| alfresco | (adjective) in the open air | Synonyms: open-air |
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| (adverb) outside a building | Synonyms: out of doors, outdoors, outside |
| arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| autofluorescence | (noun) self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| churrigueresco | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresque |
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| crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual increase in loudness | - |
| (verb) grow louder | - |
| crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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| (noun) any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters | - |
| decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: diminuendo |
| (verb) grow quieter | - |
| effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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| (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
| efflorescence | (noun) a powdery deposit on a surface | Synonyms: bloom |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
| (noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: rash, roseola, skin rash |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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| excrescence | (noun) (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body | - |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| excrescent | (adjective) forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth) | - |
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| florescence | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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| fluoresce | (verb) exhibit or undergo fluorescence | - |
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| fluorescein | (noun) a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed) | Synonyms: fluoresceine, fluorescent dye, resorcinolphthalein |
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| fluoresceine | (noun) a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed) | Synonyms: fluorescein, fluorescent dye, resorcinolphthalein |
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| fluorescence | (noun) light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength | - |
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| fluorescent | (adjective) brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source | - |
| (noun) a lighting fixture that uses a fluorescent lamp | Synonyms: fluorescent fixture |
| fresco | (noun) a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster | - |
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| (noun) a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster | - |
| (verb) paint onto wet plaster on a wall | - |
| glabrescent | (adjective) lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless | - |
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| immunofluorescence | (noun) (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue | - |
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| imputrescible | (adjective) not subject to decay | - |
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| inflorescence | (noun) the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk | - |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering |
| nonprescription | (adjective) purchasable without a doctor's prescription | Synonyms: over-the-counter |
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| phosphoresce | (verb) to exhibit phosphorescence | - |
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| phosphorescence | (noun) a fluorescence that persists after the bombarding radiation has ceased | - |
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| phosphorescent | (adjective) emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous | - |
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| preschool | (noun) an educational institution for children too young for elementary school | - |
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| preschooler | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, kindergartner |
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| prescience | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prevision |
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| prescient | (adjective) perceiving the significance of events before they occur | - |
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| presciently | (adverb) with foresight | Synonyms: cannily |
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| prescribe | (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, order |
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| (verb) (medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription | - |
| (verb) recommend as beneficial | - |
| prescribed | (adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: positive |
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| (adjective) set down as a rule or guide | - |
| (adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline | Synonyms: official |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, decreed, ordained |
| prescript | (noun) prescribed guide for conduct or action | Synonyms: rule |
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| prescription | (adjective) available only with a doctor's written prescription | - |
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| (noun) a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist | Synonyms: ethical drug, prescription drug, prescription medicine |
| (noun) directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions | - |
| (noun) written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient | - |
| (noun) written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person | - |
| prescriptive | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: normative |
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| prescriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior | - |
| putrescence | (noun) the quality of rotting and becoming putrid | Synonyms: rottenness |
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| (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putridness, rottenness |
| putrescent | (adjective) becoming putrid | - |
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| putrescible | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrefiable, spoilable |
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| putrescine | (noun) a colorless crystalline ptomaine with a foul odor that is produced in decaying animal matter | - |
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| rescale | (verb) establish on a new scale | - |
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| reschedule | (verb) assign a new time and place for an event | - |
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| rescind | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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| rescindable | (adjective) capable of being rescinded or voided | Synonyms: voidable |
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| rescission | (noun) (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made | Synonyms: recission |
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| rescript | (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: revision, rewrite |
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| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: revisal, revise, revision |
| (noun) a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality | - |
| (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, order |
| rescue | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, delivery, saving |
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| (verb) take forcibly from legal custody | - |
| (verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: deliver |
| rescued | (adjective) delivered from danger | Synonyms: reclaimed |
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| rescuer | (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: recoverer, saver |
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| (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: deliverer, savior, saviour |