| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| pachycarpous | adjective | Having the pericarp thick. |
| pachydermata | noun pl. | A group of hoofed mammals distinguished for the thickness of their skins, including the elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, horse, and hog. It is now considered an artificial group. |
| pachydermoid | adjective | Related to the pachyderms. |
| pachyglossal | adjective | Having a thick tongue; — applied to a group of lizards (Pachyglossae), including the iguanas and agamas. |
| pacification | noun | The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. |
| pacificatory | adjective | Tending to make peace; conciliatory. |
| paedobaptism | noun | Pedobaptism. |
| paedogenesis | noun | Reproduction by young or larval animals. |
| paedogenetic | adjective | Producing young while in the immature or larval state; — said of certain insects, etc. |
| palaetiology | noun | The science which explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the earth. |
| palatability | noun | Palatableness. |
| paleichthyes | noun pl. | A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. |
| paleocrystic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial formation. |
| paleographer | noun | One skilled in paleography; a paleographist. |
| paleographic | adjective | Alt. of Paleographical |
| paleontology | noun | The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life. |
| paleotechnic | adjective | Belonging to, or connected with, ancient art. |
| paleotherian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Paleotherium. |
| paleotherium | noun | 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., An animal resembling, or allied to, the paleothere. | |
| paleozoology | noun | The Paleozoic time or strata. |
| palification | noun | The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm. |
| palindromist | noun | A writer of palindromes. |
| palingenesia | noun | See Palingenesis. |
| palingenesis | noun | Alt. of Palingenesy |
| palingenetic | adjective | Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. |
| palmatilobed | adjective | Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center. |
| paludamentum | noun | A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers. |
| pan-american | adjective | Of or pertaining to both North and South America. |
| pan-anglican | adjective | Belonging to, or representing, the whole Church of England; used less strictly, to include the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States; as, the Pan-Anglican Conference at Lambeth, in 1888. |
| pandiculated | adjective | Extended; spread out; stretched. |
| panegyrizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Panegyrize |
| panhellenism | noun | A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body. |
| panhellenist | noun | An advocate of Panhellenism. |
| panhellenium | noun | An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Greece. |
| panic-struck | adjective | Struck with a panic, or sudden fear. |
| panification | noun | The act or process of making bread. |
| panpharmacon | noun | A medicine for all diseases; a panacea. |
| panslavonian | adjective | See Panslavic. |
| pantaloonery | noun | The character or performances of a pantaloon; buffoonery., Materials for pantaloons. |
| pantamorphic | adjective | Taking all forms. |
| pantastomata | noun pl. | One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms. |
| pantechnicon | noun | A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale. |
| pantelegraph | noun | See under Telegraph. |
| pantisocracy | noun | A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days. |
| pantographic | adjective | Alt. of Pantographical |
| pantological | adjective | Of or pertaining to pantology. |
| pantomimical | adjective | Of or pertaining to the pantomime; representing by dumb show. |
| pantophagist | noun | A person or an animal that has the habit of eating all kinds of food. |
| pantophagous | adjective | Eating all kinds of food. |
| papier-mache | noun | A hard and strong substance made of a pulp from paper, mixed with sise or glue, etc. It is formed into various articles, usually by means of molds. |
| papilionides | noun pl. | The typical butterflies. |
| papyrography | noun | The process of multiplying copies of writings, etc., by means of the papyrograph. |
| paraboliform | adjective | Resembling a parabola in form. |
| paraboloidal | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid. |
| parabronchia | plural | of Parabronchium |
| paracentesis | noun | The perforation of a cavity of the body with a trocar, aspirator, or other suitable instrument, for the evacuation of effused fluid, pus, or gas; tapping. |
| parachronism | noun | An error in chronology, by which the date of an event is set later than the time of its occurrence. |
| paracyanogen | noun | A polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide. |
| paradactylum | noun | The side of a toe or finger. |
| paradigmatic | adjective | Alt. of Paradigmatical, A writer of memoirs of religious persons, as examples of Christian excellence. |
