| pearlwort | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlweed |
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| pearly | (adjective) of a white the color of pearls | Synonyms: pearly-white |
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| (noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: chopper |
| peculiarly | (adverb) in a manner differing from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curiously, inexplicably, oddly |
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| (adverb) uniquely or characteristically | Synonyms: particularly |
| (adverb) to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common | Synonyms: especially, particularly, specially |
| peerless | (adjective) eminent beyond or above comparison | Synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one, one and only, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled |
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| peerlessness | (noun) The state or condition of being matchless, of having no equal. | Synonyms: matchlessness |
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| perleche | (noun) a disorder of the lips marked by scaling and fissures at the corners of the mouth; caused by a deficiency of riboflavin | Synonyms: cheilosis |
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| perpendicularly | (adverb) in a perpendicular manner | - |
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| (adverb) straight up or down without a break | Synonyms: sheer |
| poorly | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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| (adverb) (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well | Synonyms: badly, ill |
| popularly | (adverb) among the people | - |
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| powerless | (adjective) lacking power | - |
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| powerlessly | (adverb) in a powerless manner | - |
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| powerlessness | (noun) the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble | Synonyms: impotence, impotency |
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| properly | (adverb) in the right manner; correctly; suitably | Synonyms: decent, decently, right |
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| (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: appropriately, befittingly, duly, fitly, fittingly, suitably |
| (adverb) indicating exactness or preciseness | Synonyms: exactly, just, precisely |
| purl | (noun) a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the righthand side | Synonyms: purl stitch |
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| (noun) gold or silver wire thread | - |
| (verb) make a murmuring sound | Synonyms: sough |
| (verb) embroider with gold or silver thread | - |
| (verb) edge or border with gold or silver embroidery | - |
| (verb) knit with a purl stitch | - |
| (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, swirl, whirl, whirlpool |
| purlieu | (noun) an outer adjacent area of any place | Synonyms: environs |
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| purloin | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| purloo | (noun) thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S. | Synonyms: chicken purloo, poilu |
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| quarterlight | (noun) car window consisting of a small pivoted glass vent in the door of a car | - |
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| quarterly | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of a quarter | - |
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| (noun) a periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year) | - |
| (adverb) in three month intervals | Synonyms: every quarter |
| (adverb) in diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon | - |
| queerly | (adverb) in a questionably unusual manner | Synonyms: fishily |
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| (adverb) in a strange manner | Synonyms: funnily, oddly, strangely |
| regularly | (adverb) in a regular manner | Synonyms: on a regular basis |
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| (adverb) in a regular way without variation | - |
| (adverb) having a regular form | - |
| repulsorlift | (noun) a fictional anti-gravity device in the Star Wars Universe. | Synonyms: repulsor, repulsorlift engine |
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| rubberlike | (adjective) having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness | Synonyms: rubbery |
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| rudderless | (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, undirected |
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| salesgirl | (noun) a woman salesperson | Synonyms: saleslady, saleswoman |
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| sanderling | (noun) small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world | Synonyms: Crocethia alba |
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| savorless | (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savourless, vapid |
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| savorlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, flavourlessness, savourlessness, tastelessness |
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| savourless | (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, vapid |
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| savourlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, flavourlessness, savorlessness, tastelessness |
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| scarlatina | (noun) an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash | Synonyms: scarlet fever |
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| scarlet | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy |
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| (noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | Synonyms: orange red, vermilion |
| scholarly | (adjective) characteristic of scholars or scholarship | - |
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| schoolgirl | (noun) a girl attending school | - |
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| schoolgirlish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young girl | Synonyms: girlish |
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| schorl | (noun) black tourmaline | - |
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| sherlock | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus |
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| showgirl | (noun) a woman who dances in a chorus line | Synonyms: chorine, chorus girl |
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| similarly | (adverb) in like or similar manner | Synonyms: likewise |
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| singularly | (adverb) in a singular manner or to a singular degree | - |
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| sirloin | (noun) the portion of the loin (especially of beef) just in front of the rump | - |
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| sisterlike | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a sister | Synonyms: sisterly, sororal |
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| sisterly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a sister | Synonyms: sisterlike, sororal |
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| skirl | (noun) the sound of (the chanter of) a bagpipe | - |
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| (verb) play the bagpipes | - |
| (verb) make a shrill, wailing sound | - |
| slenderly | (adverb) in a slim or slender manner | Synonyms: slightly, slimly |
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| (adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner | Synonyms: meagerly, meagrely, sparingly |
| snarl | (noun) something jumbled or confused | Synonyms: maze, tangle |
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| (noun) a vicious angry growl | - |
| (noun) an angry vicious expression | - |
| (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: embrangle, snarl up |
| (verb) utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise | - |
| (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: entangle, mat, tangle |
| snarled | (adjective) tangled in knots or snarls | Synonyms: knotty, snarly |
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| snarly | (adjective) tangled in knots or snarls | Synonyms: knotty, snarled |
