| persuasion | (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, sentiment, thought, view |
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| (noun) the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action | Synonyms: suasion |
| pervasion | (noun) the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance | Synonyms: permeation, suffusion |
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| perversion | (noun) the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use) | - |
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| (noun) an aberrant sexual practice | Synonyms: sexual perversion |
| (noun) a curve that reverses the direction of something | - |
| photoemission | (noun) an emission of photoelectrons (especially from a metallic surface) | - |
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| plosion | (noun) the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant | Synonyms: explosion |
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| possession | (noun) anything owned or possessed | - |
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| (noun) the act of having and controlling property | Synonyms: ownership |
| (noun) (sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck) | - |
| (noun) the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior | Synonyms: self-command, self-control, self-possession, self-will, will power, willpower |
| (noun) a territory that is controlled by a ruling state | - |
| (noun) a mania restricted to one thing or idea | Synonyms: monomania |
| (noun) being controlled by passion or the supernatural | - |
| precession | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedence, precedency |
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| (noun) the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone | - |
| precision | (noun) the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance | Synonyms: preciseness |
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| preclusion | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: forestalling, obviation |
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| prehension | (noun) the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) | Synonyms: grasping, seizing, taking hold |
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| prepossession | (noun) an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence | Synonyms: parti pris, preconceived idea, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, preconception |
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| (noun) the condition of being prepossessed | - |
| pretension | (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretense |
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| (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: largeness, pretentiousness |
| (noun) the advancing of a claim | - |
| pretermission | (noun) letting pass without notice | - |
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| prevision | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prescience |
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| (noun) a prophetic vision (as in a dream) | - |
| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prospicience |
| (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prediction |
| procession | (noun) the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation | - |
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| (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, progress, progression |
| (noun) (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost | Synonyms: emanation, rise |
| processional | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a procession | - |
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| (adjective) intended for use in a procession | - |
| (noun) religious music used in a procession | Synonyms: prosodion |
| profession | (noun) an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences) | - |
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| (noun) an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion | Synonyms: professing |
| (noun) affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith | - |
| (noun) the body of people in a learned occupation | - |
| professional | (adjective) engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a profession | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or suitable as a profession | - |
| (adjective) engaged in by members of a profession | - |
| (noun) a person engaged in one of the learned professions | Synonyms: professional person |
| (noun) an authority qualified to teach apprentices | Synonyms: master |
| (noun) an athlete who plays for pay | Synonyms: pro |
| professionalisation | (noun) the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalization |
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| professionalise | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalize |
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| (verb) become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalize |
| professionalism | (noun) the expertness characteristic of a professional person | - |
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| professionalization | (noun) the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalisation |
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| professionalize | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalise |
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| (verb) become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalise |
| professionally | (adverb) in a professional manner | - |
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| profusion | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: cornucopia, profuseness, richness |
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| progression | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress |
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| (noun) a movement forward | Synonyms: advance, progress |
| (noun) a series with a definite pattern of advance | Synonyms: patterned advance |
| prolusion | (noun) exercising in preparation for strenuous activity | Synonyms: tune-up, warm-up |
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| (noun) a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book | Synonyms: foreword, preface |
| propulsion | (noun) the act of propelling | Synonyms: actuation |
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| (noun) a propelling force | - |
| protrusion | (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, jutting, projection |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protuberance, swelling |
| provision | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | Synonyms: supply, supplying |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: planning, preparation |
| (noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: proviso |
| (noun) a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms) | - |
| (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: purvey |
| provisional | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisionary, tentative |
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| provisionally | (adverb) temporarily and conditionally | - |
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| provisionary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, tentative |
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| provisioner | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: sutler, victualer, victualler |
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| provisions | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, viands, victuals |
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| readmission | (noun) the act of admitting someone again | - |
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| recession | (noun) the act of becoming more distant | Synonyms: receding |
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| (noun) the act of ceding back | Synonyms: ceding back |
| (noun) the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service | Synonyms: recessional |
| (noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: corner, niche, recess |
| (noun) the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year | - |
| recessional | (adjective) of or relating to receding | - |
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| (noun) a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw | - |
| (noun) the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service | Synonyms: recession |
| recessionary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessive |
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| recission | (noun) (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made | Synonyms: rescission |
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| recursion | (noun) (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation; also, the repeated application or execution of a pattern, function or definition; an expression that is recursive | - |
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| regression | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, retrogression, retroversion, reversion |
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| (noun) the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x) | Synonyms: regression toward the mean, simple regression, statistical regression |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state | - |
| (noun) an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely | Synonyms: arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation |
| remission | (noun) the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance | Synonyms: absolution, remission of sin, remittal |
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| (noun) (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) | Synonyms: remit, remitment |
| (noun) an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease) | Synonyms: remittal, subsidence |
| (noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remitment, remittal, remittance |
| repercussion | (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, rebound, recoil |
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| (noun) a remote or indirect consequence of some action | Synonyms: reverberation |
| repossession | (noun) the action of regaining possession (especially the seizure of collateral securing a loan that is in default) | - |
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| reprehension | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprimand, reproof, reproval |
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| repression | (noun) the act of repressing; control by holding down | - |
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| (noun) (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious | - |
| (noun) a state of forcible subjugation | - |
| repulsion | (noun) the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand | Synonyms: standoff |
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| (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repugnance, revulsion |
| (noun) the force by which bodies repel one another | Synonyms: repulsive force |
| rescission | (noun) (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made | Synonyms: recission |
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| resuspension | (noun) a renewed suspension of insoluble particles after they have been precipitated | - |
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| retrogression | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retroversion, reversion |
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| (noun) passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form | Synonyms: degeneration |
| retroversion | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, reversion |
