| postexilic | (adjective) of or relating to the period in Jewish history after 539 BC (after the Babylonian Captivity) | - |
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| postfix | (noun) an affix that is added at the end of the word | Synonyms: suffix |
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| postganglionic | (adjective) beyond or distal to a ganglion (referring especially to the unmyelinated fibers that originate from cells in autonomic ganglia) | - |
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| postglacial | (adjective) relating to or occurring during the time following a glacial period | - |
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| postgraduate | (adjective) of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree | Synonyms: graduate |
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| (noun) a student who continues studies after graduation | Synonyms: grad student, graduate student |
| posthitis | (noun) inflammation of the foreskin of the penis; usually caused by bacterial infection | - |
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| posthole | (noun) a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post | Synonyms: post hole |
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| posthouse | (noun) an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders | Synonyms: post house |
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| posthumous | (adjective) occurring or coming into existence after a person's death | - |
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| posthumously | (adverb) after death | - |
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| postiche | (noun) something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be | Synonyms: fake, sham |
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| (noun) a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment | Synonyms: false hair, hairpiece |
| postictal | (adjective) pertaining to the period following a seizure or convulsion | - |
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| postilion | (noun) someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman) | Synonyms: postillion |
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| postillion | (noun) someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman) | Synonyms: postilion |
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| postindustrial | (adjective) of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research | - |
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| posting | (noun) the transmission of a letter | Synonyms: mailing |
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| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, placard, poster |
| (noun) (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records | - |
| postlude | (noun) a voluntary played at the end of a religious service | - |
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| postman | (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman |
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| postmark | (noun) a cancellation mark stamped on mail by postal officials; indicates the post office and date of mailing | - |
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| (verb) stamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing | Synonyms: frank |
| postmaster | (noun) the person in charge of a post office | - |
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| postmenopausal | (adjective) subsequent to menopause | - |
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| postmeridian | (adjective) after midday | - |
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| postmillennial | (adjective) of or relating to the period following the millennium | - |
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| postmistress | (noun) a woman postmaster | - |
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| postmodern | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodernist |
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| postmodernism | (noun) genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism | - |
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| postmodernist | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodern |
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| postmortal | (adjective) occurring or done after death | Synonyms: postmortem |
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| postmortem | (adjective) occurring or done after death | Synonyms: postmortal |
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| (adjective) after death or after an event | - |
| (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: autopsy, necropsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem examination |
| (noun) discussion of an event after it has occurred | Synonyms: post-mortem |
| postnatal | (adjective) occurring immediately after birth | Synonyms: postpartum |
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| postnuptial | (adjective) relating to events after a marriage | - |
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| postoperative | (adjective) happening or done after a surgical operation | - |
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| postoperatively | (adverb) after the operation | - |
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| postpaid | (adjective) used especially of mail; paid in advance | Synonyms: prepaid |
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| postpartum | (adjective) occurring immediately after birth | Synonyms: postnatal |
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| postpone | (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
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| postponement | (noun) act of putting off to a future time | Synonyms: deferment, deferral |
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| (noun) time during which some action is awaited | Synonyms: delay, hold, time lag, wait |
| postponer | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: cunctator, procrastinator |
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| postpose | (verb) place after another constituent in the sentence | - |
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| postposition | (noun) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached) | - |
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| postpositive | (adjective) (of a modifier) placed after another word | - |
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| postprandial | (adjective) following a meal (especially dinner) | - |
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| postscript | (noun) a note appended to a letter after the signature | Synonyms: PS |
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| (noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: addendum, supplement |
| postulant | (noun) one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order | - |
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| postulate | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: posit |
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| (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: posit |
| (verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: contend |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, require, take |
| postulation | (noun) (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument | Synonyms: predication |
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| (noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: petition, request |
| postulational | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatic, axiomatical |
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| postulator | (noun) someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument | - |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) someone who proposes or pleads for a candidate for beatification or canonization | - |
| postural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving posture | - |
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| posture | (noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: attitude, position |
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| (noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: bearing, carriage |
| (noun) capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war | Synonyms: military capability, military posture, military strength, strength |
| (noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: position, stance |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, pose, sit |
| (verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others | Synonyms: pose |
