p | (noun) the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: P |
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pa | (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, dada, daddy, papa, pappa, pop |
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pablum | (noun) worthless or oversimplified ideas | Synonyms: pap |
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pabulum | (noun) insipid intellectual nourishment | - |
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(noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, victual, victuals |
paca | (noun) large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America; highly esteemed as food | Synonyms: Cuniculus paca |
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pace | (noun) a step in walking or running | Synonyms: stride, tread |
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(noun) the relative speed of progress or change | Synonyms: rate |
(noun) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride | Synonyms: yard |
(noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: footstep, step, stride |
(noun) the rate of moving (especially walking or running) | Synonyms: gait |
(noun) the rate of some repeating event | Synonyms: tempo |
pacemaker | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacer, pacesetter |
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(noun) an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker | Synonyms: artificial pacemaker |
(noun) a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat | Synonyms: cardiac pacemaker, SA node, sinoatrial node |
(noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacesetter |
pacer | (noun) a horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together | - |
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(noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacemaker, pacesetter |
pacesetter | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacemaker, pacer |
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(noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacemaker |
pacha | (noun) a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt | Synonyms: pasha |
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pachinko | (noun) a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board | - |
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pachisi | (noun) an ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board | Synonyms: parchesi, parchisi |
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pachouli | (noun) a heavy perfume made from the patchouli plant | Synonyms: patchouli, patchouly |
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(noun) small East Indian shrubby mint; fragrant oil from its leaves is used in perfumes | Synonyms: patchouli, patchouly, Pogostemon cablin |
pachuco | (noun) a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes | - |
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pachycephalosaur | (noun) bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head; largest boneheaded dinosaur ever found | Synonyms: pachycephalosaurus |
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pachycephalosaurus | (noun) bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head; largest boneheaded dinosaur ever found | Synonyms: pachycephalosaur |
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pachycheilia | (noun) an abnormal thickness of the lips | - |
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pachyderm | (noun) any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus | - |
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pachyderma | (noun) thickening of the skin (usually unilateral on an extremity) caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruction | Synonyms: nevoid elephantiasis |
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pachysandra | (noun) any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover | - |
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pachytene | (noun) the third stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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pacification | (noun) the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined | Synonyms: mollification |
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(noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: counterinsurgency |
(noun) a treaty to cease hostilities | Synonyms: peace, peace treaty |
pacificism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacifism, passivism |
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(noun) the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration | Synonyms: pacifism |
pacificist | (noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: disarmer, pacifist |
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pacifier | (noun) device used for an infant to suck or bite on | Synonyms: baby's dummy, comforter, teething ring |
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(noun) anything that serves to pacify | - |
(noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, peacemaker, reconciler |
pacifism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacificism, passivism |
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(noun) the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration | Synonyms: pacificism |
pacifist | (noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: disarmer, pacificist |
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pacing | (noun) walking with slow regular strides | - |
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(noun) (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played | Synonyms: tempo |
pack | (noun) a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film) | - |
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(noun) a bundle (especially one carried on the back) | - |
(noun) a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect | - |
(noun) a cream that cleanses and tones the skin | Synonyms: face pack |
(noun) a group of hunting animals | - |
(noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle |
(noun) an association of criminals | Synonyms: gang, mob, ring |
(noun) a complete collection of similar things | - |
(noun) a large indefinite quantity | Synonyms: battalion, large number, multitude, plurality |
package | (noun) a wrapped container | Synonyms: parcel |
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(noun) (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory | Synonyms: computer software, software, software package, software program, software system |
(noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: bundle, packet, parcel |
packaging | (noun) the business of packing | - |
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(noun) material used to make packages | - |
(noun) a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | Synonyms: promo, promotion, promotional material, publicity |
packer | (noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: bagger, boxer |
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(noun) a wholesaler in the meat-packing business | Synonyms: meat packer |
(noun) a hiker who wears a backpack | Synonyms: backpacker |
packet | (noun) a small package or bundle | - |
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(noun) a boat for carrying mail | Synonyms: mail boat, mailboat, packet boat |
(noun) (computer science) a message or message fragment | - |
(noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: bundle, package, parcel |
packhorse | (noun) a workhorse used as a pack animal | - |
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packing | (noun) the enclosure of something in a package or box | Synonyms: boxing |
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(noun) carrying something in a pack on the back | Synonyms: backpacking |
(noun) any material used especially to protect something | Synonyms: packing material, wadding |
packinghouse | (noun) a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products | Synonyms: packing plant |
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(noun) a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed | - |
packman | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, peddler, pedlar, pitchman |
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packrat | (noun) any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects | Synonyms: bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea, pack rat, trade rat |
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(noun) a collector of miscellaneous useless objects | - |
packsack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, haversack, knapsack, rucksack |
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packsaddle | (noun) a saddle for pack animals to which loads can be attached | - |
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packthread | (noun) a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages | - |
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pact | (noun) a written agreement between two states or sovereigns | Synonyms: accord, treaty |
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paczki | (noun) A traditional Polish doughnut. | - |
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pad | (noun) the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger | - |
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(noun) a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort | - |
(noun) a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched | Synonyms: launch area, launch pad, launching pad, launchpad |
(noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: diggings, digs, domiciliation, lodgings |
(noun) a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp | Synonyms: inking pad, inkpad, stamp pad |
(noun) the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily) | - |
(noun) a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge | Synonyms: pad of paper, tablet |
padauk | (noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain | Synonyms: amboyna, padouk, Pterocarpus indicus |
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(noun) the wood of any of the padauk trees, used in decorative cabinetwork. | - |
padder | (noun) a highwayman who robs on foot | Synonyms: footpad |
