| nightcap | (noun) the final game of a double header | - |
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| (noun) a cloth cap worn in bed | - |
| (noun) an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic | - |
| nincompoop | (noun) a stupid foolish person | Synonyms: ninny, poop |
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| nip | (noun) a small sharp bite or snip | Synonyms: pinch |
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| (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest |
| (noun) the property of being moderately cold | Synonyms: chilliness, coolness |
| (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, flavour, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang |
| (noun) a small drink of liquor | Synonyms: shot |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping | Synonyms: clip, nip off, snip, snip off |
| (verb) give a small sharp bite to | - |
| nonpartisanship | (noun) an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally | Synonyms: impartiality |
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| nonslip | (adjective) designed to reduce or prevent slipping | - |
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| nonstop | (adjective) at all times | Synonyms: around-the-clock, day-and-night, round-the-clock |
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| (adjective) (of a journey especially a flight) occurring without stops | - |
| (noun) a flight made without intermediate stops between source and destination | Synonyms: nonstop flight |
| (adverb) without stopping | - |
| oarsmanship | (noun) skill as an oarsman | - |
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| orlop | (noun) the fourth or lowest deck | Synonyms: fourth deck, orlop deck |
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| outcrop | (noun) the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land | Synonyms: outcropping, rock outcrop |
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| (verb) appear on the surface, come to the surface on the ground | - |
| outstrip | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, surmount, surpass |
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| (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: distance, outdistance |
| overcrop | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcultivate |
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| overlap | (noun) a flap that lies over another part | Synonyms: lap |
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| (noun) the property of partial coincidence in time | - |
| (noun) a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena | Synonyms: convergence, intersection |
| (verb) extend over and cover a part of | - |
| (verb) coincide partially or wholly | - |
| overleap | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overlook, pretermit |
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| (verb) jump across or leap over (an obstacle) | Synonyms: vault |
| (verb) defeat (oneself) by going too far | - |
| overlip | (noun) the upper lip | - |
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| overlordship | (noun) the position of overlord | - |
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| oversleep | (verb) sleep longer than intended | - |
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| overstep | (verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: transgress, trespass |
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| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, pass, top, transcend |
| overtop | (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, dominate, overlook |
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| overtrump | (verb) play a trump higher than (one previously played) to the trick | - |
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| ownership | (noun) the act of having and controlling property | Synonyms: possession |
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| (noun) the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others | - |
| (noun) the state or fact of being an owner | - |
| oxlip | (noun) Eurasian primrose with yellow flowers clustered in a one-sided umbel | Synonyms: paigle, Primula elatior |
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| p | (noun) the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: P |
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| pap | (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mamilla, mammilla, nipple, teat, tit |
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| (noun) worthless or oversimplified ideas | Synonyms: pablum |
| (noun) a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders | Synonyms: soft diet, spoon food |
| paperclip | (noun) a wire or plastic clip for holding sheets of paper together | Synonyms: gem clip, paper clip |
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| parsnip | (noun) whitish edible root; eaten cooked | - |
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| (noun) a strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root | Synonyms: Pastinaca sativa |
| (noun) the whitish root of cultivated parsnip | - |
| partisanship | (noun) an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives | Synonyms: partiality |
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| partnership | (noun) a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses | - |
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| (noun) the members of a business venture created by contract | - |
| (noun) a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal | - |
| pastorship | (noun) the position of pastor | Synonyms: pastorate |
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| pawnshop | (noun) a shop where loans are made with personal property as security | Synonyms: loan office, pawnbroker's shop |
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| payslip | (noun) a slip of paper included with your pay that records how much money you have earned and how much tax or insurance etc. has been taken out | - |
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| peep | (noun) a secret look | Synonyms: peek |
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| (noun) the short weak cry of a young bird | Synonyms: cheep |
| (verb) appear as though from hiding | - |
| (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirp, chirrup |
| (verb) speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice | - |
| (verb) look furtively | - |
| (verb) cause to come into view | - |
| penmanship | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: calligraphy, chirography |
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| pep | (noun) liveliness and energy | Synonyms: ginger, peppiness |
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| pericarp | (noun) the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary | Synonyms: seed vessel |
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| petaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one quadrillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: PFLOPS |
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| photoshop | (verb) To digitally alter a photo | - |
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| pickup | (noun) the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places | - |
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| (noun) the act of taking aboard passengers or freight | - |
| (noun) a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard | Synonyms: pickup truck |
| (noun) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable | Synonyms: cartridge |
| (noun) mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge | Synonyms: pickup arm, tone arm |
| (noun) anything with restorative powers | Synonyms: pick-me-up |
