| peephole | (noun) a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep | Synonyms: eyehole, spyhole |
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| pesthole | (noun) a breeding ground for epidemic disease | - |
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| petiole | (noun) the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf | Synonyms: leafstalk |
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| petroleum | (noun) a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: crude, crude oil, fossil oil, oil, rock oil |
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| pigeonhole | (noun) a small compartment | Synonyms: cubbyhole |
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| (noun) a specific (often simplistic) category | - |
| (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: stamp, stereotype |
| (verb) place into a small compartment | - |
| pinhole | (noun) a small puncture that might have been made by a pin | - |
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| pinole | (noun) meal made of finely ground corn mixed with sugar and spices | - |
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| piolet | (noun) an ax used by mountain climbers for cutting footholds in ice | Synonyms: ice ax, ice axe |
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| pistoleer | (noun) someone armed with a pistol (especially a soldier so armed) | - |
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| plughole | (noun) a hole into which a plug fits (especially a hole where water drains away) | - |
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| pole | (noun) a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic | - |
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| (noun) one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated | Synonyms: magnetic pole |
| (noun) a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting | - |
| (noun) a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves | Synonyms: terminal |
| (noun) one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions | - |
| (noun) one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface | - |
| (noun) one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere | Synonyms: celestial pole |
| (noun) a linear measure of 16.5 feet | Synonyms: perch, rod |
| (noun) a square rod of land | Synonyms: perch, rod |
| (verb) deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole | - |
| (verb) propel with a pole | Synonyms: punt |
| (verb) support on poles | - |
| polearm | (noun) a close combat weapon in which the main fighting part of the weapon is fitted to the end of a long shaft, typically of wood, thereby extending the user's effective range. | Synonyms: pole weapon |
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| poleax | (noun) a battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick | Synonyms: poleaxe |
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| (noun) an ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade | Synonyms: poleaxe |
| (verb) fell with or as if with a poleax | Synonyms: poleaxe |
| poleaxe | (noun) a battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick | Synonyms: poleax |
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| (noun) an ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade | Synonyms: poleax |
| (verb) fell with or as if with a poleax | Synonyms: poleax |
| polecat | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: fitch, foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius |
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| (noun) American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae | Synonyms: skunk, wood pussy |
| polemic | (adjective) of or involving dispute or controversy | Synonyms: polemical |
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| (noun) a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma) | - |
| (noun) a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) | Synonyms: polemicist, polemist |
| polemical | (adjective) of or involving dispute or controversy | Synonyms: polemic |
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| polemically | (adverb) involving controversy | Synonyms: controversially |
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| polemicise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicize, polemise, polemize |
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| polemicist | (noun) a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) | Synonyms: polemic, polemist |
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| polemicize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemise, polemize |
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| polemics | (noun) the branch of Christian theology devoted to the refutation of errors | - |
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| polemise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemize |
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| polemist | (noun) a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) | Synonyms: polemic, polemicist |
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| polemize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemise |
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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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| polenta | (noun) a thick mush made of cornmeal boiled in stock or water | - |
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| poler | (noun) a draft horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle | Synonyms: pole horse |
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| polestar | (noun) the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it | Synonyms: North Star, polar star, Polaris, pole star |
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| pooler | (noun) someone who shares in and contributes to a general fund for use by all | - |
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| porthole | (noun) a window in a ship or airplane | - |
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| (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: embrasure, port |
| posthole | (noun) a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post | Synonyms: post hole |
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| pothole | (noun) a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface) | Synonyms: chuckhole |
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| potholed | (adjective) used of paved surfaces having holes or pits | Synonyms: pocked, pockmarked |
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| potholer | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: spelaeologist, speleologist, spelunker |
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| pratincole | (noun) Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers | Synonyms: glareole |
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| preadolescent | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preteen |
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| precooled | (adjective) cooled in advance | - |
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| preschooler | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, kindergartner |
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| profiterole | (noun) a small hollow pastry that is typically filled with cream and covered with chocolate | - |
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| prole | (noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: proletarian, worker |
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| prolegomenon | (noun) a preliminary discussion inserted at the beginning of a book or treatise | - |
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| prolepsis | (noun) anticipating and answering objections in advance | - |
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| proletarian | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat | - |
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| (noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: prole, worker |
| proletarianism | (noun) The condition or political position of a member of the working class. | - |
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| proletariat | (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, labour, working class |
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| rathole | (noun) a small dirty uncomfortable room | - |
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| (noun) a hole (as in the wall of a building) made by rats | - |
| redolence | (noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: bouquet, fragrance, fragrancy, sweetness |
