policy
A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.) applies or seeks to follow, especially as formally expressed by an authoritative body.
A document describing such a policy.
Wise, advantageous, or politic conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
The grounds of a large country house.
The art of governance; political science.
A state; a polity.
A set political system; civil administration.
A trick; a stratagem.
Motive; object; inducement.

pollicies
plural of pollicy

pollicy
Obsolete form of policy.

porchscape
The arrangement of plants, furniture, and other decorations on a porch or patio.

porchscapes
plural of porchscape

portacrib
A movable crib for an infant.

portacribs
plural of portacrib

posthegemony
The theory that hegemony and ideology of discourse can no longer properly reflect the social order. Posthegemony also finds that history is not, as Karl Marx described it, a class struggle, but rather a "struggle to produce class".http://www.doi.org/10.1111/1470-9856.00067

postreplication
Used, attributively, to describe the period following replication of nucleic acid

poudreuse
A kind of dressing table with several compartments and a mirror.

poudreuses
plural of poudreuse

pp
Initialism of percentage point.
Initialism of past participle.
proton and proton (used attributively to describe a collision or other interaction of these two particles)
Eye dialect spelling of pee-pee.

ppbar
proton and antiproton (used attributively to describe a collision or other interaction of these two particles)

pph
Initialism of part per hundred.

pps
plural of pp
Alternative form of PPS.

ppt
Initialism of parts per trillion.
Initialism of parts per thousand.

ppts
Abbreviation of percentage points.

prescribees
plural of prescribee

prescribers
plural of prescriber

prescript
Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate.
A medical prescription.

prescripts
plural of prescript

processionings
plural of processioning

proscriber
One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.

proscribers
plural of proscriber

proslepsis
The pretence of passing over a subject while at the same time describing it fully.

prospectus
A document, distributed to prospective members, investors, buyers, or participants, which describes an institution (such as a university), a publication, or a business and what it has to offer.
A document which describes a proposed endeavor (venture, undertaking), such as a literary work (which one proposes to write).
A booklet or other document giving details of a share offer for the benefit of investors.

prospectuses
plural of prospectus

protologist
A specialist in diseases of the colon and rectum.
The first person to describe a new species.

protologists
plural of protologist

pseudepigraph
A text that is attributed with a false author.

pseudepigrapha
Writings falsely ascribed to famous persons (historical or mythical) to lend them greater legitimacy, typically composed many centuries after the ostensible author's death.

pseudepigraphon
singular of pseudepigrapha

pseudepigraphs
plural of pseudepigraph

pseudocopies
plural of pseudocopy

pseudolanguage
Something written or spoken that resembles language but is not a true language.
A means of describing an algorithm in human terms, without the use of a true programming language.

pseudolanguages
plural of pseudolanguage

pseudoreference
Describing reference electrodes whose potential, though not constant, varies predictively.

punkzine
Alternative spelling of punk zine.

punkzines
plural of punkzine

pyaster
Obsolete spelling of piastre.

pyasters
plural of pyaster

qaimaqam
Alternative spelling of kaymakam.

qaimaqams
plural of qaimaqam

qaymaqam
Alternative spelling of kaymakam.

qaymaqams
plural of qaymaqam

quadrioxalate
A salt containing four equivalents of oxalic acid to one equivalent of the basic element (or to one equivalent of a univalent basic radical).
An acid salt of oxalic acid, containing one basic atom and four equivalents of oxalic acid.

quartic
Of or relating to the fourth degree.

quartics
plural of quartic

quasidistribution
A quantum state described in terms of phase-space quasiprobability densities.

quasidistributions
plural of quasidistribution

quich
Obsolete spelling of quitch.

quindecuplet
A multiplet of fifteen subatomic particles.

quindecuplets
plural of quindecuplet

quinie
A cornerstone.

quinies
plural of quinie

quinquennalias
plural of quinquennalia

quintad
Synonym of quintet: A group of five.

quintads
plural of quintad

quintaries
plural of quintary

quintary
Synonym of quinary, fifth.

quitch
To shake (something); to stir, move.
To stir; to move.
To flinch; shrink.

ququart
A quantum quart; the unit of quantum information described by a superposition of four states; a quaternary qudit.

ququarts
plural of ququart.

qutrit
A quantum trit; the unit of quantum information described by a superposition of three states; a ternary qudit.

qutrits
plural of qutrit

radioautogram
Synonym of autoradiograph.

radioautograms
plural of radioautogram

radioautograph
Synonym of autoradiograph.

radioautographs
plural of radioautograph

rais
Alternative form of reis (“holder of military rank”).

ras
An Ethiopian king or prince.

rasamalai
Alternative form of ras malai.

rasmalai
Alternative form of ras malai.

recamier
An old-fashioned couch with headrest and footrest.

recamiers
plural of recamier

recliners
plural of recliner

recompensation
Synonym of compensation.
A plea in cases of debt collection whereby a plaintiff counters a defendant's claim of compensation as a reason for absolving the alleged debt.

recompensations
plural of recompensation

rectitude
Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent.
The fact or quality of being right or correct; correctness of opinion or judgement.
Conformity to the rules prescribed for moral conduct; (moral) uprightness, virtue.

rectitudes
plural of rectitude

redescribers
plural of redescriber

reflexicon
A word list that describes its own letter frequencies.

reflexicons
plural of reflexicon

reggeon
A virtual particle involved in the scattering described by Regge theory.

reggeons
plural of reggeon

regularness
regularity

reis
The holder of an Ottoman military rank akin to that of naval captain.

reises
plural of reis

relationist
A subscriber to relationism.

relationists
plural of relationist

representationalist
A subscriber to the philosophy of representationalism.
An artist who aims to produces realistic depictions.

representationalists
plural of representationalist

rescribendaries
plural of rescribendary

resel
A resolution element describing the actual spatial image resolution in an image (or a volume).

resels
plural of resel

restauranteur
Alternative form of restaurateur.

restauranteurs
plural of restauranteur

resubscribers
plural of resubscriber

retroclusion
An acupressure technique in which the pin passes behind the artery, after its point is made to describe the greater part of a semicircle.

retrodiene
used attributively to describe the removal of a previously added diene moiety from a molecule

retrogene
A piece of DNA reverse transcribed from mRNA inserted into a random place in the genome.

retrogenes
plural of retrogene

rhombicities
plural of rhombicity

rhombicity
A certain characteristic of a symmetric second-rank tensor in three-dimensional Euclidean space, describing its directional asymmetry.

riptide
A particularly strong tidal current.
A rip current which may carry a swimmer offshore.

riptides
plural of riptide

rites
plural of rite

roadbook
A diagrammatic book describing a rally route.
A guidebook for travellers.

roadbooks
plural of roadbook

roadslopes
plural of roadslope