| package | (noun) a wrapped container | Synonyms: parcel |
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| (noun) (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory | Synonyms: computer software, software, software package, software program, software system |
| (noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: bundle, packet, parcel |
| (verb) put into a box | Synonyms: box |
| page | (noun) one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains | - |
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| (noun) in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood | Synonyms: varlet |
| (noun) a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings | - |
| (noun) a boy who is employed to run errands | Synonyms: pageboy |
| (verb) contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system | - |
| (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: foliate, paginate |
| (verb) work as a page | - |
| paralanguage | (noun) the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings | Synonyms: paralinguistic communication |
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| parentage | (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, pedigree, stemma, stock |
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| (noun) the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents | Synonyms: birth |
| (noun) the state of being a parent | Synonyms: parenthood |
| parsonage | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: rectory, vicarage |
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| partridge | (noun) small Old World gallinaceous game birds | - |
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| (noun) a popular North American game bird; named for its call | Synonyms: bobwhite, bobwhite quail |
| (noun) valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada | Synonyms: Bonasa umbellus, ruffed grouse |
| (noun) heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds | Synonyms: tinamou |
| (noun) flesh of either quail or grouse | - |
| passage | (noun) a journey usually by ship | Synonyms: transit |
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| (noun) the passing of a law by a legislative body | Synonyms: enactment |
| (noun) the act of passing something to another person | Synonyms: handing over |
| (noun) the act of passing from one state or place to the next | Synonyms: transition |
| (noun) a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another | Synonyms: passing |
| (noun) a way through or along which someone or something may pass | - |
| (noun) a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass | Synonyms: passageway |
| (noun) a section of text; particularly a section of medium length | - |
| (noun) a short section of a musical composition | Synonyms: musical passage |
| (noun) the motion of one object relative to another | Synonyms: passing |
| pasturage | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, grass, pasture |
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| (noun) succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland | Synonyms: herbage |
| patrilineage | (noun) line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family | Synonyms: agnation |
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| patronage | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backing, backup, championship |
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| (noun) (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support | - |
| (noun) the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers | Synonyms: trade |
| (noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: condescension, disdain |
| (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: business, clientele |
| (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronise, patronize, support |
| (verb) support by being a patron of | - |
| pavage | (noun) the act of applying paving materials to an area | Synonyms: paving |
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| (noun) a tax toward paving streets | - |
| peerage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: baronage |
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| pelage | (noun) growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal | Synonyms: coat |
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| peonage | (noun) the practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged | - |
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| (noun) the condition of a peon | - |
| pepperidge | (noun) columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall | Synonyms: black gum, Nyssa sylvatica, sour gum |
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| percentage | (noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | Synonyms: part, portion, share |
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| (noun) a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent | Synonyms: pct, per centum, percent |
| persiflage | (noun) light teasing | - |
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| personage | (noun) another word for person; a person not meriting identification | - |
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| (noun) a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Synonyms: important person, influential person |
| petrissage | (noun) massage of the skin which is gently lifted and squeezed | - |
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| phage | (noun) a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria | Synonyms: bacteriophage |
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| photomontage | (noun) a montage that uses photographic images | - |
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| pilferage | (noun) the act of stealing small amounts or small articles | - |
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| pilgrimage | (noun) a journey to a sacred place | Synonyms: pilgrim's journey |
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| pillage | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillaging, plundering |
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| (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, plunder, prize, swag |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| pilotage | (noun) the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place | Synonyms: navigation, piloting |
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| (noun) the occupation of a pilot | Synonyms: piloting |
| pipage | (noun) a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. | Synonyms: pipe, piping |
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| (noun) a fee charged for the use of pipes | - |
| plage | (noun) the beach at a seaside resort | - |
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| pledge | (noun) a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something | Synonyms: assurance |
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| (noun) a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event | Synonyms: toast |
| (noun) someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group | - |
| (noun) a deposit of personal property as security for a debt | - |
| (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: plight |
| (verb) bind or secure by a pledge | - |
| (verb) give as a guarantee | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, salute, toast, wassail |
| (verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: subscribe |
| plumage | (noun) the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds | Synonyms: plume |
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| plunderage | (noun) the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard) | - |
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| plunge | (noun) a brief swim in water | Synonyms: dip |
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| (noun) a steep and rapid fall | - |
| (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: launch |
| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, soak up, steep |
| (verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: immerse |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, souse |
