| paleontologist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: fossilist, palaeontologist |
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| paleontology | (noun) the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains | Synonyms: fossilology, palaeontology |
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| paleopathology | (noun) the study of disease of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence) | Synonyms: palaeopathology |
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| paleornithology | (noun) the paleobiology of birds | Synonyms: palaeornithology |
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| paleostriatum | (noun) the inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: globus pallidus, pallidum |
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| paleozoology | (noun) the study of fossil animals | Synonyms: palaeozoology |
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| palestra | (noun) a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes | Synonyms: palaestra |
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| paletiology | (noun) the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes) | Synonyms: palaetiology |
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| palette | (noun) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used | Synonyms: pallet |
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| (noun) one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor | Synonyms: pallette |
| (noun) the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art | Synonyms: pallet |
| palfrey | (noun) especially a light saddle horse for a woman | - |
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| palilalia | (noun) a pathological condition in which a word is rapidly and involuntarily repeated | - |
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| palimony | (noun) support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends | - |
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| palimpsest | (noun) a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible | - |
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| palindrome | (noun) a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward | - |
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| paling | (noun) a fence made of upright pickets | Synonyms: picket fence |
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| palingenesis | (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: recapitulation |
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| palingenetic | (adjective) of or relating to palingenesis | - |
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| palisade | (noun) fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground | - |
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| (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, surround, wall |
| palish | (adjective) slightly pale | - |
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| pall | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle |
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| (noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | Synonyms: cerement, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet |
| (noun) a sudden numbing dread | Synonyms: chill |
| (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, jade, tire, weary |
| (verb) lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to) | - |
| (verb) become less interesting or attractive | Synonyms: dull |
| (verb) lose sparkle or bouquet | Synonyms: become flat, die |
| (verb) cause to become flat | - |
| (verb) cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing | Synonyms: cloy |
| (verb) cover with a pall | - |
| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare, scare away, scare off |
| palladium | (noun) a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry | Synonyms: atomic number 46, Pd |
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| pallasite | (noun) a meteorite composed principally of olivine and metallic iron | - |
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| pallbearer | (noun) one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral | Synonyms: bearer |
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| pallet | (noun) a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed | - |
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| (noun) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used | Synonyms: palette |
| (noun) a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay | - |
| (noun) a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it | - |
| (noun) the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art | Synonyms: palette |
| pallette | (noun) one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor | Synonyms: palette |
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| palliasse | (noun) mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust | Synonyms: paillasse |
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| palliate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, relieve |
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| (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, mitigate |
| palliation | (noun) easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause | - |
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| (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: extenuation, mitigation |
| palliative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory |
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| (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, alleviator |
| pallid | (adjective) abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress | Synonyms: pale, wan |
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| (adjective) lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness | Synonyms: pale |
| (adjective) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble | Synonyms: pale, sick, wan |
| pallidity | (noun) being deficient in color | Synonyms: paleness |
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| pallidly | (adverb) in a manner lacking interest or vitality | Synonyms: dimly, palely |
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| pallidness | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallor, wanness |
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| pallidum | (noun) the inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: globus pallidus, paleostriatum |
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| pallium | (noun) cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome | - |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back | - |
| (noun) (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell | Synonyms: mantle |
| (noun) the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum | Synonyms: cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, cortex |
| pallone | (noun) an Italian game similar to tennis | - |
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| pallor | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, wanness |
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| pally | (adjective) (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals | Synonyms: chummy, matey, palsy-walsy |
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| palm | (noun) the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers | Synonyms: thenar |
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| (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, ribbon |
| (noun) any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves | Synonyms: palm tree |
| (noun) a linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand | - |
| (verb) touch, lift, or hold with the hands | Synonyms: handle |
| palmar | (adjective) relating to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot | Synonyms: volar |
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| palmate | (adjective) of a leaf shape; having leaflets or lobes radiating from a common point | Synonyms: palm-shaped |
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| (adjective) (of the feet of water birds) having three toes connected by a thin fold of skin | - |
| palmately | (adverb) in a palmate manner | - |
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| palmatifid | (adjective) of a leaf shape; palmately cleft rather than lobed | - |
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| palmature | (noun) an abnormality in which the fingers are webbed | - |
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| palmetto | (noun) any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves | - |
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| palmist | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: chiromancer, palmister |
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| palmister | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: chiromancer, palmist |
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| palmistry | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chirology, chiromancy, palm reading |
