| pictorially | (adverb) in a pictorial manner | - |
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| piscatorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatory |
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| plethoric | (adjective) excessively abundant | Synonyms: overabundant, rife |
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| poriferan | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: parazoan, sponge |
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| poriferous | (adjective) full of pores or vessels or holes | Synonyms: porous |
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| posteriority | (noun) the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end | - |
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| (noun) following in time | Synonyms: subsequence, subsequentness |
| praetorial | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorian, pretorial, pretorian |
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| praetorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, pretorial, pretorian |
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| praetorium | (noun) the tent of an ancient Roman general | Synonyms: pretorium |
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| prechlorination | (noun) chlorination prior to another chemical process | - |
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| prefatorial | (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: introductory, prefatory |
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| prehistoric | (adjective) of or relating to times before written history | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history | Synonyms: prehistorical |
| (adjective) outdated | - |
| prehistorical | (adjective) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history | Synonyms: prehistoric |
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| pretorial | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorian |
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| pretorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorial |
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| pretorium | (noun) the tent of an ancient Roman general | Synonyms: praetorium |
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| prioritise | (verb) assign a priority to | Synonyms: prioritize |
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| prioritize | (verb) assign a priority to | Synonyms: prioritise |
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| priority | (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency |
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| (noun) status established in order of importance or urgency | Synonyms: precedence, precedency |
| professorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of professors | - |
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| professorially | (adverb) in a professorial manner | - |
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| psoriasis | (noun) a chronic skin disease characterized by dry red patches covered with scales; occurs especially on the scalp and ears and genitalia and the skin over bony prominences | - |
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| punitorily | (adverb) in a way intended to punish | Synonyms: penally, punitively |
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| purgatorial | (adjective) of or resembling purgatory | - |
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| (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purging, purifying |
| purificatorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: emunctorium, purificator |
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| pyloric | (adjective) relating to or near the pylorus | - |
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| radiochlorine | (noun) a radioactive isotope of chlorine | - |
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| radiothorium | (noun) radioactive isotope of thorium with mass number 228 | Synonyms: thorium-228 |
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| raptorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of birds of prey | - |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
| reflectorise | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorize |
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| reflectorize | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorise |
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| refractoriness | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, unmanageableness |
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| reorient | (verb) set or arrange in a new or different determinate position | - |
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| (verb) cause to turn | - |
| (verb) orient once again, after a disorientation | Synonyms: reorientate |
| reorientate | (verb) orient once again, after a disorientation | Synonyms: reorient |
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| reorientation | (noun) the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented | Synonyms: change of direction |
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| (noun) a fresh orientation; a changed set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
| rhetoric | (noun) study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) | - |
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| (noun) using language effectively to please or persuade | - |
| (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness |
| (noun) loud and confused and empty talk | Synonyms: empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver |
| rhetorical | (adjective) given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to rhetoric | - |
| rhetorically | (adverb) in a rhetorical manner | - |
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| rhetorician | (noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration | Synonyms: orator, public speaker, speechifier, speechmaker |
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| rhinosporidiosis | (noun) fungal infection of the nose; often acquired while swimming | - |
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| roridula | (noun) either of 2 species of the genus Roridula; South African viscid perennial low-growing woody shrubs | - |
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| salutatorian | (noun) a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises | Synonyms: salutatory speaker |
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| salvinorin | (noun) a hallucinogen obtained from Salvia divinorum | - |
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| sanatorium | (noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | Synonyms: sanatarium, sanitarium |
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| (noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum | Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, snake pit |
| sarcosporidian | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystidean, sarcocystieian |
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| sartorial | (adjective) of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the sartorius muscle | - |
| sartorius | (noun) a muscle in the thigh that helps to rotate the leg into the sitting position assumed by a tailor; the longest muscle in the human body | Synonyms: musculus sartorius, sartorius muscle |
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| satisfactorily | (adverb) in a satisfactory manner | - |
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| satisfactoriness | (noun) the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement | - |
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| satori | (noun) (Zen Buddhism) a state of sudden spiritual enlightenment | - |
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| savoriness | (noun) having an appetizing flavor | Synonyms: flavorsomeness, flavoursomeness |
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| savoring | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, relishing, savouring, tasting |
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| scoria | (noun) the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals | Synonyms: dross, slag |