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padding | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: cushioning |
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paddle | (noun) a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat | Synonyms: boat paddle |
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(noun) an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board | - |
(noun) a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel | - |
(noun) small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games | - |
paddlefish | (noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: duckbill, Polyodon spathula |
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paddler | (noun) someone paddling a canoe | Synonyms: canoeist |
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paddlewheel | (noun) a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat | Synonyms: paddle wheel |
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paddock | (noun) pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race | - |
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paddy | (noun) rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field | - |
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(noun) an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown | Synonyms: paddy field, rice paddy |
paddymelon | (noun) small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea | Synonyms: pademelon |
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pademelon | (noun) small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea | Synonyms: paddymelon |
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padlock | (noun) a detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut | - |
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padouk | (noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain | Synonyms: amboyna, padauk, Pterocarpus indicus |
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padre | (noun) a chaplain in one of the military services | Synonyms: Holy Joe, military chaplain, sky pilot |
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padrone | (noun) an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy | - |
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(noun) an employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S. | - |
paean | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, panegyric, pean |
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(noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) | Synonyms: pean |
paederast | (noun) a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner | Synonyms: child molester, pederast |
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paederasty | (noun) sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) | Synonyms: pederasty |
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paediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, pediatrician, pediatrist |
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paediatrics | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: pediatric medicine, pediatrics, pedology |
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paedophile | (noun) an adult who is sexually attracted to children | Synonyms: pedophile |
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paedophilia | (noun) a sexual attraction to children | Synonyms: pedophilia |
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paella | (noun) saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken | - |
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paeony | (noun) any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: peony |
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pagan | (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, heathen, infidel |
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(noun) a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew) | - |
(noun) someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: hedonist, pleasure seeker |
paganism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: heathenism, pagan religion |
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page | (noun) one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains | - |
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(noun) in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood | Synonyms: varlet |
(noun) a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings | - |
(noun) a boy who is employed to run errands | Synonyms: pageboy |
pageant | (noun) an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes | Synonyms: pageantry |
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(noun) a rich and spectacular ceremony | Synonyms: pageantry |
pageantry | (noun) an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes | Synonyms: pageant |
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(noun) a rich and spectacular ceremony | Synonyms: pageant |
pageboy | (noun) a smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inward | - |
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(noun) a boy who is employed to run errands | Synonyms: page |
pager | (noun) an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged | Synonyms: beeper |
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pagination | (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: folio, page number, paging |
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paging | (noun) calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system) | - |
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(noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: folio, page number, pagination |
pagoda | (noun) an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof | - |
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pahautea | (noun) evergreen tree of New Zealand resembling the kawaka | Synonyms: Libocedrus bidwillii, mountain pine |
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pahoehoe | (noun) freely flowing lava | - |
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paigle | (noun) early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers | Synonyms: cowslip, Primula veris |
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(noun) Eurasian primrose with yellow flowers clustered in a one-sided umbel | Synonyms: oxlip, Primula elatior |
pail | (noun) a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top | Synonyms: bucket |
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(noun) the quantity contained in a pail | Synonyms: pailful |
pailful | (noun) the quantity contained in a pail | Synonyms: pail |
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paillasse | (noun) mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust | Synonyms: palliasse |
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pain | (noun) a somatic sensation of acute discomfort | Synonyms: pain sensation, painful sensation |
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(noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
(noun) emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid | Synonyms: painfulness |
(noun) a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder | Synonyms: hurting |
painfulness | (noun) the quality of being painful | Synonyms: distressingness |
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(noun) emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid | Synonyms: pain |
painkiller | (noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne, pain pill |
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painlessness | (noun) The quality of being free from pain, without pain or trouble. | - |
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(noun) Ease; lack of difficulty. | - |
pains | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: nisus, strain, striving |
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painstakingness | (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: conscientiousness |
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paint | (noun) a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating | Synonyms: pigment |
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(noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, blusher, rouge |
(noun) (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court | Synonyms: key |
paintball | (noun) a game that simulates military combat; players on one team try to eliminate players on the opposing team by shooting capsules of paint at them | - |
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(noun) a capsule filled with water-soluble dye used as a projectile in playing the game of paintball | - |
paintbox | (noun) a box containing a collection of cubes or tubes of artists' paint | - |
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paintbrush | (noun) a brush used as an applicator (to apply paint) | - |
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painter | (noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: catamount, cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, panther, puma |
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(noun) a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing) | - |
(noun) an artist who paints | - |
(noun) a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint | - |
painting | (noun) creating a picture with paints | - |
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(noun) the occupation of a house painter | Synonyms: house painting |
(noun) the act of applying paint to a surface | - |
(noun) graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface | Synonyms: picture |
pair | (noun) two people considered as a unit | - |
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(noun) a set of two similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: brace |
(noun) a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value | - |
(noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
pairing | (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: conjugation, coupling, mating, sexual union, union |
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(noun) the act of grouping things or people in pairs | - |
paisa | (noun) a fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan | - |
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paisley | (noun) a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes | - |
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