pep | (noun) liveliness and energy | Synonyms: ginger, peppiness |
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peperomia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Peperomia; grown primarily for their often succulent foliage | - |
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peplos | (noun) a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist | Synonyms: peplum, peplus |
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peplum | (noun) a flared ruffle attached to the waistline of a dress or jacket or blouse | - |
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(noun) a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist | Synonyms: peplos, peplus |
peplus | (noun) a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist | Synonyms: peplos, peplum |
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pepper | (noun) pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground | Synonyms: peppercorn |
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(noun) sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum | - |
(noun) any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers | Synonyms: capsicum, capsicum pepper plant |
(noun) climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam | Synonyms: black pepper, common pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum, white pepper |
peppercorn | (noun) pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground | Synonyms: pepper |
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pepperidge | (noun) columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall | Synonyms: black gum, Nyssa sylvatica, sour gum |
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pepperiness | (noun) a hot spiciness | Synonyms: hotness |
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peppermint | (noun) a candy flavored with peppermint oil | Synonyms: peppermint candy |
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(noun) herb with downy leaves and small purple or white flowers that yields a pungent oil used as a flavoring | Synonyms: Mentha piperita |
(noun) red gum tree of Tasmania | Synonyms: Eucalyptus amygdalina, peppermint gum, red gum |
pepperoni | (noun) a pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage) | - |
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pepperwood | (noun) Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood | Synonyms: California bay tree, California laurel, California olive, mountain laurel, Oregon myrtle, sassafras laurel, spice tree, Umbellularia californica |
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pepperwort | (noun) annual herb used as salad green and garnish | Synonyms: common garden cress, garden pepper cress, Lepidium sativum, pepper grass |
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(noun) any of several water ferns of the genus Marsilea having four leaflets | Synonyms: clover fern |
peppiness | (noun) liveliness and energy | Synonyms: ginger, pep |
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pepsin | (noun) an enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones | - |
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pepsinogen | (noun) precursor of pepsin; stored in the stomach walls and converted to pepsin by hydrochloric acid in the stomach | - |
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peptidase | (noun) any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis | Synonyms: protease, proteinase, proteolytic enzyme |
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peptide | (noun) amide combining the amino group of one amino acid with the carboxyl group of another; usually obtained by partial hydrolysis of protein | - |
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peptisation | (noun) the process of converting to a sol; bringing to a colloidal solution | Synonyms: peptization |
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peptization | (noun) the process of converting to a sol; bringing to a colloidal solution | Synonyms: peptisation |
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peptone | (noun) any of various water-soluble compounds that form by hydrolysis in the digestion of proteins to amino acids | - |
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