| posturer | (noun) someone who behaves in a manner calculated to impress or mislead others | - |
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| posturing | (noun) adopting a vain conceited posture | - |
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| postwar | (adjective) belonging to the period after a war | - |
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| preposterous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, ridiculous |
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| preposterously | (adverb) so as to arouse or deserve laughter | Synonyms: laughably, ludicrously, ridiculously |
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| prognostic | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognosticative |
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| (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostication |
| prognosticate | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage |
| prognostication | (noun) knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) | Synonyms: prophecy, vaticination |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prediction |
| (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic |
| prognosticative | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognostic |
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| prognosticator | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, predictor, soothsayer |
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| prostaglandin | (noun) a potent substance that acts like a hormone and is found in many bodily tissues (and especially in semen); produced in response to trauma and may affect blood pressure and metabolism and smooth muscle activity | - |
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| prostate | (adjective) relating to the prostate gland | Synonyms: prostatic |
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| (noun) a firm partly muscular chestnut sized gland in males at the neck of the urethra; produces a viscid secretion that is the fluid part of semen | Synonyms: prostate gland |
| prostatectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the prostate gland | - |
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| prostatic | (adjective) relating to the prostate gland | Synonyms: prostate |
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| prostatitis | (noun) inflammation of the prostate gland characterized by perineal pain and irregular urination and (if severe) chills and fever | - |
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| prostheon | (noun) craniometric point that is the most anterior point in the midline on the alveolar process of the maxilla | Synonyms: alveolar point, prosthion |
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| prosthesis | (noun) corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body | Synonyms: prosthetic device |
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| prosthetic | (adjective) relating to or serving as a prosthesis | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to prosthetics | - |
| prosthetics | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the production and use of artificial body parts | - |
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| prosthetist | (noun) an expert in prosthetics | - |
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| prosthion | (noun) craniometric point that is the most anterior point in the midline on the alveolar process of the maxilla | Synonyms: alveolar point, prostheon |
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| prosthodontia | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with the replacement of teeth and related mouth or jaw structures by artificial devices | Synonyms: prosthodontics |
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| prosthodontic | (adjective) of or relating to prosthodontics | - |
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| prosthodontics | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with the replacement of teeth and related mouth or jaw structures by artificial devices | Synonyms: prosthodontia |
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| prosthodontist | (noun) a dentist who is expert in prosthodontics | - |
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| prostitute | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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| (verb) sell one's body; exchange sex for money | - |
| prostitution | (noun) offering sexual intercourse for pay | Synonyms: harlotry, whoredom |
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| prostrate | (adjective) stretched out and lying at full length along the ground | Synonyms: flat |
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| (adjective) lying face downward | Synonyms: prone |
| (verb) render helpless or defenseless | - |
| (verb) throw down flat, as on the ground | - |
| (verb) get into a prostrate position, as in submission | Synonyms: bow down |
| prostration | (noun) the act of assuming a prostrate position | - |
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| (noun) abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body | - |
| (noun) an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion | Synonyms: collapse |
| prostyle | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in a portico only across the opening to the structure | Synonyms: pseudoprostyle |
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| provost | (noun) a high-ranking university administrator | - |
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| pseudoprostyle | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in a portico only across the opening to the structure | Synonyms: prostyle |
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| pycnodysostosis | (noun) a form of dwarfism accompanied by fragile bones and bad teeth | - |
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| pyrostat | (noun) a thermostat that operates at very high temperatures | - |
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| rearmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: backmost, hindermost, hindmost |
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| repost | (noun) A post on social media that has already been posted | - |
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| rheostat | (noun) resistor for regulating current | Synonyms: variable resistor |
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| rhinostenosis | (noun) narrowing of the passages in the nasal cavities | - |
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| rightmost | (adjective) farthest to the right | - |
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| riposte | (noun) (fencing) a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying the opponents lunge | - |
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| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, return |
| (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, return |
| (verb) make a return thrust | - |
| roost | (noun) a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep | - |
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| (noun) a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds | - |
| (verb) settle down or stay, as if on a roost | - |
| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: perch, rest |
| rooster | (noun) adult male chicken | Synonyms: cock |
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| roster | (noun) a list of names | Synonyms: roll |
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| rostrate | (adjective) having a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis | - |
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| rostrum | (noun) beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils | Synonyms: snout |
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| (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, soapbox, stump |
| rudderpost | (noun) a vertical post at the forward edge of a rudder that enables the rudder to pivot | Synonyms: rudderstock |
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| sarcostyle | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibril, myofibrilla |
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| shitpost | (noun) A poor quality and controversial Internet post | - |
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| signpost | (noun) a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way | Synonyms: guidepost |
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| (verb) mark with a signpost, as of a path | - |
| southernmost | (adjective) situated farthest south | Synonyms: southmost |
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