| pinworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, threadworm |
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| pinyon | (noun) any of several low-growing pines of western North America | Synonyms: pinon |
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| piping | (noun) playing a pipe or the bagpipes | - |
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| (noun) a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. | Synonyms: pipage, pipe |
| (noun) a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems | - |
| (adverb) (used of heat) extremely | Synonyms: steaming |
| plumping | (adjective) very large; of exceptional size for its kind | - |
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| popinjay | (noun) an archaic term for a parrot | - |
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| (noun) a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot) | - |
| poppin | (adjective) Of an event that is taking place and is lively | - |
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| popping | (noun) a sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork | Synonyms: pop |
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| porcupine | (noun) relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | Synonyms: hedgehog |
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| porcupinefish | (noun) spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: Diodon hystrix, porcupine fish |
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| porcupines | (noun) meat patties rolled in rice and simmered in a tomato sauce | Synonyms: porcupine ball |
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| primping | (noun) careful or finicky grooming | - |
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| propinquity | (noun) the property of being close together | Synonyms: proximity |
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| pulpiness | (noun) a mushy pulpy softness | Synonyms: mushiness |
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| pushpin | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, thumbtack |
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| rapine | (noun) the act of despoiling a country in warfare | Synonyms: rape |
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| raspiness | (noun) (of sound) The state or characteristic of being rough or raw, especially used to describe vocal quality. | - |
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| rasping | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| (noun) uttering in an irritated tone | Synonyms: rasp |
| raspingly | (adverb) in a harsh and grating manner | Synonyms: gratingly, harshly |
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| repine | (verb) express discontent | - |
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| reserpine | (noun) antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina (trade names Raudixin or Rau-Sed or Sandril or Serpasil) | Synonyms: Rau-Sed, Raudixin, Sandril, Serpasil |
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| resupine | (adjective) lying face upward | Synonyms: supine |
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| rifampin | (noun) an antibacterial drug (trade names Rifadin and Rimactane) used to treat tuberculosis | Synonyms: Rifadin, Rimactane |
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| ripping | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: rending, splitting |
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| (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, mean, splendid |
| ropiness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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| roping | (noun) capturing cattle or horses with a lasso | - |
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| safekeeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, keeping |
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| salpingectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both Fallopian tubes | - |
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| salpingitis | (noun) inflammation of a Fallopian tube (usually the result of infection spreading from the vagina or uterus) or of a Eustachian tube | - |
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| salpinx | (noun) a tube in the uterus or the ear | - |
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| scallopine | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopini |
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| scallopini | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopine |
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| scarfpin | (noun) a pin used to hold the tie in place | Synonyms: tie tack, tiepin |
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| scraping | (noun) a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility) | Synonyms: scrape |
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| (noun) a harsh noise made by scraping | Synonyms: scrape, scratch, scratching |
| (noun) (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected | - |
| scrappiness | (noun) the trait of being scrappy and pugnacious | - |
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| (noun) The quality or state of being tenacious, energetic, spunky. | Synonyms: feistiness |
| sculpin | (noun) any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths | - |
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| seeping | (adjective) leaking out slowly | Synonyms: oozing, oozy |
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| shaping | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: formative, plastic |
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| (noun) the act of fabricating something in a particular shape | Synonyms: formation |
| (noun) any process serving to define the shape of something | Synonyms: defining |
| shipping | (noun) the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials | Synonyms: transport, transportation |
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| (noun) conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry | Synonyms: cargo ships, merchant marine, merchant vessels |
| shopping | (noun) searching for or buying goods or services | - |
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| (noun) the commodities purchased from stores | - |
| showjumping | (noun) riding horses in competitions over set courses to demonstrate skill in jumping over obstacles | Synonyms: stadium jumping |
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| skimpiness | (noun) Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing. | Synonyms: scantiness |
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| sleepiness | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: drowsiness, somnolence |
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| sleeping | (adjective) lying with head on paws as if sleeping | Synonyms: dormant |
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| (noun) the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate | - |
| (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescence, quiescency |
| (noun) the state of being asleep | - |
| slipping | (adjective) moving as on a slippery surface | Synonyms: slithering |
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| sloping | (adjective) having a slanting form or direction | - |
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| (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped |
| slopingly | (adverb) with a slant | Synonyms: slantingly |
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| sloppiness | (noun) the quality of not being careful or taking pains | Synonyms: carelessness |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, soupiness |
| (noun) a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for | Synonyms: slovenliness, unkemptness |
| (noun) the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water | Synonyms: muddiness, wateriness |
| snipping | (noun) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) | Synonyms: snip, snippet |
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| snoopiness | (noun) offensive inquisitiveness | Synonyms: nosiness, prying |
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| soapiness | (noun) the quality of being soap or being covered with soap | - |
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| somatotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans | Synonyms: growth hormone, human growth hormone, somatotrophic hormone, somatotrophin, somatotropic hormone, STH |
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| sopping | (adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: dripping, soaking |
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| soupiness | (noun) the property of having the thickness of heavy cream | Synonyms: creaminess |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness |
| spin | (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: twirl, twist, twisting, whirl |
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| (noun) a short drive in a car | - |
| (noun) rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral | Synonyms: tailspin |
