| patriotism | (noun) love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | Synonyms: nationalism |
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| patrisib | (noun) one related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib |
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| patristic | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristical |
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| patristical | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristic |
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| patristics | (noun) the study of the lives, writings, and doctrines of the Church Fathers | Synonyms: patrology |
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| (noun) the writings of the early Church Fathers | Synonyms: patrology |
| pedestrian | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, prosaic, prosy |
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| (noun) a person who travels by foot | Synonyms: footer, walker |
| pediatric | (adjective) of or relating to the medical care of children | Synonyms: paediatric |
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| pediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrist |
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| pediatrics | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: paediatrics, pediatric medicine, pedology |
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| pediatrist | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrician |
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| peritrichous | (adjective) covered all over with uniformly distributed flagella | - |
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| petrifaction | (noun) a rock created by petrifaction; an organic object infiltrated with mineral matter and preserved in its original form | - |
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| (noun) the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape | Synonyms: petrification |
| petrification | (noun) the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape | Synonyms: petrifaction |
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| petrify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: lapidify |
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| (verb) cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright | - |
| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: ossify, rigidify |
| petrifying | (adjective) paralyzing with terror | - |
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| petrissage | (noun) massage of the skin which is gently lifted and squeezed | - |
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| photoelectric | (adjective) of or pertaining to photoelectricity | Synonyms: photoelectrical |
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| photoelectrical | (adjective) of or pertaining to photoelectricity | Synonyms: photoelectric |
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| photoelectrically | (adverb) by photoelectric means | - |
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| photoelectricity | (noun) electricity generated by light or affected by light | - |
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| photometric | (adjective) of or relating to photometry | Synonyms: photometrical |
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| photometrical | (adjective) of or relating to photometry | Synonyms: photometric |
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| photometrically | (adverb) by photometric means | - |
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| photometrician | (noun) someone who practices photometry | Synonyms: photometrist |
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| photometrist | (noun) someone who practices photometry | Synonyms: photometrician |
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| physiatrics | (noun) therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities | Synonyms: physical therapy, physiotherapy |
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| piezoelectric | (adjective) relating to or involving piezoelectricity | - |
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| piezoelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt); alternatively, electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear dimensions of the crystal | Synonyms: piezo effect, piezoelectric effect |
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| pinstripe | (noun) a very thin stripe (especially a white stripe on a dark fabric) | - |
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| (noun) a fabric with very thin stripes | - |
| (noun) a suit made from a fabric with very thin stripes | - |
| pinstriped | (adjective) having very thin stripes | - |
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| pneumogastric | (adjective) of or relating to or involving the lungs and stomach | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the vagus nerve | Synonyms: vagal |
| (noun) a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera | Synonyms: nervus vagus, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus, vagus nerve, wandering nerve |
| podiatrist | (noun) a specialist in care for the feet | Synonyms: chiropodist, foot doctor |
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| polypropenonitrile | (noun) acrylic resin used to make a strong soft crease-resistant fabric (trade name Acrilan) | Synonyms: Acrilan |
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| postindustrial | (adjective) of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research | - |
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| pretrial | (noun) (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases | Synonyms: pretrial conference |
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| propenonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: acrylonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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| protogeometric | (adjective) characteristic of the earliest phase of geometric art especially in Greece | - |
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| protriptyline | (noun) tricyclic antidepressant used to treat clinical depression | - |
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| psychiatric | (adjective) relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry | Synonyms: psychiatrical |
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| psychiatrical | (adjective) relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry | Synonyms: psychiatric |
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| psychiatrist | (noun) a physician who specializes in psychiatry | Synonyms: head-shrinker, shrink |
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| psychometric | (adjective) of or relating to psychometrics | - |
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| psychometrics | (noun) any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements | Synonyms: psychometrika, psychometry |
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| psychometrika | (noun) any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements | Synonyms: psychometrics, psychometry |
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| putrid | (adjective) of or relating to or attended by putrefaction | - |
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| (adjective) morally corrupt or evil | - |
| (adjective) in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor | - |
| putridity | (noun) the state of being putrid | - |
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| putridness | (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putrescence, rottenness |
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| pyroelectric | (adjective) relating to or exhibiting pyroelectricity | Synonyms: pyroelectrical |
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| pyroelectrical | (adjective) relating to or exhibiting pyroelectricity | Synonyms: pyroelectric |
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| pyroelectricity | (noun) generation of an electric charge on certain crystals (such as tourmaline) as a result of a change in temperature | - |
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| reattribute | (verb) attribute to another source | - |
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| reconnoitring | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitering, scouting |
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| redistribute | (verb) distribute anew | - |
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| redistributed | (adjective) having population and industries relocated from urban to outlying areas | - |
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| redistribution | (noun) distributing again | - |
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| repatriate | (noun) a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored | - |
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| (verb) admit back into the country | - |
| (verb) send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees | - |
