| acerose | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acicular, needle-shaped |
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| aldotetrose | (noun) A four-carbon aldose; for example, threose, erythrose. | - |
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| boytrose | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, botryoidal |
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| dextrose | (noun) an isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits | Synonyms: dextroglucose, grape sugar |
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| erose | (adjective) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed | Synonyms: jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed |
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| furosemide | (noun) commonly used diuretic (trade name Lasix) used to treat hypertension and edema | Synonyms: Lasix |
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| heterosexism | (noun) discrimination in favor of heterosexual and against homosexual people | - |
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| heterosexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex | - |
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| (noun) a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexual person, straight, straight person |
| heterosexualism | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexuality, straightness |
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| heterosexuality | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexualism, straightness |
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| kerosene | (noun) a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters | Synonyms: coal oil, kerosine, lamp oil |
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| ketotetrose | (noun) A monosaccharide that has both a ketone and four carbons. | - |
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| leprose | (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, scabrous, scaly, scurfy |
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| metrosexual | (adjective) a heterosexual man that is particularly interested in his appearance, being well-groomed and fashion | - |
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| microsecond | (noun) one millionth (10^-6) of a second; one thousandth of a millisecond | - |
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| microseism | (noun) a small earthquake | Synonyms: earth tremor, tremor |
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| microsensor | (noun) A submicrometer- to millimeter-size device that converts a nonelectrical physical or chemical quantity, such as pressure, acceleration, temperature, or gas concentration, into an electrical signal; it is generally able to offer better sensitivity, accuracy, dynamic range, and reliability, as well as lower power consumption, compared to larger counterparts. | - |
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| monosaccharose | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharide, simple sugar |
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| morose | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| morosely | (adverb) in a morose manner | - |
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| moroseness | (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: sourness, sulkiness, sullenness |
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| (noun) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling | Synonyms: glumness, sullenness |
| necrose | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, mortify, sphacelate |
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| operose | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome |
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| operoseness | (noun) the quality of requiring extended effort | Synonyms: laboriousness, toilsomeness |
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| porose | (adjective) forming a continuous series of pores | - |
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| primrose | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primula |
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| prose | (noun) ordinary writing as distinguished from verse | - |
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| (noun) matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression | - |
| prosecute | (verb) bring a criminal action against (in a trial) | - |
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| (verb) conduct a prosecution in a court of law | - |
| (verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: engage, pursue |
| prosecution | (noun) the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior | Synonyms: criminal prosecution |
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| (noun) the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion | Synonyms: pursuance |
| (noun) the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant | - |
| prosecutor | (noun) a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state | Synonyms: prosecuting attorney, prosecuting officer, public prosecutor |
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| proselyte | (noun) a new convert; especially a gentile converted to Judaism | - |
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| proselytise | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytize |
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| proselytism | (noun) the state of being a proselyte; spiritual rebirth resulting from the zeal of crusading advocacy of the gospel | - |
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| (noun) the practice of proselytizing | - |
| proselytize | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytise |
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| proseminar | (noun) a course of study like a graduate seminar but often open to advanced undergraduates. | - |
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| prosencephalon | (noun) the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube | Synonyms: forebrain |
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| rockrose | (noun) small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage | Synonyms: rock rose |
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| (noun) any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers | Synonyms: rock rose |
| rose | (adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color | Synonyms: rosaceous, roseate |
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| (noun) a dusty pink color | Synonyms: rosiness |
| (noun) pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began | Synonyms: blush wine, pink wine, rose wine |
| (noun) any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses | Synonyms: rosebush |
| roseate | (adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color | Synonyms: rosaceous, rose |
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| rosebay | (noun) late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers | Synonyms: Rhododendron maxima |
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| rosebud | (noun) (a literary reference to) a pretty young girl | - |
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| (noun) the bud of a rose | - |
| rosebush | (noun) any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses | Synonyms: rose |
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| rosefish | (noun) large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe | Synonyms: ocean perch, Sebastes marinus |
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| (noun) North Atlantic rockfish | Synonyms: ocean perch, redfish |
| rosehip | (noun) the fruit of a rose plant | Synonyms: hip, rose hip |
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| roselle | (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, rozelle, sorrel |
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| rosemaling | (noun) a Scandinavian style of carved or painted decoration (as on furniture or walls or dinnerware) consisting of floral motifs | - |
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| rosemary | (noun) extremely pungent leaves used fresh or dried as seasoning for especially meats | - |
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| (noun) widely cultivated for its fragrant grey-green leaves used in cooking and in perfumery | Synonyms: Rosmarinus officinalis |
| roseola | (noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: efflorescence, rash, skin rash |
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| rosette | (noun) an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor | - |
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| (noun) circular window filled with tracery | Synonyms: rose window |
| (noun) a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground) | - |
| (noun) rhizoctinia disease of potatoes | Synonyms: little potato, russet scab, stem canker |
| rosewood | (noun) any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black | Synonyms: rosewood tree |
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| (noun) hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork | - |
| saccharose | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent | Synonyms: sucrose |
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| sclerosed | (adjective) relating to or having sclerosis; hardened | Synonyms: sclerotic |
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| sucrose | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent | Synonyms: saccharose |
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| sunrose | (noun) any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions | Synonyms: helianthemum, sun rose |
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| tetrose | (noun) any monosaccharide sugar containing four atoms of carbon per molecule | - |
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| tuberose | (noun) a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers | Synonyms: Polianthes tuberosa |
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