| portico | (noun) a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area | - |
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| porticoed | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphiprostyle, amphistylar |
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| portiere | (noun) a heavy curtain hung across a doorway | - |
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| portion | (noun) the allotment of some amount by dividing something | Synonyms: parcel, share |
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| (noun) something less than the whole of a human artifact | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | Synonyms: helping, serving |
| (noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | Synonyms: part, percentage, share |
| (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowery, dowry |
| (noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component, component part, constituent, part |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck |
| (verb) give out | Synonyms: allot, assign |
| portly | (adjective) euphemisms for `fat' | Synonyms: stout |
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| portmanteau | (noun) a large travelling bag made of stiff leather | Synonyms: Gladstone, Gladstone bag |
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| (noun) a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings | Synonyms: blend, portmanteau word |
| portrait | (noun) any likeness of a person, in any medium | Synonyms: portrayal |
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| (noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portraiture, portrayal |
| portraitist | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: limner, portrait painter, portrayer |
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| portraiture | (noun) the activity of making portraits | - |
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| (noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portrait, portrayal |
| portray | (verb) portray in words | - |
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| (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, limn |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: impersonate |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: present |
| portrayal | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: delineation, depiction |
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| (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, enactment, personation |
| (noun) any likeness of a person, in any medium | Synonyms: portrait |
| (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portraying |
| (noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portrait, portraiture |
| portrayed | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: depicted, pictured |
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| portrayer | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: limner, portrait painter, portraitist |
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| portraying | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portrayal |
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| portulaca | (noun) a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers | - |
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| portwatcher | (noun) a watchman on a wharf | Synonyms: port watcher |
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| proportion | (noun) magnitude or extent | Synonyms: dimension |
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| (noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | Synonyms: balance, proportionality |
| (noun) the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole | - |
| (noun) the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree | Synonyms: ratio |
| (noun) balance among the parts of something | Synonyms: symmetry |
| (verb) adjust in size relative to other things | - |
| (verb) give pleasant proportions to | - |
| proportionable | (adjective) proportionate | - |
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| proportional | (adjective) properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to' | Synonyms: relative |
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| (adjective) having a constant ratio | - |
| (noun) one of the quantities in a mathematical proportion | - |
| proportionality | (noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | Synonyms: balance, proportion |
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| (noun) a ratio of two quantities that is constant | - |
| proportionally | (adverb) to a proportionate degree | Synonyms: proportionately |
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| proportionate | (adjective) being in due proportion | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: harmonious, symmetrical |
| (adjective) agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree | - |
| proportionately | (adverb) to a proportionate degree | Synonyms: proportionally |
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| (adverb) in a way that is in correspondence among the constituents of another entity | - |
| (adverb) in a way that agrees in amount, magnitude or degree | Synonyms: pro rata |
| proportionateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, correspondence |
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| purport | (noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: drift |
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| (noun) the intended meaning of a communication | Synonyms: intent, spirit |
| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purpose |
| (verb) have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming | - |
| purportedly | (adverb) believed or reputed to be the case | Synonyms: supposedly |
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| rapport | (noun) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people | Synonyms: resonance |
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| rapporteur | (noun) a recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meetings | - |
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| reapportion | (verb) allocate, distribute, or apportion anew | Synonyms: reallocate |
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| reapportionment | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallocation, reallotment |
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| report | (noun) the general estimation that the public has for a person | Synonyms: reputation |
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| (noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: account, news report, story, write up |
| (noun) the act of informing by verbal report | Synonyms: account |
| (noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: composition, paper, theme |
| (noun) a written document describing the findings of some individual or group | Synonyms: study, written report |
| (noun) a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment | Synonyms: report card |
| (noun) a sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing) | - |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, describe |
| (verb) make known to the authorities | - |
| (verb) complain about; make a charge against | - |
| (verb) announce one's presence | - |
| (verb) announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding | - |
| (verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism | Synonyms: cover |
| reportable | (adjective) (of income) required by law to be reported | - |
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| (adjective) meriting report | - |
| reportage | (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: coverage, reporting |
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| reported | (adjective) made known or told about; especially presented in a formal account | - |
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| reportedly | (adverb) according to reports or other information | - |
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| reporter | (noun) a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories | Synonyms: newsperson |
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| reporting | (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: coverage, reportage |
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| rhinosporidiosis | (noun) fungal infection of the nose; often acquired while swimming | - |
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| saporous | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid |
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| sarcosporidian | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystidean, sarcocystieian |
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| seaport | (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, harbour, haven |
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| sopor | (noun) a torpid state resembling deep sleep | Synonyms: sleep |
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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 |
| spaciotemporal | (adjective) existing in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration | Synonyms: spatiotemporal |
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| spatiotemporal | (adjective) of or relating to space and time together (having both spatial extension and temporal duration) | - |
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| (adjective) existing in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration | Synonyms: spaciotemporal |
| spoilsport | (noun) someone who spoils the pleasure of others | Synonyms: killjoy, party pooper, wet blanket |
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| sporadic | (adjective) recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances | - |
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| sporadically | (adverb) in a sporadic manner | Synonyms: periodically |
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| sporadicalness | (noun) The quality of being rare and scattered in occurrence. | - |
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| sporangiophore | (noun) stalk bearing one or more sporangia | - |
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| sporangium | (noun) organ containing or producing spores | Synonyms: spore case, spore sac |
