| musician | (noun) artist who composes or conducts music as a profession | - |
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| (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: instrumentalist, player |
| myrobalan | (noun) small Asiatic tree bearing edible red or yellow fruit | Synonyms: cherry plum, myrobalan plum, Prunus cerasifera |
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| myxosporidian | (noun) mostly parasitic in fishes and including various serious pathogens | - |
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| naan | (noun) leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop | Synonyms: nan |
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| nan | (noun) leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop | Synonyms: naan |
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| (noun) your grandmother | - |
| (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grandmother, grannie, granny, nanna |
| necessitarian | (noun) someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will | - |
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| needlewoman | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, seamstress, sempstress |
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| nemertean | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertine, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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| neuropteran | (noun) insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins | Synonyms: neuropteron, neuropterous insect |
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| newsman | (noun) a male person who investigates and reports or edits news stories | - |
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| newspaperman | (noun) a male journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: pressman |
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| newspaperwoman | (noun) a female journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | - |
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| newswoman | (noun) a female newsperson | - |
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| nitrofuran | (noun) derivative of furan used to inhibit bacterial growth | - |
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| nobleman | (noun) a titled peer of the realm | Synonyms: Lord, noble |
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| noblewoman | (noun) a woman of the peerage in Britain | Synonyms: Lady, peeress |
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| nonagenarian | (adjective) being from 90 to 99 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone whose age is in the nineties | - |
| nonchristian | (adjective) not believing in Christ | Synonyms: christless |
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| nonhuman | (adjective) not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings | - |
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| nonpartisan | (adjective) free from party affiliation or bias | Synonyms: nonpartizan |
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| (noun) a person who is nonpartisan | Synonyms: nonpartizan |
| nonpartizan | (adjective) free from party affiliation or bias | Synonyms: nonpartisan |
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| (noun) a person who is nonpartisan | Synonyms: nonpartisan |
| nonsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: unsectarian |
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| nurseryman | (noun) someone who takes care of a garden | Synonyms: gardener |
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| oarsman | (noun) a male who rows a boat | - |
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| oarswoman | (noun) a woman oarsman | - |
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| obsidian | (noun) acid or granitic glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava without crystallization; usually dark, but transparent in thin pieces | - |
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| obstetrician | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: accoucheur |
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| ocean | (noun) a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere | - |
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| (noun) anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume | Synonyms: sea |
| octogenarian | (adjective) being from 80 to 89 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone whose age is in the eighties | - |
| oilcan | (noun) a can with a long nozzle to apply oil to machinery | - |
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| oilman | (noun) a worker who produces or sells petroleum | - |
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| (noun) a person who owns or operates oil wells | - |
| olympian | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, prodigious, surpassing |
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| (adjective) majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters | Synonyms: majestic |
| ombudsman | (noun) a government appointee who investigates complaints by private persons against the government | - |
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| onychophoran | (noun) any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms | Synonyms: peripatus, velvet worm |
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| ophidian | (noun) limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous | Synonyms: serpent, snake |
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| optician | (noun) a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision | Synonyms: lens maker |
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| orangutan | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutang, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| organ | (noun) wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard | Synonyms: pipe organ |
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| (noun) (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ | Synonyms: electric organ, electronic organ, Hammond organ |
| (noun) a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows | Synonyms: harmonium, reed organ |
| (noun) a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function | - |
| (noun) a periodical that is published by a special interest group | - |
| (noun) a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function | - |
| ornithischian | (noun) herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird | Synonyms: ornithischian dinosaur |
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| orphan | (noun) a young animal without a mother | - |
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| (noun) the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column | - |
| (noun) a child who has lost both parents | - |
| (noun) someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision | - |
| (verb) deprive of parents | - |
| orthopteran | (noun) any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts | Synonyms: orthopteron, orthopterous insect |
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| ortolan | (noun) brownish Old World bunting often eaten as a delicacy | Synonyms: Emberiza hortulana, ortolan bunting |
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| ortygan | (noun) any of several East Indian birds | - |
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| osteostracan | (noun) extinct jawless fish of the Devonian with armored head | Synonyms: cephalaspid |
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| ottoman | (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: hassock, pouf, pouffe, puff |
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| (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, footstool, tuffet |
| outdoorsman | (noun) a male person who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting or fishing) | - |
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| outdoorswoman | (noun) a woman who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting and fishing) | - |
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| outspan | (verb) remove the yoke or harness from | - |
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| ovarian | (adjective) of or involving the ovaries | - |
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| packman | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, peddler, pedlar, pitchman |
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| paean | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, panegyric, pean |
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| (noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) | Synonyms: pean |
| paediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, pediatrician, pediatrist |
