| molestation | (noun) the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism | Synonyms: harassment |
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| (noun) the act of subjecting someone to unwanted or improper sexual advances or activity (especially women or children) | - |
| mostaccioli | (noun) pasta somewhat resembling little moustaches | - |
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| moustache | (noun) an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip | Synonyms: mustache |
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| moustachio | (noun) a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) | Synonyms: handle-bars, mustachio |
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| multistage | (noun) occurring in more than one stage | - |
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| mustache | (noun) an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip | Synonyms: moustache |
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| mustached | (adjective) having a moustache | Synonyms: mustachioed |
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| mustachio | (noun) a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) | Synonyms: handle-bars, moustachio |
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| mustachioed | (adjective) having a moustache | Synonyms: mustached |
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| mustang | (noun) small hardy range horse of the western plains descended from horses brought by the Spanish | - |
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| mustard | (noun) pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds | Synonyms: table mustard |
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| (noun) leaves eaten as cooked greens | Synonyms: Indian mustard, leaf mustard, mustard greens |
| (noun) any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica | - |
| newsstand | (noun) a stall where newspapers and other periodicals are sold | - |
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| noncrystalline | (adjective) not crystalline | - |
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| nonresistance | (noun) group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence | - |
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| nonresistant | (adjective) offering no resistance, compliant | - |
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| (adjective) (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with | Synonyms: liable, nonimmune, unresistant |
| nonstandard | (adjective) not standard; not accepted as a model of excellence | - |
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| (adjective) varying from or not adhering to a standard | - |
| (adjective) not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community | - |
| nonstandardness | (noun) The state or condition of not being standard. | - |
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| nonstarter | (noun) a horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered | - |
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| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: failure, loser, unsuccessful person |
| nostalgia | (noun) longing for something past | - |
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| nostalgic | (adjective) unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons | - |
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| nostalgically | (adverb) in a nostalgic manner | - |
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| notwithstanding | (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, still, withal, yet |
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| nystagmus | (noun) involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders | - |
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| nystatin | (noun) an antifungal and antibiotic (trade names Mycostatin and Nystan) discovered in New York State; derived from soil fungi actinomycetes | Synonyms: Mycostatin, Nystan |
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| obstacle | (noun) an obstruction that stands in the way (and must be removed or surmounted or circumvented) | - |
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| (noun) something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted | Synonyms: obstruction |
| offstage | (adjective) situated or taking place in the area of a stage not visible to the audience | - |
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| (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: backstage |
| (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: backstage, wing |
| (adverb) behind the scenes; not on stage | - |
| (adverb) not in public | - |
| onstage | (adjective) situated or taking place on the area of a stage visible to the audience | - |
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| (adverb) on the stage | - |
| orthostatic | (adjective) pertaining to an upright standing posture | - |
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| outdistance | (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: distance, outstrip |
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| outstanding | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: prominent, salient, spectacular, striking |
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| (adjective) of major significance or importance | Synonyms: great |
| (adjective) distinguished from others in excellence | - |
| (adjective) owed as a debt | Synonyms: owing, undischarged |
| outstandingly | (adverb) in an outstanding manner or to an outstanding degree | - |
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| outstare | (verb) overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring | Synonyms: outface, stare down |
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| outstation | (noun) a station in a remote or sparsely populated location | Synonyms: outpost |
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| outstay | (verb) stay too long | Synonyms: overstay |
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| (verb) surpass in staying power | - |
| overstate | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw |
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| overstated | (adjective) represented as greater than is true or reasonable | Synonyms: exaggerated, overdone |
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| overstatement | (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, magnification |
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| overstay | (verb) stay too long | Synonyms: outstay |
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| painstaking | (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: conscientious, scrupulous |
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| painstakingly | (adverb) in a fastidious and painstaking manner | Synonyms: fastidiously |
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| painstakingness | (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: conscientiousness |
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| pasta | (noun) shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg | Synonyms: alimentary paste |
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| (noun) a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient | - |
| pedestal | (noun) a support or foundation | Synonyms: base, stand |
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| (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: footstall, plinth |
| (noun) a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority) | - |
| pentecostal | (adjective) of or relating to or occurring at Pentecost | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of any of various Pentecostal religious bodies or their members | - |
| pentecostalism | (noun) the principles and practices of Pentecostal religious groups; characterized by religious excitement and talking in tongues | - |
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| peristalsis | (noun) the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along | Synonyms: vermiculation |
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| photostat | (noun) a photocopy made on a Photostat machine | - |
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| (verb) make a copy by means of a Photostat device | - |
| pikestaff | (noun) the staff of a pike | - |
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| pistachio | (noun) nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel | Synonyms: pistachio nut |
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| (noun) small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts | Synonyms: pistachio tree, Pistacia vera |
| polestar | (noun) the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it | Synonyms: North Star, polar star, Polaris, pole star |
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| polycrystalline | (adjective) composed of aggregates of crystals | - |
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| postage | (noun) a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that postal fees have been paid | Synonyms: postage stamp, stamp |
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| (noun) the charge for mailing something | - |
| postal | (adjective) of or relating to the system for delivering mail | - |
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| postalveolar | (noun) (phonetics) Any sound articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge. | Synonyms: post-alveolar, post-alveolar consonant, postalveolar consonant |
