| postpositive | (adjective) (of a modifier) placed after another word | - |
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| preciosity | (noun) the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined | Synonyms: preciousness |
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| predisposition | (noun) a disposition in advance to react in a particular way | - |
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| (noun) an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way | - |
| (noun) susceptibility to a pathogen | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| preposition | (noun) a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word | - |
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| (noun) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached) | - |
| prepositional | (adjective) of or relating to or formed with a preposition | - |
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| prepositionally | (adverb) as a preposition | - |
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| prerequisite | (adjective) required as a prior condition or course of study | - |
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| (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: requirement |
| presupposition | (noun) the act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument) | - |
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| propensity | (noun) a disposition to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: aptness |
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| (noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: leaning, proclivity |
| (noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: leaning, tendency |
| proposition | (noun) a task to be dealt with | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false | - |
| (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer, suggestion |
| (noun) the act of making a proposal | Synonyms: proposal |
| (noun) an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors) | - |
| (verb) suggest sex to | - |
| propositus | (noun) the person immediately affected by or concerned with an action | - |
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| psittacosaur | (noun) primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal | Synonyms: psittacosaurus |
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| psittacosaurus | (noun) primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal | Synonyms: psittacosaur |
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| psittacosis | (noun) infectious disease of birds | Synonyms: parrot disease |
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| (noun) an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds | Synonyms: ornithosis, parrot fever |
| pyrolusite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese dioxide; an important source of manganese | - |
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| radiosensitive | (adjective) sensitive to radiation | - |
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| radiosensitivity | (noun) sensitivity to the action of radiant energy | Synonyms: photosensitivity |
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| redeposit | (verb) deposit anew | - |
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| (verb) deposit once again | - |
| redeposition | (noun) deposition from one deposit to another | - |
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| redisposition | (noun) the withdrawal and redistribution of forces in an attempt to use them more effectively | Synonyms: redeployment |
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| reimposition | (noun) imposition again | - |
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| religiosity | (noun) exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal | Synonyms: pietism, religionism, religiousism |
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| reposit | (verb) put (something) in a place for storage | - |
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| repositing | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: reposition, storage, warehousing |
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| reposition | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: repositing, storage, warehousing |
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| (verb) place into another position | - |
| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: dislodge, shift |
| repositioning | (noun) the act of placing in a new position | - |
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| repository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, depository |
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| (noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | Synonyms: monument |
| (noun) a person to whom a secret is entrusted | Synonyms: secretary |
| requisite | (adjective) necessary for relief or supply | Synonyms: needed, needful, required |
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| (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessity, requirement |
| requisiteness | (noun) the state of being absolutely required | - |
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| requisition | (noun) seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized | Synonyms: sequestration |
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| (noun) the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use | - |
| (noun) an official form on which a request is made | Synonyms: requisition form |
| (verb) make a formal request for official services | - |
| (verb) demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service | - |
| revisit | (verb) visit again | - |
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| rhodochrosite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese carbonate; a source of manganese | - |
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| rosita | (noun) erect plant with small clusters of pink trumpet-shaped flowers of southwestern United States | Synonyms: Centaurium calycosum |
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| semiparasite | (noun) a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis | Synonyms: hemiparasite |
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| semiparasitic | (adjective) of or relating to plants that are semiparasites | - |
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| sensitisation | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitising, sensitization, sensitizing |
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| (noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) | Synonyms: sensitization |
| (noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen) | Synonyms: sensitization |
| sensitise | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitize |
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| (verb) make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion | Synonyms: sensitize |
| (verb) make sensitive to a drug or allergen | Synonyms: sensitize |
| (verb) cause to sense; make sensitive | Synonyms: sensitize |
| sensitised | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| sensitiser | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitizer |
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| sensitising | (adjective) making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: sensitizing |
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| (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitization, sensitizing |
| sensitive | (adjective) responsive to physical stimuli | - |
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| (adjective) being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others | - |
| (adjective) able to feel or perceive | Synonyms: sensible |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security | - |
| (adjective) hurting | Synonyms: raw, sore, tender |
| (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, spiritualist |
| sensitively | (adverb) in a sensitive manner | - |
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| sensitiveness | (noun) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | Synonyms: sensitivity |
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| (noun) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| (noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensibility, sensitivity |
| (noun) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| sensitivity | (noun) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
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| (noun) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
| (noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensibility, sensitiveness |
| (noun) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
| (noun) susceptibility to a pathogen | Synonyms: predisposition |
| sensitization | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitizing |
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| (noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) | Synonyms: sensitisation |
| (noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen) | Synonyms: sensitisation |
| sensitize | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise |
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| (verb) make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion | Synonyms: sensitise |
| (verb) make sensitive to a drug or allergen | Synonyms: sensitise |
| (verb) cause to sense; make sensitive | Synonyms: sensitise |
| sensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| sensitizer | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitiser |
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| sensitizing | (adjective) making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: sensitising |
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| (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitization |
| sensitometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the light sensitivity of film over a range of exposures | - |
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| sinuosity | (noun) having bends (especially of streams and roads) | Synonyms: sinuousness |
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| sinusitis | (noun) inflammation of one of the paranasal sinuses | - |
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| sit | (verb) serve in a specific professional capacity | - |
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| (verb) be in a position in which one's upper body is largely upright and supported by one's backside | Synonyms: sit down |
| (verb) show to a seat; assign a seat for | Synonyms: seat, sit down |
| (verb) take a seat | Synonyms: sit down |
| (verb) be in session | - |
