| leatherfish | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| lilyturf | (noun) Asiatic perennial tufted herb with grasslike evergreen foliage and clusters of dark mauve grapelike flowers; grown as ground cover | Synonyms: lily turf, Liriope muscari |
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| masterful | (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: consummate, masterly, virtuoso |
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| masterfully | (adverb) in a skillfully masterful manner; with the skill of a master | - |
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| materfamilias | (noun) a female head of a family or tribe | Synonyms: matriarch |
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| moorfowl | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorgame, red grouse |
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| motherfucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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| noninterference | (noun) a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes | Synonyms: nonintervention |
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| nonperformance | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence |
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| oarfish | (noun) thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin | Synonyms: king of the herring, Regalecus glesne, ribbonfish |
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| outperform | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| overfamiliar | (adjective) taking undue liberties | - |
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| overfamiliarity | (noun) The state of being common or repeated to the point of being unnoticed or annoying. | - |
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| overfatigue | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overtire, overweary |
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| overfed | (adjective) too well nourished | - |
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| overfeed | (verb) feed excessively | - |
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| overfeeding | (noun) excessive feeding | - |
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| overfill | (verb) fill beyond capacity | - |
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| overflight | (noun) a flight by an aircraft over a particular area (especially over an area in foreign territory) | - |
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| overflow | (noun) a large flow | Synonyms: flood, outpouring |
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| (noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overspill, runoff |
| (verb) overflow with a certain feeling | Synonyms: bubble over, spill over |
| (verb) flow or run over (a limit or brim) | Synonyms: brim over, overrun, run over, well over |
| overflowing | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, awash, flooded, inundated |
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| overfly | (verb) fly over | Synonyms: pass over |
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| overfond | (adjective) excessively fond | - |
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| overfull | (adjective) exceeding demand | Synonyms: glutted |
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| oysterfish | (noun) a variety of toadfish | Synonyms: oyster-fish, oyster fish |
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| parfait | (noun) layers of ice cream and syrup and whipped cream | - |
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| paterfamilias | (noun) the male head of family or tribe | Synonyms: patriarch |
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| perfect | (adjective) being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish | - |
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| (adjective) precisely accurate or exact | - |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) | Synonyms: perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense |
| (verb) make perfect or complete | Synonyms: hone |
| perfecta | (noun) a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order | Synonyms: exacta |
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| perfected | (adjective) (of plans, ideas, etc.) perfectly formed | - |
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| perfecter | (noun) a skilled worker who perfects something | - |
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| perfectibility | (noun) the capability of becoming perfect | - |
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| perfectible | (adjective) capable of becoming or being made perfect | - |
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| perfection | (noun) the act of making something perfect | - |
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| (noun) an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept | Synonyms: beau ideal, idol, paragon |
| (noun) the state of being without a flaw or defect | Synonyms: flawlessness, ne plus ultra |
| perfectionism | (noun) a disposition to feel that anything less than perfect is unacceptable | - |
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| perfectionist | (noun) a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards | - |
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| perfective | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action | Synonyms: perfective aspect |
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| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) | Synonyms: perfect, perfect tense, perfective tense |
| perfectly | (adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolutely, dead, utterly |
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| (adverb) in a perfect or faultless way | - |
| perfervid | (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, torrid |
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| perfidious | (adjective) tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans | Synonyms: punic, treacherous |
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| perfidiously | (adverb) in a perfidious manner | - |
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| perfidiousness | (noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidy, treachery |
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| perfidy | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, treachery, treason |
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| (noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidiousness, treachery |
| perfluorocarbon | (noun) a powerful greenhouse gas emitted during the production of aluminum | Synonyms: PFC |
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| perfoliate | (adjective) (of a leaf) having the base united around (and apparently pierced by) the stem | - |
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| perforate | (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforated, pierced, punctured |
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| (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: punch |
| (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: penetrate |
| perforated | (adjective) having a number or series of holes | - |
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| (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforate, pierced, punctured |
| perforation | (noun) the act of punching a hole (especially a row of holes as for ease of separation) | - |
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| (noun) a line of small holes for tearing at a particular place | - |
| (noun) a hole made in something | - |
| perforce | (adverb) by necessity; by force of circumstance | - |
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| perform | (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, execute |
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| (verb) give a performance (of something) | - |
| (verb) get (something) done | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) perform a function | - |
| performance | (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, execution |
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| (noun) the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment | - |
| (noun) any recognized accomplishment | - |
| (noun) a dramatic or musical entertainment | Synonyms: public presentation |
| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, operation |
| performer | (noun) an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience | Synonyms: performing artist |
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| performing | (noun) the performance of a part or role in a drama | Synonyms: acting, playacting, playing |
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| perfume | (noun) a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor | Synonyms: essence |
