| overture | (noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: advance, approach, feeler |
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| (noun) orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio | - |
| (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: preliminary, prelude |
| palmature | (noun) an abnormality in which the fingers are webbed | - |
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| pasture | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, grass, pasturage |
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| (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture land, pastureland |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, graze, range |
| (verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: crop, graze |
| pastureland | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture, pasture land |
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| peradventure | (noun) doubt or uncertainty as to whether something is the case | - |
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| (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly |
| picture | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: icon, ikon, image |
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| (noun) graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface | Synonyms: painting |
| (noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: exposure, photo, photograph, pic |
| (noun) a clear and telling mental image | Synonyms: impression, mental picture |
| (noun) a typical example of some state or quality | - |
| (noun) illustrations used to decorate or explain a text | Synonyms: pictorial matter |
| (noun) the visible part of a television transmission | Synonyms: video |
| (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture show |
| (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, word-painting, word picture |
| (noun) a situation treated as an observable object | Synonyms: scene |
| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, render, show |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| pictured | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: depicted, portrayed |
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| (adjective) seen in the mind as a mental image | Synonyms: envisioned, visualised, visualized |
| picturesque | (adjective) suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture | - |
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| (adjective) strikingly expressive | - |
| picturesquely | (adverb) in a picturesque manner | - |
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| picturesqueness | (noun) visually vivid and pleasing | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid | - |
| portraiture | (noun) the activity of making portraits | - |
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| (noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portrait, portrayal |
| posture | (noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: attitude, position |
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| (noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: bearing, carriage |
| (noun) capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war | Synonyms: military capability, military posture, military strength, strength |
| (noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: position, stance |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, pose, sit |
| (verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others | Synonyms: pose |
| posturer | (noun) someone who behaves in a manner calculated to impress or mislead others | - |
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| prefecture | (noun) the office of prefect | - |
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| (noun) the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire) | - |
| prelature | (noun) the office or station of a prelate | Synonyms: prelacy |
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| (noun) prelates collectively | Synonyms: prelacy |
| premature | (adjective) born after a gestation period of less than the normal time | - |
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| (adjective) uncommonly early or before the expected time | Synonyms: untimely |
| (adjective) too soon or too hasty | Synonyms: previous |
| prematurely | (adverb) too soon; in a premature manner | Synonyms: untimely |
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| (adverb) (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation | - |
| prematureness | (noun) the state of being premature | Synonyms: prematurity |
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| primogeniture | (noun) right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son | - |
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| puncture | (noun) the act of puncturing or perforating | - |
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| (noun) a small hole made by a sharp object | - |
| (noun) loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object | - |
| (verb) cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing | - |
| (verb) be pierced or punctured | - |
| (verb) reduce or lessen the size or importance of | Synonyms: deflate |
| (verb) pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into | - |
| (verb) make by piercing | - |
| punctured | (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforate, perforated, pierced |
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| punctureless | (adjective) being without punctures or incapable of being punctured | - |
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| quadrature | (noun) the construction of a square having the same area as some other figure | - |
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| rapture | (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: ecstasy, exaltation, raptus, transport |
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| (noun) a state of elated bliss | Synonyms: ecstasy |
| recapture | (noun) the act of taking something back | Synonyms: retaking |
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| (noun) a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount | - |
| (verb) capture again | Synonyms: retake |
| (verb) take up anew | - |
| (verb) experience anew | - |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: retake |
| refracture | (verb) break (a bone) that was previously broken but mended in an abnormal way | - |
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| restructure | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: reconstitute |
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| rupture | (noun) the act of making a sudden noisy break | - |
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| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, severance |
| (noun) state of being torn or burst open | - |
| (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, snap, tear |
| rupturewort | (noun) common prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures | Synonyms: Hernaria glabra |
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| scripture | (noun) any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group | Synonyms: sacred scripture |
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| sculpture | (noun) creating figures or designs in three dimensions | Synonyms: carving |
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| (noun) a three-dimensional work of plastic art | - |
| (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpt |
| (verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpt |
| sculptured | (adjective) cut into a desired shape | Synonyms: graven, sculpted |
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| (adjective) resembling sculpture | Synonyms: modeled, modelled, sculptural, sculpturesque |
| sculpturer | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | Synonyms: carver, sculptor, statue maker |
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| sculpturesque | (adjective) resembling sculpture | Synonyms: modeled, modelled, sculptural, sculptured |
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| sepulture | (noun) a chamber that is used as a grave | Synonyms: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre |
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| (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment |