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| scoring | (noun) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score | Synonyms: grading, marking |
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| scriptorium | (noun) a room in a monastery that is set aside for writing or copying manuscripts | - |
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| sectorial | (adjective) relating to or resembling a sector | - |
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| senatorial | (adjective) of or relating to senators | - |
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| senioritis | (noun) tiredness with the final year of high school | - |
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| seniority | (noun) the property of being long-lived | Synonyms: longevity |
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| (noun) higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service | Synonyms: higher rank, higher status, senior status |
| sensorial | (adjective) involving or derived from the senses | Synonyms: sensory |
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| sensorimotor | (adjective) of or relating to the sensory and motor coordination of an organism or to the controlling nerves | - |
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| sensorineural | (adjective) of or relating to the neural process of sensation | - |
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| sensorium | (noun) the areas of the brain that process and register incoming sensory information and make possible the conscious awareness of the world | - |
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| shoring | (noun) the act of propping up with shores | Synonyms: propping up, shoring up |
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| (noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support | Synonyms: shore |
| signorina | (noun) an Italian courtesy title for an unmarried woman; equivalent to `Miss', it is either used alone or before a name | - |
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| snoring | (noun) the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound | Synonyms: snore, stertor |
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| sonority | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| soporiferous | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, hypnogogic, somniferous, somnific, soporific |
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| (adjective) inducing mental lethargy | Synonyms: narcotic, soporific |
| soporific | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, hypnogogic, somniferous, somnific, soporiferous |
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| (adjective) inducing mental lethargy | Synonyms: narcotic, soporiferous |
| (noun) a drug that induces sleep | Synonyms: hypnotic |
| sorority | (noun) a social club for female undergraduates | - |
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| statutorily | (adverb) according to statute | - |
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| stentorian | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: booming |
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| storied | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: celebrated, historied |
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| (adjective) having stories as indicated | Synonyms: storeyed |
| suctorial | (adjective) adapted for sucking or clinging by suction | - |
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| sudatorium | (noun) a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths | Synonyms: sudatory |
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| sudorific | (adjective) inducing perspiration | Synonyms: diaphoretic |
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| (noun) a medicine that causes or increases sweating | Synonyms: sudatory |
| superiority | (noun) the quality of being superior | Synonyms: high quality |
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| (noun) the quality of being at a competitive advantage | Synonyms: favorable position, favourable position |
| (noun) displaying a sense of being better than others | - |
| (noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: transcendence, transcendency |
| tailoring | (noun) the occupation of a tailor | - |
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| temporise | (verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time | Synonyms: temporize |
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| temporiser | (noun) someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time | Synonyms: temporizer |
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| temporize | (verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time | Synonyms: temporise |
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| temporizer | (noun) someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time | Synonyms: temporiser |
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| tenorist | (noun) a musician who plays the tenor saxophone | Synonyms: tenor saxophonist |
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| tentorium | (noun) (anatomy) a fold of dura mater that covers the cerebellum and supports the occipital lobes of the cerebrum | - |
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| territorial | (adjective) belonging to the territory of any state or ruler | - |
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| (adjective) displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a territory | - |
| (noun) a territorial military unit | Synonyms: territorial reserve |
| (noun) nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit | - |
| territorialisation | (noun) the act of organizing as a territory | Synonyms: territorialization |
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| territorialise | (verb) extend by adding territory | Synonyms: territorialize |
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| (verb) place on a territorial basis | Synonyms: territorialize |
| (verb) organize as a territory | Synonyms: territorialize |
| territoriality | (noun) the behavior of a male animal that defines and defends its territory | - |
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| territorialization | (noun) the act of organizing as a territory | Synonyms: territorialisation |
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| territorialize | (verb) extend by adding territory | Synonyms: territorialise |
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| (verb) place on a territorial basis | Synonyms: territorialise |
| (verb) organize as a territory | Synonyms: territorialise |
| territorially | (adverb) with respect to territory | - |
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| terrorisation | (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: frightening, terrorization |
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| (noun) an act of terrorism | Synonyms: terrorization |
| terrorise | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrify, terrorize |
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| (verb) coerce by violence or with threats | Synonyms: terrorize |
| terrorism | (noun) the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear | Synonyms: act of terrorism, terrorist act |
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| terrorist | (noun) a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities | - |
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| terrorization | (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: frightening, terrorisation |
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| (noun) an act of terrorism | Synonyms: terrorisation |
| terrorize | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrify, terrorise |
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| (verb) coerce by violence or with threats | Synonyms: terrorise |
| tetrachloride | (noun) any compound that contains four chlorine atoms per molecule | - |
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| theorisation | (noun) the production or use of theories | Synonyms: theorization |
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| theorise | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorize |
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