| intragroup | (adjective) occurring within an institution or community | Synonyms: internal |
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| introuvable | (adjective) impossible to find | - |
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| inwrought | (adjective) having a decorative pattern worked or woven in | - |
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| languorous | (adjective) lacking spirit or liveliness | Synonyms: dreamy, lackadaisical, languid |
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| languorously | (adverb) in a languorous manner | - |
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| lecherous | (adjective) given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity | - |
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| lecherousness | (noun) a strong sexual desire | Synonyms: lust, lustfulness |
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| leprous | (adjective) relating to or resembling or having leprosy | - |
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| ludicrous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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| (adjective) broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce | Synonyms: farcical, ridiculous |
| ludicrously | (adverb) so as to arouse or deserve laughter | Synonyms: laughably, preposterously, ridiculously |
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| lustrous | (adjective) brilliant | - |
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| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, shining, shiny |
| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, sheeny, shining, shiny |
| malodorous | (adjective) having an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: ill-smelling, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling |
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| malodorousness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, rankness, stinkiness |
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| malodourous | (adjective) having an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: ill-smelling, malodorous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling |
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| mecopterous | (adjective) of or relating to mecopterans | - |
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| mercurous | (adjective) of or containing mercury | Synonyms: mercuric |
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| monandrous | (adjective) having only one husband at a time | - |
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| monestrous | (adjective) having one estrous cycle per year | Synonyms: monoestrous |
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| monoestrous | (adjective) having one estrous cycle per year | Synonyms: monestrous |
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| monstrous | (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, grievous |
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| (adjective) abnormally large | - |
| (adjective) distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous | Synonyms: grotesque |
| monstrously | (adverb) in a grotesque manner | Synonyms: grotesquely |
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| (adverb) in a terribly evil manner | Synonyms: heinously |
| (adverb) in a hideous manner | Synonyms: hideously, horridly |
| muciferous | (adjective) containing or secreting mucus | - |
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| multiparous | (adjective) producing more than one offspring at a time | - |
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| murderous | (adjective) characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being | Synonyms: homicidal |
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| murderously | (adverb) in a murderous frenzy | Synonyms: amok, amuck |
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| (adverb) as if bent on murder | - |
| murderousness | (noun) cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder | - |
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| (noun) a bloodthirsty hatred arousing murderous impulses | - |
| murmurous | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: rustling, soughing, susurrous |
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| nectariferous | (adjective) possessing nectaries | - |
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| nectarous | (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, ambrosian |
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| newsgroup | (noun) an area on a computer network, especially on the internet, devoted to the discussion of a specified topic | - |
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| nitrous | (adjective) of or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: azotic, nitric |
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| nonporous | (adjective) not porous; especially not having vessels that appear as pores | - |
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| numerous | (adjective) amounting to a large indefinite number | Synonyms: legion |
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| numerousness | (noun) a large number | Synonyms: multiplicity, numerosity |
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| obstreperous | (adjective) boisterously and noisily aggressive | - |
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| (adjective) noisily and stubbornly defiant | - |
| obstreperously | (adverb) in manner that attracts attention | Synonyms: clamorously, loudly |
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| obstreperousness | (noun) noisy defiance | - |
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| odoriferous | (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, sweet |
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| (adjective) emitting an odor | Synonyms: odorous |
| odorous | (adjective) having odor or a characteristic odor | - |
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| (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odoriferous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, sweet |
| (adjective) emitting an odor | Synonyms: odoriferous |
| omnivorous | (adjective) feeding on both plants and animals | - |
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| omnivorousness | (noun) The state of eating both animal and plant matter. | - |
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| onerous | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: burdensome, taxing |
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| onerously | (adverb) in an onerous manner | - |
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| onerousness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, heaviness, oppressiveness |
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| ossiferous | (adjective) containing bones (especially fossil bones) | - |
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| overgenerous | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, munificent, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| overproud | (adjective) excessively proud | - |
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| overwrought | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: distraught |
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| oviparous | (adjective) egg-laying | - |
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| ovoviviparous | (adjective) producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body | - |
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| parous | (adjective) having given birth to one or more viable children | - |
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| pentamerous | (adjective) divided into five parts; specifically, having each floral whorl consist of five (or a multiple of five) members | - |
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| pestiferous | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestilent, pestilential, plaguey |
| (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, perversive |
| (adjective) contaminated with infecting organisms | Synonyms: dirty |
| petrous | (adjective) (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness | Synonyms: stonelike |
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| phosphorous | (adjective) containing or characteristic of phosphorus | Synonyms: phosphoric |