| sericulture | (noun) the production of raw silk by raising silkworms | - |
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| (noun) raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk | - |
| signature | (noun) a distinguishing style | Synonyms: touch |
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| (noun) your name written in your own handwriting | - |
| (noun) a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book | - |
| (noun) the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key | Synonyms: key signature |
| (noun) a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program | Synonyms: signature tune, theme song |
| silviculture | (noun) the branch of forestry dealing with the development and care of forests | - |
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| stature | (noun) (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot | Synonyms: height |
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| (noun) high level of respect gained by impressive development or achievement | - |
| stricture | (noun) severe criticism | - |
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| (noun) abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway | Synonyms: stenosis |
| structure | (noun) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | Synonyms: construction |
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| (noun) the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts | - |
| (noun) a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement | Synonyms: anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part |
| (noun) the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations | - |
| (noun) the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships | Synonyms: social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system |
| (verb) give a structure to | - |
| structured | (adjective) having definite and highly organized structure | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a living organism in organization or development | Synonyms: integrated |
| subculture | (noun) a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs | - |
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| substructure | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, understructure |
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| (noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: infrastructure |
| superstructure | (noun) structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck | - |
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| suture | (noun) thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together | - |
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| (noun) a seam used in surgery | Synonyms: surgical seam |
| (noun) an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull) | Synonyms: fibrous joint, sutura |
| (verb) join with a suture | - |
| tablature | (noun) a musical notation indicating the fingering to be used | - |
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| temperature | (noun) the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) | - |
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| (noun) the somatic sensation of cold or heat | - |
| texture | (noun) the feel of a surface or a fabric | - |
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| (noun) the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality | - |
| (noun) the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together | - |
| (noun) the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance) | Synonyms: grain |
| (noun) the essential quality of something | - |
| textured | (adjective) having surface roughness | Synonyms: coarse-textured, rough-textured |
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| tincture | (noun) (pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution | - |
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| (noun) a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color | Synonyms: shade, tint, tone |
| (noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: shadow, trace, vestige |
| (noun) a substance that colors or dyes | - |
| (verb) stain or tinge with a slight amount of a color | - |
| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, instill |
| torture | (noun) the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason | Synonyms: torturing |
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| (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting |
| (noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | Synonyms: agony, torment |
| (noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: anguish, torment |
| (noun) unbearable physical pain | Synonyms: torment |
| (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: excruciate, torment |
| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torment |
| tortured | (adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain | Synonyms: anguished, tormented |
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| torturer | (noun) someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion) | - |
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| torturesome | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous |
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| tureen | (noun) large deep serving dish with a cover; for serving soups and stews | - |
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| uncultured | (adjective) (of persons) lacking art or knowledge | Synonyms: artless, uncultivated |
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| understructure | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure |
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| unpictured | (adjective) not pictured | Synonyms: undepicted |
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| unpicturesque | (adjective) without beauty or charm | Synonyms: unlovely |
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| unstructured | (adjective) lacking definite structure or organization | - |
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| (adjective) lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies | Synonyms: amorphous |
| venipuncture | (noun) (medicine) puncture of a vein through the skin in order to withdraw blood for analysis or to start an intravenous drip or to inject medication or a radiopaque dye | - |
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| venture | (noun) any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome | - |
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| (noun) a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit | - |
| (noun) an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits | Synonyms: speculation |
| (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, pretend |
| (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, jeopardize, stake |
| (verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: embark |
| venturer | (noun) a person who enjoys taking risks | Synonyms: adventurer |
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| (noun) a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas) | Synonyms: merchant-venturer |
| venturesome | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: audacious, daring, venturous |
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| venturesomeness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: adventurousness |
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| vestiture | (noun) an archaic term for clothing | - |
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| vesture | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wear, wearable |
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| (noun) something that covers or cloaks like a garment | - |
| (verb) provide or cover with a cloak | - |
| viniculture | (noun) the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing | Synonyms: viticulture |
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| viticulture | (noun) the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing | Synonyms: viniculture |
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| vulture | (noun) any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion | - |
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| (noun) someone who attacks in search of booty | Synonyms: marauder, piranha, predator |
| wafture | (noun) the act of signaling by a movement of the hand | Synonyms: wave, waving |
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