| prankster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, tricker, trickster |
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| prearrange | (verb) arrange beforehand | - |
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| prearrangement | (noun) something arranged in advance | - |
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| preponderance | (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: prevalence |
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| (noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight | - |
| (noun) superiority in power or influence | - |
| preponderant | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderating |
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| preponderantly | (adverb) much greater in number or influence | Synonyms: predominantly |
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| preprandial | (adjective) preceding a meal (especially dinner) | - |
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| procurance | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurement |
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| propranolol | (noun) the first beta blocker (trade name Inderal) used in treating hypertension and angina pectoris and essential tremor | Synonyms: Inderal |
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| protuberance | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, swelling |
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| (noun) the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out | - |
| protuberant | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy |
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| proturan | (noun) any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter | Synonyms: telsontail |
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| quadrangle | (noun) a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings | Synonyms: quad |
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| (noun) a four-sided polygon | Synonyms: quadrilateral, tetragon |
| quadrangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a quadrangle | - |
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| quadrant | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies | - |
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| (noun) the area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle | - |
| (noun) any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes | - |
| (noun) a quarter of the circumference of a circle | Synonyms: quarter-circle |
| quadrantanopia | (noun) blindness in one fourth of the visual field | - |
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| quarantine | (noun) isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease | - |
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| (noun) enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease | - |
| (verb) place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons | - |
| quarantined | (adjective) under forced isolation especially for health reasons | Synonyms: isolated |
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| ranch | (noun) farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle farm, cattle ranch, spread |
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| (verb) manage or run a ranch | - |
| rancher | (noun) a person who owns or operates a ranch | - |
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| ranching | (noun) farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle) | - |
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| rancid | (adjective) smelling of fermentation or staleness | Synonyms: sour |
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| (adjective) (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition | - |
| rancidity | (noun) the state of being rancid; having a rancid scent or flavor (as of old cooking oil) | - |
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| rancidness | (noun) the property of being rancid | - |
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| rancor | (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancour, resentment |
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| rancorous | (adjective) showing deep-seated resentment | - |
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| rancour | (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, resentment |
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| rand | (noun) the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents | - |
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| random | (adjective) lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance | - |
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| randomisation | (noun) a deliberately haphazard arrangement of observations so as to simulate chance | Synonyms: randomization |
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| randomise | (verb) arrange in random order | Synonyms: randomize |
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| randomised | (adjective) set up or distributed in a deliberately random way | Synonyms: randomized |
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| randomization | (noun) a deliberately haphazard arrangement of observations so as to simulate chance | Synonyms: randomisation |
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| randomize | (verb) arrange in random order | Synonyms: randomise |
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| randomized | (adjective) set up or distributed in a deliberately random way | Synonyms: randomised |
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| randomly | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, every which way, haphazardly, indiscriminately, willy-nilly |
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| randomness | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: haphazardness, noise, stochasticity |
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| (noun) (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work | Synonyms: entropy, S |
| randy | (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, horny, ruttish, steamy, turned on |
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| ranee | (noun) (the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a raja | Synonyms: rani |
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| range | (noun) a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds | - |
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| (noun) a kitchen appliance used for cooking food | Synonyms: cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, stove |
| (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, reach, scope |
| (noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: compass, grasp, reach |
| (noun) a variety of different things or activities | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined | Synonyms: image, range of a function |
| (noun) the limits within which something can be effective | Synonyms: reach |
| (noun) a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze | - |
| (noun) a series of hills or mountains | Synonyms: chain, chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, range of mountains |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, place, rank, rate |
| (verb) let eat | - |
| (verb) lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line | Synonyms: array, lay out, set out |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, graze, pasture |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) range or extend over; occupy a certain area | Synonyms: straddle |
| (verb) change or be different within limits | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun | - |
| rangefinder | (noun) a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object | Synonyms: range finder |
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| rangeland | (noun) land suitable for grazing livestock | - |
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| ranger | (noun) an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest | Synonyms: fire warden, forest fire fighter |
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| (noun) a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids | Synonyms: commando |
| ranginess | (noun) The state of being slender and long of limb, lanky. | - |
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| ranging | (adjective) wandering freely | - |
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| rangpur | (noun) hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel | Synonyms: Citrus limonia, lemanderin, rangpur lime |
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| rangy | (adjective) allowing ample room for ranging | - |
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| (adjective) adapted to wandering or roaming | - |
| (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangling, gangly, lanky |
| rani | (noun) (the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a raja | Synonyms: ranee |
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| ranid | (noun) insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs | Synonyms: true frog |