| (verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: immerse |
| (verb) fall abruptly | Synonyms: dump |
| (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: dive, plunk |
| (verb) dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity | - |
| pogge | (noun) northern Atlantic sea poacher | Synonyms: Agonus cataphractus, armed bullhead |
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| porridge | (noun) soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick | - |
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| portage | (noun) carrying boats and supplies overland | - |
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| (noun) overland track between navigable waterways | - |
| (noun) the cost of carrying or transporting | - |
| porterage | (noun) the transportation of burdens by porters | - |
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| (noun) the charge for carrying burdens by porters | - |
| postage | (noun) a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that postal fees have been paid | Synonyms: postage stamp, stamp |
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| (noun) the charge for mailing something | - |
| potage | (noun) thick (often creamy) soup | Synonyms: pottage |
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| pottage | (noun) a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat | - |
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| (noun) thick (often creamy) soup | Synonyms: potage |
| poundage | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, impoundment, internment |
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| (noun) weight expressed in pounds | - |
| (noun) a fee charged for the recovery of impounded animals | - |
| (noun) a charge based on weight measured in pounds | - |
| prearrange | (verb) arrange beforehand | - |
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| prejudge | (verb) judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence | - |
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| presage | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication |
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| (noun) a foreboding about what is about to happen | - |
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, prognosticate |
| prestige | (noun) a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc. | Synonyms: prestigiousness |
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| privilege | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, prerogative |
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| (noun) (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship | - |
| (noun) a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all | - |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| prolonge | (noun) a rope fitted with a hook and used for towing a gun carriage | - |
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| protege | (noun) a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career | - |
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| pudge | (noun) a short fat person | - |
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| purge | (noun) an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements | Synonyms: purging |
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| (noun) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge | Synonyms: purgation, purging |
| (noun) an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place | - |
| (verb) excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body) | - |
| (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
| (verb) rid of impurities | - |
| (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, scour |
| (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purify, sanctify |
| (verb) clear of a charge | - |
| (verb) oust politically | - |
| quayage | (noun) a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay | Synonyms: wharfage |
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| rage | (noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: craze, cult, fad, furor, furore |
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| (noun) a feeling of intense anger | Synonyms: fury, madness |
| (noun) a state of extreme anger | - |
| (noun) violent state of the elements | - |
| (noun) something that is desired intensely | Synonyms: passion |
| (verb) feel intense anger | - |
| (verb) be violent; as of fires and storms | - |
| (verb) behave violently, as if in state of a great anger | Synonyms: ramp, storm |
| rampage | (noun) violently angry and destructive behavior | Synonyms: violent disorder |
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| (verb) act violently, recklessly, or destructively | - |
| range | (noun) a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds | - |
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| (noun) a kitchen appliance used for cooking food | Synonyms: cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, stove |
| (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, reach, scope |
| (noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: compass, grasp, reach |
| (noun) a variety of different things or activities | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined | Synonyms: image, range of a function |
| (noun) the limits within which something can be effective | Synonyms: reach |
| (noun) a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze | - |
| (noun) a series of hills or mountains | Synonyms: chain, chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, range of mountains |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, place, rank, rate |
| (verb) let eat | - |
| (verb) lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line | Synonyms: array, lay out, set out |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, graze, pasture |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) range or extend over; occupy a certain area | Synonyms: straddle |
| (verb) change or be different within limits | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun | - |
| ravage | (noun) (usually plural) a destructive action | Synonyms: depredation |
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| (verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes | Synonyms: harry |
| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, scourge, waste |
| rearrange | (verb) put into a new order or arrangement | - |
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| recharge | (verb) charge anew | - |
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| (verb) load anew | Synonyms: reload |
| reforge | (verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: recast, remodel |
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| refuge | (noun) act of turning to for assistance | Synonyms: recourse, resort |
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| (noun) a shelter from danger or hardship | Synonyms: asylum, sanctuary |
| (noun) something or someone turned to for assistance or security | Synonyms: recourse, resort |
| (noun) a safe place | Synonyms: safety |
| regorge | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| remarriage | (noun) the act of marrying again | - |
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| renege | (noun) the mistake of not following suit when able to do so | Synonyms: revoke |
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| (verb) fail to fulfill a promise or obligation | Synonyms: go back on, renege on, renegue on |
| repechage | (noun) a race (especially in rowing) in which runners-up in the eliminating heats compete for a place in the final race | - |
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| reportage | (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: coverage, reporting |
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| resmudge | (verb) smudge again | - |
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| resurge | (verb) rise again | - |
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| revenge | (noun) action taken in return for an injury or offense | Synonyms: retaliation |
