| populariser | (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularizer, vulgariser, vulgarizer |
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| popularism | (noun) music adapted to the understanding and taste of the majority | - |
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| popularity | (noun) the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after | - |
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| popularization | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularisation, vulgarisation, vulgarization |
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| (noun) an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable | Synonyms: popularisation |
| popularize | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularise |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| popularizer | (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, vulgariser, vulgarizer |
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| popularly | (adverb) among the people | - |
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| populate | (verb) fill with inhabitants | - |
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| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, live |
| populated | (adjective) furnished with inhabitants | - |
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| population | (noun) the act of populating (causing to live in a place) | - |
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| (noun) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | Synonyms: universe |
| (noun) the people who inhabit a territory or state | - |
| (noun) a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area | - |
| (noun) the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.) | - |
| portulaca | (noun) a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers | - |
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| postulant | (noun) one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order | - |
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| postulate | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: posit |
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| (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: posit |
| (verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: contend |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, require, take |
| postulation | (noun) (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument | Synonyms: predication |
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| (noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: petition, request |
| postulational | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatic, axiomatical |
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| postulator | (noun) someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument | - |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) someone who proposes or pleads for a candidate for beatification or canonization | - |
| primula | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primrose |
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| proconsular | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a proconsul | - |
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| proconsulate | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulship |
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| pula | (noun) the basic unit of money in Botswana | - |
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| pulasan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulassan |
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| (noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan tree, pulassan |
| pulassan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulasan |
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| (noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan, pulasan tree |
| pullulate | (verb) breed freely and abundantly | - |
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| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, shoot, sprout, spud |
| (verb) become abundant; increase rapidly | - |
| (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, stream, swarm, teem |
| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: swarm, teem |
| pullulation | (noun) a rapid and abundant increase | - |
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| (noun) asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual | Synonyms: gemmation |
| pustulate | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimpled, pimply |
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| quadrangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a quadrangle | - |
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| ranula | (noun) a cyst on the underside of the tongue | - |
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| recalculate | (verb) calculate anew | - |
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| recalculation | (noun) the act of calculating again (usually to eliminate errors or to include additional data) | - |
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| recapitulate | (verb) summarize briefly | Synonyms: recap |
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| (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: repeat, reprise, reprize |
| (verb) repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life | - |
| recapitulation | (noun) (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) | - |
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| (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, review |
| (noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated | - |
| (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: palingenesis |
| recirculation | (noun) circulation again | - |
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| rectangular | (adjective) having four right angles | - |
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| (adjective) having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles | Synonyms: orthogonal |
| rectangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: oblongness |
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| reformulate | (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: redevelop |
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| regular | (adjective) in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle | - |
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| (adjective) (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula | - |
| (adjective) (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces | - |
| (adjective) not constipated | Synonyms: unconstipated |
| (adjective) relating to a person who does something regularly | Synonyms: steady |
| (adjective) officially full-time | - |
| (adjective) not deviating from what is normal | - |
| (adjective) regularly scheduled for fixed times | - |
| (adjective) conforming to a standard or pattern | - |
| (adjective) occurring at fixed intervals | Synonyms: even |
| (adjective) symmetrically arranged | Synonyms: even |
| (adjective) often used as intensifiers | Synonyms: veritable |
| (adjective) in accord with regular practice or procedure | - |
| (noun) a garment size for persons of average height and weight | - |
| (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: fixture, habitue |
| (noun) a dependable follower (especially in party politics) | - |
| (noun) a soldier in the regular army | - |
| regularisation | (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularization, regulation |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) | Synonyms: regularization |
| regularise | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularize |
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| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularize, regulate |
| regularity | (noun) the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate | - |
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| (noun) a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles | Synonyms: geometrical regularity |
| regularization | (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularisation, regulation |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) | Synonyms: regularisation |
| regularize | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularise |
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| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regulate |
| regularly | (adverb) in a regular manner | Synonyms: on a regular basis |
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| (adverb) in a regular way without variation | - |
| (adverb) having a regular form | - |
| regulate | (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of | Synonyms: modulate |
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| (verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: baffle |
| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, mould, shape |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regularize |
| regulated | (adjective) controlled or governed according to rule or principle or law | - |
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| regulating | (noun) the act of controlling or directing according to rule | Synonyms: regulation |
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| regulation | (adjective) prescribed by or according to regulation | - |
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| (noun) the act of controlling or directing according to rule | Synonyms: regulating |
| (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularisation, regularization |
| (noun) a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: ordinance |
| (noun) (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered | - |
| (noun) the state of being controlled or governed | - |
| regulative | (adjective) restricting according to rules or principles | Synonyms: regulatory |
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| regulator | (noun) any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc. | - |
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| (noun) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | Synonyms: governor |
| (noun) an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest | - |
| regulatory | (adjective) restricting according to rules or principles | Synonyms: regulative |
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| reticular | (adjective) resembling or forming a network | Synonyms: reticulate |
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| reticulate | (adjective) resembling or forming a network | Synonyms: reticular |