| paradisaical | adjective | Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal. |
| paradisiacal | adjective | Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise. |
| paradoxology | noun | The use of paradoxes. |
| paraglobulin | noun | An albuminous body in blood serum, belonging to the group of globulins. See Fibrinoplastin. |
| paragnathous | adjective | Having both mandibles of equal length, the tips meeting, as in certain birds. |
| paragrandine | noun | An instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. See Paragr/le. |
| paragraphing | present participle & vb. noun | of Paragraph |
| paragraphist | noun | A paragrapher. |
| paraguay tea | See Mate, the leaf of the Brazilian holly. | |
| parallelable | adjective | Capable of being paralleled, or equaled. |
| parallelless | adjective | Matchless. |
| paralogizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Paralogize |
| paralyzation | noun | The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed. |
| paramagnetic | adjective | Magnetic, as opposed to diamagnetic., A paramagnetic substance. |
| parametritis | noun | Inflammation of the cellular tissue in the vicinity of the uterus. |
| paramorphism | noun | The change of one mineral species to another, so as to involve a change in physical characters without alteration of chemical composition. |
| paramorphous | adjective | Relating to paramorphism; exhibiting paramorphism. |
| parapetalous | adjective | Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen. |
| paraphimosis | noun | A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again. |
| paraphrasing | present participle & vb. noun | of Paraphrase |
| paraphrasian | noun | A paraphraser. |
| paraphrastic | adjective | Alt. of Paraphrastical |
| parapophyses | plural | of Parapophysis |
| parapophysis | noun | The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra. |
| parasiticide | noun | Anything used to destroy parasites. |
| parasphenoid | adjective | Near the sphenoid bone; — applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals., The parasphenoid bone. |
| paratonnerre | noun | A conductor of lightning; a lightning rod. |
| parenchymous | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration. |
| parenthesize | verb t. | To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks. |
| parentticide | noun | The act of one who kills one’s own parent., One who kills one’s own parent; a parricide. |
| paridigitata | noun pl. | Same as Artiodactyla. |
| parjdigitate | adjective | Having an evennumber of digits on the hands or the feet. |
| parisyllabic | adjective | Alt. of Parisyllabical |
| parliamental | adjective | Parliamentary. |
| paroccipital | adjective | Situated near or beside the occipital condyle or the occipital bone; paramastoid; — applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals. |
| parochialism | noun | The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes. |
| parochiality | noun | The state of being parochial. |
| parochialize | verb t. | To render parochial; to form into parishes. |
| paronomastic | adjective | Alt. of Paronomastical |
| parricidious | adjective | Parricidal. |
| parsimonious | adjective | Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy. |
| parthenogeny | noun | Same as Parthenogenesis. |
| participable | adjective | Capable of being participated or shared. |
| participated | imp. & past participle | of Participate |
| participator | noun | One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker. |
| particolored | adjective | Same as Party-colored. |
| particularly | adverb | In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly., In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. |
| partisanship | noun | The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan. |
| partitioning | present participle & vb. noun | of Partition |
| party-coated | adjective | Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. |
| parumbilical | adjective | Near the umbilicus; — applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen. |
| passableness | noun | The quality of being passable. |
| passibleness | noun | Passibility. |
| passionately | adverb | In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently., Angrily; irascibly. |
| passymeasure | noun | See Paspy. |
| pathogenesis | noun | Pathogeny. |
| pathogenetic | adjective | Pathogenic. |
| pathological | adjective | Of or pertaining to pathology. |
| patriarchate | noun | The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch., The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch., A patriarchal form of government or society. See Patriarchal, a., 3. |
| patriarchdom | noun | The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate. |
| patriarchism | noun | Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family. |
| patricianism | noun | The rank or character of patricians. |
| patripassian | noun | One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preexistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian. |
| patronymical | adjective | Same as Patronymic. |
| pauciloquent | adjective | Uttering few words; brief in speech. |