| (noun) the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration | Synonyms: getaway |
| (noun) a warrant to take someone into custody | - |
| (noun) a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships | - |
| pileup | (noun) multiple collisions of vehicles | - |
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| pimp | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, ponce, procurer |
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| (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, procure |
| pinesap | (noun) fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America; in some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitys | Synonyms: false beachdrops, Monotropa hypopithys |
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| pip | (noun) a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) | Synonyms: spot |
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| (noun) a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface | Synonyms: blip, radar target |
| (noun) a small hard seed found in some fruits | - |
| (noun) a disease of poultry | - |
| (noun) a minor nonspecific ailment | - |
| (verb) defeat thoroughly | Synonyms: mop up, rack up, whip, worst |
| (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: hit, shoot |
| (verb) kill by firing a missile | Synonyms: shoot |
| pitprop | (noun) a wooden prop used to support the roof of a mine | Synonyms: sprag |
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| pleurocarp | (noun) a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk | Synonyms: pleurocarpous moss |
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| plop | (noun) the noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash | - |
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| (adverb) with a short hollow thud | Synonyms: plunk |
| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
| (verb) drop with the sound of something falling into water | - |
| (verb) drop something with a plopping sound | - |
| plump | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: chubby, embonpoint |
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| (noun) the sound of a sudden heavy fall | - |
| (adverb) straight down especially heavily or abruptly | - |
| (verb) give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump out |
| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
| (verb) drop sharply | Synonyms: plummet |
| podocarp | (noun) any evergreen in the Southern Hemisphere of the genus Podocarpus having a pulpy fruit with one hard seed | - |
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| pogonip | (noun) a dense winter fog containing ice particles | Synonyms: ice fog |
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| polyp | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth | - |
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| (noun) a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane | Synonyms: polypus |
| pomp | (noun) ceremonial elegance and splendor | Synonyms: eclat |
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| (noun) cheap or pretentious or vain display | Synonyms: gaudery |
| poop | (noun) the rear part of a ship | Synonyms: after part, quarter, stern, tail |
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| (noun) slang terms for inside information | Synonyms: dope, low-down, the skinny |
| (noun) a stupid foolish person | Synonyms: nincompoop, ninny |
| (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, dirt, shit, shite, turd |
| pop | (adjective) (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people) | Synonyms: popular |
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| (noun) music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love | Synonyms: pop music |
| (noun) a sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork | Synonyms: popping |
| (noun) a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring | Synonyms: soda, soda pop, soda water, tonic |
| (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa |
| (adverb) like a pop or with a pop | - |
| (verb) burst open with a sharp, explosive sound | - |
| (verb) cause to burst with a loud, explosive sound | - |
| (verb) fire a weapon with a loud explosive noise | - |
| (verb) take drugs, especially orally | - |
| (verb) drink down entirely | Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, kill, pour down, toss off |
| (verb) hit a pop-fly | - |
| (verb) put or thrust suddenly and forcefully | - |
| (verb) hit or strike | - |
| (verb) release suddenly | - |
| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop out, protrude, start |
| (verb) make a sharp explosive noise | - |
| (verb) appear suddenly or unexpectedly; happen unexpectedly | Synonyms: burst out, crop up, pop out, pop up |
| (verb) cause to make a sharp explosive sound | - |
| porkchop | (noun) chop cut from a hog | - |
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| praetorship | (noun) the office of praetor | - |
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| precentorship | (noun) the position of precentor | - |
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| preceptorship | (noun) the position of preceptor | - |
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| premiership | (noun) the office of premier | - |
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| prep | (noun) preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) | Synonyms: preparation |
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| presidentship | (noun) the office and function of president | Synonyms: presidency |
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| primateship | (noun) the office of primate | - |
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| primp | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, plume, preen |
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| principalship | (noun) the post of principal | - |
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| priorship | (noun) the office of prior | - |
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| proconsulship | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulate |
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| proctorship | (noun) the position of proctor | - |
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| professorship | (noun) the position of professor | Synonyms: chair |
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| prop | (noun) a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling | - |
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| (noun) a propeller that rotates to push against air | Synonyms: airplane propeller, airscrew |
| (noun) any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie | Synonyms: property |
| (verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop up, shore, shore up |
| proprietorship | (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietary |
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| protectorship | (noun) the position of protector | - |
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| protip | (noun) an insightful bit of advice | - |
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| pseudocarp | (noun) fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry | Synonyms: accessory fruit |
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| psychopomp | (noun) a conductor of souls to the afterworld | - |
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| psyop | (noun) military actions designed to influence the perceptions and attitudes of individuals, groups, and foreign governments | Synonyms: psychological operation |
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| pulp | (noun) the soft inner part of a tooth | - |
