| postcard | (noun) a card for sending messages by post without an envelope | Synonyms: mailing-card, post card, postal card |
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| postcava | (noun) receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart; formed from the union of the two iliac veins | Synonyms: inferior vena cava |
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| postcode | (noun) a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail | Synonyms: postal code, ZIP, ZIP code |
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| postdate | (verb) establish something as being later relative to something else | - |
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| (verb) be later in time | Synonyms: follow |
| postdiluvian | (adjective) existing or occurring after Noah's flood | - |
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| (noun) anything living after Noah's flood | - |
| postdoc | (noun) a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree | Synonyms: post doc |
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| (noun) a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research | Synonyms: post doc, postdoctoral |
| postdoctoral | (adjective) of or relating to study or research that is done after work for the doctoral degree has been completed | - |
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| (noun) a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research | Synonyms: post doc, postdoc |
| posted | (adjective) publicly displayed | - |
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| poster | (noun) a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers | Synonyms: post-horse, post horse |
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| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, placard, posting |
| (noun) someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards | Synonyms: bill poster, bill sticker |
| posterboard | (noun) a cardboard suitable for making posters | Synonyms: paperboard, poster board |
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| posterior | (adjective) located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure | - |
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| (adjective) coming at a subsequent time or stage | Synonyms: later, ulterior |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) a tooth situated at the back of the mouth | Synonyms: back tooth |
| posteriority | (noun) the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end | - |
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| (noun) following in time | Synonyms: subsequence, subsequentness |
| posterity | (noun) all future generations | - |
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| (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: descendants |
| postern | (noun) a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle | - |
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| 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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| posy | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: bouquet, corsage, nosegay |
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| predispose | (verb) make susceptible | - |
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| predisposed | (adjective) made susceptible | - |
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| predisposition | (noun) a disposition in advance to react in a particular way | - |
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| (noun) an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way | - |
| (noun) susceptibility to a pathogen | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| prepose | (verb) place before another constituent in the sentence | - |
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| preposition | (noun) a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word | - |
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| (noun) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached) | - |
| prepositional | (adjective) of or relating to or formed with a preposition | - |
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| prepositionally | (adverb) as a preposition | - |
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| prepossess | (verb) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance | Synonyms: prejudice |
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| (verb) cause to be preoccupied | - |
| (verb) make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand | - |
| (verb) possess beforehand | - |
| prepossessing | (adjective) creating a favorable impression | - |
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| prepossession | (noun) an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence | Synonyms: parti pris, preconceived idea, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, preconception |
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| (noun) the condition of being prepossessed | - |
| 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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| presuppose | (verb) require as a necessary antecedent or precondition | Synonyms: suppose |
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| (verb) take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand | Synonyms: suppose |
| presupposition | (noun) the act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument) | - |
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| promposal | (noun) The act of asking someone to go to a prom with you | - |
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| proposal | (noun) something proposed (such as a plan or assumption) | - |
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| (noun) the act of making a proposal | Synonyms: proposition |
| (noun) an offer of marriage | Synonyms: marriage offer, marriage proposal, proposal of marriage |
| propose | (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: project |
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| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, purport, purpose |
| (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: advise, suggest |
| (verb) ask (someone) to marry you | Synonyms: declare oneself, offer, pop the question |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: nominate |
| proposer | (noun) (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion | Synonyms: mover |
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| (noun) someone who advances a suggestion or proposal | Synonyms: suggester |
| proposition | (noun) a task to be dealt with | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false | - |
| (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer, suggestion |
| (noun) the act of making a proposal | Synonyms: proposal |
| (noun) an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors) | - |
| (verb) suggest sex to | - |
| propositus | (noun) the person immediately affected by or concerned with an action | - |
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| purpose | (noun) what something is used for | Synonyms: function, role, use |
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| (noun) the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose | Synonyms: determination |
| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, design, intent, intention |
| (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purport |
| purposeful | (adjective) serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal | - |
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| (adjective) having meaning through having an aim | - |
| purposefully | (adverb) in a purposeful manner | - |
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| purposefulness | (noun) the quality of having a definite purpose | Synonyms: sense of purpose |
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| purposeless | (adjective) not evidencing any purpose or goal | - |
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| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, pointless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
| purposelessly | (adverb) without a clear purpose | - |
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| purposelessness | (noun) the quality of lacking any definite purpose | Synonyms: aimlessness |
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| purposely | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose |
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| purposive | (adjective) having or showing or acting with a purpose or design | - |
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| (adjective) having a purpose | Synonyms: goal-directed |
| redeposit | (verb) deposit anew | - |
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| (verb) deposit once again | - |
| redeposition | (noun) deposition from one deposit to another | - |
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| redispose | (verb) dispose anew | - |
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