| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| parchesi | noun | A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India., See Pachisi. |
| parabola | noun | A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus., One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes. |
| parabole | noun | Similitude; comparison. |
| parading | present participle & vb. noun | of Parade |
| paradigm | noun | An example; a model; a pattern., An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection., An illustration, as by a parable or fable. |
| paradise | noun | The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation., The abode of sanctified souls after death., A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness., An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc., A churchyard or cemetery., To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch. |
| paradoxy | noun | A paradoxical statement; a paradox., The quality or state of being paradoxical. |
| paraffin | noun | Alt. of Paraffine |
| paragoge | noun | The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without., Coaptation. |
| paragram | noun | A pun. |
| parakeet | noun | Same as Parrakeet., Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; — called also paroquet and paraquet. |
| paralian | noun | A dweller by the sea. |
| parallax | noun | The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view., The apparent difference in position of a body (as the sun, or a star) as seen from some point on the earth’s surface, and as seen from some other conventional point, as the earth’s center or the sun. |
| parallel | adjective | Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes., Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; — used with to and with., Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage., A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc., Direction conformable to that of another line,, Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity., A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson’s parallel between Dryden and Pope., Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart., One of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map., One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress., A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus, ) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page., To place or set so as to be parallel; to place so as to be parallel to, or to conform in direction with, something else., Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like., To equal; to match; to correspond to., To produce or adduce as a parallel., To be parallel; to correspond; to be like. |
| paralogy | noun | False reasoning; paralogism. |
| paralyse | verb t. | Same as Paralyze. |
| paralyze | verb t. | To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy., Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts. |
| parament | noun | Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; — chiefly in the plural. |
| paramere | noun | One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish. |
| paramour | noun | A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; — used of a man or a woman., Love; gallantry., Alt. of Paramours |
| paranoia | noun | Mental derangement; insanity. |
| para nut | The Brazil nut. | |
| parapegm | noun | An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place. |
| paraphed | imp. & past participle | of Paraph |
| paraquet | noun | Alt. of Paraquito |
| parasang | noun | A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles. |
| parasita | noun pl. | An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc., A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata. |
| parasite | noun | One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another’s expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant., A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; — sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte., A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia., An animal which lives during the whole or part of its existence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc., An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager., An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo. |
| parauque | noun | A bird (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker. |
| paravail | adjective | At the bottom; lowest. |
| paravant | adverb | Alt. of Paravant, In front; publicly., Beforehand; first. |
| paraxial | adjective | On either side of the axis of the skeleton. |
| parbreak | verb i. & t. | To throw out; to vomit., Vomit. |
| parceled | imp. & past participle | of Parcel |
| parcener | noun | A coheir, or one of two or more persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate. |
| parching | present participle & vb. noun | of Parch, Scorching; burning; drying. |
| parclose | noun | A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. |
| pardoned | imp. & past participle | of Pardon |
| pardoner | noun | One who pardons., A seller of indulgences. |
| parelcon | noun | The addition of a syllable or particle to the end of a pronoun, verb, or adverb. |
| parement | noun | See Parament. |
| parental | adjective | Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations., Becoming to, or characteristic of, parents; tender; affectionate; devoted; as, parental care. |
| parergon | noun | See Parergy. |
| parfitly | adverb | Perfectly. |
| parfourn | verb t. | To perform. |
| pargeted | imp. & past participle | of Parget |
| pargeter | noun | A plasterer. |
| parhelic | adjective | Of or pertaining to parhelia. |
| parhelia | plural | of Parhelion |
| parietes | plural | of Paries, The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium., The sides of an ovary or of a capsule. |
| parietal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them., Resident within the walls or buildings of a college., Of pertaining to the parietes., Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals., Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; — said of a placenta., One of the parietal bones., One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes. |
| parietic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in the lichen Parmelia parietina, and called also chrysophanic acid. |
| parieto- | A combining form used to indicate connection with, or relation to, the parietal bones or the parietal segment of the skull; as, the parieto-mastoid suture. | |
| parillin | noun | A glucoside resembling saponin, found in the root of sarsaparilla, smilax, etc., and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; — called also smilacin, sarsaparilla saponin, and sarsaparillin. |
| parishen | noun | A parishioner. |
| parisian | noun | A native or inhabitant of Paris, the capital of France., Of or pertaining to Paris. |
| paritory | noun | Pellitory. |
| parkeria | noun | A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball. |
| parlance | noun | Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance. |
| parlando | adjective & adverb | Alt. of Parlante |
| parlante | adjective & adverb | Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative. |
| parleyed | imp. & past participle | of Parley |
| parmesan | adjective | Of or pertaining to Parma in Italy. |
| parodist | noun | One who writes a parody; one who parodies. |
| parodies | plural | of Parody |
| parodied | imp. & past participle | of Parody |
| paroling | present participle & vb. noun | of Parole |
| paronymy | noun | The quality of being paronymous; also, the use of paronymous words. |
| paroquet | noun | Same as Parrakeet. |
| parotoid | adjective | Resembling the parotid gland; — applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs., A parotoid gland. |
| parousia | noun | The nativity of our Lord., The last day. |
| paroxysm | noun | The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions., Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit. |
| parraqua | noun | A curassow of the genus Ortalida, allied to the guan. |
| parroter | noun | One who simply repeats what he has heard. |
| parrotry | noun | Servile imitation or repetition. |
| parrying | present participle & vb. noun | of Parry |
| parsoned | adjective | Furnished with a parson. |
| parsonic | adjective | Alt. of Parsonical |
| partable | adjective | See Partible. |
| partaken | past participle | of Partake |
| partaker | noun | One who partakes; a sharer; a participator., An accomplice; an associate; a partner. |
| parterre | noun | An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on., The pit of a theater; the parquet. |
| parthian | adjective | Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia., A native Parthia. |
| partible | adjective | Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible. |
| particle | noun | A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust., Any very small portion or part; the smallest portion; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue., A crumb or little piece of concecrated host., The smaller hosts distributed in the communion of the laity., A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely. |
| partisan | noun | An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest., The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy., Any member of such a corps., Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal., Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps., A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff. |
| partyism | noun | Devotion to party. |
| parvolin | noun | A nonoxygenous ptomaine, formed in the putrefaction of albuminous matters, especially of horseflesh and mackerel. |
| parterie | noun | Articles made of the blades or fiber of the Lygeum Spartum and Stipa (/ Macrochloa) tenacissima, kinds of grass used in Spain and other countries for making ropes, mats, baskets, nets, and mattresses. |