| private | (adjective) confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy | - |
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| (adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: secret |
| (adjective) concerning one person exclusively | Synonyms: individual |
| (adjective) concerning things deeply private and personal | Synonyms: intimate |
| (noun) an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines | Synonyms: buck private, common soldier |
| privateer | (noun) a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation | - |
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| (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateersman |
| privateersman | (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateer |
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| privately | (adverb) kept private or confined to those intimately concerned | Synonyms: in camera, in private |
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| (adverb) by a private person or interest | - |
| privateness | (noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privacy, seclusion |
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| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: concealment, privacy, secrecy |
| privates | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitalia, genitals, private parts |
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| privation | (noun) act of depriving someone of food or money or rights | Synonyms: deprivation |
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| (noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: deprivation, neediness, want |
| privatisation | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalisation, denationalization, privatization |
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| privatise | (verb) change from governmental to private control or ownership | Synonyms: privatize |
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| privatization | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalisation, denationalization, privatisation |
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| privatize | (verb) change from governmental to private control or ownership | Synonyms: privatise |
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| privet | (noun) any of various Old World shrubs having smooth entire leaves and terminal panicles of small white flowers followed by small black berries; many used for hedges | - |
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| privilege | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, prerogative |
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| (noun) (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship | - |
| (noun) a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all | - |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| privileged | (adjective) blessed with privileges | - |
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| (adjective) confined to an exclusive group | Synonyms: inner, inside |
| (adjective) not subject to usual rules or penalties | - |
| privily | (adverb) confidentially or in secret | - |
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| privy | (adjective) (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known | - |
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| (adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: secluded, secret |
| (noun) a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate | Synonyms: earth-closet, jakes, outhouse |
| (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, lavatory, toilet |
| prize | (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prime, quality, select |
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| (noun) something given as a token of victory | Synonyms: trophy |
| (noun) something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery | Synonyms: award |
| (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, plunder, swag |
| (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, respect, value |
| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, lever, prise, pry |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, treasure, value |
| prizefight | (noun) a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize | Synonyms: prize fight |
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| (verb) box for a prize or money | - |
| prizefighter | (noun) a professional boxer | Synonyms: gladiator |
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| prizewinning | (adjective) holding first place in a contest | Synonyms: champion |
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| proprietary | (adjective) protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights | - |
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| (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietorship |
| proprietor | (noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business | Synonyms: owner |
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| proprietorship | (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietary |
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| proprietress | (noun) a woman proprietor | - |
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| propriety | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: correctitude, properness |
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| proprioception | (noun) the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts | - |
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| proprioceptive | (adjective) of or relating to proprioception | - |
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| proprioceptor | (noun) special nerve endings in the muscles and tendons and other organs that respond to stimuli regarding the position and movement of the body | - |
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| proprionamide | (noun) the amide of propionic acid (C2H5CONH2) | Synonyms: propanamide |
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| ramipril | (noun) an ACE inhibitor (trade name Altace) used to treat high blood pressure or in some patients who have had a heart attack | Synonyms: Altace |
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| reprieve | (noun) the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment | Synonyms: respite |
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| (noun) a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence) | - |
| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, respite, suspension |
| (noun) a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort | Synonyms: respite |
| (verb) relieve temporarily | - |
| (verb) postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution | Synonyms: respite |
| reprimand | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprehension, reproof, reproval |
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| (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, criminate |
| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, scold, take to task, trounce |
| reprint | (noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | Synonyms: offprint, separate |
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| (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reissue, reprinting |
| (verb) print anew | Synonyms: reissue |
| reprinting | (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reissue, reprint |
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| reprisal | (noun) a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime | - |
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| reprise | (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: recapitulate, repeat, reprize |
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| reprize | (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: recapitulate, repeat, reprise |
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| semiprivate | (adjective) confined to a small number of hospital patients | - |
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| sprig | (noun) an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers | - |
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| (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: branchlet, twig |
| sprigged | (adjective) decorated with designs of sprigs | - |
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| sprigger | (noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: stemmer, stripper |
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| sprightliness | (noun) animation and energy in action or expression | Synonyms: life, liveliness, spirit |
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| sprightly | (adjective) full of spirit and vitality | - |
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| sprigtail | (noun) large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America | Synonyms: Pedioecetes phasianellus, sharp-tailed grouse, sprig tail |
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| spring | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, leaping, saltation |
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| (noun) a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed | - |
| (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: give, springiness |
| (noun) a point at which water issues forth | - |
| (noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: fountain, natural spring, outflow, outpouring |
| (noun) the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring | Synonyms: springtime |
| (verb) develop suddenly | - |
| (verb) produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly | - |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, take a hop |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: bound, jump, leap |
