plot, v. conspire, intrigue, cabal, complot, machinate, scheme.
plotter, n. conspirator, intriguer, intrigant, machinator, caballer, intrigante (female).
plowable, a. arable. Antonym: inarable.
plowland, n. arable, carucate.
plowman, n. plower, husbandman.
pluck, v. pull, draw; pick, gather.
pluck, n. courage, energy, spirit, stamina, pluckiness.
plucky, a. courageous, spirited, indomitable, resolute, unflinching, game.
plug, n. stopper, stopple, bung, tampoon, spile, tampion, spigot.
plumb, a. perpendicular, upright, true.
plume, v. preen, prink; pride, vaunt, boast, glory.
plump, a. fleshy, bouncing, chubby, fat, portly, stout; blunt, unreserved, unqualified.
plunder, n. booty, spoil, loot, pillage, robbery.
plunder, v. pillage, loot, rob.
plunderer, n. pillager, robber, spoiler, depredator, marauder.
plunge, v. souse, immerse, submerge, dip, douse; dive, pitch.
pocket, n. bag, sack, pouch, placket, sabretasche.
pocket-book, n. purse, wallet, portemonnaie.
pockmarked, a. pockpitted, pockfretten, pocky, pitted.
pod, n. capsule, legume, burr, shale, boll.
poem, n. sonnet, ballad, verse, distich, lyric, elegy, eclogue, idyl, madrigal, epic, ode, georgic, cid, rondeau, epilogue, epigram, elegiac, roundelay, dithyramb, dithyrambic, doggerel, rhapsody.
poet, n. bard; laureate; versifier, rhymster, poetaster; troubadour, jongleur.
poetaster, n. rhymster, verse-monger, versifier.
poetical, a. metrical, rhythmic.
poetry, n. verse, rhyme, poems, poesy, orthometry, versification, prosody, poetics. Antonym: prose. Associated word: anthology.
poignant, a. pricking, piercing, pungent.
point, n. prick, gad, goad; punctilio, nicety, subtlety; poignancy, sting; degree, step, stage; ferrule; zenith (highest point); nadir (lowest point); aiglet, tag; apex, tip.
point, v. aim, level, direct; show, indicate, designate; punctuate; taper.
point-blank, a. direct, plain, unqualified, unreserved.
pointed, a. sharp, picked, peaked, tapering, conical. Antonyms: pointless, dull.
pointer, n. indicator, index.
pointing, n. sharpening; punctuation; designation, indication.
poise, n. equipoise, balance, equilibrium.
poise, v. balance, librate.
poison, n. venom, virus, toxine, toxicant, irritant, taint, bane, ptomaine. Associated words: toxicology, toxicophobia, toxicomania, toxiferous, toxicologist, antidote, alexiteric, venenific, septiferous, envenom, infect.
poisoning, n. toxication, venenation; autotoxication (self-poisoning); tainting, vitiation, infection.
poisonous, a. toxic, toxical, venomous, noxious, baneful, virulent, malignant. Antonyms: nonpoisonous, antidotal.
poisonousness, n. toxicity, venomousness, virulence, malignancy.
poke, n. bag, sack, pocket; thrust, punch, jog, dig; dawdler, bore.
poke, v. stir up, excite; punch, thrust; gore, hook; grope.
poke fun at. (Colloq.) ridicule, deride.
poker-painting, n. pyrography, xylopyrography.
poky, a. (Colloq.) slow, dull, tiresome, tedious, prosaic.
polar lights. aurora borealis (northern); aurora australis (southern);
Pole, n. Polander, Polack.
pole, n. shaft, thill (of a vehicle); rod, perch; bergstock, alpenstock; poy (rope-dancer's pole); 5 1/2 yards, 30 1/4 square yards; jalons; quant.
polestar, n. north star, polar star, Polaris, loadstar, Cynosure.
polish, v. burnish, furbish.
polish, n. gloss, luster, sheen, glaze, glazing; courtliness, refinement.
polished, a. burnished, glistening, bright; courtly, elegant refined.
polite, a. courtly, civil, courteous, suave, urbane, deferential debonair, mannerly. Antonyms: See impolite.
