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  • pratincolous — living in a meadow.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • print unions — the trade unions within the printing industry
  • prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
  • prostitution — the act or practice of engaging in sexual intercourse for money.
  • pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
  • pterosaurian — a pterosaur
  • puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
  • pull strings — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • pumice stone — abrasive stone used for exfoliating
  • pumice-stone — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
  • pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
  • reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
  • resupination — a resupinate condition.
  • retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
  • rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
  • saint paul's — a cathedral in London, England: designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
  • serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
  • serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
  • slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
  • spinulescent — producing spines
  • spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
  • sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
  • sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
  • standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
  • stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
  • stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
  • stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
  • stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
  • subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
  • subscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • suction pump — a pump for raising water or other fluids by suction, consisting essentially of a vertical cylinder in which a piston works up and down, both the cylinder and the pump having valves that control the flow of the fluid.
  • suction stop — click1 (def 3).
  • suet pudding — a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.
  • sukarnoputri — Megawati (ˈmɛɡəˌwɒtɪ). born 1947, Indonesian politician; president of Indonesia (2001–04): daughter of Achmed Sukarno
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
  • supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
  • supereminent — of superior eminence, rank, or dignity; distinguished, conspicuous, or worthy of note above others.
  • superevident — extremely or very evident
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • superstation — an independent television station whose signal is transmitted by satellite to subscribers on a cable system.
  • superstition — a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
  • supervenient — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
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