| (verb) develop into a distinctive entity | Synonyms: form, take form, take shape |
| springboard | (noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched | Synonyms: jumping-off point, point of departure |
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| (noun) a flexible board for jumping upward | - |
| springbok | (noun) a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air | Synonyms: Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, springbuck |
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| springbuck | (noun) a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air | Synonyms: Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, springbok |
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| springer | (noun) a cow about to give birth | Synonyms: springing cow |
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| (noun) a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white | Synonyms: springer spaniel |
| (noun) the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs | Synonyms: impost |
| springiness | (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: give, spring |
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| springless | (adjective) lacking in elasticity or vitality | - |
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| springlike | (adjective) resembling a spring or the action of a spring | - |
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| springtail | (noun) any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water | Synonyms: collembolan |
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| springtide | (noun) a greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons | - |
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| (noun) a swelling rush of anything | - |
| springtime | (noun) the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring | Synonyms: spring |
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| springy | (adjective) (of movements) light and confidently active | - |
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| (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, resilient |
| sprinkle | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkling |
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| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkling |
| (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: besprinkle, sparge |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, splosh |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, scatter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit |
| sprinkler | (noun) mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden | - |
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| sprinkles | (noun) bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream | Synonyms: jimmies |
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| sprinkling | (noun) the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) | Synonyms: aspersion |
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| (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkle |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: scattering |
| sprint | (noun) a quick run | Synonyms: dash |
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| (verb) run very fast, usually for a short distance | - |
| sprinter | (noun) someone who runs a short distance at top speed | - |
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| sprit | (noun) a light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally | - |
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| sprite | (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, faery, fairy, fay |
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| sprites | (noun) atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves) | Synonyms: red sprites |
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| spritsail | (noun) a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit | - |
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| spritz | (noun) a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water) | - |
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| (verb) cover (a location) wholly or partially by squirting a liquid onto it | - |
| (verb) eject (a liquid) quickly | - |
| spritzer | (noun) a mixed drink made of wine mixed with a sparkling water | - |
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| surprint | (noun) something added by overprinting | Synonyms: overprint |
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| surprisal | (noun) the act of surprising someone | Synonyms: surprise |
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| surprise | (noun) the act of surprising someone | Synonyms: surprisal |
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| (noun) a sudden unexpected event | - |
| (noun) the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you | - |
| (verb) cause to be surprised | - |
| (verb) attack by storm; attack suddenly | Synonyms: storm |
| (verb) come upon or take unawares | - |
| surprised | (adjective) taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment | - |
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| surprisedly | (adverb) in the manner of one who is surprised | - |
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| surpriser | (noun) a captor who uses surprise to capture the victim | - |
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| surprising | (adjective) causing surprise or wonder or amazement | - |
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| surprisingly | (adverb) in a surprising manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: amazingly, astonishingly |
| surprisingness | (noun) extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected | Synonyms: unexpectedness |
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| teleprinter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teletype machine, teletypewriter, telex, telex machine |
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| thumbprint | (noun) fingerprint made by the thumb (especially by the pad of the thumb) | - |
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| trandolapril | (noun) an ACE inhibiting drug (trade name Mavik) used in some patients after a heart attack or to treat hypertension | Synonyms: Mavik |
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| underprice | (verb) sell at artificially low prices | Synonyms: dump |
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| underprivileged | (adjective) lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society | - |
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| unenterprising | (adjective) lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome | Synonyms: nonenterprising |
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| unimprisoned | (adjective) free from confinement or physical restraint | Synonyms: unconfined |
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| unpriestly | (adjective) not priestly; unbefitting a priest | - |
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| unprincipled | (adjective) lacking principles or moral scruples | - |
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| (adjective) having little or no integrity | - |
| unprintable | (adjective) unfit for print because morally or legally objectionable or offensive to good taste | - |
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| unsurprised | (adjective) not surprised or expressing surprise | Synonyms: not surprised |
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| unsurprising | (adjective) not causing surprise | - |
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| upright | (adjective) upright in position or posture | Synonyms: erect, vertical |
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| (adjective) of moral excellence | Synonyms: good, just |
| (adjective) in a vertical position; not sloping | Synonyms: unsloped |
| (noun) a piano with a vertical sounding board | Synonyms: upright piano |
| (noun) a vertical structural member as a post or stake | Synonyms: vertical |
| uprightly | (adverb) in an upright position | - |
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| (adverb) in an honorable manner | Synonyms: honorably |
| uprightness | (noun) righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest | Synonyms: rectitude |
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| (noun) position at right angles to the horizon | Synonyms: erectness, verticality, verticalness |
| (noun) the property of being upright in posture | Synonyms: erectness |
| uprise | (verb) get up and out of bed | Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, turn out |
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| (verb) return from the dead | Synonyms: resurrect, rise |
| (verb) move upward | Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise |
| (verb) come up, of celestial bodies | Synonyms: ascend, come up, rise |
| (verb) rise to one's feet | Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, stand up |
| (verb) rise up as in fear | Synonyms: bristle, stand up |
| (verb) ascend as a sound | - |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, originate, rise, spring up |
| uprising | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, rising |
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| upriver | (adverb) toward the source or against the current | Synonyms: upstream |
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| voiceprint | (noun) biometric identification by electronically recording and graphically representing a person's voice | - |
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| wellspring | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, well |
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| (noun) the source of water for a well | Synonyms: wellhead |