| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| pabulation | noun | The act of feeding, or providing food., Food; fodder; pabulum. |
| pachacamac | noun | A divinity worshiped by the ancient Peruvians as the creator of the universe. |
| pachometer | noun | An instrument for measuring thickness, as of the glass of a mirror, or of paper; a pachymeter. |
| pachymeter | noun | Same as Pachometer. |
| pacifiable | adjective | Capable of being pacified or appeased; placable. |
| pack herse | See under 2d Pack. | |
| pactitious | adjective | Setted by a pact, or agreement. |
| paddlecock | noun | The lumpfish. |
| paddlefish | noun | A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon. |
| paddlewood | noun | The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks. |
| padlocking | present participle & vb. noun | of Padlock |
| paganizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Paganize |
| pagination | noun | The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in numbering the pages; page number. |
| paideutics | noun | The science or art of teaching. |
| painstaker | noun | One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. |
| palaeotype | noun | A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use. |
| palaestric | adjective | See Palestric. |
| palamedeae | noun pl. | 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. |
| palapteryx | noun | A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New Zealand. |
| palatalize | verb t. | To palatize. |
| palatinate | noun | The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine., To make a palatinate of. |
| palavering | present participle & vb. noun | of Palaver |
| paleaceous | adjective | Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle. |
| palearctic | adjective | Belonging to a region of the earth’s surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia. |
| paleogaean | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere. |
| paleograph | noun | An ancient manuscript. |
| paleothere | noun | Any species of Paleotherium. |
| palestrian | adjective | Alt. of Palestrical |
| palimpsest | noun | A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. |
| palindrome | noun | 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. |
| palinodial | adjective | Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction. |
| palisading | present participle & vb. noun | of Palisade, A row of palisades set in the ground. |
| palisadoes | plural | of Palisado |
| palladious | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or containing, palladium; — used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds. |
| pallbearer | noun | One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; — so called from the pall being formerly carried by them. |
| palliament | noun | A dress; a robe. |
| palliating | present participle & vb. noun | of Palliate |
| palliation | noun | The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices., Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease., That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised. |
| palliative | adjective | Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate., That which palliates; a palliative agent. |
| palliatory | adjective | Palliative; extenuating. |
| pallidness | noun | The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness. |
| palmaceous | adjective | Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms. |
| palmatifid | adjective | Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center. |
| palmerworm | noun | 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., In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers. |
| palmigrade | adjective | Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals. |
| palmipedes | noun pl. | Same as Natatores. |
| palmitolic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid. |
| palprbrate | adjective | Having eyelids. |
| palpitated | imp. & past participle | of Palpitate |
| paltriness | noun | The state or quality of being paltry. |
| paludament | noun | See Paludamentum. |
| paludicole | adjective | Marsh-inhabiting; belonging to the Paludicolae |
| paludinous | adjective | Paludinal. (b) Like or pertaining to the genus Paludina., Of or pertaining to a marsh or fen. |
| palustrine | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy. |
| panama hat | A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant (Carludovica palmata). | |
| pancratian | adjective | Pancratic; athletic. |
| pancratist | noun | An athlete; a gymnast. |
| pancratium | noun | An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling., A genus of Old World amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a funnel-shaped perianth with six narrow spreading lobes. The American species are now placed in the related genus Hymenocallis. |
| pancreatic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments. |
| pancreatin | noun | One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion. |
| pandermite | noun | A hydrous borate of lime, near priceite. |
| panegyrist | noun | One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking. |
| panegyrize | verb t. | To praise highly; to extol in a public speech; to write or deliver a panegyric upon; to eulogize., To indulge in panegyrics. |
| panelation | noun | The act of impaneling a jury. |
| pangenesis | noun | An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity. |
| pangenetic | adjective | Of or pertaining to pangenesis. |
| paniculate | adjective | Alt. of Paniculated |
| panivorous | adjective | Eating bread; subsisting on bread. |
| panomphean | adjective | Uttering ominous or prophetic voices; divining. |
| panopticon | noun | A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen., A room for the exhibition of novelties. |
| pansclavic | Alt. of Pansclavonian | |
| panslavism | noun | A scheme or desire to unite all the Slavic races into one confederacy. |
| panslavist | noun | One who favors Panslavism. |
| panspermic | adjective | Of or pertaining to panspermy; as, the panspermic hypothesis. |
| pantagraph | noun | See Pantograph. |
| pantamorph | noun | That which assumes, or exists in, all forms. |
| pantascope | noun | A pantascopic camera. |
| pantheress | noun | A female panther. |
| pantherine | adjective | Like a panther, esp. in color; as, the pantherine snake (Ptyas mucosus) of Brazil. |
| pantograph | noun | An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale. |
| pantometer | noun | An instrument for measuring angles for determining elevations, distances, etc. |
| pantometry | noun | Universal measurement. |
| pantomimic | adjective | Alt. of Pantomimical |
| pantophagy | noun | The habit or power of eating all kinds of food. |
