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- plains indian — a member of any of the North American Indian peoples formerly living in the Great Plains of the US and Canada
- plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
- post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- postlapsarian — occurring or being after the Fall.
- pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- quartodeciman — one of a group of early Christians who observed Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover regardless of whether or not it was Sunday
- radhakrishnan — Sir Sarvepalli [suhr-vuh-puhl-ee] /ˌsʌr vəˈpʌl i/ (Show IPA), 1888–1975, president of India 1962–67.
- rahimyar khan — a city in E Pakistan.
- recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
- repeater loan — a loan lent to someone who has already borrowed
- rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- san sebastian — a seaport in N Spain: resort.
- sanitationman — a sanitation worker.
- sardanapalian — excessively luxurious or sensual.
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- seafaring man — a sailor
- senior airman — a noncommissioned officer ranking between a staff sergeant and airman first class. Abbreviation: SrA.
- shakespearean — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
- shakespearian — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
- shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
- south dakotan — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 77,047 sq. mi. (199,550 sq. km). Capital: Pierre. Abbreviation: SD (for use with zip code), S. Dak.
- squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
- squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
- stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
- standover man — a person who extorts money by intimidation
- status indian — a member of any of the numerous indigenous groups registered as Indians under the federal Indian Act, having special rights and privileges and usually living on a reservation.
- steinheim man — a human of the middle Pleistocene Epoch known from a skull found in Germany and considered to be archaic Homo sapiens.
- storage organ — any swollen plant part in which food is stored, as fruit, root, or tuber.
- strepsipteran — strepsipterous.
- sub-librarian — an assistant or junior librarian
- subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
- suburbicarian — being near the city of Rome.
- supersalesman — an extremely skillful and effective salesperson.
- swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
- tanjungpandan — a town on NW Billiton, in central Indonesia.
- technopolitan — of or relating to a place or society dominated by technology
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- the caribbean — the states and islands of the Caribbean Sea, including the West Indies, when considered as a geopolitical region
- the ediacaran — the Ediacaran period or rock system
- third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
- thysanopteran — Also, thysanopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Thysanoptera, comprising the thrips.
- tibeto-burman — a subfamily of Sino-Tibetan languages, including especially Tibetan and Burmese.
- tobaccanalian — a smoker