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| palmitin | (noun) an ester of glycerol and palmitic acid | - |
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| palmlike | (adjective) resembling a palm tree | - |
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| palmy | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| palmyra | (noun) tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving | Synonyms: Borassus flabellifer, longar palm, lontar, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm |
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| palometa | (noun) smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies | Synonyms: California pompano, Palometa simillima |
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| palomino | (noun) a horse of light tan or golden color with cream-colored or white mane and tail | - |
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| palooka | (noun) a second-rate prize fighter | Synonyms: stumblebum |
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| paloverde | (noun) a thorny shrub of the genus Cercidium that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico; has smooth light green bark and racemes of yellow flowers and small leaves | - |
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| palpability | (noun) the quality of being perceivable by touch | Synonyms: tangibility, tangibleness |
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| palpable | (adjective) capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt | Synonyms: tangible |
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| (adjective) so intense as to be almost touched or felt | - |
| (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, evident, manifest, patent, plain, unmistakable |
| (adjective) (medicine) can be felt by palpation | - |
| palpably | (adverb) so as to be palpable | - |
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| palpate | (verb) examine (a body part) by palpation | Synonyms: feel |
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| palpation | (noun) a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional) | Synonyms: tactual exploration |
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| palpatory | (adjective) relating to or involving palpation | - |
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| palpebra | (noun) either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye | Synonyms: eyelid, lid |
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| palpebrate | (adjective) having eyelids | - |
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| (verb) wink or blink, especially repeatedly | - |
| palpebration | (noun) repeated blinking or winking (especially if uncontrolled and persistent) | - |
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| palpitant | (adjective) having a slight and rapid trembling motion | Synonyms: palpitating |
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| palpitate | (verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: flutter |
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| (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: quake, quiver |
| (verb) cause to throb or beat rapidly | - |
| palpitating | (adjective) having a slight and rapid trembling motion | Synonyms: palpitant |
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| palpitation | (noun) a rapid and irregular heart beat | - |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
| palsgrave | (noun) (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands | Synonyms: palatine |
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| palsied | (adjective) affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor | - |
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| palsy | (noun) loss of the ability to move a body part | Synonyms: paralysis |
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| (noun) a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor | - |
| (verb) affect with palsy | - |
| palter | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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| paltering | (noun) a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear | Synonyms: fibbing |
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| paltriness | (noun) worthlessness due to insignificance | Synonyms: sorriness |
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| paltry | (adjective) contemptibly small in amount | Synonyms: measly, miserable |
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| (adjective) not worth considering | Synonyms: negligible, trifling |
| pamper | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, spoil |
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| pamperer | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, mollycoddler, spoiler |
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| pampering | (adjective) gratifying tastes, appetites, or desires | - |
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| (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, humouring, indulgence, indulging |
| pamphlet | (noun) a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet | Synonyms: tract |
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| (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, folder, leaflet |
| pamphleteer | (noun) a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues) | - |
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| pan | (noun) shallow container made of metal | - |
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| (noun) cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel | Synonyms: cooking pan |
| (verb) express a totally negative opinion of | Synonyms: tear apart, trash |
| (verb) wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals | Synonyms: pan off, pan out |
| (verb) make a sweeping movement | - |
| panacea | (noun) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists | Synonyms: catholicon, cure-all, nostrum |
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| panache | (noun) a feathered plume on a helmet | - |
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| (noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: dash, elan, flair, style |
| panamica | (noun) low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers | Synonyms: friendship plant, panamiga, Pilea involucrata |
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| panamiga | (noun) low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers | Synonyms: friendship plant, panamica, Pilea involucrata |
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| panatela | (noun) a long slender cigar | Synonyms: panetela, panetella |
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| pancake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake |
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| pancarditis | (noun) inflammation of the entire heart (the epicardium and the myocardium and the endocardium) | - |
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| panchayat | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayet, punchayet |
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| panchayet | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayat, punchayet |
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| pancreas | (noun) a large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach; secretes pancreatic juice and insulin | - |
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| pancreatectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the pancreas | - |
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| pancreatic | (adjective) of or involving the pancreas | - |
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| pancreatin | (noun) extract from the pancreas of animals that contains pancreatic enzymes; used to treat pancreatitis and other conditions involving insufficient pancreatic secretions | - |
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| pancreatitis | (noun) inflammation of the pancreas; usually marked by abdominal pain | - |
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| pancytopenia | (noun) an abnormal deficiency in all blood cells (red blood cells and white blood cells and platelets); usually associated with bone marrow tumor or with aplastic anemia | - |
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| panda | (noun) large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet; in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae | Synonyms: Ailuropoda melanoleuca, coon bear, giant panda, panda bear |
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| (noun) reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore; in some classifications considered unrelated to the giant pandas | Synonyms: Ailurus fulgens, bear cat, cat bear, lesser panda, red panda |
| pandanus | (noun) any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves | Synonyms: screw pine |
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| (noun) fiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats) | - |
| pandar | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer |
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