| offish | (adjective) lacking cordiality; unfriendly | Synonyms: standoffish |
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| oilcloth | (noun) cloth treated on one side with a drying oil or synthetic resin | - |
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| oilfish | (noun) very large deep-water snake mackerel | Synonyms: Ruvettus pretiosus |
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| okeh | (noun) an endorsement | Synonyms: O.K., OK, okay, okey |
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| oldish | (adjective) somewhat elderly | - |
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| oldwench | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish | Synonyms: Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwife, queen triggerfish |
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| oligarch | (noun) one of the rulers in an oligarchy | - |
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| onrush | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onset, onslaught |
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| (noun) a forceful forward rush or flow | - |
| ooh | (verb) express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah' | Synonyms: aah |
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| oomph | (noun) the activeness of an energetic personality | Synonyms: dynamism, pizzaz, pizzazz, zing |
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| (noun) attractiveness to the opposite sex | Synonyms: desirability, desirableness, sex appeal |
| opah | (noun) large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean | Synonyms: Lampris regius, moonfish |
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| orach | (noun) any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes | Synonyms: orache |
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| orangish | (adjective) of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange | Synonyms: orange |
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| orograph | (noun) A machine for use in making topographical maps. | - |
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| oscillograph | (noun) a device for making a record of the wave forms of fluctuating voltages or currents | - |
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| osteopath | (noun) a therapist who manipulates the skeleton and muscles | Synonyms: osteopathist |
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| ostrich | (noun) fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird | Synonyms: Struthio camelus |
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| (noun) a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand) | - |
| outgrowth | (noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: appendage, process |
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| (noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: emergence, growth |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offset, offshoot |
| outlandish | (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outre |
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| outmarch | (verb) march longer distances and for a longer time than | - |
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| outmatch | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| outreach | (noun) the act of reaching out | - |
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| outweigh | (verb) be heavier than | - |
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| (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, overbalance, preponderate |
| overarch | (verb) form an arch over | Synonyms: arch over |
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| (verb) be central or dominant | - |
| overgrowth | (noun) a profusion of growth on or over something else | - |
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| (noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: giantism, gigantism |
| overmuch | (adjective) very great in quantity; overabundant | - |
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| (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuchness, superabundance |
| (adverb) more than necessary | Synonyms: too much |
| overreach | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit |
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| (verb) fail by aiming too high or trying too hard | - |
| overstretch | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: pull |
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| overwatch | (noun) surveillence by a unit within a video game which would cause the unit to make an action in response to an enemy unit's action | - |
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| owlish | (adjective) resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance | - |
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| oysterfish | (noun) a variety of toadfish | Synonyms: oyster-fish, oyster fish |
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| paddlefish | (noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: duckbill, Polyodon spathula |
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| paintbrush | (noun) a brush used as an applicator (to apply paint) | - |
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| paleolith | (noun) a stone tool from the Paleolithic age | - |
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| palish | (adjective) slightly pale | - |
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| panfish | (noun) any of numerous small food fishes; especially those caught with hook and line and not available on the market | - |
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| pantograph | (noun) mechanical device used to copy a figure or plan on a different scale | - |
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| parabolograph | (noun) An outdated instrument for drawing parabolas. | - |
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| paragraph | (noun) one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line | - |
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| (verb) write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher | - |
| (verb) write about in a paragraph | - |
| (verb) divide into paragraphs, as of text | - |
| paraph | (noun) a flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery) | - |
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| parch | (verb) cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat | Synonyms: sear |
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| pariah | (noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home) | Synonyms: castaway, Ishmael, outcast |
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| parish | (noun) a local church community | - |
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| (noun) the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor | - |
| parrotfish | (noun) gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth | Synonyms: polly fish, pollyfish |
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| patch | (noun) a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole | - |
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| (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: darn, mend |
| (noun) a protective cloth covering for an injured eye | Synonyms: eyepatch |
| (noun) a connection intended to be used for a limited time | Synonyms: temporary hookup |
| (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: bandage |
| (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, speckle, spot |
| (noun) a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program | - |
| (noun) a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation | Synonyms: plot, plot of ground, plot of land |
| (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: piece, spell, while |
| (verb) mend by putting a patch on | Synonyms: patch up |
| (verb) repair by adding pieces | Synonyms: piece |
| (verb) to join or unite the pieces of | Synonyms: piece |
| (verb) provide with a patch; also used metaphorically | - |
| path | (noun) a course of conduct | Synonyms: way, way of life |
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| (noun) a way especially designed for a particular use | - |
| (noun) an established line of travel or access | Synonyms: itinerary, route |
| (noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves | Synonyms: course, track |
| patriarch | (noun) the male head of family or tribe | Synonyms: paterfamilias |
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| (noun) any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race | - |
| (noun) title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem) | - |
| (noun) a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself | - |
| paunch | (noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: belly |
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| peach | (noun) a shade of pink tinged with yellow | Synonyms: apricot, salmon pink, yellowish pink |
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| (noun) downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh | - |
| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| (noun) cultivated in temperate regions | Synonyms: peach tree, Prunus persica |
| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
| pearlfish | (noun) found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds | Synonyms: pearl-fish |
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| peckish | (adjective) somewhat hungry | - |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| peevish | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| pennyworth | (noun) the amount that can be bought for a penny | Synonyms: penn'orth |
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| perch | (noun) spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes | - |
| (noun) support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird) | - |
| (noun) any of numerous fishes of America and Europe | - |
| (noun) an elevated place serving as a seat | - |
| (noun) a linear measure of 16.5 feet | Synonyms: pole, rod |
| (noun) a square rod of land | Synonyms: pole, rod |
| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: rest, roost |
