| nosebag | (noun) a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse); covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head | Synonyms: feedbag |
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| noseband | (noun) a strap that is the part of a bridle that goes over the animal's nose | Synonyms: nosepiece |
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| nosebleed | (noun) bleeding from the nose | Synonyms: epistaxis |
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| nosecount | (noun) a periodic count of the population | Synonyms: census, nose count |
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| nosed | (adjective) having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind | - |
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| nosedive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: dive, nose dive |
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| (noun) a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline | - |
| (verb) plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft | - |
| nosegay | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: bouquet, corsage, posy |
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| noseless | (adjective) having no nose | - |
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| nosepiece | (noun) the link between two lenses; rests on the nose | Synonyms: bridge |
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| (noun) armor plate that protects the nose | - |
| (noun) a strap that is the part of a bridle that goes over the animal's nose | Synonyms: noseband |
| nosewheel | (noun) a wheel located under the nose of an airplane that is part of the plane's landing gear | - |
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| nosey | (adjective) offensively curious or inquisitive | Synonyms: nosy, prying, snoopy |
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| operose | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome |
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| operoseness | (noun) the quality of requiring extended effort | Synonyms: laboriousness, toilsomeness |
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| oppose | (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, controvert |
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| (verb) be against; express opposition to | - |
| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: match, pit, play off |
| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: defend, fight, fight back, fight down |
| (verb) act against or in opposition to | Synonyms: react |
| (verb) contrast with equal weight or force | Synonyms: counterbalance |
| opposed | (adjective) being in opposition or having an opponent | - |
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| opposer | (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opponent, resister |
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| otiose | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: faineant, indolent, lazy, slothful, work-shy |
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| (adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, ineffectual, meaningless, unavailing |
| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
| overdose | (verb) dose too heavily | Synonyms: o.d. |
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| overexpose | (verb) expose excessively | - |
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| (verb) expose to too much light | - |
| pantyhose | (noun) a woman's tights consisting of underpants and stockings | - |
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| papillose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillary |
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| papoose | (noun) an American Indian infant | Synonyms: pappoose |
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| papooseroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, squaw root, squawroot |
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| pappoose | (noun) an American Indian infant | Synonyms: papoose |
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| pappose | (adjective) (of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles | - |
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| pentose | (noun) any monosaccharide sugar containing five atoms of carbon per molecule | - |
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| photosensitise | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitize |
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| photosensitive | (adjective) sensitive to visible light | Synonyms: light-sensitive |
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| photosensitivity | (noun) sensitivity to the action of radiant energy | Synonyms: radiosensitivity |
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| photosensitize | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitise |
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| picosecond | (noun) one trillionth (10^-12) of a second; one thousandth of a nanosecond | - |
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| pilose | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilary, pilous |
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| pilosebaceous | (adjective) of or relating to a hair follicle and its sebaceous gland | - |
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| plumose | (adjective) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | Synonyms: plumate, plumed |
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| polyose | (noun) any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules | Synonyms: polysaccharide |
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| porose | (adjective) forming a continuous series of pores | - |
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| pose | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, affectedness, mannerism |
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| (noun) affected manners intended to impress others | Synonyms: airs |
| (noun) a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes | - |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: impersonate, personate |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, position, put, set |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, posture, sit |
| (verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others | Synonyms: posture |
| (verb) offer for others to consider | Synonyms: present |
| posed | (adjective) arranged for pictorial purposes | - |
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| poser | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: sticker, stumper, toughie |
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| (noun) a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor | Synonyms: model |
| (noun) a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not | Synonyms: poseur |
| poseur | (noun) a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not | Synonyms: poser |
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| poseuse | (noun) a woman poseur | - |
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| postpose | (verb) place after another constituent in the sentence | - |
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| predispose | (verb) make susceptible | - |
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| predisposed | (adjective) made susceptible | - |
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| prepose | (verb) place before another constituent in the sentence | - |
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| presuppose | (verb) require as a necessary antecedent or precondition | Synonyms: suppose |
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| (verb) take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand | Synonyms: suppose |
| primrose | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primula |
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| propose | (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: project |
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| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, purport, purpose |
| (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: advise, suggest |
| (verb) ask (someone) to marry you | Synonyms: declare oneself, offer, pop the question |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: nominate |
| proposer | (noun) (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion | Synonyms: mover |
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| (noun) someone who advances a suggestion or proposal | Synonyms: suggester |
| prose | (noun) ordinary writing as distinguished from verse | - |
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| (noun) matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression | - |
| prosecute | (verb) bring a criminal action against (in a trial) | - |
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| (verb) conduct a prosecution in a court of law | - |
| (verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: engage, pursue |
