| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| publication | noun | The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts., The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution., That which is published or made known; especially, any book, pamphlet, etc., offered for sale or to public notice; as, a daily or monthly publication., An act done in public. |
| publishable | adjective | Capable of being published; suitable for publication. |
| publishment | noun | The act or process of making publicly known; publication., A public notice of intended marriage, required by the laws of some States. |
| puddle-ball | noun | The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled. |
| puerileness | noun | The quality of being puerile; puerility. |
| puerilities | plural | of Puerility |
| puff-legged | adjective | Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs. |
| pulchritude | noun | That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness., Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty. |
| pullman car | A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; — often shortened to Pullman. | |
| pullulation | noun | A germinating, or budding. |
| pulmonarian | noun | Any arachnid that breathes by lunglike organs, as the spiders and scorpions. Also used adjectively. |
| pulmonifera | noun pl. | Same as Pulmonata. |
| pulverizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Pulverize |
| pulverulent | adjective | Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty. |
| punchinello | noun | A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. |
| puncticular | adjective | Comprised in, or like, a point; exact. |
| punctilious | adjective | Attentive to punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, etiquette, or mutual intercourse; precise; exact in the smallest particulars. |
| punctualist | noun | One who is very exact in observing forms and ceremonies. |
| punctuality | noun | The quality or state of being punctual; especially, adherence to the exact time of an engagement; exactness. |
| punctuating | present participle & vb. noun | of Punctuate |
| punctuation | noun | The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author’s meaning. |
| punctuative | adjective | Of or belonging to points of division; relating to punctuation. |
| punctulated | adjective | Marked with small spots. |
| pupillarity | noun | The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females. |
| purchasable | adjective | Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt. |
| purgatively | adverb | In a purgative manner. |
| purgatorial | adjective | Alt. of Purgatorian |
| purgatorian | adjective | Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory., One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory. |
| purificator | noun | One who, or that which, purifies; a purifier. |
| puritanical | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice., Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; — often used by way of reproach or contempt. |
| puritanized | imp. & past participle | of Puritanize |
| purpleheart | noun | A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera (C. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba. |
| purportless | adjective | Without purport or meaning. |
| purposeless | adjective | Having no purpose or result; objectless. |
| purpresture | noun | Wrongful encroachment upon another’s property; esp., any encroachment upon, or inclosure of, that which should be common or public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc. |
| purse-proud | adjective | Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches. |
| pursiveness | noun | Pursiness. |
| purveiaunce | noun | Purveyance. |
| pustulation | noun | The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated. |
| putredinous | adjective | Proceeding from putrefaction, or partaking of the putrefactive process; having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten. |
| putrescence | noun | The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter. |
| putrescible | adjective | Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances., A substance, usually nitrogenous, which is liable to undergo decomposition when in contact with air and moisture at ordinary temperatures. |
| putrifacted | adjective | Putrefied. |
| putty-faced | adjective | White-faced; — used contemptuously. |