| palilalia | (noun) a pathological condition in which a word is rapidly and involuntarily repeated | - |
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| palimony | (noun) support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends | - |
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| palimpsest | (noun) a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible | - |
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| palindrome | (noun) a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward | - |
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| paling | (noun) a fence made of upright pickets | Synonyms: picket fence |
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| palingenesis | (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: recapitulation |
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| palisade | (noun) fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground | - |
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