| papaphobia | noun | Intense fear or dread of the pope, or of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| papaverine | noun | An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine. |
| papaverous | adjective | Of or pertaining to the poppy; of the nature of the poppy. |
| papiliones | noun pl. | The division of Lepidoptera which includes the butterflies. |
| papistical | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies; pertaining to popery; popish; — used disparagingly. |
| parabolism | noun | The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term. |
| parabolist | noun | A narrator of parables. |
| paraboloid | noun | The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas. |
| parachrose | adjective | Changing color by exposure |
| paraconine | noun | A base resembling and isomeric with conine, and obtained as a colorless liquid from butyric aldehyde and ammonia. |
| paracymene | noun | Same as Cymene. |
| paradisaic | adjective | Alt. of Paradisaical |
| paradisean | adjective | Paradisiacal. |
| paradisiac | adjective | Alt. of Paradisiacal |
| paradisial | adjective | Alt. of Paradisian |
| paradisian | adjective | Paradisiacal. |
| paradoxist | noun | One who proposes a paradox. |
| paradoxure | noun | Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). See Musang. |
| paraglossa | noun | One of a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain insects. See Illust. under Hymenoptera. |
| paragnathi | plural | of Paragnathus |
| paragonite | noun | A kind of mica related to muscovite, but containing soda instead of potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the Alps. |
| para grass | A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil. | |
| paraguayan | adjective | Of or pertaining to Paraguay., A native or inhabitant of Paraguay. |
| paralactic | adjective | Designating an acid called paralactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic. |
| paralbumin | noun | A proteidlike body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen. |
| paralepsis | noun | See Paraleipsis. |
| paralipsis | noun | See Paraleipsis. |
| paralleled | imp. & past participle | of Parallel |
| parallelly | adverb | In a parallel manner; with parallelism. |
| paralogism | noun | A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formulae; a formal fallacy, or pseudo-syllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises. |
| paralogize | verb i. | To reason falsely; to draw conclusions not warranted by the premises. |
| paralyzing | present participle & vb. noun | of Paralyze |
| paramaleic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from malic acid, and now called fumaric acid. |
| paramitome | noun | The fluid portion of the protoplasm of a cell. |
| parapectin | noun | A gelatinous modification of pectin. |
| parapherna | noun pl. | The property of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own. |
| paraphagma | noun | One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea. |
| paraphrase | noun | A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; — opposed to metaphrase., To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language., To make a paraphrase. |
| paraphrast | noun | A paraphraser. |
| paraphyses | plural | of Paraphysis |
| paraphysis | noun | A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants. |
| paraplegia | noun | Alt. of Paraplegy |
| parapleura | noun | A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects. |
| parapodium | noun | One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; — called also foot tubercle. |
| parapterum | noun | A special plate situated on the sides of the mesothorax and metathorax of certain insects. |
| parascenia | plural | of Parascenium |
| paraselene | noun | A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. Parhelion. |
| parasitism | noun | The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite., The state of being parasitic. |
| parastichy | noun | A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone. |
| paratactic | adjective | Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis. |
| paratheses | plural | of Parathesis |
| parathesis | noun | The placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition., A parenthetical notice, usually of matter to be afterward expanded., The matter contained within brackets., A commendatory prayer. |
| parathetic | adjective | Of or pertaining to parathesis. |
| paraxylene | noun | A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series obtained as a colorless liquid by the distillation of camphor with zinc chloride. It is one of the three metamers of xylene. Cf. Metamer, and Xylene. |
| parboiling | present participle & vb. noun | of Parboil |
| parbuckled | imp. & past participle | of Parbuckle |
| parcelling | of Parcel | |
| pardonable | adjective | Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; — applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit. |
| pardonably | adverb | In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably. |
| parenchyma | noun | The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like. |
| parentally | adverb | In a parental manner. |
| parenthood | noun | The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent. |
| parentless | adjective | Deprived of parents. |
| parethmoid | adjective | Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; — applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals., A parethmoid bone. |
| pargeboard | noun | See Bargeboard. |
| parisienne | noun | A female native or resident of Paris. |
| parisology | noun | The use of equivocal or ambiguous words. |
| parkleaves | noun | A European species of Saint John’s-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan. |
| parliament | noun | A parleying; a discussion; a conference., A formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws., The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws., In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts. |
| parnassian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Parnassus., Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus Parnassius. They inhabit the mountains, both in the Old World and in America. |
| paromology | noun | A concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one’s own argument. |
| paronomasy | noun | Paronomasia. |
| paronychia | noun | A whitlow, or felon. |
| paronymous | adjective | Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; — said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc., Having a similar sound, but different orthography and different meaning; — said of certain words, as al/ and awl; hair and hare, etc. |
| parostosis | noun | Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum. |