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| (verb) divide so as to form a network | - |
| (verb) distribute by a network, as of water or electricity | - |
| (verb) form a net or a network | - |
| reticulation | (noun) an arrangement resembling a net or network | - |
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| (noun) (photography) the formation of a network of cracks or wrinkles in a photographic emulsion | - |
| roridula | (noun) either of 2 species of the genus Roridula; South African viscid perennial low-growing woody shrubs | - |
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| roulade | (noun) (music) an elaborate run of several notes sung to one syllable | - |
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| (noun) a dish consisting of a slice of meat that is rolled around a filling and cooked | - |
| rugulah | (noun) pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves) | Synonyms: rugelach, ruggelach |
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| sacculate | (adjective) formed with or having saclike expansions | Synonyms: sacculated |
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| sacculated | (adjective) formed with or having saclike expansions | Synonyms: sacculate |
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| scapula | (noun) either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings | Synonyms: shoulder blade, shoulder bone |
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| scapular | (adjective) relating to or near the shoulder blade | - |
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| (noun) a feather covering the shoulder of a bird | - |
| (noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapulary |
| scapulary | (noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapular |
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| scrofula | (noun) a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands | Synonyms: king's evil, struma |
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| secular | (adjective) of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows | - |
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| (adjective) not concerned with or devoted to religion | Synonyms: profane |
| (adjective) characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world | Synonyms: temporal, worldly |
| (adjective) of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy | Synonyms: laic, lay |
| (noun) someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | Synonyms: layman, layperson |
| secularisation | (noun) transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession | Synonyms: secularization |
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| (noun) the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion | Synonyms: secularization |
| secularise | (verb) make secular and draw away from a religious orientation | Synonyms: secularize |
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| secularism | (noun) a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations | - |
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| secularist | (noun) an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education | - |
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| secularization | (noun) transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession | Synonyms: secularisation |
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| (noun) the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion | Synonyms: secularisation |
| secularize | (verb) make secular and draw away from a religious orientation | Synonyms: secularise |
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| (verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: desacralize |
| semicircular | (adjective) curved into a half circle | - |
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| serrulate | (adjective) minutely serrated | - |
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| sertularian | (noun) feathery colony of long-branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps | - |
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| simulacrum | (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: effigy, image |
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| (noun) an insubstantial or vague semblance | - |
| simulate | (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, feign, sham |
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| (verb) create a representation or simulation of | Synonyms: model |
| (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, imitate |
| simulated | (adjective) not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article | Synonyms: fake, false, faux, imitation |
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| (adjective) reproduced or made to resemble; imitative in character | - |
| simulation | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense |
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| (noun) the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training) | - |
| (noun) representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model |
| (noun) (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program | Synonyms: computer simulation |
| simulator | (noun) a machine that simulates an environment for the purpose of training or research | - |
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| singular | (adjective) grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit | - |
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| (adjective) composed of one member, set, or kind | - |
| (adjective) unusual or striking | Synonyms: remarkable |
| (adjective) being a single and separate person or thing | - |
| (adjective) the single one of its kind | Synonyms: unique |
| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy |
| (noun) the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton | Synonyms: singular form |
| singularise | (verb) distinguish as singular | Synonyms: singularize |
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| singularity | (noun) the quality of being one of a kind | Synonyms: uniqueness |
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| (noun) strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual | - |
| singularize | (verb) distinguish as singular | Synonyms: singularise |
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| singularly | (adverb) in a singular manner or to a singular degree | - |
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| somnambulate | (verb) walk in one's sleep | Synonyms: sleepwalk |
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| somnambulation | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, noctambulism, sleepwalking, somnambulism |
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| spatula | (noun) a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances | - |
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| (noun) a turner with a narrow flexible blade | - |
| spatulate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base | Synonyms: spatula-shaped |
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| spectacular | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, striking |
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| (adjective) characteristic of spectacles or drama | - |
| (adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: dramatic, striking |
| (noun) a lavishly produced performance | - |
| spectacularly | (adverb) in a spectacular manner | Synonyms: stunningly |
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| specular | (adjective) capable of reflecting light like a mirror | Synonyms: mirrorlike |
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| speculate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think over |
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| (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, suppose, theorise, theorize |
| (verb) talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion | - |
| (verb) invest at a risk | Synonyms: job |
| speculation | (noun) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) | Synonyms: conjecture |
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| (noun) continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature | Synonyms: meditation |
| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
| (noun) an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits | Synonyms: venture |
| speculative | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, questioning, wondering |
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| (adjective) not based on fact or investigation | Synonyms: notional |
| (adjective) not financially safe or secure | Synonyms: bad, high-risk, risky |
| speculatively | (adverb) with speculation; in a speculative manner | - |
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| speculativeness | (noun) the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation | - |
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| (noun) financial risk | - |
| speculator | (noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Synonyms: plunger |
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| (noun) someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts | - |
| spirula | (noun) a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral | Synonyms: Spirula peronii |
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| sporulate | (verb) convert into spores | - |
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| (verb) produce spores | - |
| sporulation | (noun) asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores | Synonyms: monogenesis |
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| stimulant | (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulating |
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| (noun) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process | Synonyms: excitant, stimulant drug |
| (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: input, stimulation, stimulus |
| stimulate | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up |
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| (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: excite |
| (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: provoke |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, induce, make |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, rush |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stir |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: excite, stir |
| stimulated | (adjective) emotionally aroused | Synonyms: aroused, stirred, stirred up |
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