| monument | (noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events | Synonyms: memorial |
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| (noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | Synonyms: repository |
| (noun) an important site that is marked and preserved as public property | - |
| movement | (noun) a change of position that does not entail a change of location | Synonyms: motility, motion, move |
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| (noun) the act of changing the location of something | - |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort |
| (noun) the act of changing location from one place to another | Synonyms: motion, move |
| (noun) the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock) | - |
| (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: drift, trend |
| (noun) a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata | - |
| (noun) a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something | Synonyms: motion |
| (noun) a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals | Synonyms: front, social movement |
| (noun) an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object | Synonyms: apparent motion, apparent movement, motion |
| (noun) a euphemism for defecation | Synonyms: bm, bowel movement |
| mucopurulent | (adjective) containing or composed of mucus and pus | - |
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| multipotent | (adjective) able to many things | - |
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| multivalent | (adjective) used of the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis | - |
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| (adjective) having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher | Synonyms: polyvalent |
| (adjective) having many values, meanings, or appeals | Synonyms: multi-valued |
| munificent | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| mutafacient | (adjective) capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of intracellular agents) | - |
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| nascent | (adjective) being born or beginning | - |
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| negligent | (adjective) characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern | - |
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| nescient | (adjective) holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible | Synonyms: unbelieving |
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| (adjective) uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication | Synonyms: ignorant, unlearned, unlettered |
| newsagent | (noun) someone who sells newspapers | Synonyms: newsdealer, newsstand operator, newsvendor |
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| nilpotent | (adjective) equal to zero when raised to a certain power | - |
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| nocent | (adjective) having a tendency to cause harm | - |
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| noctilucent | (adjective) shining or glowing by night | - |
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| nonabsorbent | (adjective) not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids) | Synonyms: nonabsorptive |
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| nonaccomplishment | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonachievement |
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| nonachievement | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonaccomplishment |
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| nonadjacent | (adjective) not adjacent; not next | - |
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| nonadsorbent | (adjective) lacking a capacity to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: nonadsorptive |
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| nonalignment | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalinement |
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| nonalinement | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalignment |
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| nonastringent | (adjective) not astringent | - |
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| nonbelligerent | (adjective) not directly at war | - |
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| nonconvergent | (adjective) (of lines, planes, or surfaces) never meeting or crossing | Synonyms: nonintersecting |
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| noncurrent | (adjective) not current or belonging to the present time | - |
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| nondevelopment | (noun) failure of normal development to occur | - |
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| noneffervescent | (adjective) not effervescent | - |
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| (adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: still |
| nonequivalent | (adjective) not equal or interchangeable in value, quantity, or significance | - |
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| nonevent | (noun) an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected | - |
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| nonexistent | (adjective) not having existence or being or actuality | - |
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| nonindulgent | (adjective) characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint | Synonyms: strict |
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| nonpayment | (noun) the deliberate act of failing to pay money | Synonyms: evasion |
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| (noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: default, nonremittal |
| (noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: default, nonremittal |
| nonpurulent | (adjective) not containing pus | - |
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| nonresident | (adjective) not living in a particular place or owned by permanent residents | - |
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| (noun) someone who does not live in a particular place | - |
| nonresilient | (adjective) not resilient | - |
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| nonturbulent | (adjective) (of a liquid) not turbulent | - |
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| nonviolent | (adjective) abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence | - |
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| (adjective) achieved without bloodshed | Synonyms: unbloody |
| nourishment | (noun) the act of nourishing | - |
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| (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals |
| nutrient | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive |
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| (noun) any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | Synonyms: food |
| (noun) any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis | - |
| nutriment | (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals |
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| obedient | (adjective) dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority | - |
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| obsolescent | (adjective) becoming obsolete | - |
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| obstruent | (noun) a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth | - |
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| obtainment | (noun) the act of obtaining | Synonyms: obtention |
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| occident | (noun) the hemisphere that includes North America and South America | Synonyms: western hemisphere |
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| occurrent | (adjective) presently occurring (either causally or incidentally) | - |
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| (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: happening, natural event, occurrence |
| oddment | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, remainder, remnant |
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| (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddity, peculiarity, rarity |
| ointment | (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, salve, unction, unguent |
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| (noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: cream, emollient |
| omnipotent | (adjective) having unlimited power | Synonyms: all-powerful, almighty |
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| omnipresent | (adjective) being present everywhere at once | Synonyms: ubiquitous |
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| omniscient | (adjective) infinitely wise | Synonyms: all-knowing |
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| opalescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opaline, pearlescent |
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| opponent | (adjective) characterized by active hostility | Synonyms: opposing |
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| (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opposer, resister |
| (noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opposite, opposition |
| opulent | (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, princely, sumptuous |
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| orient | (noun) the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia | Synonyms: eastern hemisphere |
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| (verb) adjust to a specific need or market | Synonyms: tailor |
