| detritus | (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, dust, junk, rubble |
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| (noun) loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks | - |
| emeritus | (adjective) honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus' | - |
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| (noun) a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties | - |
| pruritus | (noun) an intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.) | - |
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| pulchritude | (noun) physical beauty (especially of a woman) | - |
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| pulchritudinous | (adjective) used of persons only; having great physical beauty | - |
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| ritual | (adjective) of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals | - |
| (noun) any customary observance or practice | Synonyms: rite |
| (noun) the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies | - |
| (noun) stereotyped behavior | - |
| ritualise | (verb) make or evolve into a ritual | Synonyms: ritualize |
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| ritualism | (noun) exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship | - |
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| (noun) the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies | - |
| ritualist | (noun) an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms | - |
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| (noun) a social anthropologist who is expert on rites and ceremonies | - |
| ritualistic | (adjective) of or characterized by or adhering to ritualism | - |
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| ritualize | (verb) make or evolve into a ritual | Synonyms: ritualise |
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| ritually | (adverb) in a ceremonial manner | Synonyms: ceremonially |
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| spiritual | (adjective) lacking material body or form or substance | - |
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| (adjective) concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church | Synonyms: religious |
| (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral |
| (adjective) concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul | Synonyms: unearthly |
| (noun) a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States | Synonyms: Negro spiritual |
| spiritualisation | (noun) the act of making something spiritual; infusing it with spiritual content | Synonyms: spiritualization |
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| spiritualise | (verb) purify from the corrupting influences of the world | Synonyms: spiritualize |
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| (verb) give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense | Synonyms: spiritualize |
| spiritualism | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: otherworldliness, spiritism, spirituality |
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| (noun) the belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium) | - |
| (noun) (theology) any doctrine that asserts the separate existence of God | - |
| spiritualist | (adjective) of or relating to or connected with spiritualism | Synonyms: spiritualistic |
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| (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, sensitive |
| spiritualistic | (adjective) of or relating to or connected with spiritualism | Synonyms: spiritualist |
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| spirituality | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: otherworldliness, spiritism, spiritualism |
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| (noun) property or income owned by a church | Synonyms: church property, spiritualty |
| spiritualization | (noun) the act of making something spiritual; infusing it with spiritual content | Synonyms: spiritualisation |
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| spiritualize | (verb) purify from the corrupting influences of the world | Synonyms: spiritualise |
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| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: glorify, transfigure |
| (verb) give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense | Synonyms: spiritualise |
| spiritually | (adverb) in a spiritual manner | - |
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| spiritualty | (noun) property or income owned by a church | Synonyms: church property, spirituality |
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| spirituous | (adjective) containing or of the nature of alcohol | Synonyms: spiritous |
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