| poundal | (noun) a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound; equal to 0.1382 newtons | Synonyms: pdl |
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| pounder | (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: muller, pestle |
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| (noun) (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds | - |
| pounding | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, hammering, pound |
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| (noun) repeated heavy blows | Synonyms: buffeting |
| (noun) an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) | Synonyms: throb, throbbing |
| profound | (adjective) showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth | - |
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| (adjective) situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed | Synonyms: unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded |
| (adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: heavy, sound, wakeless |
| (adjective) of the greatest intensity; complete | - |
| (adjective) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something | Synonyms: fundamental |
| (adjective) coming from deep within one | - |
| profoundly | (adverb) to a great depth psychologically or emotionally | Synonyms: deeply, intensely |
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| profoundness | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: deepness, profundity |
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| (noun) intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" | Synonyms: profundity |
| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profundity |
| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness |
| (noun) extremeness of degree | - |
| profundity | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: deepness, profoundness |
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| (noun) intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" | Synonyms: profoundness |
| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profoundness |
| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, reconditeness |
| propound | (verb) put forward, as of an idea | - |
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| pundit | (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: initiate, learned person, savant |
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| rebound | (noun) the act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot | - |
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| (noun) a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration | - |
| (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, recoil, repercussion |
| (verb) return to a former condition | Synonyms: rally |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| redound | (verb) contribute | - |
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| (verb) have an effect for good or ill | - |
| (verb) return or recoil | - |
| redundance | (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundancy |
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| redundancy | (noun) repetition of an act needlessly | - |
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| (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundance |
| (noun) (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails | - |
| (noun) repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission | - |
| redundant | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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| (adjective) repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words | Synonyms: pleonastic, tautologic, tautological |
| refund | (noun) the act of returning money received previously | Synonyms: repayment |
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| (noun) money returned to a payer | - |
| (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, repay, return |
| resound | (verb) emit a noise | Synonyms: make noise, noise |
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| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, reverberate, ring |
| resounding | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, reverberating, reverberative |
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| resoundingly | (adverb) in a resounding manner | - |
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| rockbound | (adjective) abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps | Synonyms: rock-ribbed |
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| rootbound | (adjective) having the roots matted or densely tangled | - |
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| (adjective) (of a potted plant) grown too large for its container resulting in matting or tangling of the roots | Synonyms: potbound |
| rotund | (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: corpulent, obese, weighty |
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| (adjective) (of sounds) full and rich | Synonyms: orotund, pear-shaped, round |
| (adjective) spherical in shape | - |
| rotunda | (noun) a large circular room | - |
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| (noun) a building having a circular plan and a dome | - |
| rotundity | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, globularness, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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| (noun) the fullness of a tone of voice | Synonyms: roundness |
| rotundly | (adverb) in a sonorous manner | Synonyms: sonorously |
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| rotundness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, globularness, rotundity, sphericalness, sphericity |
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| round | (adjective) having the shape or form of a circle | Synonyms: circular |
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| (adjective) (of sounds) full and rich | Synonyms: orotund, pear-shaped, rotund |
| (adjective) (mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand | - |
| (noun) (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order) | - |
| (noun) the usual activities in your day | Synonyms: daily round |
| (noun) the activity of playing 18 holes of golf | Synonyms: round of golf |
| (noun) any circular or rotating mechanism | Synonyms: circle |
| (noun) a charge of ammunition for a single shot | Synonyms: one shot, unit of ammunition |
| (noun) a crosspiece between the legs of a chair | Synonyms: rung, stave |
| (noun) a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time | Synonyms: troll |
| (noun) an outburst of applause | - |
| (noun) a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg | - |
| (noun) a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic) | Synonyms: round of drinks |
| (noun) a regular route for a sentry or policeman | Synonyms: beat |
| (noun) the course along which communications spread | - |
| (noun) (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive | Synonyms: bout, turn |
| (noun) an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs | Synonyms: cycle, rhythm |
| (adverb) from beginning to end; throughout | Synonyms: around |
| (verb) become round, plump, or shapely | Synonyms: fill out, flesh out |
| (verb) make round | Synonyms: round off, round out |
