| apprisal | (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: notification, telling |
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| apprise | (verb) increase the value of | Synonyms: appreciate, apprize |
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| (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: appreciate, apprize, revalue |
| (verb) inform (somebody) of something | Synonyms: advise, apprize, give notice, notify, send word |
| (verb) make aware of | Synonyms: apprize, instruct |
| biprism | (noun) an optical device for obtaining interference fringes | - |
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| comprise | (verb) include or contain; have as a component | Synonyms: contain, incorporate |
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| (verb) be composed of | Synonyms: consist |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, constitute, make up, represent |
| enterprise | (noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavor, endeavour |
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| (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprisingness, go-ahead, initiative |
| (noun) an organization created for business ventures | - |
| enterpriser | (noun) someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it | Synonyms: entrepreneur |
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| enterprising | (adjective) marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects | - |
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| enterprisingly | (adverb) in an enterprising manner | - |
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| enterprisingness | (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, go-ahead, initiative |
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| imprison | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| (verb) confine as if in a prison | - |
| imprisoned | (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: captive, confined, jailed |
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| imprisonment | (noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) | Synonyms: internment |
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| (noun) putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment | - |
| (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, immurement, incarceration |
| mifepristone | (noun) an abortion-inducing drug (trade name RU 486) developed in France; when taken during the first five weeks of pregnancy it blocks the action of progesterone so that the uterus sloughs off the embryo | Synonyms: abortion pill, RU 486 |
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| nonenterprising | (adjective) lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome | Synonyms: unenterprising |
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| prise | (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prize, respect, value |
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| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, lever, prize, pry |
| (verb) make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry | Synonyms: pry |
| prism | (noun) optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image | Synonyms: optical prism |
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| (noun) a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms | - |
| prismatic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or constituting a prism | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism | - |
| prismatoid | (noun) a polyhedron whose vertices all lie in one or the other of two parallel planes; the faces that lie in those planes are the bases of the prismatoid | - |
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| prismoid | (noun) a prismatoid whose bases are polygons having the same number of sides and whose other faces are trapezoids or parallelograms | - |
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| prison | (noun) a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment | Synonyms: prison house |
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| (noun) a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement | Synonyms: prison house |
| prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
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| prisoner | (noun) a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | Synonyms: captive |
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| prisonlike | (adjective) resembling a prison | - |
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| prissily | (adverb) in a prissy manner | Synonyms: primly |
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| prissy | (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish |
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| (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
| pristine | (adjective) immaculately clean and unused | - |
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| (adjective) completely free from dirt or contamination | - |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| unsurprised | (adjective) not surprised or expressing surprise | Synonyms: not surprised |
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| unsurprising | (adjective) not causing surprise | - |
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| 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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