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| pagan | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, heathenish |
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| (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, heathen, infidel |
| (noun) a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew) | - |
| (noun) someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: hedonist, pleasure seeker |
| pan | (noun) shallow container made of metal | - |
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| (noun) cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel | Synonyms: cooking pan |
| (verb) express a totally negative opinion of | Synonyms: tear apart, trash |
| (verb) wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals | Synonyms: pan off, pan out |
| (verb) make a sweeping movement | - |
| pantryman | (noun) a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table | Synonyms: butler |
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| parazoan | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: poriferan, sponge |
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| parliamentarian | (noun) an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures | - |
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| partisan | (adjective) devoted to a cause or party | Synonyms: partizan |
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| (noun) a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: partizan |
| (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: drumbeater, zealot |
| (noun) an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | Synonyms: enthusiast, partizan |
| partizan | (adjective) devoted to a cause or party | Synonyms: partisan |
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| (noun) a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: partisan |
| (noun) an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | Synonyms: enthusiast, partisan |
| patrician | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle |
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| (adjective) befitting a person of noble origin | - |
| (noun) a member of the aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocrat, blue blood |
| (noun) a person of refined upbringing and manners | - |
| patrolman | (noun) a policeman who patrols a given region | Synonyms: flatfoot |
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| pavan | (noun) a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: pavane |
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| (noun) music composed for dancing the pavane | Synonyms: pavane |
| pean | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, paean, panegyric |
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| (noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) | Synonyms: paean |
| pecan | (noun) smooth brown oval nut of south central United States | - |
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| (noun) tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts | Synonyms: Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis, pecan tree |
| (noun) wood of a pecan tree | - |
| pedestrian | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, prosaic, prosy |
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| (noun) a person who travels by foot | Synonyms: footer, walker |
| pediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrist |
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| pekan | (noun) large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: black cat, fisher, fisher cat, Martes pennanti |
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| pelican | (noun) large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish | - |
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| pemican | (noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | Synonyms: pemmican |
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| pemmican | (noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | Synonyms: pemican |
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| penman | (noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: scribbler, scribe |
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| percoidean | (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | Synonyms: percoid, percoid fish |
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| peridinian | (noun) flagellate with a thick test composed of plates | - |
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| pesantran | (noun) a Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders | Synonyms: pesantren |
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| phonetician | (noun) a specialist in phonetics | - |
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| photometrician | (noun) someone who practices photometry | Synonyms: photometrist |
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| physician | (noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doc, doctor, Dr., MD, medico |
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| pigman | (noun) a herder or swine | Synonyms: swineherd |
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| pitchman | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, peddler, pedlar |
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| (noun) an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something | - |
| pitman | (noun) someone who works in a coal mine | Synonyms: coal miner, collier |
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| placeman | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeseeker |
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| plainclothesman | (noun) a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty | - |
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| plainsman | (noun) an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America) | - |
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| plan | (noun) scale drawing of a structure | Synonyms: architectural plan |
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| (noun) a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished | Synonyms: program, programme |
| (noun) an arrangement scheme | Synonyms: design |
| (verb) make plans for something | - |
| (verb) have the will and intention to carry out some action | Synonyms: be after |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, design, project |
| planarian | (noun) free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | Synonyms: planaria |
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| plantsman | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: horticulturist |
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| platan | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits | Synonyms: plane tree, sycamore |
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| platitudinarian | (noun) a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes | - |
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| platyctenean | (noun) ctenophore have long tentacles and flattened body | - |
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| platyrhinian | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| platyrrhinian | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinic |
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| (noun) hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: New World monkey, platyrrhine |
| plebeian | (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: common, unwashed, vulgar |
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| (noun) one of the common people | Synonyms: pleb |
| plecopteran | (noun) primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones | Synonyms: stone fly, stonefly |
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| ploughman | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: plower, plowman |
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| plowman | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: ploughman, plower |
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| pogonophoran | (noun) slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering; lives on the deep ocean bottom | Synonyms: beard worm |
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| pointsman | (noun) a policeman stationed at an intersection to direct traffic | - |
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| policeman | (noun) a male member of a police force | - |
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| policewoman | (noun) a woman policeman | Synonyms: police matron |
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| politician | (noun) a person active in party politics | Synonyms: pol, political leader, politico |
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| (noun) a leader engaged in civil administration | - |
| (noun) a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways | - |