| P: | the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet is a nonvocal consonant whose form and value come from the Latin into which language the letter was brought through the ancient Greek from the Phd2nician its probable origin being Egyptian Etymologically P is most closely related to b f and v as hobble hopple father paternal recipient receive See B F and M |
| Pa: | A shortened form of Papa |
| Paage: | A toll for passage over another persons grounds |
| Paard: | The zebra |
| Paas: | Pace |
| Paas: | The Easter festival |
| Pablum: | A form of cereal for infants |
| pabular: | Of pertaining to or fit for pabulum or food affording food |
| Pabulous: | Affording pabulum or food alimental |
| pabulum: | The means of nutriment to animals or plants food nourishment |
| PAC: | A political action committee a committee formed by an organization or specialinterest group to raise money to support candidates for office or to influence legislation A PAC provides a legal means for corporations in the U S to support political candidates even when direct contributions from corporations to candidates is forbidden by law In theory the corporation may not itself contribute to a PAC but may pay the expenses of raising money from individuals PACs may also be formed by organizations other than commercial corporations such as trade associations |
| Pac: | A kind of moccasin having the edges of the sole turned up and sewed to the upper |
| paca: | A large burrowing South American rodent Agouti paca syn Cuniculus paca formerly Cd2logenys paca having blackish brown fur with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides the spotted cavy It is closely allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig and is highly esteemed as food |
| Pacable: | Placable |
| Pacane: | A species of hickory See Pecan |
| pacate: | Appeased pacified placated tranquil |
| pacated: | Pacified pacate placated |
| Pacation: | The act of pacifying a peacemaking |
| pace: | A single movement from one foot to the other in walking a step |
| Pace: | To go to walk specifically to move with regular or measured steps |
| Pace: | To walk over with measured tread to move slowly over or upon as the guard paces his round |
| Paced: | Having or trained in such a pace or gait trained used in composition as slowpaced a thoroughpaced villain |
| pacemaker: | a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat |
| pacer: | One who or that which paces |
| pacesetter: | A horse used to set the pace in racing |
| Pacha: | A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt same as Pasha |
| Pachacamac: | A divinity worshiped by the ancient Peruvians as the creator of the universe |
| Pachak: | The fragrant roots of the Saussurea Costus exported from India to China and used for burning as incense It is supposed to be the costus of the ancients |
| Pachalic: | See Pashalic |
| pachinko: | A popular Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board |
| Pachisi: | A game somewhat resembling backgammon originating in India |
| pachometer: | An instrument for measuring thickness as of the glass of a mirror or of paper a pachymeter |
| pachonta: | A substance resembling guttapercha and used to adulterate it obtained from the East Indian tree Isonandra acuminata |
| pachouli: | A small East Indian shrubby mint Pogostemon cablin a fragrant oil from its leaves is used in perfumes |
| pachucatank: | A high and narrow tank with a central cylinder for the introduction of compressed air used in the agitation and settling of pulp pulverized ore and water during treatment by the cyanide process so named because though originally devised in New Zealand it was first practically introduced in Pachuca Mexico |
| Pachy: | A combining form meaning thick as pachyderm pachydactyl |
| Pachycarpous: | Having the pericarp thick |
| Pachycephala: | A genus of arborial insectivorous birds |
| Pachydactyl: | A bird or other animal having thick toes |
| Pachydactylous: | Having thick toes |
| pachyderm: | Any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin including the elephant rhinoceros and hippopotamus one of the Pachydermata |
| pachyderma: | An abnormal thickening of the skin usually unilateral on an extremity caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruction |
| pachydermal: | Of or relating to the pachyderms as pachydermal dentition |
| Pachydermata: | A group of hoofed mammals distinguished for the thickness of their skins including the elephant hippopotamus rhinoceros tapir horse and hog the pachyderms It is now considered an artificial group |
| pachydermatosis: | Same as pachyderma |
| Pachydermatous: | Of or pertaining to the pachyderms |
| pachydermia: | Same as pachyderma |
| Pachydermoid: | Related to the pachyderms |
| Pachyglossal: | Having a thick tongue applied to a group of lizards Pachygloss including the iguanas and agamas |
| pachyglossia: | The condition of having an enlarged thick tongue |
| Pachymeningitis: | Inflammation of the dura mater or outer membrane of the brain |
| Pachymeter: | Same as Pachometer |
| Pachyote: | One of a family of bats including those which have thick external ears |
| Pachyrhizus: | A small genus of tropical vines having tuberous roots |
| pachysandra: | Any plant of the genus Pachysandra they are lowgrowing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover |
| pachytene: | The third stage of the prophase of meiosis the stage in which the pairing of homologous chromosomes has been completed |
| pacifiable: | Capable of being pacified or appeased placable |
| pacific: | Of or pertaining to peace of a peaceful character not warlike not quarrelsome as a pacific nature or condition |
| Pacific: | The Pacific Ocean the largest ocean |
| pacificable: | Placable |
| pacifical: | Of or pertaining to peace pacific |
| Pacification: | The act or process of pacifying or of making peace between parties at variance reconciliation |
| Pacificator: | One who or that which pacifies a peacemaker |
| Pacificatory: | Tending to make peace conciliatory |
| pacificist: | A pacifist |
| Pacifico: | A peaceful person applied specif by the Spaniards to the natives in Cuba and the Philippine Islands who did not oppose the Spanish arms |
| Pacifier: | One who or that which pacifies |
| pacifism: | the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable |
| pacifist: | A person opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes |
| pacifist: | Adhering to pacifism opposed to war of people |
| Pacify: | To make to be at peace to appease to calm to still to quiet to allay the agitation excitement or resentment of to tranquillize as to pacify a man when angry to pacify pride appetite or importunity |
| pacifying: | freeing from fear and anxiety |
| pacing: | the speed at which a composition is to be played |
| Pacinian: | Of pertaining to or discovered by Filippo Pacini 18121883 an Italian physician of the 19th century |
| Pack: | A pact |
| Pack: | To make a pack of to arrange closely and securely in a pack hence to place and arrange compactly as in a pack to press into close order or narrow compass as to pack goods in a box to pack fish |
| Pack: | To make up packs bales or bundles to stow articles securely for transportation |
| Package: | Act or process of packing |
| packaged: | Enclosed in a package2 or protective covering as packaged cereals |
| packed: | Same as jammed |
| packer: | A person whose business is to pack things especially one who packs food for preservation or for the market as a pork packer |
| Packera: | A genus of American or East Asian perennial herbs with yellow to orange or red flower rays it is sometimes included in genus Senecio |
| Packet: | To make up into a packet or bundle |
| Packet: | To ply with a packet or dispatch boat |
| Packfong: | A Chinese alloy of nickel zinc and copper resembling German silver |
| Packhorse: | See under 2d Pack |
| Packhouse: | Warehouse for storing goods |
| Packing: | The act or process of one who packs |
| packinghouse: | A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed as they came from an apple packinghouse |
| Packman: | One who bears a pack a peddler |
| packrat: | Any of several bushytailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America especially Neotoma cinerea which hoard food and other objects in their nests |
| packsaddle: | A saddle to which loads can be attached |
| Packsaddle: | See under 2d Pack |
| packthread: | A strong threeply thread or small twine used to sew or tie packs or packages |
| Packwax: | Same as Paxwax |
| Packway: | A path as over mountains followed by pack animals |
| Paco: | Same as Alpaca |
| pact: | An agreement a league a compact a covenant |
| Paction: | An agreement a compact a bargain |
| Pactional: | Of the nature of or by means of a paction |
| Pactitious: | Setted by a pact or agreement |
| Pactolian: | Pertaining to the Pactolus a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands |
| Pacu: | A South American freshwater fish Myletes pacu of the family Characinid It is highly esteemed as food |
| pad: | A footpath a road |
| Pad: | To travel upon foot to tread |
| Pad: | To travel heavily or slowly |
| Pad: | A soft or small cushion a mass of anything soft stuffing |
| Pad: | To stuff to furnish with a pad or padding |
| Padar: | Groats coarse flour or meal |
| padded: | Same as cushioned 1 |
| Padder: | One who or that which pads |
| Padding: | The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing |
| Paddle: | To use the hands or fingers in toying to make caressing strokes |
| Paddle: | To pat or stroke amorously or gently |
| Paddle: | An implement with a broad blade which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats |
| paddlebox: | a wooden covering for the upper part of the paddle wheel of a steam vessel |
| Paddlecock: | The lumpfish |
| Paddlefish: | A large ganoid fish Polyodon spathula found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley It has a long spatulashaped snout Called also duckbilled cat and spoonbill sturgeon |
| Paddler: | One who or that which paddles |
| Paddlewood: | The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks |
| Paddock: | A toad or frog |
| Paddy: | Low mean boorish vagabond |
| Paddy: | A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman usually considered offensive |
| Paddy: | Unhusked rice commonly so called in the East Indies |
| paddymelon: | Any of several small reddishbrown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea especially those belonging to the genus Thylogale |
| paddywagon: | An enclosed truck used by police to transport prisoners |
| Padelephant: | An elephant that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of with a howdah for carrying passengers |
| Padelion: | A plant with pedately lobed leaves the ladys mantle |
| Padella: | A large cup or deep saucer containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed used for public illuminations as at St Peters in Rome Called also padelle |
| pademelon: | Any of several small reddishbrown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea especially those belonging to the genus Thylogale a paddymelon See Wallaby |
| Padesoy: | See Paduasoy |
| Padge: | The barn owl called also pudge and pudge owl |
| Padishah: | Chief ruler monarch sovereign a title of the Sultan of Turkey and of the Shah of Persia |
| Padlock: | A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened the other end being fastened by the bolt used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain etc |
| Padlock: | To fasten with or as with a padlock to stop to shut to confine as by a padlock |
| Padnag: | An ambling nag |
| Padow: | A paddock or toad |
| Padre: | A Christian priest or monk used as a term of address for priests in some churches especially Roman or Orthodox Catholic in Italy Spain Portugal and Spanish America also used in the American military |
| Padrone: | A patron a protector |
| Paduasoy: | A rich and heavy silk stuff |
| Paducahs: | See Comanches |
| Pan: | An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity and later a song addressed to other deities |
| Pdobaptism: | Pedobaptism |
| pdogenesis: | Reproduction by young or larval animals |
| pdogenetic: | Producing young while in the immature or larval state said of certain insects etc |
| pon: | A foot of four syllables one long and three short admitting of four combinations according to the place of the long syllable |
| Paeoniaceae: | A natural family of perennial rhizomatous herbs and shrubs native to temperate Europe and North America |
| ponine: | An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff called also red coralline |
| paeony: | Any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers the Peony |
| Pagan: | One who worships false gods an idolater a heathen one who is neither a Christian a Mohammedan nor a Jew |
| Pagan: | Of or pertaining to pagans relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods heathen idolatrous as pagan tribes or superstitions |
| Pagandom: | The pagan lands pagans collectively paganism |
| Paganic: | Of or pertaining to pagans or paganism heathenish paganish |
| Paganish: | Of or pertaining to pagans heathenish |
| Paganism: | The state of being pagan pagan characteristics esp the worship of idols or false gods or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans heathenism |
| Paganity: | The state of being a pagan paganism |
| Paganize: | To render pagan or heathenish to convert to paganism |
| Paganize: | To behave like pagans |
| Paganly: | In a pagan manner |
| Page: | A serving boy formerly a youth attending a person of high degree especially at courts as a position of honor and education now commonly in England a youth employed for doing errands waiting on the door and similar service in households in the United States a boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body Prior to 1960 only boys served as pages in the United States Congress |
| page: | To attend one as a page |
| Page: | To mark or number the pages of as a book or manuscript to furnish with folios |
| Pageant: | Of the nature of a pageant spectacular |
| Pageant: | To exhibit in show to represent to mimic |
| Pageantry: | Scenic shows or spectacles taken collectively spectacular quality splendor |
| pageboy: | A type of hairdo |
| Pagehood: | The state of being a page |
| pager: | A small electronic communication device which signals when a telephone call has been received at a base station Each such device receives radio signals from the base station specifically coded for the individual to whom it is registered the signal given by the device to the registered user may be a beeping sound indicating that the user should call the base station to receive a message or it may display a telephone number to which the user may call directly to return the incoming call or may display a short message Such devices are small enough to carry in the pocket or pocketbook or to clip onto a belt or other part of the clothing Also called beeper |
| Pagina: | The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus |
| Paginal: | Consisting of pages |
| paginate: | To number the pages of a book or manuscript |
| Pagination: | The act or process of paging a book also the characters used in numbering the pages page number |
| Paging: | The marking or numbering of the pages of a book |
| Pagod: | A pagoda |
| Pagoda: | A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and towerlike buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India Farther India China and Japan usually but not always devoted to idol worship |
| Pagodasleeve: | A funnelshaped sleeve arranged to show the sleeve lining and an inner sleeve |
| Pagodite: | Agalmatolite so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas See Agalmatolite |
| Paguma: | Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma They resemble a weasel in form |
| Pagurian: | Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans of which Pagurus is a type the hermit crab See Hermit crab under Hermit |
| Pagurus: | The type genus of the crustacean family Paguridae |
| Pah: | An exclamation expressing disgust or contempt See Bah |
| Pah: | A kind of stockaded intrenchment |
| pahautea: | An evergreen tree Libocedrus bidwillii of New Zealand resembling the kawaka |
| Pahi: | A large war canoe of the Society Islands |
| Pahlavi: | The language of Sassanian Persia See Pehlevi |
| Pahoehoe: | A name given in Hawaii formerly the Sandwich Islands to lava having a relatively smooth or billowing surface in distinction from the roughsurfaced lava called aa |
| PahUtes: | See Utes |
| Paid: | Receiving pay compensated hired as a paid attorney |
| paideutics: | The science or art of teaching |
| Paien: | Pagan |
| Paigle: | A species of Primula either the cowslip or the primrose |