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| pirouette | (noun) (ballet) a rapid spin of the body (especially on the toes as in ballet) | - |
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| (verb) do a pirouette, usually as part of a dance | - |
| piscivorous | (adjective) feeding on fishes | - |
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| playground | (noun) yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play | - |
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| (noun) an area where many people go for recreation, holidays or other purposes | Synonyms: resort area, vacation spot |
| polyandrous | (adjective) having more than one husband at a time | - |
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| polyestrous | (adjective) having more than one period of estrus per year | Synonyms: polyoestrous |
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| polyoestrous | (adjective) having more than one period of estrus per year | Synonyms: polyestrous |
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| ponderous | (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: heavy, lumbering |
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| (adjective) having great mass and weight and unwieldiness | - |
| (adjective) labored and dull | - |
| ponderously | (adverb) in a heavy ponderous manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an uninterestingly ponderous manner | - |
| ponderousness | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity |
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| (noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | Synonyms: heaviness |
| poriferous | (adjective) full of pores or vessels or holes | Synonyms: porous |
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| porous | (adjective) full of pores or vessels or holes | Synonyms: poriferous |
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| (adjective) allowing passage in and out | Synonyms: holey |
| (adjective) able to absorb fluids | - |
| porousness | (noun) the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids | Synonyms: porosity |
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| precancerous | (adjective) of or relating to a growth that is not malignant but is likely to become so if not treated | - |
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| preposterous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, ridiculous |
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| preposterously | (adverb) so as to arouse or deserve laughter | Synonyms: laughably, ludicrously, ridiculously |
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| primiparous | (adjective) of or relating to a woman who has given birth only once | - |
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| prosperous | (adjective) marked by peace and prosperity | Synonyms: golden, halcyon |
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| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, golden, lucky |
| (adjective) in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich | Synonyms: comfortable, easy, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do |
| (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, roaring, thriving |
| prosperously | (adverb) in the manner of prosperous people | - |
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| proud | (adjective) feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride | - |
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| (adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: gallant, lofty, majestic |
| proudly | (adverb) with pride; in a proud manner | - |
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| rancorous | (adjective) showing deep-seated resentment | - |
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| rapturous | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, enraptured, rapt, rhapsodic |
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| rapturously | (adverb) in an ecstatic manner | Synonyms: ecstatically, rhapsodically |
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| regroup | (verb) reorganize into new groups | - |
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| (verb) organize anew, as after a setback | Synonyms: reorganise, reorganize |
| retrousse | (adjective) (used of noses) turned up at the end | Synonyms: tip-tilted, upturned |
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| rigorous | (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: stringent, tight |
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| (adjective) rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard | Synonyms: strict |
| rigorously | (adverb) in a rigorous manner | Synonyms: strictly |
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| rigorousness | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| rigourousness | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| rivalrous | (adjective) eager to surpass others | Synonyms: emulous |
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| rouble | (noun) the basic unit of money in Russia | Synonyms: ruble |
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| roue | (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, rip |
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| rouge | (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, blusher, paint |
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| (verb) redden by applying rouge to | - |
| rougeberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, bloodberry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant |
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| rouged | (adjective) marked by the use of various kinds of red makeup | - |
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| rough | (adjective) having or caused by an irregular surface | Synonyms: unsmooth |
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| (adjective) of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped | - |
| (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky |
| (adjective) not shaped by cutting or trimming | Synonyms: uncut |
| (adjective) ready and able to resort to force or violence | Synonyms: pugnacious |
| (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, scratchy |
| (adjective) full of hardship or trials | Synonyms: rocky |
| (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximate, approximative |
| (adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: boisterous, fierce |
| (adjective) unkind or cruel or uncivil | Synonyms: harsh |
| (adjective) unpleasantly stern | Synonyms: harsh |
| (adjective) not perfected | - |
| (adjective) (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse | - |
| (adjective) not carefully or expertly made | Synonyms: crude |
| (noun) the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short | - |
| (adverb) with rough motion as over a rough surface | Synonyms: roughly |
| (adverb) with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly') | Synonyms: roughly |
| (verb) prepare in preliminary or sketchy form | Synonyms: rough in, rough out |
| roughage | (noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
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| roughcast | (noun) a rough preliminary model | - |
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| (noun) a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls | - |
| (verb) hew roughly, without finishing the surface | Synonyms: rough-hew |
| (verb) apply roughcast to | - |
| (verb) shape roughly | - |
| roughdried | (adjective) (of laundry) dried but not ironed | - |
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| roughen | (verb) make rough or rougher | - |
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| roughened | (adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: chapped, cracked |
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| roughhewn | (adjective) of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing | Synonyms: rough-cut |
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| roughhouse | (verb) engage in rough or disorderly play | - |
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| roughish | (adjective) somewhat rough | - |
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| roughleg | (noun) large hawk of the Northern Hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers | Synonyms: Buteo lagopus, rough-legged hawk |
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