| hypostatization | (noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing | Synonyms: hypostatisation, reification |
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| hypostatize | (verb) construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity | Synonyms: hypostatise |
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| hypotyposis | (noun) vivid picturesque description. | - |
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| impose | (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, inflict, visit |
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| (verb) impose and collect | Synonyms: levy |
| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: constrain, enforce |
| imposed | (adjective) set forth authoritatively as obligatory | - |
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| imposing | (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, grand, magisterial |
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| (adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: baronial, noble, stately |
| imposingly | (adverb) in an impressive manner | Synonyms: impressively |
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| imposition | (noun) the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo) | Synonyms: infliction |
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| (noun) an uncalled-for burden | - |
| impossibility | (noun) an alternative that is not available | Synonyms: impossible action |
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| (noun) incapability of existing or occurring | Synonyms: impossibleness |
| impossible | (adjective) not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with | - |
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| (adjective) (used of persons or their behavior) not acceptable or reasonable | Synonyms: unacceptable |
| (adjective) totally unlikely | Synonyms: inconceivable, out of the question, unimaginable |
| (noun) something that cannot be done | - |
| impossibleness | (noun) incapability of existing or occurring | Synonyms: impossibility |
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| impossibly | (adverb) to a degree impossible of achievement | - |
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| impost | (noun) the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs | Synonyms: springer |
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| (noun) money collected under a tariff | Synonyms: custom, customs, customs duty |
| imposter | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| impostor | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| imposture | (noun) pretending to be another person | Synonyms: impersonation |
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| inapposite | (adjective) of an inappropriate or misapplied nature | Synonyms: out of place |
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| inappositeness | (noun) inappropriateness | Synonyms: inaptness |
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| indispose | (verb) cause to feel unwell | - |
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| (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: disqualify, unfit |
| (verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: disincline |
| indisposed | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, averse, loath, loth |
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| (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
| indisposition | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, reluctance |
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| (noun) a slight illness | - |
| interpose | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interject, put in, throw in |
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| (verb) to put forth by way of intervention | - |
| (verb) be or come between | - |
| (verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interfere, intervene, step in |
| interposition | (noun) the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts | Synonyms: interjection, interpellation, interpolation |
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| (noun) the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others | Synonyms: intervention |
| juxtapose | (verb) place side by side | - |
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| juxtaposed | (adjective) placed side by side often for comparison | - |
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| juxtaposition | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | Synonyms: apposition, collocation |
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| (noun) a side-by-side position | - |
| lamppost | (noun) a metal post supporting an outdoor lamp (such as a streetlight) | - |
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| liposarcoma | (noun) sarcoma of fat cells | - |
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| liposome | (noun) an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector | - |
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| liposuction | (noun) lipectomy (especially for cosmetic purposes) in which excess fatty tissue is removed from under the skin by suction | Synonyms: suction lipectomy |
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| malapropos | (adjective) of an inappropriate or incorrectly applied nature | - |
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| (adverb) at an inconvenient time | Synonyms: inopportunely |
| malposed | (adjective) characterized by malposition | - |
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| malposition | (noun) faulty position | Synonyms: misplacement |
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| mariposa | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: mariposa lily, mariposa tulip |
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| milepost | (noun) stone post at side of a road to show distances | Synonyms: milestone |
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| multipurpose | (adjective) having multiple uses | - |
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| nondisposable | (adjective) not designed to be thrown away after use | - |
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| (adjective) (of assets) unavailable for use | - |
| opossum | (noun) nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America | Synonyms: possum |
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| (noun) small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: phalanger, possum |
| opposable | (adjective) capable of being placed opposite to something | Synonyms: apposable |
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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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| opposing | (adjective) characterized by active hostility | Synonyms: opponent |
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| opposite | (adjective) of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem | Synonyms: paired |
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| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical, polar |
| (adjective) the other one of a complementary pair | - |
| (adjective) being directly across from each other; facing | - |
| (adjective) altogether different in nature or quality or significance | - |
| (adjective) moving or facing away from each other | - |
| (noun) a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other | Synonyms: antonym, opposite word |
| (noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opponent, opposition |
| (noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: contrary, reverse |
| (noun) something inverted in sequence or character or effect | Synonyms: inverse |
| (adverb) directly facing each other | Synonyms: face-to-face, face to face |
| oppositely | (adverb) in an opposite position | - |
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| oppositeness | (noun) the relation between opposed entities | Synonyms: opposition |
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| opposition | (noun) the act of hostile groups opposing each other | Synonyms: confrontation |
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| (noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with | Synonyms: resistance |
| (noun) a body of people united in opposing something | - |
| (noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: enemy, foe, foeman |
| (noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opponent, opposite |
| (noun) a direction opposite to another | - |
| (noun) the relation between opposed entities | Synonyms: oppositeness |
| oppositionality | (noun) The quality of opposing or of being in conflict. | - |
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| oppositive | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: adversative |
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| outpost | (noun) a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops | - |
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| (noun) a settlement on the frontier of civilization | Synonyms: frontier settlement |
| (noun) a station in a remote or sparsely populated location | Synonyms: outstation |
| overexpose | (verb) expose excessively | - |
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| (verb) expose to too much light | - |
| overexposure | (noun) the act of exposing film to too much light or for too long a time | - |
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| (noun) the act of exposing someone excessively to an influencing experience | - |
| ovipositor | (noun) egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes | - |
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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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| pomposity | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
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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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| posh | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: classy, swish |
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| posing | (noun) (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) | Synonyms: sitting |
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| posit | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: postulate |
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| (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: postulate |
| (verb) put before | Synonyms: put forward, state, submit |
| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, fix, situate |
| position | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, positioning |
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| (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, place, post, situation |
| (noun) (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player | - |