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| (noun) a distinctive odor that is pleasant | Synonyms: aroma, fragrance, scent |
| (verb) apply perfume to | Synonyms: scent |
| (verb) fill or impregnate with an odor | Synonyms: aromatise, aromatize |
| perfumed | (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odoriferous, odorous, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, sweet |
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| (adjective) filled or impregnated with perfume | Synonyms: scented |
| perfumer | (noun) a person who makes (and sells) perfumes | - |
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| perfumery | (noun) the art of making perfumes | - |
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| (noun) an establishment where perfumes are made | - |
| (noun) store where perfumes are sold | - |
| (noun) perfumes in general | - |
| perfunctorily | (adverb) in a set manner without serious attention; as a formality | Synonyms: pro forma |
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| perfunctory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, passing, superficial |
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| (adjective) done or produced as a formality only | Synonyms: pro forma |
| perfuse | (verb) cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across | Synonyms: suffuse |
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| (verb) force a fluid through (a body part or tissue) | - |
| perfusion | (noun) pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels) | - |
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| pitcherful | (noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcher |
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| pluperfect | (adjective) more than perfect | - |
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| (noun) a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past | Synonyms: past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect tense |
| powerful | (adjective) having great power or force or potency or effect | - |
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| (adjective) having great influence | Synonyms: potent |
| (adjective) displaying superhuman strength or power | Synonyms: herculean |
| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, hefty, muscular, sinewy |
| (adjective) strong enough to knock down or overwhelm | Synonyms: knock-down |
| (adverb) (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree | Synonyms: mightily, mighty, right |
| powerfully | (adverb) in a manner having a powerful influence | Synonyms: potently |
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| (adverb) in a powerful manner | Synonyms: strongly |
| powerfulness | (noun) possession of controlling influence | Synonyms: power |
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| prayerful | (adjective) disposed to pray or appearing to pray | - |
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| pufferfish | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: blowfish, globefish, puffer |
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| (noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: blowfish, puffer, sea squab |
| quarterfinal | (noun) one of the four competitions in an elimination tournament whose winners go on to play in the semifinals | - |
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| resurface | (verb) to come out of obscurity or hiding | - |
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| (verb) cover with a new surface | - |
| (verb) reappear on the surface | - |
| rudderfish | (noun) fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters | Synonyms: banded rudderfish, Seriola zonata |
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| (noun) food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships | Synonyms: Bermuda chub, Kyphosus sectatrix |
| rutherford | (noun) a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second | - |
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| rutherfordium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized | Synonyms: atomic number 104, element 104, Rf, unnilquadium, Unq |
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| salverform | (adjective) of or concerning a gamopetalous that has a slender tube and an abruptly expanded tip | - |
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| scarf | (noun) a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration | - |
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| (noun) a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end | Synonyms: scarf joint |
| (verb) wrap in or adorn with a scarf | - |
| (verb) masturbate while strangling oneself | - |
| (verb) unite by a scarf joint | - |
| scarfpin | (noun) a pin used to hold the tie in place | Synonyms: tie tack, tiepin |
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| scurf | (noun) (botany) a covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts | - |
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| (noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: exfoliation, scale |
| scurfy | (adjective) having or producing or covered with scurf | - |
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| (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly |
| serf | (noun) (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord | Synonyms: helot, villein |
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| serfdom | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfhood, vassalage |
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| serfhood | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfdom, vassalage |
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| serflike | (adjective) like someone in servitude | - |
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| silverfish | (noun) a silvery variety of Carassius auratus | - |
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| (noun) silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing | Synonyms: Lepisma saccharina |
| snarf | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, sneak, swipe |
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| soldierfish | (noun) the larger squirrelfishes | Synonyms: soldier-fish |
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| spearfish | (noun) any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare | - |
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| spiderflower | (noun) any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers | Synonyms: cleome |
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| starfish | (noun) echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk | Synonyms: sea star |
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| starflower | (noun) common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States | Synonyms: Ornithogalum umbellatum, sleepy dick, summer snowflake |
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| subsurface | (adjective) beneath the surface | - |
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| subterfuge | (noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | Synonyms: blind |
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| suckerfish | (noun) marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects | Synonyms: remora, sucking fish |
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| suksdorfia | (noun) any of several American plants of the genus Suksdorfia having orbicular to kidney-shaped somewhat succulent leaves and white or rose or violet flowers in terminal panicles | - |
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| superfamily | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group ranking below an order but above a family | - |
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| superfatted | (adjective) (of soap) containing extra unsaponified fat | - |
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| superfecta | (noun) a bet that you can pick the first four finishers in a race in the right order | - |
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| superfecundation | (noun) fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males) | - |
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| superfetate | (verb) conceive when a fetus is already present in the uterus | - |
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| superfetation | (noun) fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun; results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at the same time | - |
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| superficial | (adjective) concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually | - |
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| (adjective) of, affecting, or being on or near the surface | - |
| (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, passing, perfunctory |
| (adjective) of little substance or significance | Synonyms: trivial |
| (adjective) occurring on or near the surface of the skin | - |