p | (noun) the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: P |
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pa | (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, dada, daddy, papa, pappa, pop |
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pablum | (noun) worthless or oversimplified ideas | Synonyms: pap |
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pabulum | (noun) insipid intellectual nourishment | - |
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(noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, victual, victuals |
paca | (noun) large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America; highly esteemed as food | Synonyms: Cuniculus paca |
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pace | (noun) a step in walking or running | Synonyms: stride, tread |
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(noun) the relative speed of progress or change | Synonyms: rate |
(noun) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride | Synonyms: yard |
(noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: footstep, step, stride |
(noun) the rate of moving (especially walking or running) | Synonyms: gait |
(noun) the rate of some repeating event | Synonyms: tempo |
(verb) measure (distances) by pacing | Synonyms: step |
(verb) regulate or set the pace of | - |
(verb) walk with slow or fast paces | - |
(verb) go at a pace | - |
pacemaker | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacer, pacesetter |
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(noun) an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker | Synonyms: artificial pacemaker |
(noun) a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat | Synonyms: cardiac pacemaker, SA node, sinoatrial node |
(noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacesetter |
pacer | (noun) a horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together | - |
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(noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacemaker, pacesetter |
pacesetter | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacemaker, pacer |
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(noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacemaker |
pacha | (noun) a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt | Synonyms: pasha |
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pachinko | (noun) a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board | - |
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pachisi | (noun) an ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board | Synonyms: parchesi, parchisi |
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pachouli | (noun) a heavy perfume made from the patchouli plant | Synonyms: patchouli, patchouly |
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(noun) small East Indian shrubby mint; fragrant oil from its leaves is used in perfumes | Synonyms: patchouli, patchouly, Pogostemon cablin |
pachuco | (noun) a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes | - |
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pachycephalosaur | (noun) bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head; largest boneheaded dinosaur ever found | Synonyms: pachycephalosaurus |
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pachycephalosaurus | (noun) bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head; largest boneheaded dinosaur ever found | Synonyms: pachycephalosaur |
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pachycheilia | (noun) an abnormal thickness of the lips | - |
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pachyderm | (noun) any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus | - |
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pachyderma | (noun) thickening of the skin (usually unilateral on an extremity) caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruction | Synonyms: nevoid elephantiasis |
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pachydermal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermatous, pachydermic, pachydermous |
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pachydermatous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermal, pachydermic, pachydermous |
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(adjective) emotionally hardened | Synonyms: callous, indurate |
pachydermic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermal, pachydermatous, pachydermous |
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pachydermous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermal, pachydermatous, pachydermic |
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pachysandra | (noun) any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover | - |
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pachytene | (noun) the third stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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pacific | (adjective) promoting peace | - |
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(adjective) disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature | Synonyms: peaceable |
pacifically | (adverb) in a peaceable manner | Synonyms: peaceably |
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pacification | (noun) the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined | Synonyms: mollification |
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(noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: counterinsurgency |
(noun) a treaty to cease hostilities | Synonyms: peace, peace treaty |
pacificism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacifism, passivism |
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(noun) the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration | Synonyms: pacifism |
pacificist | (noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: disarmer, pacifist |
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pacifier | (noun) device used for an infant to suck or bite on | Synonyms: baby's dummy, comforter, teething ring |
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(noun) anything that serves to pacify | - |
(noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, peacemaker, reconciler |
pacifism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacificism, passivism |
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(noun) the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration | Synonyms: pacificism |
pacifist | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: dovish, pacifistic |
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(noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: disarmer, pacificist |
pacifistic | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: dovish, pacifist |
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pacifistically | (adverb) in a pacifistic manner | - |
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pacify | (verb) fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location) | - |
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(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, placate |
pacing | (noun) walking with slow regular strides | - |
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(noun) (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played | Synonyms: tempo |
pack | (noun) a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film) | - |
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(noun) a bundle (especially one carried on the back) | - |
(noun) a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect | - |
(noun) a cream that cleanses and tones the skin | Synonyms: face pack |
(noun) a group of hunting animals | - |
(noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle |
(noun) an association of criminals | Synonyms: gang, mob, ring |
(noun) a complete collection of similar things | - |
(noun) a large indefinite quantity | Synonyms: battalion, large number, multitude, plurality |
(verb) treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood | - |
(verb) arrange in a container | - |
(verb) load with a pack | Synonyms: load down |
(verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, compact, wad |
(verb) seal with packing | - |
(verb) press down tightly | Synonyms: tamp, tamp down |
(verb) carry, as on one's back | - |
(verb) have the property of being packable or of compacting easily | Synonyms: compact |
(verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: jam, mob, pile, throng |
(verb) hike with a backpack | Synonyms: backpack |
(verb) fill to capacity | - |
(verb) set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome | - |
(verb) have with oneself; have on one's person | Synonyms: carry, take |
packable | (adjective) capable of being packed | - |
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package | (noun) a wrapped container | Synonyms: parcel |
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(noun) (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory | Synonyms: computer software, software, software package, software program, software system |
(noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: bundle, packet, parcel |
(verb) put into a box | Synonyms: box |
packaged | (adjective) enclosed in a package or protective covering | - |
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packaging | (noun) the business of packing | - |
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(noun) material used to make packages | - |
(noun) a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | Synonyms: promo, promotion, promotional material, publicity |
packed | (adjective) pressed together or compressed | - |
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(adjective) extremely crowed or filled to capacity | Synonyms: jam-packed, jammed |
packer | (noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: bagger, boxer |
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(noun) a wholesaler in the meat-packing business | Synonyms: meat packer |
(noun) a hiker who wears a backpack | Synonyms: backpacker |
packet | (noun) a small package or bundle | - |
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(noun) a boat for carrying mail | Synonyms: mail boat, mailboat, packet boat |
(noun) (computer science) a message or message fragment | - |
(noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: bundle, package, parcel |
packhorse | (noun) a workhorse used as a pack animal | - |
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packing | (noun) the enclosure of something in a package or box | Synonyms: boxing |
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(noun) carrying something in a pack on the back | Synonyms: backpacking |