| repatriation | (noun) the act of returning to the country of origin | - |
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| restrict | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, throttle, trammel |
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| (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, curtail, cut back |
| (verb) place under restrictions; limit access to by law | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) prevent (information) from being circulated or disclosed | - |
| restricted | (adjective) subject to restriction or subjected to restriction | - |
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| (adjective) the lowest level of official classification for documents | - |
| (adjective) restricted in meaning; (as e.g. `man' in `a tall man') | Synonyms: qualified |
| restricting | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting |
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| restriction | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: limitation |
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| (noun) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) | Synonyms: confinement |
| (noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: limitation |
| restrictive | (adjective) serving to restrict | - |
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| (adjective) (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports | - |
| restrictively | (adverb) in a restrictive manner | - |
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| restrictiveness | (noun) a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits | Synonyms: unpermissiveness |
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| (noun) a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat') | - |
| retrial | (noun) a new trial in which issues already litigated and to which the court has already rendered a verdict or decision are reexamined by the same court; occurs when the initial trial is found to have been improper or unfair due to procedural errors | - |
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| retribution | (noun) the act of correcting for your wrongdoing | - |
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| (noun) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | Synonyms: payback, vengeance |
| (noun) a justly deserved penalty | Synonyms: requital |
| retributive | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributory, vindicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributory, vindicatory |
| retributory | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, vindicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, vindicatory |
| retrievable | (adjective) capable of being regained especially with effort | - |
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| retrieval | (noun) the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) | Synonyms: recovery |
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| (noun) the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory | - |
| retrieve | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, think |
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| (verb) run after, pick up, and bring to the master | - |
| (verb) go for and bring back | - |
| (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, recover, regain |
| retriever | (noun) a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game | - |
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| semestrial | (adjective) occurring every six months or during every period of six months | Synonyms: semestral |
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| semiterrestrial | (adjective) chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial | - |
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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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| septrional | (adjective) of northern regions; from the seven stars (or seven plowing oxen) of Ursa Major | - |
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| shoestring | (noun) a lace used for fastening shoes | Synonyms: shoe lace, shoe string, shoelace |
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| (noun) a small amount of money | Synonyms: shoe string |
| spectrometric | (adjective) of or relating to or involving spectrometry | - |
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| sporotrichosis | (noun) a chronic fungal infection of the skin and lymph nodes | - |
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| stoichiometric | (adjective) of or relating to stoichiometry | - |
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| stria | (noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: band, banding, striation |
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| (noun) any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue | Synonyms: striation |
| striate | (adjective) marked with stria or striations | - |
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| (verb) mark with striae or striations | - |
| striation | (noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: band, banding, stria |
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| (noun) any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue | Synonyms: stria |
| striatum | (noun) a striped mass of white and grey matter located in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere; consists of the caudate nucleus and the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: corpus striatum, striate body |
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| stricken | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: smitten, struck |
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| (adjective) grievously affected especially by disease | Synonyms: afflicted |
| (adjective) put out of action (by illness) | Synonyms: laid low |
| strickle | (noun) a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand | - |
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| (noun) a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure | - |
| (noun) an implement for sharpening scythes | - |
| (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) level off with a strickle in a measuring container | - |
| strict | (adjective) characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint | Synonyms: nonindulgent |
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| (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: exacting, stern |
| (adjective) rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard | Synonyms: rigorous |
| (adjective) incapable of compromise or flexibility | Synonyms: rigid |
| (adjective) (of rules) stringently enforced | Synonyms: hard-and-fast |
| strictly | (adverb) restricted to something | Synonyms: purely |
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| (adverb) in a rigorous manner | Synonyms: rigorously |
| (adverb) in a stringent manner | Synonyms: stringently |
| strictness | (noun) uncompromising resolution | Synonyms: sternness |
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| (noun) conscientious attention to rules and details | Synonyms: stringency |
| stricture | (noun) severe criticism | - |
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| (noun) abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway | Synonyms: stenosis |
| stride | (noun) a step in walking or running | Synonyms: pace, tread |
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| (noun) significant progress (especially in the phrase `make strides') | - |
| (noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: footstep, pace, step |
| (verb) walk with long steps | - |
| stridence | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | Synonyms: shrillness, stridency |
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| stridency | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | Synonyms: shrillness, stridence |
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| strident | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and harsh | Synonyms: raucous |
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| (adjective) being sharply insistent on being heard | Synonyms: shrill |
| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous |
| (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirant |
| stridently | (adverb) in a strident manner | - |
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| strider | (noun) a person who walks rapidly with long steps | - |
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| stridor | (noun) a whistling sound when breathing (usually heard on inspiration); indicates obstruction of the trachea or larynx | - |
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| stridulate | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: clitter |
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| stridulation | (noun) a shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together | - |
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| strife | (noun) bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension | - |
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| (noun) lack of agreement or harmony | Synonyms: discord |