| prosecution | (noun) the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior | Synonyms: criminal prosecution |
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| (noun) the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion | Synonyms: pursuance |
| (noun) the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant | - |
| prosecutor | (noun) a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state | Synonyms: prosecuting attorney, prosecuting officer, public prosecutor |
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| proselyte | (noun) a new convert; especially a gentile converted to Judaism | - |
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| proselytise | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytize |
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| proselytism | (noun) the state of being a proselyte; spiritual rebirth resulting from the zeal of crusading advocacy of the gospel | - |
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| (noun) the practice of proselytizing | - |
| proselytize | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytise |
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| proseminar | (noun) a course of study like a graduate seminar but often open to advanced undergraduates. | - |
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| prosencephalon | (noun) the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube | Synonyms: forebrain |
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| psychosexual | (adjective) of or relating to the mental or emotional attitudes about sexuality | - |
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| psychosexuality | (noun) the mental representation of sexual activities | - |
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| purpose | (noun) what something is used for | Synonyms: function, role, use |
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| (noun) the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose | Synonyms: determination |
| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, design, intent, intention |
| (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purport |
| purposeful | (adjective) serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal | - |
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| (adjective) having meaning through having an aim | - |
| purposefully | (adverb) in a purposeful manner | - |
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| purposefulness | (noun) the quality of having a definite purpose | Synonyms: sense of purpose |
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| purposeless | (adjective) not evidencing any purpose or goal | - |
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| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, pointless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
| purposelessly | (adverb) without a clear purpose | - |
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| purposelessness | (noun) the quality of lacking any definite purpose | Synonyms: aimlessness |
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| purposely | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose |
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| pyrocellulose | (noun) nitrocellulose containing less nitrogen than guncotton; used in making smokeless powder | - |
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| quartzose | (adjective) relating to or made of quartz | - |
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| racemose | (adjective) having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow | - |
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| radiosensitive | (adjective) sensitive to radiation | - |
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| radiosensitivity | (noun) sensitivity to the action of radiant energy | Synonyms: photosensitivity |
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| raffinose | (noun) a trisaccharide that occurs in sugar beets and cotton seeds and certain cereals | - |
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| ramose | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, branching, ramate, ramous |
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| redispose | (verb) dispose anew | - |
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| reimpose | (verb) impose anew | - |
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| repose | (noun) freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) | Synonyms: ease, relaxation, rest |
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| (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: placidity, quiet, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity |
| (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, heartsease, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, serenity |
| (verb) put or confide something in a person or thing | - |
| (verb) lie when dead | - |
| (verb) put in a horizontal position | Synonyms: lay, put down |
| (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recline, recumb |
| (verb) to put something (eg trust) in something | - |
| (verb) be inherent or innate in | Synonyms: reside, rest |
| reposeful | (adjective) affording physical or mental rest | Synonyms: relaxing, restful |
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| ribose | (noun) a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid | - |
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| rimose | (adjective) having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices | - |
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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 |
| rose | (adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color | Synonyms: rosaceous, roseate |
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| (noun) a dusty pink color | Synonyms: rosiness |
| (noun) pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began | Synonyms: blush wine, pink wine, rose wine |
| (noun) any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses | Synonyms: rosebush |
| roseate | (adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color | Synonyms: rosaceous, rose |
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| rosebay | (noun) late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers | Synonyms: Rhododendron maxima |
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| rosebud | (noun) (a literary reference to) a pretty young girl | - |
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| (noun) the bud of a rose | - |
| rosebush | (noun) any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses | Synonyms: rose |
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| rosefish | (noun) large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe | Synonyms: ocean perch, Sebastes marinus |
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| (noun) North Atlantic rockfish | Synonyms: ocean perch, redfish |
| rosehip | (noun) the fruit of a rose plant | Synonyms: hip, rose hip |
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| roselle | (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, rozelle, sorrel |
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| rosemaling | (noun) a Scandinavian style of carved or painted decoration (as on furniture or walls or dinnerware) consisting of floral motifs | - |
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| rosemary | (noun) extremely pungent leaves used fresh or dried as seasoning for especially meats | - |
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| (noun) widely cultivated for its fragrant grey-green leaves used in cooking and in perfumery | Synonyms: Rosmarinus officinalis |
| roseola | (noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: efflorescence, rash, skin rash |
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| rosette | (noun) an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor | - |
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| (noun) circular window filled with tracery | Synonyms: rose window |
| (noun) a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground) | - |
| (noun) rhizoctinia disease of potatoes | Synonyms: little potato, russet scab, stem canker |
| rosewood | (noun) any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black | Synonyms: rosewood tree |
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| (noun) hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork | - |
| rugose | (adjective) of leaves; ridged or wrinkled | - |
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| saccharose | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent | Synonyms: sucrose |
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| scapose | (adjective) resembling or consisting of a scape; having a bare leafless stalk growing directly from the ground | - |
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| schmoose | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze |
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| (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |