| purulence | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus) | Synonyms: purulency |
| purulency | (noun) symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus) | Synonyms: purulence |
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| purulent | (adjective) containing pus | Synonyms: pussy |
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| pustule | (noun) a small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus | - |
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| reschedule | (verb) assign a new time and place for an event | - |
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| reticule | (noun) a woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries | - |
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| (noun) a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument | Synonyms: graticule, reticle |
| ridicule | (noun) the act of deriding or treating with contempt | Synonyms: derision |
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| (noun) language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate | - |
| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, roast |
| ridiculer | (noun) a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | Synonyms: ironist, satirist |
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| rivulet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, run, runnel, streamlet |
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| rouleau | (noun) a roll of coins wrapped in paper | - |
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| (noun) a roll of ribbon | - |
| roulette | (noun) a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in | - |
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| (noun) a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations | Synonyms: toothed wheel |
| (noun) a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure | Synonyms: line roulette |
| rule | (noun) measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths | Synonyms: ruler |
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| (noun) a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior | Synonyms: regulation |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, pattern |
| (noun) a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system | Synonyms: principle |
| (noun) a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct | Synonyms: principle |
| (noun) (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems | Synonyms: formula |
| (noun) prescribed guide for conduct or action | Synonyms: prescript |
| (noun) (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice | Synonyms: linguistic rule |
| (noun) directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted | - |
| (noun) any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order | - |
| (noun) dominance or power through legal authority | Synonyms: dominion |
| (noun) the duration of a monarch's or government's power | - |
| (verb) keep in check | Synonyms: harness, rein |
| (verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: decree |
| (verb) decide on and make a declaration about | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) mark or draw with a ruler | - |
| (verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: govern |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, prevail, reign |
| (verb) have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac | - |
| ruled | (adjective) subject to a ruling authority | - |
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| ruler | (noun) measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths | Synonyms: rule |
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| (noun) a person who rules or commands | Synonyms: swayer |
| rulership | (noun) the position of ruler | - |
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| saccule | (noun) a small sac or pouch (especially the smaller chamber of the membranous labyrinth) | Synonyms: sacculus |
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| schedule | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, docket |
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| (noun) an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur | - |
| (verb) plan for an activity or event | - |
| (verb) make a schedule; plan the time and place for events | - |
| scheduled | (adjective) planned or scheduled for some certain time or times | - |
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| scheduler | (noun) computer hardware that arranges jobs to be done by the computer in an appropriate order | - |
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| spherule | (noun) a small sphere | - |
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| spicule | (noun) small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals | Synonyms: spiculum |
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| squamule | (noun) a minute scale | - |
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| stipule | (noun) a small leafy outgrowth at the base of a leaf or its stalk; usually occurring in pairs and soon shed | - |
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| succulence | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: juiciness, succulency |
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| succulency | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: juiciness, succulence |
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| succulent | (adjective) tender and full of juice | Synonyms: lush |
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| (noun) a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs | - |
| supermolecule | (noun) any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals | Synonyms: macromolecule |
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| tabbouleh | (noun) a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat | Synonyms: tabooli |
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| truculence | (noun) obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness | Synonyms: truculency |
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| truculency | (noun) obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness | Synonyms: truculence |
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| truculent | (adjective) defiantly aggressive | - |
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| truculently | (adverb) in a defiantly truculent manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an aggressively truculent manner | - |
| tubule | (noun) a small tube | - |
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| turbulence | (noun) unstable flow of a liquid or gas | Synonyms: turbulency |
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| (noun) a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) | Synonyms: Sturm und Drang, upheaval |
| (noun) instability in the atmosphere | - |
| turbulency | (noun) unstable flow of a liquid or gas | Synonyms: turbulence |
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| turbulent | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: churning, roiled, roiling, roily |
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| (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous |
| turbulently | (adverb) in a turbulent manner; with turbulence | - |
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| (adverb) in a stormy or violent manner | Synonyms: passionately, stormily |
| ukulele | (noun) a small guitar having four strings | Synonyms: uke |
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| ulema | (noun) the body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community | Synonyms: ulama |
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| ulemorrhagia | (noun) bleeding of the gums | - |
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| unscheduled | (adjective) not scheduled or not on a regular schedule | - |
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| valvule | (noun) a small valve | Synonyms: valvelet, valvula |
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| venule | (noun) a minute vein continuous with a capillary | Synonyms: capillary vein, venula |
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| vesicopapule | (noun) a papule that changes into a blister | Synonyms: papulovesicle |
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| vestibule | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby |
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| (noun) any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina) | - |
| virgule | (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke |
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| virulence | (noun) extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) | Synonyms: virulency |
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| (noun) extreme hostility | Synonyms: virulency |
| virulency | (noun) extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) | Synonyms: virulence |
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| (noun) extreme hostility | Synonyms: virulence |
| virulent | (adjective) infectious; having the ability to cause disease | - |
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| (adjective) extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom | Synonyms: deadly, venomous |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, vitriolic |
| virulently | (adverb) in a virulent manner | - |
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| zonule | (noun) small beltlike zone | Synonyms: zonula |
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