| (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish, polish up, round off |
| (verb) express as a round number | Synonyms: round down, round off, round out |
| (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialise, labialize |
| (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, snipe |
| (verb) wind around; move along a circular course | - |
| roundabout | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, devious |
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| (adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct | Synonyms: circuitous |
| (noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: circle, rotary, traffic circle |
| (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, whirligig |
| rounded | (adjective) curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged | - |
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| roundedness | (noun) the property possessed by a rounded convexity | Synonyms: bulginess |
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| roundel | (noun) round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit | - |
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| (noun) (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a filled circle | - |
| (noun) English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third | - |
| roundelay | (noun) a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain | - |
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| rounder | (noun) a tool for rounding corners or edges | - |
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| (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: debauchee, libertine |
| rounders | (noun) an English ball game similar to baseball | - |
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| roundhead | (noun) a brachycephalic person | - |
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| roundheaded | (adjective) having a brachycephalic head | Synonyms: broad-headed, short-headed |
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| roundhouse | (noun) a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing | - |
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| (noun) workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives | - |
| rounding | (noun) (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals | Synonyms: rounding error |
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| roundish | (adjective) somewhat round in appearance or form | - |
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| roundly | (adverb) in a round manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a blunt direct manner | Synonyms: bluffly, bluntly, brusquely, flat out |
| roundness | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that is curved and not angular | - |
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| (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: embonpoint, plumpness |
| (noun) the quality of being round numbers | - |
| (noun) the fullness of a tone of voice | Synonyms: rotundity |
| roundsman | (noun) a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on) | - |
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| roundtable | (noun) a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views | Synonyms: round-table conference, round table |
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| roundup | (noun) the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police | - |
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| (noun) the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold | - |
| (noun) a summary list; as in e.g. "a news roundup" | - |
| roundworm | (noun) unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic | Synonyms: nematode, nematode worm |
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| (noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: ringworm, tinea |
| rubicund | (adjective) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life | Synonyms: florid, ruddy, sanguine |
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| rundle | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rung, spoke |
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| rundown | (noun) a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) | Synonyms: summation, summing up |
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| salmagundi | (noun) cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing | - |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, smorgasbord, variety |
| scoundrel | (noun) a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately | Synonyms: villain |
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| scoundrelly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: blackguardly, rascally, roguish |
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| secundigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the second time | Synonyms: gravida II |
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| sleuthhound | (noun) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking | Synonyms: bloodhound |
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| (noun) a detective who follows a trail | Synonyms: sleuth |
| smoothhound | (noun) smooth dogfish of European coastal waters | Synonyms: Mustelus mustelus, smoothhound shark |
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| snowbound | (adjective) confined or shut in by heavy snow | - |
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| sound | (adjective) financially secure and safe | - |
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| (adjective) in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay | - |
| (adjective) complete; thorough | - |
| (adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: heavy, profound, wakeless |
| (adjective) in excellent physical condition | Synonyms: good |
| (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: healthy, intelligent, level-headed, levelheaded |
| (adjective) free from moral defect | - |
| (adjective) vigorous or severe | - |
| (adjective) having legal efficacy or force | Synonyms: effectual, legal |
| (adjective) logically valid | Synonyms: reasoned, well-grounded |
| (noun) the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause | - |
| (noun) the subjective sensation of hearing something | Synonyms: auditory sensation |
| (noun) the audible part of a transmitted signal | Synonyms: audio |
| (noun) (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | Synonyms: phone, speech sound |
| (noun) the sudden occurrence of an audible event | - |
| (noun) a large ocean inlet or deep bay | - |
| (noun) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water | Synonyms: strait |
| (noun) mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium | - |
| (verb) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | Synonyms: fathom |
| (verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize, voice |
| (verb) make a certain noise or sound | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) cause to sound | - |
| (verb) announce by means of a sound | - |
| (verb) give off a certain sound or sounds | - |
| (verb) appear in a certain way | - |
| soundable | (adjective) (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth | Synonyms: fathomable, plumbable |
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| soundboard | (noun) (music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument | Synonyms: sounding board |
