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pachydermia
Same as .
Paillasse
An under bed or mattress of straw.
Painstaker
One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work.
paintable
Lending itself to being painted; . Opposite of .
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 compounds.
Paraph
To add a paraph to; to sign, esp. with the initials.
Parentless
Deprived of parents.
Parricidal
Of or pertaining to parricide; guilty of parricide.
Parrot
To chatter like a parrot.
Parterre
An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.
Past
Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent;
Pastry
The place where pastry is made.
Patentable
Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.
Patrimonial
Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; .
Pavlovian
Of or pertaining to , or the principles of conditioned responses that he investigated; .
Pectate
A salt of pectic acid.
Peltry
Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs.
penlight
A small flashlight resembling a fountain pen, often having a clip to permit firm attachment to a pocket.
Persistently
In a persistent manner.
Persuadable
That may be persuaded.
Perturbate
To perturb.
Philosophate
To play the philosopher; to moralize.
Phlogisticate
To combine phlogiston with; -- usually in the form and sense of the or the ; .
Phoronomics
The science of motion; kinematics.
Phosgenite
A rare mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of a white, yellow, or grayish color and adamantine luster. It is a chlorocarbonate of lead.
Phylloxera
A small hemipterous insect () allied to the aphids. It attacks the roots and leaves of the grapevine, doing great damage, especially in Europe.
Phytophagous
Feeding on plants; herbivorous; .
Piece
To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; ; -- often with .
Pika
Any one of several species of tailless rodents of the genus (formerly ), resembling small rabbits, but with short ears alnd legs. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also , and and . See .
Pilot light
a small gas flame kept burning continuously on a stove, water heater, or other gas-burning device, so as to allow immediate ignition of the main flame when the gas flow is turned on.
Pinchbeck
An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
Pinweed
Any plant of the genus , low North American herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.
Pistachio
The nut of the , a tree of the order , containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odor; -- called also . It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, and Sicily.
Pithecanthropus
A hypothetical genus of primates intermediate between man and the anthropoid apes.
Pitiful
Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
Pitiless
Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless;
Placit
A decree or determination; a dictum.
Plaister
See .
Plight
To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.
Plotter
One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer.
Pneumology
The science which treats of the lungs.
Pneumotherapy
The treatment of disease by inhalations of compressed or rarefied air.
Pocketbook
A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.
Poignantly
In a poignant manner.
Polygrooved
Having many grooves; .
Pornerastic
Lascivious; licentious.
Portability
The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be carried.
Portionist
A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into .
Pose
To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner;
Postural
Of or pertaining to posture.
Pothook
An -shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over an open fire.
Pour
To pore.
Powdered
Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.
Prtor
See .
Prattlement
Prattle.
Preachman
A preacher; -- so called in contempt.
Precious
Of great price; costly; .
Precipitation
The act of precipitating, or the state of being precipitated, or thrown headlong.
Precisianist
A precisian.
Prediction
The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.
Preparatory
Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative;
Presbyope
One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.
prescriptivist
A person who believes that acceptable practices should be prescribed by an authority rather than be determined by the usage of the general public; especially, a supporter of prescriptive{2} rules of grammar; -- also used attributively, as grammar.
Presentive
Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from .
Princesslike
Like a princess.
Priorate
The dignity, office, or government, of a prior.
Processioning
A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d .
Prochronize
To antedate.
Profanely
In a profane manner.
Prohibitive
That prohibits; prohibitory; .
Promoter
One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; .
Propense
Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; .
Prosily
In a prosy manner.
Provisorily
In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; .
Pteron
The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other.
Puffball
A kind of ball-shaped fungus (, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also , , , , and .
Pumper
One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.
Punctually
In a punctual manner; promptly; exactly.
Puppyhood
The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.
Putt
A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole.
Puzzle-headed
Having the head full of confused notions; given to getting perplexed over simple matters; also, characteristic of persons that are so.
Pyrotechny
The use and application of fire in science and the arts.