| Paijama: | Pyjama |
| Pail: | A vessel of wood or tin etc usually cylindrical and having a bail used esp for carrying liquids as water or milk etc a bucket It may or may not have a cover |
| Pailful: | The quantity that a pail will hold |
| Paillasse: | An under bed or mattress of straw |
| Paillon: | A thin leaf of metal as for use in gilding or enameling or to show through a translucent medium |
| Pailmall: | See Pallmall |
| pain: | Punishment suffered or denounced suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime or connected with the commission of a crime penalty |
| Pain: | To inflict suffering upon as a penalty to punish |
| Painable: | Causing pain painful |
| pained: | Made to suffer mental pain |
| Painful: | Full of pain causing uneasiness or distress either physical or mental afflictive disquieting distressing |
| painfulness: | Emotional distress a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid |
| Painim: | A pagan an infidel used also adjectively |
| painkiller: | A medicine used in to relieve pain |
| Painless: | Free from pain without pain |
| Pains: | Labor toilsome effort care or trouble taken plural in form but used with a singular or plural verb commonly the former |
| Painstaker: | One who takes pains one careful and faithful in all work |
| Painstaking: | Careful in doing diligent faithful attentive |
| Painstaking: | The act of taking pains carefulness and fidelity in performance |
| Painsworthy: | Worth the pains or care bestowed |
| Paint: | To cover with coloring matter to apply paint to as to paint a house a signboard etc |
| Paint: | To practice the art of painting as the artist paints well |
| Paint: | A pigment or coloring substance |
| paintable: | Lending itself to being painted as a highly paintable landscape made of sturdy eminently paintable wood Opposite of unpaintable |
| paintbox: | A box containing a collection of cubes or tubes of artists paint |
| paintbrush: | A brush used to apply paint |
| Painted: | Covered or adorned with paint portrayed in colors |
| paintedwolf: | Same as African wild dog |
| Painter: | A rope at the bow of a boat used to fasten it to anything |
| Painter: | The panther or puma |
| Painter: | One whose occupation is to paint |
| Painterly: | Like a painters work |
| Paintership: | The state or position of being a painter |
| Painting: | The act or employment of laying on or adorning with paints or colors |
| Paintless: | Not capable of being painted or described |
| Painture: | The art of painting |
| Painty: | Unskillfully painted so that the painters method of work is too obvious also having too much pigment applied to the surface |
| Pair: | To be joined in pairs to couple to mate as for breeding |
| Pair: | To unite in couples to form a pair of to bring together as things which belong together or which complement or are adapted to one another |
| Pair: | To impair |
| paired: | Organized into compatible pairs used of gloves socks etc See pair1 v t |
| Pairer: | One who impairs |
| Pairing: | The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples |
| Pairment: | Impairment |
| Pairproduction: | The simultaneous creation of a particle and its antiparticle such as an electron and positron from a photon usually due to its interaction with the strong field near a nucleus |
| Pais: | The country the people of the neighborhood |
| Paisano: | The chaparral cock the roadrunner |
| Paise: | See Poise |
| Pajamas: | Originally in India loose drawers or trousers such as those worn tied about the waist by Mohammedan men and women by extension a similar garment adopted among Europeans Americans etc for wear in the dressing room and during sleep also a suit consisting of drawers and a loose upper garment for such wear |
| Pajock: | A peacock |
| pakchoi: | An Asiatic plant Brassica rapa chinensis grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves |
| Pakfong: | See Packfong |
| Pakistan: | A country in South Asia formerly part of British India |
| Pakistani: | Of or relating to Pakistan or its people or language as Pakistani mountain passes |
| Pakistani: | A native or inhabitant of Pakistan |
| Pal: | A mate a partner esp an accomplice or confederate |
| Palacious: | Palatial |
| Paladin: | A knighterrant a distinguished champion as the paladins of Charlemagne |
| palaeo: | See Paleo |
| Palographer: | See Paleographer Paleographic etc |
| palaeolithic: | Same as paleolithic |
| palaeology: | The study of especially prehistoric antiquities |
| palaeontologist: | A specialist in paleontology |
| palaeontology: | The branch of archeology that studies fossil organisms and related remains |
| palaeopathology: | The study of diseases of former times as inferred from fossil evidence |
| palaeornithology: | The paleobiology of birds |
| Palotype: | A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use |
| palaeozoology: | The study of fossil animals |
| Palstra: | See Palestra |
| Palstric: | See Palestric |
| Paltiologist: | One versed in paltiology |
| palaetiology: | The science which explains by the law of causation the past condition and changes of the earth the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes such as geological causes |
| Palama: | A membrane extending between the toes of a bird and uniting them more or less closely together |
| Palamate: | Webfooted |
| Palamede: | An order or suborder including the kamichi and allied South American birds called also screamers In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres but they externally resemble the wading birds |
| Palampore: | See Palempore |
