# oar.............boat propulsion system
# or...............comparitive article
# ore.............mineral-laden dirt
# odd.............see: awed
# offal............see: aweful
# oh...............interjection
# owe.............to be indebted
# ohs.............more than one letter "O"
# owes............in debt
# one.............singularity
# won.............victorious
# oohs...........as in "oohs and ahs"
# ooze...........slime
# oracle, see: auricle
# oral, see: aural
# ordinance......a decree
# ordnance.......artillery
# ought, see: aught
# our, see: hour
# ours, see: hours
# overdo.........carried to excess
# overdue........past time for payment
# paced..........measured by footsteps
# paste..........thick glue
# packed.........placed in a container
# pact...........agreement
# pail...........bucket
# pale...........light colored
# pain...........it hurts
# pane...........a single panel of glass
# pair...........a set of two
# pare...........cutting down
# pear...........bottom-heavy fruit
# palate.........taste
# pallet.........a platform for transporting goods; bed
# pallette.......a selection of paint
# pall...........to become wearisome
# Paul...........a man's name
# pawl...........locks a ratchet
# passed.........approved; moved on
# past...........before now
# patience.......being willing to wait
# patients.......doctor's customer
# pause..........to hesitate
# paws...........cat transportation
# pea............round, green legume
# pee............urinate, slang
# peace..........free of war or calamity
# piece..........a part of
# peak...........mountain top
# peek...........secret look
# pique...........ruffled pride
# peal...........ringing sound
# peel...........fruit outer covering, the act of removing a covering
# pealed.........rang with sound as with a bell
# peeled.........having removed the covering
# pearl..........round, luminescent gem from an oyster
# purl...........to edge with a chain of small loops as in knitting
# pedal..........foot control
# peddle.........to sell
# peer...........an equal
# pier...........wharf
# pencil.........writing implement
# pensil.........thin, swallowtail flag
# per............for each
# purr...........endearing cat hum
# pharoah, see: farrow
# phase, see: faze
# phased, see: fazed
# phew, see: few
# phial, see: file
# philter, see: filter
# phlox, see: flocks
# pi.............3.1416...
# pie............filled crust pastry
# picnic.........outdoor meal
# pyknic.........physiological type with thick neck, large abdomen and short limbs
# pieced.........assembled from pieces
# piste..........a ski run of compacted snow
# pincer.........claw-like gripping action
# pincher........one who pinches
# pinscher.......terrier
# pistil.........seed-bearing organ of a flower
# pistol.........hand gun
# place..........a location
# plaice.........a flounder
# plain..........not fancy
# plane..........a surface
# plait..........braid
# plate..........a dish
# planar.........flat
# planer.........one who planes
# pleas..........crys for help
# please.........good manners
# pleural........related to lungs
# plural.........more than one
# plum...........purple fruit
# plumb..........straight up and down
# polar..........relating to the North or South poles
# poler..........one who uses a pole
# Pole...........a person from Poland
# pole...........big stick
# poll...........a voting
# poled..........a pole was used
# polled.........lacking horns
# pone...........the dealer's opponent in two-handed card games
# pony...........a small horse
# poor...........no money
# pore...........careful study; microscopic hole
# pour...........to flow freely
# popery.........a disparaging term for Catholics
# potpourri......a miscellaneous collection
# praise.........to commend
# prays..........petition to God
# preys..........hunts
# pray...........worship God
# prey...........hunt
# precedence.....priority
# precedents.....established course of action
# presidents.....commanders-in-chief
# presence.......the state of being present
# presents.......gifts
# pride..........ego
# pryed..........opened with force
# pries..........wedging open
# prize..........the reward
# prince.........son of the King
# prints.........impressions
# principal......head of school
# principle......causative force
# profit.........money earned
# prophet........seer
# pros...........multiple experts
# prose..........ordinary language
# psi............twenty-third letter of Greek alphabet
# sigh...........sad and weary breath
# xi.............fourteenth letter of Greek alphabet
# quarts.........several fourths-of-gallons
# quartz.........crystalline rock
# quay, see: cay
# queue, see: cue
# quince.........small, round fruit
# quints.........multiple quintuplets
# quire, see: choir
# quoin, see: coin
# rabbet.........a groove cut in a board
# rabbit.........small mammal
# rack...........shelf
# wrack..........wreckage
# racket.........illegal moneymaking scheme
# racquet........woven bat for tennis
# rain...........precipitation
# reign..........sovereign rule
# rein...........horse's steering wheel
# raise..........elevate
# rays...........thin beams of light
# raze...........to tear down completely
# ("raise" is the antonym of "raze")
# rap............a sharp knock
# wrap...........to encase in cloth
# rapped.........knocked sharply
# rapt...........spellbound
# wrapped........encased in cloth
# ray............arrow of light
# re.............musical note
# read...........having knowledge from reading
# red............a primary color
# read...........to get the meaning by looking
# rede...........advice
# reed...........tall, thin water plant
# reading........what you are doing now
# reeding........a small semicylindrical moulding or ornamentation
# reads..........gets the meaning by looking
# reeds..........more than one aquatic plant
# real...........authentic
# reel...........armature for winding, a type of group dance
# recede.........to move backward
# reseed.........to plant again
# reck...........to care
# wreck..........a ruin
# reek...........smells bad
# wreak..........to inflict
# resinate.......to impregnate with resin
# resonate.......sympathetic vibration
# resisters......protesters
# resistors......electrical restrictors
# rest...........stop working
# wrest..........take away
# retch..........call Ralph on the porcelain telephone
# wretch.........a ragamuffin
# review.........a general survey or assessment
# revue..........a series of theatrical sketches or songs
# rheum..........watery discharge of mucous
# room...........partitioned space
# rheumy.........having a watery discharge of mucous
# roomie.........colloquialism for "roommate"
# roomy..........lots of space
# rho............seventeenth letter of Greek alphabet
# roe............fish eggs
# row............aisle; pull an oar
# rhumb..........a constant compass direction
# rum............liquor distilled from sugar cane
# rhyme..........a verse with regular recurrence of sounds
# rime...........frost
# rigger.........one who rigs
# rigor..........discipline
# right..........correct
# rite...........ritual
# wright.........a maker
# write..........to inscribe
# ring...........circle
# wring..........twisting
# rise...........to stand up
# ryes...........varieties of grain
# road...........a broad trail
# rode...........past tense of ride
# rowed..........to propel a boat by oars
# roam...........to wander
# Rome...........capital of Italy
# roil...........to make turbid
# royal..........worthy of a king or queen
# role...........part to play
# roll...........rotate
# rood...........a cross
# rude...........coarse
# roomer.........a tenant
# rumor..........gossip
# root...........subterranean part of a plant
# route..........path of travel
# rose...........a brush or shrublike flower, a pink color
# rows...........linear arrangement
# rot............decay
# wrought........made
# rote...........by memory
# wrote..........past tense of write
# rough..........coarse
# ruff...........pleated collar
# rout...........to force out
# route..........path of travel
# roux...........cooked butter and flour
# rue............regret
# rude...........impolite
# rued...........regretted
# rye............grain
# wry............twisted
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