| potentiality | (noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capability, capableness |
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| (noun) the inherent capacity for coming into being | Synonyms: potency, potential |
| potentially | (adverb) with a possibility of becoming actual | - |
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| potentiate | (verb) increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon) | - |
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| potentiation | (noun) (medicine) the synergistic effect of two drugs given simultaneously | - |
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| potentiometer | (noun) a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets | Synonyms: pot |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring direct current electromotive forces | - |
| potently | (adverb) in a manner having a powerful influence | Synonyms: powerfully |
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| preexistent | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexisting |
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| pretentious | (adjective) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction | - |
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| (adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others | Synonyms: ostentatious |
| (adjective) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar | Synonyms: ostentatious |
| pretentiously | (adverb) in a pretentious manner | - |
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| pretentiousness | (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, pretension |
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| (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, puffiness, splashiness |
| remittent | (adjective) (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity | - |
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| retention | (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: holding, keeping |
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| (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retentiveness, retentivity |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retentiveness, retentivity |
| retentive | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, recollective, tenacious |
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| (adjective) having the capacity to retain something | - |
| (adjective) having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water | - |
| retentively | (adverb) in a retentive manner | - |
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| retentiveness | (noun) the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired | Synonyms: retentivity |
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| (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retention, retentivity |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retention, retentivity |
| retentivity | (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retention, retentiveness |
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| (noun) the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired | Synonyms: retentiveness |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retention, retentiveness |
| sentential | (adjective) of or relating to a sentence | - |
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| sententious | (adjective) concise and full of meaning | Synonyms: pithy |
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| (adjective) abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing | - |
| sententiously | (adverb) in a pithy sententious manner | Synonyms: pithily |
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| stent | (noun) a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis | - |
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| stentor | (noun) any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor | - |
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| (noun) a speaker with an unusually loud voice | - |
| stentorian | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: booming |
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| sustentacular | (adjective) serving to sustain or support | - |
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| sustentation | (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustenance, upkeep |
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| tent | (noun) a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs) | Synonyms: collapsible shelter |
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| (noun) a web that resembles a tent or carpet | - |
| (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp |
| tentacle | (noun) any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion | - |
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| (noun) something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold | - |
| tentacled | (adjective) having tentacles | - |
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| tentacular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling tentacles | - |
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| tentative | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, provisionary |
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| (adjective) unsettled in mind or opinion | Synonyms: doubtful |
| tentatively | (adverb) in a tentative manner | - |
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| tenter | (noun) a framework with hooks used for stretching and drying cloth | - |
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| tenterhook | (noun) one of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter | - |
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| tenth | (adjective) coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position | Synonyms: 10th |
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| (noun) a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts | Synonyms: one-tenth, ten percent, tenth part |
| (noun) position ten in a countable series of things | - |
| tenthly | (adverb) (in enumerating something, such as topics or points of discussion) in the tenth place | - |
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| tenting | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: bivouacking, camping, encampment |
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| tentmaker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs tents | - |
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| tentorium | (noun) (anatomy) a fold of dura mater that covers the cerebellum and supports the occipital lobes of the cerebrum | - |
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| totipotent | (adjective) having the ability to give rise to unlike cells | - |
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| unintentional | (adjective) done or made or performed with purpose and intent | Synonyms: designed, intentional |
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| (adjective) not done with purpose or intent | Synonyms: unplanned, unwitting |
| unintentionally | (adverb) without intention; in an unintentional manner | Synonyms: accidentally |
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| unostentatious | (adjective) not ostentatious | Synonyms: unpretending, unpretentious |
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| (adjective) exhibiting restrained good taste | Synonyms: understated, unpretentious |
| unpatented | (adjective) (of devices and processes) not protected by patent | - |
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| unpretentious | (adjective) lacking pretension or affectation | - |
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| (adjective) not ostentatious | Synonyms: unostentatious, unpretending |
| (adjective) exhibiting restrained good taste | Synonyms: understated, unostentatious |
| unpretentiously | (adverb) in an unpretentious manner | - |
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| unpretentiousness | (noun) the quality of being natural and without pretensions | - |
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| unretentive | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: forgetful, short |
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