| Palanka: | A camp permanently intrenched attached to Turkish frontier fortresses |
| Palanquin: | An inclosed carriage or litter commonly about eight feet long four feet wide and four feet high borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles used in India China etc for the conveyance of a single person from place to place |
| Palapteryx: | A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New Zealand |
| Palatability: | Palatableness |
| Palatable: | Agreeable to the palate or taste savory hence acceptable pleasing as palatable food palatable advice Opposite of unpalatable |
| Palatableness: | The quality or state of being agreeable to the taste relish acceptableness |
| Palatably: | In a palatable manner |
| Palatal: | Of or pertaining to the palate palatine as the palatal bones |
| Palatal: | A sound uttered or a letter pronounced by the aid of the palate as the letters k and y |
| palatalise: | Same as palatalize |
| Palatalize: | To modify as the tones of the voice by means of the palate |
| palatalized: | Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate as y or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate as ch in chin or j in gin |
| Palate: | The roof of the mouth |
| Palate: | To perceive by the taste |
| Palatial: | Of or pertaining to a palace suitable for a palace resembling a palace royal magnificent as palatial structures |
| Palatial: | Palatal palatine |
| Palatial: | A palatal letter |
| Palatic: | Palatal palatine |
| Palatic: | A palatal |
| palatinate: | The province or seigniory of a palatine the dignity of a palatine |
| Palatinate: | Either of two regions in Germany formerly divisions of the Holy Roman Empire the Lower Palatinate or Rhine Palatinate is now within the RhinelandPalatinate the Upper Palatinate is now within Bavaria It is usually referred to as the Palatinate |
| Palatinate: | To make a palatinate of |
| palatine: | Of or pertaining to a palace or to a high officer of a palace |
| Palatine: | One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains a count palatine See Count palatine under 4th Count |
| palatine: | Of or pertaining to the palate palatal |
| Palatine: | A palatine bone |
| PalatineHill: | One of the seven hills of Rome situated southeast of the Capitoline and northnortheast of the Aventine It borders on the Roman Forum is the traditional seat of the city founded by Romulus was the seat of private and later of imperial residences and contains many antiquities |
| Palative: | Pleasing to the taste palatable |
| Palatize: | To modify as the tones of the voice by means of the palate to palatalize as to palatize a letter or sound |
| Palato: | A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to the palate or connection with the palate as in palatolingual |
| Palatonares: | The posterior nares See Nares |
| Palatopterygoid: | Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull as the palatopterygoid cartilage or rod from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed |
| Palaver: | To make palaver with or to to used palaver to talk idly or deceitfully to employ flattery to cajole as to palaver artfully |
| Palaverer: | One who palavers a flatterer |
| Pale: | Paleness pallor |
| Pale: | To turn pale to lose color or luster |
| Pale: | To make pale to diminish the brightness of |
| Pale: | A pointed stake or slat either driven into the ground or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom for fencing or inclosing a picket |
| Pale: | To inclose with pales or as with pales to encircle to encompass to fence off |
| Paleaceous: | Chaffy resembling or consisting of pale or chaff furnished with chaff as a paleaceous receptacle |
| Palearctic: | Belonging to a region of the earths surface which includes all Europe to the Azores Iceland and all temperate Asia |
| Paled: | Striped |
| Palechinoidea: | An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates Called also Palechini |
| paleencephalon: | The more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically it includes most structures other than the cerebral cortex |
| Paleface: | A white person an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians |
| Paleichthyes: | A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids |
| Palely: | In a pale manner dimly wanly not freshly or ruddily |
| Palempore: | A superior kind of dimity made in India used for bed coverings |
| Paleness: | The quality or condition of being pale want of freshness or ruddiness a sickly whiteness lack of color or luster wanness |
| Palenque: | A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras |
| Paleo: | A combining form meaning old ancient as palearctic paleontology paleothere paleography |
| Paleobotanist: | One versed in paleobotany |
| Paleobotany: | That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants |
| Paleocarida: | Same as Merostomata |
| Paleocrinoidea: | A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks |
| Paleocrystic: | Of pertaining to or derived from a former glacial formation |
| Paleogan: | Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere |
| paleogeography: | The study of the geography of ancient times or ancient epochs |
| paleogeology: | The study of geologic features once at the surface of the earth but now buried beneath rocks |
| Paleograph: | An ancient manuscript |
| Paleographer: | One skilled in paleography a paleographist |
| Paleographic: | Of or pertaining to paleography |
| Paleographist: | One versed in paleography a paleographer |
| Paleography: | An ancient manner of writing ancient writings collectively as Punic paleography |