| (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, place, stead |
| (noun) the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom | - |
| (noun) the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated | Synonyms: spatial relation |
| (noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: attitude, posture |
| (noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: perspective, view |
| (noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: posture, stance |
| (noun) an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute | Synonyms: side |
| (noun) an item on a list or in a sequence | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) the particular portion of space occupied by something | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons | Synonyms: military position |
| (noun) the appropriate or customary location | - |
| (noun) the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society | Synonyms: status |
| (noun) a condition or position in which you find yourself | Synonyms: situation |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, pose, put, set |
| (verb) cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation | - |
| positionable | (adjective) capable of being positioned | - |
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| positional | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by position | - |
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| positioner | (noun) (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track | Synonyms: rotary actuator |
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| (noun) a device used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals. | - |
| positioning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: aligning |
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| (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, position |
| positive | (adjective) characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc. | - |
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| (adjective) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen | Synonyms: confirming |
| (adjective) reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positivist, positivistic |
| (adjective) involving advantage or good | Synonyms: plus |
| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, convinced |
| (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: electropositive, positively charged |
| (adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: cocksure, overconfident |
| (adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: prescribed |
| (adjective) greater than zero | - |
| (adjective) impossible to deny or disprove | Synonyms: incontrovertible, irrefutable |
| (noun) a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject | - |
| (noun) the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution | Synonyms: positive degree |
| positively | (adverb) downright | - |
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| (adverb) so as to be positive; in a positive manner | - |
| positiveness | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positivism, positivity |
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| (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positivity, profitableness |
| (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positivity |
| (noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positivity |
| (noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positivity |
| positivism | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivity |
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| (noun) the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) | Synonyms: logical positivism |
| positivist | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivistic |
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| (noun) someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | Synonyms: rationalist |
| positivistic | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivist |
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| positivity | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivism |
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| (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, profitableness |
| (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positiveness |
| (noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positiveness |
| (noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positiveness |
| positron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: antielectron |
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| posology | (noun) the pharmacological determination of appropriate doses of drugs and medicines | - |
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| posse | (noun) a temporary police force | Synonyms: posse comitatus |
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| posseman | (noun) an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse | - |
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| possess | (verb) have ownership or possession of | Synonyms: have, own |
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| (verb) have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill | - |
| (verb) enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas | - |
| possessed | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniac, demoniacal |
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| (adjective) influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion | Synonyms: obsessed |
| possession | (noun) anything owned or possessed | - |
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| (noun) the act of having and controlling property | Synonyms: ownership |
| (noun) (sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck) | - |
| (noun) the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior | Synonyms: self-command, self-control, self-possession, self-will, will power, willpower |
| (noun) a territory that is controlled by a ruling state | - |
| (noun) a mania restricted to one thing or idea | Synonyms: monomania |
| (noun) being controlled by passion or the supernatural | - |
| possessive | (adjective) serving to express or indicate possession | Synonyms: genitive |
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| (adjective) desirous of owning | - |
| (adjective) having or showing a desire to control or dominate | - |
| (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive, genitive case, possessive case |
| possessively | (adverb) in a possessive manner | - |
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| possessiveness | (noun) excessive desire to possess or dominate | - |
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| possessor | (noun) a person who owns something | Synonyms: owner |
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| posset | (noun) sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer | - |
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| possibility | (noun) a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Synonyms: hypothesis, theory |
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| (noun) a possible alternative | Synonyms: opening, possible action |
| (noun) a future prospect or potential | - |
| (noun) capability of existing or happening or being true | Synonyms: possibleness |
| possible | (adjective) capable of happening or existing | - |
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| (adjective) existing in possibility | Synonyms: potential |
| (noun) something that can be done | - |
| (noun) an applicant who might be suitable | - |
| possibleness | (noun) capability of existing or happening or being true | Synonyms: possibility |
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| possibly | (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps |
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| (adverb) to a degree possible of achievement or by possible means | - |
| possum | (noun) nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America | Synonyms: opossum |
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| (noun) small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: opossum, phalanger |
| possumwood | (noun) medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe | Synonyms: American persimmon, Diospyros virginiana |
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| post | (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, place, position, situation |
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| (noun) the delivery and collection of letters and packages | - |
| (noun) an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position | - |
| (noun) military installation at which a body of troops is stationed | Synonyms: military post |
| (noun) the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office | Synonyms: mail, mail service, postal service |
| (noun) a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track) | Synonyms: stake |
| (noun) A message on a social media website | - |
| (noun) any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered | Synonyms: mail |
| (noun) the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand | Synonyms: station |
| (verb) display, as of records in sports games | - |
| (verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: brand |
| (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: mail, send |
| (verb) publicize with, or as if with, a poster | - |
| (verb) To post a message on a social media website | - |
| (verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: place, send, station |
| (verb) place so as to be noticed | Synonyms: put up |
| (verb) mark with a stake | Synonyms: stake |
| (verb) affix in a public place or for public notice | - |
| (verb) ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait | - |
| (verb) transfer (entries) from one account book to another | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) enter on a public list | - |
| (verb) assign to a post; put into a post | - |
| postage | (noun) a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that postal fees have been paid | Synonyms: postage stamp, stamp |
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| (noun) the charge for mailing something | - |
| postal | (adjective) of or relating to the system for delivering mail | - |
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| postalveolar | (noun) (phonetics) Any sound articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge. | Synonyms: post-alveolar, post-alveolar consonant, postalveolar consonant |
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| postbag | (noun) letter carrier's shoulder bag | Synonyms: mailbag |
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| postbiblical | (adjective) subsequent to biblical times | - |
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| postbox | (noun) public box for deposit of mail | Synonyms: letter box, mailbox |
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