(noun) any material used especially to protect something | Synonyms: packing material, wadding |
packinghouse | (noun) a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products | Synonyms: packing plant |
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(noun) a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed | - |
packman | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, peddler, pedlar, pitchman |
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packrat | (noun) any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects | Synonyms: bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea, pack rat, trade rat |
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(noun) a collector of miscellaneous useless objects | - |
packsack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, haversack, knapsack, rucksack |
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packsaddle | (noun) a saddle for pack animals to which loads can be attached | - |
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packthread | (noun) a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages | - |
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pact | (noun) a written agreement between two states or sovereigns | Synonyms: accord, treaty |
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paczki | (noun) A traditional Polish doughnut. | - |
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pad | (noun) the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger | - |
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(noun) a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort | - |
(noun) a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched | Synonyms: launch area, launch pad, launching pad, launchpad |
(noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: diggings, digs, domiciliation, lodgings |
(noun) a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp | Synonyms: inking pad, inkpad, stamp pad |
(noun) the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily) | - |
(noun) a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge | Synonyms: pad of paper, tablet |
(verb) add padding to | Synonyms: bolster |
(verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard |
(verb) line or stuff with soft material | Synonyms: fill out |
(verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, plod, slog, tramp, trudge |
padauk | (noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain | Synonyms: amboyna, padouk, Pterocarpus indicus |
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(noun) the wood of any of the padauk trees, used in decorative cabinetwork. | - |
padded | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushioned, cushiony |
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padder | (noun) a highwayman who robs on foot | Synonyms: footpad |
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padding | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: cushioning |
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paddle | (noun) a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat | Synonyms: boat paddle |
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(noun) an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board | - |
(noun) a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel | - |
(noun) small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games | - |
(verb) stir with a paddle | - |
(verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: larrup, spank |
(verb) propel with a paddle | - |
(verb) swim like a dog in shallow water | - |
(verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, toddle, totter, waddle |
(verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: dabble, splash around |
paddlefish | (noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: duckbill, Polyodon spathula |
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paddler | (noun) someone paddling a canoe | Synonyms: canoeist |
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paddlewheel | (noun) a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat | Synonyms: paddle wheel |
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paddock | (noun) pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race | - |
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paddy | (noun) rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field | - |
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(noun) an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown | Synonyms: paddy field, rice paddy |
paddymelon | (noun) small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea | Synonyms: pademelon |
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pademelon | (noun) small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea | Synonyms: paddymelon |
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padlock | (noun) a detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut | - |
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(verb) fasten with a padlock | - |
padouk | (noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain | Synonyms: amboyna, padauk, Pterocarpus indicus |
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padre | (noun) a chaplain in one of the military services | Synonyms: Holy Joe, military chaplain, sky pilot |
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padrone | (noun) an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy | - |
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(noun) an employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S. | - |
paean | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, panegyric, pean |
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(noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) | Synonyms: pean |
paederast | (noun) a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner | Synonyms: child molester, pederast |
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paederastic | (adjective) of homosexuality between a man and a boy | Synonyms: pederastic |
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paederasty | (noun) sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) | Synonyms: pederasty |
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paediatric | (adjective) of or relating to the medical care of children | Synonyms: pediatric |
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paediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, pediatrician, pediatrist |
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paediatrics | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: pediatric medicine, pediatrics, pedology |
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paedophile | (noun) an adult who is sexually attracted to children | Synonyms: pedophile |
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paedophilia | (noun) a sexual attraction to children | Synonyms: pedophilia |
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paella | (noun) saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken | - |
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paeony | (noun) any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: peony |
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pagan | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, heathenish |
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(noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, heathen, infidel |
(noun) a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew) | - |
(noun) someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: hedonist, pleasure seeker |
paganise | (verb) make pagan in character | Synonyms: paganize |
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paganism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: heathenism, pagan religion |
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paganize | (verb) make pagan in character | Synonyms: paganise |
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page | (noun) one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains | - |
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(noun) in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood | Synonyms: varlet |
(noun) a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings | - |
(noun) a boy who is employed to run errands | Synonyms: pageboy |
(verb) contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system | - |
(verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: foliate, paginate |
(verb) work as a page | - |
pageant | (noun) an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes | Synonyms: pageantry |
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(noun) a rich and spectacular ceremony | Synonyms: pageantry |
pageantry | (noun) an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes | Synonyms: pageant |
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(noun) a rich and spectacular ceremony | Synonyms: pageant |
pageboy | (noun) a smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inward | - |
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(noun) a boy who is employed to run errands | Synonyms: page |
pager | (noun) an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged | Synonyms: beeper |
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paginate | (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: foliate, page |
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pagination | (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: folio, page number, paging |
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paging | (noun) calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system) | - |
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(noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: folio, page number, pagination |
pagoda | (noun) an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof | - |
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pahautea | (noun) evergreen tree of New Zealand resembling the kawaka | Synonyms: Libocedrus bidwillii, mountain pine |
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pahoehoe | (noun) freely flowing lava | - |
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paid | (adjective) marked by the reception of pay | - |
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(adjective) involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby | Synonyms: nonrecreational |
(adjective) yielding a fair profit | Synonyms: gainful, paying |
paigle | (noun) early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers | Synonyms: cowslip, Primula veris |
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(noun) Eurasian primrose with yellow flowers clustered in a one-sided umbel | Synonyms: oxlip, Primula elatior |