| (noun) a distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion) | - |
| (noun) a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile) | - |
| (verb) prolong or extend | Synonyms: spin out |
| (verb) twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation | - |
| (verb) work natural fibers into a thread | - |
| (verb) form a web by making a thread | - |
| (verb) make up a story | - |
| (verb) stream in jets, of liquids | - |
| (verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | Synonyms: gyrate, reel, spin around, whirl |
| (verb) cause to spin | Synonyms: birl, twirl, whirl |
| spinach | (noun) dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads | - |
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| (noun) southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves | Synonyms: prickly-seeded spinach, spinach plant, Spinacia oleracea |
| spinal | (adjective) of or relating to the spine or spinal cord | - |
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| (noun) anesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord | Synonyms: spinal anaesthesia, spinal anesthesia |
| spinally | (adverb) in the spine | - |
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| spindle | (noun) a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning | - |
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| (noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandrel, mandril |
| (noun) a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. | - |
| (noun) any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object | Synonyms: spike |
| (noun) (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle | - |
| spindleberry | (noun) any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries | Synonyms: spindle tree, spindleberry tree |
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| spindlelegs | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
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| (noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
| spindleshanks | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
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| (noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
| spindly | (adjective) long and lean | Synonyms: lank |
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| spindrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spoondrift |
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| spine | (noun) a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin | - |
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| (noun) the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved | Synonyms: backbone |
| (noun) the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord | Synonyms: back, backbone, rachis, spinal column, vertebral column |
| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, sticker, thorn |
| (noun) any sharply pointed projection | Synonyms: acantha, spur |
| spinel | (noun) a hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum; occurs in various colors that are used as gemstones | - |
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| spineless | (adjective) lacking spiny processes | - |
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| (adjective) lacking a backbone or spinal column | Synonyms: invertebrate |
| (adjective) lacking courage or vitality | Synonyms: gutless, namby-pamby, wishy-washy |
| (adjective) lacking thorns | Synonyms: thornless |
| spinelessness | (noun) the quality of lacking a strong character; an irresolute disposition | - |
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| spinet | (noun) early model harpsichord with only one string per note | - |
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| (noun) a small and compactly built upright piano | - |
| spininess | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: bristliness, prickliness, thorniness |
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| spinmeister | (noun) a public relations person who tries to forestall negative publicity by publicizing a favorable interpretation of the words or actions of a company or political party or famous person | Synonyms: spin doctor |
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| spinnability | (noun) the quality of being suitable for spinning or the capability of being spun (used of textile fibers) | - |
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| spinnable | (adjective) capable of being spun into fibres | Synonyms: spinnbar |
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| (adjective) capable or susceptible to being influenced by biased information | - |
| spinnaker | (noun) a large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind | - |
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| spinnbar | (adjective) capable of being spun into fibres | Synonyms: spinnable |
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| spinnbarkeit | (noun) the capacity of a viscous liquid (especially the cervical mucus) to be drawn out into a strand or blown up into a bubble | - |
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| spinner | (noun) fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water | - |
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| (noun) board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game | - |
| (noun) someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) | Synonyms: spinster, thread maker |
| spinney | (noun) a copse that shelters game | - |
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| spinning | (noun) creating thread | - |
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| spinose | (adjective) armed with spines | - |
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| spinous | (adjective) having spines | Synonyms: spiny |
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| (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthoid, acanthous |
| spinster | (noun) an elderly unmarried woman | Synonyms: old maid |
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| (noun) someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) | Synonyms: spinner, thread maker |
| spinsterhood | (noun) the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) | - |
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| spiny | (adjective) having spines | Synonyms: spinous |
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| (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, thorny |
| stickpin | (noun) a decorative pin that is worn in a necktie | - |
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| stooping | (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: crooked, hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped |
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| stopping | (noun) the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch | - |
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| (noun) fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members | Synonyms: fillet |
| stovepiping | (noun) retrieval of information from unconnected databases; the situation that exists when it is necessary to climb out of one database in order to climb down into another; sometimes used for protection against wandering hackers | - |
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| strapping | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, husky |
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| striping | (noun) the act of marking with stripes | - |
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| stripping | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, husking, uncovering |
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| stumping | (noun) campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches) | - |
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| subalpine | (adjective) growing at high altitudes | Synonyms: alpestrine |
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| supinate | (verb) turn (the hand or forearm) so that the back is downward or backward, or turn out (the leg) | - |
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| supination | (noun) rotation of the hands and forearms so that the palms face upward | - |
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| supinator | (noun) a muscle (especially in the forearm) that produces or assists in supination | - |
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| supine | (adjective) passive as a result of indolence or indifference | - |
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| (adjective) lying face upward | Synonyms: resupine |
| supinely | (adverb) in an indifferently supine manner | - |
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| (adverb) with the face upward | - |
| supping | (noun) ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking | - |
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| sweeping | (adjective) ignoring distinctions | Synonyms: wholesale |
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| (adjective) taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination | - |
| (noun) the act of cleaning with a broom | - |
| sweepingly | (adverb) in a sweeping manner | - |
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