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| soundbox | (noun) a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) | Synonyms: body |
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| sounder | (noun) a device for making soundings | - |
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| sounding | (adjective) making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form | - |
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| (adjective) having volume or deepness | - |
| (adjective) appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms | Synonyms: looking |
| (noun) the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line) | - |
| (noun) a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line | - |
| soundless | (adjective) marked by absence of sound | Synonyms: silent, still |
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| soundlessly | (adverb) without a sound | Synonyms: noiselessly |
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| soundlessness | (noun) the property of making no sound | Synonyms: quietness |
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| soundly | (adverb) completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly') | Synonyms: good, thoroughly |
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| (adverb) deeply or completely | - |
| soundman | (noun) a technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast) | - |
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| soundness | (noun) the muscle tone of healthy tissue | Synonyms: firmness |
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| (noun) the quality of being prudent and sensible | Synonyms: wisdom, wiseness |
| (noun) a state or condition free from damage or decay | - |
| soundproof | (adjective) impervious to, or not penetrable by, sound | - |
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| (verb) insulate against noise | - |
| soundtrack | (noun) sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film | - |
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| southbound | (adjective) moving toward the south | Synonyms: southward |
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| spellbound | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, transfixed |
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| staghound | (noun) a large heavy hound formerly used in hunting stags and other large game; similar to but larger than a foxhound | - |
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| stormbound | (adjective) delayed or confined or cut off by a storm | - |
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| strikebound | (adjective) closed or immobilized by a strike | - |
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| sundae | (noun) ice cream served with a topping | Synonyms: ice-cream sundae |
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| sundate | (noun) A date on a Sunday | - |
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| sunder | (verb) break apart or in two, using violence | - |
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| sundew | (noun) any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution | Synonyms: daily dew, sundew plant |
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| sundial | (noun) timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial | - |
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| sundog | (noun) a bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction by ice crystals | Synonyms: mock sun, parhelion |
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| sundown | (noun) the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon | Synonyms: sunset |
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| sundowner | (noun) a drink taken at sundown | - |
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| (noun) a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown | - |
| sundress | (noun) a light loose sleeveless summer dress with a wide neckline and thin shoulder straps that expose the arms and shoulders | - |
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| sundried | (adjective) dried naturally by the sun | Synonyms: sun-dried |
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| sundries | (noun) miscellaneous objects too numerous or too small to be specified | - |
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| sundrops | (noun) a day-flowering biennial or perennial of the genus Oenothera | Synonyms: Oenothera fruticosa |
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| sundry | (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, motley |
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| superabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness |
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| superabundant | (adjective) most excessively abundant | - |
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| superfecundation | (noun) fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males) | - |
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| surround | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, environs, surroundings |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, circumvent, hem in |
| (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, wall |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, ring, skirt |
| (verb) envelop completely | Synonyms: smother |
| surrounded | (adjective) confined on all sides | Synonyms: encircled |
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| surrounding | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: circumferent, encompassing |
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| surroundings | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, environs, surround |
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| (noun) the environmental condition | Synonyms: milieu |
| tenpounder | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, ladyfish |
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| thunder | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, smack |
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| (noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | Synonyms: boom, roar, roaring |
| (noun) a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning | - |
| (verb) utter words loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: roar |
| (verb) to make or produce a loud noise | - |
| (verb) move fast, noisily, and heavily | - |
| (verb) be the case that thunder is being heard | Synonyms: boom |
| thunderbird | (noun) (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird | - |
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| thunderbolt | (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderclap |
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| (noun) a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | Synonyms: bolt, bolt of lightning |
| thunderclap | (noun) a single sharp crash of thunder | - |
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| (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderbolt |
| thundercloud | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus, cumulonimbus cloud |
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| thunderer | (noun) a noisemaker that makes a sound like thunder | - |
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