arpent | (noun) a former French unit of area; equal approximately to an acre | - |
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carpenter | (noun) a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects | - |
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(verb) work as a carpenter | - |
carpenteria | (noun) California evergreen shrub having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers | Synonyms: Carpenteria californica |
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carpentry | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: woodwork, woodworking |
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epenthesis | (noun) the insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier | - |
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epenthetic | (adjective) of or pertaining to epenthesis | Synonyms: parasitic |
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gabapentin | (noun) an anticonvulsant (trade name Neurontin) used to control some types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy; also used to manage neuralgia caused by shingles | Synonyms: Neurontin |
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pent | (adjective) closely confined | Synonyms: shut up |
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pentacle | (noun) a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon | Synonyms: pentagram, pentangle |
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pentad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
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pentaerythritol | (noun) a coronary vasodilator (trade name Peritrate) used to treat angina pectoris | Synonyms: Peritrate |
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pentagon | (noun) a five-sided polygon | - |
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pentagonal | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon | Synonyms: pentangular |
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pentagram | (noun) a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon | Synonyms: pentacle, pentangle |
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pentahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having five plane faces | - |
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pentail | (noun) brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia | Synonyms: pen-tail, pen-tailed tree shrew |
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pentamerous | (adjective) divided into five parts; specifically, having each floral whorl consist of five (or a multiple of five) members | - |
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pentameter | (noun) a verse line having five metrical feet | - |
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pentamethylenetetrazol | (noun) a drug used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant; larger doses cause convulsions in shock therapy; Metrazol is a trademark | Synonyms: Metrazol, pentylenetetrazol |
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pentangle | (noun) a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon | Synonyms: pentacle, pentagram |
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pentangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon | Synonyms: pentagonal |
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pentastomid | (noun) wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth; parasitic in nasal sinuses of mammals | Synonyms: tongue worm |
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pentasyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of five syllables | - |
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pentathlete | (noun) an athlete who competes in a pentathlon | - |
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pentathlon | (noun) an athletic contest consisting of five different events | - |
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pentatone | (noun) a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted | Synonyms: pentatonic scale |
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pentatonic | (adjective) relating to a pentatonic scale | - |
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pentavalent | (adjective) having a valence of five | - |
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pentazocine | (noun) analgesic drug (trade name Talwin) that is less addictive than morphine | Synonyms: Talwin |
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pentecostal | (adjective) of or relating to or occurring at Pentecost | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of any of various Pentecostal religious bodies or their members | - |
pentecostalism | (noun) the principles and practices of Pentecostal religious groups; characterized by religious excitement and talking in tongues | - |
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penthouse | (noun) an apartment located on the top floors of a building | - |
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pentimento | (noun) the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age) | - |
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pentlandite | (noun) a mineral (iron and nickel sulphide) that is the chief ore of nickel | - |
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pentobarbital | (noun) a barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and antispasmodic | Synonyms: Nembutal, pentobarbital sodium, yellow jacket |
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pentode | (noun) a thermionic tube having five electrodes | - |
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pentose | (noun) any monosaccharide sugar containing five atoms of carbon per molecule | - |
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pentoxide | (noun) an oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in the molecule | - |
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pentoxifylline | (noun) a drug (trade name Trental) used to treat claudication; believed to increase the flexibility of red blood cells so they can flow through the blood vessels to the legs and feet | Synonyms: Trental |
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pentylenetetrazol | (noun) a drug used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant; larger doses cause convulsions in shock therapy; Metrazol is a trademark | Synonyms: Metrazol, pentamethylenetetrazol |
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repent | (verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about | Synonyms: regret, rue |
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(verb) turn away from sin or do penitence | Synonyms: atone |
repentance | (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penance, penitence |
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repentant | (adjective) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | Synonyms: penitent |
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repentantly | (adverb) showing remorse | Synonyms: penitentially, penitently |
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serpent | (noun) limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous | Synonyms: ophidian, snake |
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(noun) an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake | - |
(noun) a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited | - |
serpentine | (adjective) resembling a serpent in form | Synonyms: snakelike, snaky |
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spent | (adjective) depleted of energy, force, or strength | Synonyms: exhausted |
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(adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fagged, fatigued, gone, played out, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
thiopental | (noun) barbiturate that is a hygroscopic powder (trade name Pentothal) that is a strong barbiturate that acts rapidly; induces a relaxed state when injected as a general anesthetic | Synonyms: Pentothal, thiopental sodium, thiopentobarbital sodium |
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turpentine | (noun) an oleoresin obtained from conifers (especially pines) | Synonyms: gum terpentine |
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(noun) volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally | Synonyms: oil of turpentine, spirit of turpentine, turps |
unrepentant | (adjective) not penitent or remorseful | Synonyms: impenitent, unremorseful |
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(adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obdurate, obstinate |
unrepentantly | (adverb) in an impenitent manner | Synonyms: impenitently |
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unspent | (adjective) (of financial resources) not spent | Synonyms: unexpended |
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ununpentium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 115 | Synonyms: atomic number 115, element 115, Uup |
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