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| pravastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Pravachol) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after nonfatal heart attacks | Synonyms: Pravachol |
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| progestational | (adjective) preceding and favoring gestation; of or relating to physiological changes associated with ovulation and formation of the corpus luteum | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to progesterone (or to a drug with effects like those of progesterone) | - |
| prostaglandin | (noun) a potent substance that acts like a hormone and is found in many bodily tissues (and especially in semen); produced in response to trauma and may affect blood pressure and metabolism and smooth muscle activity | - |
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| prostate | (adjective) relating to the prostate gland | Synonyms: prostatic |
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| (noun) a firm partly muscular chestnut sized gland in males at the neck of the urethra; produces a viscid secretion that is the fluid part of semen | Synonyms: prostate gland |
| prostatectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the prostate gland | - |
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| prostatic | (adjective) relating to the prostate gland | Synonyms: prostate |
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| prostatitis | (noun) inflammation of the prostate gland characterized by perineal pain and irregular urination and (if severe) chills and fever | - |
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| protestant | (adjective) protesting | - |
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| protestation | (noun) a strong declaration of protest | - |
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| (noun) a formal and solemn declaration of objection | Synonyms: protest |
| protistan | (noun) free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes | Synonyms: protist |
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| pyrostat | (noun) a thermostat that operates at very high temperatures | - |
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| quarterstaff | (noun) a long stout staff used as a weapon | - |
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| redstart | (noun) European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins | Synonyms: redtail |
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| (noun) flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail | Synonyms: American redstart, Setophaga ruticilla |
| reestablish | (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reinstate, restore |
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| reforestation | (noun) the restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting | Synonyms: re-afforestation |
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| reinstall | (verb) install again | - |
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| reinstate | (verb) restore to the previous state or rank | - |
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| (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reestablish, restore |
| reinstatement | (noun) the act of restoring someone to a previous position | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being reinstated | - |
| resistance | (noun) group action in opposition to those in power | - |
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| (noun) the military action of resisting the enemy's advance | - |
| (noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with | Synonyms: opposition |
| (noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current | Synonyms: resistor |
| (noun) the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness | - |
| (noun) a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force | Synonyms: underground |
| (noun) any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion | - |
| (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistivity |
| (noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: immunity |
| (noun) the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents | - |
| resistant | (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: insubordinate, resistive |
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| (adjective) impervious to being affected | - |
| (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: repellent |
| (adjective) able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress | Synonyms: tolerant |
| (adjective) relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) | Synonyms: immune |
| restart | (verb) take up or begin anew | Synonyms: re-start, resume |
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| (verb) start an engine again, for example | Synonyms: re-start |
| restate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, retell |
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| restatement | (noun) a revised statement | - |
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| restaurant | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eatery, eating house, eating place |
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| restauranter | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restaurateur |
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| restaurateur | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restauranter |
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| rheostat | (noun) resistor for regulating current | Synonyms: variable resistor |
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| rijstafel | (noun) dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice | Synonyms: rijstaffel, rijsttaffel |
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| rijstaffel | (noun) dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice | Synonyms: rijstafel, rijsttaffel |
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| rootstalk | (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstock |
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| roustabout | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: deckhand |
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| rubberstamp | (verb) approve automatically | - |
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| (verb) stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document | Synonyms: handstamp |
| sacristan | (noun) an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects | Synonyms: sexton |
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| siesta | (noun) a nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries) | - |
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| simvastatin | (noun) an oral lipid-lowering medicine (trade name Zocor) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after heart attacks | Synonyms: Zocor |
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| smokestack | (noun) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated | Synonyms: stack |
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| stab | (noun) a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument | Synonyms: knife thrust, thrust |
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| (noun) informal words for any attempt or effort | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) a sudden sharp feeling | Synonyms: pang, twinge |
| (verb) stab or pierce | Synonyms: jab |
| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, jab, poke, prod |
| (verb) use a knife on | Synonyms: knife |
| stabber | (noun) someone who stabs another person | - |
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| stabbing | (adjective) causing physical or especially psychological injury | Synonyms: wounding |
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| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing |
| stabile | (adjective) not able or intended to be moved | Synonyms: immovable, immoveable, unmovable |
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| (adjective) (chemistry, physics, biology) resistant to change | - |
| (noun) a sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support | - |
| stabilisation | (noun) the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable | Synonyms: stabilization |
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| (noun) the act of making something (as a vessel or aircraft) less likely to overturn | Synonyms: stabilization |
| stabilise | (verb) become stable or more stable | Synonyms: stabilize |
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| (verb) make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium | Synonyms: stabilize |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilize, steady |
| stabilised | (adjective) made stable or firm | Synonyms: stabilized |
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| stabiliser | (noun) a device for making something stable | Synonyms: stabilizer |
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| stabilising | (adjective) causing to become stable | Synonyms: stabilizing |
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| stabilitron | (noun) a semiconductor diode that exhibits a sharp increase in reverse current at a well-defined reverse voltage: used as a voltage regulator | Synonyms: zenerdiode |
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