Oxymora from P to S

• Pacific Ocean
• paid volunteer
• painless torture
• paper tablecloth
• paperless office
• parents without partners
• partial conclusion
• partial silence
• partial success
• partially completed
• partially organized
• partly pregnant
• passive aggression
• passive challenge
• passive confrontation
• passively aggressive
• passively tried
• patriotic militia
• peace benefits
• peace force
• peace offensive
• peace officer
• peace-keeper missile
• peaceful liberation (According to China and its military occupation of Tibet 50 years ago in 1951).
• peaceful protests
• perfect idiot
• perfect misfit
• perfectly awful
• permanent guest host
• persistent ambivalence
• personal computer
• personalized form letter
• petty cash
• pianoforte
• pigeon's milk
• pious atheist
• planned exodus
• planned serendipity
• planned spontaneity
• plastic flowers
• plastic glass/glasses
• plastic silverware
• plastic wood
• player coach
• pleasant hell
• pleasing pain
• police protection
• politely insulting
• political ethics
• political leadership
• political promise
• political science
• political solutions
• political trust
• politically correct
• poor intelligence
• population control
• positive resistance
• positively negative
• postal efficiency
• postal service
• powdered water
• practical experience
• practical joke
• Practical Parenting, title of a journal for parents
• precision bombing
• preliminary conclusion
• premeditated spontaneity
• presidential promises
• pretty bad
• pretty ugly
• precision thinking
• prison life
• private citizen
• private e-mail
• pro-contra
• professional-sport wrestling
• progressing backward
• Progressive Conservative
• pronounced silence
• proud humility
• psychiatric care
• public secret
• public service
• public school education
• pure .999
• pure speculation

• qualified success
• quick fix
• quick reboot (computer)
• quiet hurricanes
• quiet revolution
• quiet scream
• quiet tirade

• Radical Center (a reference to the political stance of Bill Clinton & Tony Blair, according to Tony Blair)
• random logic
• random order
• randomly organized
• rap artist
• rap music
• rapid transit
• rational ravings
• real fantasy
• real magic
• real phony
• real polyester
• real potential
• reasonable attorney fees
• reasonable medical fees
• reasonable pharmaceutical costs
• Rebel Without a Cause, title of a movie
• recent history
• recoilless rifle
• reckless caution
• re-create
• recreational burning
• regional pantheists
• regular special
• relative truth
• religious tolerance
• remotely obvious
• renegade lawmakers
• required elective
• recent history
• resident alien
• resolute ambivalence
• restless sleep
• rich country, poor people (a reference to Japan)
• rising deficits
• roaring silence
• rock music
• rock opera
• rolling stop
• roomy airline-coach seats
• routine emergency
• routine surgery
• rules of war
• Russian economy

• sadly amused
• sad clown
• sad optimist
• safe and sane fireworks
• safe guns
• safe investment
• safe weapons
• safe sex
• safety hazard
• same difference
• sanitary landfill
• sanitary napkin
• sanitary sewer
• scalding coolness -Ernest Hemingway
• scheduled spontaneity
• school system
• school vacation
• science fiction
• scientific creationism
• scripted spontaneity (a reference by a National Public Radio reporter to the 1996 Republican Convention)
• sea farming
• second best
• secretarial science
• secret FBI files
• secret rumor
• security, on-line security
• sedate sex
• semi-boneless
• semiprecious
• semiprivate
• semiprofessional
• semiretired
• Senate Ethics Committee
• Senate Intelligence Committee
• serious clown
• serious fun
• serious humor
• shared monopoly
• short distance
• short survey
• short-tall tales
• shout in a whisper
• shyly pompous
• sight unseen
• silent alarm
• silent applause
• silent barber
• silent cacophony
• silent scream
• silent sound
• silent testimony
• simple computers
• simple procedure
• simple technology
• simply superb
• sincere lie
• single pair
• single thought
• singular relationship
• slight exaggeration
• slight hernia
• slightly pregnant
• slightly-used-dental floss
• slight surprise
• slow children (as seen on a street sign)
• slow-motion explosion
• slow speed
• small crowd
• small fortune
• smaller half
• smart bomb
• smart drugs
• smokeless cigarette
• snow-white tan (from David Bowie's “Ziggy Stardust”)
• soaring down
• social science
• social security
• socialist worker
• soft rock
• soft porn (pornography)
• solid rumor
• somewhat awesome
• somewhat destroyed
• somewhat functional
• somewhat legal
• sophisticated New Yorker
• sophomore (composed of “wise” and “fool”)
• sound-filled silence
• sound of silence
• spam, targeted
• speed bump
• speed limit
• spendthrift
• splendidly dull
• stable economic policies
• standard deviation
• stand down
• stealth bomber
• straight angle
• straight-forward subterfuge
• straight hook(s)
• strangely familiar
• strategic withdrawal
• student athlete “Until colleges are tested for the education they are providing their athletes, the term ‘student-athlete’ will remain the most tragic oxymoron in the American vocabulary.” Murray Sperber, a University of Indiana professor and author of College Sports, Inc.
• student teacher
• studious students
• subjective data
• subtle exaggeration
• sugarless candy
• summer school
• sun shade
• superette
• Super Information Highway
• sure bet
• sweet pain
• sweet pickle
• sweet sorrow -William Shakespeare
• sweet-sour
• sweet tart
• synthetic-natural gas
• systematic chaos
• systematic disorder
• systematic variance