| Paleola: | A diminutive or secondary palea a lodicule |
| Paleolith: | A relic of the Paleolithic era |
| Paleolithic: | Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements The Paleolithic era as proposed by Lubbock includes the earlier half of the bdStone Ageb8 the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals with relics of human beings |
| Paleologist: | One versed in paleology a student of antiquity |
| Paleology: | The study or knowledge of antiquities esp of prehistoric antiquities a discourse or treatise on antiquities archology |
| Paleontographical: | Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains |
| Paleontography: | The description of fossil remains |
| Paleontological: | Of or pertaining to paleontology |
| Paleontologist: | One versed in paleontology |
| Paleontology: | The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth or of fossils which are the remains of such life |
| Paleophytologist: | A paleobotanist |
| Paleophytology: | Paleobotany |
| Paleornithology: | The branch of paleontology which treats of fossil birds |
| Paleosaurus: | A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation |
| Paleotechnic: | Belonging to or connected with ancient art |
| Paleothere: | Any species of Paleotherium |
| Paleotherian: | Of or pertaining to Paleotherium |
| Paleotherium: | An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form but now known to have had a more slender form with a long neck like that of a llama |
| Paleotheroid: | Resembling Paleotherium |
| Paleotype: | See Palotype |
| Paleous: | Chaffy like chaff paleaceous |
| Paleozoic: | Of or pertaining to or designating the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed including the Silurian Devonian and Carboniferous ages and also to the life or rocks of those ages See Chart of Geology |
| Paleozoic: | The Paleozoic time or strata |
| Paleozoogy: | The science of extinct animals a branch of paleontology |
| Palesie: | Palsy |
| Palestinian: | Of or pertaining to Palestine |
| Palestra: | A wrestling school hence a gymnasium or place for athletic exercise in general |
| Palestrian: | Of or pertaining to the palestra or to wrestling |
| Palet: | Same as Palea |
| Paletot: | An overcoat |
| Palewise: | In the manner of a pale or pales by perpendicular lines or divisions as to divide an escutcheon palewise |
| Palfreyed: | Mounted on a palfrey |
| Palgrave: | See Palsgrave |
| Pali: | pl of Palus |
| Pali: | A dialect descended from Sanskrit and like that a dead language except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India etc |
| Palification: | The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm |
| Paliform: | Resembling a palus as the paliform lobes of the septa in corals |
| Palilogy: | The repetition of a word or part of a sentence for the sake of greater emphasis as bdThe living the living he shall praise theeb8 |
| palimony: | a form of alimony paid to a former partner in a romantic relationship after a period of living together even though the two persons involved were not married to each other The absence of a formal marriage distinguishes it from alimony |
| palimpsest: | A parchment which has been written upon twice the first writing having been erased to make place for the second The erasures of ancient writings were usually carried on in monasteries to allow the production of ecclesiastical texts such as copies of church services and lives of the saints The difficulty of recovering the original text varied with the process used to prepare the parchment for a fresh writing the original texts on parchments which had been washed with limewater and dried were easily recovered by a chemical process but those erased by scraping the parchment and bleaching are difficult to interpret Most of the manuscripts underlying the palimpsests that have been revived are fragmentary but some are of great historical value One Syriac version of the Four Gospels was discovered in 1895 in St Catherines Monastery at Mount Sinai by Mrs Agnes Smith Lewis See also the notes below |
| Palindrome: | A word verse or sentence that is the same when read backward or forward as madam Hannah or Lewd did I live evil I did dwel |
| Palindromic: | Of pertaining to or like a palindrome |
| Palindromist: | A writer of palindromes |
| Paling: | Pales in general a fence formed with pales or pickets a limit an inclosure |
| Palingenesia: | See Palingenesis |
| Palingenetic: | Of or pertaining to palingenesis as a palingenetic process |
| Palinode: | An ode recanting or retracting a former one also a repetition of an ode |
| Palinodial: | Of or pertaining to a palinode or retraction |
| Palinody: | See Palinode |
| Palinurus: | An instrument for obtaining directly without calculation the true bearing of the sun and thence the variation of the compass |
| Palisade: | A strong long stake one end of which is set firmly in the ground and the other is sharpened also a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense |
| Palisade: | To surround inclose or fortify with palisades |
| Palisading: | A row of palisades set in the ground |
| Palisado: | A palisade1 |
| Palisado: | To palisade |
| Palish: | Somewhat pale or wan |
| Palissander: | Violet wood |
| Palissy: | Designating or of the nature of a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy in France in the 16th centry |
| Palkee: | A palanquin |
| Pall: | Same as Pawl |
| Pall: | An outer garment a cloak mantle |
| Pall: | To cloak |
| Pall: | To become vapid tasteless dull or insipid to lose strength life spirit or taste as the liquor palls |
| Pall: | To make vapid or insipid to make lifeless or spiritless to dull to weaken |
