pancytopenia | (noun) an abnormal deficiency in all blood cells (red blood cells and white blood cells and platelets); usually associated with bone marrow tumor or with aplastic anemia | - |
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panpipe | (noun) a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together | Synonyms: pandean pipe, syrinx |
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panspermia | (noun) The hypothesis that microorganisms may transmit life from outer space to habitable bodies; or the process of such transmission. | - |
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paper | (noun) the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher | Synonyms: newspaper |
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(noun) a medium for written communication | - |
(noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: composition, report, theme |
(noun) a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses | - |
(noun) a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements | Synonyms: newspaper |
(noun) a business firm that publishes newspapers | Synonyms: newspaper, newspaper publisher |
(noun) a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses | - |
paperback | (noun) a book with paper covers | Synonyms: paper-back book, paperback book, soft-cover, soft-cover book, softback, softback book |
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paperboard | (noun) a cardboard suitable for making posters | Synonyms: poster board, posterboard |
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paperboy | (noun) a boy who sells or delivers newspapers | - |
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paperclip | (noun) a wire or plastic clip for holding sheets of paper together | Synonyms: gem clip, paper clip |
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paperer | (noun) one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper | Synonyms: paperhanger |
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paperhanger | (noun) one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper | Synonyms: paperer |
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(noun) someone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money | - |
paperhanging | (noun) the application of wallpaper | Synonyms: papering |
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papering | (noun) the application of wallpaper | Synonyms: paperhanging |
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paperknife | (noun) dull knife used to cut open the envelopes in which letters are mailed or to slit uncut pages of books | Synonyms: letter opener, paper knife |
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papermaking | (noun) the craft of making paper | - |
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papers | (noun) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) | Synonyms: document, written document |
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paperweight | (noun) a weight used to hold down a stack of papers | - |
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paperwork | (noun) work that involves handling papers: forms or letters or reports etc. | - |
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parallelepiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepipedon, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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parallelepipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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parallelopiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon |
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parallelopipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopiped |
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parapet | (noun) fortification consisting of a low wall | Synonyms: breastwork |
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(noun) a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony | - |
paratrooper | (noun) a soldier in the paratroops | Synonyms: para |
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pauper | (noun) a person who is very poor | - |
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pauperisation | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: impoverishment, pauperization |
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pauperism | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperization, penury |
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pauperization | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: impoverishment, pauperisation |
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(noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperism, penury |
pe | (noun) the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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pea | (noun) seed of a pea plant used for food | - |
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(noun) a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds | Synonyms: pea plant |
(noun) the fruit or seed of a pea plant | - |
peace | (noun) a treaty to cease hostilities | Synonyms: pacification, peace treaty |
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(noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, heartsease, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity |
(noun) the state prevailing during the absence of war | - |
(noun) harmonious relations; freedom from disputes | - |
(noun) the general security of public places | Synonyms: public security |
peaceableness | (noun) a state that is calm and tranquil | Synonyms: peacefulness |
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peacefulness | (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, heartsease, peace, peace of mind, repose, serenity |
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(noun) a state that is calm and tranquil | Synonyms: peaceableness |
peacekeeper | (noun) the pistol of a law officer in the old West | - |
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(noun) someone who keeps peace | - |
(noun) a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area | - |
peacekeeping | (noun) the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) | Synonyms: peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping operation |
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peacemaker | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, reconciler |
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peacenik | (noun) someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations | Synonyms: dove |
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peacetime | (noun) a period of time during which there is no war | - |
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peach | (noun) a shade of pink tinged with yellow | Synonyms: apricot, salmon pink, yellowish pink |
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(noun) downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh | - |
(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
(noun) cultivated in temperate regions | Synonyms: peach tree, Prunus persica |
peachick | (noun) a young peafowl | Synonyms: pea-chick |
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peachwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: brazilwood, Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, pernambuco wood |
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peacoat | (noun) a sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted jacket | Synonyms: pea jacket |
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peacock | (noun) male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots | - |
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(noun) European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot | Synonyms: Inachis io, peacock butterfly |
peafowl | (noun) very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird | Synonyms: bird of Juno |
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peag | (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency | Synonyms: wampum, wampumpeag |
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peahen | (noun) female peafowl | - |
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peak | (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: bill, eyeshade, visor, vizor |
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(noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, crown, summit, tip, top |
(noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: acme, apex, vertex |
(noun) the most extreme possible amount or value | Synonyms: extremum |
(noun) a V shape | Synonyms: point, tip |
(noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, prime |
peal | (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: pealing, roll, rolling |
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pealing | (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, roll, rolling |