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| ranitidine | (noun) a histamine blocker and antacid (trade name Zantac) used to treat peptic ulcers and gastritis and esophageal reflux | Synonyms: Zantac |
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| rank | (adjective) growing profusely | - |
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| (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer |
| (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross |
| (adjective) very fertile; producing profuse growth | - |
| (adjective) very offensive in smell or taste | - |
| (noun) a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another | - |
| (noun) the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army) | Synonyms: rank and file |
| (noun) the body of members of an organization or group | Synonyms: membership |
| (noun) relative status | - |
| (noun) position in a social hierarchy | Synonyms: social rank, social station, social status |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, place, range, rate |
| (verb) take or have a position relative to others | - |
| (verb) take precedence or surpass others in rank | Synonyms: outrank |
| ranked | (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: graded, stratified |
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| ranker | (noun) an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces | - |
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| (noun) a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status | - |
| ranking | (adjective) having a higher rank | Synonyms: higher-ranking, superior |
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| (noun) position on a scale in relation to others in status or rank or achievement | - |
| rankle | (verb) gnaw into; make resentful or angry | Synonyms: eat into, fret, grate |
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| rankness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, malodorousness, stinkiness |
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| (noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, prolificacy, richness |
| ransack | (verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: comb |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, reave, rifle, strip |
| ransacked | (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: looted, pillaged, plundered |
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| ransacking | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: rummage |
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| ransom | (noun) the act of freeing from captivity or punishment | - |
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| (noun) payment for the release of someone | - |
| (noun) money demanded for the return of a captured person | Synonyms: ransom money |
| (verb) exchange or buy back for money; under threat | Synonyms: redeem |
| ransomed | (adjective) reclaimed by payment of a ransom | - |
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| (adjective) saved from the bondage of sin | Synonyms: redeemed |
| ransomware | (noun) malicious software that makes a computer unusable unless a payment is made to the attacker | - |
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| rant | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, bombast, claptrap, fustian |
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| (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: harangue, ranting |
| (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rave, spout |
| ranter | (noun) someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner | Synonyms: raver |
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| ranting | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: harangue, rant |
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| ranula | (noun) a cyst on the underside of the tongue | - |
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| reappearance | (noun) the act of someone appearing again | Synonyms: return |
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| (noun) the event of something appearing again | - |
| rearrange | (verb) put into a new order or arrangement | - |
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| rearrangement | (noun) changing an arrangement | - |
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| reassurance | (noun) the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence | - |
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| recalcitrance | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrancy, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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| recalcitrancy | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrance, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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| recalcitrant | (adjective) marked by stubborn resistance to authority | - |
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| (adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control | Synonyms: fractious, refractory |
| reentrant | (adjective) (of angles) pointing inward | Synonyms: re-entrant |
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| refrigerant | (adjective) causing cooling or freezing | Synonyms: refrigerating |
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| (noun) any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator) | - |
| registrant | (noun) a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby) | - |
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| reinsurance | (noun) sharing the risk by insurance companies; part or all of the insurer's risk is assumed by other companies in return for part of the premium paid by the insured | - |
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| remembrance | (noun) the ability to recall past occurrences | Synonyms: anamnesis, recollection |
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| (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: commemoration, memorial |
| remonstrance | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: expostulation, objection, remonstration |
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| restaurant | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eatery, eating house, eating place |
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| restauranter | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restaurateur |
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| retranslate | (verb) translate again | - |
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| retransmit | (verb) transmit again | - |
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| reverberance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| reverberant | (adjective) having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected | - |
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| saffranine | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: safranin, safranine |
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| safranin | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: saffranine, safranine |
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| safranine | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: saffranine, safranin |
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| saran | (noun) any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things | - |
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| saturant | (noun) a substance which is used to saturate another. | - |
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| scranch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scraunch |
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| semitrance | (noun) a trancelike state in which the person can follow instructions but voluntary action is weak or absent | - |
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| semitransparency | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: translucence, translucency |
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| semitransparent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: translucent |
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| serranid | (noun) marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters | Synonyms: serranid fish |
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| severance | (noun) the act of severing | Synonyms: severing |
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| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, rupture |
| sopranino | (adjective) higher in range than soprano | - |
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| soprano | (adjective) having or denoting a high range | Synonyms: treble |
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| (noun) the pitch range of the highest female voice | Synonyms: treble |
| (noun) the highest female voice; the voice of a boy before puberty | - |
| (noun) a female singer with the highest vocal range of all the voice type | - |
| spirant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, strident |
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| (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative, fricative consonant |
| sporangiophore | (noun) stalk bearing one or more sporangia | - |
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