| Pall: | Nausea |
| Palla: | An oblong rectangular piece of cloth worn by Roman ladies and fastened with brooches |
| Palladian: | Of pertaining to or designating a variety of the revived classic style of architecture founded on the works of Andrea Palladio an Italian architect of the 16th century as a Palladian window |
| Palladian: | Of or pertaining to the Greek goddess Athena also called Pallas |
| Palladian: | A follower of the architectural style of Andrea Palladio |
| Palladic: | Of pertaining to or derived from palladium used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with palladious compounds |
| Palladious: | Of pertaining to or containing palladium used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds |
| Palladium: | A rare metallic element of the light platinum group found native and also alloyed with platinum and gold It is a silverwhite metal resembling platinum and like it permanent and untarnished in the air but is more easily fusible with a melting point of 1555Pd2H It is used for graduated circles and verniers for plating certain silver goods and somewhat in dentistry It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas which was discovered in 1802 Symbol Pd Atomic number 46 Atomic weight 10642 Density 120 |
| palladiumize: | To cover or coat with palladium |
| pallah: | A large South African antelope 92pyceros melampus The male has long lyrate and annulated horns The general color is bay with a black crescent on the croup Called also roodebok |
| Pallas: | Pallas Athena the Grecian goddess of wisdom called also Athena Pallas Athene or Athene and identified at a later period with the Roman Minerva |
| pallbearer: | One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral so called from the pall being formerly carried by them |
| pallet: | A small and mean bed a bed of straw |
| Pallet: | A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon one half the breadth of the pale |
| Pallet: | Same as Palette |
| Pallial: | Of or pertaining to a mantle especially to the mantle of mollusks produced by the mantle as the pallial line or impression which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell See Illust of Bivalve |
| Palliament: | A dress a robe |
| Palliasse: | See Paillasse |
| Palliate: | Covered with a mantle cloaked hidden disguised |
| Palliate: | To cover with a mantle or cloak to cover up to hide |
| Palliation: | The act of palliating or state of being palliated extenuation excuse as the palliation of faults offenses vices |
| Palliative: | Serving to palliate serving to extenuate mitigate or alleviate |
| Palliative: | That which palliates a palliative agent |
| Palliatory: | Palliative extenuating |
| Pallid: | Deficient in color pale wan as a pallid countenance pallid blue |
| Pallidity: | Pallidness paleness |
| Pallidly: | In a pallid manner |
| Pallidness: | The quality or state of being pallid paleness pallor wanness |
| Palliobranchiata: | Same as Brachiopoda |
| Palliobranchiate: | Having the pallium or mantle acting as a gill as in brachiopods |
| Pallium: | A large square woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans It is the Roman name of a Greek garment |
| Pallmall: | A game formerly common in England in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron The name was also given to the mallet used to the place where the game was played and to the street in London still called Pall Mall |
| Pallone: | An Italian game played with a large leather ball |
| pallor: | Paleness want of color pallidity as pallor of the complexion |
| pally: | Having the relationship of friends or pals used colloquially |
| palm: | The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist |
| Palm: | To handle |
| Palmaceae: | A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves coextensive with the order Palmales |
| Palmaceous: | Of or pertaining to palms of the nature of or resembling palms |
| PalmaChristi: | A plant Ricinus communis with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage growing as a woody perennial in the tropics and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions called also castoroil plant |
| Palmacite: | A fossil palm |
| Palmae: | A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs same as Palmaceae coextensive with the order Palmales |
| Palmales: | A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs coextensive with the family Palmae the palms |
| Palmar: | Pertaining to or corresponding with the palm of the hand |
| Palmarium: | One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid |
| Palmary: | Palmar |
| Palmary: | Worthy of the palm palmy pre89minent superior principal chief as palmary work |
| Palmate: | A salt of palmic acid a ricinoleate |
| Palmately: | In a palmate manner |
| Palmatifid: | Palmate with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center |
| Palmatilobed: | Palmate with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center |
| Palmatisect: | Divided as a palmate leaf down to the midrib so that the parenchyma is interrupted |
| Palmcrist: | The palma Christi Jonah iv 6 margin and Douay version note |
| Palmed: | Having or bearing a palm or palms |
| Palmer: | One who palms or cheats as at cards or dice |
| Palmer: | A wandering religious votary especially one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places |
| Palmerworm: | Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers devouring herbage and wandering about like a palmer The name is applied also to other voracious insects |
