback |
| (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize |
| shockable | (adjective) capable of being shocked | Synonyms: narrow-minded |
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| shocked | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: aghast, appalled, dismayed |
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| shocker | (noun) a sensational message (in a film or play or novel) | - |
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| (noun) a shockingly bad person | - |
| 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 | - |
| shuttlecock | (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttle |
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| (verb) send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock | - |
| shylock | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, moneylender, usurer |
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| skyrocket | (noun) sends a firework display high into the sky | Synonyms: rocket |
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| (noun) propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon | Synonyms: rocket |
| (verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: rocket |
| smock | (noun) a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles | Synonyms: dust coat, duster, gabardine, gaberdine |
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| (verb) embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally | - |
| smocking | (noun) embroidery consisting of ornamental needlework on a garment that is made by gathering the cloth tightly in stitches | - |
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| soaprock | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soapstone, steatite |
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| sock | (noun) hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee | - |
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| (noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, drogue, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock |
| (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bonk, bop, whap, whop |
| socket | (noun) a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted | - |
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| (noun) receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted | - |
| (noun) a bony hollow into which a structure fits | - |
| sockeye | (noun) small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning | Synonyms: blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye salmon |
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| (noun) fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers | Synonyms: red salmon, sockeye salmon |
| spatchcock | (noun) flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed) | - |
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| (verb) interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story | - |
| (verb) prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock | - |
| spatterdock | (noun) common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water | Synonyms: cow lily, Nuphar advena, yellow pond lily |
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| sprocket | (noun) thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain | Synonyms: sprocket wheel |
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| (noun) tooth on the rim of gear wheel | Synonyms: cog |
| (noun) roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through | - |
| stock | (adjective) regularly and widely used or sold | Synonyms: standard |
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| (adjective) routine | - |
| (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
| (noun) any animals kept for use or profit | Synonyms: farm animal, livestock |
| (noun) the merchandise that a shop has on hand | Synonyms: inventory |
| (noun) the handle end of some implements or tools | - |
| (noun) the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun | Synonyms: gunstock |
| (noun) an ornamental white cravat | Synonyms: neckcloth |
| (noun) lumber used in the construction of something | - |
| (noun) liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces | Synonyms: broth |
| (noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species | Synonyms: breed, strain |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma |
| (noun) persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant | Synonyms: caudex |
| (noun) any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers | Synonyms: gillyflower |
| (noun) any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia | Synonyms: Malcolm stock |
| (noun) a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants | - |
| (noun) the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity) | - |
| (noun) a supply of something available for future use | Synonyms: fund, store |
| (noun) a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation | Synonyms: stock certificate |
| (noun) the reputation and popularity a person has | - |
| (verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots | Synonyms: sprout |
| (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: carry, stockpile |
| (verb) amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use | Synonyms: buy in, stock up |
| (verb) provide or furnish with a stock of something | - |
| (verb) supply with livestock | - |
| (verb) supply with fish | - |
| (verb) equip with a stock | - |
| stockade | (noun) a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions) | Synonyms: concentration camp |
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| (noun) fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense | - |
| (verb) surround with a stockade in order to fortify | - |
| stockbroker | (noun) an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds | - |
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| stockcar | (noun) boxcar with latticed sides; for transporting livestock | - |
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| stocked | (adjective) furnished with more than enough | Synonyms: stocked with |
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| stocker | (noun) a domestic animal (especially a young steer or heifer) kept as stock until fattened or matured and suitable for a breeding establishment | - |
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| stockfish | (noun) fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt | - |
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| stockholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareholder, shareowner |
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| stockholding | (noun) ownership of stocks; the state or fact of holding stock | - |
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| (noun) a specific number of stocks or shares owned | Synonyms: stockholdings |
| stockholdings | (noun) a specific number of stocks or shares owned | Synonyms: stockholding |
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| stockhorn | (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: hornpipe, pibgorn |
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| stockily | (adverb) so as to be stocky | - |
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| stockiness | (noun) The quality of being compact, sturdy, and relatively thick in build. | - |
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| stockinet | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinette |
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| stockinette | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinet |
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| stocking | (noun) the activity of supplying a stock of something | - |
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| (noun) close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural) | - |
| stockinged | (adjective) wearing stockings | - |
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| stockist | (noun) one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods | - |
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| stockjobber | (noun) one who deals only with brokers or other jobbers | - |
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| stockman | (noun) farmer who breed or raises livestock | Synonyms: stock farmer, stock raiser |
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| stockpile | (noun) a storage pile accumulated for future use | - |
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| (noun) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose | Synonyms: backlog, reserve |
| (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: carry, stock |
| stockpiling | (noun) accumulating and storing a reserve supply | - |
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| stockpot | (noun) a pot used for preparing soup stock | - |
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| stockroom | (noun) storeroom for storing goods and supplies used in a business | Synonyms: stock room |
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| stocks | (noun) a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked | - |
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| (noun) a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod | - |
| (noun) a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction | - |
| stocktake | (noun) an instance of stocktaking | Synonyms: stock-take |
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| stocktaker | (noun) an employee whose job is to take inventory | Synonyms: stock-taker |
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| stocktaking | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventory, inventorying, stock-taking |
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| (noun) reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook | Synonyms: stock-taking |
| stocky | (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, heavyset, thick, thickset |
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