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| soberly | (adverb) in a grave and sober manner | Synonyms: gravely, staidly |
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| soldierlike | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierly, warriorlike |
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| soldierly | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierlike, warriorlike |
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| somberly | (adverb) in a somber manner | Synonyms: sombrely |
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| sourly | (adverb) in a sour manner | - |
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| southeasterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southeast | Synonyms: southeast |
| southerly | (adjective) from the south; used especially of wind | Synonyms: southern |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the south | Synonyms: southern |
| (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, souther |
| (adverb) from the south | - |
| (adverb) toward the south | Synonyms: southward, southwards |
| southwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwest |
| sparling | (noun) the common smelt of Europe | Synonyms: European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus |
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| (noun) common smelt of Europe | Synonyms: European smelt |
| spectacularly | (adverb) in a spectacular manner | Synonyms: stunningly |
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| spiderlike | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderly, spidery |
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| spiderly | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spidery |
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| splinterless | (adjective) resistant to shattering or splintering | Synonyms: shatterproof, splinterproof |
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| starless | (adjective) not starry; having no stars or starlike objects | - |
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| starlessness | (noun) The state of being without visible stars. | - |
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| starlet | (noun) a small star | - |
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| (noun) a young (film) actress who is publicized as a future star | - |
| starlight | (noun) the light of the stars | - |
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| starlike | (adjective) resembling a star | - |
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| starling | (noun) gregarious birds native to the Old World | - |
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| starlit | (adjective) lighted only by stars | - |
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| sterling | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: greatest, superlative |
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| (noun) British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK | - |
| sugarless | (adjective) not containing sugar | Synonyms: nonsweet |
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| sugarloaf | (noun) a large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar | Synonyms: loaf sugar, sugar loaf |
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| superlative | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: greatest, sterling |
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| (noun) an exaggerated expression (usually of praise) | - |
| (noun) the superlative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: superlative degree |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, tiptop, top |
| superlatively | (adverb) to a superlative degree | - |
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| superload | (noun) a variable load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) such as moving traffic | Synonyms: live load |
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| superlunar | (adjective) situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth | Synonyms: superlunary, translunar, translunary |
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| (adjective) unworldly or ethereal | Synonyms: superlunary, translunar, translunary |
| superlunary | (adjective) situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth | Synonyms: superlunar, translunar, translunary |
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| (adjective) unworldly or ethereal | Synonyms: superlunar, translunar, translunary |
| supperless | (adjective) without supper | - |
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| surlily | (adverb) in a churlish manner | Synonyms: churlishly |
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| surliness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, temper |
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| surly | (adjective) inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace | Synonyms: ugly |
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| swirl | (noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly | Synonyms: convolution, vortex, whirl |
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| (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, purl, whirl, whirlpool |
| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: twiddle, twirl, whirl |
| tearless | (adjective) free from tears | Synonyms: dry-eyed |
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| tenderloin | (noun) the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column | Synonyms: undercut |
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| (noun) a city district known for its vice and high crime rate | Synonyms: combat zone |
| tenderly | (adverb) with tenderness; in a tender manner | - |
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| timberland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, woodland |
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| timberline | (noun) line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes | Synonyms: timber line, tree line |
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| twirl | (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twist, twisting, whirl |
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| (noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: kink, twist |
| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: swirl, twiddle, whirl |
| (verb) cause to spin | Synonyms: birl, spin, whirl |
| twirler | (noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: hurler, pitcher |
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| (noun) someone who twirls a baton | Synonyms: baton twirler |
| twirlingly | (adverb) doing twirls | - |
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| ulteriorly | (adverb) in an ulterior manner | - |
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| unclearly | (adverb) in a manner that is unclear | - |
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| uncurl | (verb) move out of a curled position | - |
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| uncurled | (adjective) not having been curled | - |
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| (adjective) not curled | - |
| underlay | (noun) a pad placed under a carpet | Synonyms: carpet pad, rug pad, underlayment |
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| (verb) provide with a base, support, lining, or backing | - |
| (verb) put (something) under or beneath | - |
| (verb) raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type | - |
| underlayment | (noun) a pad placed under a carpet | Synonyms: carpet pad, rug pad, underlay |
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| underlie | (verb) be or form the base for | - |
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| (verb) lie underneath | - |
| underline | (noun) a line drawn underneath (especially under written matter) | Synonyms: underscore |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, emphasize, underscore |
| (verb) draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to | Synonyms: underscore |
| underling | (noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | Synonyms: foot soldier, subordinate, subsidiary |
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| underlip | (noun) the lower lip | - |
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| underlying | (adjective) being or involving basic facts or principles | Synonyms: fundamental, rudimentary |
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| (adjective) in the nature of something though not readily apparent | Synonyms: implicit in, inherent |
| (adjective) located beneath or below | - |