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| (noun) an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper | Synonyms: pulp magazine |
| (noun) any soft or soggy mass | Synonyms: mush |
| (noun) a soft moist part of a fruit | Synonyms: flesh |
| (noun) a mixture of cellulose fibers | - |
| (verb) reduce to pulp | - |
| (verb) remove the pulp from, as from a fruit | - |
| pump | (noun) a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction | - |
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| (noun) a low-cut shoe without fastenings | - |
| (noun) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | Synonyms: heart, ticker |
| (verb) question persistently | - |
| (verb) deliver forth | - |
| (verb) operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal | - |
| (verb) raise (gases or fluids) with a pump | - |
| (verb) draw or pour with a pump | - |
| (verb) flow intermittently | - |
| (verb) move up and down | - |
| (verb) supply in great quantities | - |
| pup | (noun) young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf | Synonyms: whelp |
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| (noun) an inexperienced young person | Synonyms: puppy |
| (verb) give birth to (a puppy) | Synonyms: whelp |
| pushup | (noun) an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms | Synonyms: press-up |
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| quickstep | (noun) a ballroom dance with both quick and slow steps | - |
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| (noun) military march accompanying quick time | - |
| (verb) perform a quickstep | - |
| quip | (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, sally, wisecrack |
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| (noun) a witty saying | Synonyms: epigram |
| (verb) make jokes or quips | Synonyms: gag |
| raindrop | (noun) a drop of rain | - |
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| ramp | (noun) an inclined surface connecting two levels | Synonyms: incline |
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| (noun) a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft | - |
| (noun) North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers | Synonyms: Allium tricoccum, wild leek |
| (verb) stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing | - |
| (verb) creep up -- used especially of plants | - |
| (verb) be rampant | - |
| (verb) furnish with a ramp | - |
| (verb) behave violently, as if in state of a great anger | Synonyms: rage, storm |
| rap | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, whack, whang |
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| (noun) a reproach for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: blame |
| (noun) voluble conversation | - |
| (noun) genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged | Synonyms: hip-hop, rap music |
| (noun) the sound made by a gentle blow | Synonyms: pat, tap |
| (noun) a gentle blow | Synonyms: strike, tap |
| (verb) talk volubly | - |
| (verb) strike sharply | Synonyms: knap |
| (verb) perform rap music | - |
| (verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: knock, pink, tap |
| rasp | (noun) a coarse file with sharp pointed projections | Synonyms: wood file |
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| (noun) uttering in an irritated tone | Synonyms: rasping |
| (verb) utter in a grating voice | - |
| (verb) scrape with a rasp | - |
| rattrap | (noun) a trap for catching rats | - |
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| (noun) filthy run-down dilapidated housing | - |
| (noun) a difficult entangling situation | - |
| readership | (noun) the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.) | - |
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| reap | (verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: glean, harvest |
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| (verb) get or derive | Synonyms: draw |
| recap | (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recapitulation, review |
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| (noun) a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads | Synonyms: retread |
| (verb) summarize briefly | Synonyms: recapitulate |
| receivership | (noun) the office of a receiver | - |
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| (noun) a court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can be preserved for the benefit of all | - |
| (noun) the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver | - |
| recoup | (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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| (verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: deduct, withhold |
| (verb) reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | Synonyms: reimburse |
| rectorship | (noun) the office or station of a rector | Synonyms: rectorate |
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| redcap | (noun) a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station | - |
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| (noun) a member of the military police in Britain | - |
| redevelop | (verb) change the plans for the use of (land) | - |
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| (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: reformulate |
| (verb) develop for a second time, in order to improve the contrast, colour, etc., of a negative or print | - |
| regroup | (verb) reorganize into new groups | - |
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| (verb) organize anew, as after a setback | Synonyms: reorganise, reorganize |
| relationship | (noun) a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness) | Synonyms: human relationship |
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| (noun) (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption | Synonyms: family relationship, kinship |
| (noun) a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection) | - |
| (noun) a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries | - |
| rep | (noun) a fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs | Synonyms: repp |
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| (noun) informal abbreviation of `representative' | - |
| repp | (noun) a fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs | Synonyms: rep |
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| reship | (verb) place on a ship again or transfer to another ship | - |
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| revamp | (verb) to patch up or renovate; repair or restore | - |
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| (verb) provide (a shoe) with a new vamp | Synonyms: vamp |
| rip | (noun) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something | Synonyms: rent, split |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, crosscurrent, riptide, tide rip |
| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rent, snag, split, tear |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, roue |
| (verb) criticize or abuse strongly and violently | - |
| (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rend, rive |
| (verb) cut (wood) along the grain | - |
| (verb) move precipitously or violently | - |
| (verb) take without the owner's consent | Synonyms: rip off, steal |
| romp | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: caper, frolic, gambol, play |
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| (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
| (noun) a girl who behaves in a boyish manner | Synonyms: hoyden, tomboy |
| (verb) win easily | - |
| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, run around, skylark, sport |
| (verb) run easily and fairly fast | - |
| rooftop | (noun) the top of a (usually flat) roof | - |
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