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| (noun) translation back into the original language | - |
| (noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part | Synonyms: retroflection, retroflexion |
| retrovision | (noun) a vision of events in the distant past | - |
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| reversion | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting |
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| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, retroversion |
| (noun) (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation) | - |
| (noun) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | Synonyms: atavism, throwback |
| (noun) (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee) | - |
| reversionary | (adjective) of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion) | - |
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| reversioner | (noun) (law) a party who is entitled to an estate in reversion | - |
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| reversionist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, recidivist |
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| revision | (noun) the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) | Synonyms: alteration |
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| (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: rescript, rewrite |
| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revisal, revise |
| revisionism | (noun) a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism | - |
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| (noun) any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx | - |
| revisionist | (noun) a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position | - |
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| revulsion | (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repugnance, repulsion |
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| scansion | (noun) analysis of verse into metrical patterns | - |
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| scission | (noun) the act of dividing by cutting or splitting | - |
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| secession | (noun) formal separation from an alliance or federation | Synonyms: withdrawal |
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| (noun) an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s | Synonyms: sezession |
| secessionism | (noun) a doctrine that maintains the right of secession | - |
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| secessionist | (noun) an advocate of secessionism | - |
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| seclusion | (noun) the act of secluding yourself from others | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privacy, privateness |
| semiprofessional | (noun) an athlete who plays for pay on a part-time basis | Synonyms: semipro |
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| session | (noun) a meeting devoted to a particular activity | - |
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| (noun) a meeting for execution of a group's functions | - |
| (noun) a meeting of spiritualists | Synonyms: seance, sitting |
| (noun) the time during which a school holds classes | Synonyms: academic session, academic term, school term |
| sezession | (noun) an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s | Synonyms: secession |
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| suasion | (noun) the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action | Synonyms: persuasion |
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| subdimension | (noun) a partial dimension that constitutes the entire dimension of a given object. | - |
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| subdivision | (noun) the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided | - |
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| (noun) a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided | Synonyms: subsection |
| (noun) a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical) | Synonyms: section |
| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, branch |
| (noun) an area composed of subdivided lots | - |
| submersion | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, ducking, immersion |
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| (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: immersion, submergence, submerging |
| submission | (noun) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | Synonyms: compliance |
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| (noun) something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition) | Synonyms: entry |
| (noun) an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter | - |
| (noun) a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter | - |
| (noun) (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing | - |
| (noun) the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness | Synonyms: meekness |
| (noun) the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else | - |
| subversion | (noun) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity | Synonyms: corruption |
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| (noun) the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government | Synonyms: subversive activity |
| succession | (noun) the action of following in order | Synonyms: sequence |
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| (noun) acquisition of property by descent or by will | Synonyms: taking over |
| (noun) a following of one thing after another in time | Synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, sequence, successiveness |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged or following in order | - |
| (noun) (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established | Synonyms: ecological succession |
| succussion | (noun) shaking a person to determine whether a large amount of liquid is present in a body cavity | - |
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| suffusion | (noun) the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance | Synonyms: permeation, pervasion |
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| supersession | (noun) act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior | Synonyms: supersedure |
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| supervision | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, superintendence, supervising |
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| suppression | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: curtailment |
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| (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, quelling, stifling |
| (noun) (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires | Synonyms: inhibition |
| (noun) the failure to develop some part or organ | - |
| suspension | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: dangling, hanging |
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| (noun) a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc) | Synonyms: temporary removal |
| (noun) a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: suspension system |
| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, reprieve, respite |
| (noun) temporary cessation or suspension | Synonyms: abeyance |
| (noun) a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy | - |
| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, intermission, interruption, pause |
| symphysion | (noun) the most forward point of the alveolar process of the mandible | - |
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| television | (noun) a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points | Synonyms: television system |
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| (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television receiver, television set, telly, tv, tv set |
| (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: telecasting, TV, video |
| tension | (noun) the action of stretching something tight | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body | - |
| (noun) feelings of hostility that are not manifest | Synonyms: latent hostility |
| (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tenseness, tensity |
| (noun) a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature) | - |
| (noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: stress, tenseness |
| tensional | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by tension | - |
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| tensionless | (adjective) free from tension | - |
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| torsion | (noun) a twisting force | Synonyms: torque |
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| (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, crookedness, tortuosity, tortuousness |
| transfusion | (noun) the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery | Synonyms: blood transfusion |
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| (noun) the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another | - |
| transgression | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: evildoing |
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| (noun) the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit | - |
| (noun) the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata | - |
| transmission | (noun) the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted | Synonyms: transmittal, transmitting |
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| (noun) the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle | Synonyms: transmission system |
| (noun) communication by means of transmitted signals | - |
| (noun) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted | Synonyms: contagion, infection |
| (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance | Synonyms: transmittance |
| uncompassionate | (adjective) lacking compassion or feeling for others | - |
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| unidimensional | (adjective) relating to a single dimension or aspect; having no depth or scope | Synonyms: one-dimensional |
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| unimpassioned | (adjective) free from emotional appeal; marked by reasonableness | - |
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| unimpressionable | (adjective) not sensitive or susceptible to impression | - |
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| unprofessional | (adjective) not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession | - |
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| version | (noun) manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery) | - |
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| (noun) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something | Synonyms: interpretation, reading |
| (noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: edition, variant, variation |
| (noun) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | Synonyms: interlingual rendition, rendering, translation |
| (noun) an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint | - |
| (noun) a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form | Synonyms: adaptation |
| vision | (noun) the ability to see; the visual faculty | Synonyms: sight, visual modality, visual sense |
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| (noun) the perceptual experience of seeing | Synonyms: visual sensation |
| (noun) a vivid mental image | - |
| (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, imaginativeness |
| (noun) a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance | - |
| visionariness | (noun) The state or condition of being imaginary or illusory. | - |
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