politeness, n. courtliness, courtesy, civility, suavity, urbanity, deference, amenity, comity.
politic, a. political; judicious, discreet, shrewd, astute; diplomatic, strategic, artful.
politician, n. statesman, statist; demagogue (unprincipled and factious).
polliwog, n. tadpole, purwiggy.
poll tax. capitation.
pollute, v. defile, contaminate, corrupt, infect, debase, vitiate, desecrate, befoul.
pollution, n. defilement, contamination, corruption, infection debasement, vitiation.
poltroon, n. coward, craven, dastard.
pommel, v. beat, pound, maul, belabor, cudgel, thwack, club.
pomp, n. pageantry, parade, pageant.
pompous, a. stately, imposing, august; pretentious, grandiose See bombastic.
pond, n. lake (small); lagoon.
ponder, v. meditate, reflect, ruminate, think, muse.
ponderous, a. massive, heavy, cumbersome; dull, spiritless momentous, important.
pooh-pooh, v. (Colloq.) deride.
poor, a. indigent, impecunious, needy, poverty -stricken, straitened, necessitous, penniless, eleemosynary; emaciated, skinny, lean, spare, meager, bony, gaunt, thin, haggard, scrawny, angular, peaked, rawboned, pinched; inferior, mean, shabby, seedy, tacky, worthless; barren, sterile, effete infecund, inarable, exhausted, infertile; miserable, wretched, faulty, defective; despicable, contemptible, abject, sordid, sorry; unfavorable, inauspicious, unpropitious.
poorhouse, n. almshouse, infirmary.
pope, n. bishop of Rome, pontiff, Pontifex Maximus. Associated words: papal, papacy, paparchy, popish, see, popedom, popery, ablegate, nuncio, legate, Vatican, pontifical.
poppinjay, n. dandy, coxcomb. See fop.
populace, n. commonalty, proletariat, rabble.
popular, a. approved.
popularity, n. favor, esteem, approbation, celebrity.
population, n. inhabitants.
porch, n. piazza, stoop, veranda, porte-cochère, portico.
pork, n. Associated words: trichina, trichinosis.
porous, a. permeable, penetrable, pervious, percolable. Antonyms: imporous, compact.
porridge dish. porringer.
port, n. harbor, haven; port-hole, embrasure; larboard; deportment, carriage, bearing, demeanor.
portend, v. foretoken, bode, presage, foreshadow, augur.
portentous, a. ominous, premonitory; monstrous, prodigious.
porter, n. doorkeeper, concierge.
portico, n. colonnade, arcade; porch.
portion, n. part, section, piece; allotment, quota, share, contingent; inheritance; dowry.
portly, a. dignified, imposing, stately, commanding; fleshy, obese, corpulent, stout.
portray, v. delineate, depict, picture, draw, sketch, paint, describe.
portrayal, n. delineation, description, account, recital, painting, depiction.
pose, n. attitude, posture (assumed).--v. attitudinize; nonplus, bewilder, embarrass.
position, n. situation, post; attitude, posture; situation, place, job; rank, standing, status; state, condition, circumstances.
positive, a. definite, precise, unequivocal, explicit, catagorical, unmistakable; confident, certain, sure; veritable, actual, absolute; indisputable; peremptory, dogmatic.
posse, n. (Colloq.) crowd, throng, multitude.
possess, v. own; have, hold, occupy; seize, take, appropriate.
possession, n. ownership, occupancy, tenure, fruition, retention, occupation.
possessor, n. owner, proprietor; occupant, tenant, holder.
possibility, n. potentiality, contingency. Antonym: impossibility.
possible, a. potential, in posse, contingent, practicable. Antonym: impossible.
possibly, adv. maybe, perhaps, perchance, peradventure, haply.
post, n. column, pillar, pilaster; position, seat, station; office, employment, station; bollard, stanchion, pile, newel, puncheon.
post, v. placard, announce; mail.
posted, a. (Colloq.) informed.
poster, n. placard, bulletin, bill.
posterior, a. later, subsequent, ensuing, succeeding; hinder, rear.
post-mortem, n. autopsy, necropsy.
postpone, v. defer, delay, put off, procrastinate, adjourn, prorogue.