| (verb) sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions | Synonyms: ride |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, pose, posture |
| (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, babysit |
| (verb) be around, often idly or without specific purpose | Synonyms: sit around |
| (verb) be located or situated somewhere | - |
| sitar | (noun) a stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable frets; has 6 or 7 metal strings for playing and usually 13 resonating strings | - |
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| sitcom | (noun) a humorous television program based on situations that could arise in everyday life | Synonyms: situation comedy |
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| (noun) a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life | Synonyms: situation comedy |
| site | (noun) a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web | Synonyms: internet site, web site, website |
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| (noun) the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located) | Synonyms: land site |
| (noun) physical position in relation to the surroundings | Synonyms: situation |
| (verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: locate, place |
| sitter | (noun) a domestic hen ready to brood | Synonyms: brood hen, broody, broody hen, setting hen |
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| (noun) a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home | Synonyms: baby-sitter, babysitter |
| (noun) an organism (person or animal) that sits | - |
| (noun) a person who poses for a painter or sculptor | Synonyms: artist's model |
| sitting | (adjective) (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks | Synonyms: seated |
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| (adjective) not moving and therefore easy to attack | - |
| (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position | - |
| (noun) (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) | Synonyms: posing |
| (noun) a session as of a legislature or court | - |
| (noun) a meeting of spiritualists | Synonyms: seance, session |
| situate | (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, fix, posit |
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| (verb) determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey | Synonyms: locate |
| situated | (adjective) situated in a particular spot or position | Synonyms: located, placed, set |
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| situation | (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, place, position, post |
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| (noun) physical position in relation to the surroundings | Synonyms: site |
| (noun) the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time | Synonyms: state of affairs |
| (noun) a condition or position in which you find yourself | Synonyms: position |
| (noun) a complex or critical or unusual difficulty | - |
| sparsity | (noun) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | Synonyms: spareness, sparseness, thinness |
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| strenuosity | (noun) intense energy | Synonyms: athleticism |
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| sumptuosity | (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: lavishness, luxury, sumptuousness |
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| superposition | (noun) the placement of one thing on top of another | - |
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| (noun) (geometry) the placement of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide | - |
| (noun) (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest | Synonyms: principle of superposition, superposition principle |
| (noun) (geology) the deposition of one geological stratum on another | - |
| supersensitised | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| supersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitized |
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| supersensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive |
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| supposition | (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: assumption, supposal |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of supposing | Synonyms: supposal |
| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, surmisal, surmise |
| suppositional | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositious, supposititious |
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| suppositious | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, supposititious |
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| supposititious | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious |
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| suppository | (noun) a small plug of medication designed for insertion into the rectum or vagina where it melts | - |
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| tarsitis | (noun) inflammation of the eyelid | - |
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| tensity | (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tenseness, tension |
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| tortuosity | (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, crookedness, torsion, tortuousness |
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| transit | (noun) a journey usually by ship | Synonyms: passage |
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| (noun) a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod | Synonyms: theodolite |
| (noun) a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods | Synonyms: transportation, transportation system |
| (verb) make a passage or journey from one place to another | Synonyms: move through, pass across, pass over, pass through |
| (verb) cause or enable to pass through | - |
| (verb) revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction | - |
| (verb) pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place) | - |
| transition | (noun) the act of passing from one state or place to the next | Synonyms: passage |
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| (noun) a passage that connects a topic to one that follows | - |
| (noun) a musical passage moving from one key to another | Synonyms: modulation |
| (noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: changeover, conversion |
| (noun) a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another | - |
| (verb) make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another) | - |
| (verb) cause to convert or undergo a transition | - |
| transitional | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by transition | - |
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| transitionally | (adverb) as a transitional step or in a transitional manner | - |
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| transitive | (adjective) designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning | - |
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| (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical | Synonyms: transitive verb, transitive verb form |
| transitively | (adverb) in a transitive manner | - |
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| transitiveness | (noun) the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb | Synonyms: transitivity |
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| transitivise | (verb) make transitive | Synonyms: transitivize |
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| transitivity | (noun) the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb | Synonyms: transitiveness |
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| (noun) (logic and mathematics) a relation between three elements such that if it holds between the first and second and it also holds between the second and third it must necessarily hold between the first and third | - |
| transitivize | (verb) make transitive | Synonyms: transitivise |
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| transitorily | (adverb) for a very brief time | - |
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| transitoriness | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transience, transiency |
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| transitory | (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transient |
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| transposition | (noun) the act of reversing the order or place of | Synonyms: reversal |
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| (noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign | - |
| (noun) (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance | - |
| (noun) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome | - |
| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, substitution, switch |
| (noun) any abnormal position of the organs of the body | Synonyms: heterotaxy |
| tuberosity | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tubercle |
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| unacquisitive | (adjective) not acquisitive; not interested in acquiring or owning anything | - |
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| unhesitating | (adjective) characterized by quickness and firmness | Synonyms: resolute |
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| unhesitatingly | (adverb) without hesitation | - |
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| uninquisitive | (adjective) not inquiring | Synonyms: uninquiring |
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| (adjective) deficient in curiosity | Synonyms: uninquiring |
| university | (noun) establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching | - |
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| (noun) the body of faculty and students at a university | - |
| (noun) a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees | - |
| varicosity | (noun) varix or varicose condition in which a vein is swollen and tortuous | - |
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| varsity | (noun) a British abbreviation of `university'; usually refers to Oxford University or Cambridge University | - |
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| (noun) a team representing a college or university | Synonyms: first team |
| verbosity | (noun) an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words | Synonyms: verboseness |
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| vicissitude | (noun) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another) | - |
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| (noun) a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something | - |