| accrete | (verb) grow together (of plants and organs) | Synonyms: grow together |
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| (verb) grow or become attached by accretion | - |
| arete | (noun) a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains | - |
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| concrete | (adjective) capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary | - |
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| (adjective) formed by the coalescence of particles | - |
| (noun) a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water | - |
| (verb) form into a solid mass; coalesce | - |
| (verb) cover with cement | - |
| concretely | (adverb) in concrete terms | - |
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| concreteness | (noun) the quality of being concrete (not abstract) | - |
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| contretemps | (noun) an awkward clash | - |
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| discrete | (adjective) constituting a separate entity or part | Synonyms: distinct |
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| discreteness | (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: distinctness, separateness, severalty |
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| excrete | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, eliminate, pass |
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| ferroconcrete | (noun) concrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses | Synonyms: reinforced concrete |
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| foretell | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald |
| foretelling | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, prediction, prognostication |
| indiscrete | (adjective) not divided or divisible into parts | - |
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| interpreted | (adjective) understood in a certain way; made sense of | Synonyms: taken |
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| interpreter | (noun) (computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time | Synonyms: interpretive program |
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| (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: representative, spokesperson, voice |
| (noun) someone who mediates between speakers of different languages | Synonyms: translator |
| (noun) someone who uses art to represent something | - |
| preteen | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preadolescent |
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| (noun) a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age) | Synonyms: preteenager |
| preteenager | (noun) a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age) | Synonyms: preteen |
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| pretence | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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| (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretense, pretension |
| (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretense, pretext |
| (noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretense |
| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretense |
| pretend | (adjective) imagined as in a play | Synonyms: make-believe |
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| (noun) the enactment of a pretense | Synonyms: make-believe |
| (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, sham |
| (verb) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | Synonyms: make, make believe |
| (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, venture |
| (verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: profess |
| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, dissemble |
| (verb) put forward a claim and assert right or possession of | - |
| pretended | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, put on, sham |
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| pretender | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony |
| pretending | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense, simulation |
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| pretense | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation |
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| (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretension |
| (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretence, pretext |
| (noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretence |
| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretence |
| pretension | (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretense |
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| (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: largeness, pretentiousness |
| (noun) the advancing of a claim | - |
| pretentious | (adjective) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction | - |
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| (adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others | Synonyms: ostentatious |
| (adjective) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar | Synonyms: ostentatious |
| pretentiously | (adverb) in a pretentious manner | - |
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| pretentiousness | (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: largeness, pretension |
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| (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, puffiness, splashiness |
| preterist | (noun) a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) have already been fulfilled | - |
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| preterit | (noun) a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense | Synonyms: preterite |
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| preterite | (noun) a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense | Synonyms: preterit |
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| preterition | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralepsis, paralipsis |
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| pretermission | (noun) letting pass without notice | - |
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| pretermit | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook |
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| (verb) disregard intentionally or let pass | - |
| preternatural | (adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal | Synonyms: uncanny |
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| (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, transcendental |
| preternaturally | (adverb) in a supernatural manner | Synonyms: supernaturally |
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| pretext | (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretence, pretense |
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| (noun) something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason | Synonyms: stalking-horse |
| rete | (noun) a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels | Synonyms: plexus |
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| retell | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate |
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| (verb) render verbally | Synonyms: recite |
| (verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize |
| retem | (noun) desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista | Synonyms: Genista raetam, juniper, juniper bush, raetam, Retama raetam |
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| retention | (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: holding, keeping |
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| (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retentiveness, retentivity |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retentiveness, retentivity |
| retentive | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, recollective, tenacious |
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| (adjective) having the capacity to retain something | - |
| (adjective) having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water | - |
| retentively | (adverb) in a retentive manner | - |
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| retentiveness | (noun) the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired | Synonyms: retentivity |
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| (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retention, retentivity |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retention, retentivity |
| retentivity | (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retention, retentiveness |
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| (noun) the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired | Synonyms: retentiveness |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retention, retentiveness |
| secrete | (verb) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids | Synonyms: release |
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| (verb) place out of sight; keep secret | - |
| secreter | (noun) any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream | Synonyms: gland, secretor, secretory organ |
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| terete | (adjective) especially of plant parts; cylindrical and tapering | - |
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| unpretending | (adjective) not ostentatious | Synonyms: unostentatious, unpretentious |
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| unpretentious | (adjective) lacking pretension or affectation | - |
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| (adjective) not ostentatious | Synonyms: unostentatious, unpretending |
| (adjective) exhibiting restrained good taste | Synonyms: understated, unostentatious |
| unpretentiously | (adverb) in an unpretentious manner | - |
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| unpretentiousness | (noun) the quality of being natural and without pretensions | - |
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| unretentive | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: forgetful, short |
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| ureter | (noun) either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder | - |
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| ureteritis | (noun) inflammation of the ureter | - |
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| ureterocele | (noun) prolapse of the end of the ureter into the bladder; may obstruct urine flow | - |
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| ureterostenosis | (noun) stenosis of the ureter | - |
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