| (verb) familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances | - |
| (verb) determine one's position with reference to another point | Synonyms: orientate |
| (verb) be oriented | Synonyms: point |
| (verb) cause to point | - |
| ornament | (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornamentation |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace |
| (verb) be an ornament to | - |
| orpiment | (noun) a yellow mineral occurring in conjunction with realgar; an ore of arsenic | - |
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| outpatient | (noun) a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated | - |
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| overachievement | (noun) better than expected performance (better than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
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| overconfident | (adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: cocksure, positive |
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| overgarment | (noun) a garment worn over other garments | Synonyms: outer garment |
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| overindulgent | (adjective) excessively indulgent | - |
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| overpayment | (noun) the act of paying too much | - |
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| (noun) a payment larger than needed or expected | - |
| overrefinement | (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: distortion, straining, torture, twisting |
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| overstatement | (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, magnification |
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| parchment | (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: lambskin, sheepskin |
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| (noun) a superior paper resembling sheepskin | - |
| parent | (noun) an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained | - |
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| (noun) a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian | - |
| (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, nurture, raise, rear |
| parliament | (noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: fantan, sevens |
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| (noun) a legislative assembly in certain countries | - |
| parturient | (adjective) of or relating to or giving birth | - |
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| (adjective) giving birth | - |
| patent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, evident, manifest, palpable, plain, unmistakable |
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| (adjective) (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage | - |
| (noun) an official document granting a right or privilege | Synonyms: letters patent |
| (noun) a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention | Synonyms: patent of invention |
| (verb) make open to sight or notice | - |
| (verb) obtain a patent for | - |
| (verb) grant rights to; grant a patent for | - |
| patient | (adjective) enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance | - |
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| (noun) the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: affected role, patient role |
| (noun) a person who requires medical care | - |
| pavement | (noun) the paved surface of a thoroughfare | Synonyms: paving |
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| (noun) walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway | Synonyms: sidewalk |
| (noun) material used to pave an area | Synonyms: paving, paving material |
| payment | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayal, defrayment |
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| (noun) an act of requiting; returning in kind | Synonyms: requital |
| (noun) a sum of money paid or a claim discharged | - |
| pearlescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline |
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| pediment | (noun) a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof | - |
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| pendent | (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: dependent, pendant |
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| (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: chandelier, pendant |
| (noun) an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) | Synonyms: pendant |
| penitent | (adjective) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | Synonyms: repentant |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor) | - |
| pent | (adjective) closely confined | Synonyms: shut up |
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| pentavalent | (adjective) having a valence of five | - |
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| percent | (noun) a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent | Synonyms: pct, per centum, percentage |
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| percipient | (adjective) characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving | Synonyms: clear |
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| (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, perceiver |
| permanent | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: lasting |
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| (adjective) not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition | - |
| (noun) a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals | Synonyms: perm, permanent wave |
| persistent | (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: lasting |
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| (adjective) never-ceasing | Synonyms: relentless, unrelenting |
| (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
| (adjective) continually recurring to the mind | Synonyms: haunting |
| pertinent | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apposite, apt |
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| (adjective) having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand | Synonyms: to the point |
| pestilent | (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilential, plaguey |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pernicious |
| phosphorescent | (adjective) emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous | - |
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| photopigment | (noun) a special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina | - |
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| pigment | (noun) a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating | Synonyms: paint |
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| (noun) dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) | - |
| (noun) any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color | - |
| (verb) color or dye with a pigment | - |
| (verb) acquire pigment; become colored or imbued | - |
| placement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, position, positioning |
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| (noun) contact established between applicants and prospective employees | - |
| (noun) the spatial property of the way in which something is placed | Synonyms: arrangement |
| plangent | (adjective) loud and resounding | - |
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| polyvalent | (adjective) having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher | Synonyms: multivalent |
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| (adjective) containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen | - |
| portent | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication |
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| postponement | (noun) act of putting off to a future time | Synonyms: deferment, deferral |
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| (noun) time during which some action is awaited | Synonyms: delay, hold, time lag, wait |
| potent | (adjective) having a strong physiological or chemical effect | Synonyms: stiff, strong |
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| (adjective) (of a male) capable of copulation | Synonyms: virile |
| (adjective) having great influence | Synonyms: powerful |
| (adjective) having or wielding force or authority | Synonyms: strong |
| preachment | (noun) a sermon on a moral or religious topic | Synonyms: homily |
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| preadolescent | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preteen |
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| prearrangement | (noun) something arranged in advance | - |
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| precedent | (adjective) preceding in time, order, or significance | - |
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| (noun) an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time | Synonyms: case in point |
| (noun) (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions | Synonyms: case law, common law |
| (noun) a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time) | - |
| (noun) a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws | Synonyms: case law, common law |
| predicament | (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: plight, quandary |
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| preeminent | (adjective) greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement | Synonyms: leading |
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