| propeller | (noun) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | Synonyms: propellor |
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| propelling | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propulsive |
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| propellor | (noun) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | Synonyms: propeller |
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| propenal | (noun) a pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene | Synonyms: acrolein |
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| propene | (noun) a flammable gas obtained by cracking petroleum; used in organic synthesis | Synonyms: propylene |
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| propenoate | (noun) a salt or ester of propenoic acid | Synonyms: acrylate |
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| propenonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: acrylonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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| propensity | (noun) a disposition to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: aptness |
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| (noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: leaning, proclivity |
| (noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: leaning, tendency |
| proper | (adjective) marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) having all the qualities typical of the thing specified | - |
| (adjective) limited to the thing specified | - |
| properly | (adverb) in the right manner; correctly; suitably | Synonyms: decent, decently, right |
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| (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: appropriately, befittingly, duly, fitly, fittingly, suitably |
| (adverb) indicating exactness or preciseness | Synonyms: exactly, just, precisely |
| properness | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: correctitude, propriety |
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| propertied | (adjective) owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue | Synonyms: property-owning |
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| property | (noun) any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie | Synonyms: prop |
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| (noun) a basic or essential property shared by all members of a class | - |
| (noun) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished | Synonyms: attribute, dimension |
| (noun) any area set aside for a particular purpose | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: belongings, holding |
| propertyless | (adjective) of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers | Synonyms: blue-collar, wage-earning, working-class |
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| pseudoperipteral | (adjective) having columniation completely circling an area of the structure | Synonyms: peristylar |
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| pyrope | (noun) a deep red garnet used as a gemstone | - |
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| pyroscope | (noun) a pyrometer that uses the color of the light emitted by a hot object | Synonyms: optical pyrometer |
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| radioisotope | (noun) a radioactive isotope of an element; produced either naturally or artificially | - |
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| reopen | (verb) open again or anew | - |
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| rhinoscope | (noun) medical instrument consisting of a mirror mounted at an angle on a rod; used to examine the nasal passages (through the nasopharynx) | - |
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| roentgenoscope | (noun) an X-ray machine that combines an X-ray source and a fluorescent screen to enable direct observation | Synonyms: fluoroscope |
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| rope | (noun) a strong line | - |
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| (noun) street names for flunitrazepam | Synonyms: circle, forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roach, roofy, rophy |
| (verb) fasten with a rope | Synonyms: leash |
| (verb) catch with a lasso | Synonyms: lasso |
| ropebark | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, wicopy |
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| ropedancer | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground | Synonyms: ropewalker |
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| ropemaker | (noun) a craftsman who makes ropes | Synonyms: rope-maker, roper |
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| roper | (noun) a craftsman who makes ropes | Synonyms: rope-maker, ropemaker |
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| (noun) a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses | - |
| (noun) a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game) | - |
| ropewalk | (noun) workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made | Synonyms: rope yard |
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| ropewalker | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground | Synonyms: ropedancer |
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| ropeway | (noun) a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers | Synonyms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, tram, tramway |
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| ropey | (adjective) of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong | Synonyms: ropy |
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| (adjective) (British informal) very poor in quality | Synonyms: ropy |
| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropy, stringy, thready |
| salopettes | (noun) trousers usually of stretch material and kept taut by a strap under the foot, worn for skiing or as a fashion garment. | Synonyms: ski pants |
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| sapropel | (noun) sludge (rich in organic matter) that accumulates at the bottom of lakes or oceans | - |
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| scalloped | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, crenated |
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| schizopetalon | (noun) a dainty South American annual having deeply pinnatifid leaves and racemes of fringed almond-scented purple-white flowers | Synonyms: Schizopetalon walkeri |
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| scolopendrium | (noun) a fern thought to resemble a millipede | - |
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| scope | (noun) electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities | Synonyms: cathode-ray oscilloscope, CRO, oscilloscope |
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| (noun) a magnifier of images of distant objects | Synonyms: telescope |
| (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, range, reach |
| (noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: background, setting |
| sideropenia | (noun) a deficiency of iron; results from inadequate iron in the diet or from hemorrhage | - |
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| sigmoidoscope | (noun) an endoscope (a flexible fiberoptic probe) for examining the sigmoid colon | Synonyms: flexible sigmoidoscope |
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| sinoper | (noun) a red ocher formerly used as a pigment | Synonyms: sinopia, sinopis |
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| slope | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: gradient |
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| (noun) an elevated geological formation | Synonyms: incline, side |
