| paralyzed | (adjective) affected with paralysis | Synonyms: paralytic |
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| paramagnet | (noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it | - |
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| paramagnetic | (adjective) of or relating to a paramagnet | - |
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| paramagnetism | (noun) materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed | - |
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| paramecia | (noun) any member of the genus Paramecium | Synonyms: paramecium |
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| paramecium | (noun) any member of the genus Paramecium | Synonyms: paramecia |
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| paramedic | (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedical |
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| paramedical | (adjective) of or denoting a person who is trained to assist physicians and nurses in their activities | - |
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| (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedic |
| parameter | (noun) a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves | Synonyms: parametric quantity |
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| (noun) a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program | Synonyms: argument |
| (noun) any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance | - |
| parametric | (adjective) of or relating to or in terms of a parameter | - |
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| parametritis | (noun) inflammation of connective tissue adjacent to the uterus | - |
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| paramilitary | (adjective) of or relating to a group of civilians organized to function like or to assist a military unit | - |
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| (noun) a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) | Synonyms: paramilitary force, paramilitary organisation, paramilitary organization, paramilitary unit |
| paramnesia | (noun) (psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality | - |
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| paramount | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating |
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| paramountcy | (noun) the state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority | - |
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| paramour | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, courtesan, doxy |
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| (noun) a woman's lover | Synonyms: fancy man |
| paramyxovirus | (noun) a group of viruses including those causing mumps and measles | - |
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| paranasal | (adjective) adjacent to the nasal cavities | - |
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| parang | (noun) a stout straight knife used in Malaysia and Indonesia | - |
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| paranoia | (noun) a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur | - |
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| paranoiac | (noun) a person afflicted with paranoia | Synonyms: paranoid |
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| paranoid | (adjective) suffering from paranoia | - |
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| (noun) a person afflicted with paranoia | Synonyms: paranoiac |
| paranormal | (adjective) not in accordance with scientific laws | - |
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| (adjective) seemingly outside normal sensory channels | Synonyms: extrasensory |
| paraparesis | (noun) a slight paralysis or weakness of both legs | - |
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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 | - |
| paraph | (noun) a flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery) | - |
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| paraphernalia | (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: appurtenance, gear |
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| paraphilia | (noun) abnormal sexual activity | - |
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| paraphrase | (noun) rewording for the purpose of clarification | Synonyms: paraphrasis |
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| (verb) express the same message in different words | Synonyms: rephrase, reword |
| paraphrasis | (noun) rewording for the purpose of clarification | Synonyms: paraphrase |
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| paraphrastic | (adjective) altered by paraphrasing | - |
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| paraphrenia | (noun) a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner | Synonyms: paranoic type schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia |
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| paraphysis | (noun) a sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia; may be pointed or clubbed | - |
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| paraplegia | (noun) paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma) | - |
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| paraplegic | (adjective) suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord | - |
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| (noun) a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down) | - |
| parapodium | (noun) one of a pair of fleshy appendages of a polychete annelid that functions in locomotion and breathing | - |
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| parapraxis | (noun) a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. | Synonyms: miscue, slip-up, slip |
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| paraprofessional | (noun) a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional | - |
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| parapsychological | (adjective) beyond normal physical explanation | - |
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| parapsychologist | (noun) someone who studies the evidence for such psychological phenomena as psychokinesis and telepathy and clairvoyance | - |
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| parapsychology | (noun) phenomena that appear to contradict physical laws and suggest the possibility of causation by mental processes | Synonyms: psychic phenomena, psychic phenomenon |
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| paraquat | (noun) a poisonous yellow solid used in solution as a herbicide | - |
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| paraquet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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| parasail | (noun) parachute that will lift a person up into the air when it is towed by a motorboat or a car | - |
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| parasailing | (noun) gliding in a parasail | Synonyms: paragliding |
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| parasitaemia | (noun) a condition in which parasites are present in the blood | Synonyms: parasitemia |
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| parasite | (noun) an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host | - |
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| (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: leech, sponge, sponger |
| parasitemia | (noun) a condition in which parasites are present in the blood | Synonyms: parasitaemia |
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| parasitic | (adjective) of or pertaining to epenthesis | Synonyms: epenthetic |
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| (adjective) relating to or caused by parasites | Synonyms: parasitical |
| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: bloodsucking, leechlike, parasitical |
| parasitical | (adjective) relating to or caused by parasites | Synonyms: parasitic |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: bloodsucking, leechlike, parasitic |
| parasitically | (adverb) in a parasitic manner | - |
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| parasiticidal | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, anthelmintic, helminthic |
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| parasitism | (noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage) | - |
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| parasol | (noun) a handheld collapsible source of shade | Synonyms: sunshade |
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| parasympathetic | (adjective) of or relating to the parasympathetic nervous system | - |
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| (noun) originates in the brain stem and lower part of the spinal cord; opposes physiological effects of the sympathetic nervous system: stimulates digestive secretions; slows the heart; constricts the pupils; dilates blood vessels | Synonyms: parasympathetic nervous system |
