| apparel | (noun) clothing in general | Synonyms: clothes, dress, wearing apparel |
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| (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
| appareled | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: attired, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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| apparency | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparentness |
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| apparent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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| (adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: ostensible, seeming |
| apparently | (adverb) from appearances alone | Synonyms: on the face of it, ostensibly, seemingly |
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| (adverb) unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | Synonyms: evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plain, plainly |
| apparentness | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparency |
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| compare | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, comparison, equivalence |
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| (verb) examine and note the similarities or differences of | - |
| (verb) consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous | Synonyms: equate, liken |
| (verb) to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb | - |
| (verb) be comparable | - |
| godparent | (noun) a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism | - |
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| grandparent | (noun) a parent of your father or mother | - |
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| nonpareil | (adjective) eminent beyond or above comparison | Synonyms: matchless, one, one and only, peerless, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled |
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| (noun) colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies | - |
| (noun) a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar | - |
| (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
| nonpareille | (noun) a 6-point printing type: a size smaller than minion. | - |
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| paraparesis | (noun) a slight paralysis or weakness of both legs | - |
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| pare | (verb) decrease gradually or bit by bit | Synonyms: pare down |
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| (verb) remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size | Synonyms: trim |
| (verb) cut small bits or pare shavings from | Synonyms: whittle |
| (verb) remove the skin from | Synonyms: peel, skin |
| paregmenon | (noun) juxtaposing words having a common derivation (as in `sense and sensibility') | - |
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| paregoric | (noun) medicine used to treat diarrhea | Synonyms: camphorated tincture of opium |
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| parenchyma | (noun) animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels | - |
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| (noun) the primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems | - |
| parenesis | (noun) (rhetoric) exhortation; admonition. | - |
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| parent | (noun) an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained | - |
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| (noun) a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian | - |
| (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, nurture, raise, rear |
| parentage | (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, pedigree, stemma, stock |
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| (noun) the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents | Synonyms: birth |
| (noun) the state of being a parent | Synonyms: parenthood |
| parental | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent | Synonyms: maternal, paternal |
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| (adjective) designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced | - |
| parentally | (adverb) in a parental manner | - |
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| parented | (adjective) having a parent or parents or cared for by parent surrogates | - |
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| parenteral | (adjective) located outside the alimentary tract | - |
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| (adjective) administered by means other than through the alimentary tract (as by intramuscular or intravenous injection) | - |
| parenterally | (adverb) by parenteral means | - |
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| parenthesis | (noun) either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material | - |
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| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, divagation, excursus |
| parenthetic | (adjective) qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses | Synonyms: parenthetical |
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| parenthetical | (adjective) qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses | Synonyms: parenthetic |
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| (noun) an expression in parentheses | Synonyms: parenthetical expression |
| parenthetically | (adverb) in a parenthetical manner | - |
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| parenthood | (noun) the state of being a parent | Synonyms: parentage |
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| parentless | (adjective) having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates | Synonyms: unparented |
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| parer | (noun) a small sharp knife used in paring fruits or vegetables | Synonyms: paring knife |
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| (noun) a manicurist who trims the fingernails | - |
| paresis | (noun) a slight or partial paralysis | - |
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| paresthesia | (noun) abnormal skin sensations (as tingling or tickling or itching or burning) usually associated with peripheral nerve damage | Synonyms: paraesthesia |
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| paretic | (noun) a person afflicted with paresis (partial paralysis) | - |
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| pareve | (adjective) containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism | Synonyms: parve |
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| prepare | (verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: fix, gear up, ready, set, set up |
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| (verb) undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession | Synonyms: train |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, educate, train |
| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, machinate, organise, organize |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, fix, make, ready |
| (verb) to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery | - |
| (verb) lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord | - |
| (verb) educate for a future role or function | Synonyms: groom, train |
| prepared | (adjective) made ready or fit or suitable beforehand | - |
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| (adjective) equipped or prepared with necessary intellectual resources | - |
| (adjective) having made preparations | Synonyms: disposed, fain, inclined |
| preparedness | (noun) the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) | Synonyms: preparation, readiness |
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| semitransparency | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: translucence, translucency |
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| semitransparent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: translucent |
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| spare | (adjective) lacking in magnitude or quantity | Synonyms: bare, scanty |
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| (adjective) thin and fit | Synonyms: trim |
| (adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation | Synonyms: bare, plain, unembellished, unornamented |
| (adjective) not taken up by scheduled activities | Synonyms: free |
| (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
| (adjective) kept in reserve especially for emergency use | - |
| (noun) a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls | - |
| (noun) an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
| (noun) an extra component of a machine or other apparatus | Synonyms: spare part |
| (verb) use frugally or carefully | - |
| (verb) give up what is not strictly needed | Synonyms: dispense with, give up, part with |
| (verb) refrain from harming | Synonyms: save |
| (verb) save or relieve from an experience or action | - |
| spareness | (noun) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | Synonyms: sparseness, sparsity, thinness |
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| (noun) the property of having little body fat | Synonyms: leanness, thinness |
| sparer | (noun) someone who refrains from injuring or destroying | - |
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| sparerib | (noun) a cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off | - |
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| spareribs | (noun) cut of pork from the rib section with most of the meat trimmed off | - |
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| (noun) baked or roasted with a spicy sauce | Synonyms: barbecued spareribs |
| stepparent | (noun) the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| transparence | (noun) the quality of being clear and transparent | Synonyms: transparency, transparentness |
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| (noun) permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: transparency |
| transparency | (noun) picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector | Synonyms: foil |
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| (noun) the quality of being clear and transparent | Synonyms: transparence, transparentness |
| (noun) permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: transparence |
| transparent | (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, pellucid |
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| (adjective) easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety) | - |
| (adjective) free of deceit | Synonyms: guileless |
| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, vaporous, vapourous |
| transparently | (adverb) so as to allow the passage of light | - |
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| (adverb) so as to be easily understood or seen through | - |
| transparentness | (noun) the quality of being clear and transparent | Synonyms: transparence, transparency |
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| unappareled | (adjective) having removed clothing | Synonyms: unattired, unclad, undressed, ungarbed, ungarmented |
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| unapparent | (adjective) not readily apparent | - |
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| unparented | (adjective) having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates | Synonyms: parentless |
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| unprepared | (adjective) without preparation; not prepared for | - |
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