| (verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: incline, pitch |
| sloped | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloping |
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| snooper | (noun) a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others | Synonyms: snoop |
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| spectroscope | (noun) an optical instrument for spectrographic analysis | Synonyms: prism spectroscope |
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| stanhope | (noun) a light open horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels and one seat | - |
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| stanhopea | (noun) any of various orchids of the genus Stanhopea having a single large leaf and loose racemes of large fragrant flowers of various colors; Mexico to Brazil | - |
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| statoscope | (noun) An instrument that indicates small changes in an aircraft's altitude by recording small variations in atmospheric pressure. | - |
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| stereoscope | (noun) an optical device for viewing stereoscopic photographs | - |
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| stethoscope | (noun) a medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body | - |
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| stooped | (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: crooked, hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooping |
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| stooper | (noun) a person who carries himself or herself with the head and shoulders habitually bent forward | - |
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| (noun) a person at a racetrack who searches for winning parimutuel tickets that have been carelessly discarded by others | - |
| stroboscope | (noun) scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary | Synonyms: strobe, strobe light |
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| synchronoscope | (noun) an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | Synonyms: synchroniser, synchronizer, synchroscope |
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| synchroscope | (noun) an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | Synonyms: synchroniser, synchronizer, synchronoscope |
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| syncope | (noun) (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle') | Synonyms: syncopation |
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| (noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: deliquium, faint, swoon |
| tachistoscope | (noun) scientific instrument used by psychologists; presents visual stimuli for brief exposures | Synonyms: t-scope |
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| telescope | (noun) a magnifier of images of distant objects | Synonyms: scope |
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| (verb) make smaller or shorter | - |
| (verb) crush together or collapse | - |
| telescoped | (adjective) shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another | Synonyms: shortened |
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| thiopental | (noun) barbiturate that is a hygroscopic powder (trade name Pentothal) that is a strong barbiturate that acts rapidly; induces a relaxed state when injected as a general anesthetic | Synonyms: Pentothal, thiopental sodium, thiopentobarbital sodium |
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| thrombocytopenia | (noun) a blood disease characterized by an abnormally small number of platelets in the blood | Synonyms: thrombopenia |
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| thrombopenia | (noun) a blood disease characterized by an abnormally small number of platelets in the blood | Synonyms: thrombocytopenia |
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| tightrope | (noun) tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground | - |
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| tope | (noun) a dome-shaped shrine erected by Buddhists | Synonyms: stupa |
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| (verb) drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic | Synonyms: drink |
| topee | (noun) a lightweight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun | Synonyms: pith hat, pith helmet, sun helmet, topi |
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| toper | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: drinker, imbiber, juicer |
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| towrope | (noun) (nautical) a rope used in towing | Synonyms: towing line, towing rope, towline |
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| trooper | (noun) a mounted police officer | - |
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| (noun) a soldier in a motorized army unit | Synonyms: cavalryman |
| (noun) a state police officer | Synonyms: state trooper |
| (noun) a soldier mounted on horseback | Synonyms: cavalryman |
| trope | (noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure, figure of speech, image |
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| twopence | (noun) a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies | Synonyms: tuppence |
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| twopenny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: sixpenny, threepenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny |
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| ultramicroscope | (noun) light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes | Synonyms: dark-field microscope |
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| uncooperative | (adjective) unwilling to cooperate | - |
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| (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: disobliging |
| underdeveloped | (adjective) not yet fully developed | - |
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| (adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: developing |
| undeveloped | (adjective) not developed, mature, or fully formulated | - |
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| (adjective) not developed, improved, exploited or used | Synonyms: unexploited |
| unhoped | (adjective) so unexpected as to have not been imagined | Synonyms: unhoped-for, unthought-of, unthought |
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| unhopeful | (adjective) showing utter resignation or hopelessness | Synonyms: abject |
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| unopen | (adjective) not open | Synonyms: closed, shut |
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| unopened | (adjective) not yet opened or unsealed | - |
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| unsloped | (adjective) in a vertical position; not sloping | Synonyms: upright |
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| vaginoscope | (noun) An endoscopic instrument that magnifies the epithelia of the vagina and cervix in vivo to allow direct observation and study of these tissues. | Synonyms: colposcope |
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| walloper | (noun) a gross untruth; a blatant lie | Synonyms: whopper |
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| (noun) a winner by a wide margin | - |
| (noun) a very hard hitter | - |
| whoopee | (noun) noisy and boisterous revelry | - |
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| whooper | (noun) common Old World swan noted for its whooping call | Synonyms: Cygnus cygnus, whooper swan |
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| (noun) rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call | Synonyms: Grus americana, whooping crane |