| parasympathomimetic | (adjective) having an effect similar to that resulting from stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system | - |
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| parathion | (noun) a colorless and odorless toxic oil used as an insecticide | - |
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| parathormone | (noun) hormone synthesized and released into the blood stream by the parathyroid glands; regulates phosphorus and calcium in the body and functions in neuromuscular excitation and blood clotting | Synonyms: parathyroid hormone |
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| parathyroid | (noun) any one of four endocrine glands situated above or within the thyroid gland | Synonyms: parathyroid gland |
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| paratrooper | (noun) a soldier in the paratroops | Synonyms: para |
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| paratroops | (noun) infantry trained and equipped to parachute | - |
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| paratyphoid | (noun) any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever | Synonyms: paratyphoid fever |
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| parazoan | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: poriferan, sponge |
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| preparation | (noun) activity leading to skilled behavior | Synonyms: grooming, training |
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| (noun) preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) | Synonyms: prep |
| (noun) the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose | Synonyms: readying |
| (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cookery, cooking |
| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: planning, provision |
| (noun) (music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord | - |
| (noun) the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) | Synonyms: preparedness, readiness |
| (noun) a substance prepared according to a formula | Synonyms: formulation |
| preparative | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparatory, propaedeutic |
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| preparatory | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparative, propaedeutic |
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| primipara | (noun) (obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time | Synonyms: para I |
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| quadripara | (noun) (obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of four pregnancies | - |
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| quintipara | (noun) (obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of five pregnancies | - |
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| reparable | (adjective) capable of being repaired or rectified | Synonyms: rectifiable |
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| reparation | (noun) something done or paid in expiation of a wrong | Synonyms: amends |
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| (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, repair |
| (noun) (usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors | - |
| (noun) compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury | - |
| semiparasite | (noun) a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis | Synonyms: hemiparasite |
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| semiparasitic | (adjective) of or relating to plants that are semiparasites | - |
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| separability | (noun) the capability of being separated | - |
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| separable | (adjective) capable of being divided or dissociated | Synonyms: dissociable, severable |
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| separably | (adverb) with possibility of separation or individuation | - |
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| separate | (adjective) independent; not united or joint | - |
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| (adjective) standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything | Synonyms: freestanding |
| (adjective) separated according to race, sex, class, or religion | - |
| (adjective) have the connection undone; having become separate | Synonyms: disjoined |
| (noun) a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments | - |
| (noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | Synonyms: offprint, reprint |
| (verb) become separated into pieces or fragments | Synonyms: break, come apart, fall apart, split up |
| (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, ramify |
| (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, classify, sort, sort out |
| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
| (verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: divide, part |
| (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, divide, part |
| (verb) divide into components or constituents | - |
| (verb) go one's own way; move apart | Synonyms: part, split |
| (verb) make a division or separation | Synonyms: divide |
| (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: discriminate, single out |
| (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break, break up, part, split, split up |
| (verb) act as a barrier between; stand between | Synonyms: divide |
| separated | (adjective) spaced apart | Synonyms: spaced |
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| (adjective) separated at the joint | Synonyms: disjointed, dislocated |
| (adjective) being or feeling set or kept apart from others | Synonyms: detached, isolated, set-apart |
| (adjective) no longer connected or joined | Synonyms: detached |
| separately | (adverb) apart from others | Synonyms: individually, on an individual basis, one by one, severally, singly |
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| separateness | (noun) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | Synonyms: distinctness, otherness |
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| (noun) political independence | - |
| (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: discreteness, distinctness, severalty |
| separation | (noun) the social act of separating or parting company | - |
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| (noun) the act of dividing or disconnecting | - |
| (noun) (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order) | Synonyms: legal separation |
| (noun) sorting one thing from others | - |
| (noun) the distance between things | Synonyms: interval |
| (noun) coming apart | Synonyms: breakup, detachment |
| (noun) the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal) | - |
| (noun) the space where a division or parting occurs | - |
| (noun) the state of lacking unity | - |
| separationism | (noun) advocacy of a policy of strict separation of church and state | Synonyms: separatism |
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| separationist | (noun) an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) | Synonyms: separatist |
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| separatism | (noun) advocacy of a policy of strict separation of church and state | Synonyms: separationism |
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| (noun) a disposition toward schism and secession from a larger group; the principles and practices of separatists | - |
| (noun) a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups | Synonyms: segregation |
| separatist | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: breakaway, fissiparous |
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| (noun) an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) | Synonyms: separationist |
| separative | (adjective) (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group | - |
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| (adjective) serving to separate or divide into parts | Synonyms: partitive |
| (adjective) (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it | - |
| separator | (noun) an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension | Synonyms: centrifuge, extractor |
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| separatrix | (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule |
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| uncomparable | (adjective) such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared | Synonyms: incomparable |
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| uncomparably | (adverb) in an incomparable manner or to an incomparable degree | Synonyms: incomparably |
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| unparallel | (adjective) not straight or parallel | - |
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| unparalleled | (adjective) radically distinctive and without equal | Synonyms: alone, unequaled, unequalled, unique |
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