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| redolent | (adjective) having a strong pleasant odor | Synonyms: aromatic |
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| (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, remindful, reminiscent, resonant |
| (adjective) (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous | Synonyms: smelling |
| resole | (verb) put a new sole on | Synonyms: sole |
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| ridgepole | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridge, rooftree |
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| rigamarole | (noun) a long and complicated and confusing procedure | Synonyms: rigmarole |
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| (noun) a set of confused and meaningless statements | Synonyms: rigmarole |
| rigmarole | (noun) a long and complicated and confusing procedure | Synonyms: rigamarole |
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| (noun) a set of confused and meaningless statements | Synonyms: rigamarole |
| rissole | (noun) minced cooked meat or fish coated in egg and breadcrumbs and fried in deep fat | - |
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| rocambole | (noun) European leek cultivated and used like leeks | Synonyms: Allium scorodoprasum, giant garlic, sand leek, Spanish garlic |
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| role | (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: function, office, part |
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| (noun) normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting | - |
| (noun) what something is used for | Synonyms: function, purpose, use |
| (noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | Synonyms: character, part, persona, theatrical role |
| roleplay | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, playact |
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| roleplaying | (noun) acting a particular role (as in psychotherapy) | - |
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| sarcolemma | (noun) an extensible membrane enclosing the contractile substance of a muscle fiber | - |
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| sarcolemmal | (adjective) of or relating to the sarcolemma | - |
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| sarcolemmic | (adjective) of or relating to sarcolemma | Synonyms: sarcolemnous |
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| sarcolemnous | (adjective) of or relating to sarcolemma | Synonyms: sarcolemmic |
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| sertindole | (noun) an antipsychotic medication used in the treatment of schizophrenia. | - |
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| shibboleth | (noun) a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people | - |
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| (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, motto, slogan |
| simoleons | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, sugar, wampum |
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| 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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| sole | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, lonesome, only, solitary |
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| (adjective) not divided or shared with others | Synonyms: exclusive |
| (noun) right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European | - |
| (noun) the underside of footwear or a golf club | - |
| (noun) the underside of the foot | - |
| (noun) lean flesh of any of several flatfish | Synonyms: fillet of sole |
| (verb) put a new sole on | Synonyms: resole |
| solebar | (noun) one of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor. | Synonyms: side sill |
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| solecism | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip |
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| soled | (adjective) having a sole or soles especially as specified; used in combination | - |
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| soleless | (adjective) having no sole | - |
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| solely | (adverb) without any others being included or involved | Synonyms: alone, entirely, exclusively, only |
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| solemn | (adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: grave, sedate, sober |
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| (adjective) characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions | Synonyms: earnest, sincere |
| solemness | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemnity, staidness |
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| solemnisation | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnization |
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| solemnise | (verb) make solemn and grave | Synonyms: solemnize |
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| (verb) observe or perform with dignity or gravity | Synonyms: solemnize |
| (verb) perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies | Synonyms: solemnize |
| solemnity | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemness, staidness |
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| (noun) a solemn and dignified feeling | Synonyms: gravity |
| solemnization | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnisation |
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| solemnize | (verb) make solemn and grave | Synonyms: solemnise |
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| (verb) observe or perform with dignity or gravity | Synonyms: solemnise |
| (verb) perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies | Synonyms: solemnise |
| solemnly | (adverb) in a grave and sedate manner | - |
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| solenogaster | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: aplacophoran |
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| solenoid | (noun) a coil of wire around an iron core; becomes a magnet when current passes through the coil | - |
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| soleus | (noun) a broad flat muscle in the calf of the leg under the gastrocnemius muscle | Synonyms: soleus muscle |
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| somnolence | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: drowsiness, sleepiness |
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| somnolent | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous |
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| somnolently | (adverb) in a drowsy manner | Synonyms: drowsily |
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| spyhole | (noun) a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep | Synonyms: eyehole, peephole |
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| stokehole | (noun) (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired | Synonyms: fireroom, stokehold |
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| stole | (noun) a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women | - |
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| sulfamethoxazole | (noun) a sulfonamide (trade name Gantanol) used to treat infections (especially infections of the urinary tract) | Synonyms: Gantanol |
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| sulfisoxazole | (noun) a sulfonamide (trade name Gantrisin) used to treat infections of the urinary tract | Synonyms: Gantrisin |
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| supermolecule | (noun) any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals | Synonyms: macromolecule |
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| swole | (adjective) Extremely muscled | - |
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| systole | (noun) the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery | - |
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| tadpole | (noun) a larval frog or toad | Synonyms: polliwog, pollywog |
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| thiabendazole | (noun) an antifungal agent and anthelmintic | - |
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| thole | (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, rowlock, tholepin |
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| tholepin | (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, rowlock, thole |
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| thumbhole | (noun) a finger hole made to fit the thumb (as in a bowling ball) | - |
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| (noun) the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb | - |