| preexistent | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexisting |
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| preferent | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, pet, preferred |
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| preferment | (noun) the act of preferring | - |
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| (noun) the act of making accusations | - |
| prejudgement | (noun) a judgment reached before the evidence is available | Synonyms: prejudgment |
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| prejudgment | (noun) a judgment reached before the evidence is available | Synonyms: prejudgement |
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| prepayment | (noun) payment in advance | - |
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| prepubescent | (adjective) (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth | Synonyms: prepubertal |
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| prescient | (adjective) perceiving the significance of events before they occur | - |
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| present | (adjective) temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration | - |
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| (adjective) being or existing in a specified place | - |
| (noun) a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking | Synonyms: present tense |
| (noun) something presented as a gift | - |
| (noun) the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech | Synonyms: nowadays |
| (verb) bring forward and present to the mind | Synonyms: lay out, represent |
| (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: acquaint, introduce |
| (verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: deliver |
| (verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: salute |
| (verb) formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc. | - |
| (verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: confront, face |
| (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: represent, stage |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: portray |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, show |
| (verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: gift, give |
| (verb) hand over formally | Synonyms: submit |
| (verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: award |
| (verb) offer for others to consider | Synonyms: pose |
| presentiment | (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, foreboding, premonition |
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| presentment | (noun) an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative | Synonyms: notification |
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| (noun) a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view | Synonyms: demonstration, presentation |
| (noun) a document that must be accepted and paid by another person | - |
| president | (noun) the chief executive of a republic | - |
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| (noun) an executive officer of a firm or corporation | - |
| (noun) the head administrative officer of a college or university | Synonyms: prexy |
| (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, chairperson |
| prevalent | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevailing, rife |
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| prevenient | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: anticipatory |
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| prevent | (verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: keep |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude |
| procumbent | (adjective) having stems that trail along the ground without putting down roots | - |
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| procurement | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurance |
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| proficient | (adjective) of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill | Synonyms: technical |
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| (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, skilful, skillful |
| prominent | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, salient, spectacular, striking |
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| (adjective) conspicuous in position or importance | Synonyms: big, large |
| pronouncement | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: dictum, say-so |
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| propellent | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propelling, propulsive |
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| (noun) any substance that propels | Synonyms: propellant |
| proponent | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, advocator, exponent |
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| prospicient | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted |
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| provident | (adjective) providing carefully for the future | - |
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| (adjective) careful in regard to your own interests | - |
| prudent | (adjective) careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment | - |
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| prurient | (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lubricious, lustful, salacious |
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| puberulent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, pubescent, sericeous |
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| pubescent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, puberulent, sericeous |
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| (adjective) (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature | - |
| pungent | (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, mordacious, nipping |
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| (adjective) strong and sharp | Synonyms: acrid |
| punishment | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, penalty |
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| purulent | (adjective) containing pus | Synonyms: pussy |
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| putrefacient | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefactive |
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| putrescent | (adjective) becoming putrid | - |
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| puzzlement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation |
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| quiescent | (adjective) being quiet or still or inactive | - |
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| (adjective) (pathology) causing no symptoms | - |
| (adjective) not active or activated | - |
| (adjective) marked by a state of tranquil repose | - |
| quotient | (noun) the number obtained by division | - |
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| (noun) the ratio of two quantities to be divided | - |
| radiolucent | (adjective) almost complete transparent to X-rays or other forms of radiation | - |
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| raiment | (noun) especially fine or decorative clothing | Synonyms: array, regalia |
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| (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, tog |
| rapprochement | (noun) the reestablishing of cordial relations | Synonyms: reconciliation |
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| ravishment | (noun) the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | Synonyms: assault, rape, violation |
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| (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: entrancement |
| readjustment | (noun) the act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances) | - |
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| (noun) the act of adjusting something to match a standard | Synonyms: adjustment, registration |
| reagent | (noun) a chemical agent for use in chemical reactions | - |
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| reallotment | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallocation, reapportionment |
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| reapportionment | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallocation, reallotment |
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| rearmament | (noun) the act of arming again | - |
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| rearrangement | (noun) changing an arrangement | - |
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| reassessment | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, revaluation, review |
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| reassignment | (noun) assignment to a different duty | - |
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| recent | (adjective) new | - |
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| (adjective) of the immediate past or just previous to the present time | Synonyms: late |
| recipient | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: recipient role |
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| (noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: receiver |
| recommencement | (noun) beginning again | Synonyms: resumption |
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| recrudescent | (adjective) the revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement | - |
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| recruitment | (noun) the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.) | Synonyms: enlisting |
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| recumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: accumbent, decumbent |
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| recurrent | (adjective) recurring again and again | Synonyms: perennial, repeated |
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| redeployment | (noun) the withdrawal and redistribution of forces in an attempt to use them more effectively | Synonyms: redisposition |
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| redevelopment | (noun) the act of improving by renewing and restoring | Synonyms: overhaul, renovation |
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| redolent | (adjective) having a strong pleasant odor | Synonyms: aromatic |
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| (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, remindful, reminiscent, resonant |
| (adjective) (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous | Synonyms: smelling |
| reenactment | (noun) performing a role in an event that occurred at an earlier time | - |
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| reenforcement | (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reinforcement, support |
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| (noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reinforcement |
| reenlistment | (noun) a renewed enlistment | - |
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| referent | (adjective) having reference | - |
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| (noun) something referred to; the object of a reference | - |
| (noun) the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate | - |
| (noun) something that refers; a term that refers to another term | - |
| refinement | (noun) the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste | Synonyms: civilisation, civilization |
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| (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, shade, subtlety |
| (noun) the result of improving something | Synonyms: elaboration |
| (noun) the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) | Synonyms: purification, refining |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, culture, finish, polish |
| refreshment | (noun) activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation | Synonyms: recreation |
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| (noun) snacks and drinks served as a light meal | - |
| refulgent | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant |
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| refurbishment | (noun) the state of being restored to its former good condition | Synonyms: renovation, restoration |
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| regent | (adjective) acting or functioning as a regent or ruler | - |
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| (noun) someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch | - |
| (noun) members of a governing board | Synonyms: trustee |
| regiment | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, which can be divided into several companies, squadrons, or batteries and often into two battalions. | - |
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| (verb) assign to a regiment | - |
| (verb) form (military personnel) into a regiment | - |
| (verb) subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization | - |
| reimbursement | (noun) compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc. | - |
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| reinforcement | (noun) an act performed to strengthen approved behavior | Synonyms: reward |
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| (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, support |
| (noun) a device designed to provide additional strength | Synonyms: strengthener |
| (noun) (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it | Synonyms: reinforcer, reinforcing stimulus |
| (noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reenforcement |
| reinstatement | (noun) the act of restoring someone to a previous position | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being reinstated | - |
| reinvent | (verb) create anew and make over | - |
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| (verb) bring back into existence | - |
| reinvestment | (noun) a second or subsequent investment in the same thing. | - |
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| relent | (verb) give in, as to influence or pressure | Synonyms: soften, yield |
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| relinquishment | (noun) the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc. | Synonyms: relinquishing |
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| (noun) a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc. | Synonyms: relinquishing |
| reminiscent | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, redolent, remindful, resonant |
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| remitment | (noun) (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) | Synonyms: remission, remit |
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| (noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remission, remittal, remittance |
| remittent | (adjective) (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity | - |
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| renascent | (adjective) rising again as to new life and vigor | Synonyms: resurgent |
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| renouncement | (noun) an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned | Synonyms: renunciation |
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| rent | (noun) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something | Synonyms: rip, split |
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| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rip, snag, split, tear |
| (noun) a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service | - |
| (noun) the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions | Synonyms: economic rent |
| (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, lease, take |
| (verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: lease, let |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, hire, lease |
| (verb) let for money | Synonyms: lease |
| reorient | (verb) set or arrange in a new or different determinate position | - |
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| (verb) cause to turn | - |
| (verb) orient once again, after a disorientation | Synonyms: reorientate |
| repayment | (noun) the act of returning money received previously | Synonyms: refund |
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| (noun) payment of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: quittance |
| repellent | (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: resistant |
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| (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
| (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellant |
| (noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellant |
| (noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellant |
| (noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellant |
| repent | (verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about | Synonyms: regret, rue |
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| (verb) turn away from sin or do penitence | Synonyms: atone |
| replacement | (noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another | Synonyms: replacing |
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| (noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another | Synonyms: substitute |
| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, substitution, switch, transposition |
| (noun) a person who follows next in order | Synonyms: successor |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: alternate, surrogate |
| (noun) filling again by supplying what has been used up | Synonyms: refilling, renewal, replenishment |
| replenishment | (noun) filling again by supplying what has been used up | Synonyms: refilling, renewal, replacement |
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| represent | (verb) to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) | Synonyms: map |
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| (verb) serve as a means of expressing something | - |
| (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: stand for, symbolise, symbolize, typify |
| (verb) point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance | - |
| (verb) bring forward and present to the mind | Synonyms: lay out, present |
| (verb) describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality | - |
| (verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: interpret |
| (verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, play |
| (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: present, stage |
| (verb) be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute | - |
| (verb) be representative or typical for | - |
| (verb) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | Synonyms: defend |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, constitute, make up |
| (verb) be typical of | Synonyms: exemplify |
| (verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: correspond, stand for |
| requirement | (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: prerequisite |
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| (noun) required activity | Synonyms: demand |
| (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessity, requisite |
| resent | (verb) feel bitter or indignant about | - |
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| (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: begrudge |
| resentment | (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour |
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| resettlement | (noun) the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) | Synonyms: relocation |
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| reshipment | (noun) the act of shipping again (especially by transferring to another ship) | - |
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| resident | (adjective) living in a particular place | - |
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| (adjective) used of animals that do not migrate | Synonyms: nonmigratory |
| (noun) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there | Synonyms: occupant, occupier |
| (noun) a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital | Synonyms: house physician, resident physician |
| resilient | (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, springy |
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| (adjective) recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like | - |
| resolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, solvent |
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| resplendent | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, splendid, splendiferous |
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| respondent | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: answering |
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| (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, responder |
| (noun) the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent | - |
| restatement | (noun) a revised statement | - |
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| resurgent | (adjective) rising again as to new life and vigor | Synonyms: renascent |
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