| (verb) cause to perch or sit | - |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, light |
| perianth | (noun) collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils | Synonyms: chlamys, floral envelope, perigone, perigonium |
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| perilymph | (noun) the bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear | - |
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| perish | (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, pop off, snuff it |
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| petroglyph | (noun) a carving or line drawing on rock (especially one made by prehistoric people) | - |
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| pettish | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| philomath | (noun) a lover of learning | - |
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| phonograph | (noun) machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically | Synonyms: record player |
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| photoflash | (noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | Synonyms: flash, flash bulb, flash lamp, flashbulb, flashgun |
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| photograph | (noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: exposure, photo, pic, picture |
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| (verb) record on photographic film | Synonyms: shoot, snap |
| (verb) undergo being photographed in a certain way | - |
| photoheliograph | (noun) a telescope, with a camera attached, used to photograph the Sun. | - |
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| photolithograph | (noun) a lithograph produced by photographically produced plates | - |
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| photomicrograph | (noun) a photograph taken with the help of a microscope | - |
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| phototelegraph | (noun) an apparatus for transmitting pictures by phototelegraphy. | - |
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| pibroch | (noun) martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes | - |
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| pictograph | (noun) a graphic character used in picture writing | - |
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| pigfish | (noun) found from Long Island southward | Synonyms: hogfish, Orthopristis chrysopterus |
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| (noun) found around the Great Barrier Reef | Synonyms: Achoerodus gouldii, giant pigfish |
| piggish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggy, porcine, swinish |
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| pigwash | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, slop, slops, swill |
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| pilotfish | (noun) small pelagic fish often accompanying sharks or mantas | Synonyms: Naucrates ductor |
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| pinch | (noun) a squeeze with the fingers | Synonyms: tweak |
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| (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, taking into custody |
| (noun) a small sharp bite or snip | Synonyms: nip |
| (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: emergency, exigency |
| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
| (noun) an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed | - |
| (noun) a painful or straitened circumstance | - |
| (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: vellicate |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: crimp |
| (verb) cut the top off | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| pinfish | (noun) similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States | Synonyms: Lagodon rhomboides, sailor's-choice, squirrelfish |
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| pinkish | (adjective) of a light shade of red | Synonyms: pink |
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| pipefish | (noun) fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | Synonyms: needlefish |
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| pitch | (noun) the action or manner of throwing something | - |
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| (noun) an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump | Synonyms: auction pitch |
| (noun) a high approach shot in golf | Synonyms: pitch shot |
| (noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: delivery |
| (noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: lurch, pitching |
| (noun) the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration | - |
| (noun) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane | Synonyms: rake, slant |
| (noun) promotion by means of an argument and demonstration | Synonyms: sales pitch, sales talk |
| (noun) a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk) | - |
| (noun) a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer | Synonyms: soccer field |
| (noun) any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue | Synonyms: tar |
| (verb) set to a certain pitch | - |
| (verb) set the level or character of | Synonyms: gear |
| (verb) lead (a card) and establish the trump suit | - |
| (verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, sky, toss |
| (verb) erect and fasten | Synonyms: set up |
| (verb) hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin | - |
| (verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: deliver |
| (verb) fall or plunge forward | - |
| (verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: incline, slope |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, slant, tilt |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, shift |
| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend |
| pith | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, substance, sum |
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| (noun) soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants | - |
| (verb) remove the pith from (a plant) | - |
| plash | (noun) the sound like water splashing | Synonyms: splash |
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| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
| (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: pleach |
| platyhelminth | (noun) parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body | Synonyms: flatworm |
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| pleach | (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: plash |
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| (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: braid |
| plectognath | (noun) tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines | Synonyms: plectognath fish |
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| plethysmograph | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring changes in volume of a part or organ or whole body (usually resulting from fluctuations in the amount of blood it contains) | - |
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| plinth | (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: footstall, pedestal |
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| plough | (noun) a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing | Synonyms: plow |
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| (verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plow, turn |
| (verb) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil | Synonyms: plow |
| plush | (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lavish, lucullan, plushy |
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| (noun) a fabric with a nap that is longer and softer than velvet | - |
| poach | (verb) cook in a simmering liquid | - |
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| (verb) hunt illegally | - |
| polish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: burnish, gloss, glossiness |
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| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, culture, finish, refinement |
| (noun) a preparation used in polishing | - |
| (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish up, round, round off |
| (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: down, fine-tune, refine |
| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: shine, smooth, smoothen |
| pollyannaish | (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: cheerful, upbeat |
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| pollyfish | (noun) gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth | Synonyms: parrotfish, polly fish |
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| polygraph | (noun) a medical instrument that records several physiological processes simultaneously (e.g., pulse rate and blood pressure and respiration and perspiration) | - |
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| polymath | (noun) a person of great and varied learning | - |
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| polymorph | (noun) an organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites | - |
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| pooch | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: barker, bow-wow, doggie, doggy |
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| (verb) round one's lips as if intending to kiss | Synonyms: pooch out |
| popish | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistic, papistical, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish |
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| porch | (noun) a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance | - |
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| porcupinefish | (noun) spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: Diodon hystrix, porcupine fish |
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| porkfish | (noun) black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil | Synonyms: Anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish |
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| posh | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: classy, swish |
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