postponement, n. deferring, delay, procrastination.
posture, n. attitude.
posy, n. flower, nosegay, boutonnière, bouquet.
pot, n. kettle; chamber-pot, jorden, urinal; jardinière.
potent, a. powerful, forcible, cogent, effective, strong.
pother, n. confusion, commotion, flutter, bustle, stir.
potter's wheel. jigger, throw.
pouch, n. bag, sack; paunch; marsupium.
poultice, n. cataplasm.
pound, v. beat; comminute, pulverize, bray, triturate; maul, belabor; impound.
pound, n. pinfold; sixteen ounces (avoir.); twelve ounces (troy); sovereign, >.86.
pounder, n. pestle.
pour, v. decant.
pouring, n. decantation.
poverty, n. penury, indigence, need, destitution, privation, neediness, impecuniosity, pauperism; deficiency, paucity, infecundity, dearth, lack, meagerness, sterility, barrenness. Associated words: impoverish, impoverishment.
powder, n. dust, pulverulence; cosmetic, rouge; pounce; efflorescence.
powder, v. pulverize, triturate, comminute, levigate.
powdery, a. friable, loose; dusty, pulverized, pulverulent, mealy.
power, n. potency, might, cogency, efficacy, force; armipotence, omnipotence; influence, sway, command, domination, authority; faculty, endowment, gift.
powerful, a. mighty, potent, drastic, efficacious, intense, strong, dynamic, puissant, effective, omnipotent, armipotent, stentorian, invincible, cogent, commanding.
powerless, a. impotent. See weak.
pox, n. syphilis.
practicability, n. feasibility.
practical, a. pragmatical. Antonyms: impractical, Utopian, chimerical.
practice, n. custom, usage, habit; exercise, application, drill, rehearsal.
practice, v. exercise, apply, do, train, drill, rehearse.
praise, n. commendation, laudation, approbation, encomium, panegyric, eulogy, applause, laud, acclaim, éclat, plaudit, compliment, acclamation, puff, flattery; worship, homage, glorification; pæan. Antonyms: condemnation, dispraise, disapprobation, disparagement, denunciation, animadversion, stricture.
praise, v. laud, extol, commend, eulogize, panegyrize, applaud; magnify, glorify. Antonyms: condemn, denounce, disparage, deprecate, criticize.
praiser, n. eulogist, panegyrist, extoller, encomiast, lauder.
praiseworthy, a. laudable, commendable. Antonyms: illaudable, unpraiseworthy, indign.
prance, v. cavort.
prank, n. trick, antic, frolic, caper.
prankish, a. playful, frolicsome, sportive, mischievous, gamesome.
prate, v. babble, gabble, clatter, chatter, prattle. See talk.
prate, n. chatter, gabble, babble, twaddle.
pray, v. invoke, supplicate, entreat, implore, beg, petition, intercede.
pray against. deprecate.
prayer, n. invocation, orison, collect, suffrage, supplication, obsecration; litany, rogation, rosary, euchologion, secreta; entreaty, intercession.
preach, v. exhort.
preacher, n. homilist, exhorter, predicant, pulpiteer; missionary, evangelist, revivalist.
preaching, n. sermon, homily, exhortation. Associated words: homiletics, homiletic.
precarious, a. uncertain, insecure, unassured, doubtful
preceding, a. foregoing.
precept, n. commandment, maxim, rule, adage, behest, injunction.
precious, a. costly, expensive; valuable; dear, beloved, adored, idolized.
precious stone. jewel, gem. See stone.
precise, a. exact; formal, punctilious, particular, prim, prudish.
precision, n. exactness, accuracy; formalness, prudery.
predatory, a. predaceous, plundering.
predestination, n. foreordination, foreordainment.
predict, v. prophesy, foretell, prognosticate, forebode, portend, augur, presage, vaticinate.
prediction, n. prophecy, soothsaying, divination, augury, prognostication.
predominant, a. dominant, overruling, ascendant, supreme.
preface, n. prologue, prelude. See introduction.
prejudice, n. prejudgment, bias; harm, mischief, detriment.
preposterous, a. absurd, ridiculous, irrational, inconsistent, foolish.