| lecture | (noun) teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) | Synonyms: lecturing |
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| (noun) a speech that is open to the public | Synonyms: public lecture, talk |
| (noun) a lengthy rebuke | Synonyms: speech, talking to |
| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| (verb) deliver a lecture or talk | Synonyms: talk |
| lecturer | (noun) someone who lectures professionally | - |
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| (noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lector, reader |
| lectureship | (noun) the post of lecturer | - |
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| legislature | (noun) persons who make or amend or repeal laws | Synonyms: general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body |
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| leisure | (noun) freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity | - |
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| (noun) time available for ease and relaxation | Synonyms: leisure time |
| leisured | (adjective) free from duties or responsibilities | - |
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| leisureliness | (noun) slowness by virtue of being leisurely | - |
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| leisurely | (adjective) not hurried or forced | Synonyms: easy, easygoing |
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| (adverb) in an unhurried way or at one's convenience | Synonyms: at leisure |
| ligature | (noun) the act of tying or binding things together | Synonyms: tying |
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| (noun) something used to tie or bind | Synonyms: binder |
| (noun) thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood) | - |
| (noun) a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone | - |
| (noun) (music) a group of notes connected by a slur | - |
| (noun) character consisting of two or more letters combined into one | - |
| literature | (noun) the profession or art of a writer | - |
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| (noun) the humanistic study of a body of literature | Synonyms: lit |
| (noun) creative writing of recognized artistic value | - |
| (noun) published writings in a particular style on a particular subject | - |
| lithuresis | (noun) passing small stones with the urine | - |
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| lure | (noun) something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed | Synonyms: bait, decoy |
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| (noun) qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward | Synonyms: come-on, enticement |
| (noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, hook, sweetener |
| (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: entice, tempt |
| magistrature | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistracy |
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| malonylurea | (noun) a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs | Synonyms: barbituric acid |
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| manicure | (noun) professional care for the hands and fingernails | - |
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| (verb) care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
| (verb) trim carefully and neatly | - |
| manufacture | (noun) the organized action of making of goods and services for sale | Synonyms: industry |
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| (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: fabrication, manufacturing |
| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, fabricate |
| (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, invent, make up |
| (verb) create or produce in a mechanical way | - |
| (verb) produce naturally | - |
| manufactured | (adjective) produced in a large-scale industrial operation | - |
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| manufacturer | (noun) a business engaged in manufacturing some product | Synonyms: maker, manufacturing business |
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| (noun) someone who manufactures something | Synonyms: producer |
| manure | (noun) any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material | - |
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| (verb) spread manure, as for fertilization | Synonyms: muck |
| mature | (adjective) having reached full natural growth or development | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of maturity | - |
| (adjective) (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination | Synonyms: fledged |
| (adjective) fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used | Synonyms: ripe |
| (adjective) fully considered and perfected | Synonyms: matured |
| (verb) cause to ripen and discharge pus | Synonyms: suppurate |
| (verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, maturate |
| (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, senesce |
| (verb) become due for repayment | - |
| (verb) cause to ripen or develop fully | Synonyms: ripen |
| (verb) develop and work out fully in one's mind | - |
| matured | (adjective) fully considered and perfected | Synonyms: mature |
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| (adjective) fully ripe; at the height of bloom | Synonyms: full-blown |
| maturely | (adverb) in a mature manner | - |
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| maturement | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, ripening |
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| matureness | (noun) state of being mature; full development | Synonyms: maturity |
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| measure | (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Synonyms: amount, quantity |
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| (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measurement, measuring, mensuration |
| (noun) any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal | Synonyms: step |
| (noun) measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements | Synonyms: measuring rod, measuring stick |
| (noun) a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance | - |
| (noun) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | Synonyms: bar |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: beat, cadence, meter, metre |
| (noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law | Synonyms: bill |
| (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: criterion, standard, touchstone |
| (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: quantify |
| (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure out, mensurate |
| (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, valuate, value |
| (verb) have certain dimensions | - |
| measured | (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: mensurable, mensural |
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| (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: calculated, deliberate |
| (adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables | Synonyms: metric, metrical |
| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: careful, deliberate |
| measuredly | (adverb) in a deliberate unhurried manner | Synonyms: deliberately |
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| measureless | (adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: illimitable, limitless, unmeasured |
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| measurement | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measuring, mensuration |
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| measurer | (noun) a person who makes measurements | - |
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| miniature | (adjective) being on a very small scale | - |
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| (noun) a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size | Synonyms: toy |
| (noun) painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) | Synonyms: illumination |
| misadventure | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: mischance, mishap |
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| mixture | (noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: admixture, commixture, intermixture, mix, mixing |
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| (noun) an event that combines things in a mixture | Synonyms: mix |
| (noun) any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients | Synonyms: concoction, intermixture |
| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding) | - |
| moisture | (noun) wetness caused by water | Synonyms: wet |
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| monoculture | (noun) the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country) | - |
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| multicoloured | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| murmurer | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: mumbler, mutterer |
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| musculature | (noun) the muscular system of an organism | Synonyms: muscle system, muscular structure |
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| natriuresis | (noun) the presence of abnormally large amounts of sodium in the urine | - |
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| natriuretic | (adjective) of or relating to natriuresis | - |
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| nature | (noun) the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions | - |
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| (noun) the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized | - |