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| spore | (noun) a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion | - |
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| sporocarp | (noun) specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia | Synonyms: spore case |
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| sporogenous | (adjective) producing spores or reproducing by means of spores | - |
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| sporophore | (noun) a spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophyte | - |
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| sporophyl | (noun) leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia | Synonyms: sporophyll |
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| sporophyll | (noun) leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia | Synonyms: sporophyl |
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| sporophyte | (noun) the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations | - |
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| sporotrichosis | (noun) a chronic fungal infection of the skin and lymph nodes | - |
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| sporozoan | (noun) parasitic spore-forming protozoan | - |
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| sporozoite | (noun) one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle | - |
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| sporran | (noun) a fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt as part of the traditional dress of Scottish Highlanders | - |
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| sport | (noun) an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition | Synonyms: athletics |
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| (noun) the occupation of athletes who compete for pay | - |
| (noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously) | Synonyms: fun, play |
| (noun) someone who engages in sports | - |
| (noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutant, mutation, variation |
| (noun) a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances | - |
| (noun) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine | Synonyms: summercater |
| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark |
| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, feature |
| sportfishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: fishing |
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| sportiness | (noun) The characteristic appearance and behavior of people who partake in sports. | - |
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| sporting | (adjective) relating to or used in sports | - |
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| (adjective) involving risk or willingness to take a risk | - |
| (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sportsmanlike, sporty |
| (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, dissipated, gambling |
| sportingly | (adverb) so as to be sporting; in a sporting manner | - |
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| sportive | (adjective) relating to or interested in sports | - |
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| (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, rollicking |
| sportively | (adverb) in a merry sportive manner | - |
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| sportiveness | (noun) lively high-spirited playfulness | Synonyms: friskiness, frolicsomeness |
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| sportsball | (noun) Sports of an unspecified kind, usually condescending | - |
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| sportscast | (noun) a broadcast of sports news or commentary | - |
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| (verb) broadcast a sports event | - |
| sportscaster | (noun) an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events | Synonyms: sports announcer, sports commentator |
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| sportsman | (noun) a male who engages in sports | - |
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| sportsmanlike | (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sporting, sporty |
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| sportsmanship | (noun) fairness in following the rules of the game | - |
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| sportswear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: activewear, athletic wear |
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| sportswoman | (noun) a female who engages in sports | - |
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| sportswriter | (noun) a journalist who writes about sports | Synonyms: sports writer |
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| sporty | (adjective) appropriate for sport or engagement in a sport | - |
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| (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy |
| (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sporting, sportsmanlike |
| sporulate | (verb) convert into spores | - |
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| (verb) produce spores | - |
| sporulation | (noun) asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores | Synonyms: monogenesis |
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| stupor | (noun) marginal consciousness | Synonyms: grogginess, semiconsciousness, stupefaction |
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| (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: daze, shock |
| stuporous | (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, foggy, groggy, logy |
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| sunporch | (noun) a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun | Synonyms: solarium, sun lounge, sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch, sunroom |
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| support | (noun) aiding the cause or policy or interests of | - |
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| (noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | Synonyms: supporting |
| (noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: documentation |
| (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, reinforcement |
| (noun) the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities | - |
| (noun) any device that bears the weight of another thing | - |
| (noun) supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation | - |
| (noun) something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest | - |
| (noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: accompaniment, backup, musical accompaniment |
| (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, sustenance |
| (noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: backing, financial backing, financial support, funding |
| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, sustain |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, tolerate |
| (verb) adopt as a belief | Synonyms: subscribe |
| (verb) argue or speak in defense of | Synonyms: defend, fend for |
| (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronage, patronise, patronize |
| (verb) be the physical support of; carry the weight of | Synonyms: hold, hold up, sustain |
| (verb) play a subordinate role to (another performer) | - |
| (verb) support materially or financially | - |
| (verb) give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to | Synonyms: back up |
| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for |
| (verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, corroborate, underpin |
| supportable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: bearable, endurable, sufferable |
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| supported | (adjective) held up or having the weight borne especially from below | - |
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| (adjective) sustained or maintained by aid (as distinct from physical support) | - |
| supporter | (noun) a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) | Synonyms: garter |
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| (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, jockstrap, suspensor |
| (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist |
| (noun) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: assistant, help, helper |
| (noun) someone who supports or champions something | Synonyms: patron, sponsor |
| supporting | (adjective) capable of bearing a structural load | Synonyms: load-bearing |
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| (adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: encouraging |
| (noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | Synonyms: support |
| supportive | (adjective) furnishing support or assistance | - |
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| teleport | (verb) transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another | - |
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| teleportation | (noun) a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another | - |
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| teliospore | (noun) a chlamydospore that develops in the last stage of the life cycle of the rust fungus | - |
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| temporal | (adjective) characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world | Synonyms: secular, worldly |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit) | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or limited by time | - |
| (adjective) of this earth or world | - |
| (adjective) not eternal | - |
| (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: temporal role |
| temporalis | (noun) muscle extending from the temporal fossa to the coronoid process of the mandible; acts to raise the mandible and close the jaws | Synonyms: musculus temporalis, temporal muscle, temporalis muscle |
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| temporality | (noun) the worldly possessions of a church | Synonyms: temporalty |
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| temporalization | (noun) The act or process of placing or defining in time relations. | - |
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| temporally | (adverb) with regard to temporal order | - |
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