| parostotic | adjective | Pertaining to parostosis. |
| parovarium | noun | A group of tubules, a remnant of the Wolffian body, often found near the ovary or oviduct; the epoophoron. |
| paroxysmal | adjective | Of the nature of a paroxysm; characterized or accompanied by paroxysms; as, a paroxysmal pain; paroxysmal temper. |
| paroxytone | adjective | A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable. |
| parquetage | noun | See Parquetry. |
| parricidal | adjective | Of or pertaining to parricide; guilty of parricide. |
| parsonical | adjective | Of or pertaining to a parson; clerical. |
| partheniad | noun | A poem in honor of a virgin. |
| partialism | noun | Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine of the Partialists. |
| partialist | noun | One who is partial., One who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, that is, for the elect. |
| partiality | noun | The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind., A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking; as, a partiality for poetry or painting. |
| partialize | verb t. & i. | To make or be partial. |
| participle | noun | A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, — written, being, and exhaustedare participles., Anything that partakes of the nature of different things. |
| particular | adjective | Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation., Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular., Separate or distinct by reason of superiority; distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party., Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress., Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder., Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant., Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; — opposed to universal: e. g. (particular affirmative) Some men are wise; (particular negative) Some men are not wise., A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which may be considered separately; as, the particulars of a story., Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc., One of the details or items of grounds of claim; — usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account; as, a particular of premises. |
| parturiate | verb i. | To bring forth young. |
| parturient | adjective | Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful. |
| parturious | adjective | Parturient. |
| pasigraphy | noun | A system of universal writing, or a manner of writing that may be understood and used by all nations. |
| pasquilant | noun | A lampooner; a pasquiler. |
| pasquinade | noun | A lampoon or satirical writing., To lampoon, to satirize. |
| passageway | noun | A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5. |
| passegarde | noun | A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor. |
| passiflora | noun | A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreae, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species. |
| passioning | p. pr & vb. noun | of Passion |
| passionary | noun | A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. |
| passionate | adjective | Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature., Characterized by passion; expressing passion; ardent in feeling or desire; vehement; warm; as, a passionate friendship., Suffering; sorrowful., To affect with passion; to impassion., To express feelingly or sorrowfully. |
| passionist | noun | A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross. |
| pasteboard | noun | A stiff thick kind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc., A board on which pastry dough is rolled; a molding board. |
| pasteurism | noun | A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength., Pasteurization. |
| pasteurize | verb t. | To subject to pasteurization., To treat by pasteurism. |
| pastorally | adverb | In a pastoral or rural manner., In the manner of a pastor. |
| pastorless | adjective | Having no pastor. |
| pastorling | noun | An insignificant pastor. |
| pastorship | noun | Pastorate. |
| pasturable | adjective | Fit for pasture. |
| patagonian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Patagonia., A native of Patagonia. |
| patavinity | noun | The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; — so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy’s nativity. |
| patchingly | adverb | Knavishy; deceitfully. |
| patellulae | plural | of Patellula |
| patentable | adjective | Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented. |
| paternally | adverb | In a paternal manner. |
| pathematic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering. |
| pathetical | adjective | Pathetic. |
| pathfinder | noun | One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions. |
| pathogenic | adjective | Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium. |
| pathognomy | noun | Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated. |
| pathologic | adjective | Alt. of Pathological |
| pathopoela | noun | A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. |
| patibulary | adjective | Of or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution. |
| patriarchy | noun | The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship., Government by a patriarch; patriarchism. |
| patriciate | noun | The patrician class; the aristocracy; also, the office of patriarch. |
| patricidal | adjective | Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal. |
| patriotism | noun | Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one’s country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one’s country. |
| patristics | noun | That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church. |
| patrolling | present participle & vb. noun | of Patrol |
| patronized | imp. & past participle | of Patronize |
| patronizer | noun | One who patronizes. |
| patronless | adjective | Destitute of a patron. |
| patronymic | adjective | Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination., A modification of the father’s name borne by the son; a name derived from that of a parent or ancestor; as, Pelides, the son of Peleus; Johnson, the son of John; Macdonald, the son of Donald; Paulowitz, the son of Paul; also, the surname of a family; the family name. |
| patterning | present participle & vb. noun | of Pattern |
| pauciloquy | noun | Brevity in speech. |
| paulianist | noun | A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ. |
| pauperized | imp. & past participle | of Pauperize |
| pavilioned | imp. & past participle | of Pavilion |
| pawnbroker | noun | One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping. |
| payndemain | noun | The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; — called also paynemain, payman. |