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| (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, retaliate |
| ridge | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridgepole, rooftree |
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| (noun) any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane | - |
| (noun) a long narrow natural elevation or striation | - |
| (noun) a long narrow range of hills | Synonyms: ridgeline |
| (noun) a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean | - |
| (noun) any long raised strip | - |
| (verb) form into a ridge | - |
| (verb) spade into alternate ridges and troughs | - |
| (verb) throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides | - |
| (verb) plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip | - |
| (verb) extend in ridges | - |
| rootage | (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, source |
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| (noun) a developed system of roots | Synonyms: root system |
| (noun) fixedness by or as if by roots | - |
| rouge | (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, blusher, paint |
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| (verb) redden by applying rouge to | - |
| roughage | (noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
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| rummage | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: ransacking |
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| (noun) a jumble of things to be given away | - |
| (verb) search haphazardly | - |
| sabotage | (noun) a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged | - |
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| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, subvert, undermine, weaken |
| sacrilege | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, profanation |
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| sage | (adjective) of the grey-green color of sage leaves | Synonyms: sage-green |
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| (adjective) having wisdom that comes with age and experience | - |
| (noun) aromatic fresh or dried grey-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc | - |
| (noun) a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom | - |
| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb | Synonyms: salvia |
| salvage | (noun) the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire | - |
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| (noun) the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction | - |
| (noun) property or goods saved from damage or destruction | - |
| (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: scavenge |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salve, save |
| sausage | (noun) a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon | Synonyms: blimp, sausage balloon |
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| (noun) highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings | - |
| savage | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious |
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| (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
| (adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy | Synonyms: ferocious, fierce, furious |
| (adjective) wild and menacing | Synonyms: feral, ferine |
| (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: barbarian |
| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, wildcat, wolf |
| (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, crucify, pillory |
| (verb) attack brutally and fiercely | - |
| saxifrage | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: breakstone, rockfoil |
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| scalage | (noun) the act of scaling in weight or quantity or dimension | - |
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| (noun) estimation of the amount of lumber in a log | - |
| scavenge | (verb) remove unwanted substances from | Synonyms: clean |
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| (verb) feed on carrion or refuse | - |
| (verb) clean refuse from | - |
| (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: salvage |
| schmegegge | (noun) (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense | Synonyms: shmegegge |
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| scourge | (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: flagellum |
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| (noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: terror, threat |
| (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, nemesis |
| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, waste |
| (verb) whip | Synonyms: flagellate |
| (verb) punish severely; excoriate | - |
| scrimmage | (noun) a noisy riotous fight | Synonyms: battle royal, melee |
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| (noun) (American football) practice play between a football team's squads | - |
| (verb) practice playing (a sport) | - |
| scrooge | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, niggard, skinflint |
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| scrounge | (verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: forage |
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| (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, schnorr, shnorr |
| scrummage | (noun) (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession | Synonyms: scrum |
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| sedge | (noun) grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers | - |
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| seepage | (noun) the process of seeping | Synonyms: ooze, oozing |
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| seigniorage | (noun) charged by a government for coining bullion | - |
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| selvage | (noun) the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray | Synonyms: selvedge |
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| (noun) border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet | Synonyms: selvedge |
| selvedge | (noun) the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray | Synonyms: selvage |
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| (noun) border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet | Synonyms: selvage |
| serge | (noun) a twilled woolen fabric | - |
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| sewage | (noun) waste matter carried away in sewers or drains | Synonyms: sewerage |
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| sewerage | (noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water | Synonyms: cloaca, sewer |
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| (noun) waste matter carried away in sewers or drains | Synonyms: sewage |
| shmegegge | (noun) (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense | Synonyms: schmegegge |
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| shortage | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortfall |
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| (noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: dearth, famine |
| shrinkage | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shoplifting |
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| (noun) the amount by which something shrinks | - |
| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinking |
| siege | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, besieging, military blockade |
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| signage | (noun) signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters) | - |
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| silage | (noun) fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo | Synonyms: ensilage |
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| singe | (noun) a surface burn | Synonyms: scorch |
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| (verb) burn superficially or lightly | Synonyms: swinge |
| (verb) become superficially burned | Synonyms: scorch, sear |