| Palmette: | A floral ornament common in Greek and other ancient architecture often called the honeysuckle ornament |
| Palmetto: | A name given to palms of several genera and species growing in the West Indies and the Southern United States In the United States the name is applied especially to the Chamrops Palmetto or Sabal Palmetto the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas See Cabbage tree under Cabbage |
| Palmettoflag: | Any of several flags adopted by South Carolina after its secession That adopted in November 1860 had a green cabbage palmetto in the center of a white field the final one January 1861 had a white palmetto in the center of a blue field and a white crescent in the upper lefthand corner |
| PalmettoState: | South Carolina a nickname alluding to the State Arms which contain a representation of a palmetto tree |
| Palmic: | Of pertaining to or derived from the castoroil plant Ricinus communis or Palma Christi and other species of the family Euphorbiaceae formerly used to designate an acid now called ricinoleic acid d12hydroxyoleic acid C18H34O3 |
| Palmidactyles: | A group of wading birds having the toes webbed as the avocet |
| Palmiferous: | Bearing palms |
| Palmigrade: | Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking as some mammals |
| Palmin: | A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil |
| Palmiped: | Webfooted as a water fowl |
| Palmipedes: | Same as Natatores |
| Palmister: | One who practices palmistry |
| Palmistry: | The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes or of judging of character by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand chiromancy |
| Palmitate: | A salt of palmitic acid |
| Palmite: | A South African plant Prionium Palmita of the Rush family having long serrated leaves The stems have been used for making brushes |
| Palmitic: | Pertaining to or obtained from palmitin or palm oil as palmitic acid C16H32O2 a white crystalline substance belonging to the fatty acid series It is readily soluble in hot alcohol and melts to a liquid oil at 62deg C |
| Palmitin: | A solid crystallizable fat found abundantly in animals and in vegetables It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues with olein and butyrin in butter with olein in olive oil etc Chemically it is a glyceride of palmitic acid three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl and hence it is technically called tripalmitin or glyceryl tripalmitate |
| Palmitolic: | Pertaining to or designating an artificial acid of the oleic acid series isomeric with linoleic acid |
| Palmitone: | The ketone of palmitic acid |
| PalmSunday: | The Sunday next before Easter so called in commemoration of the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way The event is commemorated in Christian churches by distribution of blessed palm leaves |
| Palmy: | Bearing palms abounding in palms derived from palms as a palmy shore |
| Palmyra: | A species of palm Borassus flabelliformis having a straight black upright trunk with palmate leaves It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers Its wood is largely used for building purposes its fruit and roots serve for food its sap for making toddy and its leaves for thatching huts |
| Palo: | A pole or timber of any kind in the names of trees |
| Paloblanco: | A western American hackberry Celtis reticulata having lightcolored bark |
| Palolo: | A polystome worm Palolo viridis that burrows in the coral reefs of certain of the Pacific Islands A little before the last quarter of the moon in October and November they swarm in vast numbers at the surface of the sea for breeding and are gathered and highly esteemed as food by the natives An allied species inhabits the tropical Atlantic and swarms in June or July |
| Palometa: | A type of pompano Palometa simillima that is smaller than the Florida pompano it is common in West Indies Called also the California pompano |
| palomino: | A horse of light tan or golden color with cream or white mane and tail and often having white markings on the legs and face |
| Palp: | Same as Palpus |
| Palp: | To have a distinct touch or feeling of to feel |
| Palpability: | The quality of being palpable or perceptible by the touch |
| Palpable: | Capable of being touched and felt perceptible by the touch as a palpable form |
| palpate: | To examine for medical purposes by touching as of body parts as the nurse palpated the patients stomach |
| Palpation: | Act of touching or feeling |
| Palpator: | One of a family of clavicorn beetles including those which have very long maxillary palpi |
| Palpebra: | The eyelid |
| Palpebral: | Of or pertaining to the eyelids |
| Palpebrate: | Having eyelids |
| Palped: | Having a palpus |
| Palpi: | pl of Palpus Zo94l See Palpus |
| Palpicorn: | One of a group of aquatic beetles Palpicornia having short clubshaped antenn and long maxillary palpi |
| Palpifer: | Same as Palpiger |
| Palpiform: | Having the form of a palpus |
| Palpiger: | That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects |
| Palpigerous: | Bearing a palpus |
| Palpitant: | Palpitating throbbing trembling |
| Palpitate: | To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual to throb to bound with emotion or exertion to pulsate violently to flutter said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal as from excitement |
| palpitating: | Beating irregularly of the heart |
| Palpitation: | A rapid pulsation a throbbing esp an abnormal rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion strong emotion or by disease |
| Palpless: | Without a palpus |
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