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pean | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, paean, panegyric |
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(noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) | Synonyms: paean |
peanut | (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut |
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(noun) a young child who is small for his age | - |
(noun) widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground | Synonyms: Arachis hypogaea, peanut vine |
(noun) underground pod of the peanut vine | - |
peanuts | (noun) an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount | - |
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pear | (noun) sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties | - |
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(noun) Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties | Synonyms: pear tree, Pyrus communis |
pearl | (noun) a shade of white the color of bleached bones | Synonyms: bone, ivory, off-white |
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(noun) a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel | - |
(noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: bead, drop |
pearler | (noun) a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls | Synonyms: pearl diver |
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pearlfish | (noun) found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds | Synonyms: pearl-fish |
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pearlite | (noun) a lamellar mixture of cementite and ferrite formed during the cooling of austenite; a constituent of steel and cast iron | - |
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pearlweed | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlwort |
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pearlwort | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlweed |
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pearly | (noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: chopper |
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peasant | (noun) a country person | Synonyms: bucolic, provincial |
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(noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tike, tyke |
(noun) one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers | - |
peasanthood | (noun) the state of being a peasant | - |
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peasantry | (noun) the class of peasants | - |
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peasecod | (noun) husk of a pea; edible in some garden peas | Synonyms: pea pod |
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peat | (noun) partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried | - |
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peavey | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavy |
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peavy | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavey |
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peba | (noun) having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay | Synonyms: Dasypus novemcinctus, nine-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo |
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pebble | (noun) a small smooth rounded rock | - |
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pebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibits or 2^50 bits | Synonyms: Pibit |
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pebibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes | Synonyms: PB, petabyte, PiB |
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pecan | (noun) smooth brown oval nut of south central United States | - |
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(noun) tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts | Synonyms: Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis, pecan tree |
(noun) wood of a pecan tree | - |
peccadillo | (noun) a petty misdeed | Synonyms: indiscretion |
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peccary | (noun) nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America | Synonyms: musk hog |
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peck | (noun) a light kiss | - |
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(noun) bite by a bird | - |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
(noun) a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches | - |
(noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons | - |
pecker | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: peckerwood, woodpecker |
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(noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, bill, neb, nib |
(noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
peckerwood | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: pecker, woodpecker |
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pecopteris | (noun) Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular arrangement of the leaflets resembling a comb | - |
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pecs | (noun) either of two large muscles of the chest | Synonyms: musculus pectoralis, pectoral, pectoral muscle, pectoralis |
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pectin | (noun) any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams | - |
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pectoral | (noun) an adornment worn on the chest or breast | Synonyms: pectoral medallion |
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(noun) either of two large muscles of the chest | Synonyms: musculus pectoralis, pecs, pectoral muscle, pectoralis |
pectoralis | (noun) either of two large muscles of the chest | Synonyms: musculus pectoralis, pecs, pectoral, pectoral muscle |
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pectus | (noun) the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: chest, thorax |
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peculation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation |
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peculator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, embezzler |
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peculiarity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, rarity |
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(noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, speciality, specialness, specialty |
(noun) an odd or unusual characteristic | Synonyms: distinctive feature, distinguishing characteristic |
pedagog | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagogue |
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pedagogics | (noun) the principles and methods of instruction | Synonyms: pedagogy, teaching method |
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pedagogue | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagog |
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pedagogy | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: instruction, teaching |
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(noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, teaching |
(noun) the principles and methods of instruction | Synonyms: pedagogics, teaching method |
pedal | (noun) a lever that is operated with the foot | Synonyms: foot lever, foot pedal, treadle |
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(noun) a sustained bass note | Synonyms: pedal point |
pedaler | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaller |
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pedaller | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaler |
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pedant | (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: bookworm, scholastic |
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pedantry | (noun) an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning | - |
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peddler | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, pedlar, pitchman |
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(noun) an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, pusher |
peddling | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, vending, vendition |
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pedelec | (noun) a bicycle built with a motor to aid the cyclist to turn the pedals | - |
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pederast | (noun) a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner | Synonyms: child molester, paederast |
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pederasty | (noun) sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) | Synonyms: paederasty |
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pedesis | (noun) the random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid | Synonyms: Brownian motion, Brownian movement |
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