| (noun) a particular type of thing | - |
| (noun) the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc. | - |
| (noun) a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe | - |
| nervure | (noun) one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect | Synonyms: vein |
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| (noun) any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ | Synonyms: vein |
| neurectomy | (noun) surgical removal of all or part of a nerve | - |
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| nomenclature | (noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | Synonyms: language, terminology |
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| nonflavoured | (adjective) without flavoring added | Synonyms: nonflavored, unflavored, unflavoured |
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| nurture | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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| (noun) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child | Synonyms: raising, rearing |
| (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: foster |
| (verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nourish, sustain |
| (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, parent, raise, rear |
| obscure | (adjective) difficult to find | Synonyms: hidden |
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| (adjective) marked by difficulty of style or expression | Synonyms: dark |
| (adjective) not drawing attention | Synonyms: unnoticeable |
| (adjective) not famous or acclaimed | Synonyms: unknown, unsung |
| (adjective) not clearly expressed or understood | Synonyms: vague |
| (adjective) remote and separate physically or socially | Synonyms: apart, isolated |
| (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: bedim, overcloud |
| (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obliterate, veil |
| (verb) reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa | - |
| (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, confuse, obnubilate |
| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate |
| obscurely | (adverb) in an obscure manner | - |
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| obscureness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscurity, reconditeness |
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| (noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, unimportance |
| (noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination | Synonyms: obscurity |
| ordure | (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, stool |
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| orthodonture | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention or correction of irregularities of the teeth | Synonyms: dental orthopaedics, dental orthopedics, orthodontia, orthodontics |
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| overexposure | (noun) the act of exposing film to too much light or for too long a time | - |
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| (noun) the act of exposing someone excessively to an influencing experience | - |
| overpressure | (noun) a transient air pressure greater than the surrounding atmospheric pressure | - |
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| 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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| particoloured | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| pasteurellosis | (noun) an acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection | Synonyms: hemorrhagic septicemia |
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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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| pedicure | (noun) professional care for the feet and toenails | - |
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| (verb) care for one's feet by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
| 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 |
| perjure | (verb) knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury | - |
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| perjurer | (noun) a person who deliberately gives false testimony | Synonyms: false witness |
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| photogravure | (noun) using photography to produce a plate for printing | Synonyms: rotogravure |
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| (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: gravure, heliogravure |
| (noun) printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods | - |
| 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 | - |
| pleasure | (noun) sexual gratification | - |
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| (noun) an activity that affords enjoyment | - |
| (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: delight, joy |
| (noun) a formal expression | - |
| (noun) a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | Synonyms: pleasance |
| polyurethan | (noun) any of various polymers containing the urethane radical; a wide variety of synthetic forms are made and used as adhesives or plastics or paints or rubber | Synonyms: polyurethane |
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| polyurethane | (noun) any of various polymers containing the urethane radical; a wide variety of synthetic forms are made and used as adhesives or plastics or paints or rubber | Synonyms: polyurethan |
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| 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) | - |
| prefigure | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) imagine or consider beforehand | - |
| 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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| pressure | (noun) the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure | Synonyms: press, pressing |
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| (noun) a force that compels | - |
| (noun) the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin | Synonyms: pressure sensation |
| (noun) the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit) | Synonyms: force per unit area, pressure level |
| (noun) the pressure exerted by the atmosphere | Synonyms: air pressure, atmospheric pressure |
| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press |
| (noun) an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress | - |
| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, hale, squeeze |
| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, blackmail |
| primogeniture | (noun) right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son | - |
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| procedure | (noun) a particular course of action intended to achieve a result | Synonyms: process |
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| (noun) a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings | - |
| (noun) a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | Synonyms: operation |
| (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: function, routine, subprogram, subroutine |
| procure | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, pimp |
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| (verb) get by special effort | Synonyms: secure |
| procurement | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurance |
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| procurer | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce |
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| (noun) someone who obtains or acquires | Synonyms: securer |
| procuress | (noun) a woman pimp | - |
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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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| pure | (adjective) (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless | - |
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| (adjective) free of extraneous elements of any kind | - |
| (adjective) (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black | Synonyms: saturated |
| (adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous |
| (adjective) free from discordant qualities | - |
| (adjective) concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied | - |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| pureblood | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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| (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: purebred, thoroughbred |
| pureblooded | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, thoroughbred |
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| purebred | (adjective) bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain | - |
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| (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, thoroughbred |
| puree | (noun) food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender | - |
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| (verb) rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender | Synonyms: strain |
| purely | (adverb) restricted to something | Synonyms: strictly |
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| pureness | (noun) a woman's virtue or chastity | Synonyms: honor, honour, purity |
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| (noun) being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material | Synonyms: purity |
| (noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: innocence, purity, sinlessness, whiteness |
| 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 |